of Three thousand Pounds Irish Currency to every Master of the Court of Chancery in Ireland, and authorizes the Grant of Annuities to Persons who may or shall have executed the Office of Master as therein mentioned, shall, so far as regards every such Master to be appointed after the passing of this Act, be repealed, and in lieu of such annual Sum there shall be issued and paid and payable, during good Behaviour, to each and every Master of the said Court of Chancery in Ireland who shall be appointed after the passing of this Act, the annual Sum of Two thousand five hundred Pounds Sterling, out of and charged and chargeable upon the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, every such annual Sum to be issued in pursuance of this Act to be from Time to Time payable and paid quarterly, free and clear from all Taxes and Deductions whatever, on every Fifth Day of January, Fifth Day of April, Fifth Day of July, and Tenth Day of October in each Year. XXIX. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful Retired Anfor Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, by Letters Patent nuities of Masters fixed in under the Great Seal of Ireland, to give and grant unto any Persame Proporson who may or shall have executed the Office of Master in Ordi- tion as hitherto, nary of the Court of Chancery for the Term of Twenty Years, or according to to any Person having executed such Office for any shorter Period altered Salaries. not less than Ten Years, who shall after his Appointment to such Office have become afflicted with any permanent Infirmity disabling him from the due Execution of his Office, and who shall be desirous of resigning the same, an Annuity not exceeding One Half of his Salary in case the said Master shall have served in such Office Twenty Years, and not exceeding One Third of his Salary in case he shall have served for a shorter Period, and an Annuity not exceeding Two Thirds of his Salary in case such Master shall have served in such Office Twenty-five Years, and an Annuity not exceeding Five Sixths in case such Master shall have served in such Office for Thirty Years or more, in which Letters Patent the Cause or Ground for making thereof shall be distinctly stated and specified; and the Annuity so granted shall be paid accordingly out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, by even and equal quarterly Pay ments on the Fifth Day of January, Fifth of April, Fifth of July, and Tenth of October in every Year, to such Master, from the Period at which he shall resign his said Office, for the Term of his natural Life, without any Deduction for Fees, Poundage, or otherwise: Provided always, that no Annuity shall in any Case be granted under this Act to any Master unless such Master shall have served in Office during the full Term of Ten Years. crease Number XXX. And be it enacted, That if at any Time after the Com- Power to dimencement of this Act it shall be found that the Establishments minish or in of the Offices of the said Court of Chancery, or any of them, are of Officers, and in point of Number of Assistants or Clerks either excessive or their Salaries. insufficient, or that it is expedient either to diminish or increase the Salaries of the Officers, Assistants, or Clerks, or any of them, the Lord Chancellor shall notify the same to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, stating the Circumstances which may have caused any such Changes to be necessary or expedient, and thereupon it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Commissioners, and they are hereby authorized, by their Warrant, to U 2 reduce Interpretation of Terms. Act may be amended, &c. London, West- General Board of Health to execute this Act. Her Majesty may appoint an additional Member. Board incorporated. reduce or increase such Establishments or Salaries, as the Case may require, provided that no Salary shall be so diminished unless when the Office or Employment for which it is payable shall be vacant; and it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of the Treasury to remove the requisite Number of Persons from any Office or Offices in which the Business shall have decreased to any Office or Offices in which it shall have increased; and every such Arrangement, Removal, or Appointment, Reduction, or Increase, to be made by the said Commissioners shall be as good and valid as if the same had been made by, under, or by virtue of this Act, anything to the contrary notwithstanding. XXXI. And be it enacted, That in the Construction of this Act the Expression "Her Majesty" shall mean also and include the Heirs and Successors of Her Majesty; and the Expression "Lord Chancellor shall mean also and include the Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper and Lords Commissioners for the Custody of the Great Seal of Ireland, for the Time being; and that Words in this Act importing the Singular Number or the Masculine Gender shall be understood to include several Matters as well as One Matter, and several Persons as well as one Person, and Females as well as Males, and Bodies Corporate as well as Individuals; and this Act shall only extend to that Part of the United Kingdom called Ireland. XXXII. And be it enacted, That this Act may be altered, amended, or repealed during this Session of Parliament. WE CA P. LII. An Act to make better Provision for the Interment of the Dead in and near the Metropolis. [5th August 1850.] 