OAMARU CEMETERY RULES AND REGULATIONS.

The following Rules and Regulations have been submitted to His Honor the Superintendent and Executive Council, and are published for general information:—

1. That each denomination, if required, may have a portion of ground set apart for their special use, they paying all expenses of the same, and that all contemplated improvements thereon must receive the sanction of the Trustees, before being carried out.

2. All charges and fees must be paid when orders are given.

3. 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 costs and 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 separate use of such person or persons, and his and their heirs and near relations for ever.

4. 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.

5. 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 same.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.)

9. 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.

10. Until otherwise ordered, the usual hours fixed for interments 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., except by special order.

11. All monuments, vaults, graves, and gravestones must be kept in repair and in proper condition, at the expense of the owners.

12. Every coffin in a vault or brick grave must be either of lead, or bricked in, cemented and covered by a slab of stone, slate, or iron.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. The ground will be open daily to the public from sunrise to sunset.

16. A plan of the Cemetery, showing the situation of the graves, will be kept by the Secretary, and may be inspected at the charge set out in Schedule A, and registers of all grants will be kept by the Secretary.

17. 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 Reserves Ordinance, 1864.”

18. No funeral will be allowed to take place in the Cemetery without a certificate from a Deputy-Registrar or Coroner holding an inquest or enquiry, or a Magistrate: such certificate must be delivered to the sexton at the Cemetery before the funeral enters the gates.

19. The Trustees reserve the right to make any alterations from time to time in these charges and regulations.

SCHEDULE A.—Public Graves.

Single interments in open ground - £1 0 0
Do. of children under 5 years - 0 10 0
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 for 6 feet - 1 0 0
Do. for every additional foot - 0 5 0
Do. for children under 6 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
Charge for copy of register - 0 2 6
Charge for inspecting plan or register - 0 1 0

SCHEDULE B.—Form of Certificate of Right of Burial in the Oamaru Cemetery.

On the application of ____ and upon the payment of the sum of ____, which is hereby acknowledged to have been received, the Trustees of the Oamaru 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 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 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 the said piece of ground until a plan thereof shall have been exhibited to the said Trustees, and their authority given for the erection thereof.