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k gally until the amendments were ratified) the burden of 

 ntributing an undue proportion of the funds of our Stn 

 treasury. 



NEW ORGANIZATIONS. 



There have been 'organized during the vear twenty-seven 

 new Granges, as follows: Jefferson and Ferry counties; 

 three each; Jersey, Scott, and Hamilton, two each; Jas- 

 j -. Clay, Peoria, Franklin, Massac, Vermillion, Jackso 

 Pulaski. V [ford, Pope, Greene, Shelby, Washington, S • 

 line, and Cumberland, one each. Part of these Granges 

 ' ve made no report to my office yet. Some of them 

 have been rapidly increasing in membership, and bid lair 

 t le some of our best and most active Granges. 



One of these — Craig, No, 1,606, of Perry county — has ini- 

 tialed during the past two quarters 66 new members 

 Many other Granges have taken in new members during 

 the year, the total number of which I have not attempt- 

 ed to enumerate. The total number of charters issued to 

 our State is 1,619. Of this number fully one-half have 

 ceased to be live, working Granges, and are classed as dor 

 mant. From the best information I can get, the counties 

 which have good, working County Granges are in the best 

 condition. In October a list of over 600 Granges whose 

 dues had not been paid since Sept. 30, 187-3, was presented 

 to the Worthy Master for suspension. Some over 200 

 Granges have paid no dues since Dec. 31,, 1875, and will 

 be reported to flie Master for suspension as soon as possi- 

 ble after this meeting, unless the dues are paid up. Some 

 time in the spring I received -notice tha f reports had not 

 been made to National Grange for half of the year 1875, 

 also calls for large amounts of back dues to that body. It 

 being evident to your Secretary that the National Grange 

 was charging us with too many members, I suggested to 

 the Master, by letter, that we had better pay no more 

 dues until this matter was settled up. When the Execu- 

 tive Committee met in September, this matter was 



