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Board of Control Meeting. Topeka, October 25, 1894. Board met in regular meeting all present. Minutes of last meeting read and approved. The books of the supreme recorder and supreme treasurer were examined and found correct, showing a balance in the benficiary fund of $1,563.98, and general fund overdrawn.

The following claims were presented and approved, and the supreme recorder directed to draw his warrant upon the treasurer for the several amounts: W. J. Stagg, clerk for July, August, September, Circulation, 4,000 Copies. TOPEKA, NOVEMBER, 1894. and October $69 00 W.

J. Stagg, office expenses 25 55 A. A. Sharp, expense at Concordia 3 00 P. C.

Burhans, expense on Eslick claim 3 95 U. S. Land and Loan Company, rent for October, 15 00 P. C. Burhans, October 25 meeting 22 80 A.

A. Sharp, October 25 meeting 25 70 Two Assessments for November, 1894. Topeka, November 1, 1894. To all Subordinate Lodges of the Knights of Columbia Sir Knights The board of control has authorized assessments, for the month of November, 1894, upon the following death claims: Assessment No. 13 is upon the death of Sir Knight Richard W.

Willey, who was a member of Scranton Lodge No. 19. He joined the order January 25, 1892. At the time of his death, June 17, 1894, he held certificates Nos. 1317 and 1318, payable to Charles Franklin Willey, Bruce W.

Willey, and Hattie Willey, his children; cause of death, Also, assessment No. 14, which is upon the death of Sir Knight Samuel L. Wilson, who was a member of Carthage (Mo.) Lodge No. 162. He' joined the order March 2, 1894.

At the time of his death, July 9, 1894, he held certificates Nos. 8023 and 8024, payable to Mary E. Wilson, his wife; cause of death, cerebral hemorrhage. All members in good standing who were members on the 17th day of June, 1894, are liable for assessment No. 13.

All members in good standing who were members oh the 9th day of July, 1894, are liable for assessment No. 14. Assessment No. 13 is payable at this office on or before November 10, 1894. Assessment No.

14 is payable at this office on or before November 28, 1894. Recorders will remit 50 cents on each thousand of beneficiary carried by each member liable on assessment No. 13, being all the members who had received the Knight degree prior to June 17, 1894; also, 50 cents on each thousand of beneficiary carried by each member liable on assessment No. 14, being all members who had received the Knight degree prior to July 9, 1894. The Columbia Herald now being the medium of communication, the fonder system of notification of deaths and assessments by circulars is discontinued.

Blank receipts will not be sent out as heretofore. Members of the order are notified that the above assessments must be in the hands of local recorder by the 28th day of November, or they will stand suspended. Recorders will bear in mind that each assessment must have a separate return. Every remittance on an assessment must be accompanied by a correct beneficiary return, care being taken to properly fill out the blank prepared for this purpose. Fraternally, in F.

H. and W. J. Stagg, Supreme Recorder. On motion of Alex.

A. Sharp, by unanimous vote of the board, it was ordered that for the month of November, 1892, an assessment be levied on all members in good standing, June 17, 1894, in payment of death claim of R. W. Willey, who, at the time of his death, held certificates Nos. 1317 and 1318, that there also be levied for said month an assessment on all members in good standing July 9, 1894, in payment of death claim of Samuel L.

Wilson, who, at the time of his death, July 9, 1894, was a member of Carthage, lodge No. 162, and held certificates Nos. 8023 and 8024, $3,000. The board of control, believing that the order should know its condition as to death and disability claims, makes the following statement: All beneficiary claims against the order have been settled or assessed excepting 1. Henry Stoldt Armourdale, No.

136. 2. T. C. Evans Banner, No.

4. 3. Fred. A. Albee Goodland, No.

166. 4. John T. Howard Belleville, No. 47.

It will require three assessments to pay these claims, and the board has decided to call for the assessments in December to meet them. This will pay all claims against the order excepting that of M. B. Hall, who died April 10, 1894; but the proofs of death were not received until August 31, 1894. The papers in this case are such that the board will make special investigation before allowing the claim.

The cause for the accumulation of death claims has been, first, the unprecedented loss in February last, when we had five deaths second, some of these claims were pigeonholed when received by former recorder, and others were held back by beneficiaries several months after date, of death; third, the unsettled state of the order, caused by the severe and unmanly attacks upon it by its enemies. We feel that this unsettled condition is fast passing away, and that, in justice to the order, we ought to make this frank, full statement. There has been no death for the last 40 days, and the prospects for the order are much brighter. The storm has passed, and if the members of 'the order will now stand together, and push forward the work, we shall have one of the most successful benevolent orders in the country. Adjourned to meet November 27, 1894.

Alex. A. Sharp, Secretary Board of Control..