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lure, funds and effects of the society, and of the number of 
inembers of the same, np to the 31st December then last 
inclusively, as audited and laid before a general meeting, 
showing separately the expenditure in respect of the several 
objects of the society, together with a copy of the auditor’s 
report, if any. 
2. Such return shall state whether the audit has been con 
ducted 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 au 
thority under which, they were respectively appointed. 
3. 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 of some balance sheet or other docu 
ment duly audited, containing the same particulars as in the 
annual return as to the receipts and expenditure, funds and 
effects of the society, for supplying gratuitously every mem 
ber or person interested in the funds of the society, on his 
application, with a copy of the last annual return of the 
society or of such balance sheet or other document for the 
time being, and it shall be the duty of the secretary to 
supply such gratuitous copies on application accordingly. 
XI.—Inspection of Boohs. 
1. The books and accounts of the society shall be open 
do the inspection of any member or person having an interest 
in the funds of the society at all reasonable hours, at the 
registered office of the society, or at any place where the same 
- are kept, and it shall be the duty of the secretary to pro- 
• cluce them. 
2. It shall be the duty of the committee of management 
to keep a copy of the last annual balance sheet of the so- 
• ciety for the time being, together with the report of the 
auditors, if any, always hung up in a conspicuous place at 
the registered office of the society. 
XII.—Investment of Funds, holding of Land, <Ie. 
1. So much of the funds of the society as may not be 
■wanted for immediate use, or to meet the usual accruing 
liabilities, shall, with the consent of the committee of 
management, or of a majority of the members of a society 
present and entitled to vote at a generel meeting, be invested 
by the trustees in such of the following ways as such coni-