The following extracts from the Cattle Plague Rules of the Petersfield District Mutual Cattle Assurance Association may possibly furnish some useful hints to persons engaged in forming similar societies:—
‟Every person admitted member of the association shall furnish the committee with list of his horned stock, with the value of each description of stock; and shall immediately pay a call of sixpence in the pound on the entered value, with power of the committee make further calls. The sum of such calls not to exceed 2s. 6d. in the pound, and no one call to exceed sixpence In the pound.”
‟If a member shall lose any cattle Insured, such cattle shall, as regards subsequent calls, be treated as living, and the owner thereof shall be liable to, and shall continue to pay, all calls m respect thereof, as if they were living at the time of such calls being made.”
‟The committee shall be liberty to appoint some competent person to inspect the stock, and if the value at the time of making the return shall be greater or less than that stated, the committee shall have power to increase or diminish the amount.”