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an abstract of the result of his valuation, in the form prescribed by the Chief 
Registrar. 
XLYI. On receiving such report it shall be the duty of the committee of 
management to call forthwith a special meeting of the club for the purpose of 
receiving the same, and to lay such report and the abstract thereof before such 
meeting ; to cause the secretary to forward such report and abstract to the 
Registrar within the six months aforesaid, together with a return containing 
such information with respect to the benefits assured and contributions 
receivable by the club, and to its funds and effects, debts, and credits, as the 
Registrar may from time to time require. 
XLVII. Inspection of Books. — Every person having an interest in the funds 
of the club, shall be at liberty at any reasonable time to inspect the books of 
the club, and it shall be the duty of the secretary to produce them for such 
inspection. 
XLVIII. It shall be the duty of the committee of management to keep a 
copy of the last annual balance-sheet of the club for the time being, together 
with the report of the auditors, if any, and of the last quinquennial valuation 
for the time being, always hung up in a conspicuous place at the registered 
office of the club. — Friendly Societies Act, 1875, s. 14 (1 i.). 
XLIX. Dissolution. — The club may at any time be dissolved by the consent 
of five-sixths in value of the members, including honorary members, if any, 
testified by their signatures to some instrument of dissolution in the form 
provided by the regulations in that behalf, and also by the written consent 
of any person for the time being receiving or .entitled to receive any relief,, 
annuity, or other benefit from the funds of the club, unless the claim of such 
person be duly satisfied, or adequate provision made for satisfying such claim ; 
the value of members to be ascertained by giving one vote to every member, 
and an additional vote for every five years he has been a member, but to no 
one member more than five votes in the whole. — Friendly Societies Act, 1875, 
s. 25 (1, 3, 7). 
L. Investigation of Affairs. — It shall be the right of one-fifth of the total 
number of members, or if the number of members shall at any time amount 
to 1000 and not exceed 10,000, it shall be the right of 100 members ; or if the 
number shall at any time exceed 10,000, it shall be the right of 500 members, 
by an application in writing to the Chief Registrar, signed by them in the 
forms respectively provided by the Treasury Regulations in that behalf : — 
(a.) To apply for the appointment of one or more inspectors to examine 
into the affairs of the club, and to report thereon. — Friendly Societies 
Act, 1875, s. 23 (1). 
(£>.) To apply for the calling of a special meeting of the society. — Friendly 
Societies Act, 1875, s. 23 (2). 
Either such application to be made upon such notice to the club, and to be 
supported by such evidence for the purpose of showing that the applicants 
have good reason for requiring such inspection to be made, or meeting to be 
called, and that they are not actuated by malicious motives in their applica- 
tion as the Chief Registrar shall direct. 
(c.) Or to apply for any investigation into the affairs of the club, with a» 
view to the dissolution thereof ; such application, as last aforesaid, 
to set forth that the funds of the club are insufficient to meet the 
existing claims thereon, or that the rates of contributions levied in 
the rules of such club are insufficient to cover the benefits assured, 
and the grounds upon which such insufficiency is alleged. — Friendly 
Societies Act, 1875, s. 25 (8). 
LI. It shall be the duty of the committee of management to provide the 
