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withdrawal-card, upon the payment of the sum of one dollar. Persons bearing 

 such cards may be admitted, without additional fees, to membership in another 

 Subordinate Grange, but shall be subject to the same form of petition, examina 

 tion and ballot, as those first applying for membership, except that a majority 

 vote shall elect them. 



ARTICLE XV. Persons making application for membership in our Order shall 

 apply to the Subordinate Grange nearest to them, unless good and sufficient 

 reasons exist for doing otherwise. In such cases, the Grange to which applica 

 tion is made, shall judge the reasons, and may consult the Grange .nearest the 

 applicant. 



ARTICLE XVI. It shall be lawful for Subordinate Granges to form themselves 

 into Councils for the purpose of facilitating the transaction of business, buying, 

 selling and shipping, or such other purposes as may seem for the good of the 

 Order. They shall be governed, and the membership regulated, by such laws as 

 the Council may, from time to time, make, not in conflict with the Constitutions 

 of the National and State Granges. They may elect a business agent to act in 

 concert with the Executive Committee; and it shall be their duty to inform the 

 Master of any irregularities practiced by Deputies within their jurisdiction. 



ARTICLE XVII. Section 1. The Executive Committee shall be empowered to 

 try and suspend from office any officer of the State Grange who may prove in 

 efficient or derelict in the discharge of his duty subject to appeal to the ensuing 

 session of the State Grange. 



Sec. 2. A Master of a Subordinate Grange is amenable to a Court constituted 

 by the Grange of which he is a member, and an appeal lays from such Court to 

 the State Grange. 



ARTICLE XVIII. This Constitution may be amended at any regular meeting 

 of the State Grange, provided that any proposed amendment shall have been 

 presented to the Executive Committee, and by it reported to the Masters of 

 Subordinate Granges, three months previous to the meeting of the State Grange. 



BY-LAWS OF THE CALIFORNIA STATE GKANGE. 



ARTICLE I. Section 1. It shall be the duty of the Master to preside at all 

 meetings of the Grange ; to see that all officers and members of committees prop 

 erly perform their respective duties; to see that the Constitution of the National 

 Grange, the By-Laws of this State Grange, and the usages of the Order, are ob 

 served and obeyed; to sign all drafts upon the Treasury, and to perform all other 

 duties usually pertaining to such office. 



Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of Masters of Subordinate Granges to take charge 

 of all books and papers containing the work of the Order, private instructions, 

 etc., and they shall not allow the same out of their possession, except for use in 

 the Grange. 



Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the Overseer to assist the Master in preserving 

 order; to preside over the Grange in the absence of the Master, and in case of 

 the vacancy of the office of Master, he shall fill the same until the next annual 

 meeting. 



See. 4. The duties of Lecturer shall be such as usually devolve upon that 

 officer in a Subordinate Grange. He shall also visit Subordinate Granges through 

 out the State, when requested to do so by the Executive Committee. 



Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the Steward to have charge of the inner Gate, 

 and perform such other duties as are required by the Ritual. 



Sec. 6. The Assistant Steward shall assist the Steward in the performance of 

 his duties. 



Sec. 7 . The Secretary shall keep an accurate record of all proceedings of the 

 Grange, make out all necessary returns to the National Grange, keep the accounts 

 of the Subordinate Granges with the State Grange, and pay over quarterly to the 

 Treasurer all moneys coming into his hands and take his receipt for the same. 

 He shall also keep a complete register of the names and numbers of all Subordi 

 nate Granges, and the names and addresses of Masters and Secretaries. 



Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to receive all moneys, giving his 

 receipt for the same; to keep an accurate occount thereof, and pay all orders of 

 the Grange signed by the Master and Secretary; to render a full account of his 



