Zgoda = Unity. [volume] (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-14
ARTICLE XVI.
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SECTION l.. Membership i'm this Alliance
shall only be permitted to such persons as have
complied with all the laws, rules and regulations
of the Alliance pertaining to the admission of
members and who are ACCEPTABLE TO THE MEM
BERS OF the-group to which they shall have APP
piled and shall have passed the required medical
examination according to the rules of this AL
lance and have been approved by the Supreme
Medical Examiner and the Central Government.
SECTION 2. Membership in this Alliance
shall only be confined to men and women of Po-
fish, Lithuanian and Ruthenian birth, descent
or affliation.
SECTION 3. No person shall be admitted to
membership in this Alliance except he or she is
between the ages of eighteen and sixty years of
age, and this provision as to age of admission
into the Alliance shall be in force and effect until
Sept. LIST 1900. On and after Sept. LIST 1900. no
person shall be admitted to the membership in
this Alliance except he or she is between the
ages OF eighteen and fifty years. Persons bet
ween f~erty-fve and fifty years of age cannot be
insured for more than Three Hundred (S3OOoo.)
SECTION A. Each applicant for beneficiary
membership must fill out and sign the blank APP
plication furnished by the group. He or she
must be by two members of the
group in good standing, except in case of charter
members. The application shall be accompa-
MED by such a fee as is provided for in SECTION
IL, Article XVI
SECTION 5. Application shall be read in open
group at regular meeting thereof. and entered
o1Ch b"C ~ NhlCh IlIIlc tIc DTODDSlUlOn
fee shall be paid to the Financial Secretary.
Thereupon a committee of three members of the
group shall be appointed to investigate the cha
racter of the candidate and report as soon as
may be. Ii the report be unfavorable, the Pre-
sident shall declare the applicant rejected. IF
the report be favorable and the laws of the AL
lance have been fully complied with, ballot may
be taken on the application. A two-thirds vote
of the members present is necessary TO admit the
candidate. At any time before the initiation a
group may reconsider the application for. MEM
bership, and refuse to receive an applicant.
SECTION 8. If the applicant be elected TO
membership the Secretary of the group shall
Immediately notify him or her to 90 before the
Medical Examiner, who shall Immediately for
ward his or her application duly. filed and certi-
fled, to the Chief Medical Examiner for exami-
nation and decision.
SECTION Z. Each applicant upon presenting
himself or herself for examination, shall proper.
ly identify, by two or more witnesses, himself or
herself to the Medical Examiner. He or she
shall pay TO the Medical Examiner his or her
fee, according to the regulations of the group.
SECTION 8. If any applicant refuses or neg
lects for reasons not satisfactory to the proup. TO
be legally examined within two months after the
date of the Secretary's notification, his or her
proposition fee shall be deemed forfeited, and
he or she can only be admitted by making new
application and proceeding as provided for APP
plicants.
SECTION 9. If the certificate of the Chief
Medical Examines be unfavorable. the applicant
shall be deemed ineligible for beneficiary mem
bership, but may become a social member.
SECTION 10. Upon approval of the applica