✨ Cemetery Rules and Charges
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Any person making a vault, or erecting and placing a monument in the Cemetery, by and with the permission of the Trustees, under these Rules, and upon the payment of the charges therein mentioned, is entitled to have, maintain, and keep up such vault, monument, or tombstone, according to the terms of such permission, to and for the sole and separate use of such person or persons, and his and their heirs and near relations for ever.
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Applications for such permission must be made to the Secretary or one of the Trustees. A certificate of permission, in the form set out in Schedule B, will be granted to the party applying for such permission, on payment of the charges in Schedule A.
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The charges will be remitted, on the burial of any poor person in such Cemetery, on the certificate of a minister of religion, or other evidence, proving to the satisfaction of the Trustees that such person was a pauper, or that the relations and friends of the deceased were unable to pay the cost and charges.
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Orders for interment must be given to the Sexton six working hours prior to the hour fixed for the funeral; if not, an extra charge will be made (Schedule A.) No free interment will be allowed without the above notice.
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The Trustees will cause all ordinary graves to be dug, but parties wanting brick graves or vaults will be required to construct them under the direction of a surveyor (appointed by the Trustees,) and in case interment is to be made in any private grave or vault, the consent (in writing) of the party entitled thereto must be left with the order.
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The name, age, late place of residence, and probable cause of death of the deceased, must be stated at the time of giving the order (see Schedule C.)
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The time fixed for the funeral must be the time when the procession is to be at the Cemetery, and the same must be punctually observed.
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Until otherwise ordered, the usual hours fixed for the performance of funerals will be from 8 o’clock a.m. to 5 o’clock p.m., in the months of September to April inclusive, and from 8 o’clock a.m. to 4 o’clock p.m. in the other four months, except on Sundays, when the usual and only funerals will be from 2 to 5 o’clock p.m. throughout the year. No funeral will be allowed to take place between the hours of 7 o’clock p.m. and 7 o’clock a.m.
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All monuments, vaults, graves, and gravestones must be kept in repair and proper condition, by and at the expense of the owners.
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Every coffin in a vault or brick grave must be bricked in, cemented, and covered by a slab or stone, slate, or iron; and every coffin in a private grave must have on the lid a lead or copper plate, with the name of the deceased stamped thereon.
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A drawing of every stone tomb pedestal, and plan of every fence, monument, or tablet proposed to be erected, and a copy of every epitaph or inscription, must be submitted to the Trustees for approval.
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No servant, or other person employed by or engaged in any duty on behalf of the Trustees will be permitted to receive any gratuity for the discharge thereof.
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The ground will be open daily to the public from sunrise to sunset.
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A plan of the Cemetery, showing the situation of the graves, is kept by the Secretary, and may be inspected at the charge set out in Schedule A; and registers of all grants are kept by the Secretary.
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The Sexton has orders to turn out or take into custody (as the case may require) any person who shall behave indecorously or commit any trespass or injury to the trees, flowers, or erections, or otherwise infringe the Ordinance relating to the Cemetery, or the regulations for the protection of the same; and such person will be proceeded against according to the provisions of the “Cemetery Reserve Ordinance, 1864.”
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No funeral will be allowed to take place in the Cemetery without a certificate from a Deputy-Registrar or Coroner holding an inquest or inquiry, or a Magistrate. Such certificate must be delivered to the Sexton at the Cemetery before the funeral enter the gates.
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The Trustees reserve the right to make any alterations from time to time in these charges and regulations.
PETER ROBERTSON.
EDWARD WALSH.
EDWARD HERBERT.
JOHN MOUAT.
DANIEL GROVE.
SCHEDULE A.—CHARGES.
Public Graves.
Single interment, in open ground ... £1 0 0
Do. do. of children under 5 years ... 0 10 0
Do. do. of still-born children ... 0 5 0
Private Graves.
Special land for family graves, for each block of 8 feet by 4 feet, as per plan... £2 2 0
Sinking each grave 6 feet ... 1 0 0
Do. for every additional foot ... 0 5 0
Do. for children under six years ... 0 10 0
Re-opening each grave or vault ... 1 0 0
Certificate of right of burial in all private graves ... 0 2 6
Miscellaneous Charges.
For all interments that take place not in the usual hours, an extra charge of ... £0 10 6
If a public grave, an extra charge of ... 0 10 6
If a private grave, an extra charge of ... 1 1 0
Charge for copy of register ... 0 1 0
Charge for inspecting plan or register ... 0 1 0
SCHEDULE B.—FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF RIGHT OF BURIAL IN THE LAWRENCE CEMETERY.
On the application of __, and upon payment of the sum of __, which is hereby acknowledged to have been received, the Trustees of the Lawrence Cemetery, in terms of and as authorised by the “Cemetery Reserves Management Ordinance, 1864,” have agreed to grant, and do hereby grant unto the said __ permission to dig or make a grave or vault on that piece of ground, __ feet long by __ feet broad, lying within that portion of the said Cemetery appropriated for burials, and marked No. __ compartment on the plan of the said Cemetery, kept by the said Trustees, with permission to erect or place on the said piece of ground a monument or tombstone, on payment of such charges as may from time to time be established: And it is hereby declared that the said __ shall be entitled to have, maintain, and keep such a vault, monument, or tombstone, according to the terms of this permission, to and for the sole and separate use of the said __ and his or their heirs and near relations for ever; provided always, and it is hereby declared, that this grant is made subject to the terms and conditions following, viz.:—First, that the said piece of ground shall be kept and used by the said __ and his heirs and near relations solely as a burying place, and that no other use shall be made thereof. Second, that no enclosing wall, fence, building, monument, or tombstone, shall be erected or placed on said piece of ground until a plan thereof shall have been exhibited to the said Trustees, and their authority given for the erection thereof. Third, that the said grave or vault, and the said wall, fence, building, monument, or tombstone, shall be maintained and kept up by the said __ and his heirs and near relations in proper repair, to the satisfaction of the said Trustees. Fourth, that the said __ and his heirs and near relations shall, in the use of the said piece of ground, and access thereto, be subject in every respect to such rules and regulations as the Trustees of the said Cemetery may from time to time make; and shall not be entitled to exercise the right to bury or inter therein
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Rules and Regulations of the Lawrence Cemetery
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🏥 Health & Social Welfare10 February 1866
Cemetery, Rules, Regulations, Lawrence, Burial, Charges
- PETER ROBERTSON
- EDWARD WALSH
- EDWARD HERBERT
- JOHN MOUAT
- DANIEL GROVE
Otago Provincial Gazette 1866, No 407