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Amendments proposed to the Constitution of the 
 MiHtary Order of the Loyal Legion of the 
 United States. 
 
 Submitted for the Action of the Fourteenth Con- 
 gress by the Commanderies of 
 
 MASSACHUSETTS 
 
 CALIFORNIA 
 
 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
 
 WASHINGTON 
 
 KANSAS 
 

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 AMENDMENTS PROPOSED BY THE COMMANDERY 
 OF MASSACHUSETTS 
 
 Article V, Section i. Strike out the whole of Section i and 
 substitute therefor the following: 
 
 "Section i. The Companions of this Order shall be elected 
 in the manner hereinafter provided from the classes defined in 
 this Article, and shall be known as Original and Hereditary 
 Companions; but no one having an ancestor eligible, but not a 
 Companion of the Order, shall, during the life time of the ances- 
 tor, be eligible for election." 
 
 Section 2. Amend Section 2 by striking out the words 
 "of the First Class" in the first and last lines. The rest stands 
 as printed. 
 
 Section 3. Strike out the whole of Section 3 and substitute 
 therefor the following: 
 
 "Section 3. HEREDITARY COMPANIONS. The direct 
 male lineal descendants, who shall have attained the age of 
 twenty-one years, of deceased Original and Hereditary Com- 
 panions, of nominees of deceased Original Companions, and of 
 deceased officers not members of the Order, but who were eligible 
 as such, and whose direct descent shall in every case be traced 
 anew from the original founder of the membership in the Order, 
 from the deceased eligible officer or from a nominee of an Original 
 Companion. Those elected under the provisions of this Section 
 shall be designated Hereditary Companions." 
 
 Section 4. Strike out the whole of Section 4 and substitute 
 therefor the following: 
 
 "Section 4. Any Original Companion having no direct lineal 
 male descendant, may, by writing, filed with the Recorder of his 
 Commandery, nominate an Hereditary Companion from among 
 the collateral male members of his family, descending only from 
 his own brother or sister, and the person so nominated when he 
 shall have attained the age of twenty-one years shall become 
 eligible to membership, and all Companions heretofore elected as 
 
Companions of the Second Class for life are hereby made Hered- 
 itary Companions. Any nomination for membership heretofore 
 filed by an Original Companion shall be valid and effectual as a 
 nomination under this Section." 
 
 Section 7. Amend Section 7 by inserting after the words 
 "deceased Companion" in the second line the following: 
 "from the nominee of an Original Companion" 
 
 Section 8. Strike out Section 8 entirely and substitute 
 therefor the following: 
 
 "Section 8. The sons, and if there be no sons, the grandsons, 
 of living Original or Hereditary Companions who shall have 
 attained the age of twenty-one years, shall be eligible for mem- 
 bership as Hereditary Companions." 
 
 Section 9. Strike out Section 9 entirely and substitute 
 therefor the following: 
 
 "Section Q- Companions heretofore elected as of the Second 
 Class are hereby made Hereditary Companions." 
 
 Section 10. Insert the word "Hereditary" before "Com- 
 panions." Strike out "of the Second Class" in the first line and 
 "of the First Class" in the last line. Section 10 so amended will 
 read as follows: 
 
 "Section 10. Hereditary Companions shall have the right to 
 vote in all cases except in elections of applicants for membership 
 as Original Companions." 
 
 Section 11 is to stand as written merely as a record of a past. 
 
 Article VI, Section 2. Amend Section 2 by striking out the 
 words "of the First or Second Class" in the first and second lines 
 and "of the First Class" in the fourth line. 
 
 Section 3. Amend Section 3 by striking out the word 
 "military" in the first line and "of the First Class" in the sixth 
 and thirteenth lines and "or for membership in the Second Class" 
 in the second and third lines on page 13. The rest stands as 
 printed. 
 
 Section 6. Strike out the whole of Section 6 and substitute 
 therefor the following: 
 
 "Section 6. Each Companion shall be entitled to the insig- 
 nia and a diploma during membership. The right to hold the 
 insignia and diploma of a Companion shall, after his death. 
 
remain in his family, provided, he is not represented in the Order; 
 otherwise they shall be returned to the Commandery of which 
 he was a member, and shall be reissued to his eldest representative 
 of the Order only on the surrender to his Commandery of the 
 insignia issued to him. The right to hold the insignia and 
 diploma of a Companion of the Third Class shall, after his 
 death, remain in his family, and in the Commandery through 
 which they were issued, if there be no such family." 
 
 Article VII. Strike out the words "of the First Class" on 
 page 1 6. The rest stands as printed. 
 
 Article X, Section 2. Strike out the whole of Section 2 and 
 substitute therefor the following: 
 
 "Section 2. The form of the Diploma for Original Compan- 
 ions shall be as follows:" 
 
 Amend the form of Diploma by inserting on page 19 after 
 the words "was received as" the words "an Original" and strike 
 out the words "of the First Class." 
 
 Section 3. Strike out Section 3. 
 
 Section 4. Strike out Section 4 and substitute therefor the 
 following: 
 
 "Section 3. — The form of Diploma for Hereditary Compan- 
 ions shall be as follows:" 
 
 On page 20 strike out in the form of Diploma the words "of 
 the First Class." 
 
 Article XVII, Section i. Strike out "of the First Class." 
 Article XXI, Section 4. On page 33 strike out "of the First 
 Class" in the two places it occurs and "and Companions of the 
 Second and Third Classes" in the sixth and seventh lines. 
 
 Section 5. Strike out "of the First Class" in the two places it 
 occurs and "and Companions of the Second and Third Classes" 
 in the eighth and ninth lines. The rest stands as printed. 
 
