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14 nity, order and harmony. As there are so many kinds of societies, organized for a variety of purposes, it is impossible to give a rule for organization applicable to all cases. In determining the organization required, much depends upon the nature of the assembly. If the society be but a branch of a parent organization, the rules for the organization of such branches are usually set forth in the constitution or regulations, which form the fundamental or organic law of that order, and the society is necessarily governed by the constitution, by-laws and rules of said order. Therefore no rule for organization that be could be given here would be applicable in such cases, except the general parliamentary rules governing the action of ordinary assemblies.

5. If the assembly is a mass meeting, or a meeting of citizens called for some particular purpose, a simple or temporary organization is all that is necessary. Since such temporary assemblies are usually called together for some temporary purpose and their members are not responsible to a con-