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Rh Sixpence—is paid for each share on the decease of every member for whose funeral the society has any disbursement to make; and each member above twenty-one years of age (excepting women) pays, at each yearly meeting, one shilling for dinner and liquor: but no member is obliged to be at any expence at monthly or other meetings. A deposit of two shillings and sixpence is made on proposing any person to become a member, which, if the person be not admitted, is returned. Any member, under forty-five years of age, may increase his or her original share, on contributing according to his or her age, at the time of making such increase.

For one share, and so in proportion for half a share:

Six shillings a week, when confined in