Hawke's Bay Provincial Gazette – 1868 – No. 5

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✨ Napier Cemetery Regulations



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Hawke's Bay Government Gazette.
(PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.)

All public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

DONALD McLEAN, Superintendent.

VOL. IX. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1868. No. 5.

Superintendent's Office,
February 6, 1868.

THE following Rules and Regulations of the Napier Cemetery, made by the managers of such Cemetery, under the powers granted by the "Hawke's Bay Cemetery Act 1867," having been submitted to, and approved by, the Superintendent and Executive Council, are hereby published in accordance with the requirements of Clause V. of said Act.

DONALD McLEAN,
Superintendent.

RULES AND REGULATIONS.

  1. The Cemetery shall be under charge of the resident sexton; who will be in attendance daily, who will receive and promptly attend to all instructions for burials, and who will receive (on account of the managers) the fees for the same. Any inattention or want of civility on his part should be at once reported to the managers.

  2. The Cemetery shall be divided into four portions—one for burials in connection with the Church of England; one for the Roman Catholic Church; one for the Presbyterian; and one for other denominations or general purposes, to be called the common burial ground. A site for a mortuary chapel will be reserved for each denomination requiring the same. A plan will be in possession of the sexton, showing the subdivisions, and the ground available in each for purposes of interment.

  3. Each religious denomination, as a condition of having such portion set apart for its own use, shall be required to erect its share of a dividing fence, to turn up the ground and lay it down in grass. The walks will thereafter be laid out, and the walks and fences maintained at the expense of the managers.

  4. The common burial ground shall be turned up, laid down in grass, and laid out at the expense of the managers.

  5. The subdivision fences shall consist of dressed posts, sawn rails 4 x 2, and sawn battens 4 x 3, pointed at top according to a model to be prepared by the managers. Each denomination shall also bear a share of the expense of planting a live fence (of kind directed by the managers) alongside such subdivision fences, so as to supercede them at a future time.

  6. The Cemetery as a whole shall be laid out by the managers to 9 feet in depth. Any person wishing to obtain a burial plot (to be secured to himself and heirs for ever) can do so at the rate of 5s. per foot frontage. The smallest frontage thus alienated shall be four feet and the largest nine feet. One foot will intervene between each burial plot. Such payment, if made as regards plots already enclosed, will secure the same in a similar manner; otherwise all spare ground will be used for other interments.



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🏘️ Proclamation of Hawke's Bay Government Gazette

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6 February 1868
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