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tributions by means of collectors at a greater distance than 
10 miles from the registered office or principal place of 
business of the society or company. 
2. Act to be construed with 38 <£• 39 Vict. c. 60, and 39 <£• 40 
Vict. c. 32.—This Act shall be construed as one with the 
Friendly Societies Act, 1875, and the Friendly Societies 
Amendment Act, 1876, and may be cited together with the 
same as “ the Friendly Societies Acts.” 
42 VICT. Cap. 12. 
An Act to amend the Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amend 
ment Act, 1876. 
[23rd May, 1879.] 
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most excellent Majesty, by 
and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and 
temporal, and Commons, in this present parliament assem 
bled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :— 
1. The provisions of section 23 of 39 Sf 40 Vict. c. 61, not 
to apply to moneys to which a pauper or pauper lunatic may 
be entitled as a member of friendly or benefit society.—The 
provisions contained in the 23rd section of the Divided 
Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act, 1876, shall not 
apply to any moneys which a pauper or pauper lunatic 
having a wife or other relative dependent upon him for 
maintenance may be entitled to receive as a member of any 
friendly or benefit society, but such moneys shall, subject 
to any deductions for keeping up his membership required 
by the rules of such society, or any branch thereof, from 
which suchpauperor pauper lunatic is entitled to receivesuch 
moneys, be paid or applied by the trustees, committee, or other 
officers of such society or branch to or for the maintenance 
of such wife or relative ; and where a pauper or pauper 
lunatic having no wife or relative so dependent upon him is 
entitled to any such moneys, no claim shall be made under 
.the said Act by the guardians of any union or parish upon