[307] (1852) 15 & 16 Vict. c. 85, s. 32; (1857) 20 & 21 Vict. c. 81, s. 5; St. Margaret's Rochester Burial Board _v._ Thompson (1871) L. R. 6 C. P. 445; Gell _v._ Mayor of Birmingham (1864) 10 L. T. N. S. 497; Day _v._ Barnsley Burial Board (1865) 6 N. R. 156; Cronshaw _v._ Wigan Burial Board (1873) L. R. 8 Q. B. 217; 42 L. J. Q. B. 137; Ormerod _v._ Blackburn Burial Board (1873) 21 W. R. 539; White _v._ Norwood Burial Board (1885) 16 Q. B. D. 58; Stewart _v._ West Derby Burial Board (1886) 34 Ch. D. 314; Wood _v._ Headingley-cum-Burley Burial Board (1892) 1 Q. B. 713. [308] (1852) 15 & 16 Vict. c. 87, s. 33. [309] This will include services rendered by a clergyman acting for the incumbent, as well as by the incumbent himself. See 15 & 16 Vict. c. 85, s. 32. [310] 63 & 64 Vict. c. 15, s. 3. [311] Reg. _v._ Price (1884) 12 Q. B. D. 247. [312] _Re_ Kerr (1894) P. 284. [313] _Re_ Dixon (1892) P. 386. [314] Gibs. Cod. 454; Reg. _v._ Sharpe (1857) 26 L. J. M. C. 47. [315] (1857) 20 & 21 Vict. c. 81 (Burial), s. 25. CHAPTER VIII PRIVATE MINISTRATIONS 1. The only private ministration for which detailed directions are provided in the Prayer Book (other than Private Baptism, which has been already noticed in Ch. V. § 6) is the Visitation of the Sick with the Communion of the Sick in appropriate cases. With reference to this the 67th Canon directs that when any person is dangerously sick in the parish, the minister or curate having knowledge thereof shall resort to the sick person (if the disease is not known or reasonably suspected to be infectious) to administer instruction and comfort according to the order of the Communion Book if he be no preacher; or if he be a preacher, then as he shall think most needful and convenient. And when any one is passing out of this life a bell is to be tolled, and the minister shall not then be slack to do his duty. The Order for the Visitation contains several alternative forms to suit different circumstances. Among these is the provision for confession and absolution. The minister is in all cases to examine the sick person whether he repent him truly of his sins and be in charity with all the world, and is to exhort him to forgive from the bottom of his heart all who have offended him. This direction does not contemplate any confession either particular or general, except so far as profession of repentance involves admission of sins to be repented of. But the minister is further to move the sick person to make a special confession of his sins if he feel his conscience troubled with any weighty matter; and after this confession, if he humbly and heartily desires it, the priest is to pronounce a prescribed form of absolution. It appears, therefore, that confession is only contemplated if the sick person's conscience is troubled with some weighty matter, and absolution is only to be pronounced if (_a_) there has been confession, and (_b_) the sick