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fifty cents for each woman initiated during that quarter; also, a quarterly due of 

 six cents for each member. 



Sec. 4. The Secretary of the State Grange shall report quarterly to the Secre 

 tary of the National Grange the membership in this State, and the degrees con 

 ferred during the quarter. 



Sec. 5. The Treasurer of the State Grange shall deposit to the credit of the 

 National Grange of Patrons of Husbandry with some Banking or Trust Company 

 in New York, (to be selected by the Executive Committee,) in quarterly install 

 ments, the annual due of ten cents for each member in this State, and forward 

 the receipts for the same to the Treasurer of the National Grange. 



Sec. 6. All moneys deposited with said company shall be paid out only upon 

 the drafts of the Treasurer signed by the Master, and countersigned by the Secre 

 tary. 



Sec. 7. No State Grange shall be entitled to representation in the National 

 Grange, whose dues are unpaid for more than one quarter. 



Sec. 8. The fiscal year of this and Subordinate Granges shall commence on the 

 first day of January, and end on the last day of December in each year. 



ARTICLE IX. Section 1. Eeports from subordinate Granges relative to crops, 

 implements, stock, or any other matters called for by the National Grange, must 

 be certified to by the Master and Secretary, and under^seal of the Grange giving 

 the same. 



Sec. 2. All printed matter on whatever subject, and all information issued by 

 the National or State to Subordinate Granges, shall be made known to the mem 

 bers without unnecessary delay. 



Sec. 3. If any brothers or sisters 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 need 

 ful. 



Sec. 4. Any member found guilty of wanton cruelty to animals shall be expelled 

 from the order. 



Sec. 5. The officers of Subordinate Granges shall be on the alert in devising 

 means by which the interests of the whole Order may be advanced ; but no plan 

 of work shall bo adopted by State or Subordinate Granges without first submit 

 ting it to, and receiving the sanction of, the National Grange. 



ARTICLE X. Section 1. All charters and dispensations issue directly from the 

 National Grange. 



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

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



Sec. 3. 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 ac 

 companied by a fee of fifteen dollars. 



Sec. 4. Charter members are those persons only whose names are upon the ap 

 plication, 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. 



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

 to organize a State Grange. 



Sec. 6. When State Granges are organized, dispensations will be replaced by 

 charters, issued without further fee. 



Sec. 7. All charters must pass through the State Granges for record, and re 

 ceive the seal and official signatures of the same. 



Sec. 8. No Grange shall confer more than one degree (either First, Second, 

 Third or Fourth) at the same meeting. 



Sec. 9. After a State Grange is organized, all applications for charters must pass 

 through the same and be approved by the Master and Secretary. 



ARTICLE XI. The duties of the officers of the State and Subordinate Granges 

 shall be prescribed by the laws of the same. 



ARTICLE 12. Section 1. The Treasurers of the State and Subordinate Granges 

 shall give bonds to be approved by the officers of their respective Granges. 



Sec. 2. In all Granges bills must be approved by the Master, and countersigned 

 by the Secretary, before the Treasurer can pay the same. 



ARTICLE XIII. Religious or political questions will not be tolerated as subjects 

 of discussion in the work of the Order, and no political or religious tests for mem 

 bership shall be applied. 



ARTICLE XIV. Any brother or sister who is in good standing, clear of the 

 books of the Grange, and who has attained +o the Fourth Degree, is entitled to a 



