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by means of circular letters. The General Meeting of 

 the society is to be made up of officers named for the 

 occasion, and of representatives from the state socie- 

 ties, but no state may send more than five representa- 

 tives. The token of the Order is worn on a dark blue 

 ribbon, two fingers wide and edged with white ; it is a 

 gold medallion with the figure of an eagle and inscrip- 

 tions relative to the time of the foundation and the 

 services of the Order in saving the country. The 

 name is taken from L. Quinctius Cincinnatus, a Roman 

 general who from the tillage of the land was called to 

 the dictatorship, but after having won laurels re- 

 nounced all posts of honor and returned to his farm- 

 economy. The purpose of the society, according to its 

 own outgivings, is nothing more than a union and 

 association of the generals and other officers (who 

 have served 3 years) in a society of friends for keep- 

 ing alive the memory of the Revolution and their own 

 common friendship. And this union is to be main- 

 tained so long as, 1) the original members themselves 

 or, 2) any of their male descendants are living, or, 

 should there be none of these, so long as, 3) any of 

 their collateral relatives remain, who might be held 

 worthy of being members and supporters of the so- 

 ciety. The members are to have an incessantly watch- 

 ful eye upon the inviolate maintenance of the rights 

 and liberties of man, for which they (or their for- 

 bears) fought and bled; further, they are to give 

 thought to the preservation and spread of concord and 

 the national glory in and among the several states; to 

 the preservation of brotherly affection and regard 

 among the officers; to beneficent assistance rendered 

 those officers and their families who bv misfortune 



