§ II. All fees received from [by] Sovereign or Deputy
Grand Inspectors-General, for degrees conferred by them,
shall be accounted for by them, and paid over to the
Supreme Council ; deducting therefrom only their travel-
ing expenses necessarily incurred in the service of the Or-
der, the accounts whereof shall be audited and approved
by the Supreme Council, and twenty-five per centum of
the fees received by them for degrees conferred.
§ 12. No Consistory, Council, Chapter, or Lodge of Per-
fection, shall confer any of the degrees for any less fees
than those in this article provided ; but it is allowed to
either or any of such bodies, to increase the amounts, at
their pleasure.
§ 13. Each body under the jurisdiction of this Supreme
Council shall, annually, on the first day of March, remit to
the Supreme Council the following tax, for and on account
of its members, and of the degrees conferred by it, not
theretofore accounted for ; that is to say :

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of the Royal Secret, one dollar for each person then a mem-
ber of it ; and for each case in which the 32d degree has
been conferred during the year preceding, in and by such
body, ten dollars.
Each Council of Knights Kadosh, Chapter of Rose Croix,
and Council of Princes of Jerusalem, one dollar for each
person then a member of it ; and for each case in which,
during the year, the highest degree given in the Kadosh
or Rose Croix, respectively, has been conferred, five dol-
lars ; and in the Councils of Princes of Jerusalem, two dol-
lars.
