Instructions concerning the registration of births, marriages and deaths in Massachusetts : designed for town clerks and physicians / by Oliver Warner.

  • Warner, Oliver, 1818-1885.
Date:
1873
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Credit: Instructions concerning the registration of births, marriages and deaths in Massachusetts : designed for town clerks and physicians / by Oliver Warner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Duties of Peksons beeoke vvHoai Makkiages may be Solemnized. Every Justice of the Peace, Minister, Clerk or keeper of the records of meetings among Friends or Quakers, must make a full record of every Marriage solemnized before him, and, between the first and tenth days of each month, must return a copy of so much of the record as relates to Marriages taking place during the month last preceding, not only to the Clerk of the town in which the Marriage is solemnized, but also, if neither of the parties to the Marriage resides in such tt^wn, to the Clerk of the town in which one or both of the parties reside. Penalty for each neglect, from twenty to one hundred dollars. (Jertificate Hequirtd. No Magistrate or Minister is authorized to solemnize a Mar- riage, unless a Certificate is first delivered to him from the Clerk of the town in which the parties intending Marriage respectively dwell, if within the State, or in which the Marriage is solemnized if both parties reside out of the State; or, if there is no such Clerk, from the Clerk of an adjoining town. The certificate must specify the time when notice of the intention was entered with such Clerk, together with all the facts required by law to be ascertained and recorded, except those respecting the person before whom the Marriage is to be solemnized. Accordingly, it appears, that, if the parties reside in difierent towns within the State, two Certificates are requisite (one from each town) ; if residents of the same town, but one. If only one of the parties is a resident of the State, the Certificate of the Clerk of the town in which such party resides is necessary. If both parties reside out of the State the Certificate of the Clerk of the town in which the Marriage is to be solemnized must be first obtained. Limitations. Any Justice of the Peace may solemnize Marriage in the County for which he is commissioned, provided one of the parties to be married resides in such County, or both parties reside out of the State. Any Minister of the gospel who continues to perform the functions of his ofiice, and is a resident of the Commonwealth,