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ments and acts on which it is to be founded , is committed to the officers of the Etat Civil . The Maires of Communes are the persons who occupy this station , and their functions relate of course to the following divisions : —the record of births , of marriages , and of deaths ; as to all which they prepare and enter the necessary acts . The accuracy and regularity of the Registerbooks are guarded by minute regulations ; they are kept in duplicate , and
closed at the end of each year with such formalities as to prevent interpolations . Alphabetical indexes are formed , immediately on the annual closing of the register , in a tabular form ; and one copy of the register and index is sent to the office of the Tribunal de premiere Instance of the district , where it is examined by and placed under the superintendence of the Procureur du jRoi , whose duty also it is to instruct the Maires and see that they do their duty ; the other register and its index remain in the Archives of the Commune ,
Every ten years another complete alphabetical index is made , and the extreme accuracy of all these operations furnishes the means of forming the most perfect statistic documents for every purpose for which a government can wish to concern itself with the state of population . The entry of a birth is founded on a declaration which is required by law to be made within three days after its occurring ; the infant itself being necessarily produced and identified . The formalities and facts necessary to this declaration , and to the entry thereupon in the register , forming what is called the " Jlcte de Naissance > " are as follows :
1 . The year , day , and hour when the declaration is received . 2 . The name and quality of the public functionary receiving it . 3 . The name , age , profession , and residence , of the party declaring the birth ( generally the father or a near relation , &c , according to circumstances ) . 4 . The presentment of the child . 6 m ? 7 . > The day , hour , and place of birth .
9 . The names , profession , and abode , of the father and mother . 10 . The name given to the child ( the Manual urges the importance of not giving the child more than one name ) . 11 . The names , professions , and abodes , of two witnesses present at the declaration and presentment . 12 . The fact of the declaration having been read over to them . 13 . The signatures of the functionary , the declarer , and the witnesses . 14 . The mention of any cause which may prevent any of the parties
signing . 15 . The entry of the whole on the register-book , without any blanks , abbreviations , or figures . 16 . The noting of any erasures , &c . The form given is not altogether the best which could be devised ; a tabular form is always most convenient , and in some other respects obvious improvements in the plan might be suggested . The presence of two witnesses to the functionary ' s reception of an official act seems not very necessary ; the attendance of a second witness to the birth itself would be a far greater security . The mother ' s maiden name , and her father ' s name and description , ought not to have been omitted . It is well known that the contract of marriage , in its legal requisites , is
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Review . —Parochial Registration . 537
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1828, page 537, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2563/page/25/
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