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be entitled to any allowance, until five years 

 after his admission. The allowance, fixed for 

 a member fallen into distress or indigence, is 

 308. per quarter ; but this allowance is grant- 

 ed upon the. express condition, that he has not 

 brought the distress upon himself by drunken- 

 ness, or any other kind of disorderly conduct. 

 And during the time he is receiving the allow- 

 ance, if he shall be found guilty of a dissolute 

 or immoral behaviour, it is put in the power of 

 the managers to deprive him of it. The wi- 

 dow of a member is allowed 25 s. quarterly, 

 so long only as she remains his widoxv, and 

 maintains a good character. And the children, 

 when no widow is left, are entitled to draw the 

 half of what their father contributed. If a 

 member shall die, and leave neither widow nor 

 children, his next heir, or whoever shall be ap- 

 pointed by him, shall be entitled to the half of 

 what he has contributed, after deducing a pro- 

 portional share of the expences incurred by the 

 Society since his entry. 



This Society is, at present, in a very respect- 

 able and flourishing condition. The funds al- 

 ready amount to about 500 1., and all its affairs 

 are conducted with great order and regularity. 



The Inverkeitbing Club was instituted earlier 

 than the Society just now mentioned : but its 

 members are not nearly so numerous. The 

 object is more limited than that of the other j 

 being chiefly designed to increase and diffuse 

 the knowledge of agriculture among themselves, 

 and to promote the improvement of practical 

 husbandly, by the institution of ploughing 



