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more persons appointed as auditors by the members, at the meeting next 
before each yearly meeting of the club, and shall lay before every such meeting 
a balance-sheet (which either may or may not be identical with the annual 
return, but must not be in contradiction of the same), showing the receipts 
and expenditure, funds, and effects of the club ; together with a statement of 
the affairs of the club since their last ordinary meeting, and of their then con- 
dition. Such auditors shall have access to all the books and accounts of the 
club, and shall examine every balance-sheet, and annual return of the receipts 
and expenditure, funds, and effects of the club ; and shall verify the same 
with the accounts and vouchers relating thereto, and shall either sign the 
same as found by them to be correct, duly vouched, and in accordance with 
law ; or, shall specially report to the meeting of the club before which the 
same is laid, in what respects they find it incorrect, unvouched, or not in 
accordance with law. — Friendly Societies Act, 1875, s. 14 (b. a). 
XL. Annual Eeturns. — Every year, before the 1st of June, the committee 
of management shall cause the secretary to send to the Kegistrar the annual 
return, in the form prescribed by the Chief Kegistrar of Friendly Societies, 
required by the Friendly Societies Act, 1875, of the receipts and expendi- 
ture, funds, and effects of the club, and of the number of members of the 
same, up to the 31st of December then last inclusively, as audited and laid 
before a general meeting, showing separately the expenditure in respect of the 
several objects of the club, together with a copy of the auditors' report, if any. 
XLI. Such return shall state whether the audit has been conducted by a 
public auditor appointed under the Friendly Societies Act, 1875, and by 
whom ; and if such audit has been conducted by any persons other than 
a public auditor, shall state the name, address, and calling or profession of 
each of such persons, and the manner in which and the authority under 
which they were respectively appointed. — Friendly Societies Act, 1875, s. 14 
XLII. It shall be the duty of the committee of management to provide the 
secretary with a sufficient number of copies of the annual return or other 
document allowed by 39 and 40 Vict., c. 32, for supplying gratuitously every 
member or persons interested in the funds of the club, on his application, with 
a copy of the last annual return of the club for the time being, or such other 
document; and it shall be the duty of the secretary to supply such gra- 
tuitous copies on application, according to Friendly Societies Act, 1875, s. 14 
(1 W.). 
XLIII. Quinquennial Eeturns. — Within six calendar months after the 
expiration of every five years succeeding the 31st of December, 1875, the 
committee of management shall cause a return, in the form prescribed by the 
Chief Registrar, of the sickness and mortality experienced by the society 
during the last five years preceding the 31st of December then last past, to be 
sent by the secretary to the Registrar. — Friendly Societies Act, 1875, s. 14 
(1 e.). 
XLIV. Valuations. — Once at least in the five years next following the 
registry of this club, and, so again within six calendar months after the expi- 
ration of every five years succeeding the date of the first valuation, to be 
made under these rules, the assets and liabilities of the club (including the 
• estimated risks and contributions) shall be valued in manner provided by 
the Friendly Societies Act, 1875, s. 14 (1 f.), unless the same shall have 
been dispensed with by the Chief Registrar with consent of the Treasury. 
XLV. If a valuer is appointed by the club, it shall be his duty, at the cost 
of the club, to make a report to be signed by him, and which shall also state 
.his address and calling or profession, on the condition of the club, and also 
