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 40. Immediately on receipt of information from the Court to the effect that a person is presumed to be dead an entry concerning the said fact shall be made in the register.

4241 [sic]. The regulations prescribed in Sections 38–40 shall also be applicable to the entries to be made in the Register of Absentees kept for the registration of persons whose absence has been duly established.

42. Local Bureaus of Vital Statistics shall, not later than two days after the making of an entry, furnish transcripts of all records of deaths, and of all orders declaring the civil death of any person, or his absence without trace, to the Councils of Workmen's and Soldiers' Deputies of the village or the township which was the last known place of residence of the person in question.

43. The entries of marriages shall be made in the register kept for that purpose by the officials of the local Bureau of Vital Statistics assigned especially to the registration of marriages.

44. An official, on receipt of the notice stating the intention of the parties to marry and of the additional documents enumerated in Section 59 following, shall inquire what surname the parties to the marriage intend to adopt and shall record the documents in the register.

45. In case a register of marriages shall be destroyed or otherwise lost, or if for any reason whatsoever the married persons shall be unable to obtain a copy of their marriage certificate, they may make a declaration to the office for the recording of marriages at the place of the residence