CHAPTER XLIX. OF THE INTERMENT OF THE DEAD. tion for south of Eighty § 1. No person shall dig or open any grave, or cause Regulaor procure any grave to be dug or opened, in any opening burying-ground, cemetery, or churchyard, or in any graves other part or place in the city of New York south of Eighty-sixth street; or shall inter or deposit, or cause sixth or procure to be interred or deposited, in any such grave, or in any vault or tomb, except in private vaults and private cemeteries now existin6, any dead body, within the limits aforesaid, under the penalty of two hundred and fifty dollars. street. § 2. No new cemetery or burying ground shall here- New cemafter be established in any part of the city and coun- eteries prohibitty of New York, and no person shall dig or open any ed. grave, or cause or procure any grave to be dug or opened, in any such new cemetery or burying ground; or shall inter or deposit, or cause to be interred or deposited, in any such grave, or in any vault or tomb in any new cemetery or burying-ground, as aforesaid, any dead body, under the penalty of two hundred and fifty dollars for every such offense. tion for graves § 3. No person shall inter any corpse in any vault Regulaor grave in the city of New York north of the limits opening mentioned in the first section of this chapter, unless north of such vault or grave shall be at least six feet deep and Eightynot less than six feet below the level of the adjacent street. sixth Permis move bodies. streets, under the penalty of one hundred dollars for each offense. § 4. No person shall remove, disturb, or expose any sion to re- dead body dead body or coffin that is now or may hereafter be interred in any grave-yard in the city of New York, unless permission be first obtained from the Common Council, or as provided in this chapter, under the penalty of two hundred and fifty dollars for each offense. § 5. Annulled by Metropolitan Health Law.* Tolling of § 6. No bell of any church shall be rung or tolled churchbells for for any funeral without the permission of the Common funerals. Council, under the penalty of twenty dollars to be paid by the sexton or person having charge of the said church. $$ 7, 8, and 9.† Annulled by Metropolitan Health Law. § 10 and 11. Annulled by Metropolitan Health Law. *This section 5 made it the duty of sextons, &c., to report to the City Inspector a weekly return of the persons buried in vaults or buryinggrounds, according to a form therein described. The office of City Inspector having been abolished, and the subject being properly within the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Board of Health, under the provisions of the act creating such Board, the section is omitted. These sections 7, 8, and 9, prescribed the penalty for violation of section 5, duties of City Inspector in enforcing the same, and penalties for sextons, &c., interring bodies without physicians' certificates, filed with City Inspector, and are omitted for the reasons given above. These sections prescribed the duties of the City Inspector in granting permits for the removal of remains of deceased persons from the city, and penalties for removal without such permit, and are omitted for the same reasons. from cem § 12. In ordinary cases the Mayor and* are author- Removal ized to permit the removal of the remains of deceased of remains persons from cemeteries or burial-places within this eteries. city; but if there are any extraordinary circumstances in the case, they shall refer all applications made to them on the subject, to the Common Council. § 13.† Annulled by Metropolitan Health Law. *The words " City Inspector" omitted. + Ibid., § 3. Division of districts. Location of Police Courts. CHAPTER L. OF POLICE COURTS AND OTHER COURTS. § 1. The city is hereby divided into four districts for Police Courts, as follows: The First District shall comprise the First, Second, The Second District shall comprise the Eighth, Ninth, The Third District shall comprise the Seventh, Tenth, The Fourth District shall comprise the Twelfth, Seven- The Mayor's Office, or a suitable portion thereof, shall be known and designated as part of the First District Police Court. $2. In each of said districts there shall be a Police Court and Office, and in the First District there shall be two Police Courts and Offices. The Police Courts of the First District shall be held at the Halls of Justice in Centre street and in the basement of the City Hall. The Police Court of the Second District shall be held at the Jefferson Market, Sixth avenue. The Police Court of the Third District shall be held at the Essex Market, in Grand street. The Police Court of the Fourth District shall be held * at the corner of Fourth avenue and Eighty-sixth street. § 3.† Annulled by Laws of New York, 1860, chapter Designa508, section 29. tion of Justices. tion of § 4. During the months from April to September, Regulaboth inclusive, the said Police Offices shall be kept Police of open every day, ready for the transaction of business, fices. from seven o'clock in the forenoon to seven o'clock in the afternoon. During the months from October to March, both inclusive, such offices shall be so kept open every day from eight o'clock in the forenoon to six o'clock in the afternoon. During such hours the Magistrates and Clerks shall attend in said offices for the discharge of their duties; and no extra compensation shall be allowed to them for attending on Sundays. and pub 5. No political or public meeting shall be held in Political any of the rooms assigned or occupied by the District or Police Courts, or as Police Offices or Stations. lic meet ings. of fees. § 6. The Magistrates of the several Police Offices in Furnishthis city are hereby directed to furnish to either party ing bills in any matter pending before them, or either of them, a bill of the costs and fees charged in such matter; such bill to state particularly all items charged and the fees therefor. * Under the provisions of chapter 505 of the Laws of 1860, as amended by chapter 271, Laws of 1862, a building has been erected in Fifty-seventh street, in which this Court is now held. This section prescribed the duties of the Common Council in assigning Justices and Clerks to the several Courts. By the provisions of the act above-mentioned such duties now appertain to the Board of Police Justices. |