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Regulations providing foe the Registration of Births and Deaths of Samoans. These regulations were brought into force on Ist January, 1923, and have proved very satisfactory during the past three years. 1. These regulations may be cited as the Board of Health Regulation No. 3. 2. (1.) The Administrator may from time to time appoint such persons as he thinks fit to act as Registrars of the Births and Deaths of Samoans. (2.) Until such time as the Administrator may determine, the Pulenu'u in each village and the Fa'amasino in each district will act as Registrars of the births and deaths of Samoans. Registration oh- Births oi Samoans. 3. (1.) Within seven days after the birth of any Samoan child born on or after the Ist day of April, 1922, the following particulars shall be furnished to the Pulenu'u of the village and to the Fa'amasino of the district in which the child was born :— (a.) Date of birth. (6.) Place of birth. (c.) Christian or first name. (d.) Sex of the child. (e.) Condition of child (whether alive or dead when born). (/.) Name of father. ((?.) Residence of father (village or district in which father resides). (h.) Name of mother. (i.) Residence of mother (village or district in which mother resides). (j.) Signature of informant. (k.) Residence of informant. (I.) Date of registration. (in.) Signature of official registering the birth. (2.) The father and the mother of the child shall be responsible for duly furnishing to the Pulenu'u and to the Fa'amasino the particulars hereinbefore referred to in respect of the birth of any Samoan child. 4. (1.) On receipt of the particulars of the birth of any Samoan child as aforesaid, the Pulenu'u and the Fa'amasino shall enter the same in the Register of Births and on a duplicate sheet to be supplied for the purpose by the Native Affairs Department.