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III. Scribe.—The scribe shall preserve a full and true record of all proceedings of the society, notify members when absent of any action taken in reference to them, keep a correct list of the full names and residences of members, and also act as secretary of the executive committee.

IV. —All officers shall serve until their successors have been elected, and have entered upon the duties of their offices.

V. Assessments.—An assessment of a local organization will require the action of the full executive committee. Assessments can not be made above twice a year. They must never be made except in cases of great public need. No assessment shall exceed one penny for each pupil.

VI. Civics.—At the first meeting in December, the chancellor shall present to the League one hundred printed questions on the Constitution of the United States. The first meeting in January shall be a public one, open to all parents and friends, and a public examination shall be held, after the manner of the old-fashioned spelling schools, choosing sides, and the said one hundred questions shall be put by the chancellor, as a test of knowledge of the Constitution.

If more than one person is found who can answer satisfactorily every question, the League shall proceed to elect by ballot one person, to be known as “champion.”

For the February meeting shall be substituted a convention of the various champions of the county, at the county seat (in the County Court room if it can be procured). Then the champions shall answer before a committee of three judges (not citizens of the county) the aforesaid one hundred questions. Each champion who shall answer every question satisfactorily shall receive a gold medal to be provided by his own League. No person can be champion two successive years.

VII. Order of Business.—The order of business, for the first meeting after the summer vacation, shall be as follows: 1, Secretary’s Report; 2, Address—On some patriotic subject, not to exceed fifteen minutes in length; 3, Music; 4, Nomination and Election of Officers; 5, Treasurer’s Report; 6, Enroll­ment of New Members; 7, Announcement of Department Committees, and full explanation of their duties by the Chancellor; 8', Patriotic Quotations; 9, Music; 10, Adjournment.

For the usual meetings, the order of business shall be as follows: 1, Secretary’s Report; 2, Trea­surer’s Report; 3, Enrollment; 4, Reports of Different Committees in writing, in the following order: Civics, Discussion; Temperanceand Gambling, Discussion; Benevolences, Discussion; College Edu­cation. Discussions are limited to ten minutes, unless time is extended bv Chancellor. 5, If the time permits, any member may tell what book he has been reading and has found helpful and profitable, or the different members may volunteer patriotic quotations; 6, Music; 7, Adjournment.

“What constitutes a state?

Not high raised battlements or labor’d mound.

Thick wall, or moated gate;

Not cities proud with spires and turrets crown’d;

Not bays and broad, arm’d ports,

Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride;

Nor starr’d and spangled courts,

Where low-brow’d baseness wafts perfume to pride.

No; men, high minded men;

Men who their duties know,

But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain;”

-Sir William Jones,