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CANTEr BURY SETTLEMENT.
THE CANTERBURY PAPERS, Nos. I. and
11. giving the fullest intelligence concerning this New Colony
of England, are published by John W. Parker, Wes: Strand, price
Sixpence each Number.
CONTENTS—Map of the Settlement—ConamP tee and Officers of
the Canterbury Association—Sketch of their Plan—Preliminary Ar-
rangements and Economy of the rroposed Settlement—Form of
Government—Concentration—Supply of Labour—Other Distinctive
Features—Price of Laud—Ap,lication of Proceeds—Preliminary
Survey an I Roads—lmmigration Fund—Selection of Colonists—
Mode of Selecting Land—Allotment of Pastoral Ranges—Ecclesias-
tical and Education,' Endowments—Progress h therto—Topogra-
phical Information respecting the Canterbury Distr et—Dispatch of
Captain Thomas—Dispatch from Captain Stokes, R.N. Replies
from Messrs. Deans to Captain Thomas's Inquiries—Letter from the
Chief Surveying Oincer co, her Majesty's ship Acheron—Report on
the Coast from Kalapol to Otaao, by Walter Mantel!, Esq., Govern-
ment Comm ssio er —Letter from the Ilisnop of New Zealand—
Correspondence between Lord Lyttelton and Earl Grey—Terms of
Purchase—lnstructions to John Robert Godley, Esq., Local Agent
of the Association.
See also, tor the fullest Historical and Topographical Ac ount. of
the Islands, THE HANDBOOK FOR NEW ZEALAND, by a late
Magistrate of the Colony. Published by Parker.

THE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC
INSTITUTION.
LECTURES on MUSIC by Sir HENRY IL BISHOP resumed,
with an increased number of VOCALISTS for the Illustrations on
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at Eight, and on Tuesday,Thu
day, and and Saturday, at Three o'cleck.—Dr. Bachhoffner's Second
Lecture on the Philosophy of Scientific Recreation with Optical
Effects, daily at Two, and on Tuesday and Thursday Evenings at
a quarter-past Nine.—Lecture isy J. 11. Pepper, Esq., on tie
Chemistry of Hydrogen, with special reference to its applicat
conveying by Balloons Pyrotechnic and other Signals to Sir John
Franklin, ,m Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at Three, and on
Tuesday and Thursday Evenings, at Eight.—Dissolving Views,
illustrating the Arctic Regions and Ceylon ; also Views of London in
the Sixteenth Century, and as it now is.— Diver and Diving-
bell, &c., &c.

Admission, la.—Schools, Half-price.
Analyses and Chemical Experiments conducted in the Laboratory,
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ARGYLE SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS, Great
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Musical Director and,Conductor, M. LAURENT, jun.
This ACADEMY, for Tuition and Practice of DANCING, is
NOW OPEN for the Season. Teaching by Professors Calkins,
lioxey, and Franconi.
For Terms of Private Tuition apply at the office.—Terms of Sub-
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one month, 1/. Is.; one evening, Is. Subscribers' tickets not
transferable.
The Academy will open for evening practice at a Quarter to Eight
o'clock, and terminate at Half-past Eleven precisely.

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TAE TEN HOURS BILL.—At a meeting of the
Lancashire Central Committee for the protection of the Ten
Hours Factory Act, held this 27th of April, 1850, it was re-
solved—l. That this committee views with alarm the semi-
official proposition in the Times of the 2tla instant, to aban-
don the Ten Hours Act, and to increase the duration of fac-
tory labour to sixty hours per week. 2. That the Ten
Hours Act was necessary to shield women and children from
an excess of labour which was demoralising, cruel, and de-
structive ; and not passed till the fact of its necessity was
fully established, after years of agitation and petitioning on
the part of the people, and the most deliberate
and cautious inquiry on the part of the Legislature. 3. That
the people now require that the law shall be made to be in
legal effect that which it is in fact and in spirit ; and that
any attempt on the part of the Legislature to make the ne-
cessary correction of their own inaccuracy the excuse for in-
flicting upon women and children an addition to their period
of daily toil, would be a breach of faith so monstrous as to
destroy all confidence in Parliament. 4. That this com-
mittee, knowing that the people will unanimously scout any
such insidious proposition, as they have done before, and
having reason to fear that vigorous efforts, and some, per-
haps, of scarcely a creditable character, will be resorted to
in order to deprive the factory workers of their hard-earned
protection, deem it right that the district committee should
be put upon their guard, in order that the people may be
prepared to meet and resist the attempt, whether it come
from declared opponents or pretended friends.
ALARMING CONFLAGRATION.—Yesterday morning,
shortly before three o'clock, a fire broke out in Foster-la, e,
Cheapside, immediately behind the General Post-office,
which was attended with a great destruction of proper and
serious if not fatal consequences to several persons. The
premises in which the fire began were in the occupancy of
Mrs. Elizabeth Matt, licensed victualler, and were well
known as the Fountain Tavern and railway parcel-office.
The whole formed two spacious houses, the lower part being
intersected by a narrow passage termed Priest's Court. One
of the City policemen on duty in the neighbourhood, whilst
going his rounds, perceived flames raging on the second floor.
He sprang his rattle and sent to the proper quarters for as-
sistance. After considerable trouble he succeeded in arous-
ing a young midshipman named Russell, who was sleeping
in the tavern. The midshipman, upon getting out of his
room, found the lower part of the staircase in flames ; but
having succeeded in arousing the other inmates he eventu-
ally managed to effect a safe retreat. One of the women
servants succeeded in getting upon the roof of the house,
where she remained screaming for some time until the
Royal Society's tire escape came down. Ihe waiter, a
young man named Francis Baker, was obliged to rush
through the flames; his night clothes became ignite.l, and
he was so dreadfully burnt that he was taken to St. Bar-
tholomew's Hospital, where he at present remains in a very
precarions condition. Frederick Sutton, a son of the pro-
prietor, was obliged also to rush through the flames. by which
his feet and face were severely burnt. Mr. Sutton, the ma-
nager of the property, his daughter, a fine young woman,
and his son William were all three extricated by the con-
ductor of the Royal Society's escape, as well as one of the
servants. They were, however, much burnt. Plenty of
water having been procured the firemen set to work, but it
was not until the first, second, and third floors were burnt
out, and the roof partially destroyed, that the fire could be
extinguished. The total damage is considerable.
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The Editor of the Mofussilite instances that of a Coolie em-
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to devour the poor man, before he was even uncle! ground.
Holloway's Pills and Ointment were then tried, and in a month
he was perfectly restored to his former healthy condition and
cleanliness of skin. Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor
Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London.

