General abstract of the results of experiments, &c.-Continued. THRUSTING STRESS: LENGTH = EIGHT DI AMETERS. SHEARING STRESS: ON EACH END OF SPECI MEN. General abstract of the results of experiments, &c.—Continued. TWISTING STRESS: LENGTH OF LEVER TWELVE INCHES.-LENGTH FOR TORSION EIGHT DIAMETERS. Effects. Effects. General abstract of the results of experiments, &c.—Continued. TWISTING STRESS: LENGTH OF LEVER TWELVE INCHES.-LENGTH FOR TORSION=EIGHT DIAMETERS. General abstract of the results of experiments, &c.—Continued. Results of experiments to ascertain the mechanical properties of nine rolled plates of Fagersta steel of various degrees of hardness, manufactured by Christian Aspelin, esq., Sweden. Results of experiments to ascertain the mechanical properties, &c.-Contin'd. BULGING STRESS. Stress in pounds. Bulged, inch. 5,000. 25,000. 50,000. 75,000. 100,000. Bulge. Stress. Ultimate. APPENDIX E. TRANSCRIPTS OF PRUSSIAN, FRENCH, AND ENGLISH LAWS, UNDER WHICH CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATIONS ARE ORGANIZED. PRUSSIAN LAW GRANTING CORPORATE RIGHTS TO CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATIONS. We, William, by the grace of God King of Prussia, &c., enact, with the consent of the two houses of our Landtag, as follows: PART I.-OF THE FORMATION OF THE ASSOCIATION. SECTION 1. Societies with unlimited membership, whose object it is by the transaction of business in common to enlarge credit, increase the trade, profits, and further the household economy of their members, viz.: 1. Loan and credit unions; 2. Raw material and store unions; 3. Unions for the production and sale of finished wares on a common account, (productive association ;) 4. Unions for the purchase of the necessaries of life wholesale and the selling them retail, (consumption associations ;) 5. Unions for providing members of such unions with dwelling houses; Acquire under the conditions hereinafter described the rights designated in the present law as those of "registered associations." SEC. 2. The requisites to the constitution of such associations are— 1. The drawing up of the statutes in writing. 2. The assumption of a common name, (firma.) The name of the association must be derived from the object of the undertaking, and have affixed to it the title "registered association." Neither the names of the members, (associates,) nor those of any other persons, must appear in the name of the association. Every new name must be clearly distinguished from those of any previously existing registered association in the same locality. SEC. 3. The statutes must contain 1. The name and seat of the association. 2. The object of the undertaking. 3. The duration of the association in the event of the same being established for a limited period only. 4. The conditions under which members join and leave the association. 5. The amount of the shares of the several associates, and the way in which these shares are paid up. 6. The principle upon which the balance sheet is drawn up and the profits are reckoned, and the way in which the balance sheet is audited. 7. The mode of election and the composition of the managing body, |