cerning any deceased person, if and whenever said registrar shall request the same.

§ 966. It shall be the duty of every person legally authorized to perform the marriage ceremony, who shall at any time perform the marriage ceremony, to immediately report each such marriage to the registrar of the district in which such marriage takes place, and state to him the full names, the age, the residence, the nationality, andthe full names of each of the parents of each of the parties to such marriage. § 967. It shall be the duty of every person legally authorized to grant licenses to marry, to immediately upon the issuing of any marriage license, report to the registrar of the district in which such marriage license is issued, the full names, the age, the residence, the nationality, and the full names of each of the parents of each of the parties by such license authorized to marry.

§ 968. It shall be the duty of the secretary of the board to copy into books provided by the board for that purpose, all of the records of births, deaths, and marriages received from the several registrars.

The records of births, deaths, and marriages, and the island and districts in which they occurred, shall each be kept separately in chronological order.

§ 969. All records by sections 953-972 directed to be kept shall, during all business hours, be open to the inspection of the public.

§ 970. The secretary of the board shall furnish to any person applying for the same, a certified copy of the record of any birth, death, or marriage contained in any of the records kept under or by virtue of sections 953-972; such certified copy shall be competent evidence in any court of the fact therein contained, for which certified copy the sum of one dollar shall be charged and paid and accounted for to the public treasury.

PENALTIES.

§ 971. Any person who shall violate or who shall fail to observe or perform any of the requirements of sections 953-972, or any requirement of any rule or regulation made and published by the board under or by virtue of sections 953-972, shall, upon conviction of such violation or failure before any district court, be fined for such violation or failure a sum not to exceed fifty dollars.

§ 972. If any physician, sheriff, deputy sheriff, magistrate or assessor is appointed a registrar, it shall become a part of his official duties to perform the duties of registrar without further compensation.

Cases in Hawaiian Reports: R. v. Tong Lee, 4 Haw., 335; Minister v. Hackfeld, 4 Haw., 420; The Madras, 5 Haw., 116; Segregation of Lepers, 5 Haw., 164; Hutchinson v. Nebraska, 6 Haw., 100; Peterson v. Carter, 6 Haw., 285; Lopez v. Ah Man, 7 Haw., 2; Rego v. Mahoe, 7 Haw., 624; Re Cabinet, 8 Haw., 568; R. v. Kum.........., 10 Haw., 491.

CHAPTER 60.

CORONER'S INQUEST.

§ 973. The chief sheriff, deputy chief sheriff, sheriffs and deputies sheriff, and in all other districts than Honolulu and Lahaina the several district magistrates shall ex officio act as coroners without extra compensation.

§ 974. As soon as any coroner shall have notice of the death of any person within his jurisdiction, supposed to have come to such death by poisoning, violence, or in any suspicious manner, he shall forthwith issue his summons to six good and lawful men of the district where such death may have occurred, or in which the dead body may have been found or is at the time lying, to appear before him at the time and place expressed in the warrant, and there to inquire upon the view of the body of the deceased, when, how, and by what means he came to his death.

In all cases of sudden death the coroner shall inquire into the cause, and, in his discretion, shall cause an inquest to be held even if he is not satisfied that there are suspicious circumstances attending the death.

All persons summoned to serve on a coroner's jury shall be paid two dollars per day for each day's actual attendance; and if any person summoned to serve on such jury shall fail to appear, without reasonable excuse therefor, he may be fined by the coroner, not exceeding ten dollars; and the coroner may issue process to any constable for the collection of any fines thus imposed.

§ 975. If the six jurors summoned shall not all appear, the coroner may summon other jurors from the bystanders, or others, to complete the number.

§ 976. When the jury is complete, the coroner shall call over their names, and then in view of the body he shall administer to them the following oath:

"You solemnly swear that you will diligently inquire, and true presentment make, when, how, and by what means the person whose body lies here dead came to his death; and you shall return a true inquest thereof according to your knowledge and such evidence as shall be laid before you: So help you God."

§ 977. The coroner may issue subpoenas for witnesses, returnable forthwith, or at such time and place as he shall therein direct, and may enforce the same by fine or imprisonment, or both, in the discretion of said coroner.

§ 978. An oath to the following effect shall be administered by the coroner to the witnesses:

"You solemnly swear that the evidence which you shall give to this inquest, concerning the death of the person here lying dead, shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth: So help you God."

§ 979. The testimony of all witnesses examined before any inquest shall be reduced to writing by the coroner, or some other person by his direction, and subscribed by the witnesses.

§ 980. The jury, upon the inspection of the dead body, and after hearing the testimony of the witnesses, and making all needful inquiries, shall draw up and deliver to the coroner their inquisition under their hands.

§ 981. Every coroner's jury shall, if possible, find and certify when, how, and by what means the deceased person came to his death, and his name, if it was known, together with all the material circumstances attending his death; and if it shall appear that he was murdered, the jury shall state who were guilty, either as principal or accessory, if known, or were in any manner the cause of his death. The form of the inquisition may be in substance as follows:

“An inquisition taken at

in the year

before

on the day of

one of the coroners of said island, upon the body of (or a person) there lying dead, by the oaths of the jurors whose names are hereunto subscribed, who, being sworn to inquire when, how, and by what means the said , (or person) came to his death, upon their oaths do say (then insert when, how, and by what person, if known, means, weapons, or instruments he was killed). In testimony whereof, the said coroner, and the jurors of this inquest, have hereunto set their hands, the day and year aforesaid."

