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where used in the " Cemeteries Clauses Act, 1847," .
shall mean " the General Board of Health," and the
expression " the clerk" where used in such Act shall
include " the assistant secretary" appointed under this
Act; and every person committing any offence in the
said clauses " with respect to the protection of the ceme-
tery" respectively mentioned shall forfeit the sum therein
respectively mentioned to the said board, upon a sum-
mary coaviation for such offence before two justices of
the peace.
LIX. And be it enacted, that the said board shall
not, nor shall any person or persons whomsoever, be as-
sessed or rated, or liable to be assessed or rated or to
pay to any county, parochial, or other local rates, in re-
spect of any burial ground provided under this Act, or
any building or place of burial therein.
LX. And be it enacted, that the Commissioners of her
Majesty's Treasury shall, in the month of January, in
each year appoint one or more fit person or persons to
examine and audit the accounts of the said board under
this Act for the preceding year; and every such auditor
Shall be paid by the said board two guineas for every day
he is fully employakon such audit, and all such expenses as
he is put to in the auditing of such accounts; and the
aoditor or auditors appointed as aforesaid shall, in the
month of February in each year, on such day or days as
are fixed by him or them for the audit of the accounts,
attend at the principti office of the said board, and shall
give tto the said board at least fourteen days' previous
notice in writing of the time so fixed for such audit; and
the said board shall, by their officers, produce and lay
before the auditor-or auditors at every such audit the
accounts of the board for the year preceding, together
with the statement and account herein before mentioned,
accompanied by proper vouchers for the support of the
same, and submit to his or their inspection all books, papers,
instruments, and writings in their custody or control relat-
ing thereto; and such auditor or auditors, in the presence
of such of the members of the said board and such of
the rate-payers and mortgagees as desire to attend, shall
audit the accounts herein-before mentioned, and may
examine any of the members of the said board or their
drivers whom he or they shall deem accountable (and
whom he or they is and are hereby empowed to summon
to appear before him or them for the purpose of such ex-
amination) touching the said accounts, and shall also
hear any complaint which any such rate-payer or mort-
gagee &tall at the time of such audit make touching
such accounts; and if such accounts be found correct
such auditor or auditors shall sign the same, in token
of his or their allowance thereof, and such allowance
shall be final and conclusive on all parties.
LIT. And be it enacted, that the said board may en-
ter into all such contracts as they may think fit for the
erection and furnishing of chapels in the burial
grounds provided under this Act, and in the case
of chapels already built, for enlarging the same
and for enclosing and laying out such grounds,
and for proriding offices and houses of reception,
'and for making provision for funerals, and for any other
matters in relation to the purposes of this Act in respect
to which it may appear to the said board expedient to
eater into contracts. _

L.XII. And be it enacted, that " The Lands Clauses
Consolidation Act, 1845," except the provisions of that
Act " with re-Ts ct to the recovery of forfeitures, penal-
ties, and costs," " with respect to lands acquired by
the promoters cf the undertaking under the provisions
of the ' Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845,' or
the special Act, or any Act incorporated therewith,
but which shall not be required for the purposes
thereof," and " with respect to the provision to be
made for affording access to the special Act by all parties
rested," and except the clauses numbered respectively
134 and 135 in the copies of that Act printed by her
Majesty's printers, shall, so far as lip spects purehases by
the said board of any cemetery mentioned in the sche-
dule (13.) to this Act, and compensation to persons inte-
rested in nonparochial burial gronele, be incorporated
with this Act; and the said Lands Clauses Consolidation
Act, except the provisions and clauses of that Act be-
fore excepted, and except also the provisions of that Act
" with reapseit to the purchase and taking of lands other-
wise than by agreame.nt," shall, so far as respects pur-
chases of lands by agreement under this Act by the said
board, be incorporated with this Act, and for the
purposes) of this Act the expression " the promoters of
the undertaking," wherever used in the said Lands
Clauses Consolidation Act, shall mean the said board.
