PART 5
CHOISEUL CEMETERY
48. No burials shall take place at Choiseul without the sanction of the Governor General except in the Roman Catholic Cemetery or in the Choiseul Public Cemetery described in Notice No. 5 of 1930, published in the Gazette of 29 November 1930, and hereinafter called the Cemetery.
49. The Cemetery shall be open from sunrise to sunset for the burial of the dead.
50. The Cemetery shall be under the control and custody of the Clerk to the Local Authority of Choiseul who shall be ex officio the Custodian thereof; and he or she shall appoint such gardeners and grave-diggers as he or she may consider necessary. However, in the absence of the Clerk from Choiseul the police officer in charge of the police station at Choiseul shall exercise the powers and perform the duties of the Custodian of the Cemetery.
51. The Cemetery shall be kept free from bush, weeds and nuisances of all kinds, and the fences, roads, trenches and walks shall be maintained in proper order and repair.
52. (1) Any person wishing to acquire a right of property in selected land within the Cemetery shall apply to the Custodian having authority in respect thereof who shall grant the applicant a space within the section to be set apart for family burial grounds on payment for the land so granted.
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(2) The right of property acquired by such payment shall include the right to erect any railing, tablet, stone or monument.
53. Except in land set apart for family burial grounds as in the last preceding rule, all graves shall be dug in uniform parallel lines and each grave in each section shall be numbered in regular series. A space of 4 feet wide by 8 feet in length shall be allotted to each grave and a clear space of 4 feet shall intervene between the outside lines of graves and the walls of the Cemetery.
54. No grave shall be less than 5 feet in depth for persons under 12 years of age, and 6 feet for other persons. All graves in unappropriated land shall be set out and dug under the order of the Custodian, and in all cases 6 hours' notice of a funeral shall be given at the office of the Custodian.
55. Any person wishing to enclose any grave in other than land set apart, or to erect any railing, tablet, stone or monument thereon, shall apply to the Custodian having authority in respect thereof; and such enclosure or erection, having been approved by him or her, shall be made under his or her direction, on payment of the proper dues.
56. No vault shall be erected, nor (except by permission of the Custodian having authority in respect thereof) any tree be planted in the Cemetery.
57. The Custodian shall keep in his or her office—
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(a) a diagram of the Cemetery;
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(b) a book showing all lands appropriated under rule 52, the numbers, the size of the lots, the sums paid for them and the names of the allottees;
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(c) a book of similar character showing the graves appropriated under rule 53, the numbers, the sums paid, and the names of the persons buried;
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(d) a Register book of all interments showing the dates of burial, names, sexes and age of all persons buried in the Cemetery;
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(e) such other books as the Governor General may prescribe.
58. (1) The following dues shall be paid to the Custodian prior to any interment, admission of hearse or carriage, allotment of ground, or permission to erect any railing, tablet, stone or monument, namely—
| $ | ¢ |
| For an ordinary interment, in the common burial ground— | | |
| of an adult | 1 | 44 |
| of a child not exceeding 12 years of age | | 96 |
| (But the Custodian may in the case of paupers remit this fee) | | |
| For an allotment of ground in appropriated land – per square foot | | 60 |
| For a grave dug in appropriated land | | 96 |
| For admission of a hearse or carriage | 1 | 20 |
| For permission to erect any railing enclosing a grave on unappropriated land, or any tablet, stone or monument thereon – ten per cent. on the assessed value of such railing, tablet, stone or monument. | | |
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(2) The Custodian shall be entitled to demand and receive the aforesaid dues; and he or she shall pay the same monthly into the Treasury to the credit of the Choiseul Village Fund and shall send a monthly account of the same to the Director of Audit for audit.
59. The cost of upkeep and maintenance of the Cemetery shall be provided from the Village Fund, and shall form a separate item on the Annual Estimates.