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give 
VI. Three Trustees shall be appointed by the P. B. F. 
VII. The Secretary may with the sanction of two of the Trustees 
temporary relief in case of emergency. 
VIII. The Standing Committee has the right to refuse any sub- 
scriptions. 
The following Rules are 
for the guidance of the Standing Com- 
(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 
(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 yr 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. 
(f) . 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. 
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