Section 2, The Burials Registration (Freetown) Ordinance

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 Burials Registration (Freetown) [Cap. 94 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.