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BY-LAWS, 
 
 ARTICLE I. 
 
 NAME. 
 
 This Post shall be known as CHARLES W. 
 SAWYER POST No. 17, G. A. R., Department 
 
 of New Hampshire. 
 
 ARTICLE IL 
 
 MEETINGS. 
 
 The stated meetings shall be on the first and 
 third Thursday evenings of each month. The hour 
 of meeting shall be from May i to September 30, 
 
4 BY-LAWS. 
 
 at 8 o'clock, and from Oct. i to April 30, at 7.30 
 P. M. 
 
 ARTICLE III. 
 
 DUES AND REVENUES. 
 
 Sec. I. The annual dues from each member 
 shall be three dollars, payable quarterly. 
 
 Sec. 2. The initiation fee shall be three dol- 
 lars, one dollar to be paid when application for 
 membership is made, and two dollars when the re- 
 cruit is mustered in. 
 
 Sec. 3. Upon the death of any member the 
 comrades shall be assessed 50 cents each as a funeral 
 benefit. 
 
 Sec. 4. Any Comrade presenting himself for 
 membership with Transfer Card from another Post, 
 on being admitted to this Post, shall pay the sum of 
 one dollar, as admission fee. 
 
 Sec. 5. Any Comrade of this Post who, by 
 reason of sickness or other cause, may be unable 
 to pay his quarterly dues, said dues maybe remitted 
 by a two-thirds vote of Comrades present at any 
 regular meeting. 
 
 ARTICLE IV. 
 
 committees. 
 Sec. I. The Commander shall, on the night 
 
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 of his installation appoint a Relief Committee of 
 three Comrades, who shall serve for one year, and 
 whose duty it shall be to visit sick Comrades, detail 
 watchers when necessary, and report to the Post 
 Comrades entitled to receive weekly benefits. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Commander shall also appoint 
 an Auditing Committee, whose duty it shall be to 
 audit the accounts of the Quartermaster, and report 
 on the first regular meeting of every quarter. 
 
 ARTICLE V. 
 
 BENEFITS. 
 
 Sec. I. Any Comrade in good standing, and 
 free from all dues, shall be entitled to benefits in 
 case of such sickness or disability as may prevent 
 him from attending to his usual or other occupa- 
 tion; provided such sickness or disability has not 
 resulted from any immoral or improper conduct on 
 his part. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any Comrade applying for benefits, 
 must make known the same to the Post, the Relief 
 Committee, or a Comrade in good standing. 
 
 Sec. 3. A Comrade making appHcation for 
 benefits, must, if requested by the ReHef Commit- 
 tee, furnish a certificate from the Post Surgeon or 
 his attending Physician, and if the Post deem it 
 necessary, an affidavit of his sickness. 
 
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 Sec. 4. Any Comrade who shall feign him- 
 self sick or disabled, for the purpose of fraudulently 
 obtaining benefits, or who may be the wilful cause 
 of his own sickness, shall upon conviction thereof, 
 be deprived of all benefits, and be suspended dur- 
 ing the pleasure of the Post. 
 
 Sec. 5. The weekly benefits of this Post 
 shall be three dollars ($3.00) per week, for not ex- 
 ceeding ten weeks ; two dollars ($2.00) per week 
 for the next succeeding ten weeks in each year; 
 provided that no benefits shall be allowed for less 
 than one week's sickness. 
 
 Sec. 6. Upon the decease of a beneficiary 
 member, the sum of thirty dollars ($30) shall be ap- 
 propriated for the purpose of defraying his funeral 
 expenses. 
 
 Sec 7. The payment of arrears during the 
 sickness of a Comrade, shall not entitle him to 
 weekly benefits during such sickness, nor to funeral 
 benefits should death result therefrom, without the 
 consent, by a two-thirds vote, of the Post. 
 
 Sec. 8. The Post may make such additional 
 appropriations for the relief of a Comrade's family 
 in distress, as the circumstances may require. 
 
 ARTICLE VI. 
 
 watchers. 
 Sec. I. Whenever a Comrade is detailed and 
 
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 notified to watch with a sick member, should he, 
 without a reasonable excuse, neglect to perform 
 that duty, or furnish a substitute, he shall pay a fine 
 of $2 for every such neglect. 
 
 ARTICLE VII. 
 
 POLITICS. 
 
 Sec. I. No ofiicer or Comrade of the Grand 
 Army of the Republic shall in any manner use this 
 organization for partisan purposes, and no discus- 
 sion of partisan questions shall be permitted at any 
 meeting of the Grand Army of the Republic, and 
 no nominations for pohtical offices shall be made. 
 
 ARTICLE VTII. 
 
 ALTERATIONS AND AMENDMENTS. 
 
 No provision of these By-Laws shall be altered 
 or amended, unless such alteration or amendment 
 have been proposed at a preceded stated meeting, 
 and in no case shall any such proposed alteration 
 or amendment be acted upon, except at a stated 
 meeting, and by a two-thirds vote of members pres- 
 ent and voting. 
 
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