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(City or town)
DATE OF BURIAL
(Cemetery)
February
11
.. 1934
22 NAME OF
Richard C. Kirby, Inc.
UNDERTAKER
ADDRESS
15 Bennington St. E. Boston
Received and filed
February
8
19
34
APR 2
-1934
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
important.
ATTEST:
egistrar of city or town where death occurred)
February
9
. .
19
34
DATE FILED
5 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
(write the word)
Married
5a If married, widowed, or divorced Not learned ) Milliken
HUSBAND of
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
If less than 1 day Hours Minutes
Printer
(State or country)
Rhode Island
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
(Not learned ) Robertson
50m-2-'30. No. 7997- '
Tewksbury
1
(City or Town)
No.
State Infirmary
3 SEX
Male
4 COLOR OR RACE
white
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
6 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
7
AGE
70
1
Months
23
Days
Years
8 Trade, profession, or particular
kind of work done, as spinner,
sawyer, bookkeeper, etc.
9 Industry or business in which
work was done, as silk mill,
saw mill, bank, etc.
10 Date deceased last worked at
this occupation (month and
1926
OCCUPATION
year)
(State or country)
Massi
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
Warwick
FATHER (City)
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
Fall River
PARENTS
(State or country)
Mass.
17
Hospital Records
Informant
(Address)
A TRUE COPY.
OF DEATH in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION is very
tion should be carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state CAUSE
VANILLA LANGE, WETIL UNSAVING INA-THIS IS A TERMMANENI KELURD. Every item of informa-
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
Fall River
St.,
Ward
[ (LE U. S.
War Veteran,
specify WAR)
(a)
Residence. No.
(Usual place of abode)
Length of residence in city or town where death occurred
3
yrS.
10,
mos.
28 days.
How long in U. S., if of foreign birth?
yrs.
R-302
SUFFOLK
(County) BOSTON
(City or Town)
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
BOSTON
(City or town making return)
Registered No.
2201
give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
Frank
Divita
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(a) Residence. No ..
(Usual place of abode)
88 ... Locust
St., ............
Ward,
.. Winthrop
(If nonresident, give city or town and state)
Length of residence in city or town where death occurred
yrs.
mos.
days. How long in U. S., if of foreign birth?
yrs.
mos.
days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX
M
-
4 COLOR OR RACE
W
5 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
18 DATE OF
DEATH
March
3
1934
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
19 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That ! attended deceased from
Feb
16
1934, to March
3
, 19 ..... 34
I last saw h
imlive on
March ....... 3 ...
, 19 .. 34., death is said
to have occurred on the date stated above, at.6.40A.m. The principal cause of death and related causes of importance in order of onset were as follows:
Dateofonset
?cerebral hemorrhage
atbirth
2/8/34
Contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause:
bullous ... impetigo
2/12/34
Name of operation
Date of
What test confirmed diagnosis?
clin
Was there an autopsy ?. I.Q ..
20 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased?
If so, specify.
(Signed)
M.Chafetz
M. D.
(Address)
Boston
Date 3/3/ 19.34.
21 PLACE OF BURIAL,
CREMATION OR REMOVAL
Winthrop
Winthrop
DATE OF BURIAL
March
4
(Cemetery)
(City or town)
19
34
22 NAME OF
UNDERTAKER
A Jannini
ADDRESS
Boston
Received and filed 19
APR. 7
193-4
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
tion should be carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state CAUSE -
OF DEATH in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION is very
important.
ATTEST:
Neida Ofedition Quirks
(Registrar of city or town where death occurred)
DATE FILED March 6
19
34
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
(write the word)
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
6 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
7 AGE Years Months 23 ... Days
If less than 1 day
Hours
Minutes
OCCUPATION|
8 Trade, profession, or particular
kind of work done, as spinner,
sawyer, bookkeeper, etc ...
9 Industry or business in which
work was done, as silk mill,
saw mill, bank, etc ......
10 Date deceased last worked at
this occupation (month and
year)
11 Total time (years)
spent in this
occupation ..
Winthrop
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
Mass
13 NAME OF
FATHER
Frank Di Vita
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country) Italy
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Vita Lamparona
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Italy
17
Informant
(Address)
Father
50m-2-'30. No. 7997-1
1
PLACE OF DEATH
No. Boston .Floating Hospital
St.,
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,
S
Ward
(If U. S.
