From "Charter of the City of Newark, and Laws of New Jersey Relating to said City with the Ordinances passed by the Common Council" April 5, 1850

An Ordinance Regulating Interments of the Dead

Be it ordained, by the Common Council of the City of Newark, in Common Council convened

Sec 1.  That it shall be the duty of every sexton or other person having charge of any vault or burying ground in the City of Newark, between the hours of nine and two o'clock of the first Monday of every month, to make and deliver to the Clerk of the Common Council, a return of the persons buried in such vault or burying ground, during the preceding month, according to the following form

(form)

An accurate List of Internments in the Burial Ground belonged to _________from the _______ day  of _________ last, to the __________ day of ____________.

Date of Decease
Males
    Boys
    Married Men
    Widowers
    Bachelors
Females
    Girls
    Married Women
    Widows
    Unmarried Women
Age
    Years
    Months
    Days
Residence
    Number
    Street
From what county
Disease
Remarks

Sec. 2.  Any person who shall violate the provisions of the first section of this Ordinance, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence the sum of twenty-five dollars.

Sec. 3.  It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Common Council to furnish, upon application to him, to the said sextons or other persons having charge of any burying ground or vault, copies of the form set forth in the first section of this Ordinance; and the said Clerk of the Common Council shall report to the City Attorney all violations of the provisions of this Ordinance.

Sec. 4.  The Clerk of the Common Council shall embody the several returns so received each month into one statement, and publish it in the newspapers employed by the Common Council.  He shall also keep a register of the names of all person returned as dead, which register shall be open during office hours for the inspection of the public.

Sec. 5.  The said Clerk of Common Council shall, during the month of January in every year, report to the Common Council, and publish as aforesaid, the whole number of deaths which may have occurred in the City of Newark during the preceding year, with the sex, age and disease of the persons so reported.

Passed December, 1, 1837