Whereas, On the twenty-ninth day of May in the year of our Lord nineteenth hundred and thirty-six a dispensation was granted to certain parties named therein to organize and hold a Subordinate Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, in the town of Grass Valley, county of Nevada and State of California, under the name of Banner Grange, No. 627, and empowering them to confer Degrees of a Subordinate Grange agreeably to the Constitution of the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry and the Ritual of the Order.

And Whereas, Application has been made to the National Grange for a Permanent Charter or Warrant, confirming a perpetual right of succession, and securing to them all the rights and privileges of a regularly constituted Grange, and a copy of their By-Laws having been submitted to our inspection and received our approval;

Know now Ye That we, the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, for the purpose of diffusing the benefits of the order, and of promoting the interests, welfare and happiness of its members, do issue this Charter to Banner Grange, No. 627, and hereby recognize it as a regularly constituted Grange, under the jurisdiction of the National Grange, and of the State
Grange of California, whose seal is hereunto attached.