-.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  registrar ­
  the  annual  return,  in  the  form  prescribed  by  the  chief
registrar  of  friendly  societies,  of  the  receipts  and  expendi-(a)

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be  omitted.  Any  other  figures  not  exceeding  Is.  may  be  inserted.