The provisions of this chapter are from 2 R. S., 323, 324, and Laws of 1853, ch. 75. marriages. § 830. All persons who perform the marriage Registry of ceremony shall keep a registry of the time of each marriage so celebrated, the residence, the names in full, the place of birth, the age and condition, whether married or single, of each party. births. § 831. All physicians and professional midwives Registry of shall keep a registry of the time of each birth at which they assist professionally, the sex and color of the child and the names and residences of the parents.. deaths. § 832. Physicians who have attended deceased Registry of persons in their last sickness, clergymen who have officiated at a funeral, and sextons who have buried deceased persons shall each keep a registry of the name, age, residence and time of death of such persons. New York to the city inspector. § 833. In the city of New York, all such persons Reports in shall report the same, on or before the first Monday of each month, to the city inspector. A physician's certificate of death and a coroner's certificate where an inquest has been held, shall specify, as near as can be ascertained, the name in full, age occupation, term of residence in that city, birthplace, condition, whether single, married, widow or widower, color, last place of residence, and the direct and indirect cause of death of the deceased. City inspec tor's record. City inspec tor's report. Duty of clerks of school districts. If at any birth in that city no physician or midwife attends, the parents shall report it to the city inspector. § 834. The city inspector shall record all births, marriages and deaths so reported, numbering them in the order in which they are reported, and stating the date of the record and the several points of information, in several columns, and also the name, residence and official station of the persons making such report. § 835. He shall, on the third Monday of each month, transmit to the secretary of state a certified abstract of his records, prepared in accordance with the secretary's instructions, and in blanks to be furnished for the purpose by the secretary. § 836. In each school district in the state, except in the city of New York, the clerk of the district, or, if there is none capable of acting, the trustees or one of them shall, on or before the fifteenth day of January in each year, ascertain for the year passed, and report to the town clerk or to one of the aldermen of the ward in which the school-house of the district is, the information which it is the duty of the persons mentioned in sections 832, 833 and 834 to record, and such persons shall for this purpose afford an inspection of their registers and all other information in their power. town clerk, alderman clerk. § 837. Each town clerk and alderman shall, Duty of within fifteen days, record such report in a book and county to be kept by him for the purpose, and transmit a copy or abstract, in such form as the secretary of state prescribes, to the county clerk; who shall, within fifteen days, transmit a certified abstract in the like form to the secretary of state. officers. § 838. The district, town, city and county offi- f cers shall receive, from their respective counties, such compensation for these services as the boards of supervisors may determine; except that in the city of New York the fee for recording a birth or a marriage shall not exceed ten cents, and the fee for the latter shall be paid by the person reporting it. Every person solemnizing a marriage in that city may require a fee of one dollar from the parties, out of which he shall pay for recording it. § 839. Any person who neglects compliance with Penalty or violates any provision of this chapter relating to the city of New York, is liable to a penalty of fifty dollars, to be recovered by the mayor, aldermen and commonalty, and one-half thereof to be paid to the person making complaint. Title to cemetery grounds. Cemeteries in towns CHAPTER XV. SEPULTURE. SECTION 840. Title to cemetery grounds. 842. Protection of birds. 843. Public ways through cemeteries. § 840. The title to any land, which was used by the inhabitants of any town as a cemetery for fourteen years immediately before the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty, shall be deemed to be vested in the town in which it lies, and is subject as other town property to the government and direction of the electors in town meeting. But the same shall never be used for any other purpose than a public cemetery. 1 R. S., 669, § 1; 2 Ib., 974, § 8. § 841. Any cemetery, the property of a town divided. which is to be divided or altered, shall not be in Protection of birds. cluded among the property to be apportioned, or otherwise disposed of, but the same shall belong to the town in which it is situated after the division or alteration. 1 R. S., 644, § 9. § 842. Any person who kills, wounds or catches any bird, or destroys or removes any bird's nest, or eggs or young birds therein, within any cemetery, or in any place within two miles of the inclosure of Greenwood cemetery in the county of Kings, and poor of Laws of 1853, ch. 629; as amended by Laws of 1855, ch. 564. ways through § 843. No public way shall be laid out through Public any part of a cemetery, during the time it is in use cemeteries. as such, without the consent of the trustees of the cemetery. 1 R. S., 1198, § 10, last clause. cemeteries § 844. Further provisions respecting cemeteries Village in villages are contained in chapter V of title V of part IV of this Code. CHAPTER XVI. DISSECTION. SECTION 845. What remains may be delivered for dissection. 846. Remains may be reclaimed. 847. Restrictions on use. 848. Final burial. From Laws of 1854, ch. 123. What remains may be deliver § 845. In cities of over thirty thousand population the remains of deceased persons which have ed for disnot been buried, and have not, within twenty-four section. |