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MODEL BRANCH RULES. 
affairs of the branch since the last ordinary meeting, and of 
their then condition. Such auditors shall have access to 
all the hooks and accounts of the branch, and shall examine 
every balance sheet and annual return of the receipts and 
expenditure, funds and effects of the branch, and shall verify 
the same with the accounts and vouchers relating thereto, 
and shall either sign the same as found by them to be cor 
rect, duly vouched, and in accordance with law, or shall 
specially report to the meeting of the branch before which 
the same is laid in what respects they find it incorrect, 
unvouched, or not in accordance with law. 
X.—Annual Returns. 
1. Every year before the 1st 
the committee of 
management shall cause the secretary of this branch to send 
to the secretary of the Order an annual return, in the form 
prescribed by the Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies, of 
the receipts and expenditure, funds and effects of the branch, 
and of the number of members of the same, up to the 31st 
December then last inclusively, as audited and laid before 
a general meeting, showing separately the expenditure in 
respect of the several objects ot the branch, together with a 
copy of the auditor’s report, if any. 
2. Such return shall state whether the audit has been 
conducted by a public auditor appointed under the Friendly 
Societies Act, 1875, and by whom, and if such audit has 
been conducted by any persons other than a public auditor, 
shall state the name, address, and calling or profession of 
each of such persons, and the manner in which, and the 
authority under which, they were respectively appointed. 
XI.—Quinquennial Returns. 
Within six calendar months after the expiration of every 
five years succeeding the 31st December, 1880, the com 
mittee of management shall cause a return, in the form pre 
scribed by the Chief Registrar, of the sickness (a) and 
mortality experienced by the branch during the five 
years preceding the 31st December then last past to be 
sent by the secretary of the branch to the secretary of the 
-Order. 
(a) If the branch does not insure against sickness the words 
■“ sickness and ” to be left out.