The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-29 00:00:00

THE METROPOLITAN BURIAL DISTRICT.
SCHEDULE A.
The City of London—All places and parts of places
contained within tho exterior boundaries of the Liberties
of the City of London.
In Middlesex The Cities and Liberties of West-
minster, containing thirty-six Parishes, and four Extra-
Parochial, and twenty•on© Liberties and other privi-
leged places.
lii Kent—Six Parishes.
In Surrey—The Borough of Southwark, eighteen
Parishes and parts of Parishes, and two Liberties and
Hamlets.

SCHEDULE B.
The several Cemeteri,•s established under the severs:
Acts, being seven in number.
SCHEDULE C.
A form of
Mortgage.
A form SCHEDULE D.
of Transfer of Mortgage.

ESCAPE FROM DROWNING OF MR. D. BARCLAY;
TIIE BitEwzß.-- On Saturday, the 20th is t., the neighbour-.
hood of Dorking, Surrey, was visited by a terrific storm of
thunder, lightning, and hail, daring which the Milton Court
Pond was swelle6.l to an unusual height, and the waters over-
flowed their banks and poured with great fury through the
flood-gates. At the tune of the storm Mr. D. Barclay was
riding to his brother's holm at Bury-hill on a pony, which
took fright at the noise of the water, and backed into the pond
with hi rider, at a place where the death was about fourteen
feet. The pony swam ashore, but Mr. Barclay was carried
down the stream to the flood-gates, when a boy named
Quaite, who had seen the accident, ran to his assistance, and
caught him by the hair just as he was being sucked under
the gates. In this position he managed to hold Mr. Barclay
until Mr. Wells, the renter of the adjoining mill, and some of
his men arrived at the spot, when it was found necessary to
tie ropes round his body, and to use clothes-props and other
means to extricate him from his perilous situation. Mr. ..,--zaarclay was then conveyed almost senseless to the miller's
,ert_ :-ho the and placed in a warm bed. He was soon well enough
/ r„-zr-c•l6ti„4,- removed to his brother's residence. So great was the
7,:sAisistioll created in the neighbourhood, that thanks were
• Ira/Li-Up in the village "church for Mr. Barclay's safe de-
; . iticev'anog. Since thsraotident the pad has been railed off to
prei•ent any future danger.

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where used in the " Cemeteries Clauses Act, 1847,"
shall mean " the General Beard 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 beard, upon a sum-
mary conviction for such offence hefure 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 employed on such audit, and all such expenses as
he is put to in the auditing of such accounts; and the
auditor or auditors appointed as aforesaid shall, in the
month of February in each yeas, on such day or days as
are fixed by him or them fur the audit of the accounts,
attend at the principal office of the said board, and shall
give to the said board at least low teen 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 theircustody 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
officers 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 stall 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.
L.T.I. 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 providing 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
enter into contracts.
And be it enacted, that " The Lands Clauses
Consolidation Act, 1845," except the provisions of that
Act " with respect to the recovery of forfeitures, penal-
ties, and costs," " with respect to lands acquired by
the promoters of the undertaking under the provisions
of the ' Lands Clauses Consolitlation Act, 1845,' or
the special Act, or any Act incorporated therewith,
but which shall not be required fur the purposes
thereof," and " with respect to the provision to be
made for affording access to the special Act by all parties
interested," and except the clauses numbered respectively
134 and 135 in the copies of that Act printed by her
Majesty's printers, shad, so far as respects purchases by
the said board of any cemetery mentioned in the sche-
dule (IL) t this Act, and compersation to persons inte-
rested in nonparochirel buriai grounds, 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 respect to the purchase and taking of lands other-
wise than by agreement," shall, so far as respects pur-
chases of lends by agreement under this Act by the said
board, bo 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 Cons,lidation Act, shall mean the said board.
LXIII. And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful foe
the said board to sell and dispose of any lands pur-
che.sedlny them under this Act, which it may appearlto the
said board may be properly sold or disposed of; and which
may not have been consecrate:l or used for the burial of the
dead; and for completing and carrying any such sale into
effect such board may make and ee ecute a conveyance of the
lands sold and disposed 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 shell 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•
motets of the undertitting; and a. receipt under the seal
of the said board shall be a sufficient discharge to the
purchwer 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 far the time being shall not
be n attired for the purposes of teis Act.
LXIV. And be it enacted that the said board shall, in
the month of March in every year, send to one of her
Alejesty's principal Secretariee of State a report of their
pracsedings, specifying the burial grounds which
have been provided under this Act in the preceding
year, and showing the portions e f such burial grounds
which are consecrated and intended to remain uncon-
secrated
respectively, and stating also the names c f the

c'iap;Ons appointed und,r this; .pct, and of the officers

andservants 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 greund, and their respective
dudes, aed 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
compensation 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 'euried grounds and works commenced
under the authority of the said board during the
preceding year, and remaining in progress at the
termination of such year; and the said board shall, with
the report to be sert as aforesaid, send to such Secre
tary of State an account in abstract, showing the receipt
and expenditure under this Act for such preceding year,
under the seveaial distinct heads of receipt and expendi-
ture, with the statement of the allowance of the auditor or
auditors, if he or they have alloyed 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 in such preceding year,
nd r,f the moneys teaing to and debts owing by the said
board on the thirtztfirst day of December of such pre-
ceding year; and the p.a'cl board shall also from time to
time give t) any one of such Secretaries of State as
aforesaid such informa,ien 83 he may require respecting
their proceedings ; and every such report, account in
abstract, and statement as af iresaid shad be laid befire
both Houses of Parliament within one month after the
receipt thereof, if Parliament be sitting, or if Parlia-
ment be not sittine:, then within one month after the next
mewing of Parliament.
LXV. And be it enacted that in the construction of
his Act the following words and expressions shall have
tho 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 bereditaments-
The expression " the district" shall mean the "metro-
politan burial district."
The word "parish ". shall include united parishes,
and any distinct and se ara t) parish district
parish, district chapci lry oPr consolidatsd district.
formed under she 'Om
pariah lens of :he Church 13ailditig
Acts, and aey w constituted by or under
the proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Commission-
ers for England.
LXVI. And be it enacted, that in citing
this Act in
other Acts, and in legal instruments and proceed-
ings, it shall be sufficient to use the expression " The
Metropolitan Interments Act, 1850."