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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 Amendment
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 assembled,
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
