THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE. ijl 



SEC. 3. The Supreme Council shall at each session fix the mileage 

 and per diem to be paid the actual delegates to the body, subject to a 

 limitation of not over three cents per mile each way by the nearest and 

 most direct travelled route, and not over three dollars per day for such 

 days as are spent in actual attendance at the session. 



ARTICLE VIII. 



SECTION i. No person shall be admitted as a member of this order 

 except a white person, over sixteen years of age, who is a believer in 

 the existence of a Supreme Being, and has resided in the State more 

 than six months, and is, either : First, a farmer, or a farm laborer ; 

 second, a country mechanic, a country preacher, a country school 

 teacher, or a country doctor ; third, an editor of a paper which supports 

 all national demands, and the demands of the State Alliance under 

 whose jurisdiction he may live : Provided, That no Sub-Alliance shall 

 initiate an editor until the county president and secretary shall indorse 

 and the State president approve the application. Provided further, The 

 State president may suspend any editor from membership for using or 

 permitting his paper to be used against the Alliance until the next 

 meeting of the State Alliance, when said Alliance may reinstate or expel 

 him from the order. 



Provided, That each State and Territory shall have the right to pre- 

 scribe the eligibility of applicants for membership, in reference to color, 

 within the limits of the same. Provided further, That none but white 

 men shall be elected as delegates to the Supreme Council. 



SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the Supreme Council to enact a 

 uniform eligibility clause for the various State constitutions ; also, to 

 enact laws defining the eligibility of persons of mixed or unusual occu- 

 pations or residence, subject to all the limitations of this article. 



ARTICLE IX. 



STATE BODIES. 



SECTION i. A State organization may be chartered by the president 

 in any State having as many as seven county organizations, provided 

 that any State containing less than seven counties may be chartered 

 when one-third of its territory is organized. 



SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the president to issue a charter to any 

 State organization qualified under section one of this article, when they 

 shall file evidence that they have, first, adopted a constitution that does 

 not conflict with this constitution ; second, that they adopt the secret 