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 Majesty, by and 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, Townships, Precincts, and Places mentioned in the Schedule (A.) to this Act, shall for the Purposes of this Act be One District, to be called "The Metropolitan Burial District." II. And be it enacted, That the General Board of Health shall act in the Execution of this Act; and it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, from 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 authorized to appoint under any other Act or Acts, and at Pleasure to remove the Member so appointed; and such Board shall for the Purposes of this Act be One Body Politic and Corporate by the Name of "The General Board of Health," and by that Name shall have perpetual Succession 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. III. And move Assistant III. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Power to Board from Time to Time to appoint or employ, for the Purposes Board to apof this Act, an Assistant Secretary, a Treasurer, and such Clerks point and reand Officers, and for and in each Burial Ground to be provided Secretary, Treaby the said Board under this Act a Warden, and such Assistants, surer, &c. Gravediggers, and other Servants as they deem necessary, and to remove such Assistant Secretary, Treasurer, Clerks, Wardens, Officers, and Servants, or any of them. neral Board IV. And be it enacted, That no additional Member of the said Appointments Board to be appointed under this Act, and no Assistant Secretary, limited to DuTreasurer, or other Officer to be appointed as aforesaid, shall hold ration of Gehis Office after the Expiration of the Period for which "The of Health. 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 provide such Board to proOffices as they may think necessary for the Purposes of this Act, vide Offices. and for providing such Offices may purchase by Agreement or take on Lease any Lands which may appear to them convenient for the same. tary. VI. And be it enacted, That the said Board shall from Time to Power to Board Time provide, in such Places as, having regard to the public to provide BuHealth, may appear to them expedient, and either within or with- rial Grounds, and enlarge out the Limits of the District, Burial Grounds of sufficient Extent them if necesfor 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 Power to pur-. this Act, or enlarging any such Burial Ground, or making, widen- chase Lands for ing, or improving Roads or Approaches thereto, it shall be lawful Burial for the said Board to purchase by Agreement any Lands which Grounds. it may appear to them expedient to purchase for such Purpose. Cemeteries. VII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That for the Purposes Power to Board of this Act the said Board may, if they see fit, purchase and take to purchase 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 Monuments subsisting therein, and subject to such subsisting Rights, and save as herein-after mentioned, all the Provisions of this Act concerning Burial Grounds provided thereunder shall extend to the Cemeteries purchased as aforesaid; provided that no such Cemetery shall be taken otherwise than by Agreement after the Expiration of Two Years from the passing of this Act. Grounds the VIII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That before the said Before PurBoard enter into any Agreement for the Purchase of any Lands chase of Land as aforesaid for the Site of any Burial Ground, (save any such for Burial Cemetery as aforesaid, or any Land required for enlarging any Board to give such Cemetery or Burial Ground,) they shall give public Notice, Six Weeks Noby Advertisement to be inserted not less than Twice in each of tice by AdverTwo daily Newspapers published in London or Westminster, in- tisement for Tenders. Board to enclose and lay out Burial Grounds, erect Buildings, and build Chapels. Power to Board to appoint Chaplains, who shall be licensed by and subject to the Juris diction of the Bishop. A Portion of each Burial Ground not to be consecrated. viting Tenders by Persons willing to sell Lands for the Purposes for which the same are required by the said Board; and no such Agreement for Purchase as aforesaid shall be entered into by the said Board until the Expiration of Six Weeks from the Time of the Insertion of the First of such Advertisements. IX. 