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be filled in the manner pointed out by the Constitutions o. such State, District, or Territorial Grand Lodge or Encampment.

SEC. 2. Grand Representatives shall be appointed as follows, viz: To every State, District, or Territorial Grand Lodge or Encampment, having under its jurisdiction one thousand or less members in good standing, One Grand Representative. To every State, District, or Territorial Grand Lodge or Encampment, having under its jurisdiction over one thousand members in good standing, Two Grand Representatives. To every State, District, or Territorial Grand Lodge or Encampment, having under its jurisdiction over five thousand members in good standing, Three Grand Representatives. To every State, District, or Territorial Grand Lodge or Encampment, having under its jurisdiction over twenty thousand members in good standing, Four Grand Representatives. And no State, District, or Territorial Grand Lodge or Encampment shall ever have over Four Grand Representatives.

SEC. 3. A Grand Representative must be a Past Grand in good standing, and a member of a Lodge in good standing. He must have received the Royal Purple degree, and be a member in good standing of an Encampment in good standing; and he must reside in the State, District, or Territory the Grand Lodge or Encampment whereof he represents. No Representative shall represent more than one Grand Body at the same time.

SEC. 4. Grand Representatives shall be furnished by the Grand Bodies which they represent with such certificates as shall be required by law.

SEC. 5. In case of contested elections, this Grand Lodge shall determine to whom the contested seat belongs.

ARTICLE X.

Past Grand Sires shall be admitted to seats in this Grand Lodge, with the power of debating and making motions, but shall not have the privilege of voting unless they be Grand Representatives.

ARTICLE XI.

SEC. 1. This Grand Lodge shall have the power, a majority consenting thereto, to impeach and try any of its officers or members, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds of the votes cast, to expel from officership or membership therein any officer or member so impeached and tried.

SEC. 2. During the trial of any impeachment, the officer or member under impeachment shall be debarred from the exercise of his office or the privilege of his membership, but may be heard in his own defence.

SEC. 3. No officer or member who has been once expelled from this Grand Lodge shall be ever again admitted therein as an officer or member.

SEC. 4. Suspension or expulsion from the Subordinate Lodge or Encampment of which an officer or member of this Grand Lodge is a member, shall ipso facto work a suspension from officership or mem

bership in this Grand Lodge; and the vacancy thereby created shall be filled in the manner hereinbefore prescribed.

ARTICLE XII.

This Grand Lodge shall meet annually on the first Thursday of September, at nine o'clock A. M., at such place as the Grand Lodge shall from time to time determine. It may also meet on its own adjournments. It may also meet specially on the call of the Grand Sire, of which the Grand Sire shall cause two months' notice to be given to the Representatives of the several State, District, or Territorial Grand Lodges and Encampments, communicating to them the purpose for which the special meeting is called; and in no case shall any business be transacted at a special meeting unless notice thereof has been given as above stated.

ARTICLE XIII.

SEC. 1. Representatives from a majority of the whole number of State, District, and Territorial Grand Bodies shall be necessary to form a quorum for the transaction of business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may receive and act upon the credentials of new members, except in contested elections.

SEC. 2. This Grand Lodge shall be the judge of the certificates or returns and qualifications of its members.

SEC. 3. It may determine the rules of its proceedings, and from time to time adopt such rules of order as it may see fit.

SEC. 4. A journal of its proceedings shall be kept and published annually, except such proceedings as are had in secret session.

SEC. 5. Voting for officers shall be by ballot; and should there be more than two candidates for the same office, after the second ballot the candidate on each balloting subsequent having the lowest number of ballots shall be dropped, until an election is made.

SEC. 6. All other voting shall be viva voce, or by yeas and nays, as the Grand Lodge may desire. The yeas and nays may be demanded by one-fifth of the Representatives present, and shall be entered upon the journal.

SEC. 7. All questions shall be decided by a majority vote, except in such cases as a specific majority is required.

ARTICLE XIV.

The revenue of the Grand Lodge shall be as follows, viz:

1. Fees for charters of Grand Lodges or Encampments, or Subordinate Lodges or Encampments working under its immediate jurisdiction, thirty dollars.

2. Dues from State, District, or Territorial Grand Lodges and Encampments, fifty dollars per annum for each vote they shall be entitled to in this Grand Lodge.

3. Dues from Subordinate Lodges or Encampments working under the immediate jurisdiction of this Grand Lodge, ten per cent. on their receipts.

4. Proceeds of the ales of books, cards, diplomas, odes, and certificates.

ARTICLE XV.

SEC. 1. To be an officer of this Grand Lodge, one nominated must have received the Grand Lodge and Grand Encampment degrees, and be a member in good standing of a Subordinate Lodge and Encampment in good standing.

SEC. 2. Candidates for the several elective offices may be nominated by the State, District, or Territorial Grand Lodges or Encampments, or by the Grand Representatives.

SEC. 3. The nomination and election of officers shall take place on the same day, to wit, the second day of the communications at which officers are to be elected. The nomination for each office shall be immediately succeeded by the election for the same, and before the nominations and elections for the next office.

ARTICLE XVI.

SEC. 1. The members of the Order from each State, District, or Territory under the jurisdiction of this Grand Lodge, shall be entitled to admission into the Lodges or Encampments of every other State, District, or Territory, upon proving themselves according to the established work of the Order, and the production of a proper card.

SEC. 2. No person shall be entitled to admission to the Order except free white males of good moral character, who have arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and who believe in a Supreme Being, the Creator and Preserver of the Universe.

SEC. 3. No citizen of one State, District, or Territory, wherein Lodges or Encampments are established, shall be admitted to membership in a Lodge or Encampment of another State, District, or Territory, without the previous consent of the Grand Lodge or Encampment of the State, District, or Territory whereof such citizen is a resident.