INTERMENT OF THE DEAD

A BILL TO MAKE BETTER PROVISION FOR THE
INTERMENT OF THE DEAD IN AND NEAR THE
METROPOLIS.

[Note.—The words printed in Italics are proposed to be
inserted in the Committee.]
When- as it is expedient to make better provision for
the interment of the dead in and near the metropolis: be
it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent :ifa-
jesry, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords
spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present
Parliament hssembleil, and by the authority of the same,
that the cities and liberties of London. and Westminster
respectively, the borough of Southwark, and the
parishes, t iwnships, precincts, and places m entioaed in
the schedule (A.) to this Act, shall for the purposes of
this Act he one district, to be called " The Metropolitan

Burial District."
11. And be it enaeted, that the General Board of
Health shali act in the execution of this Act; and it

shall be lawful for her Majesty, from time to time, by
warrant under her royal sign manual, to appoint one
member of such board in addition to the members of

such board which her Majesty may be authorised to
appoint under any other Act or Acts, and at plea
sure to remove the, member so appointed ; and
such board shall for the purposes of this Act be
one body politic and corporate by the name of " The
General Board of Health," and by that name shall have
perpetual succession and and a common seal, and shall
sue and be sued, and have power and authority (without
any. lic,nce in mortmain) to take, purchase, and hold
lands, tenements, and hereditaments fur the purposes of

this Act.
111. And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for tho
said board from time to time to appoint or employ for

the purposes of this Act, an assista-tit-secretary, a trea-
surer„and such clerks and officers, and for and in each
burial ground to be provided .by the said board under
this Act a warden, and such assistants, gravediggers,
and other servants:as they deem necessary, and to remove
such assistant-secretary, treasurer, clerks, wardens, offi-

cere, and servants, or any of them. •
IV. And be it enacted, that no additional member of
the said board to be appointed under this Act, and no
assistant-secretary, treasurer, or other officer to be ap-
pointed as aforesaid, shall hold his office after the expi-
ration of the period for which " The Public Health Act,
1848," provides that the said General Board of Health
shall be continue].
V. And be it enacted, that the said board shall pro-
vide such offices as they may think necessary fur the
purposes of this Act, and -fur providing such offices may
purchase by agreement or take on lease any lands which
may appear to them convenient for the same.
VI. And be it enacted, that the said board shall from
time to time provide, in such places as, having regard to
the public health, may appear to them expedient, and
either within or without the limits of the district, burial

grounds of sufficient extent for the decent interment of
the bodies of all persons dying within the district; and it
shall be lawful for the said board, from time to time, in
case it appear to them necessary or expedient so to do,
to enlarge any burial ground provided by them under
this Act, and to make any road to such burial ground,
or, with the content of the owner of any existing road,
or of the persons in whom the management thereof may
by law he vested, to widen or improve such existing
road, for facilitating the approach to such burial ground,
and for providing any burial ground under this Act, or
enlarging any such burial ground, or making, widening,
or improving roads or approaches thereto, it shall be
lawful f.r the said board to purchase by agreement any
lands which it may appear to them expedient to pur-

chase fur such purpose.
VII. Provided always, and be in enacted, that for the
purposes of this Act the said board may, if they see fir,
purchase and take by agreement or otherwise all or any
of the cemeteries mentioned in the schedule (B.) to this

