The Public Health and Local government Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vic. cap. 55), and the statutes incorporated therewith, with short explanatory notes / by J. V. Vesey Fitzgerald.

United Kingdom

Date:: 1882

Credit: The Public Health and Local government Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vic. cap. 55), and the statutes incorporated therewith, with short explanatory notes / by J. V. Vesey Fitzgerald. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$120 amount they may charge, thoiigli of course the charges must bo reasonable. In tho case of burial boards, it has been enacted by 15 & IG Vic. c. 85 s. 34 that— ’ ’ “Kvcry burial board under this Act shall and may (without prejudice to tho foes and jiaymcnts herein specially provided for) fix and settle and receive such fees aud payments in respect of interments in any burial ground provided by such board ns they shall think fit, and also tho sums to be ))aid for tho exclusive right of burial, either in perpetuity or for a limited period, in any burial ground provided by such board, aud also tho right of constructing any vault or place of burial with tho exclusive right of burial therein in perpetuity or for a limited period, and also tho right of erecting and jdacing any monument gravestone tablet or monumental inscription in such burial ground. And every burial board, with tho consent of tho vestry, may from time to time revise and alter such fees ])ayments and sums as aforesaid; and a table showing such fees imyments and sums, and all other fees and payments in resijcct of interments in such ground, shall be printed and published, and shall b(! affixed and at all times continued on some conspicuous part of such burial ground.” These fees are by 18 & 19 Vic. c. 128, s. 7, to bo fixed and settled subject to tho approval of one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, and not to bo altered without such approval. Tho scale of fees charged under this Act by a local authority is, it would seem, subject to tho approval of tho Local Government Board. (See 35 & 3G Vic. c. 76, s. 34, Appendix.) The local authority may also make bye-laws for cemeteries pro\-ided by them; these bye-laws must conform to tho conditions prescribed by ss. 182-180 of tho principal Act, and must bo approved by tho Local Governmeut Board. (2.) A local authority may acquire construct and main- tain a cemetery either wholly or partly within or without their district subject, as to works without their district for the purpose of a cemetery, to the provisions of the principal Act as to sewage works by a local authority without their district. Hec ss. 32-31 of tho principal Act, ante, as to works without the district. The cxixinses woidd bo provided for, so far as they wore not covered by fees, under ss. 207 & 229. (3.) A local authority may accept a donation of land for the jinrpose of a cemetery, and a donation of money or other property for enabling them to acquire con- struct or maintain a cemetery. A local authority may purchase land for tho purpose of a cemetery under the provisions of tho principal Act, ss. 175-178, and may, with tho$