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The special objects of the Employees’ Society are declared by 
its rules* to be to deal in the shares and debentures of Foster, 
Sons & Company, Limited. Subject to the provisions stated 
below as to the Common Fund, all sums received by the Society 
under arrangements of that Company for sharing profits with its 
employees are to be treated as capital and invested in the manner 
stated below and credited in the books of the Society as follows: — 
(1.) Each member of the Society is to be credited with the 
amount declared by the Company to be paid as bonus 
on his wages or salary, and whenever there is a 
sufficient sum standing to his credit, enough shall be 
transferred to bis share account to create a fully paid- 
up share in the Society. 
(2.) The bonus on wages of non-members of the Society is to 
be credited collectively to a non-members’ Provident 
Fund, to be administered as a trust for the benefit of 
those employees of the Company who are not members 
of the Society, or their wives, children, or widows, or 
persons dependent on them. 
(3.) The sums declared by the Company to be paid for the 
credit of the Common Fund are to be applied for 
educational, social, provident, propagandist and other 
purposes for the benefits of the members of the Society 
or their wives, children, widows, or persons dependent 
on them. 
The capital of the Society is to be invested in fully paid-up 
shares in the Company, so long as such shares can be acquired, by 
allotment, at par. Thereafter the committee of the Society are, 
if authorised by a general meeting, to invest any further capital 
in purchase at the market price of additional shares or debentures 
in the Company. 
If any balance-sheet of the Society would otherwise show a 
deficit in capital account, the amount of such deficit shall be 
written off the Reserve Fund and failing that off the Common 
Fund. 
Tlie profit and loss of the Society is to be calculated annually 
and at the same time its investments are to be valued by the 
committee. Any deficiency in the value so set upon these invest 
ments as compared with their nominal value is to be treated as a 
loss by the Society for that year, and any surplus above such 
nominal value is to be put to Reserve Fund until such fund equals 
one-fourtli of the nominal value of the Society’s investments for 
the time being; and any further surplus is to be treated as profit 
for the year. 
Out of the profits of the Society share capital shall in the first 
place receive interest at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum, when 
ever the profits suffice to pay such dividend, after extinguishing 
any adverse balance and providing for reduction of preliminary 
* The Rules of the Employees’ Society consist of “ General Rules for an 
Industrial and Provident Productive Society,” published by the Labour 
Co-partnership Association, 6, Bloomsbury Square, London, W.C., modified in 
» e " Special Rules” of this Society. These Special Rules are printed in 
Appendix K., pp. 138-140.