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REGISTRATION

OF

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS

IN

MASSACHUSETTS.

ANNUAL REPORT

TO THE

LEGISLATURE,

RELATING TO

THE REGISTRY AND RETURNS

OF

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS

IN

MASSACHUSETTS.

FOR THE YEAR ENDING MAY 1ST, 1844.

BY JOHN G. PALFREY,

SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

December, 1844.

Boston:

DUTTON AND WENTWORTH, STATE PRINTERS.

SECRETARY'S OFFICE; December, 1844.

To the Honorable Senate

and House of Representatives:

I have the honor to present the following Report of proceedings had agreeably to the Act of 1844 (chapter 159) "relating to the Registry and Returns of Births, Marriages and Deaths."

Immediately upon the passage of the Act, measures were taken to procure the blank books for registration required by the seventh section. In the month of May they were ready for delivery, and were forwarded by the earliest opportunities to the towns. The pages of the Registers were ruled in columns so as to receive entries of the various particulars required. by the law. They are of good paper, and in durable binding. They are of four different sizes, to correspond in some degree to the population of the respective towns. The books furnished to the smallest corporations will probably not be filled in ten years; the others will need to be sooner renewed. Three Registers were furnished to the city of Boston, for Births, Marriages and Deaths, respectively. The whole cost of the volumes was six hundred and fifty dollars.

The law was published in the official newspaper immediately upon its enactment. On the 15th of April, I addressed a circular letter to the town clerks, communicating a copy of the law, and then proceeding as follows:

"This act, you will observe, contains the provision that it shall take effect from and after its passage. You will accord

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