Act, subject to the rights to graves, vaults and monu-
ments subsisting therein, and (subject to such subsisting
rights) all the provisions of this Act concerning burial
grounds provided thereunder shall extend to the cemete-
ries purchased as aforesaid.
VIII. And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for
the said board to enclose and lay out the burial grounds
provided under this Act, in such manner, and to erect
and make therein such buildings and other works as may
appear to them fitting and proper, and t build in every
such burial ground a chapel for the performance of service
according to the rites of the United Church of England
and Ire land, or to enlarge any chapel already built (where
there may be any chapel already built, and consecrated
according, to the rites of the said United Church, in any
cemetery purchased under this Act); and every chapel
to he built or enlarged as aforsaid shall be so built or
enlarged according to a plan approved of by the Lord
Bishop of London; and every such chapel, and every
burial ground, provided under this Act, except stich por-
tion theref as may nut be intendi d t> be used for the
burial of the dead according to the rites of the said United
Church, may be consecrated by the said Bishop; and
every chapel consecrated according to the rites of the
said United Church in any burial ground provided under
this Act (although the same be not locally situate within
his diocese) shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the
said bishop, and the service to be performed in the
burial of the dead in the portion consecrated according
to the rites of the said United -Church of every burial
ground provided under this Act shall be according to the
rites of such Church.
IX. And be it enacted, that the said board shall from
time to time appoint so many clerks in holy orders as they
may think necessary to be chaplains to officiate in the
burial grounds provided under this Act, and such chap-
lains shall be licensed by and subject to the jurisdiction
of the said bishop, and such licence shall be revocable by
the said bishop when be thinks fit; and the said board
may assign to such chaplains such duties in relation to
the performance of the burial service in the portions
consecrated as aforesaid of the burial grounds provided
under this Act as the said board may from time to time
think fit; and the said board shall have power to re-
move such chaplains; and one of such chaplains, or
in the absence of all such chaplains, such clerk
in holy orders, authorised to officiate within
the diocese of London as the said board may in this be-
half authorise, shall perform the burial service over the
bodies brought to be buried in the portion consecrated
at aforesaid of any burial ground provided under this
Act which are entitled to he buried therein, except in
those cases in which the incumbent of the parish from
which such body is brought, or his curate, shall perform
such burial service : provided always, that, subject to
the rights of such incumbent, the said board may, upon
the request of the persons having the care of any fune-
ral, authorise any other clerk in holy orders not prohi-
bited by the said bishop, nor under ecclesiastical censure,
to perform such service.
X. And be it enacted, that a portion of every burial
ground provided under this Act shall not be consecrated
as aforesaid, and the said board may build thereon a
suitable chapel or chapels.
XI. And be it enacted, that when the said board have
provided any burial ground, and have made all such ar-
rangements as they may think necessary for the inter-
ment in such ground of the bodies of the dead, and after
the consecration of such portion thereof as may require
consecration, they shall give notice in the London Gazette
that they have provided such burial ground, and that
interments may be made therein; and after such notice
interments may be made in such burial ground under
this Act.

XII. And be it enacted, that when the said board
shall be of opinion that interment (otherwise than in the
burial grounds provided under this Act) should be dis-
continued, wholly or subject to any exception or excep-
tions, in any part or parts of the district, they shall re-
port to her Majesty their opinion accordingly, and so
from time to time when the said board shall be of
'opinion that interment (otherwise than as aforesaid)
should be so discontinued in any part or parts of

the district in which such intermentlis not been already
ordered to be discontinued, or in any place excepted
from any former order for the discontinuance of inter-
ment, they shall report to her Majesty in like manner;
and at any time after the presentation of any such re-
port it shall be lawful for her Majesty, by and with the
advice of her Privy Council, to order that after a time
mentioned in the order interment in the churches,
chapels, and churchyards, and other burial places, and
elsewhere within any part or parts in any such report or
reports and in such order mentioned of the district,
shall be wholly discontinued, or shall be discontinued
subject to any exception or exceptions mentioned in
such order; and every such order shall be published in
the London Gazette, provided that notice of every such
report, and of the time when it shall please her Majesty
to order that the twee be taken into consideration by
the Privy Council, shall be published in the London Ga-
zette fourteen days at the least' before the same is so
considered.
XIII. And be it enacted, that, subject to the provi-
sions herein contained, and the regulations made under
this Act, the parishioners and inhabitants of the
several parishes and places within the district,
(after the time from which interment has been
ordered to be discontinued in the whole district),
or within any part or parts of the district in which
interment has been ordered to be discontinued,
after the time from which interment has been ordered
to be discontinued therein, shall have the same rights of
sepulture in the portion consecrated as aforesaid of
every burial ground provided under this Act as they
respectively would have had in the burial grounds in and I
for their several parishes and places; and the in-
cumbent of every such parish shall, by lain:melt or his
curate, upon giving such notice as may be required
in this behalf by any such regulations as aforesaid,
have the same rights and authorities for the per-
formance of religious service in the burial of the
bodies of the parishioners or inhabitants of his parish
in the portion consecrated as aforesaid of every burial
ground provided under this Act as if the same were a
burial ground of such parish; and the parishioners and
inhabitants and the incumbent of every such parish and
place shall respectively have such rights as aforesaid,
notwith,tanding the exception from ony order for die'
continuance of interment of any burial ground or burial
grounds, or right of burial in any burial ground or
burial grounds, in or belonging to any such parish or
place, unless in such order as aforesaid any burial
, ground or burial grounds so excepted be declared to be
' I continued for such parish or place in lieu of all rights of

the rarishioners and inhabitants to sepulture in the

burial grounds provided under this Act.
XIV. And be it enacted, that, subject to the provi-
sions herein 'contained, aid the regulations made under
this Act, the portion not consecrated as af,resaid of any
burial "ground provided under this Act shall be mei f,c
the interment of theludies of persona dying within the
district, where the relative; or other persons having the
care and diredtion of the funerals desire to have such
bodies so interred ; and such bodies may be there in-
terred in suchmanner as such relatives or persons having
the care and direction of the funerals may think fit; and
the said board may, upon the r; quest of members of sepa-
rate religious denominations or sects, and upon such in ms
and conditions as the hoard may think fit, appropriate and
set apart or cause to be ereosed separate parts of the
portion not consecrated'as aforesaid of and burial ground
provided under this Aet to be used for the exclusive in-
terment of the bodies of persons of such separate roli-

