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2024 ANNUAL NATIONAL CONVENTION RESOLUTIONS

RESOLUTION 2024-04
NATIONAL SOJOURNERS, INC. MEMBERSHIP FEE

Sponsor Info Process Status Date
Date Submitted: 10/22/2023 Nat’l HQ Received 10/22/2023
Resolution # Resolutions Committee
(by Resolution 2024-04 Received 11/15/2023
Comm):
Judge Advocate
Author: James B. Bartley 01/08/2024
Reviewed
Co-Author Forwarded to Nat’l HQ 01/22/2024
(If Any):
References: Schedule of Fees ANC Final Status

TITLE NATIONAL SOJOURNERS, INC. MEMBERSHIP FEE
A new fee structure was introduced at the National Convention in June, 2023 and
was approved by the delegates at the convention

The Per Capita payment by dues paying members was increased from $20.00 to
$35.00,

Due to the increase in the Membership in Perpetuity fee from $200.00 to $700.00
will have caused many dues payers to convert to MIP, thereby reducing the number
WHEREAS of members actually paying a Per Capita fee to National Sojourners, and

That reduction in the payment of Per Capita will reduce the operating funds of the
National Headquarters beginning in 2024 (to an amount yet undetermined), and

Most, if not all other Masonic organizations in the United States have a “joining” or
membership fee (i.e., Scottish Rite, Craft Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter, Commandery,
Council, Shrine, Grotto, etc.), in addition to Local or Life Membership fees,

That in addition to other membership fees which might be imposed on new
members by subordinate Chapters, the Schedule of Fees approved at the June 2023
National Convention be modified to include the following:
National Sojourners, Inc. Membership fee: $50.00.
THEREFORE This Fee is required from every new member, whether MIP or annual dues payer,
BE IT that the Membership Fee will be adjusted for inflation not less than every two years,
RESOLVED and the fee will become effective on January 1, 2025.

The membership fees will be deposited into the operating fund of National
Sojourners, Inc. Headquarters.

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