188 THE GROUNDSWELL. 



Sec. 2. All business meetings are confined to the Fourth Degree. 



ARTICLE III. Laws. This Constitution, and the By-Laws formed 

 under it for the guidance of this Grange, must conform with the 

 Constitution and the Laws adopted by the National Grange. 



ARTICLE IV. Ritual. The Eitual adopted by the National 

 Grange shall be used in this Grange, and any desired alteration in 

 the same must be submitted to, and receive the sanction of, the Na 

 tional Grange. 



ARTICLE V .Membership. Any person interested in agricultural 

 pursuits, of the age of sixteen years (female), and eighteen years 

 (male), duly proposed, elected, and complying with the rules and 

 regulations of the Order, is entitled to membership and the benefit 

 of degrees taken. Every application must be accompanied by the 

 fee of membership. If rejected, the money will be refunded. Ap 

 plications must be certified by members, and balloted for at a subse 

 quent meeting. It shall require three negative votes to reject an ap 

 plicant. 



Sec. 2. A.11 candidates for membership must be of good moral char 

 acter and industrious habits, and whose interest in agriculture is 

 paramount to all other interests, and believe in the existence of a 

 Supreme Being, the Creator and Preserver of the universe, and be 

 proposed in the Grange nearest his residence, unless good and suf 

 ficient reasons appear for his being proposed in this Grange. 



ARTICLE VI. Application for Membership. Section 1. The name 

 of a person offered for membership, with his age, residence, and oc 

 cupation, and, in conformity with the form prescribed by the Na 

 tional Grange, shall forthwith be referred to a committee of three 

 members for investigation, who shall report at the next regular meet 

 ing (unless circumstances prevent), when the candidate may be bal 

 loted for with ball ballots; and if any, or less than three, cubes shall 

 appear, further balloting or announcement shall be deferred until the 

 next regular meeting. During this interval the member casting the 

 cube may (and it is his duty to) inform the Worthy Master of the 

 cause thereof, and the Maste/shall, at the next regular meeting, state 

 the reason, if any is given, to the Grange, without exposing the 

 name of the person ; and if the person who shall have cast the cube 

 fail to inform the Master of the reason thereof, the Master shall, at 

 the next regular meeting, if no other objection be made, declare the 

 applicant duly elected ; but if reasons are given, or other objections 

 be made, then&quot; the ballot shall again be held, and if no more than two 

 cubes appear, the candidate shall be declared elected. 



Sec. 2. No reconsideration of an unfavorable ballot can be had 

 unless all the persons who shall have cast cubes against an applicant 

 voluntarily make a motion for a reconsideration of the ballot, when 

 a vote on the reconsideration shall be taken by ballot, and if all the 

 ballots cast be in favor, the reconsideration shall be had ; the applica 

 tion shall then lie over till the succeeding meeting, when another 



