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Pnicsuucxr—Sir Edward Dulwer Lytton, Burt, M.P.
V'iee-Funsmz;N'r-—lllr. Charles Dickens.

1 GUILD rune): FUND—His Grace the Duke
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TRUSTEES or Tl
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TRUSTEE$ or ’l‘llE Assan ,1; PROVIDEN‘I' AUGMENT " 0N FUXD—
The Right Honourable Earl Granville, and Professor Owen,
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TRUSTEES or THE Pnovmlax’r SICKNESS FUND—Sir Charles East-
I;Lke. PrL dent of the Royal Academy of Arts, and Sir
William Hamilton.

 

 

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Aumrors—Mr. George Clones, and Sir Alexander Duff Gordon,

 

Hoxonmn‘ CUNSULTIVG Ac’rumY—Professor AugustusDeMorgnn,
anoxmm’ SECRETARY—MY. William Henry Wills.
Imxomun' SoiJe1T01z~lllL Frederic Ouvry, F.S.A.
immans—Mcssrs. Coutts and (30., Strand.

COUNCIL.
I'll): Gilbert Abbot a’Beekett. Sir William Hamilton.
Mr. John Absolon. Mr. Charles Knight.
Mr. Thomas ()ldham Barlow. Mr. Mark Lemon,
Mr. Robert Bell. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytten,
28111 W, Wilkie Collins Bart, MJ’.
My, Dudley Costello. Mr. Patrick Mncdowell, R.A.
Mr. Peter Cunning-ham. RSA. Professor Owen. F. RS.
His Gmee the Duke of Devon- )Ir. F‘lnrkson Stanﬁeld, RA.
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‘ir Chm L. Ezistlnke. BRA. Sir Jus. Emerson Tennent.

  

A . Egg, A.R.A. Mr. John Tenniel.
Mr. John F ster. Mr. F. W. Tnpham.
The Right Honourable Earl , Mr. W, Henry Wills.
Granville. Professor John Wilson.
Mr. Thomas Grieve.
NOTE—The President and other Ofﬁcers of Tim GUILD (except

the Actuary and Solicitor) are constituted by the Rules, Members

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OFFICES—“'IJLLINGTON Cnlmnmns) 1t), LANCASTER PLACE. STRAND,

  

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PRINCE ALBERT, .5150.

Acting and publishing
copyright of the
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presented to the
Society by its au-
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Subscriptions and Donations are waived by the TREASURER,
and by the IIONORAEY SECRETARY at the Oﬁice of the GUILD or

LITERATURE AND ART,
Messrs. Cou’m's and 00., Strand.

10, Lancaster

Place, and by m Bunkers,

  

 ADDRESS.

_§_

THE Council of the GUILD on LITERATURE AND ART
submit the following pages to their brethren and to the
public, in the conﬁdence that the objects they have in
View will be respected, and that the means by which
it is sought to attain them will be at once justly and
generously examined.

The objects of the Society are these :——-To encourage
Life and Annuity Assurance among its members on
more favourable terms than such insurers could obtain
without its aid; to assist its members in temporary
distress to pay their premiums when they become due ,'
to establish a Provident Sickness Fund; to endow an
Institution which shall have at its disposal certain resi—
dences and annuities, to which only members (and, as to
annuities, only the widows of members) shall be eligible
to be elected; which shall not be an Institution of an
eleemosynary character, but with which some popular
service shall be associated, and from which the public
shall derive educational advantages.

The Council, having these ends in view, have endea-

 

   

 

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vourcd to make the Rules and Tables so plain as that
they shall express themselves. They have been framed
with a careful desire to combine the experience of the
best existing Institutions, and to avoid all hazardous
enterprise, however promising. In adhering to the
original intention of by no means erecting the Guild
into a new and separate Life Assurance Ofﬁce, the
Council have been conﬁrmed by the best practical
advice.

It is hoped that the eligibility of members is deﬁned
in terms not inconsistent with the comprehensive spirit
of the Arts; and also that, in the division of the Society’s
Funds, and the prospective establishment of the Guild
Institution, it will be seen that the Association is content
to pursue its highest object through a course of steady
and patient usefulness.

The merits of such a scheme as that which is now
propounded, can only be tested by a calm inquiry into
the soundness of its details, and the good results that
may come of them. Forbearing to appeal to the feelings
either of their own order or of the public, the Council
submit the result of their best consideration to both.

10, LimeAsrrm PLACE,
October 10, 1853.

 

  

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RULES.

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I.——NAME.

It having been determined to establish a society under
the 48th section of the act of Parliament entitled, An Act
to Consolidate and Amend the Laws relating to Friendly
Societies (13 and 14 Victoria cap. 115).

