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present laid out, and exhibited in fig. 19. in p. 144-. ; or, in small cemeteries or 

 churchyards, by laying out the ground in broad borders along the walks and 

 walls, and in double beds, calculating the capacity of both beds and borders in 

 single graves, and having a number-stone at each end of the bed or border 

 indicating the number of single graves it will contain, and the direction 

 in which the numbers are counted, as shown in fig. 35. in p. 138.; in 

 which the stone at a contains Nos. 1. and 50., being the first and last 

 graves on the bed ; and the stone b contains No, 23., being the last 

 number on one side, and No. 26., being the first number on the other side. 

 The next bed will commence with No. 51., and so on throughout the 

 cemetery. This mode of numbering requires that every grave or piece of 

 ground purchased, which is to be larger than the space allowed for a common 

 grave, must be a multiple of that space: thus, a vault of the smallest size 

 requires the space of one grave for the stair and another for the vault; and 

 hence it would be recorded in the cemetery books under two numbers. A 

 vault of double or treble the size would require the space of four or six single 

 graves, and thus absorb four or six numbers, and so on. This is the mode 

 which we have adopted in the Cambridge Cemetery (in which, in conformity 

 with existing prejudices, we made provision for constructing vaults and cata- 

 combs, if they should be required), because it is of small size ; but in one on 

 a large scale we would first lay out every part of the cemetery in beds and 

 borders, and next have one number for each bed and bofder. The interments 

 in each bed or border should be numbered in the order in which they are 

 made ; and in the register the numbers of the bed or border, and the number 

 of the interment, would be I'ound together. We have already (p. 145.) given 

 our reasons for considering this a better mode of laying out a cemetery than 

 the one genei-ally adopted, of throwing it into squares. 



This mode of throwing the ground into squares is at present adopted in 

 most cemeteries, more es[iecially where, from the numerous turnings of the 

 winding walks, the ground is laid out in very irregular shapes. In the working 

 of such cemeteries the practice is to number every grave or vault in the order 

 in which it is made, and indicate its place in the cemetery by a reference to the 

 square in which it is situated, and by laying it down in the plan of that square 

 in the cemetery Map Book in the manner hereafter described. 



As the interments require to be numbered, to indicate the order in which 

 they are made, as well as to indicate their place in the cemetery, it follows 

 that every grave has two numbers ; the one indicating the precise spot in 

 the cemetery in which the grave is to be found, and the other the time or times 

 at which bodies have been deposited in it ; because family graves, while they 

 have only one number referring to their locality, have several referring to the 

 interments made in them. By having an index to the interment numbers, and 

 another to the numbers of the graves, and both referring to the Register Book, 

 the particulars may be obtained of every funeral that has taken place in the 

 cemetery from its opening to the time being. 



The cemetery books which require to be kept are as follows : — 



1. An Order Book, in which are entered the date, name, description, age, and 

 abode of the deceased, mode and time of the intended burial, size of the 

 coffin, name of the person by whom the order is given, and the charges. 

 These and some other particulars are printed on two columns of a folio page; 

 and, the blanks of both columns being filled up, one column is retained, and 

 the other is cut out and sent to the sexton. A receipt for the money, indi- 

 cating the leading particulars, is at the same time given to the undertaker. 



2. A Register Book, which is filled up after the funeral has taken place, and 

 contains columns extending across two folio pages, for the following particu- 

 lars : — number of the interment ; number of the grave ; name and de- 

 scription of the deceased; last residence ; disease of which he died ; age, 

 date, and hour of burial ; in what part of the cemetery; what monumental 

 distinction ; purchased by whom and under what date ; sum paid for the in- 

 terment ; sum paid for keeping the gravestone, monument, or plants, &c., in 



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