The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-04-04

Your Committee are satisfied that the
above returns do not at all approximate to
the actual number of members of the Order
within the State of Ohio. In many; If not
most of the returns made by Subordinatess
the numbers of each Council, as well as the
aggregate numbers in councils, are purely
cenjectural. In order to have attained to
anything like near approach to accuracy
in regard to the real strength OF the order,
subject to the jurisdiction of this Grand
Council, subordinate councils should have
made full, official and authenticated reports
OF the state of their own organizatioLss--
This has been done in but very few instanes
es.
Your Com mittee are led to believe that
this dereliction of duty is mainly, If not en-
tirely, attributable to the fact that in the
hurry of organizing for preparation for the
elections Just past, subordinate councils
have not been fully advised of all the con-
stitutional requirements to which they wers
subject, and to which they are bound to cons
form, upon receiving their charters. In
many cases, also, they have, doubtless failed
to comply with the regulations of the Order
in this respect, from sheer ignorance that
these regulations were in existence-and
probably, also, from the fact that many del-
egates were notified of the meeting of the
Grand Council so shortly previous to the
session as to preclude the possibility of pro-
curing the documents in question.
Your Committee cannot, however, refrain
from expressing the qualification they feeIs
in view of the evidences afforded by even
the partial and imperfect returns examined
by them, at the growing and promising pros
pect Of the Order in the great State Of Ohio.
From all quarters come up the most encour-
aging and soul-cheering proof of earnest and
devoted zeal for the promotion and spread
of true American principles, and an abiding
and deep seated conviction that the hearts
of the American people are with US in their
glorious work of political reform and regen4
Grafton.
The Committee regret, deeply, that they
are not enabled to do more than they have
done, and that they could not present .
more extensive or satisfactory report. They
feel compelled, in view of the case as above
presented, and more especially as the in
completeness of the returns would render .
detailed statement of the few items, cleaned
from the papers submitted to them, OF but
| little practical value to the Grand Council
to content themselves with laying before
you the results of their lahore, and with off
feriDg the following resolutions for the adopS
ton by this body:
Resolued, That all subordinate councils
be, and are hereby enjoined and required, to
observe, for the future, strict compliance
with the provisions of the regulations Of the
State Council of Ohio, in respect to their
Quarterly Reports, and at least five days be-
fore the first week in January next, and
every three months thereafter, the Secreta-
ry Of each subordinate council shall forward
to- the Secrstary Of the State Council his
Quarterly Report Of the condition Of his
i Council.
4 Resolved, That the Secretary of the State
Council be authorized and required, directly
upon the rising of this body, to cause to be
printed sufficient number of blank Guar
terly Reports-according to the form hereto
appended and made part Of this report--anf
forward to the Secretary of each subordinate
council, now existing, or hereafter to be in
stituted, within this jurisdiction, at least
eight copies annually, by mail or otherwise
and that the cost of said blanks be paid from
the Treasury of this State Council.
All of which is respectfully subm itted-
G.. r. MORTON,
T. w. McCoY, Committee
II. B. GAYLORD,
| I