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G APRIL 29, 1850. •

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THE TEN HOURS BILL.—At a meeting of the
Lancashire Central Committee for the protection of the Ten
flours 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 21th instant, to aban-
don the Ten Hours Ant, 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 owninaccuracy 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.
H. e 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, fount] 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], an I
he was so dreadfully burnt that he was taken to St. Bar-
tholomew's Hospital, where he at present remains in a very
precarious condition. Frederick Sutton, a son of the pro-
prietor, was obliged also to rush through the flames bywhich
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, Cut 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 parishioners' and ihhebitants 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 es af ,resaid of any
burial ground provided under this Act shall be used f
the interment of the bodies of persons dying within the
district, where the relatives or other persons having the
care and direction of the funerals desire to have such
bodies so interred ; and such bodies may be there in-
terred in such manner ae such relatives or persons having
the care and direction of the funerals may think fit; and
the said board may, upon the request of members of sepra
rate religious denominations or sects, and upon such terms
and conditions as the boardmay think fit, appropriate and
set apart or cause to be es:dosed separate parts of the
portion not consecrated as aforesaid of anv burial groued
provided under this Act to be used fir toe exclusive in-
terment of the bodies of persons of such separate reli-
.
giallo denominations or sects.
XV. And he it enacted, that after 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 layette!, 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 Uo'dy, 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 proiided 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 fee,:itlty 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 time
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
beard 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 ime
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 id
the collegiate church of Saint Peter's, Westminster, of
the body of any person, where her Majesty, by any
writing under her royal sign manual, shall signify her
pleasure that the body be so interred.
XVIII. And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for
the relatives of any deceased person, with the consent
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 ef 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 fees 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 fees or sums shalt 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 groundieprovided 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 of 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 to enacted, that the said board may melee
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 notice; to be given in respect of
funerals, and fir ensurine. -That all burials in such
grounds are conducted in a'decent and solemn manner,
and generally as to all matters connected with the good
order of such burial grounds, and the convenient exer-
cise of the rights of 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.filey 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 fur 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 distticts 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 banal 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 William the Fourth, intituled " 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 burills 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 torfeitureim-
posed by the said Act on a person burying or
'performing any funeral or any religious service
for the burial of any dead ,body' f a. 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 forfeitdres thereby imposed
shall be applicable to such forfeiture; and no person,
save such warddh.or officer as aforesaid, shall in the case
of any burial in .any such burial ground be subject to
such forfeiture 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
fit, houses for the reception and care of the bodies Qt 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 arrangenaents, and for
Providing such houses of reception the said board 'may
purchase by agreement. or take on lease 'such- lands 'or
buildings as they may think fit.
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 fof persons whose bodies
.are to be
interred in the burial :grounds provided under this Apt,
where the persons having the care and direction of such
funerals desire; to have the same so conducted; and the
saki 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 to be pro-
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-
ral should' be furnished,
,and upon payment for such
uneral according to such scale, shall be entitled to have
such funeral conducted by the said board accordingly.
XXVII. And be it enacted, that the said board may
appoint officers to ascertain 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 discone
aimed, 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 fur the reception of the dead provided under
this Act.

XX.VIII. And be it enacted, that there shall be paid
to the member appointed under this Act of the said
board, and 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,
such salaries, stipends, and wages as shall be from time
to time appointed by the Commissioners of her Majesty's
Treasury.
XXIX. And be it enacted, that for compensating in-
cumbents and others for the loss of f, es 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 tinder 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 payish ; 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 aforesaid 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
discontinuance 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 coLlti•
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 as 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 he 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,ust
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or exceed the amount of such annuity, be entitled to re-
ceive any payment in respect of such annuity for the
time during which be 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 last 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 entitled under the
provisions herein contained shall pay such part to
him, his executors or administrators accordingly,
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 ai
aforesaid.

XXXI. Provided always, and be it enacted, that it
shall be lawful for the Commissioners of her Majesty's
Treasury, with the approbation of the said Bishop of
London, from time to time, upon any vacancy in the in-
cumbency of any such parish, to reduce the amount of
the annuity to be thenceforth payable as aforesaid to the
incumbent of such parish, in 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.

