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Grange. They shall have authority to act on all 

 matters of interest to the Order, when the National 

 Grange is not in session ; shall provide for the wel- 

 fare of the Order in business matters: and shall re- 

 port their acts in detail to the National Grange on 

 the first day of its annual meeting. 



The Master of the National Grange shall be con- 

 sidered, ex officio, a member of the Executive Com- 

 mittee. 



ABHCLE X. Stction 1. Such compensation for time 

 and service shall be given the Master, Lecturer, Sec- 

 retary, Treasurer, and Executive Cotynittee, as the 

 National Grange may from time to time determine. 



6'c. 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 Execu- 

 tive Committee : Provided^ In no case shall pay from 

 the National Grange be given General Deputies in 

 any State after the formation of its State Grange. 



ARTIOLB XI. Stction 1. The financial reports of 

 Subordinate Granges shall be made on the first day 

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

 first day of October. 



See. 2. State Granges shall date their financial ex- 

 ist3nce three months after the first day of January, 

 first day of April, first day of July, and first day of 

 October immediately following their organization. 



ART. XII. Each session of the National Grange 

 shall fix the compensation of its members. 



AET. XIII. Special meetings of the National 

 Grange shall be called by the Master upon the appli- 

 cation of the Masters of twenty State Granges, one 

 month's notice of such meeting being given to all 

 members of the National Grange. No alteration* or 

 amendments to the By-Laws or Ritual shall be made 

 at any special meeting. 



ABT. XIV. Upon the demand of five members, 

 the yeas and nays may be culled upon any ques- 

 tion, and, when so called, shall be entered by the 

 Seeretarv upon his minutes. 



ABT. XV. Past-Masters are Masters who have been 

 duly elected and installed, and who have served out 

 the term for which they were elected. 



AKT. XVI. Vacancies in office may be filled at any 

 r '_":l;ir meeting of the Grange. 



ART. XVII. Subordinate Granges may be consoli- 

 dated in the mode and upon such terms as may bo 

 ribivl hy the State Granges. 



AST. XVIII. Section 1. In cane satisfactory evi- 

 dence 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 vio- 

 lation of its laws or usages, it shall be the duty of 

 the Master to revoke the Charter of such offending 

 Grange. 



See. 2. In cae 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 slmll 

 be the duty of the Master to suspend such offending 

 Grange, and at once forward to the Master of the 

 National Grange notice of the same, together with 

 the evidence in the case, who shall, if in nis opinion 

 the (rood of the Order requires such action, revoke 

 the Charter of such offending Grange. 



See. 3. Granges, whose Charters are thus revoked, 

 may appeal to the National Grange at its next ses- 

 sion 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. 



But, with their preliminary organization thns 

 completed, the question occurred, How shonld 

 the farmers and planters bo induced to accept 

 this offered remedy for the ills from which 

 they suffered ? 



It was finally arranged that Mr. Kelley should 

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resign his clerkship, and start on the 1st of 

 April, 1868, on a mission to establish subordi- 

 nate granges. He went under the direction of 

 the National Grange, and was to receive a 

 salary of $2,000, provided he could collect 

 that amount by the regular fees for organizing 

 granges; but the National Grange had not 

 the means, nor would it commit itself to a 

 proposition to pay his salaries and expenses 

 unless they could be collected in that way. 

 Mr. Saunders, however, had more faith both 

 in the cause and in Mr. Kelley's ability to 

 make it known. He secured for him a ticket 

 to Harrisburg, which was to be his first field of 

 operations, gave him letters of credit on some 

 of his friends, and saw him set out on his jour- 

 ney. Mr. Kelley, on starting, had but $2.50 

 in his pocket. Arrived at Harrisburg, he or- 

 ganized a grange there, and went on toward 

 Fredonia, N. Y., where he found good and 

 true friends, and established a second. In his 

 progress westward he found much opposition, 

 but, with aid received from Mr Saunders, he 

 kept on his way organizing a weak grange at 

 Columbus, Ohio, and another at Chicago. On 

 the 1st of May he reached Minnesota, having 

 organized four granges. In that State he es- 

 tablished before the close of the .year six more. 

 Ten subordinate granges, in all, and the order 

 had been in existence more than a year ! Mr. 

 Kelley remained npon his farm in Minnesota 

 for the next two years and a half, though oc- 

 casionally going out to lecture on the subject, 

 and attending the sessions of the National 

 Grange at Washington. The general feeling in 

 the Northwest was not so mnch hostility as 

 entire indifference to the subject. But, mean- 

 time, the order was slowly gaining ground in 

 other directions. Colonel D. Wyatt Aiken, of 

 Abbeville District, S. 0., a warm-hearted and 

 energetic planter, had become interested in it, 

 and had been propagating its doctrines success- 

 fully in South Carolina, Georgia, and North 

 Carolina, and other prominent Southern men 

 had taken an interest in it, perceived its ad- 

 vantages to the South, and were making de- 

 cided progress in their several States. In Iowa 

 and Missouri, also, there was a growing feel- 

 ing that it was likely to prove a good thing. 

 Mr. Dudley W. Adams, the present Worthy 

 Master of the National Grange, came into the 

 order in Iowa in the beginning of 1870, and 

 Mr. T. A. Thompson, the present Worthy Lect- 

 urer of the National Grange in February of 

 that year. Both have proved valuable acces- 

 sions to the order. Considerable changes were 

 required in the secret work to make it more 

 acceptable, and these having been mnde hy Mr. 

 Thompson in 1867, were adopted by the Execu- 

 tive Committee, and have added not a little to 

 its popularity. Henceforth the progress of 

 the order was to be one of wonderful rapidity. 

 As we have seen, ten granges, or possibly 

 eleven, were established in 1868; 39 in 1869; 

 88 in 1870 ; 125 in 1871 ; 1,105 in 1872 ; aftout 

 8,400 in 1873 ; and in the first two months of 



