Sec. 1. The Elective Officers of this Lodge shall consist of a Noble Grand, Vice Grand, Secretary, Treasurer, and two Trustees, who shall serve a regular term of twenty-six Lodge meetings each, and the Lodge may elect a Permament Secretary for the same, time or for one year, to take charge of the accounts between the Lodge and its members.

Sec. 2. The Appointed Officers shall consist of a Warden, Conductor, Outside Guardian, Inside Guardian, Right and Left Supporters to the Noble Grand, Right and Left Supporters to the Vice Grand, and Right and Left Scene Supporters, who shall serve a regular term of twenty-six Lodge meetings each; and the Lodge may also appoint a Chaplain for a regular term.

Sec. 3. No member shall be installed as Noble Grand unless he has served a term as Vice Grand, or the last of a term to fill a vacancy; nor as Vice Grand, unless he has served twenty-six weeks in an inferior office; that service in office, whether elective or appointed, is qualifying in any other Lodge as well as in this Lodge, providing the brother has a certificate to that effect, under seal of a Lodge in good standing in this Order:Provided, also, that any Scarlet member may be elected if all qualified brothers of the Lodge residing within the District refuse to serve, and a Dispensation for that purpose be first obtained from the M.W. Grand Master, or his Deputy for the District, previous to the election.

Sec. 4. All Elective Officers, Warden, Outside Guardian, and Inside Guardian, shall be clear of all pecuniary charges on the books of the Lodge, and shall have attained the Scarlet Degree previous to Installation.

Sec. 5. Nomination for Elective Officers shall be made only on the two meetings immediately preceding the last regular meeting of the term, except when the nominees for an office all decline; and the Officers shall be elected on the last regular meeting in each term, and be installed at the first regular meeting in the new term: Provided the installing officer be present; if absent, the Lodge may, by vote, defer it till the next regular meeting, or call a special meeting for that purpose, at the request of the Installing officer; and the duties of the various Officers elected and appointed, shall be as laid down in the charges of Office, and as specified in the Constitution and Bye-Laws of the Lodge.

Sec. 6. No Noble Grand or Vice Grand shall be a candidate for re-election to the same office if two or more qualified brothers are in nomination, unless he has been one' full term out of such office.

Sec. 7. Any officer absenting himself from the Lodge for three successive meetings, except in case of sickness, or any officer, for misconduct or neglect, as such, may be removed by a vote of two-thirds of the members present at the next regular page 53 meeting after a resolution therefor has been offered in the Lodge; and vacancies in any elective office may be filled by the Lodge by nomination and election at the next regular meeting after nomination; and until so filled, the N.G. shall appoint a member to the office, pro tem.

Sec. 8. The Noble Grand, or Officer acting as such, shall appoint the majority, and the Vice Grand, or Officer acting as such, the minority of all Committees on candidates or charges.

Sec. 9. The Lodge, at any regular meeting within three months previous to the third Monday in March of each year, shall elect two Representatives to the Grand Lodge for its charter, and one Representative for every fifteen members, and one for every fraction of fifteen, exceeding ten members in good standing, as may appear by its quarterly report to the Grand Lodge made on the 30th day of September of the previous year.