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Clause 2. Any member suspended as above may be reinstated on 

 payment of the dues \vhich caused suspension, and all accruing dues 

 intervening, on a two-thirds vote of the members of the Grange pres 

 ent voting in favor of said reinstatement. Provided, that no member 

 so suspended shall be entitled to any of the benefits or privileges of 

 the Order during said suspension ; nor shall a dismissal card ^ be 

 granted until all delinquencies are liquidated, and all charges with 

 drawn, should there be any; and then, upon a vote of the Grange and 

 payment for withdrawal card, such dismissal may be granted. 



feec. 2. Any member who shall violate any of the principles of the 

 Order, or offend against the Constitution, By-Laws, or Kules of Order 

 of this Grange, shall be fined, reprimanded, suspended, or expelled, 

 as the By-Laws may direct, or the Grange determine. 



Sec. 3.* Every member shall be entitled to a fair trial, and no mem 

 ber shall be put on trial, unless charges, duly specifying the offense, 

 shall be submitted to the Grange in writing, and signed by a mem 

 ber of the Grange, and a copy, under seal of the Grange, be served 

 upon the member accused. 



Sec. 4. Such charges shall be referred to a committee of Jive mem 

 bers, peers of the accused, who shall summon the parties and try the 

 case. They shall keep full minutes of the proceedings and report 

 the same to the Grange with their verdict; the witnesses shall give 

 their testimony on oath or affirmation, and no testimony shall be 

 taken without an opportunity for cross-examination by the accused. 

 Upon judgment being rendered, an appeal may be taken, at any time. 

 within one month, to the State Grange, in the persons of its Execu 

 tive Committee, whose decree shall be final. If no appeal be taken, 

 the verdict, being ratified by the Grange, shall be final. If excep 

 tions to the report of the Committee be filed, the Grange may deter 

 mine upon their merits, and either sustain the report or refer the 

 same back, or to another Committee, or grant a new trial. If the 

 Grange deem the exceptions ill-founded, it shall proceed to pro 

 nounce its judgment and affix the penalty. 



Sec. 5. If the accused refuse or neglect to stand trial when duly 

 summoned, the committee shall report such refusal or neglect as con 

 tempt of the Grange, which report shall be conclusive, and the pun 

 ishment shall be expulsion. 



ARTICLE XIII. The funds and property of this Grange shall be 

 held exclusively as a trust fund, to be devoted to the uses of the 

 Grange, as may be required, from time to time, under and by the di 

 rection of such action as may be taken in the Grange, by its mem 

 bers, at any regular meeting. 



ARTICLE XIV. The officers for the term about expiring shall pre 

 pare and deliver to their successors in office all books, papers, funds, 

 and other Grange property on their retiring from office, taking a re 

 ceipt for the same, being careful to have all the business of the 

 Grange recorded and finished so far as it may have progressed. 