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gions denominations or sects.,
XV. And belt enacted, that 'aster the'publication in
the London Gazette of any order of her Majesty in
Council made under this Act. ordering the discontinu-
ance of interment, it shall not be lawful, after the time
in such order mentioned, to bury"the dead in any church,
chapel, churchyard, or burial place, or elsewhere, within
any part of the district in which interment has by
any such order been ordered to be discontinued, except
as in such order excepted, and except in the burial
grounds provided as aforesaid, and as otherwise autho-
rised by this Act; and every person who shall after such
time as aforesaid bury any body, or in anywise act or
assist in the burial of any body, in any such church,
chapel, churchyard, or burial place, or elsewhere, within
any such part as aforesaid of the district, except as in
any such order excepted, and except in any burial
ground provided as aforesaid, or as otherwise authorised
by this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour.
XVI. Provided alWays, and be it enacted, that
where by virtue of any faculty legally granted,
or by usage or otherwise, there is, at the time of the
passing of this Act, any right of interment in
or under any church or chapel, or in any vault
of any church or chapel, and where, before the passing
of this Act, any exclusive right of interment in any
cemetery or burial-ground has been purchased or ac-
quired, it shall be lawful for the said board from thee
to time, on application being made to them, and on being
satisfied that the interment in respect of which application
is made will not be injurious to health, to grant licence
for the interment in or under such
%church or chapel, or
in such vault, cemetery, or burial ground, of the body
of any person entitled under such right; and the said
board shall be entitled to require, on the grant of every
such licence, the payment of such reasonable fee as may
be fixed by them in this behalf; and it shall be lawful to
make the interment authorised by such licence, but sub-
ject to such conditions and restrictions as may be im-
posed for the protection of the public health by the said
board.
XVII. Provided also, and be it enacted, that nothing
herein contained shall extend to prevent the interment
in the cathedral church of Saint Paul's, London, or in
the collegiate church of Saint Peter's, Westminster, of
the body of any person, where her Majesty, by any
pwlreiatisnugre that the
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XVIII. And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for
the relstives of any deceased person, with the content
of the incumbent or other person having the care or
control of any church, chapel, churchyard, cemetery, or
other place within the district in which the body of such
deceased person has been interred, but subject to the
regulations of the said board, and upon payment of
such fees as may be fixed by the said board, to cause
such body to be removed to and interred in any burial
ground provided under this Act, without any faculty for

that purpose.
XIX. And be it enacted, that there shall be paid
upon all interments in the burial grounds provided
under this Act such tees or sums as the said board
shall from time to time fix in this behalf, and such fees
or sums shall be paid to the wardens of such grounds,
or such other officers of the said board as may be by
them authorised to receive the same; and a table of
such foes or sums shall be printed and published, and
shall be fixed and continued on some conspicuous part of
every such burial ground.
XX. And be it enacted, that the said board shall pro-
vide for the maintenance, planting, decoration, and care
of the burial grounds provided under this Act, and shall
have the direction of the order and course in which the
several parts of such grounds shall be opened and used
for the purposes f interment, and the times at which
interments in such burial grounds may take place; and,
subject to the provisions of this Act, the general ma-
nagement and control of such burial grounds shall be
vested in and exercised by the said board.
XXI. And it Le enacted, that the said board may make
regulations from time to time as to the depth and for-
mation of graves and places of interment, the nature of
the coffins to be received in the burial grounds provided
under this Act. the notices to be given in respect of
funerals, acid f it ensuring that all burials in such
grounds are conducted in a decent and solemn manner,
awl generally as to all maters connected with the good
order of such burial grounds, and the convenient exer-
cise of the rights if interment therein; and such regu-
lations shall be printed and published, and shall be fixed
and continued on some conspicuous part of every such
burial ground.
XXII. Provided always, and be it enacted, that the
said board shall not permit any body to be buried in
any burial ground provided under this Act, and not
previously used as a cemetery, within two hundred
yards of the nearest place on which any dwelling
is or can be erected, except only any dwelling or dwel-
lings of such officer or officers of the said board as they
may require to be resident on the spot for the care of
any such burial ground; and no body shall be buried
under any chapel in any such burial ground ; nor
within fifty feet of the outer wall of such chapel.
XXIII. And be it enacted, that all burials within any
burial ground provided under this Act, as well in the
part not consecrated as aforesaid as in the part so con-
secrated, shall be registered in register books to be
provided by the said board and kept for that purpose,
according to the laws in force by which registers are re
quired to be kept by the rectors, vicars, or curates of
parishes or ecclesiastical districts in England, by the
warden of such burial ground or other officer appointed
by the said board to that duty, in which register books
shall be distinguished in what parts of the burial ground,
and whether in the portion consecrated as aforesaid or
the portion not so consecrated of such ground, the se-
veral bodies the burials of which are entered in such re-
gister books are buried ; and such register books, or
copies or extracts therefrom, shall be received in all
courts as evidence of the burials entered therein ; and
copies or transcripts of such register books, signed by
such warden or other officer as aforesaid, shall be from
time to time sent to the registrar of the Ecclesiastical
Court of the Bishop of London, to be kept with the
copies of the other register books of the parishes within
his diocese; and the said register books, so far as respects
searches to be made therein and copies and extracts to
be taken therefrom, shall be subject to the same regula-
tions as are provided by the Act passed in the seventh
year of King ‘Villiara the Fourth, iutituled " An Act
for registering Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England,"
so far as such regulations relate to register books of
burials kept by any rector, vicar, or curate.
XXIV. And be it enacted, that where the body of
any person is buried in any burial ground provided under
this Act, the certificate of the death of such person hav-
ing been duly registered, or the coroner's certificate of
his order for the burial of the body of such person (as
the case may be), by the said Act of the seventh year
of King William the Fourth required to be delivered to
such minister or officiating person as therein mentioned,
shall be delivered to the warden or other officer ap-
pointed to keep the register books of burials in such
burial ground ; and if any body is buried in such burial
ground for which no such certificate has been delivered
to such warden or other officer as aforesaid, such warden
or officer shall within seven days give notice thereof to
the registrar, and upon failure to give such notice within
the time aforesaid shall be subject to the forfeiture im-
posed by the said Act on a person burying or
performing any funeral or any religious service
for the burial of any dead body fer which no
such certificate has been duly made and deli-
vered, and not giving such notice as aforesaid, and the
provisions of the said Act for and with respect to the
recovery and application of forfeitures thereby imposed
shall be applicable to such forfeiture; and no person,
save such warden ot officer as aforesaid, shall in the case
of any burial in any such burial ground be subject to
such torfeiture for not giving such notice.
XXV. And be it enacted, that the said board may
provide, in such places within the district as they think
tit, houses for the reception and care of the bodies of the
dead previously to and until interment, and make ar-
rangements for the reception and care of such bodies
therein, and appoint fit officers for such houses of recep-
tion and to carry into effect such arrangements, and for
providing such houses of reception the said board may
purchase by agreement or take on lease such lands or
buildings us they may think tit.
XXVI. And be it enacted, that the said
board shall make provision for the manage-
ment and conduct, by persons appointed by
them of the funerals fuf persons whose bodies are to be
interred in the burial :grounds provided under this Act,
where the persons having the care and direction of such
funerals desires to have the same so conducted ; and the
said board shall fix and publish a scale of the sums to be
payable for such funerals, inclusive of all matters and
services necessary for the same, such sums te be pre-
portioned to the description of the funeral, or the nature
of the matters and services to be furnished and rendered,
but so that in respect of the lowest of such sums the
funerals may be conducted with decency and solemnity ;
and the persons having the care and direction of the fu-
neral of any person whose body is to be interred in any
such burial ground, where they are desirous of having the
same conducted by the said board, upon furnishing to
the said board or their officers a note in writing, stating
the scale according to which they are desirous the fune-
i al should be furnished, and upon payment for such
funeral according to such scale, shall be entitle d to have
such funeral conducted by the said board accordingly.
XXVII. And be it enacted, that the said board may
appoint officers to ascertaia the happening of deaths
within the district (where interment has been ordered
to be discontinued in the whole district), or the part
thereof in which interment has been ordered to be discon-
tinued, and to give information and aid to the survivors in

