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THE B O O K 
 
 or 
 
 CONSTITUTION 
 
 or 
 
 OF ANCIKST 
 
 OF CANAD^. ./^^/^^^^^ 
 
 PUBUI8HEO 
 
 UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE GRAND LODGE, 
 
 By THOMAS BIRD HARllIS, 
 
 Grand Secretary. 
 
 PBIMTRD AT MB " 8PBC3TATOB " STEAM PRESS, PRINOK'S SQUARB. 
 
 1864. 
 
^t ^ranb loiige rf foak. 
 
 That a new edition of tto Book of Constitution, 
 .ith all necessary corrections and alterations there o- 
 fore made by the Grand Lodge, be forthwith pnnted 
 the Grand Secretary has, in accordance wxth th 
 resolution, superintended the pnbhcaUon of tin 
 edition, including all corrections and alterations to 
 the present time. 
 
 GKAND SECRKTARY'S OFFICE, \ Tl'D c') 
 
 UABii-ios, July. 1864. i JS K ^ ' 
 
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REFERENCE TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
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 ted, 
 
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 IB to 
 
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 Title ^ 
 
 Sanction » • ^ 
 
 The Charges of a Freemason. ... ^ 
 
 The General Heads of Charges, &c. 6 
 
 I— Concerning God and Religion 'J 
 
 II.— Of the Civil Magistrate, Supreme and Subordinate 7 
 
 III.— Of Lodges ^ 
 
 IY._Of Masters, Wardens, Fellows, and A pprcntices 9 
 
 v.— Of the Management of the Craft in Working 10 
 
 VI. — On Behaviour, viz : — 
 
 1, In the Lodge while constituted H 
 
 2. Behaviour after the Lodge is over and the Brethren 
 
 not gone ^ ^ 
 
 ' 3. Behaviour when Brethren meet without strangers, 
 
 but not in a Lodge formed 12 
 
 4. — Behaviour in presence of strangers not Masons .... 13 
 
 5._Behaviour at home and in your neighborhood. ... 13 
 
 6. —Behaviour towards a strango Brother 13 
 
 Summary of the Antient Charges and Regulations 15 
 
 Constitution of the Grand Lodge 18 
 
 Regulations for the government of tho Grand Lodge during the 
 
 time of public business 25 
 
 Of Grand Master • • ' 2t 
 
 Of Deputy Grand Master 28 
 
 Of District Deputy Grand Master , 2Q 
 
 Of Grand Wardens 31 
 
 
 
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BBFBaENOB TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 "• «« 
 
 Of Grand Chaplain 32 
 
 OfGrand Treasurer 82 
 
 Of Grand Registrar * 83 
 
 Of Grand Secretary 34 
 
 Of Grand Deacons ......•• •••••• '^^^^^ Director of Ceremonies, 
 
 »es,(^andSwo.^^^^^^^ 31 
 
 t^^^dTarlrsTdV^^^ ;;••;;;;;;.; ,, 
 
 Of Board of General Purposes ••••• 41 
 
 Of Private Lodges ;;* V * ' " * ^^ 
 
 Of Masters and wardens of Lodges •• ,, 
 
 Of Tylers 51 
 
 Of Members and their duty " 54 
 
 Of Honorary Memhers 64 
 
 Of Proposing Memhera *; 58 
 
 Of the Lodge Seal 68 
 
 Of Lodges of Instruction ••• 69 
 
 Of Visitors ^^ 
 
 OfOertificates 6° 
 
 Of Public Processions 61 
 
 Of Appeal I* 
 
 Of Fees ^^ 
 
 ofBegaiia ;;;;;;;; f 
 
 Of Jewels fi» 
 
 Of Collars "*/*. ^* 
 
 OfAprons • ^^ 
 
 OfOonstituting a New Lodge ......._ ^.•- 73 
 
 ceremony of Laying a Foundation Stone. ^, 
 
 The Funeral Service 87 
 
 Appendix-Forms of Entry m Minu ^, 
 
 Index • • • 
 
T HE 
 
 CHARGES OF A FREEMASON : 
 
 EXTRACTED 
 
 FROM THE ANTIENT RECORDS OF LODGES THROUGHOUT 
 
 THE WORLD, 
 
 FOIt THE TTSE OF SLiOlDO-BSi 
 
 TO BB RBAD AT THE MAKING OF NEW BRETHREN, OR WHEN THE 
 
 MASTER SHALL ORDER IT. 
 
 PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE GRAND LODGE. 
 
THE GENERAL r.EADS OF THE OHAKGES 
 OF A FEEEMASON, &o. 
 
 I. Of God and Religion, 
 n. OftheOivilMagiBtratcsupromeandsubordmate. 
 
 Ill Of Lodges. 
 
 lY Of Masters, Wardens, Fellows and Apprentices. 
 y ; Of the Management of the Craft in Working. 
 
 VI. Of Behaviour, viz. : 
 
 1 In the lodge while constituted. 
 
 2*. After the lodge is over and the brethren 
 not gone. 
 
 3. When brethren meet without strangers, but 
 
 not in a lodge. 
 
 4. In presence of strangers, not masons. 
 
 5. At home and in the neighborhood. 
 6 Towards a strange brother. 
 
 VII. Antient Charges--To the Master-Elect. 
 
^t charges of a Jfnmason. ^t. 
 
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 I.— CONOEKNING GOD AND RELIGION. 
 
 A MA80N is obliged, by liis tenure, to obey the 
 moral law ; and, if he rightly understand the art, he 
 will never be a stupid atheist nor an irreligious 
 libertine. He, of all men, should best understand 
 that God seeth not as man seeth ; for man looketh at 
 the outward appearance, but God looketh to the heart. 
 A mason is, therefore, particularly bound never to 
 act against the dictates of his conscience. Let a man^s 
 religion, or mode of worship, be what it may, he is 
 not excluded from the order, provided he believe in 
 the glorious architect of heaven and earth, and 
 practice the sacred duties of morality.^ Masons unite 
 with the virtuous of every persuasion in the firm and 
 pleasing bond of fraternal love ; they are taught to 
 view the errors of mankind with compassion, and 
 to strive, by the purity of their own conduct, to 
 demonstrate the superior excellence of the faith they 
 may profess. Thus masonry is the centre of union 
 between good men and true, and the happy means 
 of conciliating friendship amongst those who must 
 otherwise have remained at a perpetual distance. 
 
 II.— OF THE CIVIL MAGISTRATE, SUPREME 
 AND SUBORDINATE. 
 
 A MASON is a peaceable subject to the civil powers 
 wherever he resides or works, and is never to be 
 
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 g ANTIENT 0HABOB9. 
 
 concerned in plots and eonspirf e« ^J^^^^^^^^ 
 and welfare of the nation, nor to w> ^^^jj 
 
 undutifully to "*"«'• "f^fSorityT to uphold, on 
 to conform to every ^f^^-^^^ ff X e^'""'"^^^^^ ""'^ 
 every <',°''''''''\f'''^CvvZ<^lty of his own country, 
 zealously promote the V\o^V^"y . f peace and 
 
 Masonry Ls cjo^-fl^f'f^itloodBCd and confusion; 
 been always iniw-edl>y'^a^'^^°?^^;°°''age have been 
 BO that kings and P™°'=«'"^,,'';j5Lnln on account 
 much disposed to '^"'^^^''^f/^LS? whereby they 
 of their poaceablencss and y^^hJ^^.^J^s ani 
 
 III.— OF LODGES. 
 
 A LODGE is a place where freen'XmselvrS'the 
 work and to instruct ^P^ improve themseWesi^^^ 
 
 1 *^lfaSr Cm antT times no master 
 S^CcVuirbelbsent from ^^^^^fj^l 
 ^hon warned to ^Pn^l^^^red toteSer Ld 
 
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 ANTIENT CIIAKGISS. 
 
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 of mature and discreet age and sound judgment, no 
 bondmen, no women, no immoral or ecaudalous men, 
 but of good report. 
 
 IV - OF MASTERS, WARDENS, FELLOWS AND 
 
 APPRENTICES. 
 
 All preferment among masons i» grounded " pon 
 real worth and personal merit only, that so the lords 
 may be well served, the brethren not put to shame, 
 nor the royal craft despised ; therefore no master or 
 warden is chosen by seniority, but for his merit. It 
 is impossible to describe these things in writing, and 
 therefore every brother must attend in his place, 
 and learn them in a way peculiar to this fraternity* 
 Candidates may, nevertheless, know that no master 
 should take an apprentice unless he has sufficient 
 employment for him ; and, unless he be a perfect 
 youth, havina no maim or defect in his hoa/y that 
 may render him incapable of learning the art, of 
 serving his master's lord, and of being made a brother, 
 and then a fellow-craft in due time, after he has 
 served such a term of years as the custom of the 
 country directs ; and that he should be descended of 
 honest parents, that so, when otherwise qualified, he 
 may arrive to the honor of being the warden and then 
 the master of the lodge, the grand warden, and at 
 length the grand master of all the lodges, according 
 to his merit. 
 
 No brother can be a warden until he has passed 
 the part of a fellow-craft, nor a master until he has 
 acted as a •warden, nor grand-warden until he has 
 been master of a lodge, nor grand-master unless he 
 has been a fellow-craft beforenis election, who is also 
 to be nobly born, or a gentleman of the best fashion, 
 or some eminent scholar, or some curious architect, 
 or other artist descended of honest parents, and who 
 
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 ANTIENT OHAEGES. 
 
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 is of singularly great merit in the opinion of the 
 
 ^ -Aese rulers and governors, supreme and subordi- 
 nate, of the antient lodge, are to be oboyea m their 
 respective stations by all the brethren, according to 
 the old charges and regulations, with all liumility, 
 reverence, love and alacrity. 
 
 ]sf,B,^In antient times no Irother, however shilled 
 vn the craft, was called a master-mason until he had 
 been elected into the chair of a lodge. 
 
 V -OF THE MANAGEMENT OF THE CRAFT IN 
 ^' WOEKINa. 
 
 'all masons shall work honestly on working davs 
 that they may live creditably on holy days ; and the 
 time appointed by the law of the land, or conhrmed 
 by custom, shall be observed. 
 
 The most expert of the fellow-craftsmen shall be 
 chosen or appointed the master, or overseer of the 
 lord's work ; who is to be called master by those who 
 work under him. The craftsmen are to avoid all lU 
 language, and to call each other by no disobligmg 
 name, but brother or fellow; and to behave themselves 
 courteously within and without the lodge. 
 
 The master, knowing himself to be able of cunning, 
 shall undertake the lord's work as reasonably as 
 possible, and truly dispend his goods as if they were 
 his own ; nor to give more wages to any brother or 
 apprentice than he really may deserve. _ 
 
 Both the master and the masons rece^j^mg their 
 wages, justly, shall be faithful to the lord, and honestly 
 finish their work, whether task or journey ; nor put 
 the work to task that hath been accustomed to 
 journey. 
 
ANTIENT CHARGES. 
 
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 None shall discover envy at the prosperity of a 
 brother, nor supplant him, or put him out of his work, 
 if he be capable to finish the same ; for no man can 
 finish another's work so much to the lord's profit, 
 utiless he be throughly acquainted with the designs 
 and draughts of him that began it. 
 
 When a fellow-craftsmen is chosen warden of the 
 work under the master, he shall be true both to 
 master and fellows, shall carefully oversee the work 
 in the master's absence, to the lord's profit ; and his 
 brethren shall obey him. 
 
 All masons employed shall meekly receive their 
 wages without murmuring or mutiny, and not desert 
 the master till tlie work be finished. 
 
 A younger brother shall be instructed in working 
 to prevent spoiling the materials for want of judgment, 
 and for increasing and continuing of brotherly love. 
 
 All the tools used in working shall be approved by 
 the grand lodge. 
 
 No laborer shall be employed in the proper work 
 of masonry ; nor shall freemasons work with those 
 that are not free, without an urgent necessity ; nor 
 shall they teach laborers and unaccepted masons, as 
 they should teach a brother or fellow. 
 
 VI.— ON BEHAVIOUR, Viz : 
 
 I.— IN THE LODGE WHILE CONSTITUTED. 
 
 You are not to hold private committees, or separate 
 conversation, without leave from the master, nor to 
 talk of any thing impertinently or unseemly, nor 
 interrupt the master or wardens, or any brother 
 speaking to the master : nor behave yourself 
 ludicrously or jestingly while the lodge is engaged in 
 what is serious and soiemn ; nor use any unbecoming 
 
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 ANTIENT CHARGES. 
 
 language upon any pretence whatsoever ; b^* ^ P^J 
 due reverence to your master, wardens and fellows, 
 
 and put tkem to worship. , , ,.t. * j 
 
 If any complaint be bronght, the brother found 
 guilty shall stand to the award and detormmation of 
 fhe lodte who are the proper and competent judges 
 of all suchTontroversies, (unless you carry them by 
 an^al to the .^rand lodge,) and to whom they ought 
 tXrLred," unless alord's work be hindered the 
 meanwhile, in 'which case a particular rrfercn^e may 
 be made ; but you must never go to law about what 
 conTerneth malonry, without an absolute necessity 
 apparent to the lodge. 
 
 2-BEHAVIOUR AFTER THE LODGE IS OYER, AND THE BRETHREN 
 *' NOT GONE. 
 
 Vrn mav eiiioy yourselves with innocent mirth, 
 treItingrJaroihlLcordingtoabimy,butaWxn| 
 
 all pxcess or forcing any brother to eat or drinK 
 Syond h B inclinatiol or'hindering him from gomg 
 XTL occasions call him, or domg or saymg any 
 E offensive, or that may forbid an easy and free 
 conversation ; for that would blast our harmony, and 
 S our" aidable purposes. Therefore no pnvate 
 piques orquarrelsmust be brought withm the door 
 of the lodge, far less any quarrels about rebgion, or 
 nation "ofs'tate policy.Ve being only "^ 'klso 
 the universal religion above-mentioned ; we are also 
 ^ aU nitions, tongues, kindreds, and languages, and 
 are resolved against all politics, as what never yet 
 conduced to tfe welfare of the lodge, nor ever will. 
 
 8_BEHAVI0UB WHEN BBETHEEK MEET WITHODT STEAN0EE8. 
 8.-BEHAT10UB ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^ ^^^^ FORMED. 
 
 You are to salute one aiiouiur lu a ^^^- --— "■----' 
 as you will be instructed, calling each other brother, 
 
ANTIENT CHARGES. 
 
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 freely giving mutual instruction as shall be thought 
 expedient, without being overseen or overheard, and 
 without encroaching upon each other, or derogating 
 from that respect which is due to any brother, were 
 he not a mason : for though all masons are as brethren 
 upon the same level, yet masonry takes no honor 
 from a man that he had before ; nay, rather it adds 
 to his honor, especially if he has deserved well ot 
 the brotherhood, who must give honor to whom it 
 is due, and avoid ill manners. 
 
 4.-BEHAVI0UR IN PRESENCE OF STRANGERS, NOT MASONS. 
 
 You shall be cautious in your words and carriage, 
 that the most penetrating stranger shall not be able 
 to discover or find out what is not proper to oe 
 intimated ; and sometimes you shall divert a discourse, 
 and manage it prudently for the honor of the 
 worshipful fraternity. 
 
 e.-BEHAVIOUR AT HOME AND IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD. 
 
 You are to act as becomes a moral and wise man; 
 particularly not to let your fanaily, friends, and 
 neighbors know the concerns of the lodge, &c. ; but 
 wisely to consult your own honor, and that of your 
 antient brotherhood, for reasons not to be mentioned 
 here. You must also consult your health by not 
 continuing together too late or too long from home 
 after lodge hours are past; and by avoiding ot 
 gluttony or drunkenness, that your famihes be not 
 neglected or injured, nor you disabled from working. 
 
 6.-BEHAVir'UK TOWARDS A STRANGE BROTHER. 
 
 You are cautiously to examine him in such a 
 
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 ANTIENT CHARGES. 
 
 not be imposed upon by an ignorant false pretender, 
 whom you are to reject with contempt and derision, 
 and beware of giving him any hints of knowledge. 
 
 But if you discover him to be a true and genuine 
 brother, you are to respect him accordingly ; and if 
 he is in want you must relieve him if you can, or else 
 direct him how he may be relieved. ^ You must employ 
 him some days or else recommend him to be employed. 
 But you are not charged to do beyond your ability ; 
 only to prefer a poor brother that is a good man and 
 true,before any other people in the same circumstances. 
 
 Finally, — All these charges you are to observe, and 
 also those that shall be communicated to you in 
 another way ; cultivating brotherly love,the foundation 
 and cape-stone, the cement and glory of this antient 
 fraternity ; avoiding all wrangling and quarrelling, all 
 slander and backbiting, nor permitting others to 
 slander any honest broth er,but defending his character 
 and doing him all good offices, as far as is consistent 
 with your honor and safety, and no farther. And if 
 any of them do you injury, you must apply to your 
 own or his lodge ; and from thence you may appeal 
 to the grand lodge, at the annual communication, 
 as has been the antient laudable conduct of our 
 forefathers in every nation ; jiever taking a legal 
 course but when the case cannot be otherwise decided, 
 and patiently listening to the honest and friendly 
 advice of master and fellows, when they would 
 prevent your going to law with strangers, or would 
 excite you to put a speedy period to all law-suits, that 
 so you may find the affair of masonry with the more 
 alacrity and success ; but with respect to brothers or 
 fellows at law, the master and brethren should kindly 
 offer their mediation, which ought to be thankfully 
 submitted to by the contending brethren ; and if that 
 
ANTIENT CHARUE8. 
 
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 submission is impracticable, they must, however, 
 carry on their process, or law-suit, without wrath and 
 rancour, (not in the common way) saying or doin^ 
 nothing which may hinder brotherly love and good 
 offices to be renewed and continued, that all may see 
 the benign influence of masonry, as all true masons 
 have done from the beginning of the world, and will 
 do to the end of time. 
 
 Amen, so mote it he. 
 
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 Su7nmary of the Antient Charges and Regulations 
 to he read hy the Chand Secreta/ry^ {or acting 
 Secretary^) to the Master-Elect, prior to his 
 Installation into the Chair of the Lodge, 
 
 -—*- 
 
 1. You agree to be a good man and true, and strictly 
 to obey the moral law. 
 
 2. You are to be a peaceable subject, and cheerfully 
 to conform to the " '''• of the country in which you 
 reside. 
 
 3. You promise not to be concerned in plots or 
 conspiracies against government, but patiently to 
 submit to the decisions of the supreme legislature. 
 
 4. You agree to pay a proper respect to the civil 
 magistrate, to work diligently, live creditably, and 
 act honorably by all men. 
 
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 ANTIENT 0HAKGE8. 
 
 5 You affree to hold in veneration the original 
 rulers and patrons of the order of freemasonry, and 
 their regular successors, supreme and subordinate, 
 according to their stations ; and to submit to the 
 awards and resohitions of your brethren in general 
 lodge convened, in every case consistent with the 
 constitutions of the order. 
 
 6 You agree to avoid private piques and quarrels, 
 and to guard against intemperance and excess. 
 
 7. You agree to be cautious in your carnage and 
 behaviour, courteous to your brethren, and laithtuito 
 your lodge. 
 
 8. You promise to respect genuine and truebrethren, 
 and to discountenance imposters and all dissenters 
 from the original plan of freemasonry. 
 
 9 You agree to promote the general good of society, 
 to cultivate the social virtues, and to propagate the 
 knowledge of the mystic art, as far as your influence 
 and ability can extend. 
 
 10. You promise to pay homage to the grand master 
 for the time being, and to his officers when duly 
 installed, and strictly to conform to every edict ot 
 the grand lodge. 
 
 11 You admit that it is not in the power of any 
 man, or body of men, to make innovation m the body 
 of masonry. 
 
 12. You promise a regular attendance on the 
 communications and committees of the grand lodge, 
 upon receiving proper notice thereof; and to pay 
 attention to all the duties of freemasonry, upon 
 proper and convenient occasions. 
 
 13. You admit that no new lodge can be 
 
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 formed without permission of the grand m 
 
 
ANTIENT CHAEGES. 
 
 17 
 
 and that no countenance ought to be given to any 
 irregular lodge, or to any person initiated therein ; 
 and that no public processions of masons clothed with 
 the badges of the order can take place without the 
 special license of the grand master. 
 
 14. You admit that no person can regularly be 
 made a freemason, or admitted a member of any lodge, 
 without previous notice and due inquiry into his 
 character ; and that no brother can be advanced to a 
 higher degree except in strict conformity with the 
 laws of the grand lodge. 
 
 15. You promise that no visitor shall be received 
 into your lodge without due examination, ^ and 
 producing proper vouchers of his having been initiated 
 m a regular lodge. 
 
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 At the conclusion the grand master or installing 
 officer addresses the master-elect, as follows : — " Do 
 '* you submit to and promise to s\ipport these charges 
 " and regulations as masters have done in all ages." 
 Upon his answering in the affirmative the ceremony 
 of installation proceeds. 
 
ll 
 
 CONSTITUTION 
 
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 OF CANADA. 
 
 _. t, The Gband Lodge of Anoiekt Free and 
 Accepted Masons of Canada, in order to form 
 perfect fraternal union, to establish order, to ensure 
 tranquillity, to provide for and promote the general 
 welfare of the craft, and to secure to the fraternity of 
 Canada all the blessings of masonic privileges, do 
 order and establish this constitution. 
 
 OF THE GEAND LODGE. 
 
 1. The style and title of the grand lodge shall be 
 « The Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted 
 Masons of Canada." , n i. 
 
 2. The officers of the grand lodge shall be 
 respectively elected or appointed, as hereinato 
 provided, and hold their offices for one year or imtil 
 their successors shall have been regularly elected or 
 
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 shall appoint three scrutineers, 
 
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 „. The grand master 
 annual communication 
 
THE GRAND LODGE. 
 
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 whose duty it shall be to collect the ballots for grand 
 officers, and lists of members for the board of general 
 purposes from the brethren to whom they have been 
 delivered. The scrutineers shall solemnly pledge 
 themselves to make a correct report under their hands 
 of the result of the ballot, having ascertained the 
 number of votes for the respective candidates, they 
 shall present their reports to grand lodge. 
 
 4. The election and appointment of all officers of 
 grand lodge shall taxe place at the annual 
 communication, when those present shall be duly 
 installed or invested, and proclaimed in ancient form. 
 
 5. The following officers shall be elected, viz. : 
 By ballot of the grand lodge — 
 
 The most worshipful the grand master. 
 
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 deputy grand master, 
 grand senior warden. 
 
 " junior warden, 
 
 " chaplain. 
 
 " treasurer. 
 
 ** registrar. 
 
 " secretary. 
 
 By an open vote of the grand lodge — 
 The grand tyler. 
 
 By the majority of the representatives of the lodges 
 of the respective districts present at the annual 
 communication, subject to the confirmation of the 
 grand master — 
 
 The right worshipfi. the district deputy grand 
 masters. 
 
 6. The following officers shall be appointed by the 
 grand master, viz. : 
 
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 superintendent of works 
 director of ceremonies. 
 
 secretary, 
 sword bearer, 
 organist. 
 
 pursuivant. 
 " twelve " stewards. 
 
 7. The grand lodge shall consist of the elective and 
 appointed' officers (excepting the grand tyler) 
 mentioned in the two preceding articles, with all past 
 grand officers, continuing to subscribe to a lodge ; 
 the masters and wardens of all private lodges (duly 
 returned,) and all past masters (duly returned) being 
 members of a piivate lodge ; provided that no brother 
 shall rank as a past grand officer, unless at the time 
 of holding office in grand lodge, he was either a master 
 or past master of some lodge. 
 
 8. Should neither the worshipful master, nor the 
 wardens of a lodge attend any communication 
 of grand lodge, such lodge by its vote, properly 
 certified by the worshipful master and secretary, and 
 under seal, may delegate any master or past master, 
 entitled to a seat in grand lodge, to represent their 
 lodge, but no proxy shall be valid unless the name of 
 the brother so delegated shall have been written in 
 the proxy previous to its being signed by the 
 worshipful master and secretary of the lodge ; but 
 no brother can represent more than three lodges. 
 
 9. The rank of officers and members of grand lodge 
 shall be as follows : 
 
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 The grand master. 
 
 Past grand masters, according to seniority. 
 The deputy grand master. 
 Past deputy grand masters. 
 
 District deputy grand master, London district. 
 
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 Huron 
 Hamilton 
 Toronto 
 Ontario 
 Prince Edward 
 Central 
 Montreal 
 East. T'nships 
 Quebec 
 Past district deputy grand masters. 
 
 Grand senior warden. 
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 Grand junior warden. 
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 Grand chaplain. 
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 Grand treasurer. 
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 Grand registrar. 
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 Grand secretary. 
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 Grand senior deacon. 
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 Grand junior deacon. 
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 Grand superintendent of works. 
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 Grand director of ceremonies. 
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 Assistant grand secretary. 
 
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 Assistant grand director of ceremonies. 
 
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 Grand sword bearer. 
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 Grand organist. 
 Past " " 
 
 Assistant grand organist. 
 Past " " " 
 
 Grand pursuivant. 
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 Grand stewards 
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 The masters, past masters, and senior and junior 
 
 ^wardens, of private lodges, in the order ot the 
 
 'numbers of their respective lodge warrants. 
 
 10. The elective officers, except the tyler, are to 
 be chosen by ballot, and shall require a majority of 
 all the votes present. 
 
 11. No brother shall be eligible to an/ eleo^ive 
 office in the grand lodge, unless he has ut^ou regu- 
 larly installed worsliipful master of a private lodge. 
 
 12. Should any vacancv occur in any office ot the 
 grand lodr^^ the gran master shall appoint a 
 qualified f -other to supply the place, j^vo tempore. 
 
 13. Bretiti-en of eminence and ability, who have 
 rendered service to the craft, may, by a vote of the 
 grand lodge, be constituted members of the grand 
 lodge, with such rank and distinction as may be 
 thought proper, except that of past grand master, or 
 past deputy grand master. ^ ^^ ..j. a 
 
 14. No member of the grand lodge shall attend 
 therein without his proper jewel and cloihina, nor 
 wearing any jewel not recognized by the grand lodge. 
 
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 1 5. Should any lodge have negleated to make its 
 returns and payments to the grand lodge for more 
 than one year, the master, wardens, or other represen- 
 tative of such lodge, shall not be permitted to attend 
 any meeting of the grand lodge, until such returns 
 and payments shall have been completed. 
 
 16. No brother shall bo permitted to attend the 
 grand lodge as master, past master, or warden, until his 
 name and appointment shall have been duly returned 
 and transmitted to the grand secretary's office. 
 
 17. The annual communication of the grand lodge 
 shall be holden on the second Wednesday in July, at 
 which the place of holding the next communication 
 shall he decided. None but members shall be present 
 at these communications, without permission of the 
 grand master. No visitor shall speak to any question 
 unless requested to do so by the grand master, nor 
 shall he on any occasion, be permitted to vote. 
 
 18. The grand master, or in his absence from the 
 province, the deputy grand master, or in his like 
 abselice, the grand wardens, may summon and hold 
 grand lodges of emergency, whenever the good of the 
 craft shall, in their opinion, require it ; the particular 
 reason for convening such lodge of emergency shall be 
 expressed in the summons, and no other business shall 
 be entered upon at that meeting. 
 
 19. If at any grand lodge, stated or occasional, the 
 grand master be absent, the lodge shall be ruled by 
 the grand officer next in rank and seniority who may 
 be present ; and, if no elective grand officer be 
 present, by the master of the senior lodge. The grand 
 lodge is declared to be opened in ample form when 
 the grand master is present ; in dtie form when a past 
 
 
 
 
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 20. The powers of Q.Tijpro tempore presiding officer 
 sball be the same as those properly belonging to the 
 office so filled by him. 
 
 21. In the grand lodge alone resides the power of 
 enacting laws and regulations for the government of 
 the craft and of altering, repealing, and abrogating 
 them, always taking care that the ancient landmarks 
 of the order are preserved. The grand lodge has also 
 the inherent power of investigating, regulating and 
 deciding, all matters relative to the craft, or to 
 particular lodges, or to individual brothers, which it 
 may exercise either of itself, or by such delegated 
 authority, as, in its wisdom or discretion, it may 
 appoint; but in the grand lodge alone resides the 
 power of erasing lodges and expelling brethren from 
 
 the craft. 
 
 22. No lodge shall be erased, nor any brother 
 expelled, until the master or officers of the lodge, or 
 the offending brother shall have been summoned to 
 show cause, "in the grand lodge, why such sentence 
 should not be recorded and" enforced : such sumrtions 
 being addressed and either delivered personally, or 
 sent by post to the last known place of residence of 
 such brother, being deemed a sufficient service. 
 
 23. All differences or complaints that car?not be 
 accommodaLed privately, or in some regular lodge, 
 shall be delivered in writing to the grand secretary, 
 who shall lay them before the grand master, board of 
 general purposes, or committee appointed by grand 
 rodo-e. When all the parties shall have been 
 summoned to attend thereon, and the case shall have 
 been investigated, such order and adjudication may 
 be made as shall be authorized by the laws and 
 regulations of masonry. 
 
 24:. When any memorial, or other document, shall 
 
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 be presented by any member of the grand lodge, 
 either on behalf of himself or another, the member 
 presenting it shall be responsible that such paper 
 does not contain any improper matter, or any offensive 
 or indecorous language. 
 
 25. No brother below the rajik of a past grand 
 master shall assume the grand master's chair, though 
 he be entitled, in the absence of the grand master, to 
 rule the grand lodge. 
 
 REGULATIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE GRAND LODGE 
 DURING THE TIME OF PUBLIC BUSINESS. 
 
 1. The annual communication of grand lodge being 
 opened, the regulations are to be read. The minutes 
 of the last regular communication, and of any 
 intervening grand lodge, are then to be put for 
 confirmation, and all communications from the grand 
 master and deputy grand master, and reports from 
 the district deputy grand masters, board of general 
 purposes or committees, are then to be read and 
 taken into consideration, and the other business 
 regularly proceeded with. 
 
