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ever required or authorized by or in pursuance of this Act 
or the rules of any society,” are even larger than the cor 
responding words in the earlier Act, and are sufficiently 
wide to include this ease. But I agree with my lord and 
my brother Martin that we must read this language with 
reference to the preceding words, and that such documents 
as they have described will satisfy the meaning of the Act- 
Judgment for the Crown. 
The arrangement of sub-section 2 of section 15 of the 
Friendly Societies Act, 1875, would seem to make the 
matter even less open to doubt; for there the general words 
“ or other document, &e.,” aye attached to sub-liead (d), 
which relates to “draft, or order, or form of policy, or 
appointment, or revocation of appointment of agent,” which 
are all matters connected with the transaction of the 
internal business of a society. 
Note to sect. 15 (4) of the Friendly Societies Act, 
1875, and sect. 11 (6) of the Industrial and Pro 
vident Societies Act, 1876. 
TABLE OF DISTBIBUTION. 
In default of nomination by a member, a society may pay 
any sum not exceeding fifty pounds on his death intestate, 
“ without letters of administration, to the person who 
appears to a majority of the trustees [or in an Industrial 
and Provident Society, the Committee of Management] upon 
such evidence as they may deem satisfactory, to he entitled 
by law to receive the same.” The following is a table of 
distribution of personal estate of intestates pursuant to 
22 & 23 Car. 2, c. 10 ; 29 Car. 2, c. 30 
If the Intestate die, His personal Representatives 
leaving. take as follows:— 
Wife and child, or children . One-third to wife, rest to child 
or children; and if chil 
dren are dead, then to their 
representatives (that is, their 
lineal descendants), except 
such child or children not 
heirs-at-law, who had estate 
by settlement of intestate, 
in his lifetime, equal to 
other shares.