2 12 
APPENDIX OF CASES. 
On the appointment of a treasurer of a friendly society, 
it was agreed that of the funds then in hand, she was to pay 
interest for £120. It was held that this was not to he con 
sidered as a loan to her, hut that it was in her hands and 
possession by virtue of her office of treasurer, within the 
meaning of the 4 & 5 Will. 4, c. 40, s. 12, and that the 
assignees were bound to pay over the amount to the society : 
Ex parte Ray, 3 Dea. S37. 
By the rules of a friendly society it was provided that 
there should be appointed a treasurer or treasurers, in 
whose hands should be deposited all the cash belonging to 
the society, until the same should be placed out at interest; 
. and that as soon as a sufficient sum should be collected, it 
should (after leaving in the club-box a sufficient sum to 
pay the sick and other expenses of the society), be deposited 
in the hands of the treasurer or treasurers of the society ; 
and that the clerk and two stewards should take the same 
to the bank. No formal appointment of treasurer was 
made, but the moneys of the society were paid into a bank. 
It was held that the bankers were not employed as officers 
of the society: Ex parte Orford, 1 De Gex, M. & G. 
483. 
A friendly society appointed a Joint Stock Bank its 
treasurer. Held, that the treasurer must be a natural person 
not a corporation, and that the words of sect. 15 (7) as to 
insolvency do not apply to proceedings in winding-up a 
■ company : Ex parte Swansea Friendly Society, Law Rep. 
11 Ch. Div. 768. 
G. 
Note to sect. 16 (9) of the Friendly Societies Act, 
1879, AND SECT. 12 (10) OF THE INDUSTRIAL AND PRO 
VIDENT Societies Act, 1876. 
These sub-sections are to the same effect as 18 & 19 Viet. 
■ c. 63, s. 24 and previous Friendly Societies Acts, with 
respect to which the following cases have been decided :— 
Where an officer of a society had received, as such, moneys 
-belonging to the society, and afterwards executed an assign 
ment for the benefit of his creditors, and his assignees had 
enough to repay the amount, but the specific moneys so 
received were not traced to the assignees, the assignees were 
held not liable to be proceeded against under this section : 
Ex parte O’Donnell, 1 L. R. (Q. B.) 274; 30 J. P. 279. 
The remedy given by this section applies where the