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Burial Fees.
165.—The paragraph in the table of fees relating to the
double fees in the Streatham and Wandsworth
cemeteries and the treble fees in the Putney Vale
cemetery for the burial of non-parishioners has been amended so
as to provide that such fees shall not be payable in respect of the
interment of the body of a person being the husband or wife or an
ancestor or descendant of the purchaser in a direct line.
166.— The paragraph relating to the fee for the burial of persons
chargeable to the Union has also been amended so as to limit it
to the burial of the bodies of persons chargeable to the Union
and parishioners of the Borough of Wandsworth.
167.—Under the Borough of Wandsworth (Union of Parishes)
Scheme, 1903, the Burial Acts are to be in force throughout the
Borough and parishioners' fees will from the 1st April, 1904, be
charged for the interment in the Council's cemeteries of
parishioners of Tooting as well as of parishioners of the other
parishes of which the Borough is constituted.
168.—The contract with the South Metropolitan Cemetery Company
for the burial at Norwood cemetery of Clapham parishioners
was determined by the Council on the 25th March, 1904.
Land adjoining
Wandsworth
Cemetery.
169.—Application was made by the Earlsfield and District
Rifle Club for permission to erect a club-house and
rifle range on part of the land adjoining Wandsworth
cemetery. This proposal was agreed to by
the Council, but in consequence of some restrictions which the
Authorities of Magdalen College, Oxford, desired to have inserted
the club declined to enter into the agreement and the matter
was dropped. The subject of using the land was considered
by the Council and tenders invited for clearing, levelling
and sowing the land with grass seed with the view of afterwards
letting it for recreative purposes. No satisfactory tender
having been received the Council subsequently accepted the offer
of Mr. H. W. Benham to rent the land for recreative purposes.