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the National Grange, appoint two of their number, who, together with the Worthy 

 Master of the National Grange, shall constitute a Court of Appeals, to which 

 shall be referred all appeals that may be taken to the National Grange. The 

 Worthy Master, as President of. the Court, shall convene the Court whenever the 

 business in his hands shall make it necessary, and when thus convened, the 

 Court shall try all cases coming before it, or continue the same as the equities of 

 each case may demand. 



It shall prescribe its own mode of procedure; its decisions shall be final and 

 must be reported to the next session of the National Grange. 



ARTICLE IX. Section 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 Na 

 tional Grange, said Deputies shall receive such compensation for time and serv 

 ices as maybe determined by the Master and the Executive Committee; pro 

 vided, in no case shall pay from the National Grange be given General Deputies 

 in any State after the formation of its State Grange. 



ARTICLE X. 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. 



Sec. 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 the first day of 

 October, immediately following their organization. 



Sec. 3. The financial year of the National Grange ^shall close on the 30th day 

 of September. 



ARTICLE XI. Each session of the National Grange shall fix the compensation 

 of its members. 



ARTICLE XII. Special meetings of the National Grange shall be called by the 

 Master upon the application of 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 Eitual shall be made at any special 

 meeting. 



ARTICLE XIII. Upon the demand of five members, the ayes and noes may be 



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

 upon his minutes. 



ARTICLE XIV. Past-Masters are Masters who have been duly elected and in 

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



ARTICLE XV. Vacancies in office may be filled at any regular meeting of the 

 Grange. 



ARTICLE XVI. Two or more Subordinate Granges may be consolidated in the 

 manner following, to wit: 



Application for permission to consolidate shall be made to the Master of the 

 State Grange and his consent obtained. One of the consolidating Granges shall 

 then vote to surrender its Charter and to consolidate with the other; and the other 

 must vote to receive all the members of the surrendering Grange. 



A copy of each vote, duly authenticated, must be transmitted to the Secretary 

 of the State Grange, and the surrendered charter must be returned to the National 

 Grange, through the office of the Secretary of the State Grange, with the fact and 

 date of its surrender and consolidation endorsed thereon, authenticated by the 

 seal and signature of the Secretary of the State Grange; provided, that nothing 

 herein contained shall be construed to authorize the surrender of the charter of a 

 Grange in which nine men and four women shall desire to continue the organiza 

 tion thereof. 



ARTICLE XVII. Section 1. 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 Grange 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. 2. Granges, whose Charters are thus revoked, may appeal to the National 

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



ARTICLE XVIII. Members of the State and Subordinate Granges shall be amen 

 able to their respective Granges under such regulations as may be prescribed by 

 the State Granges for the trial of causes in their respective jurisdictions; provided 



