Town of Winthrop : Record of Deaths 1941, Part 5

Author: Winthrop (Mass.)
Publication date: 1941
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 546


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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 morhid conditions, if any, related to the principal cause and any important complication of the principal cause.


Statement of Occupation .- Precise statement of occupation is very important, so that the relative healthfulness of various pursuits can he known. Make some entry in this section for every person aged 10 years or over. If the occupation had heen given up or changed on account of the disease causing death, report the usual occupation prior to illness. If the deceased had retired from husiness, report the usual occupation prior to retirement. Children not gainfully employed may he returned as at school or at home. For a woman whose only occupation was that of home housework, write housework. For a person engaged in domestic service for wages, however, designate the occupation hy the appropriate terms, as housekeeper-private family, cook-hotel, etc. For a person who had no occupation whatever write none.


SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION


Suffolk


(County) Stunthrob


(City or Town)


100 Versace are No .....


2 FULL NAME.


(If deceased is a married,


wjudred or divorced wonian, give also maiden name.) 100 Terrace area


(a) Residence. No ..


(Usual place of abode)


Length of stay: In hospital or institution ....


have


"(Specify whether)


years


months


days.


In this community


yrs.


mos.


days.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


3 SEX


male


4 COLOR OR RACE


5 SINGLE


(write the word)


MARRIED


WIDOWED


or DivoraDelante


Sa If married, widowed. HUSBAND of Margaret Seeley (Give maiden naine of wife in full)


(or) WIFE of ..


(Husband's name in full)


6 Age of husband or wife if alive .years


7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.


AGE ... 90 00


„Months ........... .. Days


If less than 1 day Hours .. Minutes


Usual 9 Occupation :


Retired Certiet


10 or Business: Scenic


11 Social Security No. Dane


12 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(State or country)


3.2%


3.3. City


13 NAME OF


FATHER


John a Thompson


14 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (City) . (State or country) S.V.


15 MAIDEN NAME


MOTHER langex be learned


16 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (City) nu City (State or country)


17 Relation, if any


Informant Jours. @ magnagoof Law) (Address) 100 Versace Der Vaart


I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filled with me BEFORE the burial of transit permit was issued: Wan. D. Children Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other) /Realite Officer 1/10/41


(Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit)


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


18 DATE OF


DEATH


(Month)


1


(Day)


(Year)


19 .I HEREBY CERTIFY.


2


19 ..


, to.


That I attended deceased from


1944


I last saw h .............. alive on


death is said to


have occurred on the date stated above, at .....?..


Immediate cause of death


m.


Duration


IMPORTANT


Due to.


Due to.


Other conditions.


(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)


IMPORTANT PHYSICIAN


Major findings: Of operations.


Date of.


Of autopsy.


What test confirmed diagnosis?


Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased ?.


If so, specify


>


M. D.


(Signed)


(Address) .................


Of ......... Date]


19


21 twitteraf


Place of Burial, Cremation of Removal.


(City or Town)


BURIAL Je211


O


22 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR


ADDRESS.


Received and filed.


19


(Registrar)


Keley - see death CheDit


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8 PARENTS 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 is very important. See instructions and extracts from the laws on back of certificate. 100m-2-'40-D-729-& N. B .-- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of Industry


PLACE OF DEATH


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.


13


(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, St. { give its NAME instead of street and number)


......


Salm a Thambern


$


(If U. S.


War Veteran,


specify WAR) ....


(If nonresident, give city or town and state)


60


1140


Underline the cause to which death should be charged sta- tistically.


....


Į


Kellie.


EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE


RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH


A physician or registered hospital medical officer shall forthwith, 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 hest of his knowledge and belief the name of the deceased, his supposed age, the disease of which he died, definded as required hy section one, where same was contracted, the duration of his last illness, when last seen alive hy 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 hody which has not heen huried, until he has received a permit from the board of health, or its agent appointed to issue such perinits, or if there is no such hoard, from the clerk of the town where tlie person died; and no undertaker or other person shall exhume a human hody and remove it from a town, from one cemetery to another. or from one grave or tomb other than the receiv- ing tomh 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 huried. No such permit shall he issued until there shall have heen delivered to such hoard, agent or clerk, as the case may he. a satisfactory written statement containing the facts required hy law to he returned and recorded. which shall be accompanied, in case of an original interment, hy a satisfactory certificate of the attending physician, if any, as required hy 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 in- sufficient, a physician who is a member of the board of health, or em- ployed by it or hy the selectmen for the purpose, shall upon application make the certificate required of the attending physician. If death is caused hy 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 commonwealth cannot he obtained early enough for the purpose, the certificate of death made as ahove provided and in the possession of the undertaker desiring to make such removal shall constitute a permit for such removal; provided, that such hody shall he 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 re- moval of such hody has been sooner ohtained hereunder. 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 heen engaged, such recital shall appear upon the permit. The hoard of health, or its agent, upon receipt of such statement 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 shail 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., (Tercentenary Edition).