52
War Veteran,
specify WAR)
Every nem or informa-
PARENTS
A TRUE COPY.
is very important. See instructions and extracts from the laws on back of certificate. CAUSE OF DEATH in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION information should be carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state PARENTS
PLACE OF DEATH
SUFFOLK
(County)
WINTHROP
(City or Town)
No
184 SOMERSET AVE. WINTHROBt.,
The Commonmealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
To be filed for burial permil. with Board of Health or its Agent.
Registered No.
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,
give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
GEORGE .... W ...... BRANCH
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
specify WAR)
(a)
Residence. No. 184 SOMERSET AVE. WINTHROP (Usual place of abode)
Ward,
(If nonresident, give city or town and state)
Length of residence in city or town where death occurred 2 ] yTs.
mos.
days. How long in U. S., if of foreign birth?
75
yrs.
mos.
days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX
MALE
4 COLOR OR RACE
WHITE
5 SINGLE
(write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
MARRIED
5a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of MARGARET .... L ...... VAHEY
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
6 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
7
AGE 79 Years 6 Months 2.6 .Days
If less than 1 day
Hours
Minutes
OCCUPATION|
8 Trade, profession, or particular kind of work done, as spinner, sawyer, bookkeeper, etc ....
Plumber
9 Industry or business in which work was done, as silk mill, saw mill, bank, etc.
Betired
10 Date deceased last worked at this occupation (month and year)
1922
11 Total time (years) spent in this occupation
40
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
ENGLAND
13 NAME OF
FATHER
THOMAS W. BRANCH
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
ENGLAND
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
ELIZABETH DUEST
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
ENGLAND
17
Informant .
MRS ...... MARGARET ..... L ...... BRANCH
(Address) 184 SOMERSET AVE. WINTHROP
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued: Vr m.L. juldress
Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other)
We allthe fficer
3/5/34
(Official Designation)
(Date of Issue of Permit)
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
18 DATE OF
DEATH
Mar 4
(Month)
(Day)
1934 (Year)
19
I
HEREBY
Feb 19
CERTIFY
13 4 to Mat
2
., 1939
19 3 4 death is said
I last saw h .!!!
.alive on ..
to have occurred on the date stated above, at 2:15Am Mas 4, 934 The principal cause of death and related causes of importance in order of onset were as follows: C
Datpofonset 5 yrs.
Genelvall
C
Contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause:
Name of operation
Date of
What test confirmed diagnosis? ..
Was there an autopsy?
20 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased?
If so, specify
a
10
(Signed)
(Address)
5.62
Winthrop Comb. Winthrop
(Cemetery)
(City or town)
DATE OF BURIAL
19.3 %.
22 NAME OF
UNDERTAKER
godis M. Farting
ADDRESS
232 HUNTINGTON AVE ...
BOSTON
195
Received and filed 19
(Registrar)
7 75m-2-'30. No. 7997-a
I R-301A
1
Ward
(If U. S.
War Veteran,
53
alt
M. D
Date % ; 19% .....
21 PLACE OF BURIAL,
CREMATION OR REMOVA
Mar ("
That I attended deceased from
Revised United States Standard Certificate of Death
Statement of occupation .- Precise statement of occupation is very important, so that the relative healthfulness of various pursuits can be known. Make some entry in this section for every person aged 10 years or over. If the occupation had been given up or changed on account of the disease causing death, report the occupation prior to iliness. If the deceased had retired from business, report the occupation prior to retirement. Children not gainfully employed may be returned as at school or at home. For a woman whose only occupation was that of home housework, write housework in answer to Question 8 and own home in answer to Question 9. For a person engaged in domestic service for wages, however, designate the occupation by the appropriate terms, as housekeeper-private family, cook-hotel, etc. For a person who had no occupation what- ever write none.
To be complete, an occupation return must state:
8 .- The trade, profession, or particular kind of work donc.
9 .- The industry or business in which the work was done.
10 .- The month and year the deceased last worked at the occupation.
11 .- The number of years the deceased followed the occupation.
In stating the occupation, avoid the use of such indefinite terms as "employee," "worker," "operative," etc. Find out the parti- cular kind of work done and return that, as spinner, weaver, etc.
