(If the declaration is made by an agent add, I am the duly authorized agent of the vendor and have a personal knowledge of the matters herein declared to.)

in the Province of Manitoba, do solemnly declare that the above is a true and correct statement of the names and addresses of all the creditors of the Company for amounts exceeding fifty dollars, and shows correctly the amount of the indebtedness or liability due, owing, payable or accruing due, or to become due and payable by such company to each of said creditors, and that I am of the said company, and have a personal knowledge of the matters herein declared to.

the

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing it to be true and knowing that it is of the same force and effect as if made under oath and by virtue of "The Canada Evidence Act."

CHAPTER 24.

An Act respecting the Burial of the Dead.

Short title.

Inspectors may be appointed.

Notice.

take place within 24 hours.

HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:

SHORT TITLE.

1. This Act may be cited as "The Burials Act." R.S.M. c. 16, s. 1.

MEDICAL INSPECTORS.

2. When any disease is epidemic the council of the municipality, and if there be no municipality any two justices of the peace of the parish or of the locality within which it is epidemic, may appoint one or more physicians as medical inspectors to establish of what disease any one may have died. R.S.M. c. 16, s. 2.

3. Notice shall be given of the appointment of such medical inspectors in the municipality or locality, in the same manner as notices respecting the ordinary affairs of the municipality; and, if there is no municipality, such notice shall be given by posting the same in three conspicuous places in the locality. R.S.M. c. 16, s. 3.

TIME AND MODE OF BURIAL.

Burial not to 4. Except as hereinafter otherwise provided, no deceased person shall be interred until after the expiration of twentyfour hours at the least from the death of such person, under a penalty of twenty dollars upon every person in any way concerned, assisting or taking part in, or being knowingly present at, such interment. R.S.M. c. 16, s. 4.

In cases of sudden death,

be removed

investigation.

5. In every case of sudden death, whether by suicide, bodies not to accident or disease, or in consequence of violence or unfair until coroner means, or culpable or negligent conduct of another or others, has made his it shall be unlawful to bury the body of the deceased person, or remove it from the neighborhood of the place where it shall be at the time of the death, until after a coroner of the Province has investigated the circumstances surrounding such death and given his certificate or order permitting such burial

breach.

or removal, and every person in any way knowingly concerned in, or assisting or taking part in, such burial or removal before such investigation by a coroner shall be liable, upon summary conviction before a police magistrate or two Penalty for justices of the peace, to a fine of not less than twenty dollars or more than one hundred dollars, and, in default of payment, to imprisonment for a period not less than one month or more than three months. 6-7 Ed. 7, c. 5, s. 1.

order of

inspector.

6. After notice as aforesaid of the appointment of a Except by medical inspector, the burial of any person who has died of medical such disease in the municipality or locality shall not be performed before the expiration of the usual delay of twentyfour hours, without the order of the medical inspector, or one of them if there be more than one, under a penalty of twenty dollars upon every person in any way concerned, assisting or taking part in, or being knowingly present at, such burial. R.S.M. c. 16, s. 5.

Or

officiating

or certain

7. In the absence of a medical inspector appointed as or of provided in section 2 of this Act, when a disease is epidemic clergyman the order for the burial of persons who have died of such others. disease before the expiration of the delay of twenty-four hours may be given by the officiating minister of such persons and any municipal councillor, or by two municipal councillors, or by two justices of the peace. R.S.M. c. 16,

s. 6.

als may be

certain cases.

8. The Minister of Agriculture and Immigration, or any Public funerhealth officer appointed or acting under "The Public Health prohibited in Act," may, at any time, prohibit public funerals of persons who have died from infectious or contagious diseases, and may order their speedy burial. R.S.M. c. 16, s. 7.

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Bodies of persons dying

not to be

9. The bodies of all persons who have died of small Asiatic cholera or epidemic typhus, shall be laid in separate of small pox graves and covered with at least four feet of earth, and shall buried in not be deposited in a vault or buried in any church. R.S.M. c. 16, s. 8.

vault, etc.

CHURCHES.

into churches

hibited.

