Post-Offire Insurance for Labourers. 
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the insurance shall be liable to forfeiture on account of such 
false statement. 
If anv member die out of the United Kingdom no burial- 
money shall be paid. 
If any member shall die by suicide, or while engaged in any 
illegal act, his burial-money shall be forfeited. 
Burial-money, when not exceeding 50/., payable to the widow 
or child, if only one, or if children, to such children in equal 
parts, or if no issue, to his father, and if there is no father, to his 
mother, and if there is no mother, then to his surviving brother 
or sister, or brothers and sisters, if more than one, in equal 
shares ; and if only one the whole to such one ; and if there be 
no brother or sister, then to the person or persons who shall 
appear to be entitled to receive the same under the Statute of 
Distributions. 
But a member may nominate any person to receive the amount 
insured, and his nomination, in order to be valid and effective, 
shall be signed by the member making it, and his signature 
attested by at least one witness, whose residence and calling 
shall be fully described. It must be forwarded to the Post- 
master-General, and may be revoked on payment of , 
and another nominee substituted. If the nominee die before the 
money is claimable, no payment shall be made for the nomina- 
tion of another person. 
* If any contribution shall be one month] in arrear, the 
member shall be fined on the following scale : — 
d. 
For every &d. in arrear of 1 month, fine % 
» Ji 2 „ 5 
!> » 3 ,, 1 
If the arrears exceed three months the insurance shall be liable 
to forfeiture, and shall be forfeited unless the member is able' to 
show satisfactory cause to the contrary. 
W hen a labourer wishes to join the Post-OiEce Friendly 
Society, he must apply at the office of the district in which he 
resides, where he will receive from the officer a paper for him to 
fill up, or which the officer is to fill up for him, and see that he 
attests the statement by his signature or mark. The declaration 
paper should be as follows : — 
I , of , in the district 
of , do hereby propose to the Postmaster-General 
to make an Insurance in the Post-OfSce Friendly Society for benefits in 
the Class Sickness- Pay and Burial Money. 
I Shillings per week, Sickness-Pay till 70. 
■ ( Pounds Burial-Money. 
And I liercby declare that the statement herewith, and my answers to the 
* To he printed at the back of the Policy. 
