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38 & 39 Vict. Cap. 60, s. 15. 
visions of the Acts of the thirty-ninth George the Third, 
chapter seventy-nine, or the fifty-seventh George the Third, 
chapter nineteen, if in such society [or branch] or at such 
meeting no business is transacted other than that which 
directly and immediately relates to the objects of the 
society [or branch] as declared in the registered rules 
thereof, but such society [or branch] and all officers of the 
same shall, on request in writing by two justices of the 
peace, give full information to such justices of the nature, 
objects, proceedings, and practices of the society [or branch] 
in default whereof the provisions of the Acts in this section 
re erred to shall, so far as applicable, be in force in respect 
of such society [or branch] (a). 
(2.) Exemption from stamp duty.—Stamp duty shall not 
s chargeable upon any of the following documents :— 
(a.) Power, warrant, or letter of attorney, granted by any 
person as trustee for the transfer of any money of 
the society [or branch] invested in his name in 
the public funds : 
(b.) Order or receipt for money contributed to or received 
from the funds of the society [or branch] by virtue 
of its rules or of this Act: 
(c.) Bond given to or on account of the society [or 
branch] or by the treasurer or other officer 
thereof: 
(d.) Draft or order, or form of policy, or appointment or 
revocation of appointment of agent, or other docu 
ment required or authorized by this Act, or by the 
rules of the society [or branch] (b). 
(а) This is a re-enactment of 18 & 19 Vict. c. 63, s. 12. 
(б) This is a re-enactment of 18 & 19 Vict. c. 63, s. 37. Upon 
the construction of a clause in 33 Geo. 3, c. 54, similar to this 
section, it was held that a bond conditioned for the production 
of a box containing the subscriptions of a friendly society, need 
not be stamped: Carter v. Bond, 4 Esp. 235. This section 
gxempts from stamp duty any power, warrant, or letter of 
attorney for the transfer of any share in the public funds only : 
and this exemption will not extend to other investments. See 
Me Moyal Liver Friendly Society, L. R. 6 Exch. 78, where it 
was decided that a mortgage security, on which the funds of