116 THE ORDER OF PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY. 



that members of the Subordinate Granges shall be allowed the right of appeal to 

 their State Granges, and members of the State Grange shall be allowed the right 



ARTICLE XIX? Each Officer required bylaw to report to the National Grange at 

 its annual sessions, shall furnish, in connection with his report, an itemized state 

 ment of the expenses of his office for the current year. 



ARTICLE XX The Secretary of each State Grange shall send to the Secretary 

 of the National Grange, two printed copies of the proceedings of his State Grange, 

 as soon us practicable after each annual session, and also copies of the Oonstit 

 tion and By-Laws of his State Grange, and the Secretary of the National Grange 

 shall preserve, in his office, one copy of each of these documents. 



ARTICLE XXI. All communications, circulars, and all other documents trans 

 mitted by the officers of the National Grange, or any department thereof, to the 

 Subordinate Granges, shall pass through the office of the State Grange to whicl 



ARTICLE^X!! 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. 



ELIGIBILITY. 



Of all applicants, either for charter membership or other 

 wise, the questions should be asked: 



1st Are they * engaged in agricultural pursuits?&quot; 

 2d Have they &quot;any interests in conflict with our purposes?&quot; 

 If they are not engaged in agricultural pursuits they are not -eli 

 gible. If they have any conflicting interest they are not eligible. 

 Organizing officers and the members decide these points. 



The ainsndment which embodies the above restriction was 

 brought in at the St. Louis meeting in 1874; more explicitly 

 defining the original requirement. Like-all other amendments 

 it required the ratification of twenty-seven State and Territorial 

 Granges. It is now the law of admission, but not an ex post 

 facto law; is not retroactive, and cannot affect any member al 

 ready in the Grange. 



RULINGS. 



To the Rulings of our &quot;Worthy Master Adams, masters and mem 

 bers in all the States must render a cheerful obedience, until an 

 appeal may be sustained by the National Grange. 



A married woman derives her eligibility to become a member of a 

 Grange from the eligibility of her husband, and if he is not eligible 

 and worthy of being admitted to the Grange, the wife should not be 

 admitted alone. It is not safe or good policy to admit married 

 women to the Grange whose husbands are opposed to our Order, or 

 who, being eligible, have no disposition to join it. Unless the by 

 laws of a Subordinate Grange fix a time which must elapse before a 

 new application can be made for a rejected candidate, there is noth 

 ing in the National Constitution to prohibit the application being 

 renewed at any subsequent meeting. 



If the Master of a Grange has good reason to believe that some of 

 the members have cast black balls by mistake, he should, before 

 declaring the result of the ballot, make such statement and recom 

 mend another ballot. If, however, he declares the ballot, and the 



