Persons in whose favor Crown Grants have been signed,

can only obtain them by calling at the Crown Grant Office, or by sending an Agent with an authority in the subjoined form, signed before a Justice of the Peace, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court, a Clergyman, or Postmaster.

J. T. Thomson,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Lands Office,
Dunedin, 1st February, 1871.

I, A. B., of hereby authorise C. D., of to receive from the Commissioner of Crown Lands the Crown Grant in my favor for section block District, his receipt for which shall be binding on me.

Signature of Claimant.

Signed before me this day of 18 _____

A Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

Wilkie, James, and others, sections 71 and 72, block XXV, Dunedin

Wilson, Thomas, sections 1 and 33, block IV, Glenorchy

Woodrow, Sarah, sections 1, 2 and 13, block XXVII, Frankton

NASEBY CEMETERY.—RULES AND REGULATIONS.

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 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 party applying for such permission, on payment of the charges in Schedule A.

4. The cost and charges of the burial of any person in such Cemetery will be remitted on proof being given to the satisfaction of the Managers that such person was a pauper at the time of his death, and that there are no funds applicable, and no person is liable for the payment of 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 terms 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 requiring 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. till 5 o’clock p.m. from the 1st 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 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.

12. 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 Managers and approved of by them.

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

14. The ground will be open to the public 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 a register 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 according to the provisions of the “Cemeteries Reserve Management Ordinance, 1864.”

17. No funeral will be allowed to take place in the Cemetery without a certificate from a Deputy Registrar of Deaths, or the Coroner holding the inquest or inquiry, or a Magistrate; and such certificate must be delivered to the Sexton at the Cemetery before the funeral enters the gate.

18. 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, and two of the Managers shall form a quorum, who are empowered to do all matters and things which the Managers are authorised to do.

19. The Managers reserve the right to make any alterations, from time to time, in these Charges and Regulations.

John Brenner
William Gentle
Walter Innes
David Birrell Millar
Louis William Busch

Managers,
Naseby..............1870.

SCHEDULE A.—CHARGES.

Public Graves.

Single Interment in Open Ground .................. £1 0 0

Single Interment in Open Ground for Children under Five Years .................. 0 10 0

Single Interment in Open Ground for Stillborn Children .................. 0 5 0

Private Graves.

Special Land for Family Graves, for each Block of 5 feet by 4 feet, as per plan .................. £2 2 0

Sinking each Grave 6 feet .................. 1 0 0

For each additional foot .................. 0 5 0

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