572 THE GBOUNDSWELL. 



National Grange is not in session ; shall provide for the wellf are of the order in bus 

 iness matters ; and shall report their acts in detail to the National Grange on the first 

 day of its annual meeting. 



The Master of the National Grange shall be considered, ex-officio, a member of the 

 Executive Committee. 



ART. x. Sec. 1. Such compensation for time and service shall be given the Master 

 Lecturer, Secretary, Treasurer and Executive Committee as the National Grange may, 

 from time to time, determine. 



Sec. 2. Whenever General Deputies are appointed by the Master of the National 

 Grange, said Deputies shall receive such compensation for time and services as may 

 be determined by the Master or the Executive Committee ; provided, in no case shall 

 pay from the National Grange be given General Deputies in any State after the forma 

 tion of its State Grange. 



ART. xi. Section 1. The financial Reports of Subordinate Granges shall be made 

 on the first day of January, the first day of April, the first day of July and the first 

 day of October. 



tiec. 2. State Granges shall date their financial existence three months after the 

 first day of January, first day of April, first day of July and first day of October, im 

 mediately following their organization. 



ART. xii. Each session of the National Grange shall fix the compensation of its 

 members. 



ART. xin. Special meetings of the National Gransre shall be called by the Master 

 upon the application to the Masters of twenty State Granges, one month s notice of 

 such meeting being given to all members of the National Grange. No alterations or 

 amendments to the By-Laws or Ritual shall be made at any special meeting. 



ART. xiv. Upon the demand of five members, the ayes and noes may be called 

 upon any question, and, when so called, shall be entered by the Secretary upon his 

 minutes. 



ART. xv. Past-Masters are Masters who have been duly elected and installed, and 

 who have served out the term for which they were elected. 



ART. xvi. Vacancies in office may be filled at any regular meeting of the Grange, 



ART. xvn. Subordinate Granges may be consolidated in the mode and upon such 

 terms as may be prescribed by the State Granges. 



ART. xvni. Section 1. In case satisfactory evidence shall be brought to the Master 

 of the National Grange that a Grange has been organized contrary to the laws or 

 usages of the Order, or is working in violation of its laws or usages, it shall be the 

 duty of the Master to revoke the Charter of such offending Grange. 



Sec.%.In case satisfactory evidence shall come to the Master of a State Grange 

 that a Grange has been organized contrary to the laws and usages of the Order, or is 

 working in violation of the same, it shall be the duty of the Master to suspend such 

 offending Grange, and at once forward to the Master of the National Crange notice of 

 the same, together with the evidence in the case, who shall, if in his opinion the good 

 of the Order requires such action, revoke the Charter of such offending Grange. 



Sec. 3. Granges whose Charters are thus revoked may appeal to the National 

 Grange at its next session for the final action of that body. 



ART. xix. These By-Laws may be altered or amended at any annual meeting of the 

 National Grange, by a two-thirds vote of the members present. 



THE DECLARA TION OF PRINCIPLES. 



The work, however, that has been looked forward to as of prime interest 

 by those not only inside but outside the Granges, is the declaration of prin 

 ciples. The document is not only exceedingly comprehensive and emphatic, 

 but is at the same time moderate in its tone. It says : 



Profoundly impressed with the truth that the National Grange of the 

 United States should definitely proclaim to the world its general objects, we 

 hereby unanimously make this declaration of purposes of the Patrons of Hus 

 bandry. 



First United by the strong and faithful tie of Agriculture, we mutually 

 resolve to labor for the good of our Order, our country and mankind.* 



