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APRIL 29, 1850.

CANTEP.BURY SETTLEMENT.
THE CANTERBURY PAPERS, Nos. I. and
11. giving the fulleSt intellitence concerning this New Colony
of England, are published by John W. Parker, Wes: Strand, price
Sixpence each Number.
Col.gramrs—Map of the Settlement—Commi* tee and Officers of
the Canterbury Association—i-ketch of their Plan—Preliminary Ar-
rangements and Economy of the rroposed Settlement—Form of
Government—Concentration—Supply of Labour—Other Distinctive
Features—Price of Land—Ap..lication of Proceeds—Preliminary
Survey awl Roads—lmmigration Fund—Selection of Colonists—
ode of Selecting Land—Allotment of Pastoral Ranges—Ecclesias-
tical ai,d Educatiowl Endowments—Progress h therto—Topogra-
phical Information respecting the Canterbury Distr ct—Dispatch of
Captain Thomas—Dispatch from Captain Stokes, R.N. Replies
from Messrs. Deans to Captain Thomas's Inquiries—Letter from the
Chief Surveying Officer o her Majesty's ship Acheron—Report on
the Coast front Kaiapoi to Ota,o. by W Mier Mantel', Esq., Govern-
ment Comm ssio er —Letter from the Itisimp of New Zealand
Correspondent:, between Lord Lyttelton ant Earl Grey—Terms of
Purchase—Distractions to John Robert Godley, Esq., Local Agent
Of the Association.
See also, tor the fullest Historical and Topographical Account 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 R. BISHOP resumed
with an increased number of VOCALISTS for the Illustrations on
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at Eight, and on Tuesday, Thu s-
day. and Saturday, at Three o'clock.—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 by J. 11. Pepper, Esq., on the
Chemistry of Hydrogen, with special reference to its application for
conveying by Balloons Pyrotechnic and other Signals to Sir John
Franklin, on 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, Is.—Schools, Half-price.
Analyses and Chem,cal Experiments conducted in the Laboratory,
under the direction of J. 11. Pepper, Esq.

ARGYLE SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS, Great
Windmill-street, St. J imes's.

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,
',loxey, and Franconi.
For Terms of Private Tuition apply at the office.—Terms of Sub-
scription, for morning and evening practice :—Six months, 5/. 55.;
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.

TEE TEN HOURS BILL.—At a meeting of th
Lancashire Central Committee for the protection of the Ten
Hours Factory Act, held this 27th of April, 1850, it was re-
solved—l. Tliat this committee views with alarm the semi-
official proposition in the Times of the 26th 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-lane,
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 eventa=
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 ignitel, and
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, hut 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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• Holloway's Establish ment, 244, Strand, Loam

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.]
Whereas 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 Ma-
jesty, by aid with the advice and consent of the Lords
spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present
Parliament assembled, 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 place§ mentioaed in
the schedule (A.) to this Act, shall for the purposes of
this Act be one district, to be called " The Metropolitan
Burial District."
11. And be it enacted, that the gperal Board of
Health shay act in the execution of ehis Act; and it
shall be lawful for her Majesty, front 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
ore 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 licence in mortmain) to take, purchase, and hold
lands, tenements, and hereditaments for the purposes of
this Act.
111. And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for the
said board from time to time to appoint or employ fur
the purposes of this Act, an assistant-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-
cers, 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 continued.
V. And be it enacted, that the said board shall pro-
vide such offices as they may think necessary for the
purposes of this Act, and for 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 consent of the owner of any existing road,
or of the persons in whom the management thereof may
by law be 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 4. the said board to purchase by agreement any
lands which it may appear to them expedient to pur-
chase for 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 to build in every
such burial ground a chapel for the performance of service
according to the rites of the United Church of England
and Ireland, 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 be buiit 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 such por-
tion theref as may nut be intended to 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 b revocable by
the said bishop when he 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
as aforesaid of any burial ground provided under this
Act which are entitled to be 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 tha said bishop, uor 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.
XL 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 interment has not been already
ordered to be discontinued, or in any place excepted
from any firmer 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 tee 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 same 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
for their several parishes and places; and the in-
cumbent of every such parish shall, by himself 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 cf 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 ai aforesaid,
notwithstanding the exception from any order for dis-
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
continued for such parish or place in lieu of all rights of