In stating the industry or business, avoid the use of such general terms as "store,'
"factory, "mill." etc. State the particular kind of store, factory, mill, etc., as grocery store, soap factory, cotton mill, etc.
Distinguish carefully the different kinds of engineers by stating the full descriptive titles, as civil engineer, mechanical engineer, mining engineer, stationary engineer, etc. Avoid the term "laborer" when a more precise statement of the occupation can be secured. Do not use the word "mechanic, " but give the exact occupation, as carpenter, painter, machinist, etc. Distinguish carefully between retail merchants and wholesale merchants.
A person who sells goods should be called a salesman and not a clerk.
Statement of cause of death .- Cause of death means the disease, or complication which causes death, not the mode of dying, e. g., heart failure, asphyxia, asthenia, etc. As principal cause name the disease causing death. As related causes, name earlier morbid conditions, if any, related to the principal cause and any important complication of the principal cause. Under contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause, name other important diseases.
Example
The principal cause of death and related causes of importance in order of onset were as follows: Arteriosclerosis
Date of onset
1915
Chronic interstitial nephritis
IQ21
Cerebral hemorrhage
July 5, 1027
Contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause:
In a group of causes containing the principal cause and related causes, the causes should be given in the order of onset, so that in a group of three causes the principal cause may appear in either first, second, or third position. "The principal cause in the above example happens to be the second cause given.
EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE
RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH
A physician or registered hospital medical officer shall forth- with, after the death of a person whom he has attended during his last illness, at the request of an undertaker or other authorized person or of any member of the family of the deceased, furnish for registration a standard certificate of death, stating to the best of his knowledge and be ief the name of the deceased, his supposed age, the disease of which he died, defined as required by section one, where same was contracted, the duration of his last illness, when last seen alive by the physician or officer and the date of, his death .... Gen. Laws, Chap. 46, Sec. 9.
No undertaker or other person shall bury or otherwise dispose of a human body in a town, or remove therefrom a human body which has not been buried, until he has received a permit from the board of health, or its agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such board, from the clerk of the town where the person died; and no undertaker or other person shall exhume a human body and remove it from a town, from one cemetery to another, or from one grave or tomb other than the receiving tomb to another in the same cemetery, until he has received a permit from the board of health or its agent aforesaid or from the clerk of the town where the body is buried. No such permit shall be issued until there shall have been delivered to such board, agent or clerk, as the case may be, a satis- factory written statement containing the facts required by law to be returned and recorded, which shall be accompanied, in case of an original interment, by a satisfactory certificate of the. attending physician, if any, as required by law, or in lieu thereof a certificate as hereinafter provided. If there is no attending physician, or if, for sufficient reasons, his certificate cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, or is insufficient, a physician who is a member of the board of health, or employed by it or by the selectmen for the purpose, shall upon application make the certificate required of the attending physician. If death is caused by violence, the medical examiner shall make such certificate. If the death certificate contains a recital, as required by section ten of chapter forty-six, that the deceased served in the army, navy or marine corps of the United States in any war in which it has been engaged, such recital shall appear upon the permit. The board of health, or its agent, upon receipt of such state- ment and certificate, shall forthwith countersign it and transmit it to the clerk of the town for registration. The person to whom the permit is so given and the physician certifying the cause of death shall thereafter furnish for registration any other necessary information which can be obtained as to the deceased, or as to the manner or cause of the death, which the clerk or registrar may require .- Chap. 114, Sec. 45, G. L., as amended.
Medical examiners shall make examination upon the view of the dead bodies of only such persons as are supposed to have died by violence .... Gen. Laws, Chap. 38, Sec. 6.
.... He shall in all cases certify to the town clerk or registrar in the place where the deceased died his name and residence, if known; otherwise a description as full as may be, with the cause and manner of death .- Gen. Laws, Chap. 38, Sec. 7.
No undertaker or other person shall bury a human body or the ashes thereof which have been brought into the commonwealth until he has received a permit so to do from the board of health or its agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such board, from the clerk of the town where the body is to be buried or the funeral is to be held, or from a person appointed to have the care of the ceme- tery or burial ground in which the interment is made .. .. Chap. 114, Sec. 46, G. L. as amended.
