60 AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS. 



Union shall be a President, Vice-President, an additional Vice-President for 

 each State organized, a Secretary, a Treasurer, a Chaplain, a Lecturer and 

 Assistant Lecturer, a Doorkeeper and Assistant Doorkeeper, and a Sergeant- 

 at-Arms. 



Sec. 3. They shall be elected at each annual meeting, from members of 

 the body, and shall be entitled to hold office until their successors are elected 

 and installed ; at which time the retiring officers shall immediately become 

 honorary members of the National body, for that session only. 



Sec. 4. The duties of the officers of the National Farmers 1 Alliance and 

 Co-operative Union shall be the duties usually incumbent upon and performed 

 by officers of the same name in similar organizations. 



Sec. 5. The President shall be the presiding officer. 



Sec. 6. The Vice-Presidents of the body shall constitute the Executive 

 Committee and Board of Trustees. 



ARTICLE III. 



DUES. 



Section I. Each State organization, under the jurisdiction of this body, 

 shall pay, at each annual session of the body, five per cent of the gross cash 

 receipts of the State organization. 



Sec. 2. The members of the National order are expected to present, at 

 the regular annual meetings, reports of the numerical strength and condition 

 of the order in the State they represent, and of the success attending their 

 efforts in co-operation ; also mental and moral improvement. 



ARTICLE IV. 



Section i. The President, Secretary, and Chairman of Committee on 

 Secret Work shall constitute a board for the examination of brothers who 

 wish to become organizing officers. 



Sec. 2. A brother wishing to become an organizing officer shall present 

 to the above board of examination a recommendation from the President and 

 Secretary of his State organization, or some other creditable authority, ^s to 

 his integrity and moral character, and that he is not addicted to the excessive 

 use of intoxicants ; upon the receipt of which, it shall be the duty of the 

 examining board to examine the applicant as to his qualification and adapta- 

 bility to the work. 



Sec. 3. If he shall pass a satisfactory examination, he shall be commis- 

 sioned as organizing officer J^y the President, which commission shall be 

 attested by the Secretary. 



Sec. 4. There shall not be more than one organizing officer commissioned 

 in each Congressional District, in States having no State organization. 



Sec. 5. The organizers shall work under instructions from the above- 

 named examining board, and shall report to the National Secretary. 



Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of the President to issue a charter, attested 