§ 982. If the jury find that any murder, manslaughter, or assault had been committed on the deceased, the coroner shall bind over by recognizance, or, if necessary, commit to jail, such witnesses as he shall think proper, to appear and testify upon the trial of any person who may be indicted for such offense. The coroner shall return to the court before which such trial is to be had the inquisition, written evidence, and all recognizances and examinations by him taken.

§ 983. If any person charged by the inquest with having committed such offense shall not be in custody the coroner shall have the power to issue process for his apprehension, and such process shall be made returnable before any district magistrate, or any other magistrate or court having jurisdiction in the case, who shall proceed therein in the same manner as if he had issued such process himself.

§ 984. When any coroner shall take an inquest upon the dead body

of a stranger, or, being called for that purpose, shall not think it necessary on view of such body, that any inquest should be taken, he shall cause the body to be decently buried.

§ 985. No fees shall be paid to jurors or witnesses attending upon any coroner's inquest, but all the reasonable expenses of the inquisition shall be paid to the coroner from the public treasury, the account of such expenses being first examined and allowed by the governor.

§ 973 is S. L. 1892, ch. 45. 974 18 S. L. 1878, act 9.

NOTE TO CHAPTER 60.

§§ 975-985 are P. C. ch. 60, §§ 2-13.

CHAPTER 61.

FOR THE PROTECTION OF PLACES OF SEPULTURE.

§ 986. If any person, not having any legal right to do so, shall wilfully dig up, disinter, remove, or convey away any human body from any burial place, or shall knowingly aid in such disinterment, removal, or conveying away, every such offender and every person accessory thereto, either before or after the fact, shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labor for not more than two years or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.

$986 is P. C. ch. 61 unaltered.

NOTE TO CHAPTER 61.

CHAPTER 62.

TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF LEPROSY.

PART I.-SEGREGATION.

§ 987. The president of the board of health is hereby expressly authorized, with the approval of the said board, to reserve and set apart any land or portion of land now owned by the government for a site or sites of an establishment or establishments to secure the isolation and seclusion of such leprous persons as in the opinion of the board of health or its agents may, by being at large, cause the spread of leprosy.

§ 988. The president of the board of health, acting with the approval of the said board, may acquire for the purpose stated in the preceding section, by purchase or exchange, any piece or pieces, parcel or parcels of land which may seem better adapted to the use of lepers than any land owned by the government.

§ 989. The board of health, or its agents, are authorized and empowered to cause to be isolated and confined in some place or places for that purpose provided, all leprous patients who shall be deemed capable of spreading the disease of leprosy; and it shall be the duty of every district magistrate, when properly applied to for that pur pose by the board of health or its authorized agents, to cause to be arrested and delivered to the board of health or its agents, any person alleged to be a leper within the jurisdiction of such district magistrate; and it shall be the duty of the chief sheriff of the Hawaiian Islands and his deputies, and of the police officers, to assist in securing the conveyance of any person so arrested to such place as the board of health

or its agents may direct, in order that such person may be subjected to medical inspection, and thereafter to assist in removing such person to a place of treatment, or isolation, if so required by the agents of the board of health.

§ 990. The board of health is authorized to make arrangements for the establishment of hospitals on each island where leprous patients in the incipient stages may be treated in order to attempt a cure; and the said board and its agents shall have full power to discharge all such patients as it shall deem cured, and to send to a place of isolation contemplated in sections 987 and 989 all such patients as shall be considered incurable or capable of spreading the disease of leprosy.

§ 991. The board of health or its agents may require from patients such reasonable amount of labor as may be approved of by the attending physicians; and may further make and publish such rules and regulations as by the said board may be considered adapted to ameliorate the condition of lepers, which said rules and regulations shall be published and enforced as in sections 873 and 874 provided.

§ 992. No person, not being a leper, shall be allowed to visit or remain upon any land, place, or inclosure set apart by the board of health for the isolation and confinement of lepers without the written permission of the president of the board or some officer authorized thereto by the board of health, under any circumstances whatever, and any person found upon such land, place, or enclosure without a written permission, shall, upon conviction thereof before any district magistrate, be fined in a sum not less than ten no more than one hundred dollars for such offense, and in default of payment to be imprisoned at hard labor until the fine and costs of court are discharged in due course of law.

§ 993. It shall be lawful for the board of health, through its president, to make and promulgate such rules and regulations as may be from time to time necessary for the government and control of the lepers placed under their charge, and such rules and regulations shall have the same force and effect as a statute law of the Territory, provided always, that the sanction of the governor be given thereto, and that they be published in two newspapers published in Honolulu, one in the Hawaiian, the other in the English language.

And

§ 994. The board of health, while keeping an accurate and detailed account of all sums of money expended by them out of any appropriations which may be made by the legislature, shall keep the account of sums expended for the leprosy distinct from the general account. the said board shall report to the legislature at each of its regular sessions the said expenditures in detail, together with such information regarding the disease of leprosy, as well as the public health generally, as it may deem to be of interest to the public.

§ 995. The board of health is hereby authorized to permit any person to engage in the treatment of lepers or of persons supposed to have leprosy. Such permits shall be under such conditions and regulations as the board shall prescribe, and be revocable at the pleasure of the board.

§ 996. Whoever shall knowingly detain or harbor upon premises subject to his control, or shall in any manner conceal or secrete or assist in concealing or secreting, any person afflicted with leprosy, with the intent that such person be not discovered by or delivered to the board of health or its agents, or who whall support or assist in supporting any person having leprosy living in concealment, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof