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INDEX TO REPORT. mm I.—Business of the Registry Office ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 1. —Departmental Work during the Year. 2.—Societies Registered during the Year. 3.—New Branches Registered. 4.—Societies Converted into Branches. s.—Complete Amendments of Rules Registered. 6.—Partial Amendments of Rules Registered. 7. —Changes of Name Registered. 8. —Trustees Registered. 9.—Removals of Office Registered. 10. —Cancellations of Registry effected. ll.—Leading Features of new Rules Registered ... ... ... ... ... ... • ILL —Remarks on Amendment Act of 1878 ... ... ... ... ... ... 6 TV.—Remarks on the Model Tables of Contributions ... ... ... ... ... ... 6 V.—The Card System and new Return Forms ... ... ... ... ... ... 6 VT.—Valuations ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 7 VII. —Trade Unions ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 8 VTII.— The Annual Statistics for 1877 ... ... ._. ... ... ... ... 0

SCHEDULES. I,—(a.) Applications for Registry of Societies ... „. „. ... ... ... 1> (6.) Applications for Cancelment and Re-registration. (c.) Applications for Registry of Partial Amendments of Rules. (d.) Applications for Registry of Complete Amendments of Rules. (c.) Notice of Establishment of Branches under Section 30, Subsection 3, of Aot of 1877. (y.) Applications for Conversion into Registered Branches. ll.—List of Registered Societies, with their Registered Branches, on 30th June, 1879 «__ ... ... 15 III.— " Friendly Societies Act Amendment Act, 1878" ... ... ... ... ... 16 IV. —Further Regulations under " The Friendly Societies Act, 1877" ... ... ... ... 17 V.— Memorandum for the Information and Guidance of Friendly Societies ... ... ... ... 10 VI. —Introductory Observations on the Table of Rates of Contributions ... ... ... ... 22 Vll. —Form of " Return of Sickness, Mortality, and other Contingencies " ... ... ... ... 25 VIII. —Form of " General Statement of Receipts and Expenditure, Funds and Effects" ... ... ... 26 TT.—Form of Abstract of Valuation ... ... ... ... „. ... ... Z& X —Regulations and Forms under "The Trade Union Act, 1878" ... ... ... ... 81 XL—Tables of Vital and Financial Statistics for 1877."