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Show that Massachusetts has surrendered the place she has so long held as second among ; tho states in numerical strength to Texas, which had at that date 10,918 to 10,840 in ! Massachusetts. Now York at the same date had 13,486. Tennessee comes next to Massachusetts with a membership of 7,362. Pennsylvania stands fifth on the list with 7,151, and Kentucky Bixth with 7,110. From Jan. 1 to April 1 Texas had increased 626, New York 804, Kentucky 178, Tennes- see 97, Pennsylvania 03 and Massachusetts 90. Louisiana in the same period had added 177. There were 1,219 applications filed with the supreme reporter in the four weoks ending May 10, of which number Texas had 257, New York 146, ijulsiana 76, Georgia 65, Mississippi 67, Indiana 53, New Jersey 47, Massachusetts 46. Of the 158 deaths in the June assessment notice throe were half rate, and the amount required to pay the benefits is 1301,000. The j total paW in by the deceased was 138,765.60, an average of 341.bS. The average time of membership was 9 years and 4 months. Of those who were between 89 and 80 years of age at time of initiation there were 14 who paid a total of ta,038, an average of 1145.21, and whoso average time was 7 years and 7 months; 45 were between 30 and 40, paying a total of 18,609, an average of 181.83, and average time 9 years and 4 months; 79 were between 40 and 50, paving a total of $17,101, an average of $217.23, and average time 9 : years and 6 months; 14 were between 50 and 55, paying a total of $8,062.50, an average aver-age of $640.17, and whose average time was 10 years and I month. The highest amounts paid were $885.60, by one who trtned at 52 years of age, with a membership member-ship of 13 yoars and 1 month; $876 by one at 53, who had been a member 10 years and 10 months, and $852 by another at 64, who had been in 10 years and 5 months. KNIGHT8 OF HONOR. i An Abstract of the Membership Cp to April 1 Other Items. .The abstract of the membership on April 1, 1890, from the report of Supreme Re-irtcrScsoii Re-irtcrScsoii to the sjijfrejpejodge shows |