April 28, 1863. ] 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER, 



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contribution, pay for management, the sum of 2d. a-month, or 

 2s. annually at Michaelmas. Every member insuring for sick- 

 pay, shall also pay, if required by the Directors, but not other- 

 wise, id. a-month, or 4s. annually at Michaelmas, to insure for 

 medical attendance and medicines : and those members who are 

 not so required by the Committee, shall pay 2s. 6d. at entrance, 

 to the Society's Medical Officer for his certificate. Nevertheless 

 it Bhall be competent for the Directors, if they shall think proper, 

 to mate arrangements for the payment of their own Surgeon 

 and Agent ; provided always that no benefit member shall in 

 any case be called upon to pay more than 6s. a-year in all for 

 Surgeon and Management. 



Rule 21. — All honorary subscriptions shall be considered due 

 on the 1st of January for the year ensuing. They shall be 

 appropriated annually towards the redemption of the payments 

 for Surgeons and Agents due for the current year, and all 

 surplus shall be for the general expenses of the Society. 



Rule 22. — That if any dispute shall arise between any 

 member or person claiming under or on account of any 

 member, and the Trustees, Treasurer, or other officer of the 

 Society, or the Directors thereof, it shall be referred to arbitra- 

 tion, 10 Geo. IV., c. 56, s. 27, 28. At the first meeting of the 

 Society after these rules are certified by the Registrar, five 

 Arbitrators shall be named and elected, none of them being 

 directly or indirectly beneficially interested in the funds of the 

 Society ; and in each case of dispute the names of the Arbitra- 

 tors shall be written on pieces of paper and placed in a box 

 or glass, and the three whose names are first drawn out by the 

 complaining party, or by some one appointed by him or her, 

 shall be the Arbitrators to decide the matter in difference. In 

 case of a vacancy or vacancies, another or others shall be elected 

 at a General Meeting. 



Rule 23. — If any member shall be convicted of felony, or 

 shall resort to any grossly immoral practice for a livelihood, or 

 shall have wilfully imposed on, or attemuted in any way to 

 deceive or defraud the Society, or shall be aware of any such 

 attempt on the part of another member, and not communicate 

 the same to the Directors, he shall be expelled from the Society, 

 and thereby forfeit every claim upon it, unless on an appeal to 

 the Board they shall direct otherwise. 



Rule 24. — No member who is a minor shall be capable of 

 holding office in the Society. 



Rule 25. — The Rules of the Society shall be printed, and 

 every member on his admission shall purchase a copy, for which 

 he shall pay threepence. 



Rule 26.— All assurances for sick-pay shall be contributed for 

 according to the rates laid down m the following tables. Nos. I. 

 and II. 



[ We do not insert the tables because they are lengthy.'] 



Rule 27. — A member claiming sick-pay shall give notice in 

 writing to the Directors, who shall provide him with a form of 

 medical certificate, to be signed by the Surgeon attending him. 

 The sick-pay shall become due one week after the date of the 

 Surgeon's certificate, and be payable upon the production of the 

 sick-pay paper, to be also furnished by the Agent, and to be 

 signed weekly, on the day or days of their visiting him, by the 

 Surgeon and by one benefit member, if the sick member be at 

 the time residing within any district of the Society. When a 

 member is not entitled to the attendance of the district Surgeon, 

 he shall obtain the attendance of some duly qualified medical 

 practitioner, and the certificates shall in such ease be counter- 

 signed by the officiating clergyman of the parish, or by a magis- 

 trate of the county in which such member resides. 



Rule 28. — A member shall be entitled to full pay when he 

 shall be wholly unable to work, and to half pay when able to 

 earn a little, but unable to follow his customary employment : 

 provided always that any member who during the course of 

 twelve successive months shall have received twenty-six weeks' 

 full pay, shall then be reduced to half pay, and shall not be 

 entitled to full pay again during any further sickness until he 

 has for twelve successive months ceased to receive sick-pay at all. 



