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scribe for and make settlement on stock as above specified, 

 to the number of shares dne from it under the following 

 schedule of ability, to wit: Those having less than 

 twenty-five members shall be apportioned one share; 

 twenty-five to fifty members, two shares, fifty to seventy- 

 five members, three shares; seventy-five to one hundred 

 members, four shares; all above one hundred members, 

 five shares; provided that this shall not prevent any 

 subordinate body from taking as many shares as they 

 choose. 



8. Each subordinate body or member, holding one- 

 or more shares of stock in his Exchange, shall be entitled 

 to one trustee stockholder, who shall be elected annually 

 at the regular election of officers [except individuals who 

 shall represent their own stock]. He shall represent 

 such subordinate body in the county meeting of trustee 

 stockholders, and shall be entitled to as many votes as 

 he represents shares of stock. The county convention of 

 trustee stockholders shall, at a regular annual meeting, 

 elect from their number, one delegate for all shares of 

 stock owned in that county, who shall be known as 

 county trustee stockholder, and authorized to represent 

 the stock held in that county in the State meetings of the 

 trustee stockholders of the corporation, and shall be 

 entitled to as many votes as he represents shares of stock. 

 Each trustee stockholder shall be the representative of 

 the Exchange in his Wheel, Alliance or Union, and shall 

 give bond to the amount of one-half of the stock held by 

 such subordinate body for the faithful performance of 

 duty. 



9. For the purpose of giving this movement tangible 

 form and insuring its success, the Executive Committee 

 of the State Wheel, together with the Committee of 

 Exchange, the President of the State Wheel and Presi- 

 dent of the Farmers' Alliance of Arkansas, shall constitute 