 2. All matters are to be decided by a majority of 
 votes, each lodge having three votes, each past master 
 one vote, each officer of grand lodge, except the 
 grand tyler, not otherwise entitled to vote, shall have 
 one vote by virtue of his office, and the grand master 
 a casting vote in case of equality ; unless the lodge, 
 for the sake of expedition, think proper to leave any 
 particular subject to the determination of the grand 
 master. Where any subject can be satisfactorily 
 settled by an open vote, the votes of the members are 
 always to be signified by each holding up one of his 
 hands, which uplifted hands the grand wardens or 
 grand deacons are to count, unless the number should 
 
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 be so unequal as to render counting unnecessary ; but 
 any brother may demand a ballot on any question, 
 either before or immediately after an open vote shall 
 have been taken. 
 
 3. All members shall keep their seats, except the 
 grand deacons, grand director of ceremonies and his 
 assistant, and the grand stewards, who are allowed to 
 move about from place to place, in the discharge of 
 
 their duties. . 
 
 4. No brother shall speak twice to the same 
 question, unless in explanation, or tlie mover in reply. 
 
 5. Every one who speaks shall rise, and remain 
 standing, addressing himself to the grand master ; nor 
 shall anv brother presume to interrupt him, unless to 
 address 'the grand master to order, or tlie grand 
 master sliall tliink fit to call him to order ; but after 
 he has been set riglit, he may ])roceed, if he observe 
 due order and decorum. ^ 
 
 6. If any member shall have been twice called 
 to order for transgressing these rules, and shall 
 nevertheless be guilty of a third offence at the same 
 meeting, the grand master may peremptorily command 
 him to'leave the lodge for tbat communication. 
 
 7. Whoever shall be so unmasonic as to hiss at a 
 brother, or at what be has said, shall be solemnly 
 excluded the communication, and declared incapable 
 of being a member of the grand lodge, until at another 
 time he publicly own his fault, and grace be granted. 
 
 8. No motion on any new subject shall be made, 
 nor any new matter entered upon after eleven' o'clock 
 
 at night. 
 
 9. No money grants shall be made by grand lodge 
 on the last day of the communication, unless notice 
 gboll hp^f* been o-iven the dav Drevious. 
 
 10. No notice shall be entertained for altering or 
 
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 amenciing the laws, rules or regulations of this grand 
 lodge, or for adding a new law, rule or regulation 
 thereto, without notice in writing, stating the 
 amendment proposed, having been given ^ at the 
 communication previous to that at which it is to be 
 brought before grand lodge, and no alteration or 
 addition to the constitution shall be made binding 
 unless supported by two-thirds of the votes present. 
 
 OF GRAND MASTER. 
 
 1. The grand master shall, according to ancient 
 usage, be elected and installed at the annual commu- 
 nication. He is then to nominate such of his grand 
 officers as it is his prerogative to appoint, who with 
 the elective grand officers, are, it present, to be 
 thereupon installed or invested in ancient form. 
 
 2. In the temporary absence of the grand master 
 from the province, notilied by him to the grand 
 secretary, flie deputy grand master shall possess all 
 the powers of the grand master ; and should the 
 grand master die during his term of office, or be 
 rendered incapable of discharging the duties thereof, 
 by sickness, permanent absence from the province 
 or otherwise, the deputy grand master shall forthwith 
 assimie the functions of grand master until the next 
 annual election ; and should the deputy grand master 
 die previous to such election, the grand wardens shall 
 immediately summon a grand lodge to elect a grand 
 master. 
 
 3. The grand master, under sanction of the grand 
 lodo-e, may by warrant appoint any brother of 
 eminence and skill to represent the grand lodge in a 
 sister grand lodge. He may also, with the concurrence 
 ot tue grana louge, cuiibuiuLu u-n} vAiDLHij^wicixw* 
 brother, who may be regularly deputed from a sister 
 
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 OF DEPUTT GRAND MA8TEB. 
 
 erand lodge, a member of the grand lodge of Canada, 
 with such rank as the grand lodge may deem to be 
 
 ^■^r^lhe^grand master has full authority to preside 
 in any lodge, and to order any of his grand olhcers to 
 attend him His deputy Is to be placed mi his right 
 and the master of the lodge on his left hand His 
 wardens are, also, to act as wardens of that particular 
 lodge during his presence ; but if the grand wardens 
 be not present, then the grand master may command 
 the wardens of the lodge, or any master masons, to 
 act as his wardens, pro tempore. ^ 
 
 5. The grand master may send his grand officers to 
 visit any lodge he may think proper. 
 
 6 The grand master may summon any lodge or 
 brother to attend him, and to produce the warrant, 
 books, papers and accounts of such lodge, or the 
 certificate of such brother. If the summons be not 
 comt)lied with, nor a sufficient reason given for non- 
 compliance, such summons is to be repeated as a 
 peremptory summons: if such last summons be not 
 attended to, such lodge or brother may be suspended, 
 and the proceeding notified to the grand lodge^ ^ 
 
 T The grand master shall not be applied to otiicialiy 
 on anv business concerning masons or masonry, but 
 through the grand secretary, the deputy grand 
 master, the district deputy grand masters, or board 
 of general purposes. 
 
 OF DEPUTY GRAND MASTER. 
 
 1 This officer is to be elected at the annual 
 communication of the grand lodge ; and m order that 
 both sections of the province may enjoy^ a proper 
 representation, he shall not be elected irom xna^ 
 portion of the province in which the grand master 
 
DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND MASTER. 
 
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 resides. If present he shall be immediately installed, 
 according to ancient usage. In the absence of the 
 grand master, as hereinbefore provided, the deputy 
 possesses all his powers and privileges. 
 
 2. The deputy grand master has full authority, 
 unless the grand master be present, to preside in any 
 lodge which he may visit, with the district deputy 
 grand master on his right hand, and the master of the 
 lodge on his left hand. The grand wardens, if present, 
 are to act as wardens of that particular lodge during 
 the deputy grand master's continuance there ; but if 
 the grand wardens be not present, then the deputy 
 grand master may command the wardens of the lodge, 
 or any other master masons, to act as his wardens j>ro 
 tempore. 
 
 OF DISTRICT DEPUTr GRAND MASTER. 
 
 1. The district deputy grand master, for each 
 district, shall be nominated by the majority of the 
 representatives of the lodges of such district, at the 
 annual communication, and if confirmed by the grand 
 master, if present, he shall be regularly installed. He 
 must be a past master, and a resident in the district 
 for which he is appointed. 
 
 ^ 2. He may preside in every lodge he visits within 
 his district, with the master of the lodge on his right 
 hand. 
 
 3. It shall be the duty of the district deputy grand 
 master to visit all the lodges in his district during his 
 term of office, to see that such lodges are working in 
 accordance with the ritual adopted by grand lodge, 
 and that returns have been regularly forwarded, with 
 all fees and dues that may have accrued ; and on 
 refhsal or neglect on the part of any lodge to make 
 
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 DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND MASTER. 
 
 4 He may hear and determine any subject of 
 masonic complaint or irregularity, respectmg lodges 
 or individual masons within his district, and may 
 proceed to admonition or to suspension, until the 
 decision of the grand master shall be known thei;eon. 
 A minute of all such proceedings, stating the otience 
 and the law applicable to it, together with his 
 decision, shall be transmitted to the grand master 
 through the grand secretary ; and when the case is ot 
 so flagrant a nature, as, in the judgment of the district 
 deputy grand master, to require the erasure ot a 
 lodge, or the expulsion of a brother, he shall make a 
 special report to the grand lodge, with his opinion 
 
 thereon. , ^ , ^^^«« 
 
 5. The district deputy grand master has no power 
 to expel a mason ; but when satisfied that any brother 
 has been unjustly or illegally suspended, removed, or 
 excluded from any of his masonic functions or 
 privileges, by a lodge within his district, he may 
 order him to be immediately restored, and may 
 suspend, until the next communication of the grand 
 lod^e, the lodge or brother who shall refuse to comply 
 with such order ; and shall immediately report the 
 circumstances to the grand master. 
 
 6. If the district deputy grand master shall neglect 
 to proceed on any case or business, which may be 
 sent for his decision, within a reasonable time, the 
 application or complaint may be transmitted to the 
 grand secretary. An appeal, in all cases, lies Irom 
 the district deputy grand master to the grand master 
 or the grand lodge. 
 
 7 The district deputy grand master may summon 
 anv lodge or brother within his district to attend him, 
 and to produce tne warrant, uyui^s, i^o-f^^-j «— 
 accounts of such lodge, or the certificate of such 
 
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 brother. If the summons be not complied with, nor 
 a sufficient reason given for non-compliance, a 
 peremptory summons shall be issued ; and, in case 
 of contumacy, he may suspend the lodge or brother, 
 as before provided. 
 
 8. He has power to give or to refuse consent for 
 the removal of a lodge from town to town within his 
 district, but not from his district into another, or 
 from another district into his own, without the 
 sanction of the grand master. 
 
 9. He has power to grant dispensations for festivals 
 and public processions, reporting the same to the 
 grand master. 
 
 10. He is required to correspond with the grand 
 lodge, and to transmit to the grand secretary, at least 
 fourteen days prior to the annual communication, a 
 circumstantial account, in writing, of his proceedings, 
 and of the state of masonry within his district ; 
 together with a list of such lodges as may have been 
 constituted since his last return, and the fees due 
 thereon to the grand lodge. 
 
 11. He may appoint a district chaplain' and 
 secretary, during pleasure, but who shall have no 
 rank in grand lodge by virtue of such office. 
 
 OF GRAND WARDENS. 
 
 1. The grand wardens shall be elected and invested 
 at the annual communication. 
 
 2. When the actual grand wardens are in grand 
 lodge, no others can supply their places, but in their 
 absence the senior past grand wardens present shall 
 Sictpro tempore. If no past grand wardeu be present, 
 the grand master may direct any other member of 
 erand lode:e to act as erand warden for that occasion. 
 
 3. The grand wardens, whenever commanded, are 
 
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 GRAND CHAPLAIN, &C. 
 
 to attend the grand master, and while he presides in 
 any particular lodge, are to act there as his wardens. 
 
 OF GRAND CHAPLAIN. 
 
