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Burial ground already provided by the county and city of Waterford.
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197. Whereas the grand juries of the county and city of Waterford, acting under the Act of the fortieth year of King George the Third, chapter ninety-three, purchased a piece of ground situate in the townland of Ballynasheagh, in the barony of Gaultier in the county of Waterford, for the purpose of a cemetery, in lieu of the ancient burial places of the six several parishes of Trinity Within, Saint Michael, Saint Stephen Within, Saint Olave, Saint John Within, and Saint Patrick, in the borough of Waterford, and of the three parishes of Trinity Without, Saint John Without, and Saint Stephen Without, partly in the borough and partly in the county of Waterford, and of the two parishes of Kilbarry and Kil Saint Laurence in the county of Waterford: And whereas the said eleven parishes are all situate within the Poor Law Union of Waterford, and it has been provided by statute that the said piece of ground should be used as a burial ground for all the said parishes as if all the said parishes were situate without the limits of the said borough of Waterford, and as if the said piece of ground had been provided as the burial ground under the Burial Grounds Acts for the said several parishes; and that the said piece of ground should, without further conveyance, be vested in the guardians of the poor of the Waterford Union as the burial board, and for the use of all the district at present comprised in the said eleven parishes, subject to all the powers and regulations contained relative to burial grounds, and as if the same had been purchased and acquired under the said Acts: Be it enacted that, unless the said piece of ground shall be discontinued as a burial ground by the Local Government Board under the provisions of this Act, all the said parishes and portions of parishes situate in the borough of Waterford shall, for the purposes of this part of this Act, be considered as if the same were without the limits of the said borough of Waterford.
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