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1. Each man or boy receiving weekly wages for day of contract work shall obtain from the colliery office, at his own cost, a book wherein shall be entered from his wage-notes, by a clerk appointed for the purpose, the amount of wages earned by him. 2. In case of two or more men or boys being paid together, and their joint wages entered in one note, such man or boys shall apportion the amount due to each before bringing the note to the office for entry of the amounts in their respective books. 3. Attendance will be given on alternate Saturdays, between the hours of one and four, at Whitwood and Methley Junction, at offices appointed for the purpose, at which time all men who wish to participate in any bonus that may be earned must bring their respective wage-notes and books to such offices for examination and entry not less frequently than once each calendar month.

4. Any man failing to bring his book and wage-notes to the above-named offices for more than four weeks from the date of any such notes, will not be entitled to have his earnings entered among the sums on which a bonus may become payable. 5. If during the twelve months ending on the 30th of June in each year that the co-operative system is continued the profits realised by the company prove sufficient to admit of the payment of a bonus to workers, such bonus will be paid as a percentage on the wages earned during the same period, but no person who may have earned wages paid weekly will be entitled to receive any part of such bonus unless his wage-book, entered in accordance with the rules 3 and 4, is left for examination at one of the above-named offices on or before the 15th of July in each year.

6. In distributing any bonus that may be divisible at the termination of any year, the directors of the company retain the power of forming a bonus reserve fund, and from time to time of varying the amount of such fund, for the purpose of equalising the amount of bonus payable, also of giving a preference bonus on their earnings to such workmen as may have paid up the sum of ten pounds on any share in the company. For the year ending June 30th, 1867, and until further notice, shareholders conforming to these rules will be entitled to receive