timely ringing of bells, by walking, talking, or other noise,
shall hinder the Minister or Preacher.

118. _The old Churchwardens to make their presentments before the new be
sworn_.

The office of all Churchwardens and Sidemen shall be reputed ever
hereafter to continue until the new Churchwardens that shall succeed them
be sworn, which shall be the first week after Easter or some week
following, according to the direction of the Ordinary, which time so
appointed shall always be one of the two times in every year, when the
Minister, and Churchwardens, and Sidemen of every parish shall exhibit to
their several Ordinaries the presentments of such enormities as have
happened in their parishes since their last presentments. And this duty
they shall perform before the newly-chosen Churchwardens and Sidemen be
sworn, and shall not be suffered to pass over the said presentments to
those that are newly come into office and are by intendment ignorant of
such crimes, under pain of those censures which are appointed for the
reformation of such dalliers and dispensers with their own consciences
and oaths.

APPENDIX VII.

18 and 19 Vict., cap. 128, sec. 18.

_Burial Board to keep in order closed burial grounds_, _etc._

In every case in which any order in Council has been or shall hereafter
be issued for the discontinuance of burials in any churchyard or burial
ground, the Burial Board, or Churchwardens, as the case may be, shall
maintain such churchyard or burial ground of any parish in decent order,
and also do the necessary repair of the walls and other fences thereof,
and the costs and expenses shall be repaid by the Overseers upon the
certificate of the Burial Board, or Churchwardens, _as the case may be_,
out of the rate made for the relief of the poor of the parish or place in
which such churchyard or burial ground is situate, unless there shall be
some other fund legally chargeable with such costs and expenses.

The words in italics have given rise to some dispute as to their
interpretation. Some Burial Boards have claimed the right to maintain
closed churchyards. The question was brought into the Court of Queen's
Bench in 1879, and it was decided that a Burial Board was required to
maintain a closed cemetery, and that Churchwardens were the proper
persons to maintain a closed churchyard. {79}

APPENDIX VIII.

15 and 16 Vict., cap. 85, sec. 10.

_Churchwardens after order or at any time u