relation to the care and interment of the deceased; and
such officers may, where the persons having the direc-
tion of the funeral of the deceased so desire, cause the
body of the deceased to be decently removed to one of
the houses for the reception of the dead provided under

this Act.
XXVIII. And be it enacted, that there shell be paid
to the member appointed under this Act of the said
board, a❑d to the assistant-secretary. treasurer, and
clerks, chaplains, wardens, and other officers and servants
appointed for the purposes of this Act by the said board,
50(h salaries, s'ipends, and wages as shall be from time
to time appointed by :he Commissioners of her Majesty's

TTc,
XXIX. And be it enacted, that for compensating in-
cumb uts and °Orr& for the loss of fees and sums now
received in respect of interments the said board shall
ascertain the yearly average during the five years end-
ing on the day from which interment is discontinued in
any parish, in pursuance of any order under this Act, of
the fees and sums received by the incumbent of
such parish in respect of interments in the church and,
burial ground of such parish, and (under any Act of
Parliament or otherwise) of interments in any ceme-
tery of bodies removed from such parish, and also
the yearly average during the same period of the fees or
payments received in respect of such interments as afore-
said by the clerk and sexton of such parish ;.and there
shall be paid to the incumbent for the time being of such
parish by the said board, out of the monies to be re-
ceived under this Act, a perpetual annuity of such
amount as may appear to the said board to be a just
compensation for such average receipts as afore: sid of
the incumbent of such parish, having regard to the du-
ties, and payment (if any) in respect of duties, from
which the incumbent of such ,parish is relieved by the
di,continuance of interment ; and there shall be
paid to any person who is at the 'time of
the passing of this Act, and on the day from which in-
terment is discontinued as aforesaid continues to be, clerk

or sexton of such parish, and so long only as he conti-
nues to be such clerk or sexton, an annuity of such