the parishioners and inhabitants to sepulture in the
burial grounds provided under this Act.
XIV. And be it enacted, that, subject to the provie
sions herein contained, and the regulations made ender
this Act, the portion not consecrated as aforesaid of any
burial ground provided under this Act shall be used for li
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 as 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 ot sepa-
rate religious denominations or sects, and upon such terms
and conditions as the board may think fit, appropriate and
set apart or cause to be enclosed separate parts of the
portion not consecrated as aforesaid of any burial ground
provided under this Act to be used for the exclusive in-
terment of the bodies of persons of such separate reli-
gious denominations or sects.
XV. And be it enacted, that aftet 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 Meted, 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 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
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-
j ect 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
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 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 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 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 of interment, and the times at which
intermeuts 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. At.d it be 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, and for ensuring 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 nut
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 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 cf
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 tae warden or other officer ap-
pointed to keep the register books ot 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 f ir 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 suck warden or 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 arrangement's, 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 tit.
XXVI. And be it enacted, that the said
board shall make provision fur 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 Act,
where the persons having the care and direction of such
funerals desires to have the same so conducted ; and the
saia board shall fix and publish a scale of the sums to he
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 to_
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
funeral 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 discon-
tinued, and to giTe information mid 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 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 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 i❑ 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 Aet, a perpetual annuity of such
amount as may appear to the said beard 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 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 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 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 end
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
be 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 contlined 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 as
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 thencefdrth payable as aforesaid to the
incumbent cf 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.
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 thr.t
bshalf, 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 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 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 ;hall 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 ai 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 mouths 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 fat; 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 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 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
uuder 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 fir 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 i❑terest 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
Vie tees arid 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 rep iid 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 to it enacted, that it shall be lawful
for the Commissioners acting i❑ the execution of an Act
passed i❑ the second session of the fifth sear of her Ma-
jesty's reign, intituled " An Act to authorise the ad-
' ranee 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 fur the like
purposes," and in the execution of any of the Acta recited

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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
requiring any farther or other security than a mortgage
of such fees, payments, and rates.
XL. Abd 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 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, sotto borrow accordingly, in order to
pay off and discharge any of the securities , beaming a
higher rate of interest, and to charge the fee, payments,
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 provisions as are herein contained with respsct 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 for
the purpose of paying off the whole or any part of the
said principal money, laid 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 board 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 form
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 inte.ndsd 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 and
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 haying the cus-
tody of the same, refusing to allow such inspection, shall
for every such ffence, on summary conviction thereof
before two justices of the peace, be liable to a penalty not
exceeding fire 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 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 times 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 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 be open at all seasonable times to
the inspection of the mortgagees or transferees of mort-
gagees under this Act, with liberty to make extracts
threrefrom without fee or reward, and any clerk or
other person ,having the custody ot ,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 any other
person by deed duly stamped, truly stating its date, t! .e
names and descriptions of the parties thereto, and the
consideration for 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; and there shall he
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 mace in such register
of its date, and of the names and description of the par-
ties thereto, as stated in the transfer; and upon any
transfer being so registered the transferee, his executors,
administrators, or assigns shall be emitted to the lull
benefit of the original mortgage, and the principal and
interest secured thereby; and every such trunsfeice 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 lawful
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 Excht quer-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 tho 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 cf 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 dayse
from the delivery of such warrant to any one of
overseers: provided always, that the sum to be
in so. paid
for the purposes of this Act shall not exceed 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 within 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, towel-
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
way issue such warrant as aforesaid to the overseers c f
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, township, precinct, or
place, unless in such order as aforesaid any burial ground
or burial groandsso 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 meeuing
of this Act, and to be included under and denoted fey
the words " overseers of the poor," for all the purposes
of this Act, as fully us if they were commonly called or
known by the title of overseers of the poor.
L. And be it enacted, that the overseers of the poort,
of every parish, town-hip, preciect, or place within h,
metropolitan burial district, to whom any such warrant
as aforesaid shall be issued, shall pay the am°u""tmen-
tioned in the warrant out of any money in there be nor hands
collected for the relief of the poor; and if tt
sum.
the
such money in their hands, or an insufficietn
of the
shall levy the amount required as a par 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 overseersshall 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 him a nose In writing Bigtud by them, specifyiog the

