No boys can be members who are less than thirteen years and must be from the 7th Grammar on. No member can be President or Vice President unless 6 months in club. All officers will keep their term six months. The officers can not commit a law until it is passed by the members. If it is an important one it will be passed by votes. By this I mean that if 5/8 of the members pass it is passed if 1/2 is passed it is not passed. Several committees are appointed to look over these rules which seldom happen on the streets. If any member or officer is seen gambling, smoking or fighting a fine of $0.02 will be asked and must be paid the next meeting. Special meetings will be held each month. Meetings will be held at 8 o'clock P.M. to 9 P.M. No secrets or slang language or nicknames allowed or a fine of $.03 is asked. If any body recites a recitation and makes a mistake he is not to be laughed at or a fine of $.02 must be paid. If any member takes the laws into his own hands and interferes with the president or any other officers or walks up and down the meeting room or draws pictures on the boards a fine of $.02 will be paid. Any one who is spoken to 3 times about order will be put out for that meeting. Amendment I. No member will be allowed to go on a stranger's roof, or a fine of $.03 will be asked. Why not on a stranger's roof? Because flying kites, up there the boys run across and interfere with the neighbor's pigeons, which is apt to make him wroth. So you see it is all in the interests of "domestic tranquillity and the common defence." They are not meaningless phrases, those big words, they are the boy's ideas of self-government, of a real democracy, struggling through in our sight. And suppose he does walk on rhetorical stilts, he has precedent and will show it to you. A nation learned to walk on them. Who shall say they are not good enough for him?