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

entries of births and deaths in the register book kept by
him since the last certificate; and the Superintendent
Registrar shall verify the same, and, if found to be correct,
shall certify the same under his hand to be a true copy; and
if there shall have been no birth or death registcred since
the delivery of the last certificate, the Registrar shall certify
the fact, and such certificate shall be delivered to the
Superintendent Registrar as aforesaid, and countersigned
by him; and the Registrar shall keep safely each of the
said register books until it shall be filled, and shall then
deliver it to the Superintendent Registrar, to be kept by him
with the records of his office.

43. Every Superintendent Registrar shall, four times in
every year, on such days as shall be therefor named by the
Registrar General, send to the Registrar General all the
certified copies of the registers of births and deaths which he
shall have so received during the three calendar months
next preceding such quarterly days of transmission respec-
tively; and if it shall appear, by the interruption of the
regular progression of numbers or otherwise, that the
copy of any part of any book has not been duly delivered
to him, he shall procure, as far as possible consistently with
the provisions of this Ordinance, that the same may be
remedied and supplied; and every such Superintendent
Registrar shall be entitled to receive the sum of four
conts for every entry in such certified copies; and every
Superintendent Registrar shall make out an account, four
times in every year, of the number of entries in the certified
‘opies sent to him during the last quarter, and the certified
copies so sent to the Registrar General shall be thereafter
kept in such order and manner as the Registrar General
under the direction of the Governor, shall think fit, so
that the same may be most readily seen and examined.

44. Every Registrar who shall have the keeping for the
time being of any register book of births or deaths shall, at
all reasonable times, allow searches to be made of any
register book in his keeping, and. shall give a copy certified
under his hand of any entry or entries in the same, on
payment of the fee hereinafter mentioned; that is to say,

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Supt.
Registrars to
send certified
copies of
registers to
Registrar
General.

Searches and
certified
copies.