in his hands shall be a debt due from him to the Trustees for the time being. He shall give a bond to the Trustees for the faithful execution of his office.

12. The Committee shall have power to employ one or more Medical Officers.

13. A general meeting of delegates appointed to represent the members of the Society (as provided for in Rule 16) shall be held during the month of February in each year, at such place, day, and hour as may be fixed by the Committee, of which one month's notice shall be given. At such meetings the Committee shall present its report of proceedings during the previous year, and statement of accounts. All questions which may arise at such meetings shall be determined by a majority of the delegates then and there present, who, in the absence of the Chairman and ViceChairman of the Society, may elect a Chairman for the occasion. The Chairman, in addition to his own vote, shall, in case of an equality of votes, have a second or casting vote. All members of the Committee, including the Company's nominees, shall be summoned to attend the annual meetings of delegates.

14. The minutes of the proceedings shall be authenticated by the signature of the Chairman of the meeting.

15. The Secretary shall at any time convene a special general meeting of the delegates, or of the Committee of Management, upon a requisition signed by one-third of the delegates in the one case, and by one-third the members of the Committee in the other; but the Secretary may if he think fit, convene a special general meeting of the delegates, or a meeting of the Committee of Management, without any such requisition.

16. The members of the Society shall appoint delegates to represent them at the general meetings, such delegates to be elected amongst, and by, the members located in the several districts, as follows, it being understood that one of the five delegates for the Chester District shall be elected from, and by, the members in Ireland; but no candidate to be eligible to act as a delegate or member of the Committee of Management, unless he is a member of the Provident Society: [Then follows a list of the Districts and the delegates to which they are entitled.]

Meetings for the election of delegates are to be held by members in each respective district. The time for holding and mode of conducting the meetings, and authenticating their proceedings shall be regulated by the Committee of Management. The use of voting papers shall be permitted for those unable to attend the meetings.

17. The delegates shall in each District, at a time and in a manner to be regulated by the Committee of Management, nominate every two years one of their number as a member of the Committee of Management; and any vacancy occurring in the Committee except in the company's nominees, shall be filled up in a similar manner, by the delegates for the district to which the retiring member belonged.

18. Three and two delegates respectively for each district shall retire alternately every two years by seniority, but shall be reeligible, subject to the provisions contained in Rule 16. At the meetings for the election of delegates to fill up the vacancies thus caused, the names shall be recorded of at least four candidates in each district who have the largest number of votes next after those actually elected, and any vacancies for delegates that may arise prior to the next election, shall be filled up from such reserve list of names in the respective districts, and in the order in which they stand according to the number of votes.

19. The accounts of the Society shall be examined by two Auditors, who shall be elected at a general meeting of the delegates from amongst their number, one of them to retire alternately every year, but to be re-eligible.

20. The statement of accounts to be presented by the Committee to the annual general meeting of delegates shall be submitted to the Auditors with all proper vouchers, at least two weeks before the meeting; and the Auditors may confirm the same, or report specially to the meeting respecting the same.

21. In the event of one of the Auditors dying, or leaving the service, or becoming incapable of acting, or declining to act, the candidate for the auditorship who, at the last election, had the largest number of votes next after the candidates actually elected, shall be entitled, until the next meeting, to take the place of the Auditor who has died, or left the service, or become incapacitated, or declined to act; and in the event of both Auditors either dying, or leaving the service, or becoming incapacitated, or declining to act, then the next two candidates who had the largest number of votes after the candidates actually elected, shall take their places as Auditors until the next annual meeting of delegates; but if at any annual meeting of delegates the Auditors shall be either elected or re-elected, without at least two other candidates having been voted for, then such annual meeting shall immediately proceed to the election of one or more reserve Auditors, to be ready to take the place or places of the acting Auditor or Audit

ors in the event of one or both of them failing to act from any of the causes aforesaid; but such reserve Auditor or Auditors shall, in the event of being required to act, have power to act only until the annual meeting of delegates next ensuing. In the event of the Auditors, or reserve Auditors, or either of them, being balloted out, they shall, so long as they are the acting Auditors, be ex-officio delegates, and be summoned to attend the general meetings of the Society, but without the power of voting.

22. Every person before becoming a member of the Society and entitled to benefit, shall receive a copy of the Rules, and sign a proposal, according to the form in the Appendix No. 1.

23. The following shall be the scales of payments and allow

ances:

For members who, before sustaining the personal injury in question, agree to accept the contribution to the funds of the Society by the London and North Western Railway Company, or other company or companies employing them, as mentioned in Rule 4, and the benefits to which they may become entitled under the rules of the Society, in satisfaction and in lieu of any claims they or their personal representatives, or persons entitled in case of their death, may, or would, otherwise have against such company or companies under, or by virtue of, the provisions of the Employers' Liability Act, 1880, or any act or acts amending the same, and enter into an agreement with the company or compan ies employing them according to the form in the Appendix No. 2, or to the like effect, the scale of payments and allowances in scale A.

For members who do not so agree, the scale of payments and allowances in scale B.

All servants not specifically described in the above Scale, whose weekly wages amount to 25s. and upwards-for example, Foremen, Shippers, Checkers, 2d
Mates of the Steam Boats, Mechanics, &c.-to be allowed to join either the 1st or 2d Class, as they may elect.

elect.

Members of the 1st and 2nd Classes, whose weekly wages are reduced below 25s. and 12s. respectively, to be allowed to remain in the 1st or 2d Class, if they so

*NOTE-The Committee of Management to have the power of paying the allowance to the representatives of deceased members who have died within the period mentioned.