Annual Report of the Secretary of State on the Registration of Births and Deaths, Marriages and Divorces in Michigan

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Page 344 - Christian name in his book of record; and it shall be the duty of the several county clerks, on or before the tenth day of April in each year, to give to the officers required to make the said returns, lists of such children whose Christian names have not been previously reported in their respective towns, cities or wards.
Page 17 - Decree not to of divorce shall be made solely on the declarations, confessions, or admissions of the parties, but the court shall require other evidence of the facts alleged in the bill...
Page 1 - TO record ulicense to the county clerk as hereinafter provided, with the certificate of the clergyman or magistrate that the marriage has been performed, he shall record in the book of registration in their proper places of entry the date and place of the marriage, the names and residences of two witnesses to the marriage and the name of the officiating clergyman or magistrate. All licenses and certificates so issued and returned shall be preserved on file in the office...
Page 344 - The record of births shall state, in separate columns, the date of the birth, the name of the child, (if it have any,) the sex and color of the child, the place of birth, the...
Page 349 - ... shall be capable of contracting marriage. All marriages heretofore contracted between white persons and those wholly or in part of African descent are hereby declared valid and effectual in law for all purposes; and the issues of such marriages shall be deemed and taken as legitimate as to such issue and as to both of the parents.
Page 266 - It was there seen that this disease prevails most intensely in the counties having cities of considerable size and in the northern part of the lower peninsula and in the upper peninsula. A...
Page 227 - ... shall be liable to a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars, and the costs of prosecution ; and the prosecuting attorney in each county is hereby required to prosecute, in the...
Page ii - That the accounts for boxes furnished to the Secretary of State for package and distribution shall be audited and allowed by the board of State auditors and paid out of the State treasury, and the expense of transportation from the office of the Secretary of State to the county clerks, and of distribution by the county clerks to the persons entitled to the same shall be audited and allowed by the boards of supervisors and paid out of the county treasuries: Provided, howecer.

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