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FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 6. 1898. 229 officer of said District, nor otherwise than in accordance with the terms of said permit; permits ior the removal, interment, or disposal to be H¤W*¤¤¤¤d· issued upon the presentation of a proper death certificate, signed by a physician, registered at the health department of said District, who has attended the deceased during his or her. last illness, or by the coroner of said District or his deputy, or by the proper municipal, county, or State authorities at the place where the death occurred; permits for disinterment (including permission to reinter or transport the body disinterred) to be issued upon the written application of the nearest relative or the legal representative of the deceased; and no superintendent or other person in charge of any cemetery in said District, or other place for the disposal of dead bodies, shall assist in, or assent to, or allow any such interment, disinterment, or disposition to be made in such cemetery or place until permit shall be given as aforesaid. It shall be the °,,I{1•}*;'rj_$;*;]*;¤f;,fd¤*° duty of every such superintendent or other person who shall receive any ’ ' such permit aforesaid to indorse thereon the date of interment, disinterment, or disposal, and to preserve, sign, and return the same to the health officer of said District 'before six o’c1ock postmeridian of the Saturday following the day of burial, disinterment, or disposal. Sec. 7. That no dead body, or part of the dead body, of any human mggfggvg cogrvy- being hall be in any manner carried or conveyed from, in, to, or 1¤,:;»_,¤¤· tnmiignuiiilé through said District by any person or by means of any boat, vessel, DM °°· car, stage,—or other vehicle, or by any public or private conveyance, without a permit therefor first granted by the health officer of said District: Provided, That bodies or parts of dead bodies aforesaid, except ggglfggéof stm such as have died of Asiatic cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever, small- umass. ra 1¤¤ue¤°ii{ pox (including varioloid), leprosy, the plague, diphtheria, or scarlet *"“°*'· _ fever, may be brought into said District, or carried through the same in transit, upon a permit of the proper municipal, county, or State authorities of the place at which such person died; whenever the remains of c0§¤¤;*¤ <>¤` r¤¤¤i¤ any deceased person have been conveyed, transferred, or removed be- p° ` youd the limits of said District, it shall be the duty of the person or agent or officer of the corporation having charge of such conveyance, transfer, or removal to detach, date, sign, and return to the health omcer the coupon attached to the permit by said health officer authorizing such conveyance, transfer, or removal before six o’clock postmeridiau of the Saturday following the day of such conveyance, transfer, or removal of said remains. Sec. 8. That it shall be the duty of any person or persons having cus- 0,,}:;g°_jg;Q_{_§,;_¤j.•};:§ tody or control of the dead body of any human being, or any part of mmipmms. ° such body, to report in writing, or cause to be reported in writing, to the health officer of said District within forty-eight hours after the death of the deceased, the name of said deceased and the location of the body or part thereof; no such body or part thereof shall be kept in said Dis- 0¤‘¤=¤¤i¤j•> ¤·1··r¤= extrict in such manner as to give rise to any offensive odors to the annoy- P°"d' °“" b°d`°°' anne of any person or persons in the neighborhood or to the public, nor so as to be exposed to the public view; nor shall any such body or part thereof be permitted by the person or persons having custody or control of it, to remain unburied for a longer period than one week after death without permission of the health officer unless it has been cremated or deposited in the vault of some cemetery; nor shall any person rzximimss tnmmss. publicly exhibit in said District, for pay or otherwise, any dead body of any human being, or any part of such body, without a permit from the health officer of said District so to do, except such exhibition bein connection with some Government museum or with some institution of learning permanently located in said District. _ _ Sec. 9. That no person shall bury or cause to be buried within said ,dBg‘}.‘[,‘§}§,QP°”*“bli“h` District the body or part of the body of any deceased person, except in such grounds as are now known and used as public or private burial grounds, or such as shall hereafter be designated by the Commissioners _ 0f said District and authorized by them to be used as such: Provided, m3;;; or m... That no cemetery shall hereafter he established within one mile and u *°'*°•· half of the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia.