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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
don, the seat of science, the arena of in- 
vention, the vast amphitheater of all that 
is great, good and noble, all that is con- 
ducive to the comfort of health and the 
happiness of life — this London with its 
thousands of busy minds, only a few years 
ago tolerated these plague spots and con- 
doned a state of things hardly understood 
today.' 
No wonder when evidence of this kind 
was reported in the daily papers it caused 
a sensation, and pressure was at once 
brought to bear upon the government to put 
a stop to procedure and conditions of this 
kind. One can hardly understand a bishop 
of London speaking in opposition to the 
passing of the Burial Acts. 
Reformation had, however, already be- 
gun,. for before the Burial Acts became law 
private bills were passed enabling joint 
stock companies to provide burial grounds, 
and cemeteries as we know them today 
were established. 
The first cemetery to be opened in Lon- 
don was Kensal Green, which was then 
fifty-three acres in extent, consecrated on 
the 2nd of November, 1832; Norwood Cem- 
etery, or, as it was first called, the South 
Metropolitan and Norwood, forty acres in 
extent, followed next, it being consecrated 
on the 2nd of December, 1837 ; Highgate 
next, twenty-two acres, opened and con- 
secrated on the 20th of May, 1840; West- 
SELLING CEM 
We do more or less credit business in 
the sale of lots, but do not use the contract 
form : simply insist on enough payment at 
time of purchase to at least cover the price 
of a single grave, with the understanding 
that the balance must be paid by a certain 
time and before any further burials are 
made. If payments are not made, we then 
issue a receipt for single grave and sell 
balance of the lot the first opportunity. We 
have had but one instance of this kind 
where we had to sell balance of the lot. 
Fairview Cemetery. 
Little Falls, N. Y. 
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For over twenty years lots in Lakewood 
have been sold on a payment down of one- 
third the purchase price, the balance usually 
being divided into twelve equal payments 
and payable monthly, the deferred pay- 
ments drawing 6 per cent interest. We 
have found this method to be entirely sat- 
isfactory and have had but little trouble 
with delinquents. If the payments are not 
made when due, the contract empowers the 
association to remove the remains buried 
on the lot to a lot equaling in value the 
total amount paid after deducting interest 
due and expenses of removal. When we 
find a person who can not, or will not, 
keep up the payments, we notify him that 
minster, or West London Cemetery, now 
known to us as Brompton Cemetery, conse- 
crated June 15, 1840; Nunhead Cemetery, 
about fifty acres, consecrated July 29, 1840, 
and the City of London and Tower Ham- 
lets Cemetery, thirty acres, consecrated in 
1841 ; the London Necropolis, 2,000 acres, 
opened in January, 1855; and last, but not 
least, the City of London Cemetery, Ilford, 
opened June 24, 1856. 
Since the passing of the Burial Acts 
Symposium of Methods and Forms Used by 
Many Cemeteries in Lot Sales and Collections. 
he has a certain time in which to select a 
new lot, and in all cases they have either 
paid up or selected the new lot. 
Up to the present time we have never 
found it necessary to move a body with- 
out the acquiescence of the lot owner. 
Our attorney suggested some years ago 
that he would not advise the removal of a 
body to a new lot without an order from 
the court. During the period in which we 
have sold lots on credit we have had but 
three or four occasions to enforce the re- 
moval clause of the contract, and then (as 
stated above) in every case with consent of 
the lot owner. Following is a blank con- 
tract such as we use : 
This agreement, made this day of 
, 19 between the Lake- 
wood Cemetery Association, party of the first part, 
and 
part of the second part, 
WITNESSETH: 
Said first party hereby covenants and agrees, that, 
upon the full performance by said second part. . . . 
of covenants named herein, it will, in consideration 
therefor, convey and assure to said: second part. . . . 
by good and sufficient warranty deed the following 
described parcel of land in Lakewood Cemetery, 
Hennepin County, Minnesota, viz.: 
.....according to the plat therof. 
Said second part. .. .covenants and agrees to pay 
therefor to said first party as the full purchase price 
numbers of cemeteries were established, 
and there are at present something like 
twenty-four cemeteries in the County of 
London. In 1852 a further bill was intro- 
duced to amend the existing laws which: 
provided authority to close the overcrowd- 
ed churchyards and burial grounds, and at 
present there are only a very few of the 
churchyards and older burial grounds in 
which burials are now permitted to take 
place. 
C REDIT— II 
of said land the sum of dollars 
in the manner following: 
dollars in hand paid, the receipt whereof is hereby 
acknowledged; and the further sum of 
dollars 
with interest at G per cent, payable semi-annually 
on the whole sum remaining from time to time un- 
paid. 
And said second part. .. .agree that any im- 
provements on- said premises or which may be made 
thereon shall be and become the absolute property of 
said first party and shall be entirely forfeited to 
said first party in case of failure to comply with the 
conditions of this agreement, and that no marker 
nor monument shall be erected on this lot till said 
lot is fully paid. 
It is expressly understood and agreed that time 
is of the essence of this contract and that said sec- 
ond part shall hereby acquire no rights what- 
ever in or to said premises save and except the 
right of interment thereon, which right shall be ex- 
ercised according to the by-laws and rules of said 
first party and under the direction of the superin- 
tendent of said first party, said right to cease and 
terminate upon the failure of said second part.... 
to perform any of covenants herein, and said 
second part hereby grant. . . . and convey. . . . 
to said first party all rights, save that above men- 
tioned, in or to said premises acquired by the exe- 
cution and delivery by said first party of this in- 
strument: and said second part. .. .further agree.... 
that if he shall fail to make any of the payments 
prescribed at times or in manner described herein, 
that then and in that case said first party may re- 
move any and all interments thereon to another lot 
in said cemetery whose schedule price on the books 
of said first party shall be equal to or less than the 
gross sum at that time paid by said second part 
GENERAL FOREMAN’S LODGE, CITY OF LONDON CEMETERY. 
ETERY LOTS ON 
