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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 758, 20 July 1853, Page 3

New' Registration Act in Victoria. following important notice from W. U* Aic er. Esq., the Acting Registrar-General, ®PP ea J r ® 111 yesterday’s Government Gazette General’s Office, Melbourne, 24th June, _ • Registration of Births and Deaths in Vic ®ria. (Under the Act of Legislative Council, IGth Victoria, No. 2G.)—Notice is hereby given, that for the purpose of receiving notices and o tier particulars, required by the Act of Legislative Council, 16th Victoria, No. 26, respecting births and deaths occurring in the City of Melbourne and its suburbs, a Deputy Registrar will be in attendance every day', except Sunday's and tiohdays, from the Ist July next, at the Office, Zo, William-street, opposite St. James’s Church, Melbourne, between the hours of eleven and two o’clock. The Registrations are made, and original Certificates granted by the Deputy Registrars, free of charge, and the public is invited to give immediate notice of all births and deaths which have occurred since the 31st March, 1853. All children born on and after Die Ist July', 1853, should be registered within sixty' day's from the date oi birth. Every person dying should be registered before the funeral takes place, so that the Deputy Registrar may give a Certificate of Registration to the undertaker, who, after the body is buried, is required to attest place and date of interment. The impoi'tance of this proceeding may estimated by section 25 of the Act,_ where it is enacted that certified copies of Registers, or entries of Registers, shall be received as prvma fane evidence in any Court cf Justice, “provided that no entry' of the register of any death shall be received as evidence of the fact of such death, unless there shall also be an entry of the register of the burial.” As every inhabitant of the colony may', at some time or other, be interested in knowing the precise time of some birth or death ; and, as a complete system of registration will prevent much litigation in future years, and otherwise protect individual rights of property ; besides throwing light on many social questions, as to the duration of life among children and the upgrown population, to the increase of statistical science, and the general advantage of the inhabitants of Victoria ; it is of the utmost importance that they should be well acquainted with the nature and provisions of the Act of Legislative Council, 16th Victoria, No. 26, under which the new registration system lias been formed. All letters or packets addressed (on registration business only') to the Registrar-General, or any of the Deputy' Registrars, provided the sides are open, pass through the Post Office free of charge. Any'additional information necessary, will be promptly' furnished on application. — Argus, June 30.

In consequence of the enormous consumption of paper for the A rgus, and the impossibility of securing an adequate supply without the great delay attendant upon sending for it to England, our stock has been reduced so low, as to lead to misgivings as to the possiblity of running out of paper. Under such circumstances we must for the present decline to add any further names to our subscription list; the paper for miscellaneous sale will consist only of a single sheet, containing the reading matter, and most of the new advertisements cannot bo inserted more than twice in each week. Large shipments of paper are now daily expected, when the recent arrangements of the Argus will be resumed. Meantime, the public will do us the justice to believe that these precautionary measures are not adopted without every reasonable means having been taken to prevent any alteration in our arrangements ; and we can therefore plead with some confidence for the temporary indulgence which we seek. — Melbourne Argus, July 2.