 1. The grand chaplain shall be elected and invested 
 at the annual communication, and shall attend all 
 communications and other meetings of the grand 
 lodge, and there offer up solemn prayer suitable to 
 the occasion, as established by the usage of the 
 fraternity. 
 
 OF GRAND TREASURER. 
 
 1. The grand treasurer shall be elected and invested 
 at the annual communication. ^ ^ 
 
 2. The grand treasurer shall give a jomt bond, with 
 two sureties, to the grand master and deputy grand 
 master, in such penalty and with such conditions as 
 mav be deemed expedient, for the due performance 
 
 3. To the grand treasurer shall be committed all 
 monies raised for the general charity, or for any other 
 public use of the fraternity, of which he shall keep 
 an account in a book, specifying the respective uses 
 for which the several sums are intended ; and shall 
 disburse the same in such manner as the grand lodge 
 or other proper authority shall direct, and produce 
 his accounts of receijjts and disbursements before 
 every regular communication, or when called for by 
 the board of general purposes ; and these accounts 
 shall be annually audited bv the said board, who 
 shall make their report thereon at the annual 
 communication in July. 
 
 OF GRAND REGISTRAR. 
 
 1. The grand registrar shall be elected and invested 
 at the annual coniinunication. 
 
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 2. He shall have the custody of the seals of the 
 grand lodge, and shall affix, or may authorize the 
 grand secretary to affix the same to all patents, 
 warrants, certificates, and other documents issued by 
 an thority of the grand lodge, together with such as 
 the grand master, in conformity with the laws and 
 regulations of the grand lodge, may direct. 
 
 3. The grand master may, by a written document, 
 direct the grand registrar to take charge of any 
 district for which there is not a district deputy grand 
 master ; and he shall thereby be empowered to 
 perform all the functions of a district deputy grand 
 master. 
 
 OF GRAND SECRETARY. 
 
 1. The grand secretary shall be elected and invested 
 at the annual communication. 
 
 2. The grand secretary is to sign and certify all 
 instruments from the grand lodge, under seal or 
 otherwise ; to issue summonses for all meetings of the 
 grand lodge, board of general purposes, and of any 
 committee of which he shall be directed by the 
 grand master or grand lodge, and to attend and take 
 minutes of their proceedings ; to receive the returns 
 from the several lodges, and enter them in the books 
 of the grand lodge, and duly report the same at each 
 annual communication of the grand lodge ; to 
 transmit to all lodges the proceedings of every 
 communication or other meeting of grand lodge, and 
 all such other papers and documents as may be 
 ordered, either by the grand master, the grand lodge, 
 or board of general purposes ; to notify all lodges, 
 annually, of all expelled, restored, suspended or 
 excluded members for the year ; to furnish the district 
 deputy grand masters and board of general purposes 
 
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 with all proper documents and information that they 
 may require; to receive all petitions, memorials, &c., 
 and to lay them before the grand master, or other 
 proper authority ; to attend the grand master or board 
 of general purposes, and to take to him or them any 
 books or papers he or they may direct ; to conduct 
 the correspondence of the grand lodge ; to receive, 
 credit and record all monies of the grand lodge, and 
 pay over the same without delay to the grand 
 treasurer, and annually report the amount received, 
 and generally to do all such things as heretofore have 
 or should have been done, by a grand secretary. 
 
 OF GRAND DEACONS. 
 
 1. The grand deacons are to be appointed by the 
 grand master on the day of his installation. 
 
 2. If the grand deacons be absent, the grand 
 master or presiding officer may appoint any members 
 of grand lodge to officiate pro tempore. 
 
 OP GRAND SUPERINTENDENT OF WORKS, GRAND DIRECTOR OF 
 CEREMONIES, ASSISTANT GRAND SECRETARY, ASSISTANT 
 GRAND DIRECTOR OF CEREMONIES, GRAND SWORD BEARER, 
 GRAND ORGANIST, ASSISTANT GRAND ORGANIST, GRAND 
 PURSUIVANT, GRAND STEWARDS, GRAND STANDARD 
 BEARERS, AND GRAND TYLER. 
 
 1. The grand superintendent of works, director of 
 ceremonies, assistant secretary, assistant director of 
 ceremonies, sword bearer, organist, assistant organist, 
 and pursuivant, stewards and standard bearers, are 
 to be appointed annually by the grand master, on the 
 day of his installation. They are to attend all 
 communications and other meetings of the grand 
 lodge. 
 
 2. The grand superintendent of works ought to be 
 
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 a brother well skilled in the science of geometry and 
 architecture. He is to advise with the grand master 
 on all plans of buildings or edifices undertaken by the 
 grand lodge, and furnish plans and estimates for the 
 same; he is to superintend their construction, and see 
 that they are conformable to the plans approved by 
 the grand master and the grand lodge; he is to 
 suggest improvements where necessary, in all the 
 edifices of the grand lodge, and on the first meeting 
 in every year, report on the state of repair or 
 dilapidation of such edifices, and make such further 
 reports, from time to time, as he may deem expedient. 
 
 ^ 3. The grand director of ceremonies^ in addition to 
 his other duties, has the* care, during the session of 
 grand lodge, of the regalia, clothing, insignia, and 
 jewels belonging to the grand lodge. 
 
 4. The grand pursuivant shall preserve order in 
 the porch at every meeting of the grand lodge, and, 
 with the assistance of the brethren nominated for 
 attendance there, see that none except those that are 
 (qualified, and who have their proper clothing and 
 jewels, and have signed their names to the accustomed 
 papers, and are, in all respects, entitled to admission, 
 be admitted. 
 
 5. Twelve grand stewards shall be annually ap- 
 pointed, for the regulation of grand festivals, under the 
 direction of the grand master. They shall also assist 
 in conducting the arrangements made for the 
 communications and other meetings of the grand 
 lodge. 
 
 6. Grand standard hearers may be appointed by the 
 grand master as the occasion may require. They 
 must be master mason% and are to carry the standards 
 of the strand lodere. and errand master on all errand 
 ceremonies. They are not, however, by their 
 
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 BOARD OF GENERAL PURPOSES. 
 
 appointment, members of the grand lodfro, nor firo 
 they to wear the clothing of a grand officer. 
 
 7. Any grand officer, entitled to have a standard, 
 may whenever it shall be necessary, appoint a standard 
 bearer, who must be a master mason. 
 
 8. The grand tyler is to be elected by an open vote, 
 at the annual communication. 
 
 9. The grand tyler is to attend all meetings of the 
 grand lodge, assist in the arrangements, and see that 
 none be admitted but those properly entitled. 
 
 10. If any grand tyler shall officiate, or attend at 
 any meeting or pretended lodge of masons not being 
 regularly constituted, or not acknowledging tlie 
 authority of the grand master, or not (conforming 
 to the laws of the grand lodge, he shall thereby be 
 rendered incapable of ever after being a tyler or 
 attendant on a lodge, and be excluded the benefit of 
 the general charity. 
 
 OF BOARD OF GENERAL PURPOSES. 
 
 1. The board shall consist of the grand master, 
 deputy grand master, who shall be ex-offiolo, president 
 of the board ; the district deputy grand master of each 
 masonic district, the two grand wardens, and twenty 
 other members, ten of whom shall be appointed by 
 the grand master,^ and the remaining ten shall be 
 elected by the grand lodge ; the wliole twenty to be 
 selected from among the actual masters and past 
 masters of the lodges. Members thus appointed and 
 elected shall hold office for two years. Not more 
 than one half of such appointed or elected members 
 are to be past masters atthetimeofsuchai)pointment 
 or election, nor can more tl||n two members of the 
 
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 but this shall not disqualify any past master, being a 
 
BOARD OF OENEBAL PURPOSKS. 
 
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 flubscribing member and master of another lodge, 
 from being elected for and representing the lodge of 
 which he is worshipful master. Onehalfthe members, 
 both appointed and elected, who have served for two 
 years, as hereinbefore provided, must ^o out of office 
 at each annual communication. Ketiring members 
 are eligible for re-appointment or re-election. 
 
 2. The board shall annually elect one of its members 
 to be vice-president. 
 
 3. The names of the several brethren intended to 
 be put in nomination as members of the board, (five 
 of whom are to be elected at each annual communi- 
 cation,) are to be delivered in writing to the grand 
 secretary, on the first day of the assembling of grand 
 lodge in annual communication, in order that all 
 names so to be proposed may be printed in a list, a 
 copy of which shall be delivered to each member 
 of the grand lodge, previous to the election. The 
 balloting lists are subsequently to be collected by 
 scrutineers, as hereinbefore provided. 
 
 4:. If the president, vice-president, or any other 
 member of the board die or be removed, the vacancy 
 shall be thus filled up ; if one appointed by the grand 
 master, then his successor shall be appointed by the 
 grand master ; but if one elected by the grand lodge, 
 then by ballot of the board of general purposes at its 
 next meeting. Notice of such election shall be given 
 in the summons issued for the next meeting of the 
 board. 
 
 5. Should the president and vice-president be 
 absent from any meeting of the board, the brother 
 highest in rank and seniority shall preside. 
 
 6. There shall be h^fcyearly meetings of the board, 
 one of such meetings^eing held at least one day 
 before the annual communication of the grand lodge, 
 
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 BOARD OF GENERAL PURPOSES. 
 
 at the place appointed for holding the meeting of 
 grand lodge. It may be adjourned for further 
 consideration of the business before it, and may also 
 be convened at other times, by command of the grand 
 master or the president, 
 
 Y. Five members shall constitute a board, and may 
 proceed to business, except in the decision of masonic 
 complaints, for which purpose at least seven members 
 must by present. All questions shall be decided by 
 a majority of votes, the presiding officer, in a case of 
 equality, having a second vote. 
 
 8. The board has authority to hear and determine 
 all subjects of masonic complaint, or irregularity 
 respecting lodges or individual masons, when regularly 
 brought before it. It may proceed to admonition, 
 fine or suspension, according to the laws ; and its 
 decision shall be final, unless an appeal be made to 
 the grand lodge. ^ Notice of any such intended appeal 
 shall^ be given in writing to the grand secretary, 
 within fourteen days of the receipt by the lodge, or 
 brother, of the decision of the board of general 
 purposes on the case. But should any case be of so 
 flagrant a nature as to require the erasure of a lodge, 
 or the^ expulsion of a brother, the board shall m^e 
 a special report thereon to the grand lodge. 
 