amount as may appear to the said board to be a just
compensation for such average receipts as aforesaid of
the clerk or sexton respectively of such parish, having
regard to the duties, and payment (if any) in respect of
duties, from which such clerk or sexton respectively is
relieved by the discontinuance of interment; and the
board shall, by order under their seal, with the approba-
tion of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury,
declare the annuity which shall be payable under this
Act to every such incumbent, clerk, and sexton
respectively ; and such respective annuities shall
be paid on the twenty-fourth day of June and
the twenty-fifth day of December in every year,
or within one month thereafter, the first payment of
each such annuity to be made on such one of the said
days of payment as may happen next after the time
from which interment is to be discontinued as aforesaid ;
but unless such time happen on one of such days of pay-
ment there shall only be payable in respect of the first
payment of such annuity such proportionate part of such
annuity as may be equal to the time which may elapse be-
tween the time from which interment is to be disconti-
nued as aforesaid and the day on which the first payment
of such annuity is to be made; and no fee or payment, ex-
cept such annuity es aforesaid, shall be payable to any such
incumbent, clerk, or sexton, under any Act of Parliament
or otherwise, in respect of any interment in any burial
ground provided under this Act; and all fees or pay-
ments accruing under any Act of Parliament or other-
wise to the incumbent, clerk, or sexton of any parish,
after the time from which interment is under this Act
ordered to be discontinued therein in respect of inter-
ments in any cemetery of bodies removed from such
parish, shall be paid over by such incumbent, clerk, or
sexton to the said board, to be by them applied as other
monies received by them under this Act: provided al-
ways, that where the said board provide employment
under this Act for any sexton who would be entitled
to any such annuity as aforesaid, such sexton
shall not, in case the annual amount of the
emoulments arising from such employment be equal to
or exceed the amount of such annuity, be entitled to re-
ceive any payment in respect of such annuity for the
time during which he continues in such employment and
in the receipt of such emoluments, or in case the annual
amount of such emoluments be less than the amount of
such annuity, then such sexton shall be entitled to re-
ceive (for the time he continues in such employment and
in receipt of such emoluments) in respect of such an-
nuity the difference only between the annual amount of
such emoluments and such annuity.
XXX. And be it enacted, that if any incumbent, to
whom any annuity is payable as aforesaid cease to be
incumbent by cession, death, or otherwise, between the
said two half-yearly days of payment, such incumbent
shall be entitled to receive so much of the sum payable
at the half-yearly day which happens next after he
ceases to be incumbent as has accrued from the list pre-
ceding half-yearly day, or from the time when such in-
cumbent became first entitled to receive the fruits of his

living, as the case may require, up to the day at which
he ceased to be incumbent ; and any incumbent who re-
ceives from the said board any sum to a part of which
any preceding incumbent is entiti d under the
provisions herein contained shall pay such part to
him, his executors or administrators accordinly,
and the said board shall not be answerable
to any person, other than the actual incumbent for the
time being, for the payment of any
,such annuity as

aforo.aid.—
XXXI. Provided always, and be it enacted, that it
shall be hwful for the Commissioners cf her Majesty's
Treasury, with the approbation of the said Bishop of
London, from time to time, upon any vacancy i❑ the in-
cumbency of any such parish, to reduce the amount of
the annuity to be thenceforth pay able as aforesaid to the
incumbent cf such parish, i❑ case it appear to them,
having regard to the duties of such incumbent, and the
value of the living independently of any annuity under
this Act, just and expedient so to do.
XXXII. And be it enacted that where any burial
ground or land for a burial ground for any parish has
been purchased by any persons by law authorised in that
behalf, and any debt incurred by or on behalf of such
parish in respect of the purchase money of 'such ground
or land, or of any money borrowed for payment thereof,
or any annuities or annuity granted in respect of any
such purchase money, shall at the time of the discon-
tinuance under this Act of interment in such burial

ground remain owing from or charged upon such parish,
or upon any property thereof or rates to ba raised
therein, such parish and such property and rates respec-
tively shall be indemnified by the said board against
such debt, and all interest to accrue thereon after the
time of such discontinuance of interment, and all sums
to accrue payable after such discontinuance in respect of
such annuities or annuity.
XXXIII. And be it enacted, that where any order for
the discontinuance of interment as aforesaid shall affect
any burial ground other than the burial ground of any
parish, compensation shall be made by the said board to
all persons interested in such burial ground for the loss
or damage which may be sustained by them by reason of
the discontinuance of such interments as might lawfully
have been made in such ground in case interment there-
in had not been discontinued under this Act, provided
such persons shall within three calendar months after
the time from which interment is, under such order as
aforesaid, to be discontinued in such ground, state in
writing to the said board the particulars of their claim

for such loss or damage.
XXXIV. And be it enacted, that all fees and sums
which shall be received under this Act by the wardens
or other officers or servants of the said board on account
of the said board shall be by such wardens or officers re-
ceiving the same forthwith paid to the treasurer of the
said board, and by such treasurer forthwith paid into the
Bank of England, to the credit of an account to be inti-
tuled The Account of the General Board of Health
under the Metropolitan Interments Act, 1850."
XXXV. And be it enacted, that before the treasurer
or any officer or servant appointed under this Act shall
enter upon any office or employment under the board
by reason whereof he will or may be intrusted with the
custody or control of money, the said board shall re-
quire and take from him such security for the faithful
execution of such office or employment, and for duly ac-
counting for all monies which may be intrusted to him
by mason thereof, as they may think sufficient.
XXXVI. And it be enacted, that the money to be
paid into the Beak of England under this Act shall be
paid out upon drafts or orders signed by the treasurer,
and countersigned by two or more members of the said
board
XXXVII. And be it enacted, that the expenses of
providing burial grounds, and the salaries and wages of
the member to be appointed under this Act of the said
board, and of all officers and servants of the said board
appointed under this Act, the stipends of the chaplains
under this Act, and all other expenses of the said board
under this Act, inclusive of the compensations to bo paid
by them thereunder, shall be defrayed out of the fees and
sums to be received by them under this Act, and in case
such fees or sums be at any time insufficient to defray
all such exoensos, out of any rate or rates to be made
under this Act.
XXXVIII. Provided always, and be it enacted, that
it shall be lawful for the said board, for the purposes of
defraying any expenses incurred or to be incurred by
them in the execution of this Act and with the approba-
tion of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, to
borrow and take up at interest any sums of money neces-
sary for defraying any such expenses; and for the pur-
pose of securing the repayment of any sums so borrowed,
together with such interest as aforesaid, the said board
may mortgage and assign over to the persons by or on
behalf of whom such sums are advanced all or any of
the fees ald payments to be received under this Act, and
also the rates to be made and collected under this Act;
and the respective mortgagees shall be entitled to a pro
portion of the fees, payments, and rates comprised in their
respective mortgages according to the sums in such
mortgages mentioned to have been advanced ;
anti each mortgagee shall be entitled to be repaid the
sum so advanced, with interest, without any preference
over any other mortgagee or mortgagees by reason of
any priority of advance or the date of his mi rgage.
XXXIX. And he it enacted, that it shall be lawful
for the Commissioners acting in the execution of an Act
passed in the second session of the fifili year of her Ma-
jesty's reign, intituled " An Act to au horise the ad-
vance of Money out of the Consolidated Fund, to a
limited amount, for carrying on Public Works and
Fisheries and employment of the Poor, and to amend the
• Acts authorising the issue of Exchequer-bills for the like
t purposes," and in the execution of any of the Acts recited

