Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-04-13
BY AUTHORITY.
lets and Resolutions passed at the Second
Session of the Thirtieth Congress.

[PuBLIc-No. 17.l-An Act amendatory of
an act entitled IS An act amendatory Of the
act entitled AN act to incorporate the Provi.
dent Association of Clerks in the Civil
Departments OF the Government Of the Uni
ted States. in the District of Columbia I"
approved Sd March, 1926.
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House Of
Representatives of the United States of Amer
ica n, Congress assembled, That from and af-
ter the first day of January, eighteen hundred
and forty-eight, the funds of ' the Provident
Association of Clerks" shall be appropriated
and paid to the families of deceased members,
at the following rates, to wit: To the families
of such member as may die, at any time during
the first fivs years OF their membership. the
amount Of the subscription which shall have
been paid in by such members respectively,
with me addiuon Tnerstu uf atty PuE ventura OF
the amount 80 paid in by them; to tho families
of members dying at any time during the next
five years, an additional sum Of seven dollars
and half for every quarter of each OF said
succeeding years to the families of members
dying at any time during the next succeeding
ten years, an additional sum of six dollars and
twenty five cents for every quarter Of each OF
said succeeding years; to the families Of
bers dying at any time during the next sue
ceeding five years; an additional sum of five
dollars for every quarter ofeach of said succeed
ing years; to the families of members dying at
any time during the next succeeding ten years;
an additional sum of six dollars and twenty-five
cents for every quarter ofeach of said succeed
ing years; and to the families of members dying
at any time after the thirty-hfth year, an addi-
tional sum of twelve dollars and fifty cents for
every quarter of each of said succeeding years ::
so that at the end of the fifth, tenth, twentieth,
twenty fifth, lhirty-ffth, fortieth years res.
pectively, every member dying at either of
those periods shall have provided for his faml-
" out of the funds of the association the sums
of seventy-fivc, two hundred and twenty five,
four hundred and seventY-fve, five hundred
and seventy-hve, eight hundred and twenty.
five, and one thousand and seventy-fve dol
lars respectively.
| SEC. 9 And be it further enacted, That
with the consent of three-fourths of all the
contributing members, the foregoing rates
may. at any time, be increased or diminished
and subsequently altered, as may be deemed
warranted or required by the then existing
funds of the association Provided, That any
and every such act ofalteration, duly attested
by the presiding and recording officers of the
association, and under its seal, shall be filed
within ten days after the adoption thereof, in
| tho Office of clerk of the circuit court of the
District of Columbia for the county of Wash
tngton, whose duty it is hereby made to re-
ceive and record the same in his office.
Sec. 3 A4,d be 1t further enacted, That any
member of the association who has been, OF
may hereafter be removed from Office may al
any time hereafter. and after such removal
discontinue his quarterly payments to the funds
of the association, and instead of thereby forfel
ting his previous payments, as provldedin thu
original act ofincorporation of said association
| by such discontinuance, there shall be paid to
the family of such member, at his death, such
an amount of the said funds as they would
have been entitled to had his death occurred
at the time he discontinued his payments.
SEC. And be it further enacted, That i
shall be lawful for a member of said assoc!a
ton who has wife and children 10 designate
his widow as entitled 10 receive the whole
benefit of his membership: if no widow, his
children, or such ofthem as he may designate
and if no child or children, then such person
or persons as he may designate, (or adopt
by giving notice in writing to the presden
and board of officers of the name or names oil
such person or persons.
SEQ. S Ard be it further ENACTED, That 81
much of the original act of incorporation, ant
of the act Of the third of March, eighteen hun
dred and twenty-five amendatory thereof. as j.
inconsistent with tho provisions of the act, b.
and the same is hereby, repealed.
ROB'T c. WINTHROP,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
G. M. DALLAS,
Vice President of the United States, and
| President of the Senate
Approved March ?, l849.
| JAMES K. POLK.