the said S. B., to enforce the performance thereof, or, with the like sanction, to give notice to the said S. B. that he abandons this agreement; whereupon the same shall cease and determine, and the said official liquidator shall be entitled to proceed against the said S. B. to enforce payment of the said sum of £ or so much thereof as shall then remain due and unpaid, as if this agreement had not been entered into. R. P. H., Official Liquidator. Witness to the signatures of the said R. P. H. and S. B. C. D., of &c. S. B. No. 51.-Memorandum of Sanction of Judge to Agreement of Compromise. [Rule 49.] In the matter, &c. The judge of the County Court of has sanctioned this agreement of compromise. holden at ? G. H., Registrar. No. 52.-Order or Memorandum of the Sanction of the Judge for certain Acts to be done by the Official Liquidator. [Rule 50.] The judge doth hereby sanction [or has sanctioned] the following proceedings being taken [or acts being done] by the official liquidator of the above-named society; namely, [state the proceedings to be taken or acts to be done as] the bringing [or instituting] and prosecuting an action at law [or suit in equity], in the name and on behalf of the said society, against [or defending an action at law [or suit in equity] brought (or instituted] against the said society by] K. M., of &c., to recover a debt or sum of £ alleged to be due from [or to] the said K. M. to [or from] the said society, &c. G. H., Registrar. No. 53.-Appearance Book. [Rule 62.] You are hereby required to attend at on 186 at the hour of in the day the day of noon, to be examined on the part of the official liquidator [r of W. D., of &c.], for the purpose of proceedings directed by the judge of the said court to be taken before me in the above matter, and then and there to have and produce [the several documents hereunder specified] and all other books, papers, writings, and other documents relating to the above-named society, which may be in your custody, possession, or power. In default of your attendance you will be liable to a penalty of £10. Dated this day of To 186 G. H., Registrar. [Here insert list of documents mentioned in the application for the summons.] No. 55.-Certificate of the Society being_completely wound up, and of the Official Liquidator having passed his final Account. [Rule 66.] In the matter, &c. In pursuance of the directions given to me by the judge of , holden at the County Court of I hereby certify that R. P. H., the official liquidator of the above-named society, has passed his final account as such official liquidator, and that the balance of £ thereby certified to be due to [or from] the said official liquidator has been paid in the manner directed by the order dated the day of 186 and that the affairs of the said society have been completely wound up. The evidence produced, &c. No. 56.-Order to dissolve the Society. [Rule 66.] Upon the application of the official liquidator of the above-named society, and upon reading an order dated the and the registrar's certificate, dated the day of whereby it appears that the affairs of the said society have been completely wound up, and that the balance of £ due from [or to] the official liquidator, has been paid in manner directed by the said order, it is ordered that the said society, limited, be dissolved, as from this dated the be vacated. day of day of ,186 and that the recognizance 186 entered into by the said official liquidator, together with W. B. and T. P., his sureties, WESTBURY, C. JOHN ROMILLY, M.R. RICHARD T. KINDERSLEY, V.-C. JOHN STUART, V.-C. W. P. WOOD, V.-C. STAT. 30 & 31 VICT. CAP. 117. An Act to amend the Industrial and Provident [20th August, 1867.] Societies Acts. WHEREAS by the Industrial and Provident So- Ante, p. And whereas doubts having arisen as to the effect of the said act in certain cases, it is expedient that the same should be removed, and that the provisions so made should be amended in other respects; Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :— c. 63, and and 25 of 115. 1. There shall be repealed, from and after the Sect. 48 of passing of this act, the forty-eighth section of the 18 & 19 Vict. eighteenth and nineteenth Victoria, chapter sixty- ss. 5, 9, 15, 16, three, and the fifth, ninth, fifteenth, sixteenth, and 25 & 26 Vict. twenty-fifth sections of the recited act, and so much c. 87, reof the third section as excepts the working of mines and quarries from the objects for which any society may be established under the act. pealed. interest of 2. A society registered under this act may hold Limitation of in its registered name any amount of interest in any members. other society so registered; but if any other person hold or claim in any society so registered, any interest exceeding two hundred pounds sterling, such person shall incur a penalty equal to the excess of such interest over the said sum. Societies to industrial and provident societies. Provisions of 3. The provisions following contained in the acts the Friendly under mentioned relating to friendly societies shall Acts applied apply to all societies registered under this act, and no such provision shall be affected in its application to such societies by its repeal in regard to friendly societies, unless the contrary be expressly declared by the act repealing the same; and in applying such provisions words concerning the trustee of any society shall be taken to apply to the society, except the context precludes such construction; (that is to say,) 18 & 19 Vict. c. 63, s. 24. 18 & 19 Vict. c. 63, ss. 41, 42, 43, and 21 & 22 Vict. c. 101, s. 1. 18 & 19 Vict. c. 63, s. 30. 18 & 19 Vict. c. 63, s. 37. 21 & 22 Vict. c. 101, s. 4. registration, So much of "The Friendly Societies Acts, 1855 and 1858," as relates to The punishment of fraud in withholding any money or other property belonging to any society: The determination of disputes by the county courts in England, the sheriff's court in Scotland, and the assistant barrister in Ireland, and the orders and proceedings for this purpose: The reception of rules and other instruments in evidence: The exemption of rules and other instruments from stamp duty: The power to any society to change its name. 4. Two copies of the rules shall be forwarded to Certificate of the Registrar of Friendly Societies of England, Scotland, or Ireland, according to the place where the office of the society is situate, and shall be dealt with by him in the manner provided by "The Friendly Societies Act, 1855," and he shall thereupon give his certificate of registration, and such certificate shall in all cases be conclusive evidence that the society has been duly registered, and thereupon the members of such society shall become a body corporate, by the name therein described, having a perpetual succession and a common seal, with power to purchase, erect, and sell and convey, |