At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 31st day of July 1880 : Present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

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1880
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Credit: At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 31st day of July 1880 : Present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    require) that, after a time mentioned in the Order, burials in such city or town, or within such limits, or in such burial grounds or places of burial, shall be discontinued wholly, or subject to any exceptions or qualifications mentioned in such Order, and so from time to time as circumstances may require ; provided always, that notice of such representation, and of the time when it shall please Her Majesty to order that the same be taken into consideration by the Privy Council, shall be published in the London Gazette, and shall be affixed on the doors of the churches or chapels of, or on some other conspicuous places within, the parishes affected by such representation, one month before such representation is so con¬ sidered ; provided also, that no such representation shall be made in relation to the burial ground of any parish until ten days’ previous notice of the intention to make such representation shall have been given to the Incumbent and Vestry Clerk or Churchwardens of such parish : And whereas the Right Honourable Sir William Vernon Harcourt, one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, after giving to the Incumbents and the Churchwardens of the parishes herein¬ after mentioned ten days’ previous notice of his intention to make such representation, has made a representation stating that, for the pro¬ tection of the public health, no new burial ground should be opened in the under-mentioned parishes without the previous consent of one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, and that burials should be discontinued therein, with certain modifications : And whereas Her Majesty was pleased, by Her Order in Council of the nineteenth day of May last, to give notice of such representation, and to order that the same should be taken into consideration by a Committee of the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council on the twelfth day of July one thousand eight hundred and eighty, and such Order has been published in the London Gazette, anti copies thereof have been affixed, as required by the said Act : NOW, THEREFORE, Her Majesty, by arid with the advice of Her Privy Council, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that no new burial ground shall be opened in any of the under'men¬ tioned parishes without the previous approval of one of Her Majesty’s