xxxif. And be it enacted that where any burial
ground or land for a burial ground for any parish has
been purchased by arty persons by law authorised in that
bshalf, and any debt incurred by or on la,-half 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 be 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 alter 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 titre 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 a. 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 reason thereof, as they may think sufficient.
XXXVI. And it be enacted, that the Money-to be
paid into the Bank of England under this Act shall be
paid out upon drafts or orders signed by the triasurer,
and countersigned by two or more members of the said
board.
XXXVIL 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 be 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 expenses, 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, foi theeincurred
purposesof
defraying any expenses incurred or to. bby
themeif the
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then
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noef
re thise of her
Ac tand
Majesty's! t thu
Treasury,approba-
tion
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
tie fees and 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 ;
and 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 mortgage.
XXXIX. And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful
for the Commissioners acting in the execution of an Act
passed in the second session of the fifth year of her Ma-
jesty's reign, intituled " An Act to authorise the ad-
vance of Money out of the Consolidated Fund, to a
limited amount, fur 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
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 make 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
requiringany further or other security than a mortgage
of such fees, payinents, and rates.
XL. And be it enacted, that if the said board can at
any time barrow at a lower rate of interest than that
secured by any mortgage' previously made by them, and
then outstanding and in force, it shall be lawful for them
with the approbation of the Commissioners of her
Majesty's Treasury, so:to borrow; accordingly, in order to
pay off and 'discharge any of the securities bearing a
higher. sate of interest, and to charge. the fees, paytnents,
and rates which they are authorised to mortgage under
this Act with payment of the sum so borrowed, together
with the interest thereon, in such manner and subject to
such provi-iions as are herein contained .with respset to
othor monies borrowed upon mortgage. •
- 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 linable to, pay
off the same, it shall be lawful"tor them, with the appro-
bation of the-Commissioners of her .Majesty's Treasury,
to borrow such sum of money as may be necessary for
the purpose. of. -p lying 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 kespects as in the case of
money
_borrowed for defiaying expenses ineurred,by the.
said board in the execution of this Act.

•XLII. And be it enacted, that every mortgage antho-
riz,,d 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 form
contained in the schedule (C.) to this Act annexed,
cr to the like effeet, or
.with such variations or additions
in each case as the said board and the party idvancing
the money intends& to. be thereby secured may agree
-tirioh; 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 umber and date thereof, and of the names and
descriptions of the parties thereto, as stated in the deedt
and every such register shall be open to public inspecl
Lion 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 sticla "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 tbe repayment
of all or any principal monies borrowed under this Act,
and the payment of the interest thereof respectively, and
may provide for the repayment of 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 tithes to be
inserted in the mortgage deed; and at the time or times
so fixed for payment thereof, such principal monies and
interest respectively shall, on demand, be , paid to 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 sJ
notice, all furtLer interest shall cease to be payable
thereon, unless, on demand of payment made pursuant
to such notice, or at,any time thereafter, tbe 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 be open at all seasonable times to
the inspection of the mortgagees or transferees of mort-
gagee's tinder this Act, with liberty to make extracts
threrefrom without fee or reward, and any clerk or
other person ;having the custody of ,such books, and re-
fusing to allow such inspection or such extracts to be
made, shall for every such offence, on summary convic-
tion thereof before two justices of the peace, be liable to
a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

. _ .
XLVI. And be it enacted, that any mortgagee or
other person entitled to any mortgage under this Act
may transfer his estate and interest therein to ears other
person by deed duly stamped, truly stating its date, tae
names and descriptions of the parties thereto, and the
consideration fur the transfer; and such transfer may be
according to the form contained in the schedule (D.) to
this Act annexed, or to the like effect; end there shall he
kept at the principal office of the said board a register
of the transfer of mortgages under this Act ;
and within thirty days after the data 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•
duce d to the clerk or other person having the custody
of such register, who shall, upon payment of the sum of
two shillings, cause en entry to be made in such regiser
of its data, 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 tsrincipal and
interest secured thereby; and every such transferee may
in like wanner 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 execators,
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 lass fal
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 if 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 mention.ed in the .
wet-
rant to the treasurer of the said board, within forty days
from the delivery of such warrant to any one of the
overst ers: 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 valuation 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 of
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 hurial in any burial ground or burial grounds, in or
belonging to any such parish, township, precinct, or
place, unless in such order as aforesaid any burial ground
or burial grotindsso 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. Arid 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 plat, within the metropolitan burial district, such
persons, by whatsoever title they way be called, shall he
deemed to be overseers of the poor within the meaning
of this Act, and to be included undar and denoted by
the words " overseers of the poor," for all the purposes
of this Act, as fully as if they were commonly culled or
known by the title of overseers of 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
in th amount men-
tioned hads
in the warrant out of any
money
.
collected for the relief of the poor; and if there beano
such money in their hands, or an insufficient sum, they
shall levy the amount required as a part of the rate
for the relief of the poor, and
shall for that purposepro-
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 than 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
to hima awe in writing signed ley them, specifying the