RELATING TO THE REGISTRY AND RETURN OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS IN MICHIGAN FOR THE YEAR 1895 BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ROBERT SMITH PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS AND BINDERS 1897 IZ 1895 DOCUMENTS AUTHORITY FOR PUBLICATION AND DISTRIBUTION. HOWELL'S ANNOTATED STATUTES, SUPPLEMENT 1883–1890. SECTIONS 26g, 26j, AND 26n, BEING SECTIONS 7, 10 and 14 OF PUBLIC ACT NO. 122 of 1889. 78126 § 26g. SEC. 7. That there shall be published a sufficient number of copies of the reports of the several officers, boards of officers, and public institutions of this State, now or hereafter required to make reports, not mentioned in sections eight, nine, ten and eleven of this act, and be bound together as joint documents of the fiscal or calendar year for which such reports are made, to supply the following persons, officers, libraries, corporations and societies, viz.: State officers and their deputies, ex-State officers, libraries of State officers, officers and libraries of State institutions, members and libraries of State boards, senators and representatives of this State in Congress, the United States senate library and the library of Congress, members of the legislature of the year for which said joint documents are published, justices of the supreme court, judges of the circuit courts, county clerks, county treasurers and judges of probate, public, free and incorporated libraries, public schools having a library, and publishers of newspapers published at that time in this State. That in addition to the foregoing there shall be published of said reports as joint documents, three hundred and fifty copies, one hundred and fifty copies of which shall be deposited in the State library for use in said library and for exchanges, and the remaining two hundred copies shall be deposited in the office of Secretary of State to supply futare demands. § 26j. Sac. 10. That a sufficient number of copies of the annual report of the Secretary of State on births, marriages and deaths shall be printed and bound for distribution, in the same manner as the joint documents; also a sufficient number to supply the officers making returns of births and deaths compiled in said report or their successors in office with one copy each, for depositing one hundred and fifty copies in the State library for use in said library and for exchanges, two hundred copies in the office of the Secretary of State as in the case of the joint documents, and two hundred copies in the office of the State board of health for distribution by said board in their discretion. § 26n. SEC. 14. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to direct and oversee the prompt distribution of the laws, journals, documents, and reports mentioned in this act, whose distribution is not otherwise provided for: and said laws, journals, documents and reports shall be shipped to the several county clerks in the State, and be distributed by them to the persons, officers, corporations, and societies within their respective counties entitled to the same, and that, until so distributed, they shall be carefully preserved by said county clerks. 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, however, That the Secretary of State may, in his discretion, personally deliver or ship directly to any of the persons, officers, corporations, or societies entitled to any book or books mentioned in this act. Applications for this Report should be made directly to the Secretary of State, Lansing. LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. MICHIGAN, DEPARTMENT OF STATE, HON. HAZEN S. PINGREE, Governor of Michigan: SIR-I hereby transmit, in accordance with law, the Twenty-ninth Annual Registration Report of Michigan, containing the statistics of the births, marriages and deaths that were reported as having occurred in this State during the year 1895. The preceding Report, containing the statistics for the year 1894, was issued under date of January 6, 1897. Since its publication we have been enabled, by the active cooperation of the State Printing Office, to bring up the present Report to a date of issue nearly, if not quite, as early as that of any preceding Report of the series. The delay between the close of the registration year 1895 and the appearance of this Report is due solely to the antiquated and tardy method of collecting statistics of births and deaths in this State, whereby the returns do not reach this Department until eight months after the close of the registration year. It is very gratifying, therefore, that the Legislature of 1897 has enacted a law providing for the immediate registration of deaths in this State. Under its provisions, which are given on page xvii, following, the returns will be made promptly and be available for many important practical uses. Opportunity is here taken to acknowledge the valuable services of Dr. Cressy L. Wilbur, Chief of the Division of Vital Statistics in this Department, whose able and skilful editorial work upon these Reports for the past five years has greatly increased their usefulness to sanitarians and statisticians, not only in Michigan but also in other States. |