The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-01
RECEIVERSHIP IS
ASKED FOR ORDER
OF XII KLUX KHAN
Continued From Page One)


relation of stockholders"
There are one million. five hun
dred thousand members of the khan
with branches in every state in the
union. the petition stated adding
that the legislative body of the in
visible empire" is known as the
Klonvocation, composed of the i'm
periel officers. grand dragons, great
titans and such other delegates as
may be selected to represent the
provinces and klans.
The supreme judicial body, il
it was stated, is the imperial klon-
cilium. 1t was further stated that
the receipts of the order in NoVem-
her, 1922, over and above the cost
of propa canton was one million dol
lars a year, in addition to which
each chartered khan pays annually
a per capita tax on each of its men,
bers of $50 which aggregated for
the year 1922 the sum of nine hun
bred thousand dollars. They declared
these POUNDS We're in addition to the
property and paraphernalia includ-
ing among other things flags, ban
ners uniforms, costumes, literature,
jewelry. newspaper plants and other
items of real and personal property
"of great value"
Charges Personal Machine.
In the month of November last, the
petition said, H. w. Evans and Will
liam Joseph Simmons together with
other confederates," conceived and put
into operation a scheme to pervert
said corporation from its original and
worthy and laudable design and pur-
pose into a personal machine for the
enrichment and personal aggrandize-
ment of said defendants. In pur-
suance of said scheme they pretended
and attempted, without authority
from the klonvocation, or any other
legal authority, to change radically
the constitution and laws of said cor
poration They created, without au-
thority from any source, and inviola-
ton of the fundamental law of said
corporation as contained in its char
ter an additional office to be known
as emperor of the Invisible Empire,
in which office the said William
Joseph simmons was illegally in
stalled, and the said II. w. Evans was
placed in the position of imperial wiz
ard. Said Evans and Simmons were
not even duly elected to the said
offices, in accordance with the laws
providing for the election in that
they were not selected by secret bal
lot as required by the laws of said
corporation.
AT said time, said H. w. Evans il
legally took possession of $500 of
money which was in the treasury of
Sdld vi PoI dlioH anu btSdi " NC
vote the same to his personal uses
and to treat said money as his own
private funds. Instead of retaining
said money. as required by the laws
of said order, on deposit in the name
of the said corporation. the same was
distributed among various banks sub
ject to the Individual checks of de-
PENDANTS Fl. w. Evans, F. l.. Savage,
II. K. Ramsey, Brown Harwood, T.
j. McKinnon, Tom Akers and \. NJ
F'urney.
Since said date, said defendants
have collected from initiation and
per capita tax the sum of, to-wit,
Sl65,000, which has in the same lille
gal manner been deposited, not in the
name of said corporation. subject to
its checks and to be used for its
legal purposes and objects, but sub
1ect to the individual checks of the
defendants just above named. and
used by them for their private pur-
poses and in furtherance of the OBJ
jects to which said defendants indi-
Nidually saw fit to devote said
funds"