Constitution of the Society of the Daughter of Zion, circa Late June 1838, as Recorded in Cleminson, Record
Source Note
Constitution of the Society of the Daughter of Zion, ca. late June 1838. Version copied [ca. Nov. 1838] in Cleminson Record, [19]–[23]; handwriting of ; CHL.
The Society reserves the power of electing all its officers with the exception of the aids and clerks which the officers may need in their various stations the nomination to go from the presidency to his second and from the second to the third in Rank and so down through all the various Grades each branch or department retains the power of electing its own particular officers
Art 6th
Punishments shall be administered to the guilty in accordance to the offence and no member shall be punished without law or by any other than those appointed by law for that purpose. The legislation shall have power to make laws regulating punishments as in their Judgments shall be wisdom and righteousness
Article 7th
There shall be a secretary whose business [p. [22]]