Births and Deaths Registration. |Ch.29. No. 1.

 

such case as aforesaid it shall be lawful for any Justice for
the district where such person shall be or reside, upon
application for that purpose, to issue a warrant under his
hand for bringing such person before the Magistrate of the
district; and upon such person appearing, or not being
found, it shall be lawful for such Magistrate to hear and
determine the matter in a summary way; and if it shall
appear to the Magistrate that anv such box, key, books,
documents, or papers are in the custody or power of any
such person, and that he has refused or wilfully neglected
to deliver the same, the Magistrate shall commit such
offender to prison, there to remain without bail until he
shall have delivered up the same, or until satisfaction shall
have been given in respect thereof to the person in whose
custody the same ought to be; and the Magistrate may grant
a warrant to search for such box, key, books, documents,
or papers, as in the case of stolen goods, in anv dwelling-
house or other premises in which any credible witness shall
prove upon oath that there is reasonable cause to suspect
the same to be, and the same when found shall be delivered
to the person in whose custody they ought to be.

12. Every Registrar and Deputy Registrar shall dwell
within the district of which he is Registrar or Deputy
Registrar, and shall cause his name, with the addition of
Registrar or Deputy Registrar (as the case may be) for the
district for which he shall be so appointed, to be placed in
some conspicuous place on or near the outer door of his own
dwelling-house, and the Superintendent Registrar shall cause
to be printed and published in the city, town, county, or
ward which he shall superintend, a list of ‘the names and
places of abode of everv Registrar and Deputy Registrar
under his superintendence.

13. The Registrar General shall cause to be printed a
sufficient number of register books for making entries of all
births and deaths in the Colony, according to the forms A
and B of the First Schedule hereto; and such register books
shall be of durable materials, and in them shall be printed
upon each side of every leaf the heads of information by this
Ordinance required to be known and registered, of births
and deaths respectively; and every page of each of such

Registrar to
reside within
the district.

Register
books.
Virst
Schedule.
Forms A
and B,