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of the objects and intentions for which it is founded, the
whole of the purposes to which the funds thereof are
applicable according to the Rules and Tables thereof,
and the conditions under which any Member or party
claiming under or by a Member, may become entitled to
any benefit assured thereby :
- The manner of making, repealing, or altering Rules, of ap-
pointing Trustees, Treasurer, or other person or persons
who shall have the custody of the money of such Society,
and an officer who shall keep the books and accounts,
and prepare the returns required by this Act, a General
Board of Committee of Management, and the duties and
powers of each. - The mode in which the Funds shall be invested:
- The manner in which disputes between the Society or
Branch and any Member thereof, or person claiming on
account or through any Member, shall be settled.
Separate account for
each fund.
- The Rules of every such Society or Branch shall provide
that all moneys received or paid on account of each and every par-
ticular Fund or Benefit assured to the Members thereof, their hus-
bands, wives, children, or kindred, for which a separate Table of
contributions payable shall have been adopted, shall be entered in a
separate account distinct from the moneys received and paid on ac-
count of any other Benefit or Fund.
Society or branch not
legally established till
rules certified.
- Such Society or Branch shall not be deemed to be legally
established under this Act, nor be entitled to any of the provisions
of the same, unless the Rules and every amendment of the Rules or
Tables made from time to time shall have been duly certified as
hereinafter provided.
Attorney General or
Barrister to certify
rules.
- Two printed or written copies of all Rules and Tables
adopted by such Society or Branch, together with the name and re-
sidence of every Trustee thereof, signed by three Members, and
countersigned by the Clerk or Steward or other officer, with all
convenient speed after the same shall be made, altered, or amended,
and so from time to time after the making, altering, or amending
thereof, shall be transmitted to the Attorney General for the said
Colony or to a Barrister at Law appointed by the Governor for the
time being of the said Colony, for the purpose of ascertaining
whether such Rules or any amendment or alteration thereof are ac-
cording to law; and the said Attorney General or the said Bar-
rister so to be appointed as aforesaid, is hereby required without
unnecessary delay to examine the said Rules, and see that the said
Rules are framed in conformity with law, and that no rule or part
thereof is repugnant to another, and that the same are reasonable
and proper; and he shall give a certificate in the form set forth in
Schedule A to this Act annexed, and thereupon one copy of the
said Rules with the said certificate annexed shall and may, within
ninety days from the date of such certificate, be filed and registered by
the Secretary, Treasurer, or one of the Trustees or Directors of the
said Society or Branch with the Registrar or Deputy Registrar of
the Supreme Court for the Province in which the place of business
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Friendly Societies Act, Rules, Funds, Certification, Attorney General, Barrister