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Burial Grounds.
Burial Grounds, &c. dangerous to Health may be prohibited.
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LXXXII. And be it enacted, That if upon the Representation of the Local Board of Health, and after Inquiry and Report by a Superintending Inspector, notified to the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, and made, notified, and published in manner herein-before directed with respect to the Inquiry and Report of Superintending Inspectors previously to the Constitution of a District under this Act, and alter Inquiry by such other Ways and Means as the General Board of Health may think fit to direct, the said General Board shall certify (such Certificate to be published in the London Gazette, and in some One or more of the public Newspapers usually circulated within the District) that any Burial Ground situate within any District to which this Act is applied is in such a State as to be dangerous to the Health of Persons living in the Neighbourhood thereof, or that any Church or other Place of Public Worship within any such District is dangerous to the Health of Persons frequenting the same, by reason of the surcharged State of the Vaults or Graves within the Walls of or underneath the same, and that sufficient Means of Interment exist within a convenient Distance from such Burial Ground, Church, or Place of Public Worship, it shall not be lawful, after a Time to be named in such Certificate, to bury or permit or suffer to be buried any further Corpses or Coffins, in, within, or under the Ground, Church, or Place of Worship to which the Certificate relates, except in so far as may be allowed by such Certificate; and whosoever, after Notice of such Certificate, buries, or causes, permits, or suffers to be buried, any Corpse or Coffin contrary to this Enactment, shall for every such Offence be liable to a Penalty of Twenty Pounds.
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