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Burial Act 1855
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XIIBurial Boards may be appointed for Township, &c. (not separately maintaining their own Poor) which have had separate Burial Grounds.
The Vestry or Meeting in the Nature of a Vestry of any Parish, Township, or other District not separately maintaining its own Poor, which has heretofore had a separate Burial Ground, may appoint a Burial Board, and from Time to Time supply Vacancies therein, and may exercise the same Powers of Authorization, Approval, and Sanction in relation to such Burial Board, and such other Powers as under the said Acts and this Act are vested in the Vestry of a Parish separately maintaining its own Poor ; and the Burial Board so appointed shall have all the Powers for providing a Burial Ground and otherwise as if such Parish, Township, or other District had been a Parish separately maintaining its own Poor.
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