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PUBLIC HEALTH (IRELAND) ACT 1878 - SECT 175

Consent of owners of houses to new burial grounds, where necessary.

175. It shall be lawful for the burial board to contract for and purchase or
take any lands, and buildings thereon, for the purpose of forming a burial
ground, or for making additions to any burial ground formed or purchased under
the Burial Grounds Acts or this Act, as such board may think fit, or to
purchase from any company or persons entitled thereto any cemetery or
cemeteries or part or parts thereof, subject to the rights in vaults and
graves and other subsisting rights which may have been previously granted
therein: Provided always, that it shall be lawful for such board, in lieu of
providing any such burial ground, to contract with any such company or persons
entitled as aforesaid for the interment in such cemetery or cemeteries, and
either in any allotted part of such cemetery or cemeteries or otherwise, and
upon such terms as the burial board may think fit, of the bodies of persons
who would have had rights of interment in the burial grounds of such district
or place.

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