excepted. The burial ground is open to the public from seven o'clock a.m. on week-days, until sunset, and on Sundays from two o'clock p.m. until sunset; but children under ten years of age cannot be admitted, except under the care of responsible persons. TABLE OF CHARGES AND FEES (Payable to the board after having been approved by the Secretary of State (a)). Burial fees for non-parishioners half as much in addition. Incumbent, clerk, and sexton's fees as per custom of the parish, may be printed in the parallel columns, received by the clerk to the board, as quasi agent for the parties, and distributed accordingly. REGULATIONS. 1. All charges for interments, and for the purchase of freehold graves and vaults, monuments, and gravestones, must be paid for at the time the order is given, at the office. (a) The board fees alone must be sent for approval, omitting those for searches and extracts from register. (b) At this price the ground so actually used will be sold at the rate of 600 guineas per acre. (c) In many places it has been the custom to divide the ground into different classes, but it would be much better to intermix graves on which monuments are not likely to be placed among those where such erections may be expected; thus relieving the crowded appearance of monuments in one part and the bare appearance of the ground in others, as well as avoiding the perpetuation of vain istinctions. RULES. 2. Certificate of death to be produced. The name of the parish or district from which the body is removed, and all other information required, to be stated at the time of paying the fees. 3. The time named for a funeral to be that when the procession is to be at the ground, and as it is desirable that the time fixed should be punctually observed, to prevent inconvenience, an extra fee of will be charged when the funeral be more than minutes late. 4. Two days' previous notice to be given for an interment in graves selected by the board, exclusive of Sunday, and three days if a vault or brick grave be required. [If the requisite notice be not given, an extra charge will be made for working at night.] 5. All brick or stone work in the vaults and graves to be executed by the board. 6. No vault or grave, in which the exclusive right of burial has been purchased, shall be opened without the owner's consent in writing. 7. In all unbricked graves, coffins of wood only to be used; no interment will be allowed nearer the surface than 4 feet for an adult, and 3 feet for a child under twelve years of age. Every coffin in a bricked grave or vault to be separately entombed in an air-tight manner. 8. All foundations, removal and fixing of memorials, to be executed by the board. 9. No foot-stones nor iron railing exceeding 2 feet 6 inches in height allowed, except with the special consent of the board. Head-stones only allowed alternately, not to exceed 4 feet high. 10. Drawings of every monument or gravestone differing from designs previously approved by the board, with a copy of the inscription intended to be inserted, if they contain anything beyond the name, age, and date of decease, to be submitted for their approval; and no monument or gravestone can be admitted without such approval. The number of the grave or vault corresponding with the interment book must also be placed on each monument or gravestone. 11. All private graves and vaults, with the monuments and gravestones, to be kept in repair by the owners. [The board will keep them in repair for a fee of annually.] 12. The hours of interment on week days are fixed from o'clock until (a). For interments at other hours extra fees will be charged. On Sunday, no interments will take place. A plan of the ground, showing the situation of each grave, is kept at the office, and may be seen without charge. The burial ground is effectually guarded, and the board forbid any gratuity being received by any of their servants. All further information to be obtained at the office (b). The board reserve to themselves the right, from time to time, to make any alterations in the foregoing charges and regulations. 18 By order of the Burial Board. Clerk. (a) This should be fixed with the concurrence of the incumbent. * 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ROAD 8 9 10 11 12 Aa : Ba Ca Ab Bb Cb 13 14 and so on Such a mark may indicate that one common interment has taken place in grave space A b 4. the grave space Cb 8 has been purchased, but no interment yet taken place. the purchased grave space B 14 has received three bodies. the child's grave B biv has received one body. Family grave plots. (a) See pp. 277-81. PLAN. |