in that Act, or of any Act or Acts for amending or con-
tinuing the same Acts or any of them, to mare advances
to the said board, upon the security of all or any of
the fees, payments, and rates to be received or made and
collected by the said board under this Act, and without
requiring any further or other security than a mortgage

of such fees, payments, and rates.
XL. And • be it enacted, that if the said board can at
any time borrow at a lower rate of interest than that
secured by any mortgage previously mad, by them, aid
then outstanding and in force, it shall be lawful for them
with the spprobAtion cf the Corumissioners of her
Msksty's Treasury, to:to borrow accordingly, in order to
pay off and discharge any of the seeurities b,aring a

. .
higher rate of interest,, and to charge the fees, payments,
and rates which they are authoeised to mortgage under
this Act with payment of the sum so borrowed, tozether
with the interest thereon, in such manner and subject to
such provisions as are Lerein con'ained with repsct to
other monies borrowed upon mortgage.
XLI. And be it enacted, that it at the time appointed
in any mortgage deed for payment of any principal
money secured thereby the said board are unable to pay
off the same, it shall be lawful for them, with the appro--
bation of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury,

to borrow such sum of money as may be necessary fer.
the purpose of plying off the whole or any part of the
said principal money, and to secure the repayment of the
money so borrowed, and the interest to be paid thereon,
in the same manner in all respects as in the case of
money borrowed for defraying expenses incurred by the
. .

said tioard in the execution of this Act.
XLII. And be it enacted, that every mortgage autho-
rized to be made under this Act shall be by deed duly
stamped, truly stating the date, consideration, and the
time of payment, and shall be sealed with the seal of the
said board, and may be made according to the firm
contained in the schedule (C.) to this Act annexed,
cr to the like effect, or with such variations or additions
in each case as the said board and the party advancing
the money intended to be thereby secured may agree
upon, and there shall be kept at the Principal office of
the said board a register of the mortgages under this
Act, and within fourteen days after the date of any
mortgage an entry shall be made in the proper register
of the nmber and date thereof, and of the names cud

descriptions of the parties thereto, as stated in the deed,
and every such register shall be open to public inspec-
tion during office hours, at the said office, without fee or
reward, and any clerk or other person having the cus-
tody of the same, refusing to allow such inspection, shall
for every such offence, on summary conviction thereof
before two justices of the peace, be liable to a penalty not
exceeding five pounds.
XLIII. And be it enacted, that the said board may, if
they think proper, fix a time or times for the repayment
of all or any principal monies borrowed under this Act,
and the payment ot the interest thereof respectively, and
may provide for the repayment cf such monies, with
interest, by instalments or otherwise, as they may think
fit; and in case the said board fix the time or times of
repayment, they shall cause such time or times to be
inserted iu the mortgage deed; and at the time or times
so fixed for payment thereof, such principal monies and
interest respectively shall, on demand, bo paid tJ the
party entitled to receive the same accordingly; and if
no other place of payment be inserted in the mortgage
deed, the principal and interest shall be payable at the
principal office of the said board.
XLIV. And be it enacted, that, unless otherwise pro-
vided by any mortgage, the interest of the money bor-
rowed thereupon shall be paid half yearly; and if no
time be fixed in the mortgage deed for the repayment
of the money so borrowed, the party entitled to receive
such money may, at the expiration or at any time after
the expiration of twelve months from the date of such
deed, demand payment of the principal money thereby
secured, with all arrears of interest, upon giving to the
said board six calendar months previous notice for that
purpose; and in the like case the said board may at any
time pay off the money borrowed, on giving the like
notice to the party entitled as aforesaid or by advertise-
ment in the London Gazette; and if the said board have
given notice of their intention to pay off any such
mortgage at a time when the same may lawfully be
paid off by them, then, at the expiration of such
notice, all further interest shall cease to be payable
thereon, unless, on demand of payment made pursuant
to such notice, or at any time thereafter, the said board
fail to pay the principal and interest due at the expira-
tion of such notice on such mortgage.
XLV. And be it enacted, that the books of account of
the said board shall he open at all seasonable times to
the inspection of the mortgagees or transferees of mort-
gagees under this Act, with liberty to make extracts
threreirotn without fee or reward, and any clerk or
oiler person having the custody ot such books, rind re•
fusing to allow such inspection or such extracts to be
made, shall for every such offence, on summary comic-
tion thereof before two justices of the peace, be liable to
a penalty not exceeding five pounds.
XLVI. And be it euacted, that any mortgagee or
other person entitled to any mortgage under this Act
may transfer his estate and interest tnerein to an,' other
person by deed duly stamped, truly stating its date, the
names and descriptions of the parties thereto, and the
consideration fur the transfer; stud such transfer may be
according to the form contained in the schedule (DO to
this Act annexed, or to the like effect; and there shall be
kept at the principal office of the said board a register
of the transfer cf mortgages under this Act ;
and within thirty days after the date of such
deed of transfer, if executed within the United King-
dom, or within thirty days after its arrival in the United
Kingdom if executed elsewhere, the same shall be pro-
duced to the clerk or other person having the custody
of such register, who shall, upon payment of the sum of
two shillings, cause an entry to be made in such register
of its date, and of the names and description of the pat-
ties thereto, as stated in the transfer; and upon any

