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provisions and rendering the workings of the Judiciary 

 Department effective, the Supreme Council shall provide 

 rules and regulations. 



ARTICLE VII. 



SECTION i. The Supreme Council shall fix such 

 salaries for officers as may be a fair remuneration for ser- 

 vices required, and for such expenditures of the various 

 departments as may be consistent with strict economy. 



SEC. 2. A per capita tax of 5 cents shall be paid for 

 each male member into the National Treasury by each 

 State organization on or before the ist day of November 

 of eacrTyear. 



SEC. 3. The Supreme Council shall at each session 

 fix the mileage and per diem to be paid the actual dela- 

 gates to the body, subject to a limitation of not over 3 

 cents per mile each way by the nearest and most direct 

 traveled route, and not over $3 per day for such days as 

 are actually spent in actual attendance at the session. 



ARTICLE VIII. 



SECTION i . No person shall be admitted as a mem- 

 ber of this Order except a white person, over 16 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 mechanic, a country preacher, a country schoolteacher, 

 or a country doctor; third, an editor of a strictly agricul- 

 tural paper. 



Provided, That each State and Territory shall have 

 the right to prescribe the eligibility of applicants for 

 membership in reference to color within the limits of the 

 same. Presided, 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 



