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VI. Three Trustees shall be appointed by the P. B. F. 



VII. The Secretary may with the sanction of two of the Trustees 

 give temporary relief in case of emergency. 



VIII. The Standing Committee has the right to refuse any sub- 

 scriptions. 



The following Kules are for the guidance of the Standing Com- 

 mittee : — 



(a) . No assistance to be given to any planter or any member 



of his family unless he has subscribed under the regu- 

 lations mentioned in 5 above, except as provided for 

 5 (d). 



(b) . No planter or member of his family to be admitted as an 



applicant for assistance until Form A (copy annexed) 

 is filled up and vouched for by two friends. 



(c) . No funds to be given to any one who is or has been 



within the twelve months preceding the application 

 addicted to intemperance ; relief may be extended to 

 such a one, his widow, wife or children, if the Standing 

 Committee consider them worthy of assistance, but the 

 Fund is not established to relieve such cases. 



(d) . The Fund is not intended to provide an annual income 



for any one but to give temporary assistance in deserv- 

 ing cases in time of sickness, as well as from impe- 

 cuniosity brought about by such other causes to be 

 satisfactorily explained, when the Committee may vote 

 a sum towards the passage or change necessary for 

 the applicant. The Fund shall also be available to 

 provide a widow, wife or children, or any one dependent 

 on the applicant, with means to return to their homes and 

 for their support for a reasonable time. 



(e) . It shall however be competent for any one in distress to 



apply for further relief, and the Standing Committtee 

 may render such assistance if the funds are sufficient 

 to meet the deserving cases of first applicants. 

 (/). The Standing Committee may make temporary loans to 

 distressed planters or those dependent on them, taking 

 security or not, as the case may require, which should 

 be done if the applicant is only temporarily unable to 

 earn a livelihood, and yet likely to be able to repay the 

 loan at some future date. Such loans may bear such 

 rate of interest as the Standing Committee think ad- 

 visable. 



(g) . The available capital funds under the control of the 



Standing Committee may be invested at the discretion 

 of the Trustees. 



(h) . The Standing Committee of the Planters' Benevolent 



Fund shall have power to consider and deal with all 

 cases not provided for in the foregoing regulations, and 

 shall have the power to alter and amend any rule 

 and to make [new rules at a special meeting to be called 

 for that purpose. 



