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     any oflicer of such Court for any matter or thing 
     
     done in such Court in pursuance of this Act; and 
     
     that, upon the presenting of any such petition, it 
     
     shall be lawful for the Judges of. the said Court to 
     
     assign Counsel learned inthc Law on behalf of such 
     
     Society, who are hereby respectively required to do 
     
     their duties therein without fee or reward. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XV. If any person who may hereafter be appoint- 
     
     ed to any office in any such Society, and being in- 
     
     structcd with the keeping ofthe accounts, or having 
     
     in his hands or possession, by virtue of his said office 
     
     or employment, any moneys or effects ibelonging to 
     
     such Society, or any deeds or securities relating to 
     
     the same, shall die, or become bankrupt or insol- 
     
     vent, or have any execution or attachment, or other 
     
     process issued against his lands, goods, chattels or 
     
     effects, or property or estate, heritable or moveable, 
     
     or make any disposition, assignment or other con- 
     
     veyancefihereof, for the benefit of his creditors, his 
     
     heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, or other 
     
     person having legal right, or the Sheriff or other 
     
     officer executing such process, shall, within forty 
     
     days after demand made in writing by the order of 
     
     any such Society or Committee thereof, or the major 
     
     part ofthem assembled at any meeting thereof, deliver 
     
     and pay over all moneys and other things belonging 
     
     to such Society to such person as such Society or 
     
    
   
   
    
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     aforesaid, of or belonging to or bad by such Society, 
     
     provided that such person shall have been thereunto 
     
     duly authorized by the consent of the majority of 
     
     members present at any meeting of the Society or 
     
     Committee thereof; and such person so appointed 
     
     shall and may, in all cases concerning the property, 
     
     right or claim aforesaid of such Society, sue and be 
     
     sued, plead and be impleaded in his or her proper 
     
     name, as Trustee or Treasurer of such Society, with- 
     
     out other description; and no such suit, action or 
     
     prosecution shall be discontinued or abate by the 
     
     death of such person, or his or her removal from the 
     
     office of Trustee or Treasurer, but the same shall‘ 
     
     and may be proceeded in by the succeeding Trustee 
     
     or Treasurer in the proper name of theperson com- 
     
     mencing the same, any law, usage or custom to the 
     
     contrary nothwithstanding; and such succeeding 
     
     Trustee or Treasurer shall pay or receive like costs 
     
     as if the action or suit had been commenced in his 
     
     or her name for the benefit of, or to be reimbursed 
     
     from the funds of such Society. ’ 
     
    
   
   
    
     XVII. The Trustee or Treasurer, or any officer 
     
     ‘of any Society established under the authority of 
     
     this Act, shall not be liable to make good any de- 
     
     ficiency which may arise in the funds of such Society, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     unless such persons shall have respectively declared, 
     
     by writing under their hands, transmitted and regis- 
     
    
   
   
    
     Committee shall appoint, and shall pay out of the tered in like manner with the rules of such Society, 
     
     Estate, assets or effects, heritable or moveable of that they are willing so to be answerable; and it shall 
     
     such persons, all sums ofmoney remaining due which be lawful for each ofsuch persons, or for such persons 
     
     such person received by virtue of his said office or collectively, to limit his, her or their responsibility 
     
    
   
   
    
     employment before any other ofhis debts are paid or to such a sum as shall be specified in any 
     
    
   
   
    
     satisfied, or before the money directed to be levied 
     
    
   
   
    
     by such process as aforesaid, or which may be re-l 
     
    
   
   
    
     covered or recoverable under the same, is paid over 
     
     to the party issuing such process; and all such assets, 
     
     lands, goods, chattels, property, estates and effects 
     
    
   
   
    
     such 
     
     instrument or writing; provided always that the said 
     
     Trustee and Trustees or Treasurer, and every the 
     
     ,officer of any such Society, shall be and they are 
     
     ,hereby declared to be personally responsible and 
     
     ,liable for all moneys actually received by him, her 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     shall be bound to the payment and discharge thereof; or them on account of, 01' to 0r for the use of the 
     
    
   
   
    
     accordingly. 
     
    

    
     XVI. All real and heritable property, moneys, 
     
     goods, chattels and effects whatever, and all titles, 
     
     securities for money or other obligatory instruments 
     
     and evidences or muniments, and all other effects 
     
    
   
   
    
     whateVer, and all rights and claims belonging to or, 
     
     had by such Society, shall be vested in the Trustees? 
     
    
   
   
    
     or Treasurer of such Society for the time being, for 
     
     the use and benefit of such Society and the respec- 
     
     tive members thereof, their respective executors or 
     
     administrators, according to their respective claims 
     
     and interest; and after the death or removal of any 
     
     Trustee or Treasurer, shall vest in the succeeding 
     
     Trustee or Treasurer for the same estate or interest 
     
     as the former Trustee or Treasurer had therein, and 
     
     subject to the sametrusts, withoutany assignment or 
     
     conveyance whatever; and also shall, for all purposes 
     
     ofaction or suit, as well criminal as civil, in Law or in 
     
     Equity, in any wise touching or concerning the same, 
     
     be deemed and taken to be, and shall in every such 
     
     proceeding, (when necessary), be stated to be the 
     
     property of the person appointed to the office of Trus- 
     
     tee or Treasurer of such Society for the time being, 
     
     in his or her proper name, without further descrip- 
     
     tion; and such person shall, and he or she is hereb 
     
     respectively authorized to bring or defend, or cause 
     
     to be brought or defended, any action, suit or prose- 
     
     cution. criminal as well as civil, in Law or in Equity 
     
     touching or concerning the property, right or Claim: 
     
    
   
   
    
     ,‘said Society. 
     
    

    
     XVIII. Whenever the Trustees of any Society 
     
     established under this Act, at any time after the 
     
     decease of any member, have paid and divided any 
     
     sum of money to or amongst any person or persons 
     
     who shall at the time of such payment appear to such 
     
     Trustees to be entitled to the eflects of any deceased 
     
     intestate member, the payment of any such sum or 
     
     sums of money, shall be valid and effectual with 
     
     respect to any demand of any other person or persons 
     
     as next of kin of such deceased intestate member 
     
     against the funds of such Society, or against the 
     
     Trustees thereof; but, nevertheless, such next of 
     
     kin, or representative, shall haVe remedy for such 
     
     money so paid as aforesaid against the person or 
     
     persons who shall have received the same. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XIX. In case any member of any Society shall 
     
     die, who shall be entitled to any sum not exceeding 
     
     Twenty pounds, it shall be lawful for the Trustees 
     
     or Treasurer of such Society, and they are hereby 
     
     authorized and permitted, if such TrUStees or Trea- 
     
     surer shall be satisfied that no will was made and 
     
     left by such deceased member, and that no will was 
     
     made and left by such deceased member, and that 
     
    
   
   
    
     y no letters of administration will be taken out of the 
     
    
   
   
    
     funds, goods and chattels of such depositor, to pay 
     
     the same at any time after the decease of such 
     
     member according to the rules and regulations of 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     the said Society; and in the event of their being no