The City of London Burial Act 1857
WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled An Act to amend the Laws concerning the Burial of the Dead in the Metropolis, containing Provisions for the Appointment of Burial Boards in the several Parishes in the Metropolis, and conferring on such Burial Boards various Powers and Authorities to be exercised in some Cases by the Board alone, and in other Cases by the Boards with ...