SEC. 4. A member of the Order suspended or expelled from a Lodge or Encampment in any State, District, or Territory, shall not be admitted to membership in a Lodge or Encampment in another State, District, or Territory, without the previously obtained consent of the Lodge or Encampment from which he is suspended or expelled.

ARTICLE XVII.

The Officers and Grand Representatives (except such officers as receive stated salaries) shall receive a compensation for their services, to be ascertained by law, and paid out of the Treasury of the Grand Lodge of the United States.

ARTICLE XVIII.

With the previous consent and approval, from time to time expressed, of this Grand Lodge, the Most Worthy Grand Sire may accredit any officer or member of this Grand Lodge as a special Grand Representative near the Grand Lodge of any sovereign iurisdiction in Odd

Fellowship recognised by this Grand Lodge; and in such case the necessary expenses of such special Grand Representative's visit shall be defrayed from the Treasury of this Grand Lodge. And any officer or member of any such foreign Grand Lodge, who may be duly accredited from the same as a special Grand Representative near this Grand Lodge, shall be admitted to a seat on the floor of this Grand Lodge, and shall have a deliberative voice but not a vote in the proceedings of this Grand Lodge.

ARTICLE XIX.

By-Laws in conformity with this Constitution may be made, which shall not be altered or amended unless such amendment be proposed at a stated annual communication and acted upon at the same session, but not on the day on which it is offered, and adopted by two-thirds of the votes given,

ARTICLE XX.

This Constitution, and the By-Laws which shall be made in pursuance thereof, shall be the supreme law of the Order, and be binding upon the State, District, and Territorial Grand Lodges and Encampments under the jurisdiction of this Grand Lodge.

ARTICLE XXI.

This Constitution shall not be altered or amended except by a proposition therefor, made in writing, at a regular annual communication, by one or more Representatives from three different States, which shall be entered on the journal and lie over until the next regular annual communication. At the next regular annual communication after being offered, such proposed alteration or amendment may be considered, and if agreed to by a vote of three-fourths of the members present, on a call of the yeas and nays, such proposed alteration or amendment shall become part of this Constitution.

Form of By-Laws submitted by the Committee.

ARTICLE 1. Upon the petition of five brothers of the Order, in good standing, praying for a charter to open a Subordinate Lodge in a State, District, or Territory where a Grand Lodge has not been established, this Lodge may grant the same. Each Subordinate Lodge receiving a warrant from the Grand Lodge of the United States shall be opened by a Past Grand of the Order, regularly deputized therefor by the Grand Sire, who shall deliver to such Lodge the warrant and charge books, and shall, at the opening thereof, give all necessary instruction. Such Lodge shall be visited at least once a year by the Grand Sire, or some Past Grand deputized by him for that purpose, or by a District Deputy Grand Sire.

ARTICLE 2. Upon the petition of seven qualified members of the Order, in good standing, praying for a warrant to open an Encampment

in a State, District, or Territory where a Grand Encampment has not been established, this Lodge may grant the same. Every Encampment receiving a warrant from this Grand Lodge shall be opened by the Grand Sire, or a qualified Patriarch, who shall deliver to such Encampment the warrant and charge books, and such instructions as may be necessary. Such Encampment shall be visited at least once a year by the Grand Sire, or by some Patriarch deputized by him for that purpose, or by the District Deputy Grand Sire.

ARTICLE 3. Subordinate Lodges and Encampments working under the immediate jurisdiction of this Grand Lodge shall transmit to the Grand Corresponding and Recording Secretary, semi-annually, reports containing the same information as is required from Grand Lodges and Encampments by article 10th of these Laws. The report shall be accompanied by the dues, in current money.

ARTICLE 4. Three or more Subordinate Lodges or Encampments, located in any State, District, or Territory where a Grand Lodge or Grand Encampment has not been established, having seven Past Grands or Past Chief Patriarchs in good standing, may petition the Grand Lodge of the United States, in writing, praying for the charter of a Grand Lodge or Grand Encampment in such State, District, or Territory; which, if approved of by a majority of the votes given, shall be granted; and such Grand Lodge or Grand Encampment shall be opened by the Grand Sire, or some qualified brother or Patriarch whom he shall deputize for that purpose.

ARTICLE 5. All applications for charters for Grand Lodges or Grand Encampments must be by a vote of a majority of the Lodges or Encampments within the State, District, or Territory, as follows: When three or more Lodges or Encampments shall agree in the opinion that a Grand Lodge or Grand Encampment will contribute to the general interest, notice thereof shall be given to all the Lodges or Encampments in the State, District, or Territory, inviting them to meet in consultation at some convenient time and place. Each Lodge or Encampinent shall appoint one or more of its Past Grands or Past Chief Patriarchs, or Past High Priests, as Representatives, to meet in Convention and consider the propriety of applying for a Grand Charter, as well as to determine upon the place for the location of the Grand Lodge or Grand Encampment, (both of which questions shall be decided by a majority vote, which majority vote must represent at least three Lodges or Encampments.) Should any Lodge or Encampment neglect or refuse to send a Representative, or should the Representative, from accident or other cause, fail to attend, it shall not operate to defeat the proceedings of such as may assemble, provided a sufficient number be present to comply with the preceding requirements. Each Subordinate Lodge or Encampment shall furnish to its Representative a statement, under the seal of the Lodge or Encampment, of the number of Past Grands or Past Chief Patriarchs, in good standing, belonging to it. At the meeting of these Representatives the votes shall be by Lodges or Encampments, and the application shall be in the following form, to wit:

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