 9. The board may summon any lodge or brother 
 to attend it, and to produce the warrant, books, papers 
 and accounts of the lodge, or the certificate of the 
 brother. If such lodge or brother do not comply, 
 nor give sufiicient reasons for non-compliance, a 
 peremptory summons shall be issued ; and in case of 
 contumacy, the lodge or brother shall be suspended, 
 and the proceedings notifiedJj the grand lodge. 
 
 10. When the board has investigated and decided 
 a any case which in its judgment requires admonition, 
 
BOARD OF GENERAL PURPOSES. 
 
 39 
 
 fine or suspension, the fact alleged as the offence shall 
 be fully stated in the minute, shall be declared proved, 
 the law relating thereto quoted, and the decision 
 recorded and acted upon. 
 
 11. In case of any charge or complaint affecting a 
 member of the board, or a lodge to which he belongs, 
 such member shall withdraw whilst the board 
 considers its decision. 
 
 12. The members of the board shall be in masonic 
 clothing when they proceed to the investigation of 
 any charge or complaint. 
 
 13. The board shall have charge of the finances of 
 the grand lodge, examine all demands upon it, and, 
 when found correct, shall order the grand treasurer 
 to discharge them. 
 
 14. The board shall have full power to inspect all 
 books and papers relating to the accounts of the grand 
 lodge, and to give orders for any alterations that may 
 be considered desirable. 
 
 15. The board may summon the grand treasurer, 
 grand registrar, grand secretary, or other officer or 
 brother having possession of any books, papers, 
 documents or accounts belonging to the grand lodge 
 to attend the board, and the board may give such 
 directions as may be deemed necessary regarding 
 
 them. 
 
 16. The books of the grand lodge shall be closed on 
 the thirty-first day of December in each year, and at the 
 first meeting of the board thereafter, the account and 
 balance sheet, together with a list of the contributions, 
 a statament of funds in hand, and of all property 
 belonging to grand lodge, shall be presented and 
 audited; after which ^ they shall be printed and 
 transmitted to each lodge. 
 
 IT. The board has the direction of every thing 
 
40 
 
 BOARD OF GENERAL PURPOSES. 
 
 relating to the buildings and furniture of the grand 
 lodge, and may suggest any alterations or improve- 
 ments. 
 
 18. The board shall cause the necessary preparations 
 to be made for the communications of the grand 
 lodge, as well as for days of festivals, public 
 ceremonies, &c. It shall also give orders for all the 
 usual and ordinary articles which may be required 
 for the grand lodge ; but no extraordinary expense of 
 any kind shall be incurred, without the previous 
 sanction of grand lodge. 
 
 19. The board has likewise the care and regulation 
 of all the concerns of the grand lodge, and may 
 recommend for its adoption whatever it shall deem 
 necessary or advantageous to the welfare and good 
 government of the craft ; and may originate plans for 
 the better regulation of the grand lodge, and the 
 arrangement of its general transactions. 
 
 20. On the day preceding the meeting of grand 
 lodge, the board shall appoint three masters or past 
 masters of lodges, as a committee on credentials, who 
 shall attend within the porch of the grand lodge at 
 the annual communication,for the purpose of guarding, 
 with the assistance of the grand pursuivant, against 
 the admission of any but those who are qualified, have 
 their proper clothing and jewels, have signed their 
 names to the accustomed papers, and are in all 
 respects entitled to admission. The three brethren 
 so appointed shall be assisted by three grand stewards 
 of the year. 
 
 21. No recommendation, petition, or representation 
 of any kind, shall be received by the board, unless it 
 be in writing, and signed by the person or persons 
 
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 22. All communications from the board to the 
 
OF PRIVATE LODGES. 
 
 41 
 
 grand master, grand lodge, or other boards or 
 committees, or any private lodge or brother, shall be 
 made in writing. 
 
 23. The board shall proceed to the consideration of 
 any special matter which may be referred to it by 
 the grand master or grand lodge, in preference to 
 other business. 
 
 24r. The board may appoint sub-committees from 
 amongst its members for specific purposes, who must 
 report to the board. 
 
 25. All transactions and resolutions of the board 
 shall be entered in a minute book by the grand 
 secretary. 
 
 OF PRIVATE LODGES. 
 
 1. The officers of a lodge are the master and his two 
 wardens, with their assistants, the two deacons, 
 inner guard and tyler; to which, for the better 
 regulation of the private concerns of the lodge, are 
 to be added a treasurer and secretary. A chaplain, 
 a director of ceremonies, organist, and stewards may 
 also be added, and shall hold office until their 
 successors shall have been regularly elected or 
 appointed. 
 
 2. Every lodge shall annually elect its master, 
 wardens, chaplain, treasurer, and secretary, by ballot, 
 such master having served as warden of a warranted 
 lodge for one year, and at the next regular meeting 
 following his election, after the minutes shall have 
 been read and approved, he shall be duly installed in 
 the chair according to ancient usage. He shall then 
 appoint the deacons, the inner guard, director of 
 ceremonies, stewards, and other officers ; also, all 
 coiumittees for coxidacting the business of the lodge, 
 
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 OF PRIVATE LODGl^S. 
 
 and shall invest all the elective and appointed officers. 
 Tylers are to be chosen by an open vote of the lodge. 
 But if a lodge is desirous of investing its worshipful 
 master with the privilege of appointing the wardens 
 and secretary, it can do so by a special by-law made 
 to that effect, which must be sanctioned by two-thirds 
 of the members present, at a meeting regularly con- 
 vened for the consideration thereof. 
 
 3. Every lodge has the power of framing by-laws 
 for its own government, provided they are not 
 contrary to or inconsistent with the general regulations 
 of the grand lodge. The by-laws must be submitted 
 to the district deputy grand master, for the appro- 
 bation of tlie grand master, and when approved, a 
 fair copy must be sent to the grand secretary, and 
 also to the district deputy grand master ; and, when 
 any alteration shall be made, such alteration must in 
 like manner be submitted ; and no law or alteration 
 shall be valid until so submitted and approved. 
 
 4r. The by-laws of the lodge shall be fairly written 
 or printed in a book, and shall be delivered to the 
 master on the day of his installation, when he shall 
 solemnly pledge himself to observe and enforce them 
 during his mastership. Every brother shall also sign 
 them when he becomes a member of the lodge, as a 
 declaration of his submission to them; and every 
 member shall, at all reasonable times, have access to 
 such by-laws, which should be printed for the use of 
 the lodge and delivered to the members. 
 
 5. The master of every lodge is to cause the antient 
 charges, the reguhitions of the grand lodge relating to 
 private lodges, and the by-laws of his lodge, to be read 
 m open lodge once in every year. 
 
 6. The master is responsible that a book, or books, 
 be kept, in which the secretary shall enter the names 
 
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 of the members of the lodge, and of all persons initiated 
 or admitted therein, with the dates of their proposal, 
 admission or initiation, passing and raising; and also 
 their ages, as nearly as possible, at that time, and their 
 titles, professions, or trades, together with such 
 transactions of the lodge as are proper to be written. 
 T. The regular days of meeting of the lodge shall 
 be specified in the by-laws. 
 
 8. A lodge of emergency may, at any time,^ be 
 called by summons, giving seven clear days' notica, 
 by the authority of the master, or, in his absence, of 
 the senior warden, or in his absence, of the junior 
 warden, but on no pretence without such authority.. 
 A lodge of emergency for the purpose of attending a 
 funeral of a deceased brother, may be called at any 
 time without the ordinary seven days' notice, by the 
 worshipful master, or in his absence, by the senior 
 warden, or in his absence by the junior warden, but 
 not without such authority. The particular reason for 
 calling the lodge of emergency shall be expressed in 
 the summons, and afterwards recorded in the minute 
 book, and no business but that bo expressed shall be 
 entered upon at such meeting. No lodge has the 
 power of adjourning from day to day. 
 
 9. Every lodge shall keep a book, in which the 
 members attending at each meeting shall sign their 
 names before entering the lodge, and a similar book, 
 or a portion of the same book, for visitors, who are 
 in like manner to enter their names, masonic rank, 
 and the name of their mother lodge, or the lodge from 
 which they hail. 
 
 10. The precedency of lodges is derived from the 
 number of their warrant of constitution, as recorded 
 in the books of the grand lodge. No lodge shall be 
 acknowledged, nor any of its officers admitted into the 
 
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 OF PRIVATE LODGES; 
 
 grand lodge, nor any of its members entitled to 
 partake of the general charity or other masonio 
 privilege, unless it has been regularly constituted and 
 registered. 
 
 11. No lodge shall make a mason or admit a 
 member, without strictly complying with all the, 
 regulations enacted for the government of the craft on 
 these occasions. 
 
 12. 1^0 lodge shall, on any pretence, make more 
 than ^YG new brothers in one day, nor until they 
 have been balloted for and approved ; nor can a 
 rejected applicant for initiation be balloted for again 
 jn the same or any other lodge within twelve months 
 from the time of such rejection ; nor shall a higher, 
 degree in masonry be conferred on any brother at Sk 
 less interval than one month from his receiving a 
 previous degree, except by dispensation from the 
 grand master, nor in any case until he has passed an 
 examination in open lodge in such previous degree., 
 
 13. No lodge shall make a mason for a les8> 
 consideration than twenty dollars, nor on, any 
 pretence remit or defer the payment of any part of 
 this sum. The member who proposes any candidate 
 must be responsible to the lodge, for all the fee* 
 payable on account of his initiation. This is not to 
 extend to the making of serving brethren, who may 
 be initiated, provided that no fee or reward in such, 
 case be taken, and that a dispensation from the grand- 
 master, or the district deputy grand master, be first 
 obtained. 
 
 14. Every candidate initiated in a lodge becomes' a 
 member thereof from the date of his initiation, and is 
 liable for the regular lodge dues. 
 
 15. Every lodge must be particularly careful im 
 registering the names of the brethren initiated therein^. 
 
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OF PEIVATE LODGES. 
 
