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THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 184.
(No Report)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
February 8, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. Tallmadge, from the Committee for the Distict of Columbia, reported the following bill:
A BILL

Amendatory of an act, entitled, “An act amendatory of the act, entitled, ‘An act to incorporate the Provident Association of Clerks in the Civil Department of the Government of the United States, in the District of Columbia,,’” approved 3d March, 1825.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That from and after the first day of January,
eighteen hundred and forty-eight, the funds of the “The
Provident Association of Clerks,” shall be appropriated
and paid to the families of deceased members, at the fol-
lowing rates, to wit: To the families of such member as
may die, at any time during the first five years of their
membership, the amount of the subscription which shal

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have been paid in by such members respectively with the
addition thereto of fifty per centum of the amount so paid
in by them; to the families of members dying at any time
during the next five years, an additional sum of seven dol-
lars and a half for every quarter of each of said succeed-
ing years; to the families of members dying at any time
during the next succeeding ten years, an additional sum
of six dollars and twenty-five cents for every quarter of
each of said succeeding years; to the families of members
dying at any time during the next succeeding five years,
an additional sum of five dollars for every quarter of each
of said succeeding years; to the families of members dy-
ing at any time during the next succeeding ten years, an
additional sum of six dollars and twenty-five cents for
every quarter of each of said succeeding years; and to
the families of members dying at any time after the thirty-
fifth year, an additional sum of twelve dollars and fifty
cents, for every quarter of each of said succeeding years:
so that, at the end of the fifth, tenth, twentieth, twenty-fifth,
thirty-fifth and fortieth years respectively, every member
dying at either of those periods shall have provided for
his family out of the funds of the association, the sums of
seventy-five, two hundred and twenty-five, four hundred
and seventy-five, five hundred and seventy-five, eight hun-

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dred and twenty-five, and one thousand and seventy-five
dollars respectively.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, with the
consent of three-fourths of all the contributing members,
the foregoing rates may, at any time, be increased or di-
minished, and subsequently altered, as may be deemed
warranted or required by the then existing funds of the
association: Provided, That any and every such act of
alteration, duly attested by the presiding and recording
offices of the association, and under its seal, shall be filed
within ten days after the adoption thereof, in the office of
Clerk of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for
the county of Washington, whose duty it is hereby made
to receive and record the same in his office.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That any member
of the association who has been, or may hereafter be, re-
moved from office, may at any time hereafter, and after
such removal, discontinue his quarterly payments to the
funds of the association, and instead of thereby forfeiting
his previous payments, as provided in the original act of
incorporation of said association, by such discontinuance,
there shall be paid to the family of such member, at his
death, such an amount of the said funds as they would
have been entitled to had his death occurred at the time he
discontinued his payments.

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5 Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be
lawful for a member of said association who has a wife
and children to designate his widow as entitled to receive
the whole benefit of his membership; if no widow, his chil-
dren or such of them as he may designate; and if no child or
children, then such person or persons as he may designate,
(or adopt,) by giving notice in writing to the President and
Board of Officers of the name or names of such person
or persons.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That so much of
the original act of incorporation, and of the act of the
third of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-five amenda-
tory thereof, as is inconsistent with the provisions of the
act, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

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H R N^o 184
To amend an act to incorporate the clerks Provident association

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[H?] R Pass^d May 26
Ad 1848.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, the funds of the “The Provident Association of Clerks,” shall be appropriated and paid to the families of deceased members, at the fol- lowing rates, to wit: To the families of such member as may die, at any time during the first five years of their membership, the amount of the subscription which shal
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10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33	have been paid in by such members respectively with the addition thereto of fifty per centum of the amount so paid in by them; to the families of members dying at any time during the next five years, an additional sum of seven dol- lars and a half for every quarter of each of said succeed- ing years; to the families of members dying at any time during the next succeeding ten years, an additional sum of six dollars and twenty-five cents for every quarter of each of said succeeding years; to the families of members dying at any time during the next succeeding five years, an additional sum of five dollars for every quarter of each of said succeeding years; to the families of members dy- ing at any time during the next succeeding ten years, an additional sum of six dollars and twenty-five cents for every quarter of each of said succeeding years; and to the families of members dying at any time after the thirty- fifth year, an additional sum of twelve dollars and fifty cents, for every quarter of each of said succeeding years: so that, at the end of the fifth, tenth, twentieth, twenty-fifth, thirty-fifth and fortieth years respectively, every member dying at either of those periods shall have provided for his family out of the funds of the association, the sums of seventy-five, two hundred and twenty-five, four hundred and seventy-five, five hundred and seventy-five, eight hun-
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34 35 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11	dred and twenty-five, and one thousand and seventy-five dollars respectively. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, with the consent of three-fourths of all the contributing members, the foregoing rates may, at any time, be increased or di- minished, and subsequently altered, as may be deemed warranted or required by the then existing funds of the association: Provided, That any and every such act of alteration, duly attested by the presiding and recording offices of the association, and under its seal, shall be filed within ten days after the adoption thereof, in the office of Clerk of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for the county of Washington, whose duty it is hereby made to receive and record the same in his office. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That any member of the association who has been, or may hereafter be, re- moved from office, may at any time hereafter, and after such removal, discontinue his quarterly payments to the funds of the association, and instead of thereby forfeiting his previous payments, as provided in the original act of incorporation of said association, by such discontinuance, there shall be paid to the family of such member, at his death, such an amount of the said funds as they would have been entitled to had his death occurred at the time he discontinued his payments.
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 2 3 4 5	Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for a member of said association who has a wife and children to designate his widow as entitled to receive the whole benefit of his membership; if no widow, his chil- dren or such of them as he may designate; and if no child or children, then such person or persons as he may designate, (or adopt,) by giving notice in writing to the President and Board of Officers of the name or names of such person or persons. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That so much of the original act of incorporation, and of the act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-five amenda- tory thereof, as is inconsistent with the provisions of the act, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.