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     rules and regulations made in that behalf. then the said 
     
    
   
   
    
     Trustees or Treasurer are hereby authorized and permitted 
     
     to pay and divide the same to and amongst the person or 
     
     persons entitled to the effects of the deceased intestate, and 
     
     that without administration. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XX. For the more effectually preventing fraud and im- 
     
     position in the funds of such societies, if any officer. member, 
     
     or any other person, being or representing himself or herself 
     
     to be a member of such Society, or the nominee, executor, 
     
     administrator or assign of any member of such Society, or 
     
     any other person whatever, shall, in or by any false repre- 
     
     sentation or imposition, fraudulently obtain possession of 
     
     the moneys of such Society, or any part thereof, or having 
     
     in his or er possession any sum of money belonging to such 
     
     Society, shall fraudulently withhold the same, and for which 
     
     offence no especial provision is made in the rules of such 
     
     Society, it shall be lawful for any one Justice of the Peace 
     
     residing within the County within which such Society shall 
     
     be held, upon complaint made on oath by an officer of such 
     
     Society, to summon such person against whom such com- 
     
     plaint shall be made, to appear at a time and place to be 
     
     named in such summons ; and upon his or her appearance, 
     
     or in default thereof, upon due proof upon oath of the ser- 
     
     vice of such summons, it shall and may be lawful for any 
     
     two Justices, residing within the County aforesaid, to hear 
     
     and determine the said complaint according to the rules of 
     
     the said Society, confirmed as directed by this Act; and 
     
     upon due proof‘of such fraud, the said Justices shall convict 
     
     the said party and award double the amount of the money, 
     
     so fraudulently obtained or Withheld, to be paid to the 
     
     Treasurer, to be applied by him to the purposes of the 
     
     Society s0 proved to have been imposed upon and defrauded, 
     
     together with such costs as shall be awarded by the said 
     
     Justices, not exceeding the sum of ten shillings ; and in 
     
     case such person against whom such complaint shall he made, 
     
     shall not pay the sum of money so awarded to the person, 
     
     and at the time specified in the said order, such Justices 
     
     are hereby required, by warrant under their hands and seals, 
     
     to cause the same to be levied by distress and sale of goods 
     
     of such person on whom such order shall have been made, 
     
     or by other legal proceedings, together with such costs as 
     
     shall be awarded by the said Justices, not exceeding the 
     
     sum of ten shillings; and also the costs and charges attend- 
     
     ing such distress and sale or other legal proceeding, return- 
     
     ing the overplus (if any) to the owner; and in default of 
     
     Such distress being found, the said Justices of the Peace 
     
     shall commit such person, so proved to have offended, to the 
     
     County Jail, there to be kept to hard labor for such a period, 
     
     not exceeding three calendar months, as to them shall see 
     
     fit ; provided, nevertheless, that nothing herein contained 
     
     shall prevent the said Society from proceeding, by indict- 
     
     mentor complaint, against the party complained of; and 
     
     provided also that no party shall be proceeded against, by 
     
     indictment or complaint, if a previous conviction has been 
     
     obtained for the same offence under the provisions of this 
     
     Act. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XXI. Provisions shall be made by one or more of the rules 
     
     of every such Society, to be confirmed as required by this 
     
     Act, specifying whether a reference of every matter in dis~ 
     
     putc between any such Society or any 'person acting under 
     
     them, and any individual member thereof, or persons claim- 
     
     ing on account of any member, shall be made to such of Ilcr 
     
     Majesty’s Justices of the Peace as may act in and for the 
     
     County in which such Society may be formed, or to arbitra- 
     
     tors to be appointed in manner hereinafter directed; and it 
     
     the matter so in dispute shall be referred to arbitration, 
     
     certain arbitrators shall be named and elected at the first 
     
     meeting of such Society or Committee thereof that shall be 
     
     held after the enrolment of its rules, none of the said arbi— 
     
     trators being beneficially intrusted, directly or indirectly, in 
     
     the funds of the said Society of whom a certain number, not 
     
     less than three, shall be chosen by ballot; in each such case 
     
     of dispute the number of the said arbitrators, and mode of 
     
     ballot, bcin determined by the rules of each Society rc- 
     
     Spcctively ; t 0 names of such arbitrators shall be duly enter- 
     
     ed in the book of the said Society in which the rules are 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     entered as aforesaid, and in case of the death, or refusal or 
     
