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Register of burials in every ground provided under this Act to be kept by burial board.
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191. All burials within any burial ground provided under this Act shall be registered in a register book to be provided by the burial board providing such ground, and kept for that purpose; and such register book shall be so kept by some officer appointed by the said board to do that duty; and in such register book shall be distinguished in what parts of the burial ground the several bodies (the burials of which are entered in such register book), are buried; and such register book, or copies or extracts thereof, or any document purporting to be a copy or extract thereof, shall be received in all courts as evidence of the burials entered therein. The clerk or secretary, or registrar to every burial board and cemetery company, or other authority having charge of any burial ground, shall make or cause to be made, at such times and in such manner as the Local Government Board may direct, a return of the names, addresses, dates of death and causes of death, so far as ascertained by him, of the persons whose bodies have been interred in such burial ground to the registrar of the district in which such persons resided at the dates of their deaths respectively, and such clerk secretary or registrar of each such cemetery company shall be paid therefor by the sanitary authority during the period he is required to perform such duty such sum as the Local Government Board may direct, not being more than threepence for each separate entry of death.
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