✨ Cemetery Rules and Regulations
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Any person or persons 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, heirs, near relations, and friends for ever.
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Application for such permission must be made to the Secretary, or one of the Trustees. A certificate of such 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 costs and 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 at least six working hours prior to the hour fixed for the funeral, otherwise an extra charge will be made (see Schedule A). No free interment will be allowed without the above notice of six hours.
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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, the late place of residence, and probable cause of death of the deceased, and other information as per Schedule C, must be stated at the time of giving the order.
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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 funerals will be from 8 o’clock a.m. to 5 o’clock p.m., from the first day of September to the 30th day of April, and from 8 o’clock a.m. to 4 o’clock p.m. in the other four months of the year, 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 of stone, slate, or iron, and every coffin in a private grave must have on the lid a metal plate with the name of the deceased stamped or painted 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 any 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 shall be proceeded against according to the provisions of the “Cemeteries Reserves Management 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 enters the gates.
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All ordinary meetings of the Managers shall be held on the first Monday of each month, at 8 o’clock p.m.; special meetings may at any time be called by the Secretary.
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The Trustees reserve the right to make any alterations from time to time in these charges and Regulations.
D. M’PHERSON,
ROBERT BARLOW,
JOHN E. STAITE,
EDW. G. BYAN.
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Managers.
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 each 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, or of which six hours’ notice has not been given, 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 CLYDE CEMETERY.
On the application of __, and upon payment of the sum of __, which is hereby acknowledged to have been received, the Trustees of the Clyde 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 up such 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 her or their heirs and near relations and friends 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 __, his heirs, near relations, and friends, 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 or fence, building, monument, or tombstone, shall be maintained and kept up by the said __ and his or her heirs, relations, and friends, in proper repair, to the satisfaction of the Trustees. Fourth, that the said __ and his or her heirs and near relations, and friends shall, in the use of the said piece
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🏘️ Provincial & Local Government27 June 1866
Cemetery, Rules, Regulations, Clyde, Trustees, Burial, Fees
- D. M'Pherson
- Robert Barlow
- John E. Staite
- Edw. G. Byan
Otago Provincial Gazette 1866, No 427