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The Burials Registration (Freetown) Ordinance
Cap. 94
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27 of 1908.
28 of 1929.
22 of 1929.
Short title.
Cap. 94] Burials Registration (Freetown)
CHAPTER 94.
BURIALS REGISTRATION (FREETOWN).
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.
SECTION.
Cemetery Clerk to keep books for the entry of the deaths of personsburied.
SCHEDULE OF FEES.
CHAPTER 94.
BURIALS REGISTRATION (FREETOWN).
An Ordinance to Provide for the Registration of Burials.
(17TH SEPTEMBER, 1908.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Burials Registration
(Freetown) Ordinance.
Cemetery 2. (1) The clerk of all cemeteries vested in the Mayor,
~~e::a t~rk~~~ Councillors and Citizens of the City of Freetown shall continue
entry of the to keep books for the registration of the deaths of persons buried
deaths of · h · d b · b · d hpersons m sue cemetenes, an on every person emg so une sue
buried. Cemetery Clerk shall enter in such books, numbered in successive order in each year, the name, place of abode and age of
such person and the day, month and year when buried.
(2) When any such book shall be filled up the Cemetery Clerk
shall deliver the same into the custody of the Chief Registrar
of Births and Deaths.
(3) All such books so heretofore kept and all books heretofore
kept by the sextons of cemeteries in pursuance of the provisions
of an Ordinance, intituled an Ordinance to legalise the forms of
certain Register Books of Marriages and Books of Burials, and
now in the possession of the Cemetery Clerk as aforesaid or of
the Chief Registrar of Births and Deaths, and all such books
to be kept as herein directed, and every copy of the same, or
extract therefrom, certified to be a true copy or extract under
the hand of such Cemetery Clerk or Chief Registrar of Births
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and Deaths shall be evidence of the death and burial of such
person as therein set forth.
(4) The fees set forth in the schedule hereto shall be demanded
and received by the Cemetery Clerk as aforesaid and the Chief
Registrar of Births and Deaths for and in respect of the several
matters therein mentioned, and all such fees shall be payable
by means of such adhesive stamps as are legally in use in the
Colony and shall form part of the general revenue of the Colony.
(5) The said fees may from time to time be annulled or altered
or added to by an order of the Governor in Council and other
fees may in like manner be imposed.
{6) On application the Chief Registrar of Births and Deaths
shall supply such Cemetery Clerk with Burial Register Books.
1. For searching the Registry Books of Burials, for every
half-hour or fraction thereof during which the search shall
£ s. d.
continue . . . 0 1 0
2. For a certified extract from the Registry Books of Burials . . . 0 5 0
Sec. 2(4).
TITLE XIII.
MARRIAGE.
CHAPTER.
95. CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE
PAGE
96. MoHAMMEDAN MARRIAGE 1078
97. CIVIL MARRIAGE 1081
98. FoREIGN MARRIAGE 1091
99. MARRIAGE oF BRITISH SuBJECTs (FAciLITIES) 1094
100. MARRIED WoMEN's MAINTENANCE 1096
101. MAINTENANCE ORDERS (FACILITIES FOR ENFORCE-
MENT) 1098
102. MATRIMONIAL CAUSES 1104
103. EVIDENCE (MARITAL INTERCOURSE) 1119
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