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INTRODUCTION • 
fits proposed to be used miglit be adopted with 
safety to all parties concerned. 
11. This statute re-enacted the more important 
of the privileges conferred by that of 1793 on 
Friendly Societies, and in some particulars ex 
tended them. On the other hand, it required 
them to pay one guinea fee to the barrister for 
his certificate. It specified a list of securities 
upon which the funds might be invested ; it made 
provision against the incapacity or refusal to 
act of trustees; it authorized societies to pay 
small sums without the expense of adminis 
tration ; it substituted a summary remedy before 
justices for that in Chancery in the case of 
defaulting officers; it omitted the provision for 
the appointment of responsible householders as 
trustees, and for requiring tlicir consent to a dis 
solution of the society; and substituted for the 
certificate of experts, in cases of dissolution, the 
agreement of five-sixths of the members and of 
all those entitled to relief. It also provided 
that minors might be members, and that an 
annual audited statement of the funds should be 
prepared, of which each member should be entitled 
to a copy on payment of a sum not exceeding 
sixpence. 
12. The Act of 1829 after reciting that it is 
“ desirable, for the better security of such societies, 
that correct calculations of tables of payment and 
allowances, dependent on the duration of sickness 
and the probabilities of human life, may be con 
structed for their assistance, and the present 
existing data on these subjects have been found