Expense of
Correspond-

ence of Regis

trar General

relating to this Act how to be defrayed.

Proclamation of
Banns, &c.

Registrar
General to

furnish Notices
of Acts required
to be done to

the Provisions herein contained relative to such Parochial Boards; and such Town Council shall be entitled to levy such Assessment on the Real Rent of Lands and Heritages within such Burgh as may be required to defray the Expense of their Proceedings under this Act; and the Word "Burgh" shall have the Meaning annexed to it in the Seventy-sixth Section of this Act, excepting in the Case of Burghs which do not as Burghs send or contribute to send a Member to Parliament, Boundaries of which shall continue to be as fixed by Royal Charter, or Act of Parliament, or other Constitution thereof.

LXVII. The Expense attending the Postage or Carriage of all Letters and Packets relating exclusively to the Execution of this Act, sent by the General Post from Place to Place in Great Britain and Ireland, to or from the Registrar General, and also the Expense of registering any Letter containing any Register transmitted through the Post Office, shall be defrayed as a Part of the Expense of the General Registry Office hereinbefore provided for: Provided always, that such Letters and Packets as shall be sent to the Registrar General be directed to the Registrar General in Edinburgh, and all such Letters and Packets as shall be sent by the Registrar General shall be in Covers, with the Words " Registrar General, Edinburgh,' printed on the same, and be signed on the Outside thereof under such Words with the Name of such Person as the Registrar General, with the Consent of the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, shall appoint, in his own Handwriting, such Name to be from Time to Time sent to the Secretaries of the General Post Office in London, Edinburgh, and Dublin, and under such other Regulations as the said Commissioners shall think fit; and if the Person so to be appointed shall subscribe or seal any Letter or Packet whatever, except such only concerning which he shall receive the special Direction of his superior Officer, or which he shall himself know to relate exclusively to the Execution of this Act, or if the Person so to be appointed, or any other Person, shall knowingly send or cause to be sent, under any such Cover, any Letter, Paper, or Writing, or any Enclosure other than shall relate exclusively to the Execution of this Act, every Person so offending shall forfeit and pay the Sum of One hundred Pounds, and be dismissed from his Office, one Moiety of such Penalty to be paid to the Use of Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, and the other Moiety to the Use of the Person who shall inform or sue for the same, to be sued for or recovered in any competent Court.

LXVIII. Nothing herein contained shall affect the Proclamation of Banns, or the Registration thereof, as at present in use, or the Law of Marriage in Scotland.

LXIX. The Registrar General shall, within Three Months after his Appointment to such Office, and from Time to Time as he shall think fit, furnish to the respective Sheriffs of the several Counties in Scotland such printed Notices respecting the Acts

required

Publication on

required to be done under this Act by the Persons who are Sheriff's for herein required to give Notice or Information with regard to any Doors of Places Birth, Death, or Marriage as he shall think it requisite to be of Worship, &c. publicly known, which Notices the Sheriff's shall, as soon as conveniently may be after the Receipt thereof, cause to be affixed on the Outside of the Doors of all the known Places of Public Worship or other public and conspicuous Buildings or Places within their respective Counties.

LXX. Wherever Notice is required to be given by this Act, Notices may be the Person bound to give the Notice shall be held to have given by Post. sufficiently discharged himself if he shall have put into the Post Office, before the Expiration of the Period within which the Notice is required to be given, a Letter addressed to the Person to whom and containing the Particulars of which the Notice is required to be given.

Penalties not
Notice given.

exigible if

before Wit

LXXI. No Penalty imposed by this Act on Parties failing to give any Notice required by this Act shall be exigible, if any of the Parties so required shall have given such Notice. LXXII. In case of the Inability to write of any Person Parties may whose Signature is required or necessary under this Act, it shall sign by a Mark be lawful for such Person to adhibit a Cross or other Mark, and being adhibited in Presence of the Registrar, or Sheriff, or Two Witnesses, who shall adhibit their Designations to their Signatures, such Mark shall be in all respects as binding and effectual as the Signature of such Person if capable of writing would have been.

