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Msj•wty's principal Secretariesof St ite a report of their
proceedings, speciFying the burial grounds which
hayst; been provided under this Act in the preceding
year, and showing the portions (1 such burial grounds
which are consecrated and intended to remain uncon-
secrated reseetively, and stating also the names cf the
chaplahis appointed urnt r 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 of this Act and those appointed or employed
for and in each such burial gr, und, and their respective
duties, and Elating the amotats of the stipends payable
to the said chaplains, add of the respective salaries and
wages of such offi,:ers and servants, and stating the
annuities payable under this Act by way of
compensation to incumbents, clerks, and sex-
tons, and the compen.sivioni payabla under this
Act in respect of unit paroehitil burial grounds, and the
debts and annuities, if any, in respect of parochial
burial grounds, to be discharged tinder this Act, and
specifying all Burial groun-ls 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 beard shall, with
the report to be sent 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 several distinct heads of receipt and expendi.
lure. with the statement cf 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

enturpd into by the said board in such preceding year,
nd 'll., moneys owing, to awl debts owing by the said
board on the thirtu-first dog of December of such pre-
ce lit:t; year; and the sa;d board shall also from time to
time give t,) any ,one of such Secretaries of State as
aforomaiii such inform `:lion as ht, rirky require respecting
their proceedings ; and eve,-y such report, account in
ab,tr?tct, and stuteu:en: ai afeesaid shag be laid before
both Houses-of Parli=ent within one month offer the
receipt theracf,. if Parliament he sitting, or if Parlia-
ment be not sitting, than within one month after the Po; t

nice,ing df pviiament.
LXV. AAA be it enacted that in th%ioconns shallstru haveetionof
his Act the following words anti expressions
unless such
the meanings hereby assigned to them,
meanings be repugnant to or inconsistent with the
context; (that is to say)—
Words importing thr, singular numbershalli ncludere
the plural nuhe,, and words importing the plural
num-
ber shall include the singular num ier.
Words importing the masculine
inelude females, gender only shall
lThe word " lands" shall include messuages, buildings,
ands, and hereditament,.
The expression " the district" shall mean the "metro-
politan bnrisl district."
The word " parish " shall include united parishes,
and any distinct and separats parish, district
parish, district chapi•lry, or coniolithted district.
formed under the provisions of the Church Building
Acts, and a•iy new parish constituted by or under ,
the proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Commission-
ers for England.
LXV.I. And be it enacted, that in citing this Act in
other Acts, and in legal instruments and other proceed-
ins, it shall be stil2ierit to use the expression " The
Metropolitan Interments Act, 1850."

THE :',IETROPOLITAN BURIAL DISTRICT.
SCHEDULE A.

The City of London—An places and Parts o_f. places
contained nithin the ext*rior 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•one Liberties and other privi-
leged places.
In Kent—Six Parishes.
In Surrey—The Borough of Southwark, eighteen
Parishes and, parts of Parishes, and two Liberties and
Hamlets.

SCHEDULE 13.
The saveral Cometerics established under the severe;
Acts, bving seven in number.

SCHEDULE
4 form of atotgAge.
A form of
Sc lIED ULE
Transfer of Mortgage.

ESCAPE PROM DROWNING OF MR. D. BARCLAY,
rtric EnEwErt.--On. Saturday, the 90th in:it., the neighbour-
hood of Dorking,. Surrey., was visited by a terrific storm of
thunder, lightning, and had, during which the Milton Court
Pond was sweliekt•to an unusual height, and the waters over-
flowfd their banks and poured with great fury through the
flood-gates. At the time of the storm Mr. D. Barclay was
gto his brother's how:: at Bury-hill on a pony, which
°'ioefir flighpat the noise of the. water, and backed into the pond
1/44 Irittltr,at a place where the depth was about fourteen
y pony swam ashore, but Mr. Barclay was carried
dlowtt eotream to the flood-gates, when a boy named vi 4 had seen the accident, ran to his assistance, and caughr,,hica by the hair just as be was being sucked under
therii....ln this position he managed to hold Mr. Barclay
a
'.4.1e115, the renter of the adjoining mill, and some of
11*- ls
:-• Vilved at the spot, when it was found necessary to
1. :64 td his body, and to use clothes-props and other
• _At
" • twextricate him from his perilous situation. Mr.
y was then conveyed almost senseless to the miller's
house and placed in a warm bed. He was soon well enough
to be removed to his brother's residence. So great was the
senilation created in the neighbourhood, that thanks were
offored up ire the village church for Mr. Barclay's safe de-
liverance. Since the accidat the pond has been railed off to
prevent any fatal dug

where used in the " Cemeteries Clauses Act, 1847,"
shall mean " the General Board of Health," and the
expression n the clerk" whe=re 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 cetne-
tery" respectively mentioned shall krfeit the sum therein
respectively mentioned to the said board, upon a sum-
mary coavietion 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 c f 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
be is fully employed on such audit, and all such expenses as
be is put to in the auditing of such accounts; and the
auditor or auditors appointed as aforesaid shall, in the
month of February hi each year, on such day or days as
are fixed by him or theta for the audit of the accounts,
attend at the principal office of the said board, and shall
give to the said board at least fourteen days' previous
notice in writing of the time so fixed for such audit; and
the said beard 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 mortgazees 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 enspowed to summon
to appear before him ox them for the purpose of such ex-
aminatiore) touching the said accounts, and shall also
hear any complaint which any such rate-payer or mort-
gagee al;-all at the time of such audit make touching
mach accounts; and if such accounts be found correct
such auditor or auditors shall sign the same, in token
of his or their allowance the: eon and such allowance
shall be final and conclusive on all parties.
LXf. And be it enacted, that the said board may en-
tar into all such contracts as they may think fit for the
erection and famishing 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 pro'iding 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-.
LeXII. 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 for 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, shall, so far as respects purehaaes by
the said board of any cemetery mentioned in the sche-
auk (13.) to this Act, and compensation to persons inte-
rested in nonparochial burial grounds, be incorporated
with this Act; and the said Lauds Clauses Consolidation
Act, except the provisions and clauses of that Act be-
fore excepted, and except she 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 lands by agreement under this Act by the said
• board, be incorporated with this Act, and for the
purpose* of this Act the expression the promoters of
the endertakine„" wherever used in the said Lands
Clauses Consolidation Act, shall mean the said board.
LXLII. And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful foa
the said beard to sell and dispose of any lands pur-
chasedthee them under this Act, which it may appearlto the
said board may be properly 4slei or disposed of, and which
may rrot have been consecrated or used for the burial of the
dead; and,for conaplntlng and carrying any such sale into
effect such bowel may make and execute a conveyance of the
lands sold and,dieposed of aa aforesaid unto the purchaser,
or as he 01311 direct, and such conveyance shall be
under the seal of the said heard; and the word " grant"
in such eon veyence stn.ll 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-
inoters of the undertaking; and a receipt under the seal
of the said beard shell be a sufficient discharge to the
purchaser of any such lands for the purchase money
in sack receipt expressed to he received ; and the
money to arise fret such care shall he applied in like
manner ea 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 ON Act, and which f the time being shall not
ba quirod for the purposes of t!lis Act.
LXEV. And be tt enacted thvt the said board shall, in
the month of March in every ye r, send to one of her