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PUBLIC HEALTH (IRELAND) ACT 1878 - SECT 186

When burial ground not fenced or kept in decent order by owner, burial board may serve a notice requiring the same to be fenced, &c.

186. When such owner cannot be ascertained, or notice as aforesaid cannot be
served, such burial board may give notice, by public advertisement in some
newspaper circulating in the [district] wherein such burial ground is
situated, of their intention to fence such burial ground, or put the same in
decent order, as the case may be, and after the expiration of a time to be
specified in such notice, not being less than six calendar months, may proceed
to fence such burial ground, or put the same in decent order; and when such
notice shall have been given or advertisement published and the expense of
fencing of such burial ground or putting the same in decent order shall have
been defrayed by such burial board, as herein-before mentioned, such burial
ground shall be under the control and management of such burial board, and
they shall be deemed the owners thereof until such time as they shall have
been reimbursed by the owner thereof the expense so incurred by them, with
interest thereon at the rate of five pounds per centum per annum.


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