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of said corporation, become totally disabled, which adjustment
or settlement may be made at any time after such total disability
shall occur; said corporation shall also have the power to adopt
such by-laws, rules and regulations as it shall deem proper
to aid its members and their dependents, for the education,
socially, morally and intellectually of its members, to assist the
widows and orphans of deceased members, to establish a fund
for the relief of sick, distressed and disabled members and to
provide for the payment of death benefits upon the death of a
member to such member's widow, widower, children, step-
children, grandchildren, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, mother,
mother-in-law, father, father-in-law, brother, brother-in-law,
sister, sister-in-law, grandfather, grandmother, aunt, uncle,
niece, nephew, first cousin, any one or more of the next of kin
of a member who would be entitled to share as a distributee of
his personal estate if he died intestate, to the affianced husband
or affianced wife of the member, or to a person or persons de-
pendent upon the member for food, lodging, care, clothing or
education, or to the person or persons upon whom the members
may be dependent for food, lodging, care, clothing or educa-
tion or to any incorporated charitable institution upon which the
member may, after admission to membership, become dependent,
and to none other. Provided that payment to a beneficiary for
reason of dependency shall be made only when it is established
to the satisfaction of the executive officers of said corporation
that the fact of dependency, as herein provided, existed at the
time of the issuance of the certificate. And provided further,
that within the above restrictions each member shall have the
right to designate the beneficiary or beneficiaries to whom his
death benefits shall be payable and from time to time, with the
consent of said corporation, to change said desigation, within
said restrictions, in accordance with and in the manner pro-
vided in the laws, rules and regulations by said corporation from
time to time adopted, and no beneficiary shall have or obtain
any vested interest in such death benefits until the same have
become due and payable. And provided also that the death
benefit shall not in any one case exceed the sum of three thousand
dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1914.