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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
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