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.

LXXV. 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 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.

LXXVI. And be it enacted, That in the Construction of this Act the following Words and Expressions shall have the Meanings

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 Corporations :

The Word "Lands" shall include Messuages, Buildings, Lands, and Hereditaments:

"the Metropolitan

The Expression "the District" shall mean
Burial District:"
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 conse-
crated according to the Rites of the United Church of England
and Ireland, and the Word "unconsecrated" shall mean not
so consecrated.

LXXVII. And be it enacted, That in citing this Act in other Short Title.
Acts, and in legal Instruments and other Proceedings, it shall be
sufficient to use the Expression "The Metropolitan Interments
Act, 1850."

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 extraparochial).

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

The Close of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter.

The

The Parishes of St. Giles in the Fields and St. George Bloomsbury.
The Parishes of St. Andrew Holborn and St. George the Martyr.
The Liberty of Hatton Garden, Saffron Hill, and Ely Rents.
The Liberty of the Rolls.

The Parish of St. Pancras.

The Parish of St. John Hampstead.

The Parish of St. Marylebone.

The Parish of Paddington.

The Precinct of the Savoy.

The Parish of St. Luke.

The Liberty of Glasshouse Yard.

The Parish of St. Sepulchre.

The Parish of St. James Clerkenwell, including both Districts of

St. James and St. John.

The Parish of St. Mary Islington.

The Parish of St. Mary Stoke Newington.

The Charterhouse.

The Parish of St. Mary Whitechapel.

The Parish of Christchurch Spitalfields.
The Parish of St. Leonard Shoreditch.
The Liberty of Norton Falgate.
The Parish of St. John Hackney.

The Parish of St. Matthew Bethnal Green.
The Hamlet of Mile End Old Town.

The Hamlet of Mile End New Town.

The Parish of St. Mary Stratford Bow.

The Parish of Bromley St. Leonard.

The Parish of All Saints Poplar.
The Parish of St. Anne Limehouse.

The Hamlet of Ratcliffe.

The Parish of St. Paul Shadwell.

The Parish of St. George in the East.
The Parish of St. John Wapping.

The Liberty of East Smithfield.

The Precinct of St. Catherine.

The Liberty of Her Majesty's Tower of London, consisting of— The Liberty of the Old Artillery Ground.

The Parish of Trinity, Minories.

The Old Tower Precinct.

The Precinct of the Tower Within.

The Precinct of Wellclose.

The Parish of Kensington.

The Parish of St. Luke Chelsea.

The Parish of Fulham.

The Parish of Hammersmith.

Lincoln's Inn.

New Inn.

Gray's Inn.

Staple Inn.

That Part of Furnival's Inn in the County of Middlesex.

Ely Place.

The Parish of Battersea (except the Hamlet of Penge).

The Parish of Bermondsey.

The Parish of Camberwell.
The Parish of Clapham.
The Parish of Lambeth.
The Parish of Newington.
The Parish of Putney.
The Parish of Rotherhithe.
The Parish of Streatham.

The Parish of Tooting.
The Parish of Wandsworth.

The Parish of Christchurch.

The Clink Liberty.

The Hamlet of Hatcham in the Parish of Deptford.

SCHEDULE (B.)

The several CEMETERIES established under the several ACTS

herein-after mentioned; viz.—

An Act for establishing a General Cemetery for the Interment 2 & 3 W.4.c.cx. of the Dead in the Neighbourhood of the Metropolis:

An Act for establishing a Cemetery for the Interment of the 6 & 7 W. 4. Dead Southward of the Metropolis, to be called the "South Metro- c. cxxix. politan Cemetery :"

An Act for establishing Cemeteries for the Interment of the 6 & 7 W. 4. Dead, Northward, Southward, and Eastward of the Metropolis, by c. cxxxvi. a Company to be called "The London Cemetery Company:"

An Act for establishing a Cemetery for the Interment of the 1 Vict. c. cxxx. Dead, Westward of the Metropolis, by a Company to be called

"The West of London and Westminster Cemetery Company:"

And

An Act to establish a General Cemetery for the Interment of the 4 & 5 Vict. Dead in the Parishes of Saint Dunstan Stepney and Saint Leonard & lxiii. Bromley in the County of Middlesex:

The Victoria Park Cemetery, in the Parish of Saint Matthew

Bethnal Green in the County of Middlesex: And

The Abney Park Cemetery, in the Parish of Saint Mary Stoke Newington in the County of Middlesex.

SCHE

SCHEDULE (C.)

Form of Mortgage.

).

Mortgage Number (

By virtue of an Act passed in the

Year of the Reign

paid to for the Pur

of Queen Victoria [here insert the Title of this Act], the General
Board of Health, in consideration of the Sum of
the Treasurer of the said Board by A.B. of
poses of the said Act, do grant and assign unto the said A.B., his
Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, all the Monies arising
and to arise from the several Fees, Payments, and Rates to be
received and made under the said Act, to hold to the said A.B.,
his Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, from the Day of the
Date hereof until the said Sum of
with Interest at the

Rate of
per Centum per Annum for the same, shall be
fully paid and satisfied; and it is hereby declared, that the said
Principal Sum shall be repaid on the

and

that in the meantime the Interest thereof shall be paid on the

Day of

and the

Day of

Day of

In witness whereof the said Board have hereunto set their

Account of the Population to be taken.

I A.B. of

SCHEDULE (D.)

Form of Transfer of Mortgage.

Pounds paid to me by C.D. of

in consideration of the Sum of

do hereby transfer to the

Day of

said C.D., his Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, a certain Mortgage Number ( ), bearing Date the

and made by the General Board of Health to for securing the Sum of and Interest [or, if such Transfer be by Endorsement on the Mortgage, insert, instead of the Words after "Assigns," the within Security], and all my Property, Right, and Interest in and to the Money thereby secured, and in and to the Monies thereby assigned. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal this 18

An Act for taking account of the Population of Great
Britain.
[5th August 1850.]
WHEREAS it is expedient to take an Account of the total

Number of Persons within Great Britain?' Be it 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 at the Time and in the Manner herein-after directed an Account shall be taken of the Number of Persons who at the Time of taking such Account shall be within England and Scotland respectively, and the Persons employed in taking such Account shall set down the several Particulars respecting the same according to such Form as shall be prescribed as herein-after mentioned.

II. And