South Metropolitan Cemetery Company Act 1914

• Jurisdiction: UK Non-devolved
• Citation: 1914 c. iv

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GEO.

5.] South Metropolitan Cemetery Company [Ch. iv.J

Act, 1914.

CHAPTER iv.

An Act to confer further powers upon the South Metro- AD-19U-

politan Cemetery Company and for other purposes.

[30th April 1914.]

W

HEREAS the South Metropolitan Cemetery Company (in

this Act called " the Company ") were incorporated in the

year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six hy an Act

6 & 7 King William IV. chapter CXXIX. intituled "An Act

" for establishing a Cemetery for the interment of the dead

" southward of the Metropolis to he called 'The South

" Metropolitan Cemetery'" (hereinafter referred to as " the Act

of 1836 ") with a share capital of seventy-five thousand pounds

and with power in the* event of that sum being insufficient

for the purposes of the said Act then and in such case to

borrow on mortgage of their undertaking twenty-five thousand

pounds :

And whereas the Company have raised and expended on

their undertaking seventy-two thousand five hundred pounds

but have not created any mortgages and it is expedient that

the restriction aforesaid on such creation he repealed and the

provisions of the Act of 1836 amended in that and other

respects as hereinafter provided:

And whereas it is expedient that the Company should he

empowered to erect and maintain a crematorium for the

cremation of human remains:

And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot be effected

without the authority of Parliament:

May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted

and he it enacted hy the King's most Excellent Majesty hy and

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