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 and also in making the returns of its members ; as no 
 person is regularly entitled to partake of the general 
 charity, unless his name be duly registered, and he 
 shall have been at least two years a contributing 
 member of a lodge. 
 
 16. To prevent injury to individuals, by their being 
 excluded the privileges of masonry, through the 
 neglect of their lodges in not registering their names, 
 any brother so circumstanced, on producing sufficient 
 proof that he has paid the full fees of his lodge, shall 
 09 capable of enjoying the full privileges of the craft. 
 B^t the offending lodge shall be reported to the grand 
 lodge, and rigorouslyproceeded against for neglecting 
 to make the proper return, and detaining monies 
 which are the property of the grand lodge, and which 
 had been paid to the lodge for specific appropriation. 
 
 17. The master is to see that all monies received or 
 paid on account of the lodge, be entered in proper 
 books by the secretary and treasurer, and that the 
 account of fees or dues received on account of, and 
 payable to the grand lodge, is kept separate and 
 distinct from the monies belonging to the private 
 fund of t!ie lodge. The accounts of the lo Jge shall 
 be audited at least once in every year, by a committee 
 appointed by the lodge. 
 
 18. Each lodge shall procure for every brother 
 initiated therein a grand lodge certificate, to be paid 
 for by the lodge. 
 
 19. No lodge or officer, or member of a lodge, 
 shall, under any circumstances, give a certificate or 
 recommendation, to enable a mason to proceed from 
 lodge to lodge as a pauper, or in an itinerant manner 
 to apply to lodges for relief. 
 
 20. No lodge shall form any public masonic 
 procession, without a dispensation from the grand 
 
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 OF PRIVATE LODGES. 
 
 master, or district deputy grand master, except in the 
 case of a funeral — wliicli shall be immediately reported 
 to the gi and secretary and the district deputy grand 
 master. 
 
 21. All lodges are particularly bound to observe 
 the same usages and customs ; every deviation, 
 therefore, from the established mode of working, is 
 highly improper, and cannot be justified or counte- 
 nanced. In order to preserve this uniformity, and 
 to cultivate a good understanding among freemasons, 
 some members of every lodge should be deputed to 
 visit the other lodges as often as may be convenient. 
 
 22. If any brother behave in such manner as to 
 disturb the harmony of the lodge, and be thrice 
 formally admonished by the master, and persist in 
 his irregular conduct, he shall be punished according 
 to the by-laws of that particular lodge, or the case 
 may be reported to higher masonic authority. 
 
 23. Every lodge has the power of suspending or 
 excluding a member for gross, immoral or infamous 
 conduct, or for non-payment of dues; but no lodge 
 shall suspend or exclude any member without giving 
 him due notice of the charge preferred, or complaint 
 made against him, and of the time appointed for its 
 consideration. He shall be at liberty to be present, 
 and be afforded every opportunity of defending 
 himself ; when the case has been investigated he shall 
 withdraw, and the votes of the brethren shall be given 
 openly. The name of every brother suspended or 
 excluded, together with the cause of his suspension 
 or exclusion, shall be sent to the grand secretary, and 
 also to the district deputy grand master.* 
 
 The term expelled is used only when a brother is removed from the craft by the 
 0zcludedor auspended only is applicable. 
 
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OF PRIVATE LODGES. 
 
 47 
 
 24. A member suspended for non-payment of dues, 
 Bhall be immediately restored by tlie lodge without 
 a fresh ballot, on payment being made of all arrears 
 owing at the time of his suspension, and of the 
 regular lodge dues for the period he was so suspended, 
 notice thereof being given to the grand secretary and 
 the district deputy grand master of the district in 
 which the lodge is situated. 
 
 25. The jewels and furniture of every lodge belong 
 to, and are the property of the master,^ wardens and 
 brethren of such lodge. Nor shall any jewel be worn 
 in a lodge other than those specified for the officers, 
 except such honorary or other jewel as shall appertain 
 to, or be consistent with, those degrees which are 
 recognized and acknowledged by the grand lodge. 
 
 26. All minutes, lists, and books of account, 
 belonging to a lodge must be produced by the master, 
 when he shall be so required by competent authority. 
 
 27. The majority of the members of a lodge, when 
 congregated, have the privilege of giving instructions 
 to the master, and wardens, or other representative, 
 before the meeting of the grand lodge ; because such 
 officers are their representatives, and are supposed to 
 speak their sentiments. 
 
 28. Each -lodge shall annually make a return to 
 the grand secretary, of the master, wardens, and 
 past masters of the lodge, including all members 
 who claim to be entitled to attend in grand lodge as 
 past masters, as having served the office of master in 
 some other lodge, specifying the lodge in which each 
 of such past masters has served the office of master ; 
 and no brother shall be permitted to attend in grand 
 lodge, unless his name shall appear in some such 
 return. 
 
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 OF PRIVATE LODGES. 
 
 29. Each lodge shall make its returns and payments 
 Bemi-annually to the grand secretary, and in case of 
 neglect for more than one year to make such returns 
 and payments, or if the lodge does not meet during 
 that period, it is liable to be erased. The master and 
 wardens, or other representative of any lodge which 
 shall have neglected for more than one year to make 
 such returns and payments to the grand lodge, are 
 thereby disqualified from attending the grand lodge, 
 or sitting upon any committee until those returns and 
 payments shall have been completed. 
 
 30. By a vote of the lodge, the dues of any 
 member in indigent circumstances may be remitted. 
 
 31. If a lodge be dissolved, its warrant and 
 records shall be delivered up to the grand master. 
 
 32. If the warrant of constitution of a lodge be sold, 
 or procured by any other means than through the 
 regular channel of petition to the grand master, such 
 warrant shall be forfeited and the lodge erased. 
 
 33. As every warranted lodge is a constituent 
 part of the grand lodge, in which assembly all the 
 power of the fraternity resides, it is clear that no other 
 authority can destroy the power granted by a 
 warrant ; if, therefore, the majority of any lodge 
 should determine to quit the lodge, the constitution, 
 or power of assembling, remains with the rest of the 
 members ; provided their number be not less than 
 seven, otherwise the warrant ceases and becomes 
 extinct; and all the authority thereby granted or 
 enjoyed shall revert to the grand lodge, together 
 with the funds and property of said lodge. 
 
 34. No lodge shall be erased or its warrant 
 declared forfeited, until the master, or in his absence, 
 the wardens, shall have been warned in writing, 'of 
 
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 49 
 
 their offence, and shall have been summoned to 
 answer to the complaint made against them. 
 
 35. If any lodge or its master and wardens, be 
 summoned to attend, or to produce its warrant, books, 
 papers or accounts, to the grand master, his deputy, 
 the district deputy grand master, or any board or 
 committee authorized by the grand lodge, and do 
 not comply, nor give sufficient reason for non- 
 compliance, a peremptory summons shall be issued ; 
 and in case of contumacy, such lodge, may be 
 suspended, and the proceeding notified to the grand 
 
 lodge. 
 
 36. A lodge offending against any law or regulation 
 of the craft, to the breach of which no specific penalty 
 is attached, shall, at the discretion of the grand 
 lodge, the grand master, the district deputy grand 
 master, or tlie board of general purposes, be subject 
 i.0 admonition or suspension, as before provided. 
 
 OF MASTERS AND WARDENS OF LODGES. 
 
 1. All preferment among masons shall be grounded 
 upon real worth and personal merit only ; therefore, 
 no brother shall be elected master of a lodge, or 
 appointed to any office therein, merely on account of 
 seniority or rank. No master elect shall assume the 
 master's chair until he shall have been regularly 
 installed, though he may, in the interim, rule the 
 lodge. It is necessary, previous to the installation 
 of the master, that his election be confirmed ; after 
 which the usual ceremonies of installation are to be 
 performed. Should the election of a master not be 
 confirmed, then a summons must be issued for the 
 following regular meeting of the lodge, setting^ forth 
 that the brethren are again to proceed to elect a 
 
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 master; and on tlie conlirmation of tliat election, at 
 the following ordinary mgeting of the lodge, the 
 installation of the master will follow. 
 
 2. Every master, l)eforc being placed in the chair, 
 shall solemnly pledge himself to observe all the 
 old-established usages and customs, and to preserve 
 the land-marks of the order, and most strictly to 
 enforce them within his own lodge. 
 
 3. The master and wardens of a lodge are enjoined 
 to visit other lodges as often as they conveniently 
 can ; m order that the same usages and customs may 
 be observed throughout the craft, and a good under- 
 standing be thereby cultivated among freemasons. 
 
 4: The master is responsible for the due observance 
 of the laws relating to private lodges, and is bound 
 to produce all books, minutes and accounts, when 
 required by any lawful authority. 
 ^ 5. If the master should die, be removed, or be 
 incapable of discharging the duties of his office, the 
 senior warden, and in the absence of the senior 
 warden, the junior warden shall act as master, in 
 smnmoning the lodge until the next election of 
 oiiicers. 
 
 6. If the master be not present, the immediate past 
 master or, if he be not present, the senior past master 
 ot the lodge, present, shall take the chair. If no past 
 master ot the lodge be present, then the senior 
 warden, or in his absence, the junior warden may 
 rule the lodge, but not confer degrees. 
 
 7. A past master of any other lodge may be invited 
 to otiiciate as master, and may confer degrees or 
 pertorin any other ceremony. 
 
 8. The master and wardens of every lodge, when 
 summoned so to do, shall attend the grand master, his 
 ^-i-"v> ''^c uiBLiici ucpuiy grana master, the grand 
 
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 lodge, or any board or committee authorized by tho 
 grand lodge ; and produce the warrant, minutes and 
 books of the lodge, under pain of suspension, and 
 being reported to the next grand lodge. 
 
 9. No warden nor other otfi(;er of a lodge can resign 
 his office ; nor can he bo removed, unless for a 
 cause which appears to the lodge to be sufficient ; but 
 if the master be dissatisfied with the conduct of any 
 of his officers, he may lay the cause of complaint 
 before the lodge; and if it shall appear to the 
 majority of the brethren present that the complaint 
 is well founded, he shall have power to displace such 
 officer, and another must be elected or appointed in 
 his place. 
 