1. It has been also determined that the Association shall
be called The Guild of Literature and Art.

IL—PLACE OF BUSINESS.

2, That the business of the society shall he Conducted, for
the present, at Wellington Chambers, No. 10, Lancaster
Place, Strand, in the County of Middlcscx.

III.—MEMBERS.

3. That the members of the society shall consist of
elected members and honorary members.

4. Elected Members.——Uantlidates for election into the
society must be followers of literature as a profession ; hat
is to say, writers of either sex, of books not being trans»
lations, (translations from the aneientand Eastern languages
excepted), and writers in periodicals. Also writers of
dramatic and other theatrical pieces, not being translations
or adaptations from any foreign language. The right of
exclusion in any individual case is reserved to the council ;
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stated in the minutes of the day. Also, followers of Art as
a profession; that is to say, exhibitors of either sex, of
works of original design in painting or scupture, or
architecture at any public exhibition in the United Kingdom ;
designers of approved merit for engravers, and engravers.
The right of exclusion in any individual case is reserved to
the council ; but, if exercised, the reason of its exercise shall
he expressly stated in the minutes of the day. It is
imperative that candidates included in these deﬁnitions,
unless assured in other oilices before Christmas, 1853, shall
effect assurances through this society in one or other of the
three classes enumerated. In the event of candidates being
so assured elsewhere, they must subscribe to The Guild
Provident Sickness Fund.

The minimum of assurance to qualify a candidate for
election is ﬁxed at £100. Members not assured through
this society shall produce their receipts of premiums paid,
whenever called upon by the council to do so. All members
allowing their policies to lapse from non-payment of
premiums, shall forfeit by such failure all claim to the
beneﬁts of the society, and shall cease to be members of it.
The names of persons applying to become members to this
society with a reference to at least one member of the Guild,
shall he entered in :1. candidates’ book at least one month
before the council proceed to election.

Each candidate is required to pay, on being elected, an
entrance fee ol‘two guineas.

5. [[olwrary lllcmbcrs shall consist of subscribers of not
less than one guinea annually, and of donors of not less than
ten guineas to the object of the society, without being par-
tieipators in any of the pecuniary beneﬁts it offers to elected
members. They will, however, have the privilege of at—
tendingr an annual meeting of the members of the Guild for
the purpose of receiving a report of the year’s proceedings.
Each honorary member will be further entitled to a free
admission to any lectures or meetings for popular instruction
that may take place under the direction of the Institution.
Under the same conditions physicians not being,r subscribers
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granted in connexion with the Sickness Provident Fund,
may also be appointed honorary members.

IV.—OBJECTS.

6. That the Society shall carry out three objects ; Firstly,
Life and Annuity Assurance; Secondly, Provision for its
Elected Members duringr Sickness ; Thirdly, The Endowment
of an Institution to be called “ The Guild Institution.”

7. Assurance—The Society will obtain Assurances on
Lives, Assurances for securing deferred Annuities, and
Assurances for Endowments at all ages, according to tables
hereunto annexed (pp. 10', 17, and 18). Although all pro-
posals for assurance in connexion with the Guild will be
submitted to its secretary; and although all premiums will
be paid through him; the Society itself will not assure
Lives, Deferred Annuities, or Endowments; but will con-
ﬁde the whole management and responsibility of those
branches of its business to The National Provident Insti-
tution, as a mutual Assurance Ofﬁce, the proﬁts of which are
divided among the Assurers. Upon such assurances the
Guild will receive a commission of ﬁve per cent, without
any cost to the Assurer; who could not, it is to be under-
stood, obtain such allowance for himself or herself. This
item of receipt will be carried to the credit of the Society,
and a form a part of the general fund to be appropriated
as hereafter-mentioned.

8. The Guild Provident Sickness Fund—The Society will
receive payments from elected members, according to tables
hereunto annexed (page 19), for provision in sickness,
the ratio of such provision to be governed by the condition
of this special fund at the time an invalided member may
apply to receive it : no such member to be entitled to draw
from the fund until he has subscribed to it two years;
unless the sickness on account of which the claim is made
shall have arisen from accident.

9. The Guild Institution—The Society Will at a future
time, hereinafter speciﬁed, establish and endow an Institu-
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(and as to annuities only, the widows of members) shall be
admissible; of which the object will be to associate an
honourable rest from arduous labours with the discharge of
congenial duties in connexion with popular instruction. It
will also erect a limited number of free residences, on land
to he] resented for this purpose by the President of the Guild,
and which will be occupied by the male annuitants elected
on this foundation.

V.-——FUNDS.

