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endments of the same, other than those respectively which have
been enrolled or certified by the Attorney-General or certifying
Barrister, or shall make any alteration in or addition to any of the
rules, tables, alterations, or amendments, after they shall have been
duly enrolled or certified by the Attorney-General or certifying
Barrister, or shall knowingly circulate or print any rules, tables,
alterations, or amendments, purporting to have been duly enrolled
or certified under this Act, but which shall not have been so enrolled
or certified, every person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor and may be prosecuted and punished accordingly.
27. If any person appointed to any office in any Friendly Society
or Branch thereof established under this Act, and being entrusted
with the keeping of the accounts, or having in his hands or posses-
sion by virtue of his said office or employment any moneys or effects
belonging thereto, or any deeds or securities relating to the same, shall
die, or become an insolvent, or have any execution or attachment
or other process issued against his lands, goods, chattels, or effects,
or make any assignment, disposition, or other conveyance thereof,
for the benefit of his creditors, his heirs, executors, administrators,
or assignees, or other person having legal right, or the Sheriff, or
other officer executing such process, shall, within forty days after
demand made in writing by the order of any such Society or Branch,
or of not less than three of the Committee of Management, assembled
at any meeting thereof, deliver and pay over all moneys and other
things belonging to such Society or Branch to such a person as the
Society shall appoint, and shall pay out of the estates, assets, or
effects, of such persons all sums of money remaining due which such
person received by virtue of his said office or employment, before
any other of his debts are paid or satisfied, or before the money di-
rected to be levied by such persons as aforesaid is paid over to the
party issuing such process, and all such assets, lands, goods, chattels,
property, estates, and effects, shall be bound to the payment and
discharge thereof accordingly.

28. If any person after the passing of this Act shall become a
    member of more than one Society or Branch, and thereby be en-
    titled to certain benefits on account of the same kind of assurance
    from more than one Society or Branch, it shall not be lawful for
    him to claim or receive such benefit from any other Society or
    Branch without signing a declaration that the joint value or amount
    of all the benefits in any one kind of assurance to which he may be
    entitled from any Society or Societies, Branch or Branches of which
    he may be a member, does not in the aggregate exceed the amount
    of One Hundred Pounds in one sum, or an annuity of thirty Pounds
    per annum, or a sum in sickness of Twenty-one Shillings per week
    from each Society, and in case such declaration shall not be true,
    such member shall be liable to the penalties hereinbefore enacted in
    cases of fraud.

29. When on the death of any member of any such Certified
    Friendly Society already established, any sum not exceeding Fifty
    Pounds shall become payable, it shall be lawful for the Trustees for
    the time being of such Society, if they shall be satisfied that no will
    was made and left by such deceased member, and that no letters of

Executors, &c., of
officers of Friendly So-
cieties to pay money
due to Society before
any other debts, within
forty days after de-
mand in writing.

Limitation of benefit
to members.

For payment of sums
not exceeding £50
when members are in-
testate.