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call upon each State secretary to send them a copy of what he finds to 

 be the best blank for subs to report to county organizations, and what 

 for county to report to State organizations upon, and give this com- 

 mittee authority to consider all these forms, adopt the best as the 

 standard for all, and get up the reports to the national, State, and 

 county bodies in a complete system. They can then be printed from 

 plates in large numbers, and thereby reduce the expense. 



2. Independent of the secretaries' reports, a system, of crop reports 

 should be inaugurated, that will be more* prompt, accurate, and reliable 

 than the estimates made and published every year by the speculators, who 

 are interested in depressing prices of our produce. This is of the utmost 

 importance ; and yet all efforts made up to this time have been signal 

 failures. I would therefore suggest that the national, State, county, and 

 subordinate bodies each elect a crop statistician, to be paid by the body 

 electing him, and who shall be hejd responsible to make regular reports 

 as required by the officers to whom he is to report, and that the national 

 statistician report monthly to the president of the national body. 



3. The national committee on secret work should alone be authorized 

 to print the ritual, and all sub and county charters should emanate from 

 the national, and be issued by the various States. 



4. The regular annual meetings of the State bodies should be timed 

 so as to come in rotation, thereby allowing national officers to visit them. 



5. All written official documents of the national should bear the 

 impress of the seal, and all printed official documents should have 

 printed on them a fac-simile of the seal. 



6. The secretary should be required, on the first of every month, to 

 pay the treasurer all the money he has received, and the treasurer pro- 

 hibited from paying out any money, except on a warrant drawn by the 

 secretary and approved by the president, and the secretary should be 

 prohibited from drawing a warrant on the treasurer, except upon a 

 voucher or account that is audited and approved by such auditing 

 officer as this body may provide. 



7. There seems at present a necessity for a national lecturer, and as 

 that necessity may only exist for a year or two, it might be provided 

 for temporarily ; and if it be, the lecturer should be an efficient officer, 

 with probably a larger salary than any other national officer, and be 

 required to do active work during his term. 



8. Since education is one of the most potent agents at our command, 

 the national should impress upon the membership the importance of 

 every member reading his State and national organ. 



9. The president should be authorized at any time to appoint com- 



