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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 25, 1933. 41

AND WHEREAS the said Cemetery at Aberdeen has already been laid out in accordance with the provisions of the said deeds and the costs incidental thereto have been duly paid in the manner provided in the said deeds;

AND WHEREAS certain rules and regulations relating to the Cemetery at Aberdeen were made by the Board of Management on the 16th day of June 1913 and after being approved in writing by His Excellency the Governor were published in the said Gazette on the 25th day of July 1913;

AND WHEREAS the Board of Management desire to revise the said rules and regula- tions and to make new rules which shall apply not only to the said Cemetery at Aberdeen but also to any other Cemetery which may be placed under their control;

NOW IT IS HEREBY DECLARED by the Board of Management with the approval of His Excellency the Governor that the said Rules and regulations made in the year 1913 as aforesaid and any other rules which may at any time have been made by the said Board are herby rescinded and the following rules are substituted therefor

RULE I.

The Cemetery shall be named as Cemetery".

"The Aberdeen Chinese Permanent

RULE II.

"The Board of Management" is the Board appointed under the Deeds of Appropriation to control the Aberdeen permanent Cemetery.

The Board having already raised the sum necessary for laying out the Cemetery at Aberdeen shall before laying out any other Cemetery which may be placed under their control and the utilization thereof as a place of burial obtain from Chinese permanently resident in the said Colony the sum specified in the Deed of Appropriation of any such Cemetery such sum to be used by the Board for the following purposes :-

(a) To fulfil the terms and conditions of the Deed of Appropriation of such

Cemetery.

(b) To erect the necessary buildings thereon.

(c) To carry out all such works and do all such things as may be consider- ed necessary for the utilization and maintenance of the same as а Cemetery.

RULE III.

Every subscriber who has subscribed or shall subscribe a sum of not less than $500 shall be entitled to certain privileges with regard to the free allot- ment and reservation of a certain number of sites in the Cemetery to which he has subscribed for burial purposes but the exact nature and extent of such privileges and the number of free burial sites to be allotted and reserved and the manner of such allotment shall be determined and defined by the Board

RULE IV.

as it

The Board of Management may erect such buildings in the said Cemeteries may think fit provided the same are necessary for the use of the Cemeteries as places of burial and may engage servants, sextons workmen and overseers and do all such things as are essential or incidental to the proper management and maintenance of the said Cemeteries.

RULE V.

The Board shall have full and absolute power in the management of the said Cemeteries and in the control and disposal of the funds, fees, charges, income fines and all moneys collected or received in respect of or in connection with the said Cemeteries. Provided always that no expenditure of the Funds