may be required for the due management of the affairs thereof, and to allow them respectively a reasonable and suitable remuneration, and all officers so appointed shall have the right to exercise such other powers and authority for the due management and administration of the affairs of the said corporation as may be conferred upon them by the regulations and by-laws of the said corporation.
5. Until others shall be elected according to the by-laws Present of the corporation, the present officers of the association officers. shall be those of the corporation.
6. No sum of money granted by the said corporation, in Benefits to virtue of its constitution or any by-law, for the purpose of liable to seiaiding or assisting any member when sick, or the widow zure. or orphans of any deceased member, shall be liable to seizure either before or after judgment; provided always, that Proviso. nothing contained in this section shall prejudice in any manner whatsoever the rights of any creditor with regard to moneys due by the corporation to any member, either by reason of a contract, or other undertaking entered into between the said corporation and such member.
7. No person otherwise competent to be a witness in Members may any suit or prosecution in which the corporation may be be witnesses. engaged, shall be deemed incompetent to be such witness
by reason of his being or having been a member or officer
8. The said corporation shall be bound to make annual Annual report reports to the lieutenant-governor and to both branches to the legislaof the legislature containing a general statement of the affairs of the corporation, which said reports shall be presented within the first twenty days of every session of the legislature.