10. That the Society’s fund,* derivable from invested
capital, from future donations and subscriptions, from
members’ fees, from per centages on Life Policies, from
Bequests, or from any other source, except contributions to
the sickness fund, be divided into two equal portions,'the
ﬁrst to be called The Assurance and Provident Augmentation
Fund ; the second to be called the Guild Institution Fund,
subject to the exceptional condition to be stated.

ll. Tire Assurance and Provident Augmentation Fund.—
The ﬁrst moiety of the Society’s Funds shall be appropriated
to three objects ; Firstly, to render temporary assistance to
members by way of loan without interest, towards the
payment of their premiums of assurance when they them—
selves shall he proved to be unable to meet those demands.

Secondly, to aid payments similarly, to The Provident
Sickness Fund.

Thirdly, to allot once in every seven years all the Society’s
residuary proﬁts under these heads, in augmentation of the
several advantages originally proposed to be secured by the
tables of premiums.

12. Provident Sickness Fuml.——That the fund specially
formed as a provision in case of sickness be kept distinct
from the other funds of the Society and be self-supporting.
That it be disbursed when claimed upon in such proportions
(based upon the table set forth in page 19) as its condition
will, at the time the claim is made, prudently warrant ; such
allowance always being subject to increase out of the Augmen-
tation Fund. ,

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13. The Guild Institution Funrl.—The second moiety of
the gu‘oss funds of the Society shall be carried for accumula-
tion during the term of seven years (subject to the exceptional
condition to be presently stated) to the credit of the Guild
Institution proposed to be established as aforesaid. At the
expiration of the seven years it shall be left to the discretion
of the council for the time being, to continue or to vary these
dispositions of the Society’s funds ; the power of the council
to act upon this discretion being restrained within the
objects already set forth in section IV.

14. Exceptional Condition.~—But if at any earlier period
than seven years, the fund invested to the separate credit of
the Guild Institution shall have attained the amount of
four thousand pounds, then it shall become the duty of the
council for the time being immediately to apply the interest
of that sum to the purposes of the said Guild Institution ;
and also to reconsider the aforesaid proportionate dispositions
and investment of the Society’s fund ; always subject to their
being restrained within the limits deﬁned in section IV.

VL—ADMINSTRATIVE BODY.

15. That the management of the Society’s aﬁhirs be
conﬁded to a council consisting of not fewer than ten, nor
more than twenty elected members; one half of whom shall
be literary men, and one half artists. To whom shall be
added, in virtue of their ofﬁce, the President, Vice-president,
six Trustees, the Actuary, the Treasurer, and the Secretary.

16. (Miners—That the gentlemen named in the second
page of these rules, hereunto annexed, shall be, and shall
remain, the President, Vice-President, Tmstees, Auditors,
Treasurer, Honorary Secretary and Council of this Society
until their respective oﬂices become vacant by death or re-
signation ; and that vacancies occurring from either of those
events shall be ﬁlled up by election at a general meeting of
the members. That all elections take place by ballot ; and
that Members of Council being absent from Council Meetings
during twelve months, be considered as having resigned
their oﬂice ; but that they may be eligible for re-election.

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at the ofﬁces of the Society, No. 10, Lancaster Place, Strand,
(or at such other house as the ofﬁces may hereafter be
removed to) on the last day of during the
year. That three members of the council shall at sue

meetings constitute a quorum, and be an eﬁ‘ective council for
the transaction of the allotted functions of the entire body :
including the power of making such bye-laws for the conduct
of their meetings as they may deem fit. Notice of proposed
bye-law to be sent to the whole council ; it cannot be made
a law by the quorum unless a description of it form part of
the general summons. That the board so constituted shall
conduct the general business of the Society, shall receive
applications for loans, shall issue orders for paying premiums
or for making other payments out of the Augmentation
fund. That all bankers’ cheques shall be signed by the
Treasurer of the Society, and counter-signed by the Secre-
tary, upon the authority of a minute of the council. The
councilshall also decide on claims for the Provident Sickness
Fund; and shall, at least once in every half year, appor—
tion and set aside the Society‘s fund ; causing and ordering
one moiety of it to be invested in the public securities by
and in the names of two Trustees to increase the Augmen-
tation Fund ; and causing and ordering the other moiety to
be invested in the public securities in the names of two
other Trustees for the increase of the Guild Institution
Fund; the interest on the said Guild Institution Fund to
be regularly reinvested to accumulate at compound interest,
according to the provisions set forth in Rules 11 and 13.
The council shall also, at least once in every half-year,
cause and order all monies paid by contributing members
into the Provident Sickness Fund to be invested in public
securities separately to the credit of that fund in the names
of two Trustees associated with this particular trust.

