OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

GAZETTE.

Published by Authority

Vol. XII. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1868. No. 516.
[WITH SUPPLEMENT.]

HAMPDEN CEMETERY RULES AND REGULATIONS.

The following Rules and Regulations have been submitted to the Superintendent and Executive Council, in terms of the “Cemeteries Reserves Ordinance, 1864,” and are published for general information. 1st January, 1868.

1. All charges must be paid in advance when orders are given.

2. Any person or persons making a vault, placing a tombstone, or erecting a monument in the Cemetery, by and with the permission of the Managers for the time being, and upon payment of the required charges, shall maintain and keep up such vault, tombstone, or monument 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.

3. Application for such permission must be made to the Secretary, or to one of the Managers, and a certificate of such permission, in the form of Schedule B, or to the like effect, may be granted to the person applying for such permission, on payment of the charges in Schedule A.

4. The cost and charges will be remitted on the burial of any poor person in such Cemetery, on proving to the satisfaction of the Managers that such person was a pauper, or that the relations and friends of the deceased were unable to pay the costs and charges.

5. 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 in form of Schedule A. No free interment will be allowed without the above notice of six hours.

6. The Managers will cause all ordinary graves to be dug; but parties desiring brick graves or vaults, will be required to construct them under the direction of a Surveyor appointed by the Managers; 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.

7. The information required by Schedule C must be stated at the time of giving the order.

8. 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.

9. 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.

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

11. Every coffin in a vault, or brick grave, must be bricked in, cemented, and covered with 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.

12. A drawing of every stone, tomb, or 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 Managers for approval.

13. No servant or any other person employed by, or engaged in, any duty on behalf of the Managers, will be permitted to receive any gratuity, under penalty of dismissal.

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

15. A plan of the Cemetery, showing the situation of the graves, shall be kept by the Secretary, and may be inspected on payment of the charge mentioned in Schedule A; and registers of all grants shall be kept by the Secretary.

16. The Sexton shall have power to expel from the Cemetery, 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.