INVERCARGILL TOWN BOARD.

ELECTION OF FOUR MEMBERS IN PLACE OF THOSE WHO GO OUT BY ROTATION.

In pursuance of the Ordinances enacted by the Provincial Legislature of the Province of Otago, entitled the “Dunedin Town Boards Ordinance, 1855,” and the “Port Chalmers and Invercargill Town Board Ordinance, 1859,” I, the Superintendent of the Province of Southland, do hereby appoint the electors entitled to vote for members for the Town of Invercargill, in the Provincial Council of the Province of Southland, to assemble upon Wednesday, the seventh day of January 1863, at 12 o’clock noon, at the Schoolhouse, Invercargill, for the purpose of electing four members of the said Town Board of Invercargill, in the room of Messrs Blacklock, Garthwaite, Grieve, and Stirling, who cease to be members of the said Town Board upon the first Wednesday of January, 1863, in conformity with the provisions of the above-recited Ordinances. And I hereby appoint Robert Mitchell, Esquire, of Invercargill, Returning Officer, to preside at the said meeting; and in event of a Poll being demanded, I hereby appoint the Polling to take place in the said Schoolhouse, on Tuesday, the eighth day of January 1863.

J. A. R. Menzies,
Superintendent.

Superintendent’s Office,
Province of Southland, 11th December 1862.

RULES AND REGULATIONS

MADE IN PURSUANCE OF SECTION V. OF THE "CEMETERIES ORDINANCE, 1856," FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF THE INVERCARGILL CEMETERY.

1. The Rules and Regulations published in the Southland Provincial Government Gazette, October 29, 1861, are hereby cancelled.

2. The Cemetery shall be divided into three Classes, according to plans in preparation.

   • Class I. being ground of which the perpetual and exclusive right may be acquired, within the privilege of inclosing the ground, erecting headstones or other monuments thereon. A portion of ground of this class shall be staked off, into lots of 8 feet by 10. These lots shall be sold for £3 each.

   • Class II. being ground of which the perpetual and exclusive right may be acquired, but the purchaser shall not have right to inclose the same, or to erect a monument thereon, other than a flat stone laid horizontally, with inscription, or marked out by corner-stones with initials or figures; provided that these horizontal or corner-stones do not rise more than six inches above the surface of the adjoining ground. A portion of land of this class shall be staked off into lots for private graves, 8 feet by 4. The price of each lot shall be £1 5s.

   • Class III. being a considerable portion of ground which has been set aside for the interment of such persons as are not purchasers of, and have not acquired a right to, private ground. On ground of this class no monuments or memorials whatever shall be allowed, and no grave shall, under any circumstances, be opened for any new interment sooner than after the expiry of five years from the time of the first or last interment, as the case may be.

GENERAL REGULATIONS.

6. All graves to be 6 feet deep, but in the event of the purchasers of private ground desiring a greater depth, an extra charge of 3s. 6d. shall be made for every foot more than 6 feet deep in 1st class graves, and 3s. per foot in 2nd class graves.

7. Any purchasers of private ground in which no interment shall have taken place, may transfer his or her interest in said ground to any other person, upon payment being made to the Clerk of the Cemetery for the time being of a fee of 2s. for such transfer.

8. A Plan of the Cemetery shall be prepared, showing particularly the lots so laid off, together with the numbers thereof.

9. The Clerk to the Cemetery for the time being shall keep a book, in which he shall enter, from time to time, the number of every lot sold, the name of the purchaser thereof, together with the date of the sale of the same, and shall keep a Record of the Burials in the Cemetery.

10. The said Record Book shall be open for the inspection of the public, on paying a fee of 2s 6d for each inspection.

11. The Clerk to the Cemetery for the time being shall receive the purchase-money for the sale of such lots, and shall give a receipt for the same; which receipt shall be held conclusive evidence of the purchase and selection of the lot mentioned therein.

12. In all cases of intended interment, the person having the management or control of the same, shall apply to the Clerk of the Cemetery for the time being for a warrant for such interment, which warrant the said Clerk is hereby authorised to grant upon payment to him of the following fees, viz.:

    In 1st Class Private or Purchased Ground.

    Above 10 years of age	Under 10 years of age
    Digging Grave ...... £0 15 0	£0 7 6
    Attendance and Dressing ground .. £0 7 6	£0 4 0
    Warrant ............ £0 5 0	£0 2 6
    Recording .......... £0 2 6	£0 2 6
    £1 10 0	£0 16 0

    In 2nd Class Private or Purchased Ground.

    Above 10 years of age	Under 10 years of age
    Digging Grave ...... £0 10 0	£0 5 0
    Attendance, &c. .... £0 7 6	£0 4 0
    Warrant ............ £0 5 0	£0 2 6
    Recording .......... £0 2 6	£0 2 6
    £1 2 6	£0 12 6

    In the 3rd Class, or Public Ground, the same Fees will be charged as in 2nd Class Purchased Ground.

13. For Paupers no fees shall be made for the interment.

14. The said warrant, when received by the Gravedigger, shall be sufficient authority to him for such interment.

15. The monies arising from the sale of such lots and the said fees, shall (after deducting therefrom all necessary expenses incurred, and to be incurred) be expended in improving the Cemetery. A statement of the receipts and expenditure on account of the Cemetery shall be kept.