Excerpt from Instructions and Laws Concerning the Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths in Massachusetts: Designed for Town Clerks, Physicians, Clergymen, Sextons, Undertakers, Etc Physicians and Midwives shall on or before the fifth day of each month report to the Clerk of each city or town, except Boston, a correct list of all children born therein during the month next preceding, at whose birth they were present, stat ing the date and place of each birth, the name of the child (if it has any), the sex and color of the child, the name, place of birth and residence of the parents, and the occupation of the father. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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