Excerpt from Rules and Regulations for the Government of Henry Ensign Post: No; 568, Department of New York, Grand Army of the Republic, Cropseyville, N. Y.; Adopted August 21st, 1885 Sec. 8. A member-elect. Shall pay, before enlistment and muster, the balance of the admission fee, three dollars. Upon muster-ih he shall subscribe to a copy of these Regulations. Sec. 9. The Commander-in-chief, or a Department Commander may, at pleasure, receive and muster in an applicant for membership, or detail a Comrade for that purpose, provided the person so received and mustered in resides outside the proper territorial limits of any Post. Sec. 10. The applications for membership of per sons who were Comrades before the introduction of the grade system, but who never took the obligation of the third grade, shall be received and acted upon the same as if the applicant had never belonged to the Grand Army. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.