A manual of hygiene, public and private, and compendium of sanitary laws : for the information and guidance of public health authorities, officers of health, and sanitarians generally / by Charles A. Cameron.

Date:
1874
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Credit: A manual of hygiene, public and private, and compendium of sanitary laws : for the information and guidance of public health authorities, officers of health, and sanitarians generally / by Charles A. Cameron. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAWS RELATING TO THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD IN IRELAND. 19 & 20 Vic, Cap. 98, [2gth July, 1856.] I. This act may be cited as The Burial Grounds {Ireland) Kzt, 3^^^,^^;^;^ 2 In this act the following words and expressions shall have the interpretation several meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be somethmg m of terms, the subject or context repugnant to such construction—that is to say, Lord Lieutenant a shall mean the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland or other Chief Governor or Governors thereof; Council shall mean her Majesty's Privy CoMiicilam. Ireland ; '' Borough shall mean any borough or town corporate in Ireland, or any town in which a board of muni- cipal commissioners shall have been elected under the provisions of an act of the third and fourth years of her present Majesty, chapter one hundred and eight, or in which town commissioners shall have been appointed under the provisions of an act of the ninth year of King George the Fourth, chapter eighty-two, or an act of the seven- teenth and eighteenth years of her present Majesty, chapter one hundred and three, or any act amending the same ; Town Council shall mean the town council of the borough, or where there is no town council, the board of municipal commissioners, or the town commissioners acting for the borough or town; the Borough Fund shall be held to include the Town Fund; Parish shall extend to any extra-parochial precinct or place ; Ratepayers shall mean the persons for the time being assessed to and paying rates, or liable to be rated under the provisions of this act; Town Clerk shall mean the town clerk of the borough, or, where there is no town clerk, the clerk of the board of municipal'commissioners, or of the town commissioners acting for the borough or town. 3 In the execution of this act in poor law unions, or any portion Burial Boards thereof not within the limits or boundaries of any borough as defined by =*Xexecution this act, Burial Board shall be held to signify the board of guardians lor the relief of the poor within any such poor law union or portion thereof, and the manner of holding and transacting business at meetings of such burial boards shall be similar to the manner in use in respect of the relief of the poor; and within the limits or boundaries of any borough, the town council of the borough shall be held to be the burial board of such borough. 4. The board of guardians for the relief of the poor shall, in carrying ggard of Guar- into execution the provisions of this act, be subject to the direction and cHanstobe control of the commissioners(5 appointed for administering the law for subject to Poor the relief of the poor in/r^W. ^one?s°°' 5. In case it shall appear to the Lord Lieutenant m Council, upon RepVesenta- representation duly made to him, that for the protection of the public tion duly made health the opening of any new burial ground in any city or town or to him, Lord within any other limits in Ireland, save with the approval of the Lord council may'' Lieutenant, b should be prohibited, or that burials in any city or town or restrain the within any other limits, or in any burial grounds or places of burial, opening of new burial grounds, and order dis- a The Powers of the Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council have been transferred continuance of to the Local Government (Ireland) Board by 35 and 3« Vict., c. C9, and 37 & 38 burials in Vic, c. 93. specified places. 6 Now Local Government Board. 30 & 3C Vict., c. fi9.