Lodge

The operating record of a registered friendly society — a mutual-aid body whose members pay weekly contributions into a benefit fund and draw sick pay, funeral benefit and distress relief from it. Thirteen engraved registers: the Secretary's board, the roll of members by reference code, the contribution book and arrears schedule, the sick list and sick-pay register, the scale of benefits, the benefit fund account, the quinquennial valuation, trustees and officers by office, the registered Rules and amendments, the lodge night minute book, distress and benevolence, branch and district returns, and the member's portal. Styled as a steel-engraved friendly-society membership certificate — guilloche ornament, double rules, drop cap, rule-and-dot leaders.