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lect to assign or transfer any property of the branch as the 
committee of management shall direct, he shall (if lie be a 
member) be expelled the branch, and shall cease to have any 
claim on it on account of any contributions paid by him, 
without prejudice to any liability to prosecution which he 
may have incurred. 
VIII.—Copies of Rules. 
It shall be the duty of the committee of management to 
provide the secretary with a sufficient number of copies of 
the rules, to enable him to deliver to any person on demand 
a copy of such rules on payment of a sum not exceeding 
Is. [(«) for non-members, and 6d. for members], and of the 
secretary to deliver such copies accordingly.—Friendly 
Societies Act, 1875, s. 13 (5). 
IX.—Keeping and Auditing of Accounts. 
(1.) The committee of management shall cause the 
accounts of the branch to be regularly entered in proper 
books. 
(2.) Separate accounts shall be kept of all moneys 
received or paid on account of every particular fund or 
benefit assured by the branch, for which a separate table 
of contributions payable is adopted, distinct from all 
moneys received and paid on account of any other benefit 
or fund. 
(3.) A separate account shall also be kept of the expenses 
of management of the branch, and of all contributions on 
account thereof. 
(4.) The committee of management' shall once at least in 
every year submit such accounts, together with a general 
statement of the same and all necessary vouchers up to the 
31st December then last, for audit, either to one of the 
public auditors appointed under the Friendly Societies Act, 
1875, or to two or more persons appointed as auditors by 
the members at a meeting next before each yearly meeting 
of the branch, and shall lay before every such meeting a 
balance sheet showing the receipts and expenditure, funds 
and effects of the branch, together with a statement of tin' 
(a) If no distinction is intended, the words in brackets may 
be omitted. Any other figures not exceeding Is. may be. 
inserted.