[1213] Ibid.
[1214] Acts and Resolves of Mass. (1897), 420, 421. For the earlier law as to the clerk's record see Pub. Stat. (1882), 256. In 1786 the town clerk is to report to the clerk of the general sessions of the peace in each county, who is to keep a record: Laws of the Com., 1780-1816, I, 323.
[1215] Pub. Stat. of N. H. (1900), 588. Cf. Gen. Laws (1878), 428; Gen. Stat. (1867), 331; and the act of 1851, Laws of N. H. (1851), chap. 1103; Comp. Stat. (1853), 284, 285, which seem to have first introduced something like a modern provision for record.
[1216] Freeman, Supp. to Rev. Stat., 1885-1895, 370-75; Laws (1891), chap. 118, 127, as amended by Laws (1893), chap. 233, 248, and Laws (1895), chap. 154, 169-73.
[1217] Act of May 6, 1897: Pub. Acts, 850. Cf. for the earlier law Gen. Stat. (1887), 608.
[1218] Gen. Laws of R. I. (1896), 331, 622, 623; superseded by act of May 6, 1898: Acts and Resolves, 47 ff.
[1219] In Massachusetts report is made to the secretary of the commonwealth: Pub. Stat. (1882), 255-58; Acts and Resolves (1897), 421-29; in New Hampshire and Maine, to the state registrar of vital statistics, being the secretary of the state board of health: Pub. Stat. of N. H. (1891), 490-92; Laws (1899), 255, 256; Freeman, Supp. to Rev. Stat. of Me., 1885-1895, 370; in Connecticut, to the superintendent of registration of vital statistics, who is the secretary of the state board of health: Gen. Stat. (1887), 20 ff., 566; cf. Public Acts (1897), 850.
[1220] Gen. Laws (1896), 624. See the act of 1899, Acts and Resolves, 19, providing for the registration of births, deaths, and marriages, knowledge of which may in any reliable way come to the recorder.
[1221] By an act of 1893 the registrars of births, deaths, and marriages are directed, so far as possible, to complete the records from Jan. 1, 1850: Pub. Acts (1893), 324. This act has since been twice supplemented: ibid. (1895), 552; ibid. (1897), 836.
[1222] Acts and Resolves of Me. (1903), 168.