-.262 .MODEL RULES FOR A BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. 
VIII.—Copies of Rules. 
It shall be tlie duty of the committee of management to 
provide tlie secretary with a sufficient number of copies of 
the rules, to enable him to deliver to any person on demand 
-a copy of such rules on payment of a sum not exceeding l.s. 
,[(«) for non-members, and 6d. for members], and of the 
secretary to deliver such copies accordingly. 
IX.—Keeping and auditing of Accounts. 
1. The committee of management shall cause the accounts 
of the society to be regularly entered in proper books. 
2. The committee of management shall once at least in 
every year submit the accounts, together with a general 
statement of the same and all necessary vouchers up to the 
31st December then last, for audit, either to one of the public 
auditors appointed under tlie Friendly Societies Act, 1875, 
or to two or more persons appointed as auditors by the 
members at the meeting next before each yearly meeting of 
the society, and shall lay before every such meeting a 
balance sheet (which either may or may not be identical 
with the annual return, but must not be in contradiction 
to the same), showing the receipts and expenditure, funds, 
and effects of the society, together with a statement of the 
affairs of the society since the last ordinary meeting, and of 
their then condition. Such auditors shall have access to all 
the books and accounts of the society, and shall examine 
every balance sheet and annual return of the receipts and 
expenditure, funds and effects of the society, and shall verify 
the same with the accounts and vouchers relating thereto, 
and shall either sign the same as found by them to be correct, 
duly vouched, and in accordance with law, or shall specially 
report to the meeting of the society 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 June the committee of 
management shall cause the secretary to send to the regis 
trar the annual return, in the form prescribed by the chief 
registrar of friendly societies, of the receipts and expendi- 
(a) If no distinction is intended, the words in brackets may 
be omitted. Any other figures not exceeding Is. may be inserted.