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 other 
wise make known such information on the subject 
of the statistics of life and sickness, and the appli 
cation 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 regis 
trars, 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 Par 
liament 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.