e.

SEC. 6. The source of revenue to Dens shall be the initiation fees,
fines, and a _per capita_ tax, whenever the Grand Cyclops shall deem
such tax necessary and indispensable to the interests and objects of
the Order.

SEC. 7. All the revenue obtained in the manner aforesaid, shall be for
the _exclusive_ benefit of the Order, and shall be appropriated to the
dissemination of the same and to the creation of a fund to meet any
disbursement that it may become necessary to make to accomplish the
objects of the Order and to secure the protection of the same.

ARTICLE VII.

ELIGIBILITY FOR MEMBERSHIP.

SECTION 1. No one shall be presented for admission into the Order
until he shall have first been recommended by some friend or intimate
who _is_ a member, to the Investigating Committee, (which shall be
composed of the Grand Cyclops, the Grand Magi, and the Grand Monk,)
and who shall have investigated his antecedents and his past and
present standing and connections; and after such investigation, shall
have pronounced him competent and worthy to become a member.
_Provided_, no one shall be presented for admission into, or become a
member of, this Order who shall not have attained the age of eighteen
years.

SEC. 2. No one shall become a member of this Order unless he shall
_voluntarily_ take the following oaths or obligations, and shall
_satisfactorily_ answer the following interrogatories, while kneeling,
with his right hand raised to heaven, and his left hand resting on the
Bible:

PRELIMINARY OBLIGATION.

"I ---- solemnly swear or affirm that I will never reveal any thing
that I may this day (or night) learn concerning the Order of the * *
*, and that I will true answer make to such interrogatories as may be
put to me touching my competency for admission into the same. So help
me God."

INTERROGATORIES TO BE ASKED:

1st. Have you ever been rejected, upon application for membership in
the * * *, or have you ever been expelled from the same?

2d. Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Radical
Republican party, or either of the organizations known as the "Loyal
League" and the "Grand Army of the Republic?".

3d. Are you opposed to the principles and policy of the Radical party,
and to the Loyal League, and the Grand Army of the Republic, so far as
you are informed of the character and purposes of those organizations?

4th. Did you belong to the Federal army during the late war, and fight
again