§ MR. E. RICHARDSsaid, he would beg to ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether any arrangements have been made, or are proposed to be made, in the office of Registrar of Friendly Societies to obtain the quinquennial Return of the "rate or amount of sickness and mortality" experienced by each Society within the five years ending December 1870; and whether it is proposed to provide for tabulating such Returns to be laid before Parliament, in accordance with the provisions of the Act 18 and 19 Vic. c. 63?
§ MR. STANSFELDsaid, in reply, that this was a matter which was, to a considerable extent, regulated by the Act. It would be the duty of the Registrar, in the course of this year, to issue his notices calling attention to the provisions of the Act, and, on receiving the Returns, to tabulate them for presentation to the House of Commons.