RULES OF PRACTICE
The fulfillment of the purpose of these laws calls for the observance of the following rules of practice:
(1) Attending physicians will certify to such deaths only as those of persons to whom they have given bedside care during a last illness from disease unrelated to any form of injury.
(2) Board of Health physicians will certify to such deaths only as those of persons who, though disabled by recognized disease un- related to any form of injury, have died without recent medical attend- ance or whose physician is absent from home when the certificate of death is needed.
(3) Medical Examiners will investigate and certify to all deaths supposably due to injury. These include not only deaths caused directly or indirectly by traumatism (including resulting septicemia). and by the action of chemical (drugs or poisons), thermal, or electrical agents, and deaths following abortion, but also deaths from disease resulting from injury or infection related to occupation, the sudden deaths of persons not disabled by recognized disease, and those of persons found dead.
R-301 A
Sulfalla
Winthrop.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
To be filed for burial permit with Board of Health or its Agent ..
Registered No
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,
give its NAME instead of street and number)
(If U. S. War Veteran,
specify WAR)
Wardene Auch
(If nonresident, give city or town and state)
Length of residence in city or town where death occurred yrs.
mos.
days. How long in U. S., if of foreign birth? yrs.
mos.
days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
18 DATE OF DEATH march 5.
(Month)
(Day)
1934 (Year)
19 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from
1934, to
march 5
, 19.3.1L
l last saw h.M.M ... alive on march 5, 1924 death is said 11.30P. m.
to have occurred on the date stated above, at The principal cause of death and related causes of importance in order of onset were as follows:
Date of Onset IMPORTANT
Prematurity.
5 days.
Contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause:
none.
Name of operation.
.Was there an autopsy?
20 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased? If so, specify
, M. D.
3/6/
1934
21 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION UR REMOVAL
DATE OF BURIAL
march
8
1934
22 NAME OF
Frederick A. magrath
UNDERTAKER
ADDRESS
Bast Boston
Received and filed
MAR 8 1934
.19
(Registrar)
100m-9-'33. No. 9321-a'
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial of transit permit was issued: Wm. D. Childress {Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other)
Hearthe Prices 3/6/34
(Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit)/
(write the word)
5 SINGLE MARRIED WIDOWED or DIVORCED
Luigile
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(Husband's name in full)
6 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
8 Trade, profession, or particular kind of work done, as spinner, sawyer, bookkeeper, etc ....
None
10 Date deceased last worked at this occupation (month and year) Withrok
11 Total time (years) spent in this ocupation.
man
Christine Callahan
Barton
mais
17 Hospital Recordo
«County) 1 (a) Residence. No (Usual place of abode) 3 SEX Male 4 COLOR 92 RACE While 5a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of (or) WIFE of 7 AGE Years OCCUPATION 12 BIRTHPLACE (City) 13 NAME OF FATHER 14 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (City) (State or country) 15 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER 16 BIRTHPLACE OF PARENTS MOTHER (City) (State or country) Informant (Address) is very important. See instructions and extracts from the laws on back of certificate. (State or country) CAUSE OF DEATH in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION Vi. vi uly oupicu. Au should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state 9 Industry or business in which work was done, as silk mill, saw mill, bank, etc.
PLACE OF DEATH
No Winthrop Community Storfutal Baty Callahan
2 FULL NAME
.......
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name 176 Struchland Az.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
Days
If less than 1 day Hours .Minutes
What test confirmed diagnosis?
Physical
Dale of
(Signed) 37 Princeton St. (Address) E . Bay It Muchael, Both (Cemetery) (City or town)
Revised United
es Standard Certificate of Death
Statement of occupation .- Precise statement of occupation is very important, so that the relative healthfulness of various pursuits can be known. Make some entry in this section for every person aged 10 years or over. If the occupation had been given up or changed on account of the disease causing death, report the occupation prior to illness. If the deceased had retired from business, report the occupation prior to retirement. Children not gainfully employed may be returned as at school or at home. For a woman whose only occupation was that of home housework, write housework in answer to Question 8 and own home in answer to Question 9. For a person engaged in domestic service for wages, however, designate the occupation by the appropriate terms, as housekeeper-private family, cook-hotel, etc. For a person who had no occupation what- ever write none.
To be complete, an occupation return must state:
8 .- The trade, profession, or particular kind of work done.