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 huried or the funeral is to be held, or from a person appointed to have the care of the cemetery or hurial ground in which the interment is made. . . . Chap. 114, Sec. 46, G. L., (Tercentenary Edition).


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 hedside 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 disahled hy recognized disease unrelated to any form of injury, have died without recent medical attendance or whose physician is ahsent from home when the certificate of death is needed.


(3) Medical Examiners will investigate and certify to all deaths supposahly due to injury. These include not only deaths caused directly or indirectly hy traumatism (including resulting septicemia), and hy the action of chemical (drugs or poisons), thermal, or electrical agents, and deaths following abortion, hut 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.


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 principai cause.


Statement of Occupation .- Precise statement of occupation is very important, so that the relative healthfulness of various pursuits can he known. Make some entry in this section for every person aged 10 years or over. If the occupation had heen given up or changed on account of the disease causing death, report the usual occupation prior to illness. If the deceased had retired from business, report the usual 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. For a person engaged in domestic service for wages, however, designate the occupation hy the appropriate terms, as housekeeper-private family, cook-hotel, etc. For a person who had no occupation whatever write none.


SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION


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1


PLACE OF DEATH


Suffolk. (County) Winthrop


The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS STANDARD


To be filed for burial permit with Board of Health or its Agent.


Registered No.


( (If death occurred in a hospital or institution, St. [ give its NAME instead of street and number)


2 FULL NAME


(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced wordan, give also maiden name.) 28 Trident ave.


St.


Winthrop


(If nonresident, give city or town and state)


months days.


In this community O yra.


mog.


days.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


3 SEX


Female


4 COLOR OR RACE


white


5 SINGLE


(write the word)


Widowed


MARRIED


WIDOWED


or DIVORCED


So If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of.


(Give malden name of wife in fuli)


(or) WIFE of John


Papp


(Husband's name in figi)


spot.


6 Age of husband of wife if alive.


years


7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.


AGE


If less then 1 day


Hours


Minutes


Usual


9 Occupation :..


Industry


10 or Business:


ou


home


11 Social Security No ..


12 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(State or country)


13 NAME OF


FATHER


Vasilior Valahogy


14 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City) ....


(State or country)


15 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Sanoula Kolo Riches


16 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City) ...


(State or country)


17 William Papper Relation, if any San


Informant


(Address)


15 - Carol Que Wund


I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued:


(Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other )


Health Mulder 1/10/41


(Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permits


18 DATE OF


DEATH


January


9


1941.


(Month)


(Day)


(Year)


19 I HEREBY CERTIFY. Decanter 10 1932


That I attended deceased from


to January 9 ... ,


1941


I last saw her alive on January 8, 194, death is said to have occurred on the date stated above, at 12:304. ... m.


Immediate cause of death .... Ucule Cormary Mecantons


Duration LUPORTANT 3 days


.... 2 years


Due to


Senility


2 years


Other conditions.


Congestive Heart Disease 3 zes


(Include pregnancy witnn 3 months of death)


IMPORTANT


PHYSICIAN


Major findings:


Of operations.


none


Date of


Of autopsy chu malt


What test confirmed diagnosis ?.. caviracing


20 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased ?.


If so, specify A


(Signed) .....


(Address) 562 Stanley Date 1/9


19461.


21.


Place of Burial, Cremation or Removal.


(City or Town)


DATE OF BURIAL ...


January


10


1941


22 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR


arthur 3. Nacisti


ADDRESS


1654 Washington (Boston)


Received and filed


19


(Registrar)


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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 is very important. Sen instructions and extracts from the laws on back of certificato.


No ....


(City or Town) 28


Trident Owe. angelika Pappas.


(a) Residence. No.


(Usual place of abode)


Length of stay: In hospital or institution.


(Specify whether)


years


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


Due to ... arteriosclerosis


8 70 Years Months. Days


PARENTS


Underline the cause to which death should be charged sta- tistically.


M. D.


CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


(If U. S. War Veteran, specify WAR)


EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE


RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH


A physician or registered hospital medical officer shall forthwith, 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 receiv- ing 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 satisfactory 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 in- sufficient, a physician who is a member of the board of health, or em- ployed 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 commonwealth 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 removal; 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 re- moval of such body has been sooner obtained hereunder. 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 statement 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., (Tercentenary Edition).


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 cemetery or burial ground in which the interment is made. . . . Chap. 114, Sec. 46, G. L., (Tercentenary Edition).


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 unrelated to any form of injury, have died without recent medical attendance 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.


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.


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 usual occupation prior to illness. If the deceased had retired from business, report the usual 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. 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 whatever write none.


SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION


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100m-10-'39. No. 8427-e N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of PARENTS


17 Relation, if any


Informant


89 Cliff and Winthisp


I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE. the Burial or fransit permit was issued: Im. 8. Chil dress (Signature of) Agent of Board of Heath or other) Vrealthe Officer (Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit) 1/11/41


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


18 DATE OF


DEATH


Jan.


