The Metropolitan Interments Act 1850
WHEREAS it is expedient to make better Provision for the Interment of the Dead in and near the Metropolis: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the Cities and Liberties of London and Westminster respectively, the Borough of Southwark, and the Parishes, Townships, Precincts, and Places mentioned in the Schedu...