9 .- The industry or business in which the work was done.
10 .- The month and year the deceased last worked at the occupation.
11 .- The number of years the deceased followed the occupation.
In stating the occupation, avoid the use of such indefinite terms as "employee," "worker," "operative," etc. Find out the parti- cular kind of work done and return that, as spinner. weaver, etc.
In stating the industry or business, avoid the use of such general terms as "store,' "factory." "mill," etc. State the particular kind of store, factory, mill, etc., as grocery store, soap factory, cotton mill, etc.
Distinguish carefully the different kinds of engineers by stating the full descriptive titles, as civil engineer, mechanical engineer, mining engineer, stationary engineer, etc. Avoid the term "laborer" when a more precise statement of the occupation can be secured. Do not use the word "mechanic, " but give the exact occupation, as carpenter. painter, machinist, etc. Distinguish carefully between retail merchants and wholesale merchants. A person who sells goods should be called a salesman and not a clerk.
Statement of cause of death .- Cause of death means the disease, or complication which causes death, not the mode of dying, e. g., heart failure, asphyxia, asthenia, etc. As principal cause name the disease causing death. As related causes, name earlier morbid conditions, if any, related to the principal cause and any important complication of the principal cause. Under contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause, name other important diseases.
Example
The principal cause of death and related causes! of importance in order of onset were as follows: Arteriosclerosis
Date of onset
Chronic interstitial nephritis
1021
Cerebral hemorrhage
July 5, 1927
Contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause:
In a group of causes containing the principal cause and related causes, the causes should be given in the order of onset, so that in a group of three causes the principal cause may appear in either first, second, or third position. The principal cause in the above example happens to be the second cause given.
EXTRACIS FROM THE LAWS
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE
RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH
A physician or registered hospital medical officer shall forth- with, after the death of a person whom he has attended during his last illness, at the request of an undertaker or other authorized person or of any member of the family of the deceased, furnish for registration a standard certificate of death, stating to the best of his knowledge and belief the name of the deceased, his supposed ' age, the disease of which he died, defined as required by section one, where same was contracted, the duration of his last illness, when last seen alive by the physician or officer and the date of his death .... Gen. Laws, Chap. 46, Sec. 9.
.
No undertaker or other person shall bury or otherwise dispose of a human body in a town, or remove therefrom a human body which has not been buried, until he has received a permit from the board of health, or its agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such board, from the clerk of the town where the person died; and no undertaker or other person shall exhume a human ! body and remove it from a town, from one cemetery to another, or from one grave or tomb other than the receiving tomb to another in the same cemetery, until he has received a permit from the board of health or its agent aforesaid or from the clerk of the town where the body is buried. No such permit shall be issued until there shall have been delivered to such board, agent or clerk, as the case may be, a satis- factory written statement containing the facts required by law to be returned and recorded, which shall be accompanied, in case of an original interment, by a satisfactory certificate of the attending physician, if any, as required by law, or in lieu thereof a certificate as hereinafter provided. If there is no attending physician, or if, for sufficient reasons, his certificate cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, or is insufficient, a physician who is a member of the board of health, or employed by it or by the selectmen for the purpose, shall upon application make the certificate required of the attending physician. If death is caused by violence, the medical examiner shall make such certificate. If such a permit for the removal of a human body, not previously interred, from one town to another within the common- wealth cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, the certificate of death made as above provided and in the possession of the undertaker desiring to make such removal shall constitute a permit for such re- moval; provided, that such body shall be returned to the town from which it was removed within thirty-six hours after such removal, unless a permit in the usual form for the removal of such body has been sooner obtained hereunder. If the death certificate contains a recital, as re- quired by section ten of chapter forty-six, that the deceased served in the army, navy or marine corps of the United States in any war in which it has been engaged, such recital shall appear upon the permit. The board of health, or its agent, upon receipt of such statement and certificate, shall forthwith countersign it and transmit it to the clerk i of the town for registration. The person to whom the permit is so given and the physician certifying the cause of death shall thereafter furnish for registration any other necessary information which can be obtained as to the deceased, or as to the manner or cause of the death, which the clerk or registrar may require. - Chap. 114, Sec. 45. G. L., as amended by Chap. 48, Acts of 1927 and Chap. 414, Acts of 1931.
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