PREROGATIVES AND DUTIES OF OFFICERS.

SECT. 8.—The Grand Master and Deputy Grand Master, at their pleasure, visit and preside in any subordinate Encampment, and give such instruction and direction in the work and ritual as the good of the Order may require; always conforming to the ancient landmarks and this Grand Constitution.

It is the duty of the Grand Master, in person or by one of his Council, to visit and examine every subordinate Encampment under Dispensation once in three months, and every chartered Encampment annually, and cause a report of the same to be made at the Annual Assembly of this Grand Encampment.

It is the duty of the Grand Treasurer to report to the Grand Master or presiding officer, whenever and as often as there shall be a surplus of one hundred dollars in the treasury, not subject to any appropriation already made; and to invest the same by and with the advice of the first two officers.

It is the duty of the Grand Recorder, annually, to communicate to the Grand Recorders of all State Grand Encampments, and to the Grand Recorder of the Grand Encampment of the United States of America, a list of all the Grand Officers of this Grand Encampment, and all such other matters as the Most Eminent Grand Master shall deem to be for the general good of the Order, or useful for their information.

The other duties of the above officers, and the duties of the other officers, are such as are traditionally appropriate to

their offices, and such as may be required of them by this Grand Encampment and the Grand Master.

NEW ENCAMPMENTS.

SECT. 9. Dispensations for forming and opening new Encampments may be issued by the Grand Master during recess of the Grand Encampment only, Dispensations so issued to be of force only until the succeeding Stated Assembly of this Body, unless continued by vote thereof: provided, however, that no Dispensation shall be issued without the consent of the Encampment nearest to the place where the new one is to be located; and, if in that town or city there is more than one, the consent of all shall be obtained.

Charters shall be granted by vote of the Grand Encampment alone, and at a Stated Assembly.

An Encampment formed within this jurisdiction, without a Dispensation or Charter, as above provided, shall be deemed illegal; and all communication between Encampments under this jurisdiction, and the members of such illegal ones, is hereby strictly forbidden.

FEES FOR DISPENSATIONS AND CHARTERS.

SECT. 10. The fees for a Dispensation are forty dollars to the Grand Encampment, and three dollars to the Grand Recorder; and, for a Charter, sixty dollars to the Grand Encampment, and seven dollars to the Grand Recorder; and, for a Charter without a previous Dispensation, one hundred dollars to the Grand Encampment, and ten dollars to the Grand Recorder. In no case shall a Dispensation or

Charter be issued, until the required fees shall have been paid to the Grand Treasurer.

GRAND FUND.

SECT. 11.-One-tenth of the unincumbered funds of this Body, at its Annual Assembly in October, 1859, and onetenth of its present and future income, shall be set apart, and shall form a "Grand Fund;" the interest only of which shall be expended, for charitable and other purposes, at the discretion of this Grand Body: provided, however, that no portion of the interest shall be expended for any purpose whatever, until the principal shall amount to five thousand dollars. The unexpended income of the fund, and all donations to the sume, shall be annually added to the principal. Until this fund shall amount to five thousand dollars, it shall not be in knightly faith to diminish the rate of increase as provided above.

The Grand Master, Grand Treasurer, and Grand Recorder shall be a Committee, to be styled "The Grand Fund Committee," whose duty it shall be to attend to the safe and profitable investment of this fund. They shall also make condition at cach and

a detailed report, in writing, of its every Annual Assembly in October.

A failure so to do

shall render them incligible to re-election for the ensuing ycar.

ARTICLE II.

- SUBORDINATE ENCAMPMENTS.

MEMBERS.

SECTION 1. Every subordinate Encampment shall consist of a Grand Commander, Generalissimo, Captain-General, Prelate, Senior Warden, Junior Warden, Treasurer, Recorder, Sword-Bearer, Standard-Bearer, and Warder, and such other officers and members as may be found convenient.

No Sir Knight shall hold membership in more than one Encampment within this jurisdiction at the same time, and no Sir Knight, having been elected an honorary member of a subordinate Encampment within this jurisdiction, shall have the right to vote or hold office in such Encampment, unless he was at the time of being made such honorary member an actual member of such Encampment.

No Sir Knight shall be constituted into a new Encampment until he shall have been regularly discharged from the Encampment with which he is affiliated.

Any Sir Knight who has paid all dues, and against whom there are no charges, shall have the right to a discharge from the Encampment with which he is affiliated, for the purpose of being constituted into a new Encampment.

ASSEMBLIES.

SECT. 2. Every subordinate Encampment shall assemble at least quarterly for improvement and business.

OFFICERS: ELECTION AND DUTIES.

SECT. 3. The first eight officers shall be elected by written ballot the others may be appointed by the Grand Commander at the pleasure of the Encampment. The officers thus chosen shall serve until their successors shall have been installed. The title of the GRAND COMMANDER is "MOST EMINENT." The Grand Commander of a subordinate Encampment has it in special charge to see that the By-laws of his Encampment and this Grand Constitution are duly observed; that accurate records are kept, and just accounts rendered; that regular returns to this Grand Encampment are made annually; and that the annual dues are promptly paid. He calls Special Assemblies of his Encampment at pleasure; and it is his duty, with his Generalissimo and Captain-General, to attend all Assemblies of this Grand Encampment.

The duties of the other officers are such as are traditionally appropriate, and such as may be assigned them by the Encampment or the Grand Commander.

OBLIGATION.

SECT. 4. The officers of every subordinate Encampment before installation, and every candidate upon admission, shall take the following obligation, viz., "I,

promise and vow that I will support and maintain the Constitution of the Grand Encampment of Knights Templars and the Appendant Orders of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and the Constitution of the Grand Encampment of the United States of America, so far as the same shall conform to the Ancient Landmarks of the Order."