Section 26

Section 26. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whenever any person shall die in the city, districts or townships aforesaid, the physician or surgeon who shall have attended such person as a physician or surgeon during his or her last sickness, shall leave a note in writing, signed with his name, with some one of the family in the house where such person shall have died, specifying the name and apparent age of the deceased, and the disease of which he or she shall have died. And every physician or surgeon refusing or neglecting to make and deliver such note, shall forfeit the sum of five dollars. And that no sexton of any church or other person having charge of any cemetery, vault or burial ground in the city, districts or townships aforesaid, shall permit any dead body to be interred therein until he has received such note in writing so signed as aforesaid, or in case no physician or surgeon shall have attended such deceased person, or the physician or surgeon who did attend, shall have neglected or refused to leave such note, then a like note signed by some of the family in which such person shall have died, the contents of which note in writing shall be entered by such sexton on a blank schedule to be furnished by the clerk of the health office, or such other person as the board of health shall direct, and delivered together with the said schedule, on the Saturday of every week to the health officer for publication, in such form as may be designated by the board of health; and that every sexton or other person having charge of any place of interment neglecting or refusing to perform any of the duties required by this act, shall forfeit the sum of twenty-five dollars.