The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-11-13 00:00:00

PROTECTIVE BURIAL SOCIETY.

Last evening a meeting of this society was held in
the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street, the object of
which was to make alterations to the following effect
in the existing laws of the society :-
1. To increase payment on death of members of five
years' standing by is in the pound, and for every addi_
tional year 3d in the pound.
2. To prevent persons from becoming double, treble,
or quadruple members, without a medical certificate.
3. To increase allowances to the General Committee
of Management to 2s 6d each.
4. To'alter the hour and day of meeting of the Exe-
cutive Committee, and to make corresponding alterations.
5. To alter the days mentioned in Rules 19, 83, 96,
and 102.
6. To alter the annual meeting to the first Monday
in March, and to direct the annual statement to be made
on the Ist March. _ _ _

7. To add, after Rule 72, power to the General Com-
mittee of Management to fine any officer or servant, not
exceeding twenty-eight pounds, and to dispose of the
fine, or any part thereof, in favour of any member
damnified.

8. To provide for the name and address of any
intended officer to be elected at an annual meeting, lacing
furnished to the solicitor one calendar month before We
meeting, and to-impose a forfeiture of a month's salary
on an officer resigning without notice.
9. To provide for one-third of the General Committee
of Management retiring at the next, and every subse-
quent meeting.
Mr. Hall was called upon to preside, and in taking
the chair he said that he hoped every person present
would behave themselves "decently," but from the
constitution of the meeting he was fearful that it would
not do so. After a considerable amount of personal
feeling had evaporated between the officials and the
members, the following amendments were carried
almost without a dissenting voice :-
1. That (subject to Rule 14), the payment on the
death of a member in benefit, and who has been a mem-
ber for five years next preceding his or her death, shall
be increased by £5 per annum (or one shilling in the
pound), and for every additional year or fraction of a
year, three pence in the pound further, subject in each
case to the 2nd sec. of the 21 and 22 Vic., e. 101,
repealed by 21 and 22 Vic., c. 101, sec. 2.
2. No person shall hereafter be entitled to become a.
double, treble, or quadruple member, unless a medical,
man named by the society shall first certify that such
person is in a good state of health, and not subject to.
any disorder likely to shorten life.
3. That the allowance to the members of the general
committee of management and executive committee,
under Rules 58, 59, and 70, shall be increased to 2s. 6d.
each.
4. That, instead of the executive committee being
bound to meet as under Rule 66 is appointed, they shall
meet on Friday in each week, at half-past eight in the
evening, and in Rule 113 Saturday shall be substituted
for Friday.
5. That Friday shall be substituted for Thursday in
Rule 19, and Thursday shall be substituted far Wed-
nesday in Rules 19, 83, and 102, and Friday for Thurs-
day, and Thursday for Wednesday, in Rule 96.
6. That, instead of the annual meeting taking place
on the first Monday in August, the same shall take
place on the first Monday in March, under Rule 'in;
and the annual statement under Rule 117 shall be pre-
pared on every the Ist day of January, and a corre-
sponding alteration shall be made in Rule 107, and the
first meeting under this amendment shall take place in
the year 1861.
7. That, after Rule 72 shall be added—Every officer
or servant for neglect of duty shall forfeit and pay unto
the society such sum as the general committee of
of management shall determine, not exceeding the sum
of £2B at one time, and the general committee of
management shall be at liberty to pay all or any part of
a fine to any member, or person representing a member,
who shall in their opinion have been damnified by such
neglect of duty.
8. That, after rule 73 shall be added, No person shall
be eligible for election as an officer of this society at any
annual meeting of members, unless his name and address
shall have been furnished to the solicitor of the society
one calendar month previous to the date of holding such
meeting, accompanied by an acceptance in writing of the
office if elected. Any officer resigning his office without
giving one month's notice shall forfeit one month's salary.
9. At the next annual meeting one-third of the
general committee of management shall retire from
office; and at the annual meeting in every subsequent
year one-third of the same committee for the time being,
or if their number in either case is not a multiple of
three, then the number nearest to one-third shall retire
from office.
The one-third or other nearest number to retire at
the now next annual meeting, and the then next annual
meeting, shall, unless the committee agree amongst
themselves, be determined by ballot. In every subse-
quent year the one-third or other nearest number who
have been longest in office shall retire. A retiring com-
mittee-man shall be eligible for re-election.