INSPECTION. 
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answer any question tending to criminate himself, applies 
of course to the evidence given before him. 
Nor can he, it would appear, impound any document or 
require the same to be delivered up to any person or left in 
his custody, or give any order or direction as to any matter 
to be done by the society, or by individuals, otherwise than 
for the purpose of his examination into the affairs of the 
society, and his report thereon. 
When the examination, so far as he is able to make it, is 
completed, the inspector will make his report upon it. 
Bearing in mind that the chief or assistant registrar will 
have to direct on whom the burthen of the expenses of the 
inspection will fall (sect. 23, proviso c.), the inspector will 
specify in his report as well instances of misconduct or 
mismanagement on the part of the society or its officers, 
which may justify the inspection applied for, as any mal 
practices on the part of the applicants which may render 
it equitable to throw upon them all or part of its cost, and 
all other matters that should be considered. 
He will more particularly report any acts or defaults 
coming within sect. 14 (3), sect. 16 (9), sect. 27, sect. 
28, sect. 32, and sect. 30 if the society is within that 
section ; as also when an offence appears to have been 
committed, whether any particular officer of the society 
has rendered himself guilty of it within sect. 14 (4), or if 
not, what members of the committee of management are 
exempt from liability for such offence under the same sub 
section. Should any offence under the Act appear to him 
to have been committed during the examination, he will 
give specific details as to the facts, in the event of the 
chief registrar deeming it advisable that the offenders he 
prosecuted. 
It is needless to remind the inspectors that they are to he 
strictly impartial; never to assume that a violation of the 
law has been committed until it has been proved, and that 
they should be prepared to meet with cases of frivolous or 
vexatious applications for inspection, as well as of real 
mismanagement or fraud. 
J. M. Ludlow, 
Chief Registrar. 
N.B.—The amount deposited by the applicants is as a 
rule expected to cover the costs of the inspection. Beyond 
the inspector’s fees (which must include his subsistence), 
only costs out of pocket for travelling expenses and hire of' 
room will generally be allowed.