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38  &  39  Viot.  Cap.  60,  s.  16.
assurance,  or  separately  to  tlie  like  effect,  ■which  certificate
shall  be  received  in  evidence  in  all  courts  and  proceedings
•without  further  proof,  and  such  registrar,  recording  officer,
steward,  or  keeper  of  the  register  is  entitled  to  a  fee  of  two
shillings  and  sixpence  for  making  the  said  entry  and  granting ­
  the  said  certificate,  and  such  fee  shall  in  Ireland  be  paid
by  stamps,  and  applied  as  the  other  fees  of  the  Registry  of
Deeds  Office  and  Record  of  Title  Office  are  by  law  directed
to  be  paid  and  applied  (c).
(9.)  Punishment  of  fraud  or  misappropriation.—It  any
person  obtains  possession  by  false  representation  or  imposition ­
  of  any  property  of  a  society  [or  branch],  or  having  the
same  in  his  possession  withholds  or  misapplies  the  same,  or
wilfully  applies  any  part  thereof  to  purposes  other  than
those  expressed  or  directed  in  the  rules  of  the  society  [or
branch],  and  axrthorized  by  this  Act,  he  shall,  on  the  complaint ­
  of  the  society  [or  branch],  or  of  any  member  authorized ­
  by  the  society  [or  branch],  or  the  trustees  or  committee ­
  of  management  of  the  same,  or  by  the  central  office,
or  of  the  chief  registrar  or  any  assistant  registrar  by  his
authority,  be  liable  on  summary  conviction  to  a  penalty
not  exceeding  twenty  pounds  and  costs,  and  to  be  ordered
to  deliver  up  all  such  property,  or  to  repay  all  moneys
applied  improperly,  and  in  default  of  such  delivery  or  repayment, ­
  or  of  the  payment  of  such  penalty  and  costs
aforesaid,  to  be  imprisoned,  with  or  without  hard  labour,
for  any  time  not  exceeding  three  months;  but  nothing
herein  contained  prevents  any  such  person  from  being  proceeded ­
  against  by  way  of  indictment,  if  not  previously  convicted ­
  of  the  same  offence  under  the  provisions  of  this  Act  (d).

(c)  See  note  (5),  p.  78,  ante.
(d)  This  is  a  re-enactment  of  sect.  24  of  18  &  19  Viet.  c.  63,
as  amended  by  23  &  24  Viet.  c.  58,  s.  9,  with  the  important
further  amendment  that  the  complaining  member  need  not  be,  as
heretofore,  authorized  by  a  general  meeting,  but  may  be  authorized ­
  by  the  society,  the  trustees,  or  the  committee  of  management, ­
  or  the  central  office.  The  form  of  declaration  required  by
the  central  office  before  granting  an  authority  is  given  in  the
Appendix.  To  render  the  treasurer  of  a  society  liable  to  the
penalties  imposed  by  this  section,  for  withholding  or  misapplying