st the South during the existence of the same?

5th. Are you opposed to negro equality, both social and political?

6th. Are you in favor of a white man's government in this country?

7th. Are you in favor of Constitutional liberty, and a Government of
equitable laws instead of a Government of violence and oppression?

8th. Are you in favor of maintaining the Constitutional rights of the
South?

9th. Are you in favor of the re-enfranchisement and emancipation of
the white men of the South, and the restitution of the Southern people
to all their rights, alike proprietary, civil, and political?

10th. Do you believe in the inalienable right of self-preservation of
the people against the exercise of arbitrary and unlicensed power?

If the foregoing interrogatories are satisfactorily answered, and the
candidate desires to go further (after something of the character and
nature of the Order has thus been indicated to him) and to be admitted
to the benefits, mysteries, secrets and purposes of the Order, he
shall then be required to take the following final oath or obligation.
But if said interrogatories are not satisfactorily answered, or the
candidate declines to proceed further, he shall be discharged, after
being solemnly admonished by the initiating offi-cer of the deep
secresy to which the oath already taken has bound him, and that the
extreme pen-alty of the law will follow a violation of the same.

FINAL OBLIGATION.

"I ---- of my own free will and accord, and in the presence of
Almighty God, do solemnly swear or affirm, that I will never reveal to
any one not a member of the Order of the * * *, by any intimation,
sign, symbol, word or act, or in any other manner whatever, any of the
secrets, signs, grips, pass-words, or mysteries of the Order of the *
* *, or that I am a member of the same, or that I know any one who
_is_ a member; and that I will abide by the Prescript and Edicts of
the Order of the * * * So help me God."

The initiating officer will then proceed to explain to the new members
the character and objects of the Order, and introduce him to the
mysteries and secrets of the same; and shall read to him this
Prescript and the Edicts thereof, or present the same to him for
personal perusal.

ARTICLE VIII.

AMENDMENTS.

This Prescript or any part or Edicts thereof shall never be changed,
except by a two-thirds vote of the Grand Dragons of the Realms, in
convention assembled, and at which conven