MODEL RULES FOR A BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. 259'
2. Purposes for which the funds shall he applicable.—All
moneys received on account of contributions, donations,
admissions, fines, or otherwise, shall he applied towards
carrying out the objects of the society, according to the
rules and tables (if any) thereof. Any officer misapplying
the funds shall repay the same and he excluded, without
prejudice to his liability to prosecution for such mis
application.
3. Terms of admission of members (d).—
4. Members may become entitled to benefits on the following
conditions [state the conditions, or say, “ members shall not
he entitled to benefits”],
5. No fine or forfeiture shall be imposed on any member
[or as the case may be].
IV.—Meetings. Eight of Voting (e).
V.—Neic Rules and Alteration of Rules.
No new rule shall be made, nor any of the rules herein
contained or hereafter to be made shall be amended, altered,
or rescinded, unless with the consent of a majority of the
members present at a general meeting of the society
specially called for that purpose.
VI.—Appointment and. Removal of Committee of Manage
ment, Treasurer, Trustees, and other Officers.
At a special meeting of the society to he called as soon ns
practicable after the registry of the society there shall be
elected by a majority of the members then present a com
mittee of management, consisting of ten persons, a treasurer,.
(d) Hero should be stated whether, and in wliat manner, a
candidate for membership is to be proposed and elected; what
class of persons, if any, are not to be eligible for membership, &c. -
(e) Here should be stated how often, when, and where meet
ings are to be held, what notice is to be given of them, by whose
authority and how meetings are to be specially called, and upon
what requisition, whether any and what number of members is
necessary to constitute a quorum, either generally or in any
particular cases, who is to take the chair, what are the qualifi
cation of voters, whether votes may be given by proxy, and
how questions on which there is an equality of votes are to be
decided.