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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 parliament be not sitting, then within one month after the next meeting of parliament.

SECT. 74. Power to convey chapels in out-lying parochial burial grounds to trustees for the parishes in which they are situate.] And be it enacted, that where any burial ground in which interment is discontinued under this Act belongs to any parish other than the parish within which the same is locally situate, it shall be lawful for the incumbent and churchwardens of the parish to which such burial ground belongs, with the consent of the vestry or persons possessing the powers of vestry for ecclesiastical purposes of or in such parish, and of the bishop of the diocese, to convey any chapel belonging to such parish and situate in or attached to such burial ground, and the site thereof, to any persons named by the incumbent and churchwardens of the parish within which the same is situate, with the consent of the vestry or persons possessing the powers of vestry of or in such parish for ecclesiastical purposes, and of the said bishop, and upon such trusts for such last-mentioned parish, and subject to such conditions to be performed on behalf of such parish, and with such provision for the appointment of new trustees, as to the said bishop may seem proper; and such conveyance shall be effectual to pass all the estate and interest vested in any persons in trust or on behalf of the parish to which such chapel and the site thereof belong; and after the execution of such conveyance all obligation on such last-mentioned parish, or any trustees or others on behalf thereof, to repair

such chapel or to pay any stipend to the minister thereof, or otherwise in relation to or in connexion with such chapel, shall cease (0).

SECT. 75. Provision for dissolving cemetery companies.] And be it enacted, that after payment by the said board of the purchase or consideration money for any of the cemeteries mentioned in the schedule (B.) to this Act, or after the payment to any cemetery company of the compensation for the loss or damage sustained by them by reason of the discontinuance of interment in their cemetery or cemeteries under the provisions of this Act, the cemetery company to which such purchase or consideration money or compensation may belong or be payable (unless some other cemetery in which interment is not then discontinued remain vested in them) shall continue only for the purpose of winding up the affairs, and realizing and distributing the assets thereof, and the satisfying any debts or engagements to or by the said company, and for the enforcement by law or in equity of such debts or engagements respectively; and the said company, as soon as conveniently may be after the payment of such purchase or consideration money or compensation shall convert into money, by sale or otherwise, the effects of the said company, and get in the debts and assets thereof, and distribute and apportion the monies thence arising, together with such purchase or consideration money or compensation, after satisfying all

(0) Although under this section the chapel may be conveyed, the burial ground to which it was attached would still remain the property of the parish. It is presumed that the section is intended to apply to chapels which are used for the purposes of religious worship, and not to those which were only used for the purposes of the burial of the dead.

the debts, engagements, and liabilities of the said company, to and among the several proprietors thereof according to their respective shares and interests therein, and from and immediately after such distribution and apportionment the said company shall be dissolved, and the receipt of every person who for the time being would have been entitled to give an effectual discharge for any dividends which might have become payable in respect of any share in any such cemetery or company in case this Act had not been passed, for the proportion of the monies which under this provision shall become payable in respect of such share, shall be an effectual discharge to such company and the directors thereof for the same.

SECT. 76. Interpretation of terms.] And be it enacted, that in the construction of this Act the 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 number shall include the singular number: Words importing the masculine gender only shall include females:

Words importing individuals shall include corpora

tions:

The word "lands" shall include messuages, buildings, lands, and hereditaments:

The expression "the district" shall mean metropolitan burial district :”

"the

The word "parish" shall include united parishes, and any distinct and separate parish, district parish, district chapelry, or consolidated district,

formed under the provisions of the Church Building Acts, and any new parish constituted by or under the proceedings of the ecclesiastical commissioners for England; and the word " consecrated" shall mean consecrated according to the rites of the united church of England and Ireland, and the word "unconsecrated" shall mean not so consecrated.

SECT. 77. Short title.] And be it enacted, that in citing this Act in other Acts, and in legal instruments and other proceedings, it shall be sufficient to use the expression "The Metropolitan Interments Act, 1850."

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SCHEDULE (A).

The Metropolitan Burial District.

The City of London and the liberties thereof, the Inner Temple and Middle Temple, and all other places and parts of places contained within the exterior boundaries of the liberties of the City of London.

In MIDDLESEX.—The City and Liberties of Westminster.

The Parishes of St. Margaret and Saint John the Evangelist.

The Parish of St. Martin in the Fields.

The Parish of St. George Hanover Square.

The Parish of St. James.

The Parish of St. Mary-le-Strand, as well within the Liberty of Westminster as within the Duchy Liberty.

The Parish of St. Clement Danes, as well within the Liberty of Westminster as within the Duchy Liberty.

The Parish of St. Paul Covent Garden.

The Parish of St. Anne Soho.

Whitehall Gardens (whether the same be parochial or extra-parochial).

Whitehall (whether the same be parochial or extraparochial).

Richmond Terrace (whether the same be parochial or extra-parochial).

The Close of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter.

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