The Sun.
London, England, 1838-04-24 00:00:00

RULES FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF
THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SOCIE'n
OF SCOTLAND.

INSTITUTED AT GLASGOW, 1838.
PREFACE.—There is no class of society exempt from
contingencies, or free from the vicissitudes of fortune ;
bu
if there be any body of men more liable than another ti
these causualties, perhaps it is Commercial Traveller,
The nature of their occupation exposes them, in a mac:
greater degree than the resident citizen, to the inclemencie:
of every season, and the chances of the numerous accidents
of travelling ; and it is a fact too well known, that the
emoluments of their profession seldom enable them to make
provision against such evils.
Impressed with the importance of considerations arising
from these circumstances, and desirous of providing song
remedy, a meeting of Commercial Travellers was held at
Glasgow in 1837, at which it tvas resolved to form a
Friendly Society, upon the principle of mutual support ii.
time of need, and for the purpose of securing at death
sum Sufficient for interment, The I,,,nowina
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government of the institution
were accordingly prepared
view of meeting those objects; the Table of Con-
tribution and Aliment being based on the experience of the
Highland Society of Scotland.

RULES, &c.
I.—NAME AND OBJECT OF THE SOCIETY.—The nano
of the Society shall be the " Commercial Travellers'
Society of Scotland," and be composed of an indefinite
number of Members. Glasgow shall be the scat of its
operations, and the place where all meetings of the Society
shall be held ; and it shall not be com.petent at any time
to alter said title, or remove its management from that city.
The object of the Society is to establish a fund for the re-
lief of Members, who may be retdered incapable of attend-
ing to business in consequence of sickness, and for securing
a reversionary payment for funeral charges on the death of
Members. And to these, the declared purposes of the So-
ciety, the whole funds shall be applied.

H.—PERSONS ELIGIBLE, AND FORM OF ADMISSION.
—Applicants for admission must be upwards of twenty
years of age, and have travelled for at least three months.
The Applicant must be recommended to the Society by a
Member, at an Ordinary Meeting of the Directors. At
the meeting following, the application shall be considered,
and if then approved of by a majority of votes taken by bal-
lot, he shall be dtAared eligible for Membership ; and on
producing to the Secretary, eight days at least, before the
succeeding meeting, a certificate of health under the hands
of the Society's Surgeon, with satisfactory evidence csf age,
he shall, at said meeting, lac admitted a Member ; and en
paying the sum of two pounds sterliu,D, in name of entry
money, and subscribing the regulations, in twelve months
thereafter, be entitled tu participate in all the privileges
of the Society; Persons under twenty-one years of age
shall not he admitted Members without the consent of their
parents, masters, or guardians.

lUSIDENT -MEMBERS TO APPOINT AN
AGENT.—Members not resident within the Parliamentary
houndaries of the City of Glasgow, must. appoint an agent
within these hounds to pay their contributions, and receive
their aliment ; of which appointment intimation must be
given to the Secretary in writing: and all notices of arrears
intimations of meetings, alterations of rules, and other such
matters, addressed to the Agent, shall be held as delivered
to the Member.

IV.—CONCEALMENT OR FRAUD, AND REFUSAL OF
ALIMENT, PUNISHED BY EXPULSION.—Any Member
who may be proved to the satisfaction of the Directors to
have concealed any existing disease tending to impair health,
or having been knowingly or viciously the cause of his in-
disposition, or of having claimed or obtained aliment upon
a false pretence, or who may be judicially convicted of
crime, shall be expelled the Society, and forfeit all claims
thereon ; and any Member wilfully failing to apply for, or
refusing to reeeire aliment when awarded, shall be liable to
expulsion from the Society at the first General Meeting
held after the offence, unless upon cause shown to the
contrary.

V.—CONTRIBUTIONS, WIDEN PAYABLE, AND ALIMEN-
TARY TABLE.—The contributions of Members shall be
payable annually, in advance, upon Ist January or Ist July
(as may be fixed by the !Members at the time of entering
the Society), or by a single payment agreeably to the lel-
lowing Table,--annual contributions being redeemable at
any period by a single payment, corresponding to the ago at
which any Member may wish to redeem the same,—de-
ducting always the value of the sums already paid by him
into the Society ; which value shall be ascertained by the
proportion which the annual contribution of the Member
wishing to redeem, bears to the annual contributon re-
quired from a new entrant of the same age.* Entrants in
the course of the year, shall pay at entry, the proportion of
the annual contribution commensurate with the part of the
year to run.