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PENSIONS. The Annuitants now number Fifty, the Men receiving 25?. and the Women -M. per annum each.

The " Royal Victoria Pension Fund," commemorating the great advantages the News Trade enjoyed under the rule of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, provides 201. a year each for Six Widows oi Newsvenaors.

The " Francis Fund " provides Pensions for One Man, 251., and One Woman, 2W., and was specially subscribed in memory of the late John Francis, who died on April 6, 1882, and was for more than fifty years Publisher of the Atheiutum. He took an active and leading part throughout the whole period of the agitation for the repeal of tht various then existing "Taxes on Knowledge," and was for very manj years a staunch supporter of this Institution.

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The "Herbert Lloyd Pension Fund" provides 257. per annum for one nun, in perpetual and grateful memory of Mr. Herbert Lloyd, who died May 12, 1809.

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