Rule 21.

SICKNESS MUST BE CERTIFIED BY THE SOCIETY'S SURGEON.

No demand for sickness allowance, made by any member, shall be admitted by the stewards or the committee, unless the sickness or infirmity therein stated shall be certified, in writing, by the surgeon of the society, if the member be resident within miles of the society's place of meeting; if otherwise, every such demand shall be certified by the party's medical attendant, and countersigned by the minister or churchwarden of the parish wherein he may reside, or by an honorary subscriber to the society.

Rule 22.

PAYMENTS TO THE MEMBERS.

The allowance due to any member during sickness shall be paid to him between the hours of four and eight in the afternoon, on the Saturday next following the day on which any such allowance shall have been authorised by the stewards or the committee. If any delay should occur in determining the validity of the claim, the allowance to the member shall be considered as commencing at the hour of four in the afternoon of the day on which the member's application was first delivered.

Rule 23.

DISQUALIFICATIONS.

No member shall be entitled to an allowance in sickness until the expiration of one year from his admission into the Society, nor until he shall have paid all contributions and fines due from him to the society; neither shall any allowance be granted to any member, on account of sickness which shall have ceased at the time when the demand for it may be made, nor during any disease or infirmity with which the member may have been afflicted at the time of his admission into the society, or which may have been contracted by profligacy, quarrelling, or drunkenness; nor during confinement in prison under any criminal conviction; nor on change of abode, until notice of such change shall have been given to the clerk of the society.

Rule 24.

SUSPENSION OF ALLOWANCE IN SICKNESS.

Every allowance in sickness shall be suspended, during the discretion of the committee or stewards, if the member receiving such allowance shall at any time refuse to be seen by the surgeon or by the visitor of the society; or to answer such questions respecting his health or employment as it may be deemed necessary to ask; or shall drink or game in any public-house, or on any of the premises appertaining thereto; or shall, by any wilful act or misconduct, delay the recovery of his health; or shall be absent from his abode between sunset and sunrise; or shall leave home for more than one day, without delivering to the clerk of the society a certificate, signed by the surgeon attending him, stating the place to which such member is going, and the time when he intends to return, and further stating that such absence from home is not likely to injure his health. No member, applying for relief under the Insolvent Debtors' Act, and being remanded to prison for fraud or misconduct, shall be entitled to any allowance in sickness during the remainder of his imprison

ment.

Rule 25.

FORFEITURE OF PAYMENT AT DEATH.

Every assurance of a payment at death shall become void, if the member making the same shall die by any sentence of the law, or by his own hands.

Rule 26.

EXCLUSION.

If member shall be convicted of felony; or shall, by any any false or fraudulent representation or demand, obtain, or attempt to obtain, any allowance or money from the funds of the society; or shall enter his Majesty's navy or army; or go beyond the limits of the United Kingdom; he shall, upon due proof, to the satisfaction of not less in number than five (being a majority of the committee at any meeting assembled), be for ever excluded from the society, and all his interest and monies therein shall be forfeited.

Any member, who may have been excluded for having entered the army or navy, or for leaving the United Kingdom, may, if

the committee see fit, be re-instated on the cause of exclusion ceasing, and on its being satisfactorily shown that the member's health remains perfectly good; and provided the contributions for the time the member remained excluded be all paid to the society, with interest thereon at the rate of five per cent. per

annum.

Rule 27.

ARREARS OF CONTRIBUTION.

'Every member whose contribution may be in arrear for one month, but for not more than three months, shall pay, as a fine, one-twelfth part of the contributions due; and every member whose contribution may be in arrear over three, but not over six months, shall pay a fine equal to one-sixth part of the contributions due. If all arrears of contributions and fines be not paid before the end of the seventh month, the member shall forfeit every claim for those allowances or benefits in respect of which the monthly contributions were due; as well as the contributions that may have been previously paid for the like assurances. But if it shall appear to the committee, that the default in payment arose from any sufficiently urgent cause, they may order such member to be again admitted and reinstated in the society, in all respects as before the exclusion, at any time not exceeding twelve months from the date of his first defalcation; provided that he shall conform to all the rules prescribed for the first admission of members, and shall pay the arrears of contribution and a fine equal to double the contributions which would have been due upon the assurances, if the same had not been forfeited.

Rule 28.

PAYMENT OF ANNUITIES.

Every annuity shall grow due on the last Saturday in each month, and be then payable.

Rule 29.

PAYMENTS AT DEATH.

In case any member, who shall have assured a sum payable at his death, shall die, and his will shall not be proved, and no letters of administration to his effects shall be taken out within six calendar months after his decease, it shall then be lawful for

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the trustees to pay the sum assured, in such manner as to the committee may appear to be most beneficial for the relatives of the deceased, or according to the statute of distribution.

Rule 30.

PURCHASE OF ASSURANCES BY THE SOCIETY.

If any member shall, by any unforeseen circumstances, not occasioned by his immorality or improvidence, be rendered incapable of paying his monthly contributions, the committee may purchase, for the society, the interest of such member, at a price to be conformable to the tables of the society.

Rule 31.

TRANSFER OF ASSURANCES.

If any member shall remove from the limits of the society to any other place, in which a Friendly Society, founded and constituted upon the same principles and adopting the same Tables as this institution, shall have been established according to law, the committee may, on the application of such member, transfer his assurance to any such society, and pay such sum of money as shall, by the tables of this society, appear to be a just equivalent for such transfer. In like manner, any member of another society may, on becoming an inhabitant within the limits of this society, be, by the committee, admitted a member, on payment of an equivalent sum, and on subscribing, before his admission, the declaration by these rules prescribed, as well as conforming thereto in all other respects.

Rule 32.

FINES.

A steward, who shall neglect his weekly attendance, and shall not provide another steward as his substitute, shall pay a fine of 5s. Any member, who may, by an annual or special general meeting be elected one of the committee or stewards of the society, and shall refuse to perform the duties of those offices respectively, shall be fined 5s.

A failure to pay the before mentioned fines, at the times they may be incurred, shall be treated in all respects as a failure to pay a monthly contribution then due. Provided always, that no

member shall be subject to the last-mentioned fine who shall, within three years then last past, have served either of the offices named.

Rule 33.

ENFORCING THE DUTIES OF MEMBERS.

A member transgressing the rules of the society may be summoned by any two justices of the peace acting for the division or place in which the society is established, to appear before them; and such justices may proceed to hear and determine the matter complained of, according to the rules of the society; and may make such order thereon as to them shall seem just, which order shall be enforced according to the statute in that behalf made and provided.

Rule 34.

ENFORCING THE DUTIES OF OFFICERS.

If any complaint be made to two justices of the peace, as aforesaid, by any member, of relief to which he shall be justly entitled according to the rules of the society, having been refused him, the said two justices shall, upon complaint of the party aggrieved, summon the person against whom complaint shall be made, being an officer of the society, and shall award such sum of money to be forthwith paid to the complainant as shall appear to them to be due, together with costs; and if the sum awarded, together with the costs, be not forthwith paid in the presence of such justices, such justices shall, by warrant, order such sum and costs to be levied by distress upon the goods of the officer complained of.

Rule 35.

BOOK-KEEPING.

The system of book-keeping shall be so arranged as to exhibit clearly and correctly, at the conclusion of every year, the exact state of the society's assets, as well as in whose hands or custody the same may

be.

Rule 36.

EXPENSES OF MANAGEMENT.

Inasmuch as the tables of contributions hereafter given do not make provision for the expenses that may be incurred in managing