Report from the Select Committee on the Friendly Societies Bill

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1849, sessional number 458, xvi and 266 pp. Minute of Appointment, Report, Proceedings of the Committee, List of Witnesses, Minutes of Evidence, Analysis of Index, Index. Committee appointed April 1849 to consider and report on "A Bill to make better Provision for the certifying the Tables of Contributions and Payments of Friendly Societies, and for ascertaining from time to time the Solvency of such Societies". Witnesses include John Finlaison [1783-1860, actuary, see D.N.B.], John Tidd Pratt [1797-1870, Registrar of Friendly Societies, see D.N.B.], Edward Rushton, Stipendiary Magistrate for Borough of Liverpool [1796-1851, see D.N.B.], Thomas Luff, Grand Master of the Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows, and Charles Ansell [1794-1881, actuary, see D.N.B.]. Topics considered by Committee include accounts, actuaries, management, proposed form of annual and quinquennial returns, model tables. Folio. Rebound in blue cloth boards with gold titling.

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• Title: Report from the Select Committee on the Friendly Societies Bill