Otago Provincial Gazette – 1858 – No. 69

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✨ Cemetery Regulations



OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

GAZETTE.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

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

W. CARGILL, Superintendent.

Vol. III.] TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1858. [No. 69.

RULES AND REGULATIONS,

Made in pursuance of Section 5 of the “Cemeteries Ordinance, 1856,” for the management of the Dunedin Southern Cemetery.

  1. THE Town Board of Dunedin shall have the entire control and management of the Cemetery.

  2. The said Board shall divide a portion of the Cemetery into three Classes, viz.:—

  3. Class I., being ground of which the perpetual and exclusive right may be acquired, with the privilege of enclosing the ground, and of erecting headstones or other monuments thereon. A portion of ground of this Class shall be staked off along the present fence, into Lots of 8 feet by 10, each having a frontage to the road around the Cemetery. These Lots shall be sold for £5 each.

  4. Class II., being ground of which the perpetual and exclusive right may be acquired; but the purchaser shall not have right to enclose the same, or to erect a monument thereon, other than a flat stone laid horizontally, with inscription, or marked out by corner stones with initials or figures; provided that these horizontal or corner stones do not rise more than six inches above the surface of the adjoining ground. A portion of land of this Class shall be staked off into lots for single graves, 8 feet by 4, having a frontage to the road, and directly opposite the lots of the 1st Class. The price of each Lot shall be £1 5s.

  5. Class III., being a considerable portion of ground which has been set aside for the interment of such persons as are not purchasers of, and have not acquired, a right to private ground. On ground of this Class no monuments or memorials whatever shall be allowed, and no grave shall, under any circumstances, be opened for any new interment sooner than after the expiry of Five years from the time of the first or last interment, as the case may be.

GENERAL REGULATIONS.

  1. All graves to be 6 feet deep, but in the event of the purchasers of private ground desiring a greater depth, an extra charge of 3s. 6d. shall be made for every foot more than 6 feet deep in 1st Class graves, and 3s. per foot in 2nd Class graves.

  2. The Town Board shall provide all necessary furniture and attendance for properly conducting interments.

  3. Any purchasers of private ground in which no interment shall have taken place, may transfer his or her interest in said ground to any other person, upon payment being made to the Clerk of the Town Board for the time being, of a fee of 5s. for such transfer.

  4. A Plan of the Cemetery shall be prepared, showing particularly the Lots sold off, together with the numbers thereof.



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  • W. Cargill, Superintendent