18. Trustees—That the monies now funded in the 3%;
per cents government annuities in the names of Charles
Dickens and William Henry Wills, be transferred to the
names of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, the Right
Honourable Earl Granville, Sir William Hamilton, Sir
Charles Eastlake, Professor Owen, and Professor John

   

  

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Wilson, so to stand in trust for the sole use and beneﬁt
of this Society in the manner set forth in Rule 17. That
the trustees shall further comply with all the lawful requests
of the council in regard to the investing, or taking up or
changing the stocks of the securities in which such funds
shall be invested, or transferring such funds into the names
of other Trustees; but that they shall be exonerated from
all personal liability for any act done in conformity with the
minutes of the Council.

19. T7-casm'er.—That the Treasurer shall receive all
entrance fees, premiums, donations, subscriptions and
payments to the Sickness Fund, and, as soon as thcylshall
amount to twenty pounds or upwards, shall pay them to
the account of the Society with its bankers. That he shall
supply the council with a cash account once in every month,
submitting his books to them, and, if required, producing
vouchers. That he shall on the day of
in every year, produce an abstract of the accounts of the
Society, shewing the balance in his hands, the balance at the
banker’s, or money of the Society in the hands of any other
persons ; the amount of money due to the Society, with the
amount of its funded capital and of any other assets on the
one side ; and the particulars of the disbursements
throughout the year, on the other. That this abstract or
balance-sheet be rendered up to the last day of the Society's
ﬁnancial year. That the Treasurer sign all the bankers’
cheques in accordance with the minutes of the council as set
forth in Rule 17.

20. Auditors—That the Auditors shall examine and audit
all the accounts of the Society, and verify them by vouchers.

21. Secretm‘y.——That the Secretary, being cal Qlﬁcio present
at all council meetings, shall record the names of the mem-
bers there present, take minutes of their proceedings which he
shall transcribe into a book, in order that they may be authen-
ticated by the signature of the Chairman. That he shall
receive all proposals for membership, and apprise the
members of council, by written notice, of the name and
description of each applicant, with the name of his referee at
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That he shall also sign all proposals for life assurance,
transmit them to the National Provident Institution, and,
. as the agent of the National Provident Institution. shall
receive ﬁve percent. from it upon all premiums paid by
members of the Guild of Literature and Art, and hand the
amounts to the Treasurer to be added, within one week, to
the Society‘s fund. That he shall receive any other sums that
may he paid on behalf of the Society, and transfer them to
the treasurer within one week at furthest after he has
received them. That he shall, if required by the council, pay
the various sums voted to members out of the Augmentation
Assurance Provident Fund and the Provident Sickness
Fund, rendering an account of the same with the acknow-
ledgements of receipt once in every month to the Treasurer.
That he shall also counter—sign all hankers’ cheques ac-
cording to Rules 17 and 1.9. That he shall preserve and keep
in an accessible and orderly manner the accounts, documents,
books, and papers of the Society, conduct the correspondence,
and direct such salaried ofﬁcers of the Society as may be
appointed, in the performance of their several duties.

VII.——GENERAL MEETINGS.

22. That on the ﬁrst day in the month of
every year a general meeting of the Society to which not only
elected, but honorary members will be invited, shall take
place at
to receive a statement from the council of the condition and
prospects of the Society, and from the Treasurer an account
of its ﬁnances.

23. Special GmwralMccting.—That if it should appear to
a. majority of the counciladvisable to convene at any time a
general meeting of the whole body of the Society, then such
majority shall deliver a requisition duly signed to the
Secretary stating the purpose of the desired general meeting.
Whercupon the Secretary shall immediately send a copy of
such requisition to each elected member of the Society (not
to the honorary members), convening the required meetinér at

a date not less than seven days distant from the (late of the
notice. At such meeting no other business than that speciﬁed
in the requisition shall be taken into consideration.

 BALANCE SHEET, FROM APRIL 3, 1851, TO APRIL 30, 1853.

331:.

To Donations from the Amateur
performers of the Guild oi
Literature and Art, as per
account ......................

Donations and Annual Sul.)scrip-)_

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J. HUTTON, Accountant,
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cies issued by the National Provident Assurance Oﬂicc ranged
from 6 to 80 per cent, (according to the age of the Policies), in
reduction of Premiums, or in increase of sums assured. Besides
such Proﬁts secured by the National Provident Ofﬁce, the sums
assured may be further increased at the discretion of the Council,
out of the Guild Provident Augmentation Fund.

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The sum of provision in sickness is not due until the Aasnrcr
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case of the fund being—0n account ol'a small number of con tributors
to it, or by reason of the occurrence oi‘a greater number of cases 01'
sickness than was calculated up0n~too low toatlniit ei'elaiins being
paid in full. After any such reduction shall have been made,
the Directors have power to incre‘ se payments, if, by addi-
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