[Ord. 10 anno 1868.] No. XXXIII. having charge of such child, in the case of the new-born child, and the Coroner, in the case of the dead body, shall forthwith give notice of the finding of the same and of the place where the same was found to the Registrar of the district in which the same shall have been found; and the Registrar shall register, after proper inquiry, all the several particulars required to be known and registered touching the said Birth or Death, or so much and so many of the particulars as shall have been ascertained. make entry of Inquest. 27. In every case in which an inquest shall be held on any Registrar to dead body on or after the said First day of October, One Thousand finding of Jury Eight Hundred and Sixty-eight, the Jury shall inquire of the par- upon Coroner's ticulars herein required to be registered concerning the Death, and the Coroner shall communicate the finding of the Jury to the Registrar of the District in writing under his hand, and the Registrar shall make the Entry accordingly: Provided that the Coroner shall not be required to sign the Register as informant; but the Registrar shall state in the Entry of such Death that the information was received from the Coroner, and shall transmit all such information to the Superintendent Registrar, who shall send the same to the Registrar General, who shall preserve such informations with the Records of his Office. Births and 28. In the case of Births or Deaths on board of any ship moored Register of in any of the rivers in the Colony, the master or chief officer shall Deaths on be bound to report such Birth or Death in like manner, and subject board Ship. to the like penalties in case of disobedience, as is required of the occupier of a house on shore; and the master or chief officer of any colony craft. shall also in like manner and subject to the like penalties as aforesaid, report in like manner every Birth or Death on board of any such craft, whether moored or on any coasting or other voyage within the Colony. stated. 29. Every person by whom the information contained in every Register to be signed by the Register of Birth or Death under this Ordinance shall have been informant, exgiven, except in cases in which such information shall have been cept as herein given by the Coroner, shall sign his name, description, and place of abode, in the Register; and, except as aforesaid, no Register of Birth or Death according to this Ordinance shall be given in evidence which shall not be signed by some person professing to be the informant, [Ord. 10 anno 1868.] Persons may before the No. XXXIII. informant, and to be such party as is by this Ordinance required to give such information to the Registrar. 30. In case of the inability to write of any person whose signature is required or necessary under this Ordinance, it shall be lawful sign by a mark for such person to adhibit in the presence of the Registrar, a cross Registrar. or other mark, who shall annex the designation of such person to such cross or other mark; and such cross or other mark shall be in all respects as binding and effectual as the signature of such person if capable of writing would have been. 31. If any error shall be discovered to have been committed in Correction of the Entry of any Birth or Death in any Register, the person dis erroneous Entries. Registers of Baptisms and Burials to be kept as heretofore. covering the same shall forthwith give information thereof to the Stipendiary or Special Justice of the District, and such Justice thereupon or upon otherwise coming to the knowledge of such erro neous Entry shall summons before him the person who made and any person concerned in making such erroneous Entry, or having any knowledge concerning the same, and also any person interested in the effect of such erroneous Entry, and shall examine all such persons upon oath; and if the said Justice shall be satisfied that any error has been committed in any such Entry, such Justice shall by authority under his hand, direct the Registrar to correct the erroneous Entry; and such Registrar shall thereupon correct the erroneous Entry, according to the truth of the case, by Entry in the margin, without any alteration of the original Entry, and shall sign the marginal Entry, and add thereunto the day of the month and year when such correction shall be made; and such marginal Entry shall be signed by the person applying for the correction; and in every case the Registrar shall make the like alteration in the certified Copy of the Register Book to be made by him as hereinafter provided: Provided that in case such certified Copy and the Register Book from which it was made shall have been already forwarded to the General Register Office, he shall make and forward forthwith to the General Register Office a memorandum of such error and of the correction to be made. 32. Nothing herein contained shall affect the Registry of Baptisms or Burials as now by law established or the right of any officiating Minister to receive any Fee which may now be usually paid for the performance or registration of any Baptism or Burial. PART IV. No. XXXIII. [Ord, 10 anno 1868.1 PART IV. Medical Certificate of Death. mit certificate Registrar. 33. Whereas it is expedient to establish a Registration of the Medical Atten Causes of Death: Be it therefore enacted that the Registrar shall dant to transfurnish from time to time gratis, to every duly qualified Medical of Death to Practitioner within his district the necessary forms of Certificates of Death in the Form (D) hereunto annexed, which Certificates the Registrar General shall cause to be printed and forwarded from time to time to every Registrar for that purpose; and the Medical Practitioner who shall have been in attendance during the last illness and until the Death of any person dying in this Colony on or after the said First day of October, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-eight, shall within Ten Days after the Death of such person, transmit to the Registrar of the District in which the Death occurred a Certificate of the cause of Death in the Form mentioned, the particulars of which shall be entered by the Registrar in the Register; in case such Certificate shall not be so transmitted, the