PROCEEDTNGS OF THE BOARD 01^ REGEiSTTS. XXVll 



fonsnlate at Genoa, Italy, the day and year next above wfitten, and of the 

 Indr-pendenee of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth. 

 [seal.] > William Henry Bishop. 



Consul of flic United States, 



tTransiatiiJn of the pretVct'si deoreo.l 



Royal Prefecture of Genoa. 



The prefect of the province, ujion the demand of Mr. Alexander Graham Bell, 

 bearing in mind the certihcate of illness and the extract from the certiticate of 

 death relevant, as also the receipt No. 7SG/10G41 delivered by the fiscal register 

 of Genoa, on this date, for the recpiired ))nyment of tlie tax for a governmental 

 liennit to rhe amount of oGO lire. 



Bearing in mind the law concerning the care of hygiene and the i)ublic health 

 of December 2'J. 1888, No. 5849, series 8, and the regulation of mortuary affairs 

 of .Tuly 2."".. ^S'.)■2\ 



Decrees that there is authorized, subject to the observance of the existing 

 sanitary requirements, the transportation of the remains of .Tames Smithson. 

 deceased of a malady not contagious, from (ienoa to Washington ( T^nited States 

 of America ) . 



Genoa, December 21). lOd.'t. 



The prefect, N. (Jarroni. 



Appendix C. — Coi)]/ of a certifieate iiunh' hy the British coiisid-t/eiieral at Genoa, 

 at the request of the iinuilclpitl bureau of hmtleiie. stiitlnfi tltat no objection, 

 existed on the part of the BrltlxJi eoiisulate-f/eneral to tlic reiiioral of the 

 remains of James ,Sinit])xoii. 



[Trauslatiou. | 



Consulate-General of Great Britain, 



(j-eiioa. Deeeinber SO. 1903. 

 There is not known on the ])art of this royal consulate-general any reason 

 why the representatives of the late Mr, Smithson, deceased in the year 1829. 

 should not remove his body from the cemetery of San Benigno, which has been 

 expropriated. 



[seal.] William Keene, ('oiisul-denerat. 



Appendix I). — Certiflrafe of the (tefiiig niai/or of Genoa flial all llie ret/uirenients 

 of the e.ristiiKj rcf/idafioiis on niortuarii i<iatters Jiad been eontiilied irlth. 



[Form for autliontieatioii of sisnature.] 



(V)nsular Service, United States of America, 



Genoa. Italy, January .7, 190.'i. 

 I, William Henry Bishop, consul of the tiuited States at Genoa. Italy, do 

 hereby certify that the signature of Bernabo Brea. acting mayor at (Jenoa. Italy, 

 at the foot of the paper hereto ann(>xed, is his true and genuine signature, made 

 and acknowledge in my presence, and that the said Bernabo Brea is i(ei-sonally 

 known to me. 



In witness whereof I have hereunto s(>t my band and affixed the seal of the 

 consulate at Genoa. Italy, the day and year next above written, and of the 

 Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth. 

 [seal.] William Henry Bishop. 



Consul of the T'nlted States. 



rfranslation of the mayor's certUicate.] 



City Hall of (tENoa, Office of Hygiene. 

 The mayor certifies that the l>ody of James Smithson has been inclose<l in two 

 coffins, the one of zinc and the other of strong wood, and that there have been 

 observed thntughout all the requirements of the (Existing regnlati(»iis on mor 

 tuary matters, articles '-'A. 32. 3?.. 

 Genoa. January 4, 1904. 

 For the mayor : 



Bernabo Brea, The Assistant. 



