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ARTICLE 10. 



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, de- 

 termine. 



SEC. 2. Whenever General Deputies are appointed by the 

 Master of the National Grange, said deputies shall receive such 

 compensation for time and services as may be determined by the 

 Executive Committee: Provided, In no case shall pay from the 

 National Grange be given General Deputies in any State after the 

 formation of its State Grange. 



ARTICLE 11. 



SECTION 1. The financial existence of Subordinate Granges shall 

 date from the first day of January, first day of April, first day of 

 July, and first day of October subsequent to the day of their 

 organization, from which date their first quarter shall commence. 



SEC. 2. State Granges shall date their financial existence three 

 months after the first day of January, first of April, first of July, 

 and first of October immediately following their organization. 



ARTICLE 12. 



Each State Grange shall be entitled to send one representative, 

 who shall be a Master thereof, or his proxy, to all meetings of the 

 National Grange. He shall receive mileage at the rate of five cents 

 per mile both ways, computed by the nearest practicable route, to 

 be paid as follows : The Master and Secretary of. the National 

 Grange shall give such representative an order for the amount on 

 the Treasurer of the State Grange which he represents, and this 

 order shall be receivable by the National Grange in payment of 



State dues. 



ARTICLE 13. 



Special meetings of the National Grange shall be called by the 

 Master upon the application of the Masters of ten 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 Ritual shall be made at any special meeting. 



ARTICLE 14. 



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. 