transfer being so registered the transferee, his executors,
administrators, or assigns shall be entitled to the full
benefit of the original mortgage, and the principal and
interest secured thereby; and every such trunsfetee may
in like manner transfer his estate and interest in any such
mortgage; and no person, except the person to whom
the same shall have been last transferred, his executors,
administrators, or assigns, shall be entitled to release
or discharge any such mortgage, or any money secured
thereby.
XLVII. And be it enacted, that in order to provide a
fund for the discharge of any money which has been
borrowed under the powers of this Act it shall be lea fel
for the said board from time to time to cause any money
received by them under this Act, and which for the time
being shall not be required for any other purposes of this
Act, to be invested in the purchase of Exchequer-bills, or
Government stocks, funds, or securities, and from time
to time to cause to be invested in like manner the interest

and dividends thereof, so as to accumulate the same at
compound interest, until the same can be applied for the
discharge of such money borrowed, or for any other pur-
poses of this Act.
XLVIII. And be it enacted, that after interment has
been ordered to be discontinued within the district or
any part thereof, in case it appear to the said board that
the fees and sums received by them under this Act will
be insufficient in any year to defray their expenses, and
to provide for the payments in respect of monies bor-
rowed under this Act, it shall be lawful for the said
board, with the approbation of the Commissioners of her
Majesty's Treasury, to issue a warrant under their seal
to the overseers of the poor of every parish, township,
precinct, or place within the district (where interment
has been ordered to be discontinued in the whole dis-
trict), or the part thereof within which interment has
been ordered to be discontinued, by which warrant they
shall command the said overseers, out of the
money collected for the relief of the poor in
such parish, township, precinct, or place, to
pay the amount mentioned in the warrant ,for the
purposes of this Act, or to levy such amount
as a part of the rate for the relief of the poor in such
parish, township, precint, or place, and that the over-
seers shall pay over the amount mentioned in the war-
rant to the treasurer of the said board, within forty days
from the delivery of such warrant to any one of the
overseers: provided always, that the sum to be so paid
for the purposes of this Act shall not exceed in the
whole in any one year the rate of one penny in the
pound on the full and fair annual value of all property
rateable for the relief of the poor witain such parish,
township, precinct, or place, such full and fair annual
value to be computed according to the last valuatiou for
the time being acted upon in assessing the county rate,
where any county rate is assessed on such parish, town-
ship, precinct, or place ; and the warrant shall specify
the rate in the pound at which the sum mentioned therein
shall be computed : provided also, that the said board
may issue such warrant as aforesaid to the overseers a
any parish, township, precinct, or place, notwithstanding
the exception from any order for discontinuance of in-
terment of any burial ground or burial grounds, or right
of burial in any burial ground or burial grounds, in or
belonging to any such parish, townshir, precinct, or
place, unless in such order as aforesaid any burial ground
or burial grounds so excepted be declared to be continued
for such parish, township, precinct, or place, in lieu of all
rights of the parishioners and inhabitants to sepulture
in the burial grounds provided under this Act
XLIX. And be it enacted, that where any persons
other than the overseers of the poor, by virtue of any
office or appointment, are authorised and required to
make and collect or cause to be collected the rate for
the relief of the poor in any parish, township, precinct,
or place within the metropolitan burial district, such
persons, by whatsoever title they may be called, shall be
deemed to be overseers of the poor within the meaning
of this Act, and to be included under and denoted by
the words " overseers of the poor," fur all the purposes
of this Act, as fully as if they were commonly called or
known by the title of overseers cf the poor.
L. And be it enacted, that the overseers of the poor
of every parish, township, precinct, or place within the
metropolitan burial district, to whom any such warrant
as aforesaid shall be issued, shall pay the amount men-
tioned in the warrant out of any money in their hands
collected for the relief of the poor; and if there be no
such money in their hands, or an insufficient sum, they
shall levy the amount required as a part cf the rate
for the relief of the poor, and shall for that purpose pro.
ceed in the same manner, and have the same powers, re-
medies, and privileges as for levying money for the relief
of the poor; and such overseers shall pay to the said
treasurer the amount mentioned in the warrant within
the time specified for that purpose, and at the time of
making any payment to the said treasurer shall deliver
specifying a e
to him a note in writing signed by them,