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5. That the inhabitants in Vestry assembled on the 25th November 1853
appointed a Burial Board under the Act to amend the Laws concerning
the burial of the dead in the Metropolis (15 and 16 Viccap.
85), and by Orders in Council made by virtue of the provisions
of the Act 16 and 17 Vic. cap. 134, sec. 1, interments in the
churchyards of St. Mary's and St. Peter's (the only two churchyards
ever used for interments in this parish) were prohibited.
6. That by virtue of the provisions of the Metropolis Local Management
Act, 1855 (18 and 19 Vic. cap. 120) and the Metropolis Local
Management Amendment Act (19 and 20 Vic. cap. 112) the
collection of house refuse, the removal of nuisances, suppression of
street obstructions, the appointment of Churchwardens, Overseers
of the Poor, and Governors and Guardians, together with all
matters not pertaining to the making, levying and collecting of
Rates, the management or relief of the poor, and the management of
the Walworth Common Estate, became vested in your Petitioners.
7. That by the Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867 (30 Vic. cap. 6) provision
was made for the establishment of District Asylums for the
reception and relief of the sick, insane and infirm classes of paupers
in the Metropolis, and for the building of dispensaries, and also
for providing for the establishment of a Common Fund raised by
contribution from the several Unions and Parishes according to
their annual rateable value, out of which the relief of certain
classes of paupers in the whole district should be paid. The Poor
Law Board in pursuance of the powers conferred upon them by
section 73 of this Act issued an order transferring the management
and relief of the poor in the parish from the Governors and
Guardians elected under the Local Act 54 Geo. 3 cap. 113, to a
Board of Guardians elected under the provisions of the "Poor Law
Amendment Act, 1854," and by section 75 of the Act of 1867
the property vested in the Governors and Guardians—i.e., the
Walworth Common Estate — became vested in the new Board of
Guardians. The Poor Law Board also issued an Order under the
provisions of this Act for the formation of the Newington Asylum
District, comprising the St. Saviour's Union and the parishes of
St. George-the-Martyr, Southwark, and the Parish of your
Petitioners, (St. Mary, Newington,) and a Board of Managers
known as the "Managers of the Newington Sick Asylum District"
was created under this Order.
8. That on the 9th August, 1869, the Metropolitan Poor Amendment
Act, 1869 (32 and 33 Vic. cap. 63) was passed, which authorised
the Poor Law Board to make an order (which the Board
subsequently issued) uniting the Parish of St. Mary, Newington,
with St. Saviour's Union, the result being that the Parish ceased
to have a separate Board of Guardians, and the management and
relief of the poor of the parish became transferred to the Guardians