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Rh Any of their members may withdraw at any time, after payment of the subscriptions due and those of the current year, notwithstanding any clause to the contrary.

Notwithstanding any clause to the contrary in the statutes, the acts of financial management and legal administration carried on by the directors or administrators shall be each year at least, presented to the control of the general assembly of the members of the association and submitted to its approbation.

The associations may receive, besides the subscriptions provided for by article 6 of the law of July 1, 1901, the product of donations and collections for the expense of the religion and receive payments: for ceremonies and religious services even by foundation; for the letting of benches and seats; for the furnishing of objects for funeral services in religious buildings and for the decoration of these buildings.

They may without giving occasion to the collection of dues turn over the surplus of their receipts to other associations constituted for the same purpose.

They shall not, under any form whatsoever, receive subventions from the state, departments, or communes. The sums allowed for repairs to registered monuments are not considered as subventions.

22. The associations and unions can employ their available resources for the formation of a reserve fund sufficient to assure the expenses and maintenance of the religion and not susceptible in any case of receiving any other destination; the amount of this reserve shall never exceed a legal sum, for unions and associations having more than five thousand francs (5,000 francs) of income, at three times, and for the other associations at six times the annual average of the sums expended by each of them during the last five years.

Title V. Regulation of Worship.

25. Meetings for the celebration of worship held in places beneficent influence over the people, and by paralyzing her tion are public. They are released from the formalities of article 8 of the law of June 30, 1881, but remain placed under the surveillance of the authorities in the interest of public order. They cannot take place except after a declaration