38  &  39  Yict.  Cap.  60,  s.  10.

(b.)  Collect  from  tlie  returns  under  this  Act  and  from
other  sources,  and  publish  and  circulate,  either
generally  or  in  any  particular  district,  or  otherwise ­
  make  known  such  information  on  the  subject
of  the  statistics  of  life  and  sickness,  and  the  application ­
  thereof  to  the  business  of  friendly  societies,
and  from  time  to  time  publish  generally  or  in
particular  districts  such  particulars  of  their  returns
and  valuations,  and  such  other  information  useful
to  the  members  of  or  to  persons  interested  in
friendly  or  other  societies  registered  or  which
might  be  registered  under  this  Act,  as  the  chief
registrar  shall  from  time  to  time  think  fit  (a):
(c.)  Cause  to  be  constructed  and  published  tables  for  the
payment  of  sums  of  money  on  death,  in  sickness,
or  old  age,  or  on  any  other  contingency  forming
the  subject  of  an  assurance  authorized  under  this
Act  which  may  appear  to  be  calculable:  Provided,
nevertheless,  that  the  adoption  of  such  tables  by
any  society  shall  be  optional  (b).
(6.)  Chief  registrar  to  report  yearly  to  parliament.—The
chief  registrar  shall  every  year  lay  before  parliament  a
report  of  his  proceedings  and  of  those  of  the  assistant  registrars, ­
  and  of  the  principal  matters  transacted  by  him  and
them,  and  of  the  valuations  returned  to  or  caused  to  be
made  by  the  registrar  during  the  year  preceding  (c).

January,  1876,  tilings  required  to  be  done  under  18  &  19
Viet.  c.  63,  and  the  Acts  amending  that  Act.  This  is
described  by  the  chief  registrar  (Report  for  1875,  p.  4)  as
the  first  step  towards  embracing  in  one  statute  ail  the  different
classes  of  bodies  formerly  dealt  with  in  one  capacity  or  another
by  the  registrar.
(a)  The  abstract  of  the  quinquennial  returns  laid  before  Parliament ­
  by  the  central  office  in  pursuance  of  s.  14  (le),  and
ordered  to  be  printed,  includes  an  abstract  of  the  returns  for  the
periods  ending  1860,  1865,  1870,  and  1875.
(i)  This  provision  is  new,  though  the  18  &  19  Viet.  c.  63,  s.  8,
authorized  the  registrar,  with  the  authority  of  the  Treasury,  to
expend  money  on  the  “  computation  of  tables.”
(c)  An  annual  report  by  the  registrar  was  provided  for  by
18  &  19  Viet.  c.  63,  s.  45.