The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-06-08

"a 1000
*These amounts to be paid twelve months
from date of certificate.
MEMBERSHIP FEES.
In every instance the membership fee
must be paid in advance. Persons apply
ing direct to the main office for member
ship, must send the fee with application;
those applying through regularly author
lied agents, will pay fee to them. Ger
titicates will be issued as soon as applica-
tons are received, and they will be mailed
applicants at once. Should they not be re-
ceived by them within twenty days after
applying for membership, they will please
communicate the fact to the office. Certif-
icates will be valid from their date, and
will only be issued to acceptable men and
women.
ASSESSMENTS.
Members will be assessed according 10
their classes, as indicated. The first
assessment must be paid in advance.
at date of joining. This assessment i.
called for thus early for the purpose of Gre
ating a reserve marriage benefit fund.
This and all future assessments will be de-
posted in bank by the Treasurer, and can
only be made available to pay off marriage
certificates upon order OF the President.
When the Union receives the proof OF
marriage, it will notify members, and as
sess them according to their respec-
tive classes. They will then be required
to remit the amounts called for, at their
own expense, within thirty days from date
OF notice. Members failing to pay the as
sessments within thirty days will be sus-
pended. Assessments will only be made as
they are required to pay marriage benefits.
ANNUAL DUES.
All annual dues will begin at date of
certificate, and must be paid to the first day
of the following January, new members
being allowed sixty days in which to
pay for the first year or fraction thereof.
Subsequent payment of annual dues shall
be made in advance on the first day OF each
January. Members will be notified when
to pay their annual dues, but should they
fail to do SO within thirty days from date of
notice, they will be suspended.
REMITTANcEs.
All membership fees, assessments and
annual dues are. payable in New Orleans,
at the Office of the Union, the cost of trans
hitting to be borne by party sending them.
Agents, applicants and members are request
ed to remit either by registered letters, money
orders or by checks on New Orleans.
Checks drawn on other cities must include
the exchange for collecting. All paper
must be made payable to the Secretary's
order.
PROOF OF MARRIAGE.
Certificates will be paid sixty days at
ter they are due and proof is received
by the Union that marriage occur
red, after the respectability of the con-
tracing parties is established. In or
der to establish their claims, members
must send to the Office the certificate of the
clerk, or officer issuing the license, stating
that he issued it on a certain day, giving
the full names of the parties and their ad-
dress, that it was returned to him with the
certificate of the minister or person Official
ting. The certificate of the officer perform
ing the ceremony and that of two persons
who witnessed it must accompany the claim.
They must definitely locate the marriage,
giving State, county, town, or locality, and
residence where it occurred, the year, month,
day, particular hour and minutes. Aprinted
form, giving all particulars for the estab-
lishmen of claims, will be sent members
requesting it. After marriage q member
is retired from the Union.
GENERAL REMARKS.
Members being suspended for non-pay-
ment of assessments or annual dues, will
have no claim on the Union. After sus-
pension they can be reinstated by paying
all assessments and dues for the time they
were in arrears, but their membership will
date from the day of their reinstatement.
All certificates are grown after two years;
but any member who has rot married, and
has paid all dues and assessments for fif-
teen years, will be entitled to the benefit
named in certificate.
Any misstatement of facts in applica-
tions for membership, will forfeit all claims
members, or their legal representatives,
have on the Union.
All certificates must be signed by the
President, certified by the Secretary, and
must bear the corporate seal of the Union.
Members marrying before the expiration
of six months from date Of their certificate,
will have no claim on the Union.
No certificate will be paid by the Treas
urer except on the written order of the Sec
rotary, countersigned by the President.
Should members die before their certifi-
Gates are due, none Of their representatives
can collect anything from the Union.
In case an application is rejected, it will
be returned to the applicant with the money
sent.
The membership fee and one advance
| assessment must accompany each applica-
ton.
Agents will be required to collect the first
assessments from all applicants secured by
them.
estimating the amount of a certificate.
Members changing their address, should
| notify the Secretary promptly.
Certificates will be made payable to any
one the applicant designates.
Those wishing to join the Union, should
send for blank applications.
With a fair membership one assessment
will pay several marriages.
When member marries all are assessed,
each according to class.
WILL IT SUCCEED?
Yes, ii members pay their assessments
promptly. Other similar associations have
succeeded and are now paying their certif-
icates when member marries. The sue
cess of the Union depends on the ac-
ton Of the members. The officers are
simply Trustees, elected because of their
known business qualifications 10 conduct
the affairs Of the Union, and will receive
and pay out the assessments according to
the rules governing. They are under suf-
6cient bond to guarantee faithful and
honest performance of their duties.
AGENTS WANTED.
Active, reliable, energetic agents are
wanted in every part Of the Southern
States. None need apply unless they can
furnish satisfactory references, or give a
small bond. A liberal eommission viii b
given.