129 [general form for profit-sharing scheme : CASH BONUS. (9.) Proviso in Event of Damage.—If an employee ceases to be in the service of the firm by reason of any wilful act or default on his part causing loss or damage to the firm, or is at the time indebted to the firm, his bonus shall be applied to making good such loss or damage or to payment of such debt. (10.) Partnership not conferred.—The employees or any of them will have neither the rights nor liabilities of partnership; nor are they to intermeddle or be concerned in the management or the accounts of the business. (11.) Alteration of Pules.—Alterations or modifications of these rules, which experience may suggest as desirable, may from time to time be made by the firm; but such changes, unless made during some month of January, are not to take effect until the end of the financial year current at the time they are made. (12.) Definitions.—In these rules, words importing the masculine gender include also females: “ Firm ” includes the present members of the firm, as also any person or persons succeeding to the business; “ Business ” means the business of the firm, whatever changes may take place in the nature or branches of such business or places where the same is carried on; “ Financial year ” means the year from the 1st of January to the 1st of January; “ Scheme ” includes all relations between the firm and employees under these rules. Dated this day of 1890. (Signed) [Form of Request under Rule 4.] To Messrs. -18 . I beg to request you to place my name on the list of profit-sharers, and I hereby agree to accept tho rules for the time being of the profit- sharing scheme. (Signed) Name (in full) Address (in full) — This form should be handed to the firm on or before February 1st. [Form of Accountant’s Certificate, Rule 3.] 18 . I have examined the Balance-Sheet and Profit and Loss Account of Messrs. for the year ending 31st December, 1890, and also the Wages Inst for January, 1890, and certify that under the rules of the “ Profit-sharing Scheme,” the bonus permits of a dis tribution of weeks’ wages for each participant, and that there remains an undivided balance equivalent to about days’ wages to be carried forward to the credit of the Employees’ Bonus Fund of next year. 24548 Chartered Accountant. I