,onnt so paid, whi note shall be kept by the said
treasurer as avo ' er for his receipt of that particular
amount; and the receipt of the said treasurer specifying
the amount paid to him by the overseers, shall be a suffi-
cient discharge to the overseers far such amount, and
shall be allowed as such in passing their accounts with
Tar—% respective parishes, townships, precincts, or places.
LI. And be it enacted, that in case the amount or-
dered by such warrant as aforesaid to be paid by the
overseers in any parish, township, precinct, or place in
the metropolitan burial district shall not be paid to the
said treasurer within the time specified for that purpose
in the warrant, it shall be lawful for any justice ot tho
peace, upon complaint by the said treasurer, to issue his
warrant for levying the amount, or so much thereof as
may be in arrear, by distress and sale of the goods of all
or any of the said overseers; and in case the goods of all
the overseers shall not be sufficient to pav the same, the
arrears thereof shall be added to the amount of the next
levy which shall be directed to be made in such parish,
township, precinct, or place for the purposes of this Act,
and shall be collected by the like methods.
LII. And be it enacted, that any member of the said
board, or any person having an order for that purpose
under the hands of two members of the said board, may
inspect any county rate made or to be made for any
county any part of which shall be situate within the
metropolitan burial district, and may also inspect any
returns concerning all or any of the parishes, townships,
precincts, and places, whether parochial or extra-paro-
chial, in the said district, delivered or to deli-
vered in pursuance of any of the Acts re-
lating to county rate, and may take copies
or extracts from any such rates or returns
without payment of any fee or reward; and if any
person having the custody of any such rate or re turn
shall wilfully neglect or refuse to permit any such
member or other person to inspect the same, or to
take copies or extracts from the same, within two days
after such order shall have been produced and shown to
him, or a copy thereof left at his usual place of abode,
he shall for every such offence, on summary conviction
thereof before two justices of the peace be liable to a
penalty not exceeding ten pounds.
LIII. And -whereas it is expedient to provide for those
precincts and places in the m -tropolitan burial district
in which no rate is made for the relief of the poor, or in
which property may be deemed not to be rateable thereto:
be it therefore enacted, that the respective inhabitants
and occupiers of all messuages, lands, tenements, and
hereditansents in any precinct or place, whether paro-
chial or extra-parochial, in the metropolitan burying dis-
trict, although such messuages, lands, tenements, and
hereditameuts may not be rated to the relief of the poor,
or may be deemed not to be rateable thereto, shall
nevertheless be liable to contribute under this Act as if
the property so inhabited or occupied were rateable and
rated to the relief of the poor; and the said board may
from time to time, by warrant under their seal, appoint
a proper person to be an assessor, for the purpose of
assessing the full and fair annual value of such property,
and rating the same to a rate to be levied under this
Act; provided always, that the sum to be so levied shall
not exceed in the whole in any one year the rate of one
penny in the pound on the full and lair annual value of
such property; and such assessor shall, within forty days
after the delivery to him of the warrant of his appoint-
ment, make, sign, and return to the said board an assess-
ment for the precinct or place named in such warrant;
and the assessment shall be fairly written in a book, and
shall specify, in different columns, the names of the re-
spective inhabitants or occupiers of all messuages, lands,
tenements, and
.hereditaments, the full and fair annual
value of the same, and the amount of rate charged on
the inhabitants or occupiers thereof, and, when the pre-
mises shall be unoccupied, the full and fair annual value
thereof to let; and every such assessor shall be allowed
for his trouble and expenses such remuneration as the
said board, with the approbation of the Commissioners
of her Majesty's Treasury, shall direct, and the same
shall be paid out of the amount of the rate which shall
be collected after such assessment.
LIV. And be it enacted, that when such assess-
ment shall have been allowed by the said board,
public notice of such assessment, and of the place
where the same may be inspected, shall be given by
fixing such notice on the door of the church or chapel
or some other conspicuous part of the precinct or place
to which such assessment shall relate, upon the Sunday
next or next but one after the same shall have been so
allowed ; and any person in whose custody such assess-
ment may be shall permit every inhabitant or occupier of
property included in such assessment to inspect the same,
and to make any extracts therefrom, without payment
of any fee or reward ; and if such person shall wilfully
neglect or refuse to permit any such inhabitant or occu-
pier to inspect such assessment, or to make any extract
therefrom, he shall for every such offence, on summary
conviction thereof before two justices of the peace, be
liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.
LV. And be it enacted, that the said board shall from
titre to time nominate one or more persons for levying
the amount of rate charged in every such assessment,
who shall proceed in the same manner, and shall have
the same powers, remedies, and privileges, and shall be
subject to the same regulations and penalties with re-
ference to the levying of such rate, as if he or they were
an overseer or overseers of the poor in a precinct or
place rated to the relief of the poor, and shall pay over
the amount of such rate to the treasurer of the said
board, or in default thereof shall be proceeded against in
the same manner as overseers are by this Act to be pro-
ceeded against f a. non-payment.
LVI. Provided always, and be it enacted, that if any
person who shall have paid the amount of rate charged
upon him by the assessment made by an assessor ap-
