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Excerpt from Report of the Booth Association of the United States
Article 4. Every Scrip shall be sold for five dollars, entitling the purchaser to three hundred dollars out of the first money recovered from said estate, by any member of the Association, and no more Scrip shall be sold by said agent than shall be necessary to raise the aforesaid sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, together with the expenses of the sale thereof, which shall in no event exceed ten per cent. of the receipts of the sale of such Scrip.
Article 5. The said Smith and Herrick are to be allowed two thousand dollars for making a thorough investigation of the case in England, with reference to whether or not there is property there; if any, its situation and also the pedigree of the party leaving the same, and in addition thereto, we hereby agree to pay them ten per cent. of all we, or any of us, or our heirs, may recover from said estate, which said Smith and Herrick find our due.
Article 6. No member of this Association shall be liable to pay more than three dollars as expenses or compensation or otherwise to any person or persons whatever.
Article 7. Any member of the Booth family may become a member of this Association by paying three dollars to H. 0. Smith, of Monkton, Vt., and signing this Constitution, entitling each member to a printed copy of all information and reports made in the case, and also to the sum of three hundred dollars out of the money recovered. And any persons having bought the interest of any Booth in said estates, shall have the same rights in the Association as though they were of Booth descent.
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