11. [Sidenote: Power over open spaces already vested in sanitary authority.] The Metropolitan Board[10] or the sanitary authority may exercise all the powers given to them by the Metropolitan Open Spaces, 1881, or this Act respecting open spaces, churchyards, cemeteries, and burial-grounds transferred to them in pursuance of the said Act or of this Act in respect of any open spaces, churchyards, cemeteries, and burial-grounds transferred to them in pursuance of the said Act or of this Act in respect of any open spaces, churchyards, cemeterie, and burial-grounds of a similar nature which are or shall be vested in them in pursuance of any other statute, or of which they are otherwise the owners. Footnote 10: Read London County Council. N.B. Clauses 2 and 3 in this Act, which also refer to burial-grounds, are incorporated in Appendix D. * * * * * SCHEDULE. Portions of the Metropolitan Open Spaces Act, 1881, repealed. In section one, the following words occurring in the definition of an “open space,” viz., “but shall not include any enclosed land which has not a public road or footpath completely round the same.” In the same section, the following words occurring in the definition of a “burial-ground,” viz., “and in which interments have taken place since the year 1800.” In the second paragraph of section five, the words, “but such Metropolitan Board,[11] vestry, or district board shall not allow the playing of any games or sports therein.” Footnote 11: Ibid. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _The Gresham Press._ UNWIN BROTHERS. WOKING AND LONDON. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ● Transcriber’s Notes: ○ Missing or obscured punctuation was corrected. ○ Typographical errors were silently corrected. ○ Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book. ○ Text in italics is enclosed in underscores (_italics_). End of Project Gutenberg's The London Burial Grounds, by Isabella M. Holmes