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PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY. 



resentatSon In the National Grange whose dues are 

 unpaid for more than one quarter. 



ARTICLE VIII. RtquiremmU. 



Btcno* 1. Reports from Subordinate Granges 

 relative to crops, implements, stock, or any other 

 matter* called for by the National Grange, must be 

 certified to by the Master and Secretary, and under 

 seal of the Grange giving the same. 



BEO. S. All printed matter on whatever subject, 

 and all Information issued by the National or State 

 to Subordinate Granges, shall be made known to the 

 members without unnecessary delay. 



SEC. I. If any brothers or sister* of the Order are 

 sick, it shall be the duty of the Patrons to visit 

 them, and see that they are well provided with all 

 things needful. 



SEC. 4. Any member found guilty of wanton cruelty 

 to animals shall be expelled from the Order. 



SEC. 6. The officers of Subordinate Granges shall 

 be on the alert in devising means by which the in- 

 terests of the whole Order may be advanced ; but 

 no plan of work shall be adopted by State or Sub- 

 ordinate Granges without flirt submitting it to, and 

 receiving the sanction of, the National Grange. 



ABTICLE IX. Charter* and Ditptntatioru. 



SECTION 1. All charters and dispensations issue 

 directly from the National Grange. 



SEC. i. Nine men and four women having re- 

 ceived the four Subordinate Degrees, may receive a 

 dispensation to organize a Subordinate Grange. 



Bio. S. Applications for dispensations shall be 

 made to the Secretary of the National Grange, and 

 be signed by the persons applying for the same, and 

 be accompanied by a fee of fifteen dollars. 



SEC. *. Charter members are those persons only 

 whose names are upon the application, and whose 

 fees were paid at the time of organization. Their 

 number shall not be less than nine men and four 

 women, nor more than twenty men and ten women. 



8o. 6. Fifteen Subordinate Granges working in 

 State can apply for authority to organize a State 

 Grange. 



EEC. 6. When State Granges are organized, <lis- 

 penaations will be replaced by charters, issued with- 

 out further fee. 



SEC. 7. All eharten moat pans through the State 

 Granges for record, and receive the seal and official 

 signatures of the same. 



SEC. 8. No Grange shall confer more than one 

 decree (either Pint, Steond, Tkird, or Fourth} at the 

 same meeting. 



BBC. t. After a State Grange is organized, all ap- 

 plications for charters munt pass through the same, 

 ad be approved by the Master and Secretary. 



ARTICLE Ji.Dvtvt of OJKetrt. 

 The duties of the officer* of the National, State, 

 and Subordinate Grange*, ahall bo prescribed by the 

 laws of the same. 



ARTICLE Xl.Tretuurtrt. 



SECTIOV 1. The Treasurers of the National, State, 

 and Subordinate Grange* shall give bonds, to be ap- 

 proved by the officer* of their respective Granges. 



BEC. J. la all Granges bills must be approved by 

 the Master, and countersigned by the Secretary, be- 

 fore the Treasurer can pay the same. 



ARTICLE XII. Rtdrutioiu. 

 Religion* or political questions will not be tol- 

 erated as subjects of discussion In the work of the 

 Order, and no political or religious test* for member* 

 ahip shall be applied. 



ARTICLE \\\\.Amt*jmnU. 

 This Constitution pan be altered or amended by a 

 - " - ' vote of the National Grange at any an- 

 ', when rach alteration or amend- 

 ratifled by three-fourths of 



the State Granges, and the same reported to the 

 Secretary of the National Grange, it shall be of lull 

 foe*, 



BY-LAWS. 



ARTICLE I. The fourth day of December, the birth- 

 day of the Patron* of Husbandry, shall bo celebrated 

 as the anniversary of the Order. 



ART. II. Not leas than the representation off 



State* present at any meeting of the Nati 



shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of i t..-i- 



nss. . 



ART. III. At the annual meeting of each State 

 Grange it may elect a proxy to represent tin State 

 Grange in the National Grange in case oftlio inability 

 of the Master to attend, but such proxy Khali in all 

 cases be Past-Masters of their State Graj . 



ART. IV. Questions of administration and juris- 

 prudence arising in and between State Granges, and 

 appeals from the action and decision therof, ahull be 

 referred to the Master and Executive Commit 

 the National Grange, whose decision shall be re- 

 spected snd obeyed until overruled by action of the 

 National Grange. 



AST. V. It shall be the duty of the Master to pre- 

 side at meetings of the National Grange ; nee that all 

 officer* and members of committees properly per- 

 form their respective duties; to sec that the < 'in- 

 stitution, By-laws, and resolutions of the National 

 Grange and the usages of the Order arc observed 

 and ooeyed ; and generally to perform nil duties per- 

 taining to such office. 



ART. VI. It shall be the duty of the Secretory to 

 keep a record of all proceeding* of the National 

 Grange, to keep a just and true account of all m 

 reoelvea and deposited by him in the fiscal agency ; 

 to countersign all drafts drawn by the Treasurer ; to 

 conduct the correspondence of the National Grange, 

 and to perform sucli other duties appertaining to his 

 office as may be required by the Master and the Ex- 

 ecutive Committee. 



It sball be his duty, at least once each week, to 

 deposit with the Fiscal Agency holding the funds of 

 the National Grange all money* that may have eome 

 into his hands, and forward a duplicate i 

 therefor to the Treasurer, and to make a full report 

 of all transactions to the National Grange st each 

 annual session. 



It shall be hi* further duty to procure a monthly 

 report from the Fiscal Agency with whom the funds 

 of the National Grange are deposited of all moneys 

 received and paid out by them during eneli moatn, 

 and send a copy of such report to tl < 

 Committee and the Master of the National Grunge. 



He shall give bond in such sum and with Mich 

 security as may be approved by the Executive Com- 

 mittee. 



ARTICLE VII. Stction 1. It shall be the duty of the 

 Treasurer to issue all drafts upon the Fiseal AL 

 of the Order, said drafts having he-en previ.ait.lv up- 

 proved by the Master ami countcrM^m il by the* Sec- 

 retary of the National Grange. 



See. 8. He shall report monthly to the Master of 

 the National Grange a - de- 



posited to hi* credit in the fiscal agency, and of all 

 drafts (igncii l>y him during the pn \ imis month. 



*.$. He shall report to tin National Grange at 

 each annual session a statement of all moneys de- 

 posited in the fiscal agency, and of all drafts ' 

 by him since his last annual report. 



It shall K' IMH duty to collect all interest accruing 

 on investments made by the Executive Committee, 

 and to deposit the same in the fiscal agci.. 



ART. VIII. It shall be the duty of the l',< cturer to 

 visit, for the good of the Order, such portions of the 

 Vnited States as the Master or the Executive Com- 



may direct, for which service* ho shall r 

 compensation. 



ART. IX. It shall be the duty of the Executive 

 Committee to exercise a general supervision of the 

 affairs of the Order during the recess of the National 



