Date: 1883
registered as an incorporated society, and made a perpetual sleeping partner ( commanditairc ) in tfie firm of 'Leclaire et Compagnie.'  Tfie words of tfie founder on fianding over the new statutes to the members in 1864 are well worthy of citation here : — " ' The members of the Mutual Aid Society are no longer mere journeymen who act like machines and quit their work before the clock has sounded its last stroke.  All have become partners working on their own account : in virtue of this, nothing in the workshop ought to be indifferent to tfiem ; all sliould attend to the preservation of the tools and materials as if they were the special keepers of them If you wish that I should leave this world with a contented heart, it is necessary that you shoidd have realized the dream of my whole life ; it is necessary that, after regular conduct and assiduous labour, a workman and his wife should have the wherewithal to live in peace witfiout being a burden upon any one.'