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DG: Were there dues?

TH: I beg your pardon?

DG: Dues.

TH: Yes. Dues were very nominal, I think.

ET: Yeah.

TH: When we think of it.

DG: What did you use it for?

YM: What was it? About 10 dollars?

TH: Ten dollars a year. I don't know what it was in the beginning, but even here is says 10 or 15 depending on the establishment. You had a small hotel, maybe it was 5 dollars a year. A little larger place was 10 dollars and then the, larger ones, bigger ones maybe is a 15 dollars a year. Very nominal dues. So none of the officers were paid. It's just they used that money to -- well, for meeting purpose or meeting expenses or --

DG: Like it was 15 dollars and there was 300 names there?

TH: No, but I think you'll find some 10 dollars, some $7.50, 5 dollars.

YM: Depending on size or what?

TH: Depending on the size. I think it ranged from 5 to 15.

DG: And so then you had in your treasury maybe a thousand or 2 thousand or something.

TH: I think it was in the hundreds at the beginning.

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