55. Sec. 1—No person shall be admitted a member of this Order (except as hereinafter provided) if either he or his wife be page 22 over forty years of age, or of unsound health; nor shall any individual be admitted (either as honorary or financial member) who bears a bad character, leads an immoral life, is an habitual drunkard, or quarrelsome. Any member knowingly proposing a candidate in opposition to this Law shall be expelled from the Order. But it is hereby specially provided that should any person be admitted into this Order who at the time of such admission was from any cause whatever living separate from his wife, he shall not be entitled to any benefits of the Order on her account, until they shall be living together, and until he shall have produced a legally qualified medical practitioner's certificate of her sound health.

Sec. 2—No person shall be initiated into this Order whose proposition has not been before the Court he may be desirous to enter, from one regular Court night to another, except in cases of emergency, when Courts may, if unanimous, propose and initiate on the same Court night.

56. Sec. 1—Any member wishing to propose a person who is desirous of joining the Order shall not be allowed to do so unless he shall have reasonable knowledge of him. He must write, or cause to be written, the name, age, occupation, and residence of the candidate, and whether single or married, and name and age of wife. He and the brother who intends to second the proposition must sign it, and present it to the Secretary with the sum of five shillings, which sum shall be placed to the Management Fund of the Court. If the proposition be approved, the candidate may be initiated on the following Court night on payment for the goods he shall receive. Should he, however, neglect to attend for initiation within three months from the date of proposition, his deposit shall be forfeited to the funds of the Court, and when a proposition is negatived, the money shall be returned. The proposer and seconder of a candidate shall be responsible to the Court for the previous character of the person proposed. Should they knowingly introduce a person who is unhealthy or inadmissible according to the terms of Law 55, they and the person introduced shall be expelled.

Sec. 2—When any person is proposed to become a member, he shall not be initiated except on the production of a certificate from the Court Surgeon as to his own health and that of his wife (if married); he shall also sign a declaration in form of Schedule D. by himself of his own and wife's age, such certificate to bear date within 28 days previous to his presenting himself for initiation. Immediately after the admission of a member, he shall be furnished with a copy of the Laws by which he is governed, and also a Certificate of membership as contained therein.

57. Any respectable person may be allowed to become an honorary member, if of the age of twenty-one years, by paying 21s. for initiation, and a subscription of 10s. 6d. per annum, payable in advance; but he shall not be chargeable to, nor have any claim on the funds of the Court or Order, nor fill any office except that of Trustee or Treasurer to a Subordinate Court; nevertheless, he shall have the privilege of expressing his opinion upon all questions brought before the Court in which he was initiated, but shall not be allowed to propose or second any resolution, or vote on any question before the Court. An honorary member may become a financial member of his own Court by his paying the contributions, according to age at the time of becoming a financial member, and other wise complying with those Laws relating to the admission and contributions of financial members. All entrance fees and contributions of honorary members to go to the Management Fund.

58. No Sick Club Benefit Society or any other united bodies of men shall be admitted as such into the Order, except in strict conformity with the Laws regulating the admission of members.

59. Should any brother persuade a candidate within three months from the date of his proposition to be initialed in any other Court than that in which he was first proposed, he shall be fined 10s., and the Court knowingly receiving such candidate shall be fined 20s., the said fines to be paid into the Court that the candidate has been induced, in consequence of such solicitation, to leave.

60. The admission fees of persons initiated for a new Court shall be paid into the opening Court; the whole to be paid to the Treasurer of the new Court on the night of opening.