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them, who shall sign their names as witnesses. It shall he
in the custody of the secretary. The seal shall hear legibly
engraved on it at length the registered name of the society,
with the device of a
19.—Coptics of Annual Ret urn.
It shall he the duty of the committee of management to
provide the secretary with a sufficient number of copies of
the annual return for supplying, gratuitously, every member
or person interested in the funds of the society, on Ms
application, with a copy of the last annual return of the
society for the time being ; and it shall be the duty of the
secretary to supply such gratuitous copies on application
accordingly.—Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1876,
s. 10. (1/.)
It shall be the duty of the committee of management to
keep a copy of the last annual balance sheet of the society
for the time being, together with the report of the auditors,
if any, always hung up in a conspicuous place at the regis
tered office of the society.—Industrial and Provident
Societies Act, 1876, s. 10. (1 g.)
20.—Death and Bankruptcy of Members.
The secretary shall keep a book in wMch he shall
register or record all nominations made by members of the
society by wilting, signed by them, delivered at, or sent to,
the registered office of the society, of any person or persons
not being officers or servants of the society, unless such
officer or servant be the husband, wife, father, mother,
.child, brother, sister, nephew, or niece of the nominator, to
whom the shares of such nominator shall be transferred at
his decease, provided that the amount credited to him in
the books of the society does not exceed £50.
The secretary shall in like manner record or register all
revocations or variations of such nominations by the nomi
nator, made in writing, and signed and delivered or sent as
aforesaid.
The nominator shall pay 3d. to the management fund
for the recording or registering of every such nomination,
revocation, or variation.
On receiving satisfactory proof of the death of a nomi
nator, the committee shall, at their option, either transfer
the shares in manner directed in such nomination, or pay
.to any person entitled thereunder the full value of his