Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Report of the Quarter-Master-General, State of Connecticut, to the General Assembly: May Session, 1864
Sec. 9. Every sexton or person having charge of any pub lic or private burial-place, shall, during the first week of each calendar month, deliver to the registrar of the town in which such burial place is situated, a list of the names and dates of burial of the persons buried in such burial-place during the month next preceding.
Sec. 10. The physician who shall attend any deceased person shall leave a certificate containing all the particulars relating to said deceased, required by the fifth section of this act, within ten days after the interment of the deceased; and in case no physician shall attend said deceased, then it shall be the duty of the nearest of kin to procure a certificate from some other physician or substantial inhabitant, containing such information; and it shall be the duty of said nearest of kin to leave the certificate with the town registrar within fif teen days thereafter. Any such attending physician, who shall neglect or refuse to give the certificate required by this section, shall, for such offence, pay a fine of ten dollars, to the use of the town wherein such offence shall be committed.
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