Note 175 — Chapter V
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'We disapprove the present custom of burying the dead, and desire to substitute some mode which shall rapidly resolve the body into its component elements by a process which cannot offend the living, and shall render the remains absolutely innocuous. Until some better method is devised, we desire to adopt that usually known as Cremation.'
The conditions of membership are:—
I.—Adhesion by signature to the above declaration.
II.—The payment of an annual subscription of one guinea, or a single payment of ten guineas.
In order to carry out the above objects it has been resolved to raise funds for the purpose of carrying into operation the practice of cremation through the agency of cemetery companies, parochial and municipal authorities, or other public bodies.