LETTER. BURIAL BOARDS. The following statement as to the effect of the Local Government Act, 1894, as regards Burial Boards, was sent by the President of the Local Government Board to Mr. J. Carvell Williams, M.P., and appeared in the Times of the 22nd April, 1894: — "Statement as to effect of the Local Government Act, 1894, as regards Burial Boards. "If, after the election of parish councils, the Burial Acts, 1852 to 1885, are adopted for the whole or part of any parish which has a parish council, no burial board will be elected, but the parish council will be the authority for the execution of the Acts Consequently, after the Local Government Act, 1894, comes into operation, a burial board cannot be newly established in any rural parish having a parish council. "In cases in which the area of jurisdiction of an existing burial board is co-extensive with a rural parish, all the powers, duties, and liabilities of the burial board will be transferred to the parish council on the latter coming into office. The burial board will cease to exist, and their place will be taken by the parish council, without any adoption of the Burial Acts by the parish meeting. "Where the area under a burial board is part only of a rural parish, the burial board, or the parish meeting for that part, may transfer the powers, duties, and liabilities of the burial board to the parish council, subject to any conditions as to the execution thereof by a committee as the burial board or parish meeting may impose. "Where the area is in two or more rural parishes, the powers of the burial board will be transferred by the Act of 1894 to the respective parish councils for such parishes; and where the area is partly in a rural parish and partly in an urban district, these powers will be transferred to the parish council and the district council of the urban district. Until other provision is made, the powers so transferred are to be exercised by a joint committee. Where there is no parish council, the parish meeting is to be substituted in the cases last mentioned. "Subject to this, a parish meeting in a rural parish which has no parish council will have none of the powers of a burial board under the Burial Acts, unless the county council, on the application of the parish meeting, confer on them the powers conferred by the Act of 1894 on a parish council in this matter; LETTER. but burial boards may still be newly established for the same areas as heretofore in rural parishes having no parish council, if there is no existing burial board for such area, and if the Burial Acts are adopted by the parish meeting for it. Any such burial board will have the usual power to provide a cemetery. "Existing burial boards in rural parishes, except where they are superseded as above stated, will continue to exist without any adoption of the Burial Acts by the parish meeting. "Where a burial board district is wholly in an urban district the council of the district may resolve that the powers, duties, and liabilities of the burial board shall be transferred to the council from a specified date, and such transfer will take effect from that date and the burial board will cease to exist. Subject to this, the burial board for such a district will not be affected by the Act. "The powers possessed by rural sanitary authorities of providing cemeteries under the Public Health (Interments) Act, 1879, will be transferred to rural district councils. "Local Government Board, April, 1894." INDEX. ABSENCE, of chairman of district council or board of guardians, vice-chair- by district councillors, 207; by guardians, 207; by members of ACCESS, of incumbent, churchwardens, and parish council to parish books ACCOUNTS, of charities, powers of Charity Commissioners to require, 102 n. inspection of accounts of parish council, parish meeting, and rural of parish and district councils, of parish meetings of small of parochial charities, to be annually submitted to parish meeting, of rural district administered by council of adjoining district, to be ACQUISITION OF LAND BY PARISH COUNCIL, incorporation of Lands Clauses Acts (except compulsory clauses), otherwise than by agreement. See "Compulsory Acquisition." for purposes of buildings, recreation grounds, and public walks, 49. ACTIONS, saving for existing or pending, 273. ADJUSTMENT OF PROPERTY, ETC. ADJUSTMENT OF PROPERTY-continued. on constitution, extension, or diminution of urban district, 223, on dissolution of group of parishes, 175. of improvement commission having harbour powers, 243. on separation of one parish from group, 176. ADMINISTRATION, of affairs of rural district with less than five councillors by council ADOPTIVE ACTS, adoption of, in part of urban district; approval of council required area in which in force, alteration of, 222. authority for executing, parish council to be, 48; continuance of consent or approval of parish meeting substituted for that of definition of, 40. expenses under, to be excluded in calculating maximum of expen- 119. incidence of rates under, not to be affected, 47. loans of parish council for purposes of, 88, 90; ultimate charge majority required under, like majority of parish meeting or paro- property, debts, and liabilities of superseded authority under, 221. summary of provisions as to adoption and execution of, 40 n- 42 n. transfer to parish council, of powers, &c., of existing authorities AGENT, county council may employ district council as their, 242. between parish councils for certain purposes, 53; saving for exist- |