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212 Remarkson the Estab 
jected by ballot. Such ballotting t 
confined to the committee ie | e 
the first and second class as they stanc 
on the list; sixteen from the first, and 
eight fromm thesecond. Forfeits by those 
on the committee for non-attendance 
when required to meet on business, one 
shilling each time.* 
vice-president, stewards and assistants, 
and all other officers of every description, 
to be appointed from the first and second 
class in the proportion of two-thirds from 
the first, and one-third from the second. 
All incidental expences to be defrayed 
by the first and second classes, in the pro- 
portions before mentioned, so as to avoid 
ail incumbrances on the fund appropri- 
ated for the third class. The honorary 
members to pay annually twenty-one 
shillings to the fund, besides fines and 
forfeitures, which are to be applied to pay 
the cotingent expences of the society, 
such as providing a room for the purpose 
of meeting, transacting the business of 
the society, &c. The quarterly and an- 
nual meetings to be held at a private 
house, or a room procured for that use. 
General members, viz. those of the 
second and third classes to be entitled to 
receive their weekly payments when ill, 
after being members of the society twelve 
éalendar months; and orphan children 
entitled to their annuities in the same 
time. Payments to the fund cease alto- 
gether at sixty-five years of age. No 
person to be admitted a member who is 
afflicted’ with any ailment or disorder 
that may belikely to render him burthen- 
some tothe society. Any one wishing to 
become a member to be proposed at one 
meeting, and ballotted for at the next, 
A certificate of birth required, and the 
same properly attested. Any one wish- 
ing to become a member, to bring a re- 
commendation signed by two members ; 
but if at, any future time he is found to 
have imposed on the society, he shall for 
ever be expelled therefrom; and if the 
members who so recommended him shall 
be proved to have been wilfully acces- 
sary to the imposition, he shall also be 
expelled therefrom in like manner, 
The funds of the society to be laid out 
by the treasurer, under the direction of a 
special committee, in the purchase of go- 
vernment stock. ‘he anniversary meet- 
' * President, or vice president, when sum- 
moned to attend by the secretary, to forfeit 
three shillings each ; stewards, two shillings; 
assistants, one shilling and six-pence each, 
for non-attendance, 
The president, : 
double the sum paid by the latter class to 
be contributed by the former, Fines and 
forfeits, as in other societies; except that 
for not accepting the office of president, 
the members of the first class pay five 
shillings, stewards three shillings, assis- 
tants two shillings, each. Should it be 
thought adviseable to allow the nextof 
kin to a deceased member some legacy, 
it may be provided for in the same man-- 
neras the sum paid towards the funeral 
expence of a member. Your’s, &c. 
August 4, 1808. P, 
P.S. As an accompaniment to Friendly So- 
Cieties, I beg leave by way of postscript to 
my long letter, on that subject, to add a few 
remarks on the great benefits derived from 
Sunday schools, to the community at large, 
when wel] conducted, 
It would be highly beneficial to the 1i- 
sing generation, who, as Dr. Watts empha- 
tically observes, are to be the men and women 
of the next, if Sunday schools and schools of 
industry were more generally encouraged 
and ‘better attended to than they too fre- 
quently are, It is true, I could enumerate a 
few exceptions to this complaint (which I 
fear is but too general) on the part of the 
managers and directors of schools of this de- 
scription, and more particularly one in the 
small parish where I reside; which is con- 
ducted irt a manner far superior to any, other 
Iknow of. To facilitate the improvement of. 
the children of both sexes, they are, it is 
true, taught and instructed separately, but 
under the sole management and_ occasional 
superintendance of a lady, whose merit is 
above all praise, ‘They are instructed in the 
principles of religion and virtue, and the obser- 
vance of the christian sabbath.’ To the unre- 
mitted attention of the lady (who-has kindly 
undertaken the management) is owing the 
great change that is already observable from 
a laxity of morals’ to industry and. propriety 
of conduct, in most of those who have en-* 
joyed the benefit of her instructions and ex- 
ample. — 
The school of industry for week-days has 
: also, 
