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36. The notification of the finding of a dead body shall have appended thereto, besides the said certificate of a physician, an official report drawn up and attested by the local administrative officials, and containing a detailed account of the circumstances under which the body was found.

37. Any person failing to make, in due time, the notification mentioned in Sections 19 and 32, shall be liable to a fine of not less than 50 rubles.

38. On reaching the conclusion that a person is presumed to be dead, the Court shall notify the respective Bureau of Vital Statistics wherein the entry of the birth of the person presumed to be dead is kept on file.

Note. If the Court shall have no information of the locality wherein the person presumed to be dead was registered, or if such person was registered in the offices of localities which do not at the present time form part of the Russian Republic, the Court shall notify of its decision the Bureau of Vital Statistics in the locality which was the last place of residence of the person presumed to be dead.

39. The entry in the register of the civil death of any person shall also contain the statement that the same has been made in accordance with a decision of a court of law, which has found that the person in question shall be presumed to be dead. The said statement shall recite the title of the Court in making the decree, the number of the order, and the date thereof.

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