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MIXUP MAY VOIDI)CERTIFICATES OF BIRTH IN PENNA. «(Continued from Page One Itn§ made by advising apohcants for t delaved records to include In their applications the additional male- , rial required bv the federal gov- , ernment but not necessary for Lstwr w* jnuance of the state document.“I am afraid some of these cer- t Uflcatei won't stand up in future years,'* Williams said, pointing out j that the state Department's passport division, the Federal Bureau of , Investigation, the Old Age Fund Air Services of the Army. Navy 1 and Marine Corps, which areamong the 22 federal agencies requiring the information salted by ‘ rensus-talters to establish proof of birth.The legislature ignored a Federal Census Bureau suggestion that I; pas* a resolution avowing the state agency which collects vitalstatistics to follow a form prescribed by the census bureau. Instead, the lawmakers passed two aco* allowing persons born before1906 when certificates fuel were is-• sued, to obtain birth| countyasfour specifiedarts court of t»y supplying c tit to the State Vital Statistics Bu reau| FVdera! requirements specify one piece of evidence obtained be!orethe fifth birthday, WMUlly a baptismal record, and three more documents at least five yeart old Since. the tafc requires neither of these j x conditions, its certificates may be . held invalid in future years. Will-hi*i,•en tarns explained.The census bureau request for a ; resolution and not legislation, it is 4 believed, was ignored bv the legis-lature for fear that the state bu-,, reau, acting in conformity with fed-[ eral request, would make It too dif-^ flcult to obtain birth certificates.y The act allowing cluens to apply to , their orphans courts was aimed at ,j alleviating any distress which „ might be caused by strictness on the part of the Vital Statistics Bu-reau in relation to the one affida-j vH it required.n, Williams said several cases al-^ ready have arisen wlv-re delayed certificates issued by the bureau have not been honored pending an examination of the evidence on which they were obtained, and said many Pennsylvania certificates hare been examined after acceptance bv federal officials. Most states, he said, complied with the census bureau request About 5.000 delayed certificates1 have already been issued, and plications for another 30,000 are on file. Most applicants. Williams believed. are applying under the law which allows them to vek issuance n from the bureau directly, because l~ | the orphans court act may entail “ added expense of an attorney and llt;* because four affidavits are re-r- quired. All applicants are being urged, however, to submit the evidence required by federal agencies 61 ||f it can bt obtained.Williams said that in many cases '/ expenses are proving heavier than *; were anticipated, since 50 cents Is charged to search the files to determine whether the birth was recorded If it was not. an additional : $2 50 is changed when evidence is*° submitted, and $1 is .hi fee for issuance of a certified copy.tsed
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DuBois Courier
DuBois, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Oct 23, 1941
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