_Grand ----._ Brother ----, I congratulate you on being chosen to fill so high a station. Your duties are to assist the Grand Patron, and in case of his death, absence or disability, to assume his powers and duties. Those who have reposed so much confidence in you have reason to expect you to faithfully look after their interests, and zealously work for the welfare of the Order. Let the laws, tenets and professions of the Eastern Star be your constant study, that you may be ready to enforce them by precept and example, and the better enabled to exercise the higher and more exalted position to which you may be called at any moment. [Illustration: Associate Grand Patron.] You will now be invested with the proper emblem of office, and conducted to your station on the left of the Associate Grand Matron, in the West. _G. M._ Grand ----, it is my pleasant duty to introduce ---- ----, duly elected to serve us as Grand Secretary for the ensuing year. _Grand ----._ ---- ----, the office to which you have been elected is by far the most important, if not the most honorable, within the gift of this Grand Chapter. Yours is an onerous and most responsible charge. But few are competent to perform it in the thorough manner it demands. Failure or neglect upon your part will complicate and embarrass all our proceedings, and give us a disgraceful record before the world. To you, also, is intrusted the collection of all funds due the Grand Chapter, the custody of the seal, records, books, and papers. You are the correspondent and financial agent of the Grand Chapter, the medium of intercourse between the officers and members thereof, as well as between them and Subordinate Chapters. The faithful discharge of all your various duties requires constant and systematic work, a careful keeping of records and accounts, prompt and discreet action, and the highest integrity of character. [Illustration: Grand Secretary.] You will now receive your emblem of office, and be conducted to your station in the South-East. _G. M._ Grand ----, it is with confidence and pleasure I present to you, for installation, Sister ----, duly elected to serve as Grand Treasurer for the ensuing year. _Grand ----._ Sister ----, to you is intrusted the proper care, preservation and disbursement of the funds of this Grand Chapter. This is a trust of the utmost importance, for without money little good can be accomplished. You will, therefore, attend carefully to the financial interests of the Order, receiving the funds, through the Grand Secretary, from the different sources of revenue, keep them safely invested, render a just account thereof, and pay the same out only on proper vouchers, with the consent of this Grand Chapter. Let it be your constant care to be faithful to your trust, and not forfeit the confidence reposed in you by this Grand Chapter. [Illustration: Grand Treasurer.] You will now receive your badge of office, and be conducted to your station, in the North-East.