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1010 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. H. Cris. 2279, 2280. 1907. not to exceed six hundred and fifty thousand dollars, said vessels to be as follows: P""" B°““°· °"‘· One steam revenue cutter of the iirst class for duty in Puget Sound and adjacent waters, at a cost not to exceed two hundred and twenty- five thousand dollars. ¤•v•¤¤¤¤¤· G¤—.¤*¢- One steam revenue cutter of the first class for duty at Savannah, Georgia, and ad`acent waters on the Atlantic coast, at a cost not to exceed two huncfred thousand dollars. et§¤WB¢df¤*d»M¤¤¤·· One able seagoing tug for the Revenue-Cutter Service for duty at ` New Bedford, Massachusetts, and adjacent waters on the Atlantic Som, at a cost not to exceed one hundred and seventy-five thousand o rs. Ij“"°’“""· °“’·· One boarding vessel for the Revenue-Cutter Service for duty at New Orleans, Louisiana, and adjacent waters, at a cost not to exceed fifty thousand dollars. Approved, March 1, 1907. N¤'°h1J9°"· CHAP. 2280.-An Act To ro "d r the better reg1st' ration of bi bs in the ' [S"*’°°°‘] District of Columbia, and for otder buigpdges. rt [Public, No. 149.] _ Be it emzcted by the Senate and House of Rq2resmtatives of the United D§‘;'§’f,‘}‘,?j‘{§‘}f§’,“*§g States America in Congress assembled, That any physician or mid- ¤!g¤;¤· on umd wife w o attends at the birth of any child within the District of hom ¥»ny¤1¤s:K?m1u. Columbia, and any person whosoever who, in the absence of a physi- Q cian or midwife, performs any of the offices usually rendered b such shall execute or cause to be executed and shall tile with the liealth officer of said District not later than the Saturday first ensuing after the expiration of three secular days immediately following the date of such birth a proper report thereof, written in ink, on a blank furnished by said health officer, embodying all such data as may be necessary for the purposes of the Bureau of the Census of the Department of Commerce and Labor, and such other data, if any, as the Commissioners of said District deem needful. So far as relates to any data aforesaid not based upon the personal observation of the physician, midwife, or other person by whom report is made, every such report shall show the name and address of the informant and the num. relationship of said informant to the child born: I *ro·v£ded, hozvever, d,i,2?‘*"""°° d'"' That if the child born be illegitimate it shall in no case be necessary ' for any (physician, midwife, or other erson to indicate on any report require by this Act any fact or facts wlhereby the identity of the father or of the mother or of the child born will disclosed: And prosmmmns z•ided_f%zz·tw, That no report need be made of stillbirths when the fetus delivered has apparently not passed the fifth month of utero—gestation. p:r<g;°*l¤dU¤¤¤*¤* Upon receipt of any report aforesaid, said health officer shall for- ' wart to the father of the child, or, if his address be unknown, to the mother, an acknowledgment of the receipt of such report, and if the infant delivered be not stillborn, and such report does not contain R**’°°’d °* “°m°- the given name of the child born, a blank form on which the father or mother may certify over his or her signature the name of such child, which form, if thus executed and returned to said health officer within three months next following the date of birth, shall be a part of the official record of such birth. c,£*},frg,gg;§?”*”· Sec. 2. That no person shall, in the District of Columbia, willfully ' or negligently certify falsely to any fact whatsoever upon any report of a birth. And after any such report has been received by the health officer of said District no person shall alter the same otherwise than by amendments written independently of the body of the report and properly dated, signed, and witnessed. No person shall in said Dis- \ .