And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful foe
tho said beard to sell aad dispose of any lands pur-
chasedity them under this Act, which it may appear:to the
said board may be properly 561 d or disposed of, and which
may not have been consecrated or used for the burial of the
dead; ande4r completing and carrying any such sale into
effect such boatel may make and execute a conveyance of the
lands sold andelieposed of as aforesaid unto the purchaser,
or as he shall direct, and such conveyance shall be
under the seal of the said board; and the word " grant"
in such conveyance shalt have the same operation as by
the said Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, is given to the
same word in a conveyance of lands made by the pro-
moters of the undertaking; and a receipt under the seal
of the said board shall be a sufficient discharge to the
'mauler of any such lands for the purchase money
in such receipt expressed to he received ; and the
money to arise from such sale shall be applied in like
manner as other moneys received under this Act ; and
the said board may let from year to year, or for any
term of years, or to be held at will, and at such rent as
the said-board may think fit, any land which may have
been purchased by and become vested in the said board
under this Act, and which for the time being shall not
be required fur the purposes of this Act.
LXIV. And be it enacted the, the said board shall, in
the month of March in every year, send to one of her
Majeety's principal Secretaries of State a report of their
proceedings, specifying the burial grounds which
havii been provided under this Act in the preceding
year, and showing the portions of such burial grounds
which are consecrated and intended to remain uncon-
secrated respectively, and stating also the names of the
chaplains appointed under this Act, and of the officers
and servants appointed and employed by the said board
under this Act, showing those appointed for the general
purposes cf this Act and those appointed or employed
for and in each such burial ground, and their respective
duties, and stating the amounts of the stipends payable
to the said chaplains, and of the respective salaries and
wages of such officers and servants, and stating the
annuities payable under this Act by way of
compensatioa to incumbents, clerks, and sex-
tons, and the compensations payable under this
Act in respect of non-parochial burial grounds, and the
debts and annuities, if any, in respect of parochial
burial grounds, to be discharged under this Act, and
specifying all burial grounds and works commenced
under the authority of the said board daring the
preceding year, and remaining in progress at the
termination of such year; and the said board shall, with
the report to be sent as aforesaid, send to such Secre-
tary of State an account in abstraot, showing the receipt
and expenditure under this Act for such preceding year,
under the several distinct heads of receipt and expendi-
ture, with the statement of the allowance of the auditor or
auditors, if he or they have allowed such accounts, or of the
parts, if any, which he or they have disapproved of such
accounts, and also summary statements of all contracts
entered into by the said board ill such preceding year,
nd of the moneys owing to and debts owing by the said
board on the thirty-first day of December of such pre-
ceding year; and the said board shall also from time to
time give to any one of such Secretaries of State as
aforesaid such information as he may require respecting
their proceedings ; and every such report, account in
abstract, and statement as aforesaid shall be laid before
both Houses of Parliament within one month after the
receipt thereof, if Parliament be sitting, or if Parlia-
ment be not sitting, then within one month after the next
meeting of Parliament.
LIV. And be it enacted that in the construction of
his Act tire following words and expressions shall have
the meanings hereby assigned to them, unless such
meanings be repugnant to or inconsistent with the
context; (that is to say)—
Words importing the singular number shall include
the plural number, and words importing the plural num-
ber shall include the singular number.
Words importing the masculine gender only shall
include females.
The word " lands" shall include messuages, buildings,
lands, and laereditaments.
The expression " the district" shall mean the " metro.
politan burial district."
The word " parish " shall include united parishes,
and any distinct and separate parish, district
parish, district chapelry, or consolidated district,
e
!brined under the provisions of th Church Building
Acts, and any new parish
constituted by or under
the proeeedings of the Ecclesiastical Commission-
ers tor England.

LXVJ. And be ik enacted, that in citing this Act in
other Acts, and in legal instruments and other proceed-
ings, it shall be sufficient to use the expression " The
Metropolitan Interments Act, 1850."