LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

"An Act for the incorporation of the Supreme Lodge of the
Shield of Honor of the United States," be and the same is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, so as to read as follows :

4. Said corporation shall the power to adopt such by-laws,

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rules and regulations, as it shall deem proper for the par-
poses of fraternal use, and to govern the payment of sick and
death benefits, and also for the adjustment and settlement of
the sick and death benefits, and the membership status of those
members who may become, in the opinion of said corporation,
totally disabled, which adjustment or settlement may be made
at any time after such total disability shall occur. Said corpo-
ration shall also have the power to adopt such by-laws, rules
and regulations, as it shall deem proper to aid its members and
their dependents for the education, socially, morally and intel-
lectually of its members, to assist the widows and orphans of
deceased members, to establish a fund for the relief of sick,
distressed and disabled members, and to provide for the pay-
ment of death benefits upon the death of a member, to such
member's widow, children, grandchildren, mother, father,
brother, sister, grandparent, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, first
cousin, next of kin, who would be the distributees of the
member's personal estate, if he died intestate, to affianced hus-
band or affianced wife of the member, or to the persons
dependent npon the member for food, lodging, care, clothing
or education, or to the person or persons upon whom the mem-
ber may be dependent for food, lodging, care, clothing or ed-
ucation, and to none other. Provided, that payment can
only be made to a beneficiary by reason of dependency, when
it is established to the satisfaction of the executive officers of
such association that the fact of such dependency, as herein
provided, existed at the time of the issuance of the certificate.
A benefit shall not be assignable, except to the beneficiaries
above specified, and then only by the consent of said corpora-
tion, attested by its seal, and the signature of its Supreme Sec-
retary and Supreme Executive Officer, but the member may
surrender his benefit certificate, and have a new one or more
of the beneficiaries, as above specified, in the manner pro-
vided in the constitution and laws of said corporation; and
provided further, that the deatli benefit shall in no case exceed
the sum of three thousand dollars.

Approved April 4, 1896.

May pass by-
laws.