Registrar shall transmit to such Medical Practitioner a form of such Certificate, and by a written or printed requisition under his hand shall require such Medical Practitioner forthwith to return to him such Certificate duly filled up, and such Medical Practitioner shall, within Three days after the receipt thereof, return such Certificate duly filled up to such Registrar. PART V. Returns. Births and filled, to be 34. In the months of January, April, July, and October, on Certified copies such days as shall from time to time be appointed by the Registrar of Registers of General, every Registrar shall make, and deliver to the Superinten- Deaths to be dent Registrar of his district, on durable materials, a true Copy, and Register sent quarterly, certified by him under his hand, according to the Form (E), here- Books when unto annexed, of all the Entries of Births and Deaths made during forwarded to Registrar the quarter of the year, last preceding the first day of each of the General. several months herein before mentioned respectively, in the Register Book kept by him, the first of such certified Copies to be given in the month of January, in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and [Ord. 10 anno 1868.] No. XXXIII. and Sixty-nine, and to contain all the Entries made up to that time; and the Superintendent Registrar shall examine the same, and if found to be correct shall certify the same under his hand to be a true Copy; and if there shall have been no Birth or Death registered since the delivery of the last certificate the Registrar shall certify the fact, and such certificate shall be delivered to the Superintendent Registrar as aforesaid, and be countersigned by him; and the Registrar shall keep safely each of the said Register Books until it shall be filled, and shall then deliver it to the Superintendent Registrar to be forthwith forwarded by him to the Registrar General to be kept in the records of the General Register Office: Provided always that the Register Books in and for the County of Berbice may be forwarded to and kept in the Registrar's Office of said County, instead of being sent to the Registrar General, if the Governor shall so direct. Superinten. 35. Every Superintendent Registrar shall, four times in every dent Registrars year, on such days as shall be named for the purpose by the Registo Bend certi trar General, send to the Registrar General all the certified Copies fied Copies of Registers of of the Registers of Births and Deaths which he shall have so reBirths and Deaths to Received during the three calendar months next preceding such gistrarGeneral. quarterly days of transmission respectively; and the Registrar General if it shall appear, by interruption of the regular progression of numbers or otherwise that the Copy of any part of any Book has not been duly delivered to him, shall procure as far as possible consistently with the provisions of this Ordinance that the same may be amended and supplied; and the certified Copies so sent to the General Register Office shall be thereafter kept in the said Office in such order and manner as the Registrar General, under the direction of the Governor, shall think fit, so that the same may be most readily seen and examined. 36. The Registrar General shall, once in every year, furnish to Abstract of the Governor and Court of Policy a General Abstract of the number Registers to be sent annually of Births and Deaths registered during the foregoing year in such form and at such date as the Governor shall from time to time prescribe. before Court of Policy. 37. The [Ord. 10 anno 1868.1 No. XXXIII. allowed and 37. The Registrar General shall cause Indexes of all the said Indexes to be certified Copies and original Registers herein mentioned to be made kept at General Register and kept in the General Register Office; and every person shall be Office. Searches entitled, on payment of the fees hereinafter mentioned, to search certified Copies the said Indexes between the hours of ten in the morning and four ment of Fees. given, on pay. in the afternoon of every day, except Sundays and Holidays, and to have a certified Copy of any Entry in the said certified Copies of the Registers or in the said original Registers; and for every general search of the said Indexes shall be paid the sum of Five Dollars and for every particular search the sum of Twenty-four Cents, and for every such certified Copy the sum of Sixty Cents and no more. be made in and Certifi 38. Every Registrar shall, subject to such regulations as shall from Searches may time to time be made by the Registrar General, allow searches to Register Books be made of any Register Bock in his keeping, and shall give a Copy cates given of certified under his hand of any Entry or Entries in the same on Entries there in by Regis payment of the Fee hereinafter mentioned; that is to say, for every trars. such search the sum of Twenty-four Cents, and the sum of Twentyfour Cents for every single certificate. 39. In case the Governor shall direct the Register Books in and Provision for for the County of Berbice to be kept in the Registrar's Office of Register Books keeping the said County, the Registrar of Berbice shall keep and preserve the for Berbice. original Register Books to be forwarded to him as hereinbefore mentioned, and shall cause all necessary Entries and Corrections to be made therein, and also Indexes of the same to be made and kept with them for reference at the times and in manner provided in respect of the General Register Office, and shall give off certified Copies and receive and pay over to the Assistant Receiver General in the mode prescribed by Ordinance No. 4 of 1868 the like Fees for Searches and Copies as are by this Ordinance made payable at the General Register Office. of certified gisters, fresh 40. In case any certified Copies of the Registers of Births and In case of loss Deaths shall be lost in course of transmission to the General Copies of Re Register Office, the Superintendent Registrar by whom the same Copies to be was forwarded shall forthwith procure fresh Copies to be made and sent. forwarded to the General Register Office in lieu of those so lost; and no original Register Book shall at any time be forwarded or transmitted |