The Burial Acts : a complete compilation of the Acts of Parliament which have passed the legislature from 1852 to 1857, with an elaborate analysis of the whole. The regulations of the Home Office with regard to the management of burial grounds. A general description of the metropolitan cemeteries, the fees and charges for interments, and other useful, practical, and legal information. Explanatory notes and copious index / by Charles Greene.

Greene, Charles

Date:: 1857

Credit: The Burial Acts : a complete compilation of the Acts of Parliament which have passed the legislature from 1852 to 1857, with an elaborate analysis of the whole. The regulations of the Home Office with regard to the management of burial grounds. A general description of the metropolitan cemeteries, the fees and charges for interments, and other useful, practical, and legal information. Explanatory notes and copious index / by Charles Greene. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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$Auditors XVIII. The vestry ahall yearly appoint two persons, pointed' ^'^^S members of the board, to be auditors of the yearly who accounts of the board, and at such time in the month of shall exa- March in every year as the vestry shall appoint the board Account ^^^^ produce to the auditors their accounts, with sufficient and°report vouchers for aU moneys received and paid, and the auditors to Vestries, shall examine such accounts and vouchers, and report thereon to the vestry. h?^aUi out -^I^- ^^^ expenses incurred or to be incurred by the of the poor Birial Board of any parish in carrying this Act into rate. execution shall be chargeable upon and paid out of the rates for the relief of the poor of such parish; the expenses to be so incurred for or on account of any parish in pro- viding and laying out a burial ground under this Act and buUding the necessary chapel or chapels thereon not to exceed such sum as the vestry shall authorize to be expended for such purpose; and the overseers or other officers authorized to make and levy rates for the relief of the poor ia any parish shall, upon receipt of a certificate under the hands of such number of members of the Burial Board as are authorized to exercise the powers of the board of the sums required from time to time for defraying any such expenses as aforesaid, pay such sums out of the rates for the relief of the poor as the board shall direct. Power to XX. Provided always, That it shall be lawful for the borrow board, with the sanction of the vestry and the approval of Snction'of* the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, to borrow Vestry.^and any money required for providing and laying out any approval burial ground under this Act, and building a chapel or of the chapels thereon, or any of such purposes, and to charge Treasury. ^-^^ future poor rates of the parish with the payment of such money and interest thereon; provided that there shall be paid in every year, in addition to the interest of the money borrowed and unpaid, not less than one- twentieth of the principal sum borrowed, \mtil the whole is discharged. The Public XXI. The Commissioners for carrying into execution an Act of the Session holden in the fourteenth and fifteenth miSoneTs years of Her Majesty, chapter 23, to authorize for a may ad- further period the advance of money out of the Consoli- vance dated Fund to a limited amount for carrying on public money for n ^oi.]js and fisheries and employrnent of the poor, and poses oVthis any Act or Acts amending or continuing the same, may Act. from time to time make to the Burial Board of any parish for the purposes of this Act any loan under the provisions of the recited Act, or the several Acts therein recited or referred to, upon security of the rates for the relief of the poor of the parish. Moneys XXII. The money raised for defraying such expenses,$

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