 AMENDMENTS PROPOSED BY THE COMMANDERY 
 OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 At a stated meeting of the Commandery of the State of 
 California, on February 9, 1921, the following proposed amend- 
 ments to the Constitution of the Order, with recommendation 
 
that they be presented for adoption to the next Congress of the 
 Order, were unanimously carried, to wit: — 
 
 Article V, Section 8. After the word "grandsons" in line 2, 
 add the words, "and nephews." 
 
 The Section as amended would read: 
 
 "Article V, Section 8. The sons, and if there be no sons, the 
 grandsons and nephews of living companions of the First Class, 
 whether Original, in Succession or by Inheritance, who shall have 
 attained the age of twenty-one years, shall be eligible to mem- 
 bership. Those elected under the provisions of this Section shall 
 be designated Companions of the Second Class." 
 
 Amend Article VI, Section i, as follows: 
 
 After the word "thereof" in the last line add the words, 
 "and provided further, that eligible officers of the army, navy, 
 or marine corps of the United States, may become members in 
 any commandery that they may select." 
 
 The section would then read: 
 
 "Section i. Every application for membership shall be made 
 to the Commandery of the State in which the applicant resides, if 
 a Commandery exists therein, and if there be none, then to such 
 Commandery as the applicant may select. Provided, that 
 applicants residing in the District of Columbia shall apply to the 
 Commandery thereof; and provided further, that eligible officers 
 of the army, navy or marine corps of the United States may 
 become members in any commandery they may select." 
 
 AMENDMENTS PROPOSED BY THE COMMANDERY 
 OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
 
 At a Stated Meeting of the Commandery of the District of 
 Columbia, held in this City, March 2, 1921, the following Reso- 
 lution was unanimously adopted for consideration by the Four- 
 teenth Quadrennial Congress of the Order to be held in the City 
 of Philadelphia, April 12, 1921, viz: 
 
 Resolved: That the following amendments to the Consti- 
 tution be submitted for adoption to the Fourteenth Quadrennial 
 Congress of the Order to be held in Philadelphia on April 12, 1921 : 
 
Article XXI, Section 4, line 3, strike out the words "For 
 Original Companions of the First Class," and beginning at line 
 7 strike out the entire paragraph down to and including line 12, 
 so that Section 4 as amended will read as follows: 
 
 "The Ribbon shall be of watered silk, one and one-half 
 inches wide. The ribbon shall have a red centre eight-tenths of 
 an inch wide, with a border of white and edging of blue, each 
 three-and-one-half tenths of an inch wide." 
 
 Article XXI, Section 5, line 5, strike out the words "For 
 Original Companions of the First Class," and beginning with line 
 II strike out the entire paragraph down to and including line 16, 
 so that Section 5 as amended will read: 
 
 "The Rosette of the Order shall be one-half of an inch in 
 diameter, of watered silk, with six sector-shaped sections and a 
 rim with six diagonal stripes on its face and sides. The sector- 
 shaped sections shall be of red, white and blue, the red sections 
 being double the size of those of the other colors, with red loop 
 in the centre. The rim shall be of the same colors, diagonal, the 
 red stripes being double the width of the other colors." 
 
 AMENDMENT PROPOSED BY THE COMMANDERY OF 
 
 WASHINGTON 
 
 CONCURRED IN BY THE COMMANDERY 
 
 OF KANSAS 
 
 PROTESTED AGAINST THE ADOPTION BY THE COM- 
 
 MANDERIES OF MICHIGAN, CALIFORNIA, 
 
 ILLINOIS AND DISTRICT OF 
 
 COLUMBIA 
 
 AMENDMENT PROPOSED BY THE COMMANDERY 
 OF WASHINGTON 
 
 "BE IT RESOLVED:— By the Washington Commandery, 
 Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, that this 
 Commandery propose to the next Congress of the Order, an 
 amendment to the Constitution of the Order as follows: 
 
 "To amend Article V, Section 2, of the Constitution of the 
 
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, by 
 adding thereto after the words 'War of the Rebellion,' being 
 the last words of the fourth line from the end of said Section, 
 as contained in the edition of the Constitution of the Order, 
 printed at Philadelphia, 1919, the following: 
 
 "Also all commissioned officers and honorably discharged 
 commissioned officers of the United States Army, Navy and 
 Marine Corps who served on active duty during the Spanish- 
 American War, the Philippine Insurrection or who were on 
 active duty as such officers of the United States Army, Navy or 
 Marine Corps, between the sixth day of April, 191 7, and the 
 eleventh day of November, 1919." 
 
 AMENDMENT PROPOSED BY THE COMMANDERY OF 
 
 KANSAS 
 
 At the Stated Meeting of the Commandery of the State of 
 Kansas, held in the Commandery Rooms, Topeka, on the Eighth 
 day of September, 1920, the following Resolution was unani- 
 mously adopted: — 
 
 "Resolved, That the Commandery of the State of Kansas 
 in regular session hereby most heartily endorse and approve the 
 Resolution adopted by the Commandery of the State of Washing- 
 ton on the 2ist day of April, 1920, as follows: 
 
 "Be it Resolved by the Washington Commandery, Military 
 Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, that this Comman- 
 dery propose to the next Congress of the Order the following: 
 
 "To amend Article V, Section 2, of the Constitution of the 
 Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, by 
 adding thereto after the words 'War of the Rebellion,' being 
 the last words of the fourth line from the end of said Section, 
 as contained in the edition of the Constitution of the Order, 
 printed in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1919, the following: 
 
 "Also all Commissioned Officers and honorably discharged 
 Commissioned Officers of the United States Army, Navy, and 
 Marine Corps who served on active duty during the Spanish- 
 American War, the Philippine Insurrection, or who were on active 
 duty as such officers of the United States Army, Navy or Marine 
 Corps, between the sixth day of April, 1917, and the eleventh 
 day of November, 1919." 
 
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