Rule 29. — Sick-pay shall not be due to any member who has 

 not been such for nine calendar months, unless he shall pay 

 down an entrance fee equal to six monthly contributions, when 

 he shall become free immediately ; or to any member whose 

 contributions or fines are in arrear ; or to any member whilst he 

 IB Buffering from any disease or infirmity with which he may 

 have been afflicted at the time of his admission into the Society, 

 or which may have been contracted afterwards by profligacy, 

 drunkenness, quarrelling, or any act whatsoever contrary to law ; 



or to any member whilst confined in any gaol or bridewell, 

 except it be on account of debt, and then one-half of the siok- 

 pay which would have been otherwise due to such member shall 

 be allowed to him ; or to any member whilst at sea, or beyond 

 the limits of the United Kingdom ; or to any member who shall 

 allow his sick-pay to remain unclaimed for 3ix weeks ; or to any 

 member who shall refuse to answer any questions respecting his 

 health or employment, put to him by any officer of the Society, 

 or be seen to do any work whilst claiming full Bick-pay, or be at 

 any public-house or beer-shop, or leave home without the consent 

 of the Surgeon, or shall by any wilful act or misconduct prevent 

 or delay the recovery of his health. 



Rule 30. — No person shall insure for sick-pay which together 

 with any sick-pay insured in any other benefit society shall be 

 greater than 20s. a-week, or more than his average earnings. 



Ride 31. — No person shall be admitted to insure for sick-pay 

 whose employment in the opinion of the Medical Officer tends 

 to induce disease : and should any member who is insured for 

 sick-pay change his employment, he shall give notice of the 

 same to the Agent within a month ; and if the Medical Officer 

 shall be of opinion that the new employment has more than a 

 common tendency to induce disease, then the Directors shall 

 require him either to leave such employment or change his 

 insurance to another table ; and if he refuse to do either, the 

 Directors shall have power to adjudicate on the case, and, if 

 necessary, expel him from the Society. 



Rule 32. — All insurances for annuities shall be contributed 

 for according to the rates laid down in the following tables : — 



[We do not insert the tables for the reason above specified.] 



.ttule 33. — No person shall insure for an annuity which 

 together with any annuity insured in any other benefit society 

 shall be greater than £30 a-year. 



Rule 34. — Annuities which are due weekly may be paid 

 weekly, monthly, or quarterly, at the discretion of the annui- 

 tant ; but if any payment be unclaimed and left in arrear for a 

 twelvemonth it shall be forfeited. 



Rule 35. — Any member to whom an annuity is payable 

 shall forward to the Secretary proof of his identity, according to 

 the form provided by the Society, signed by the officiating 

 minister of the parish, or by a magistrate of the county in which 

 he is residing. 



Rule 36. — That a book or books be kept in which all monies 

 received or paid on account of any particular fund or benefit for 

 which the rules of the Society provide, shall be entered in a 

 separate account, distinct from the monies received and paid on 

 account of any other benefit or provision. 9 & 10 Vict., e. 27, 8. 4. 



Rule 37. — The accounts of the Society shall be laid before an 

 Actuary every five years, or oftener, if thought advisable by any 

 general meeting. If the report of the -Actuary show a nett 

 surplus, the interest of such surplus shall be applied to the 

 expenses of management in such manner as the Central Board 

 may direct. 



Rule 38. — The returns of the rate of sickness and mortality 

 required by law to be sent by every Friendly Society at inter- 

 vals of five years, shall be sent to the Registrar of Friendly 

 Societies in England, according to such form as shall be 

 prepared for that purpose by the said Registrar, under the 

 direction of one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State ; 

 and with every such return shall be sent a report of the assets 

 and liabilities of such Society. 



Rule 39. — The Treasurers, Trustees, Stewards, or other prin- 

 cipal officer of every such Society, who by the rules of such 

 Society are or is bound to prepare, or cause to be prepared, the 

 yearly general statement of the funds and effects of such Society, 

 shall be the persons who shall be respectively bound to make, 

 or cause to be made, and to send to the Registrar of Friendly 

 Societies the said returns of the rate of sickness and mortality, 

 and the said report of the assets and liabilities of such Society ; 

 and every Buch person who shall refuse or wilfully neglect to 

 make, or cause to be made, or to send the said returns of sickness 

 or mortality, or the said report of the assets and liabilities of 

 such Society, at the time and in the manner prescribed by the 

 said Acts, or this Act, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 

 the sum of £5, to be recovered, with costs, before any two 

 justices of the peace having jurisdiction where such Society shall 

 have its place of meeting, and, on non-payment thereof, the 

 same, with the reasonable costs of conviction, shall be levied by 

 distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the offender or 

 offenders, by warrant under the nand and seal of such justices. 

 9 & 10 Vict", c. 27, s. 6. • 