LXXIII. No Penalty shall be exacted in any Case where it shall appear to the Satisfaction of the Sheriff that the Party failing to comply with the Provisions of this Act, in relation to the giving Notices under the same, has not wilfully been guilty of such Failure, but that such Failure has been occasioned by unavoidable Accident, or by Circumstances over which he had no Control, and where he has used every reasonable Endeavour towards Compliance with such Provisions.

nesses.

No Penalty

where Failure

not wilful.

alter Schedules.

LXXIV. It shall be lawful for the Registrar General, with Registrar the Consent of Her Majesty in Council, to diminish, from Time General may to Time, the Fees hereby authorized to be taken, and to alter the Schedules to this Act annexed, regard being always had to the Objects and Purposes of this Act, and to rendering the same more effectual; and such Alteration of Fees or Schedules shall be published in the Edinburgh Gazette, and shall within Fourteen Days after the same shall have been issued be laid before both Houses of Parliament, or if Parliament shall not be then sitting, within Fourteen Days after the Meeting of the then next Session.

LXXV. If any Person being by Law in the Office of Keeper Compensation of any Register of Births, Baptisms, or Burials, and not being of Registers where Keepers a Session Clerk, shall, in the Execution of this Act, be deprived deprived of of such Office, and thereby suffer Loss of the Emoluments of Office by Opesuch Office, it shall be competent to such Person to make Appli- Act. cation to the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury,

ration of this

Interpretation of Act.

Extent of Act.

setting forth the Amount of such Loss, together with the Vouchers and Evidence thereof, and the said Commissioners may on Consideration of the same find the Applicant entitled to Compensation, and award the same to such Amount as they shall think fit, or find that he is not entitled to Compensation.

LXXVI. The following Words and Expressions in this Act shall have the several Meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the Subject or Context repugnant to such Construction; (that is to say,)

The Expression "Registrar General" shall mean the Registrar
General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in Scotland for
the Time being, appointed and acting under this Act:
The WordParish" shall include any Division of a Parish
or Union of Parishes into a District or Districts made in
pursuance of this Act:

And with regard to any Birth, Death, or Marriage herein
mentioned, the Words "Registrar" and "Assistant Regis-
trar" shall mean the Registrar and Assistant Registrar of
the Parish or District in which such Birth, Death, or
Marriage took place or such Marriage was solemnized,
celebrated, or contracted; and the Word "Register" shall
mean the Duplicate Registers of Births, Deaths, and
Marriages to be kept and made pursuant to this Act:
The Word" Sheriff" shall mean the Sheriff of the County
of which he is Sheriff, and shall include Sheriff Sub-
stitutes:

The Words "Procurator Fiscal" shall mean the Procurator
Fiscal of the County or Division of a County of which he
is Procurator Fiscal:

The Word "Minister" shall be taken to include Ministers or Pastors of Christian Congregations of all Denominations:

The WordCounty" shall include any Division of a County established by Law:

The Word "Burgh" shall apply to a City, Burgh, or Town
being a Royal Burgh, or which sends or contributes as a
Burgh to send a Member to Parliament, and the Boundaries
of all such Burghs shall for the Purposes of this Act be
the same as are described in the Act Second and Third
William the Fourth, Chapter Sixty-five:

The Word" Heritors" shall mean Heritors entitled to elect a
Schoolmaster under an Act passed in the Forty-third Year
of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third,
Chapter Fifty-four:

The Word "Occupier" shall include the Guardian, Master,
Governor, Keeper, Steward, House Surgeon, or Superin-
tendent of every Gaol, Prison, or House of Correction,
Workhouse, Hospital, Lunatic Asylum, or public Charitable
Institution.

LXXVII. This Act shall extend only to Scotland.

SCHE

in the County (or Burgh) of Edinburgh. Registered by John Smith, Registrar.

Informant.

Father.

Parents.

Mother.

[The Words and Figures in Italics in this Schedule to be filled in as the Case may be.]

SCHEDULE (B.)

in the County (or Burgh) of Edinburgh. Registered by John Smith, Registrar.

Particulars of Death.

in the Register Office, Registrar. Edinburgh,

Witness.