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with the Past Secretary. During this time many reports 

 and letters came to me, causing much annoyance and de- 

 lay in sending proper receipts and answers. Another 

 great source of trouble and delay was caused by the fact 

 that more than half the Secretaries of Subordinate Granges 

 continued to send their reports and dues to Bro. Fanning 

 after my installation, thus causing considerable complaint 

 about receipts, etc. 



Bro. F. seeing proper, and the fact that the post- 

 office orders were made payable to him, making it 

 necessary to open these communications, thus many 

 notices of elections of Masters and Secretaries for 

 1S76 were lost or separated from the report they 

 came with, thereby making them of no use to 

 one not personally acquainted with the names they 

 contained. These notes, in connection with their reports, 

 were good, but separated they were of no use to me. and 

 on this account, together with the fact that many Secreta- 

 ries neglected to report who their Master and Secretary 

 for 1876 were, or their proper post-office, it was impossi- 

 ble to make up a correct mailing list, either for my own 

 use or for the Worthy Master to send the Annual Pas3, 

 it being necessary that the dues should be paid up to the 

 quarter ending Dec. 31, 1S75, and that the Master's name 

 and post-office for 1876 be reported by the Secretary before 

 I could make up a correct list for mailing purposes; and 

 no doubt some thought they were ignored or slighted, but, 

 so far as I was able to learn who were Masters for 1876, 

 copies of both National and State Grange proceedings 

 were sent to them by mail; and, to try and reach all, 

 packages were sent to County Grange Secretaries by ex- 

 press for distribution to such Masters as had failed to 

 receive any by mail. Nearly 3.000 copies were sent oat 

 from my office in these two ways— to Masters and Secre- 

 taries — my instructions being to furnish one cony to each 



Master; but many Secretaries, writing for them, were sup- 

 plied while they lasted. 



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