10. When typhus, Asiatic cholera or small pox is epid- Taking bodies emic, it shall be lawful for the mayor or reeve of any muni- may be procipality, or for any justice of the peace resident in the parish or locality, after having obtained for such purpose the written consent of the congregational or ecclesiastical authority, to prohibit, by proclamation, the bodies of persons who have died

Ecclesiastical authorities

from any of these diseases from being brought into churches under the control of such authority and situate within the municipality, parish or locality, during a fixed period specified in the proclamation; while such prohibition is in force, the bodies of persons who have died of such diseases shall be conveyed directly from the house to the place of burial. R.S.M. c. 16, s. 9.

11. In the absence of such proclamation, the congremay prohibit. gational or ecclesiastical authority may at any time forbid the bringing of corpses into churches under the control of such ecclesiastical authority, when it deems that the bringing of such corpses into churches may be prejudicial to the public health. R.S.M. c. 16, s. 10.

12. In every burial in any church, the coffin shall be covered by at least four feet of earth and encased in masonry of at least eighteen inches in thickness, if in stone, and of at least twelve inches in thickness, if in brick, both brick and stone having been well drowned in mortar. R.S.M. c. 16, s. 11.

DISINFECTANTS.

Disinfectants.

Disinfectants.

When metallic coffins required.

Kinds of disinfectants.

How used.

13. In every burial in a church the use of disinfectants in the coffin shall be required. R.S.M. c. 16, s. 12.

14. In all cases of death from small pox, Asiatic cholera. or epidemic typhus, the use of disinfectants in the coffin shall be required. R.S.M. c. 16, s. 13.

15. The body of no person who has died from any of the diseases mentioned in the last preceding section shall be conveyed from one parish or municipality to another, unless it be enclosed in a metallic coffin hermetically sealed and filled with disinfectants. R.S.M. c. 16, s. 14.

16. The disinfectants required are quicklime, sulphate of iron, dried earth, peat, carbolic acid, charcoal and any other preparation or thing deemed sufficient by competent persons. R.S.M. c. 16, s. 15.

17. The use of the disinfectants prescribed hereby for corpses consists in placing the same at the bottom of the coffin, and in covering the body therewith after it has been placed in the coffn. R.S.M. c. 16, s. 16.

INFECTED DISTRICTS.

Act by

18. The Lieutenant-Governor may, by proclamation, de- Extension of clare that the next four preceding sections and sections 9, 10 proclamation. and 11 of this Act shall apply throughout the whole Province, or in certain localities only, to the diseases mentioned or to any other disease or diseases which he shall mention in such proclamation and which, according to the report of competent persons, he shall deem to possess a dangerous and epidemic character; and from and after the issue of such proclamation, or the day therein fixed therefor, the said seven sections shall, in so far as respects the bodies of persons who have died of any of the diseases therein or herein mentioned, have the same force and effect as if each and every of such diseases had been expressly specified in each of such seven sections. R.S.M. c. 16, s. 17.

UNCLAIMED BODIES-SUICIDES.

unclaimed

19. Subject to the provisions of "The Manitoba Anatomy Burial of Act," any unclaimed human body found dead within the bodies. limits of a city, town, village or rural municipality shall be buried at the expense of the corporation of such city, town, village or rural municipality; but such corporation may recover such expense from the estate of the deceased. R.S.M. c. 16, s. 18.

suicides.

20. Coroners shall not direct the burial of any body in Burial of any public highway; but in cases where, upon inquisition, the jury find that death was by suicide, the coroner shall, subject to the provisions of "The Manitoba Anatomy Act," direct a private interment, without any stake being driven through the body, in the church yard or other burial ground, within twenty-four hours from the finding of the inquisition. R.S.M. c. 16, s. 19.

DISINTERMENTS.

21. On a petition being presented to any judge of the Petition. Court of King's Bench, either in term or in vacation, by any person, praying for leave to disinter a body or bodies buried in any church, chapel or burying ground, with a view to the erection, repair or alienation of a church, chapel or burying ground, or with a view to re-interment in another church, chapel or burying ground or to the re-construction or repair of the tomb or coffin in which a body has already been buried, and indicating in the case of a proposed removal of any body or bodies the burial ground or the church or chapel to which it is proposed to effect the removal, and, on proof being made on oath to his satisfaction of the truth of the allegations con