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any friendly society legally established under any Act of 
parliament relating to friendly societies : provided it shall 
appear by the rules of any such society deposited at or to 
be deposited with the Commissioners for the Reduction of 
the National Debt, or with the trustees of any savings 
bank, that the sums assured by any such society to any 
individual, or to any person nominated by or to claim 
under him, shall not exceed the sum of two hundred 
pounds, or the amount of any annuity or annuites granted 
or to be granted by any such society to any individual, or 
to any person nominated by or to claim under him, shall 
not exceed the sum of thirty pounds per annum : provided 
also, that when any property belonging to any such society 
shall be invested in the public securities in the Bank of 
England, the said last-mentioned property shall be duly 
claimed and proved by any trustee or treasurer of any 
such society, or by any member thereof, before the said 
commissioners for special purposes.” 
18 & 19 YICT. Cap. 35. 
An Act to continue the Act for extending for a limited time 
the provision for abatement of Income Tax in respect of 
Insurances on Lives. [26tli June, 1855.] 
Whereas by an Act passed in the session of parliament 
holden in the sixteenth and seventeenth years of the reign 
of Her present Majesty, intituled “ An Act to extend for 
a limited time the Provision for Abatement of Income 
Tax in respect of Insurance on Lives,” which Act was 
limited to continue in force until the fifth day of July, one 
thousand eight hundred and fifty-four : and whereas by an 
A ct passed in the last session of parliament the said first- 
mentioned Act was continued until the fifth day of July, 
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five : And whereas it 
is expedient to extend the benefit of the recited provisions to 
persons insuring or contracting with such friendly societies