over the coat. It is recommended that the neck ribbon should not be used at the same time with the broad ribbon. When the latter is worn, the insignia may be suspended from the left breast, or appended to the broad ribbon where the latter crosses the hip.

Sub-Sec. 5. The prestige and influence of the Society of Sons of the Revolution depend largely upon the loyalty of its members. It is therefore deemed especially important that every member should possess and should use on all suitable occasions the emblems and insignia of the Society. It is hoped that members who may not have procured insignia as yet will do so as soon as possible. Finally, it is recommended that on all public patriotic occasions the officers and members of our Society shall urge that proper recognition be given to the representatives of the Society of Sons of the Revolution.

SECTION XVII.

LOCAL CHAPTERS OF THE SOCIETY IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY.

When ten or more members of the Society in the Commonwealth of Kentucky residing within any County of the Commonwealth outside of the City of Lexington and County of Fayette, and outside of any counties immediately adjacent to Fayette County, shall petition the Board of Managers, it may authorize and empower such petitioners to form a local Chapter to be known as the Chapter of Sons of the Revolution in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Such Chapter, when authorized, may adopt such local regulations and by-laws as to it may seem proper, provided that such regulations do not conflict in any particular with the Constitution of the General Society of Sons of the Revolution, or with the Charter, Constitution or By-Laws of the Society in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Only members in good and regular standing in the Society in this Commonwealth shall be eligible to membership in these Chapters. When any person ceases, through any cause, to be a member of the Society in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, his membership in a Chapter thereof shall automatically terminate.

The officers of every Chapter shall be a Regent, a Secretary and a Treasurer, and any other officers it may desire, and an Executive Committee constituted in such manner as it may prescribe.

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Members of the State Society residing in adjoining counties shall be eligible to membership in the local Chapter nearest their place of residence.

The senior officer of every local Chapter may attend the meetings of the Kentucky State Society, notice whereof shall be sent to him by the Secretary of the State Society, and the local Chapters shall be amenable at all times to the State Society and to its Board of Managers. When an application for membership in this Society shall be made to its Board of Managers by any person residing within a locality comprised in a local Chapter, such application shall be first submitted to the Executive Committee of such local Chapter, and a report thereon to this Board shall accompany such application before action thereon.

No local Chapter shall have power to involve the Society of Sons of the Revolution in any pecuniary obligation, and any such local Chapters may be dissolved by the State Society at any time in its discretion.

SECTION XVIII.

AMENDMENTS.

No amendment or alteration of these by-laws shall be made unless the same be submitted in writing, signed by the member proposing the same, at a meeting of the Society; nor unless the same shall be adopted at a subsequent meeting at least twenty days after such notice, by vote of two-thirds of the members present.

ORDER OF BUSINESS.

Call to order and roll-call.

Reading the minutes of previous meetings.

Election of officers.

Report of board of managers.

Report of other officers.

Reports of committees.

Unfinished business.
New business.

Adjournment.

How to Become a Member of the Society of Sons of the Revolution in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

The Kentucky Society of Sons of the Revolution respectfully invites attention to the aims of this organization, and solicits the membership of those who are eligible, in order that its sphere of usefulness may be increased. Our objects are:

1. To keep alive the spirit of patriotism.

2. To revive the memories of the heroes of 1775-1783. 3. To foster devotion toward the institutions of our country. 4. To encourage historical research in relation to the Revolution.

5. To preserve documents, relics, and individual records of the Revolutionary Period.

6. To promote the celebration of patriotic anniversaries.

7. To impress the importance of these subjects upon the rising generation.

The Society is non-political and non-sectarian.

To become a member of this Society, the applicant should be twenty-one years old, of good repute in the community, and be recommended by two members.

Proof is required that the applicant is a lineal descendant of an ancestor who was at all times unfailing in his loyalty, and rendered actual service in the cause of American Independence, either as an officer, soldier, seaman, marine or minute-man in the armed forces of the Continental Congress, or any one of the several colonies, or as a signer of the Declaration of Independence, or as a member of any Continental, Provincial, or Colonial Congress or Legislature, or as a civil officer either of one of the colonies or States, or of the National Government, or as a member of a Committee of Safety or Correspondence.

The first step in applying for membership should be to ascertain the name of the ancestor who lived at a time that would