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of the States copies of their forms of reporting from sub, county, and 

 State secretaries, and endeavor to secure a uniform system of quarterly 

 reports throughout the entire order. 



26. All resolutions that shall be adopted by this National Council 

 shall be laws governing the membership of the order, and shall be codi- 

 fied and added to the existing laws of the order. 



27. The Executive Board shall require the heads of the various 

 departments to give them an estimate of their expenses for the ensuing 

 year, and shall allow each department such an appropriation as they 

 deem just : Provided, That at least one-fourth of the annual revenue 

 shall be appropriated to the lecture department. (The chairman of 

 the Committee on Constitution reports that the committee intended the 

 above clause to be advisory, and not mandatory.) 



28. The per capita dues shall be five cents, due annually in advance 

 on the first day of November, with the last day of grace February first 

 following. 



29. It is hereby enacted by the National Supreme Council that, 

 within sixty days of the adjournment of the Supreme Council, a meeting 

 of all presidents of States composing the Supreme Council, together 

 with the national president, who shall be ex officio chairman, and shall be 

 held at such time and place as may be designated by the national presi- 

 dent, and the meeting thus constituted shall be known as the National 

 Legislative Council of the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial 

 Union, and one-fourth of the membership shall constitute a quorum. 



2. That it shall be the duty of the said National Legislative Coun- 

 cil to formulate measures and devise such necessary methods in con- 

 formity with the principles, purposes, and acts of the Supreme Council, 

 as may secure the enactment of such laws as may be indicated by the 

 Supreme Council. 



3. It shall be the duty of the president of the National Legislative 

 Council to keep in substantial form a correct record of the proceedings 

 of each legislative council, to be presented to the Supreme Council of the 

 National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union at its next meeting. 



4. It shall be the duty of the Legislative Council to cause to be 

 printed any measures, bills, resolutions, or petitions which it may decide 

 to present to Congress, and cause the same to be transmitted by the 

 national secretary -to all subordinate bodies in each of the States under 

 the jurisdiction of the order, together with such other arguments or 

 other information as in the judgment of the council should be given to 

 the membership. 



5. It may appoint a national legislative committee consisting of not 