9


1941


(Month)


(Day)


(Year)


19 J HEREBY CERTIFY.


That I attended deceased from


December 20 1939 to January 9


19.5.6.( ..


I last saw hel alive on January 19, 1041, death is said


to have occurred on the date stated above, 508:30911.


Immediate cause of death ...


acute Coronary Thrombosis


Duration IMPORTANT 3 days 13 year


Due to


acqua Pectoris


1 year


Other conditions.


none


(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)


Major findings :


Of operations


une


PHYSICIAN Underline the cause to which death


Of autopsy"


une


should be


What test confirmed diagnosis


clinical klak charged sta-


"tistically.


20 Was disease or Injury In any way related to occupation of deceased?


If so, specify ...


Jacob hau R.D.


(Signed


, M. D.


(Address) 562 Sunday 1 Date 1/10


1941


21


Winthis


Winthis


Place of Burial, Cremation or Removal.


(City or Town)


DATE OF BURIAL Ofan


11


19.41


22 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR Richard 96. chito


ADDRESS ..


147 Winthup Mass


Received and filed 19


(Registrar)


1 3 SEX Female 8 65 information should be carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state 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 Industry 10 or Business:


(County) PLACE OF DEATH Suffolk Winthrop (City or Town) 60 Chiff are Winthey Areso No Elizabeth Downing Hiller


The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS


To be filed for burial permit with Board of Health or its Agent


15


Registered No


St. (If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)


(If U. S. War Veteran, specify WAR)


(If nonresident, give city or town and state)


years


months


days. to In this community / 5 yrs.


mos.


days.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


5 SINGLE


(write the word)


MARRIED


WIDOWED


Manuel


5c If married, widowed, or divorced


HUSBAND of


Theodor& Hiller


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


(or) WIFE of


(Husband's name in full)


71


years


6 Age of husband or wife if alive. 7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.


AGE


Years.


6


Months.


30 Days


If less than 1 day


Hours


Minutes


Usual


9 Occupation:


at 16 ome-


11 Social Security No.


12 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(State or country)


New York City


new york


13 NAME OF


FATHER


John Downing


14 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City)


(State or country)


Not Known


15 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


not Known


16 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (City) (State or country) /01 /5 9own


STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


2 FULL NAME


( deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.) 60 Cliff are ........................ St.


(a) Residence. No.


( Usual place of abode)


Length of stay: In hospital or institution.


(Specify whether)


4 COLOR OR RACE


White


Due to


arteriosclerosis


.Date of.


EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE


RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH


A physiclan or registered hospital medical officer sbail fortbwith, fter the death of a person whom he has attended during his last Iness, at the request of an undertaker or other authorized person r of any member of the family of the deceased, furnish for regis- 'ation a standard certificate of death, stating to the best of his nowledge and belief the name of the deceased, his supposed age, ne discase of which he died. defined as required by section one, here game was contracted. the duration of his last illness, wben last een alive by the physician or officer and the date of his death ... en. Laws. Chap. 46, Sec. 9.


No undertaker or other person sball bury or otherwise dispose of a uman body In a town, or remove therefrom a human body which as not heen buried, until be has received a permit from the board [ health, or its agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there no such board, from the clerk of the town where the person died : nd no undertaker or other person shall crhume a human body and emove it from a town, from one cemetery to another, or from one rave or tomh other than the receiving tomb to another in the same smetery, until he bas received a permit from the board of health or s agent aforesaid or from the clerk of the town where the body is uricd. No such permit shall be issued until there sball have been de- vered to such board, agent or clerk, as the case may be, a satisfao- ry written statement containing the facts required by law to be eturned and recorded, which shall be accompanied, in case of an riginal interment, by a satisfactory certificaic of the attending hysician, if any, as required by law, or in lieu thercof a certificate s hereinafter provided. If there is no attending physician. or if, for ufficient reasons, his certificate cannot be obtained carly enough for he purpose, or is insufficient, a physician who is a member of the oard of health, or employed by it or hy the selectinen for the pur- ose, shall upon application make the certificate required of the at- ending physician. If death is caused by violence. the medical exam- er shall make such certificate. If such a permit for the removal of human hody, not previously interred, from one town to another ithin the commonwealth cannot be ohtalned early enough for the urpose, the certificate of death made as above provided and in the ossession of the undertaker desiring to make such removal shall onstitute a permit for such removal ; provided. that such body shall e returned to the town from which it was removed within thirty- ix hours after such removal, unless a permit in the usual form for ne removal of such body has been sconer obtained hereunder. If the eath certificate contains a recital, as required by section ten of hapter 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 ngaged. such recital shall appear upon the permit. The board of ealth, or its agent, upon receipt of such statement and certifcatc. hall forthwith countersign it and transmit It to the clerk of the own for registration. The person to whom the permit is so given od the physician certifying the cause of death shall thereafter fur- isb for registration any other necessary information which can be btained as to the deceased, or as to the manner or cause of the eatb, which the clerk or registrar may require .- Chap. 114, Sec. 45, . L., (Tercentenary Edition.)




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