     neglect of any or all of the said ilI‘lJlfl‘iltlH‘b‘ to act, it shall 
     
     and may. be lawful to and for the said Society, or Committee 
     
     thereof, and they are hereby required, at their next meet- 
     
     ing, to name and elect one or more arbitrator or arbitrators, 
     
     as aforesaid, to act in the place of" the said arbitrator or 
     
     arbitrators so dying, or refusing or neglecting to act as 
     
     aforesaid, and whatever award shall be made by the said 
     
     arbitrators, or the major part of them, according to the true 
     
     purport and meaning of the rules of such Society, confirmed 
     
     by the Supreme Court according to the directions of this 
     
     Act, shall be in the form to this Act annexed, and shall be 
     
     binding and conclusive on all parties, and shall be final to all 
     
     intents and purposes without appeal or being subject to the 
     
     control of one or more Justices of the Peace, and shall not 
     
     be removed or removable into any Court of Law, or restrain- 
     
     ed or restrain-able by the injunction of any Court of Equity : 
     
     and should either of the said parties in dispute refuse or 
     
     neglect to comply with or conform to the decision of the 
     
     said arbitrators, or the major part of them, it shall and may 
     
     be lawful for any one Justice of the Peace residing within 
     
     the County within which such Society shall be held, upon 
     
     good and sufficient proof being adduced before him of such 
     
     award having been made, and of" the refusal of the party to 
     
     comply therewith, upon complaint made by or on behalf of 
     
     the party a ‘grieved, to summon the person against Whom 
     
     such complaint shall be made, to appear at a time and place 
     
     to be named in such summons ; and upon his or her appear- 
     
     ance, or in default thereof, upon due proof upon oath of the 
     
     service of such summons, any two Justices of the Peace 
     
     may proceed to make such order thereupon as to them may 
     
     seem just ; and if the sum of money so awarded. together 
     
     with a sum for costs not exceeding the sum of ten shillings, 
     
     as to such Justices shall seem meet, shall not be immediately 
     
     paid, then such Justices shall, by warrant under their hands 
     
     and seals, cause such sum and costs, as aforesaid, to be levied 
     
     by distress, or by distresses, and sale of the moneys, goods, 
     
     chattels, securities and effects belonging to the said party, 
     
     or to the said Society, or other legal proceeding, together 
     
     with all further costs and charges attending such distress 
     
     and sale, or other legal proceeding, returning the overplus 
     
     (ifany) to the said party, or to the said Society, or to one 
     
     of the Trustees or Treasurer thereof; and in default ofsuch 
     
     distress being found, or such other legal proceeding being 
     
     ineffectual, then to be levied by distress and sale of the 
     
     proper goods of the said party, or of the said Society, so 
     
     neglecting or refusing as aforesaid by other legal proceed- 
     
     ings, together with such further costs and charges as afore- 
     
     said, returning the overplus (if any) to the owner ; provided 
     
     always that when the rules of any Society provide for a re- 
     
     ference to arbitrators of any matter in dispute, and it shall 
     
     appear to any Justice of the Peace, on the complaint on 
     
     oath of a member of any such Society, or of any person 
     
     claiming on account .of such member, that application has 
     
     been made to such Society, or the Trustees or Treasurer, 
     
     or other officer thereof, for the purpose of having any dispute 
     
     so settled by arbitration, and that such application has not, 
     
     within forty days, been complied with, or that the arbitra- 
     
     tors have neglected or refused to make any award, It shall 
     
     and may be lawful for such Justices to summons the Trus- 
     
     tee, Treasurer, or other officer of the Society, or any one of 
     
     them against whom the complaint is made, and for any two 
     
     J ustices to hear and determine the matter in dispute in the 
     
     same manner as if the rules of the said Society had directed 
     
     that any matter in dispute, as aforesaid, should be decxdcd 
     
     by Justices of the Peace, anything herein contained to the 
     
     contrary notwithstanding 
     
    

    
     XXII. If by the rules of any such Society it is directed 
     
     that any matter in dispute, as aforesaid, shall be decrdcd by 
     
     Justices of the Peace, it shall and may be lawful for any 
     
     such Justice, on complaint being made to him‘ofany refusal 
     
     or neglect to comply with the rules of such Seeiety by any 
     
     member or officer thereto, summon the personagamst whom 
     
     such complaint shali be made to appear at a tune and place 
     
     to be named in such summons, and upon his or her appear- 
     
     ance, or in default thereof, upon due proof on 021th Of the 
     
     service of such summons, it shall and may be lawful for any