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 suitable Chapel for the Performance of Burial Service according to the Rites of the United Church of England and Ireland, or where there is any Chapel already built, and consecrated according to the Rites of the said United Church, in any Cemetery purchased under this Act, to enlarge such Chapel, if it appear to the said Board necessary so to do for the Performance of such Service; and every such Chapel, and every Burial Ground, provided under this Act, except such Portion thereof as may not 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 Lord Bishop of the Diocese within which such Chapel is situated; and every Chapel consecrated ac cording to the Rites of the said United Church in any Burial Ground provided under this Act, and the Portion consecrated as aforesaid of every such Burial Ground, shall be subject to the Jurisdiction of the said Bishop, and no Service shall be performed in the Burial of the Dead in the Portion consecrated according to the Rites of the said United Church of any Burial Ground provided under this Act otherwise than according to the Rites of such Church. X. 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 Chaplains shall be licensed by and subject to the Jurisdiction of the Bishop of the Diocese, and the Consent of the Incumbent of the Parish in which any such Burial Ground may be situate shall not be required to the Grant of any such Licence, and every such Licence shall be revocable by the said Bishop when he thinks fit; and the said Board may assign to such Chaplains such Duties in relation to the Time and Place of 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 remove such Chaplains: Provided always, that the Incumbent of the Parish from which any Body is brought may, by himself or his Curate, upon giving Notice as herein-after mentioned, perform such Service over such Body, where he desires so to do, and, subject to the Rights of such Incumbent and the Regu• lations of the said Board, any other Clerk in Holy Orders not prohibited by the Bishop, nor under Ecclesiastical Censure, may perform such Service. XI. 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 for the Performance of Funeral Service; and so much of any of the Cemeteries Cemeteries mentioned in the said Schedule (B.) which shall be purchased under this Act as may not have been consecrated at the Time of such Purchase thereof, and may have been used or appropriated for the Purposes of Interment, shall remain unconsecrated, and where there is any Chapel on such unconsecrated Part of any such Cemetery the said Board may, if they think necessary, enlarge such Chapel for the Performance of Funeral Service. when a Burial Ground is pro XII. And be it enacted, That when the said Board have pro- Notice to be vided any Burial Ground, and have made all such Arrangements given in the as they may think necessary for the Interment in such Ground London Gazette of the Bodies of the Dead, and after the Consecration of such Portion thereof as may require Consecration, they shall give Notice vided under this in the London Gazette that they have provided such Burial Ground, Act. and that Interments may be made therein; and after such Notice Interments may be made in such Burial Ground under this Act. Discontinuance XIII. And be it enacted, That when the said Board shall be of Queen in Counopinion that Interment (otherwise than in the Burial Grounds cil may, upon provided under this Act) should be discontinued, wholly or subject Report of to any Exception or Exceptions, in any Part or Parts of the Dis- Board, order trict, they shall report to Her Majesty their Opinion accordingly, of Interment in and so from Time to Time when the said Board shall be of opinion Churchyards, that Interment (otherwise than as aforesaid) should be so discon- &c. tinued 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 former Order for the Discontinuance of Interment, they shall report to Her Majesty in like Manner; and at any Time after the Presentation of any such Report 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 the District, shall be wholly discontinued, or shall be discontinued subject to any Exception or Exceptions mentioned in such Order; and any such Order may direct that the Care of any Non-parochial Burial Ground in which Interment is ordered to be discontinued shall be vested in the said Board, and may authorize such Board to cause such Ground to be fenced in such Manner as the said Board may think suitable, and otherwise to act in relation to such Ground as may appear to such Board fit and proper for securing due Respect to the Bodies interred therein, and for protecting the public Health; 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 Gazette, and shall be affixed on the Doors of the Churches or Chapels, or on some other conspicuous Places within the Part or Parts of the District to which such Report relates, One Calendar Month, or, where any Order made under "The Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Act, 1848," directing the Provisions of that Act for the Prevention of epidemic, endemic, and contagious Diseases to be put in force, is in force within such Part or Parts, then Seven Days, at the least before such Report is so considered. |