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New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 239, 30 November 1877, Page 17

A new society, called the Catholic Knights of America, has hcen organised iv Nashville, Teim. Bishop Fcchan has endorsed the organization in the words : " I cordially approve of the Association known as the ' Catholic Knights of America,' and recommend it to our Catholic people.*' From its Constitution we learn that the following arc the main objects of the .society : 1. To mute fraternally all acceptable Roman Catholics of every profession, business and occupation. 2. To give all possible moral and material aid m its power to members of the" Union, by holding instructive and scientific lectures, by encouraging each other in business, and by assisting each other to obtain employment. •"*• To establish a Benefit Fund, from which a sum not to exceed 2,000 dollars shall be paid at the death of each member to his family, or be disposed of as he may direct ; but the death benefit shall be limited to the assessment per capita until each assessment reaches two thousand or more. -1. To establish v fund tor the relic! of bick and distressed members!.