112 THE ORDER OF PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY. 



Sec. 4. There shall be an Executive Committee of the National Grange, con 

 sisting of five members, whose term of office shall be three years. 



Sec. 5. The officers of the respective Granges shall be addressed as &quot;worthy.&quot; 



ARTICLE II. Section 1. Subordinate Granges shall meet at least once each 

 month, and may hold intermediate meetings. , 



Sec. 2. State Granges shall meet annually at such time and place as the 

 Grange shall, from year to year, determine . 



Sec. 3. The National Grange shall meet annually on the third Wednesday in 

 November, at such place as the Grange may, from year to year, determine. 

 Should the National Grange adjourn without selecting the place of meeting, the 

 Executive Committee shall appoint the place and notify the Secretary of the Na 

 tional Grange and the Masters of the State Granges at least thirty days before 

 the day appointed. 



ARTICLE III. The National Grange, at its annual session, may frame, amend, 

 or repeal such laws as the good of the Order may require. All laws of State and 

 Subordinate Granges must conform to this Constitution and the laws adopted by 

 the National Grange. 



ARTICLE IV. The Ritual adopted by the National Grange shall be used in all 

 Subordinate Granges, and any desired alteration in the same must be submitted 

 to, and receive the sanction of the National Grange. 



ARTICLE V. Any person engaged in agricultural pursuits and having no in 

 terest in conflict with our purposes, of the age of sixteen years, duly proposed, 

 elected, and complying with the rules and regulations of the Order, is entitled to 

 membership and the benefit of the degrees taken. Every application must be ac 

 companied by the fee of membership. If rejected the money will be refunded. 

 Applications must be certified by members, and balloted for at a subsequent meet 

 ing. It shall require three negative votes to reject an applicant. 



ARTICLE VI. The minimum fee for membership in a Subordinate Grange shall 

 be, for men, five dollars, and for women, two dollars, for the four degrees, except 

 charter members, who shall pay men, three dollars, and women, fifty cents. 



ARTICLE VII. Section 1. The minimum of regular monthly dues shall be ten 

 cents from each member, and each Grange may otherwise regulate its own dues. 



Sec. 2. The Secretary of each Subordinate Grange shall report quarterly to the 

 Secretary of the State Grange the names of all persons initiated during the quar 

 ter, and pay to the Secretary of the State Grange one dollar for each man, and 

 fifty cents for each woman initiated during the quarter. Also a quarterly due of 

 six cents for each member, said report to be approved and forwarded at the first 

 session of the Grange in each quarter. 



Sec. 3. The Secretary of the State Grange shall pay to the Treasurer of the 

 State Grange all moneys coming into his hands, at least once every ten days, tak 

 ing his receipt therefor; and shall report quarterly to the Secretary of the National 

 Grange the membership in the State. 



Sec. 4. The Treasurer of each State Grange shall deposit to the credit of the 

 National Grange of Patrons of Husbandry, with some Banking or Trust company, 

 to be selected by the Executive Committee, in quarterly instalments, the annual 

 due of five cents of each member in his State, and forward the receipts of the 

 same to the Treasurer of the National Grange. 



Sec. 5. All moneys deposited with said company shall be paid out only upon 

 the drafts of the Treasurer approved by the Master and countersigned by the 

 Secretary. 



Sec. 6. No State Grange shall be entitled to representation in the National 

 Grange whose dues are unpaid for more than one quarter. 



ARTICLE VIII. Section 1. All charters and dispensations issue directly from 

 the National Grange. 



Sec. 2. Nine men and four women having received the four Subordinate 

 degrees, may receive a dispensation to organize a Subordinate Grange. 



Sec. 3. Applications for dispensations or charters shall be made to the Sec 

 retary of the National Grange, and be signed by the persons applying for thy 

 same, and be accompanied by a fee of fifteen dollars. 



Sec. 4. 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 

 twenty women. 



Sec. 5. Fifteen Subordinate Granges working in a State can apply for author 

 ity to organize a State Grange. 