pointed under this Act shall think himself aggrieved by
such assessment, on the grcund that such assessment in-
cludes any property for which he is not rateable under
this Act, or that it assesses his ratable property beyond
its full and fur annual va'ue, or that any person or per-
sons is or are omitted out of such assessment, or that
the property of any person or persons is assessed below
its lull and fair annual value, the person so aggrieved
may appeal to the next court of general or quarter sessions
which shall be holden for the county, corporation, or
franchise in which the cause of appeal shall have arisen,
not less than twenty-one days after public notice of such
assessment shall have been given as hereinbeforo men-
tioned; provided that the person so intending to appeal
shall give to the said board a notice in writincs of such
appeal, and of the cause and matter thereof, ten clear
days at least before such sessions; and shall also, within
three days after his notice of appeal, enter into a recog-
nizance before some justice of the peace of the
county, corporation, or franchise, with two sufficient
sureties, conditioned to try such appeal at the said
sessions, and to abide the order of the court thereupon
and to pay such costs as shall be by the court awarded ;
and in case such person shall appeal on the ground that
any person or persons is or are omitted out of the assess-
ment, or that the property of any person or persons is
assessed below its full and fair annual value, the party
so appe ding shall not only give such notice of appeal to
the said board. and enter into such recognizance as afore-
said, but shall also give a like notice of appeal to the
person or persons so interested in the event of such appeal
as aforesaid, and shall enter into a like recognizanc within
the times herein-before respectively mentioned ; and the
person or persons so interested shall, if he or they shall
desire it, be heard upon the appeal ; and the justices of
the peace at such sessions, or some adjournment thereof,
upon due proof of the notice having been given, and of
the recognizance having been entered into as aforesaid,
shall hear and determine the matter of the appeal in a
summary manner, and shall make such order therein,
with or without costs to either party, as the said justices
shall think proper ; and in case the said justices shall
think the appellant entitled to relief, they shall order
the assessment to be amended in such manner as may be
necessary for giving him relief, and
not liable
shall
also
order any money paid by him which he wasto
pay to he returned to him; and in case be shall have ap-
pealed on the ground that any person or persons is or are
omitted out of the assessment, the said justices may
order the name or names of such person or persons to
be inserted in the assessment, and to be therein rated at
such amount as they shall deem just ; and in case the
appellent shall have appealed on the around that the
property cf any person or persons is assessed below its
full and fair annual value, the said justices may order
the amount at which such person or persons is or are
rated in the assessment to be altered in such manner as
they shall deem just; and the proper officer of the court
shall in each of the cases aforesaid forthwith amend the
assessment accordingly, but the assessment shall not be
quashed or altered with respect to any other persona
named therein; and the determination of the justices at
any such sessions or adjournment shall be final and con-
clusive.
LVII. And be it enacted, that the said board shall
cause books to be provided and kept, and full and core
teat accounts to be entered therein of all fees, payments,
rates, and other monies received, levied, and recovered
by the said board, and of the application thereof, dis-
tinguishing the times and purposes when and
for which monies were received and paid ;
and the ratepayers and every mortgagee under this
Act may at all reasonable times inspect and take
copies of or extracts from such books, without fee or re-
ward; and any clerk or other person having the custodycman
of such books who shall not, on any reasonablei,d demand
of any such rate-payer or mortgagee as aforesaics
him to inspect such books, or to take suoch_enecoep,i permitor
on ex-
tracts as aforesaid, shall for every such. ft.
es of the peace,
sum-
mary conviction thereof before two _i
be liable to a penalty not exceedin
said board shall, in the month of
dJ in each year,
to the thirty .first
gi ,- ;:untlet
to
pounds;cry and the
and the said board
dcaauys(ef tpheeicrenaicbceoruortittshetop
dngaccount to be drawn out
shall cause a full statement and
entered into and f all
of the amount of all contractsb . _s . o
d virtue of this Act dar-
breecbedailancye'eaurP;
monies received and expende s Y
year, under the several distinct
satin
othpeusbaliicAn
notice,
also of all av
expenditure, and ears
then Owing by the
hi[eigadssu:reePeriepeteadnindgexPe '
d b
said board ; and the said oar
to bo inserted not less than twice in
andof ratesot
alle nne,iior othertg a g
es monies
sad.
otherthend owingdseht)atlal
1 morning newspapers circulating in
•
—en( 0 Westminster,y that such statement and
prepared and ready for the inspection a
1,.),
,aye ail di
ovnfe r tlai
and
cdziati
_Payers and mot teagets, and of the day fixed
fta,h:raruaandtetiEleg the accounts ; and the said board shall
allow such statement and account to remain for inspec-
tion at ttieir principal office ; and every such rate-payer
and mortgagee may
at all reasonable times before
the day of audit inspect such statement and account,
and compare the same with the books and documents
seating ttier‘to in the possession of the said beard, on
payment of a fee of one shitiag for each inspection.
LVIII. And be it enacted, that the clauses of the
" Cemeteries Clauses Act, 1847," " with respect to
exclusive rights of burial and monumental inscrip-
tions in the cemetery," and " with respect to
the protection of the cemetery," shall be incor-
porated with this Act ; but fee the purposes of this
Act the expression " the bishop of the diocese"
where used in the said clauses " with respect to
exclusive rights of interment and monumental inscrip-
tions" shall mean the Bishop of London; and for the
purposes of this Act the expression " the company',