 OF TYLERS, 
 
 1. Tlie tyler is to be chosen by the members of the 
 lodge, and may at any time be removed, for cause 
 deemed sufficient by a majority of the brethren present 
 at a regular meeting of the lodge. 
 
 2. He is to see that every member or visitor has 
 signed his name to the attendance book before 
 entering the lodge, and that he is provided with 
 proper clothing. 
 
 3. If any tyler shall officiate or attRid at any 
 meeting, or pretended lodge of masons, not being 
 regularly constituted, or not acknowledging the 
 authority of the grand master, or not conforming to 
 the laws of the grand lodge, he shall thereby be 
 rendered incapable of ever after being a tyler or 
 attendant on a lodge, and shall be excluded the 
 benefit of the general charity. 
 
 OF MEMBERS AND THEIR DUTY. 
 
 1. No brother shall be admitted a member of a 
 lodge, unless the laws of the craft relating to the 
 
52 
 
 OF MEMBERS AND THEIB DUTY. 
 
 Eroposing and admitting of candidates shall have 
 een strictly complied with. {Seeprqposing members.) 
 
 2. A brother who has been concerned in making 
 masons clandestinely, or at a lodge which is not a 
 regular lodge, or for small and unworthy consider- 
 ations, or who may assist in forming a new lodge 
 without the grand master's authority, shall not be 
 admitted as a member, nor even as a visitor, into any 
 regular lodge nor partake of the general charity, or 
 other masonic privilege, till he make due submission 
 and obtain grace. 
 
 3. No brother shall presume to print, or publish, or 
 cause to be printed or published, the proceedings of 
 any lodge, or any part thereof, or the names of the 
 persons present at such lodge, without the direction 
 of the grand master, or the district deputy grand 
 master, under pain of being expelled from the order. 
 This law is not to extend to the writing, printing, or 
 publishing of any notice or summons issued to the 
 members of a lodge, by the authority of the master, 
 or the proceedings of any festival or public meeting 
 at which persons not masons are permitted to be 
 present. 
 
 4. Any brother who shall violate the secrecy of 
 the ballot on candidates for initiation or membership, 
 by stating how he voted or intended to vote, or by 
 endeavoring to ascertain how a brother voted, or u 
 he should be aware and mention it to another brother, 
 shall render himself liable to severe masonic censure, 
 and for a second offence, to expulsion. 
 
 5. The majority of the members present at any 
 lodge, duly summoned, have an undoubted right to 
 regulate tneir own proceedings, provided that they 
 are consistent with the general laws and regulations of 
 the craft ; no inember, therefore, shall be permitted 
 
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 63 
 
 or 
 
 or 
 
 of 
 
 to enter in the minute book of his lodge, a protest 
 against any resolution or proceeding whicn may 
 have taken place, unless it shall appear to him to be 
 contrary to the laws and usages of the craft, and for 
 the purpose of complaining or appealing to a higher 
 masonic authority. 
 
 6. If any member shall be under suspension or 
 exclusion from his lodge, or shall withdraw himself 
 from it without having complied with its by-laws, or 
 with the general regulations of the craft, he shall not 
 be eligible for admission to any other lodge. 
 Whenever a member of any lodge shall resign, or 
 whenever, at a future time he may require it, he 
 shall be furnished with a certificate of his standing ; 
 and such certificate is to be produced to any other 
 lodge of which he is proposed to be admitted a 
 member, previous to the ballot being taken. 
 
 7. All differences between, or complaints, of 
 members, that cannot be accommodated privately, 
 or in some regular lodge, shall be reduced into writing 
 and delivered to the grand secretary who shall lay 
 them before the grand master, the district deputy 
 grand master, or the board of general purposes, 
 w hen all parties shall have been summoned to attend 
 thereon, and the case shall have been investigated, 
 such order and adjudication may be made as shall be 
 authorized by the by-laws and regulations of 
 masonry. 
 
 8. A mason offending against any law or regulation 
 of the craft, to the breach of which no specific penalty 
 is attached, shall, at the discretion of the grand 
 lodge, or any of its delegated authorities, be subject 
 to admonition or suspension, or by the grand lodge 
 only, to expulsion. 
 
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 OF HONORARY MEMBERS, &0. 
 
 * OF HONORARY MEMBERS. 
 
 1. A brother who may have rendered any service 
 to the craft in general, or to any particular lodge, 
 may, by a vote of the lodge, be elected an honorary 
 member of such lodge. The lodge must include 
 honorary members in its returns to grand lodge, and 
 pay to the grand lodge similar dues for such honorary 
 members as are payable for ordinary members. 
 
 2. Honorary membership does not confer the right 
 of voting in the lodge unless specially conferred 
 by an unanimous vote at the time of such election. 
 
 OF PROPOSING MEMBERS. 
 
 Great discredit and injury having been brought 
 upon our ancient and honorable fraternity, from 
 admitting members and receiving candidates without 
 due notice being given, or enquiry made into their 
 characters and qualifications ; and also, from the 
 passing and raising of masons without due 
 instruction in the respective degrees ; it is determined 
 that in future, a violation or neglect of any of the 
 following laws, shall subject the oflTending lodge to 
 erasure, because no emergency can be allowed as a 
 justification. 
 
 1. No brother shall be admitted a member of a 
 lodge without a proposition in open lodge, at a 
 regular meeting, nor until his name, occupation and 
 place of abode, as well as the name and number of 
 the lodge of which he is or was last a member, or 
 in which he was initiated, shall have been sent to all 
 the members in the summons for the next stated 
 lodge meeting, and the decision of the brethren 
 apcertained by ballot. When a lodge has ceased to 
 meei, any luriuur luuuiuui i,xicicui oLian. wc ciij^xwic s,v 
 
OF PEOP08ING MEMBEEB. 
 
 55 
 
 or 
 
 be proposed and admitted a member of another lodge, 
 on producing a certificate from the grand secretary 
 stating the fact, and specifying whether the brother 
 has been registered and his dues paid. 
 
 2. No person shall be made a mason unless he has 
 resided one year in the jurisdiction of the lodge to 
 which he seeks admission, or produces a certificate of 
 character from the nearest lodge to the place of his 
 previous residence ; nor until he has been properly 
 proposed at one regular meeting of the lodge, and a 
 committee has been appointed by the worshipful 
 master to make the necessary enquiries into the 
 character of the candidate, and his name, age, 
 addition or profession, and place of abode, shall have 
 been sent to all the members in the summons for the 
 next regular meeting, when after the committee have 
 reported to the lodge in his favor, he must be 
 balloted for, and if approved, he may be initiated in 
 the first degree of masonry ; but should the report be 
 unfavorable he shall be considered a rejected 
 candidate. 
 
 3. No lodge shall initiate a candidate whose 
 residence is nearer the jurisdiction of another lodge, 
 without the consent, by a resolution of that lodge, 
 which shall be signified in writing, unless by 
 dispensation of the grand master, except in a town 
 or city where there is more than one lodge, in which 
 case each lodge has concurrent jurisdiction. The 
 jurisdiction extends in every direction, half way to 
 the nearest lodge. 
 
 4. In case of emergency, the following alteration, 
 as to the mode of proposing a candidate, is allowed. 
 Any two members of a lodge may transmit, in writing 
 to the master, the usual declaration of anv candidate 
 whom they wish to propose, and the circumstances 
 
66 
 
 OF PROPOSmG MEMBEKB. 
 
 which cause the emergency ; and the master, if the 
 emergency be proper, shall issue a notice to every 
 member ; appoint a committee as before provided ; 
 and at the same time summon the lodge to meet at a 
 period of not less than seven clear days from the 
 issuing of the summons, for the purpose of balloting 
 for the candidate; and if the candidate be then 
 approved, he may be initiated into the first degree of 
 masonry. The master shall, previous to the ballot 
 being taken, cause the said proposition, and the 
 emergency stated, to be. recorded in the minute book 
 of the lodge. 
 
 6. lyo person under the age of twenty-one years, 
 shall be made a mason in any lodge, unless by 
 dispensation from the grand master ; nor shall any 
 dispensation suspend the operations of the law 
 requiring seven days' notice, or committee of enquiry, 
 or the ballot. Every candidate must be^ free-born, 
 and his own master, and at the time of initiation, be 
 known to be in reputable circumstances. He should 
 be a lover of the liberal arts and sciences, and have 
 made some progress in one or the other of them ; and 
 he must, previous to his initiation, subscribe his name 
 at full length, to a declaration of the following 
 import, * viz : 
 
 To the worshipful master, wardens, and brethren 
 of Lodge, No. , Canada. 
 
 I^ , of the of , in the 
 
 county of 
 
 aged years, being free by 
 
 birth, and of mature age, do declare that unbiassed by 
 
 the improper solicitation of friends, and uninfluenced 
 
 ' by mercenary or other unworthy motives, I freely and 
 
 •, Any individual who cannot write, is conaequentiy ineiigibie to 
 be admitted into the order. 
 
 
OF PBOPOsma members. 
 
 57 
 
 voluntarily offer myself a candidate for tlie mysteries 
 of masonry ; that I am prompted by a favorable 
 Opinion conceiyed of the institution, and a desire of 
 knowledge ; and that I will cheerfully conform to all 
 the ancient usages and established customs of the 
 order. 
 
 Witness my hand this 
 A.L. 68—. 
 
 Recommended by 
 
 day of 
 
 (Sig.) 
 
 6. A petition having been received, it cannot be 
 withdrawn. 
 
 7. No person shall be made a mason in, or admitted 
 a member of a lodge, if, on the ballot, two black 
 balls appear against him. Some lodges wish for no 
 such indulgence, but require the unanimous consent 
 of the members present ; the by-laws of each lodge 
 must, therefore, guide them in this respect ; but if 
 there be two black balls, such person cannot, on any 
 pretence, be admitted. 
 
 8. Every candidate shall, on his initiation, solemnly 
 promise to submit to the constitution, and to conform 
 to all the usages and regulations of the craft, 
 intimated to him in time and place convenient ; and 
 he must sign the by-laws of the lodge on his initiation, 
 a copy of which, together with a copy of the 
 constitution of grand lodge, shall then be presented 
 to him. 
 
 9. A rejected candidate cannot be balloted for in 
 the same, or any other lodge within twelve months 
 from the time of his rejection. 
 
68 
 
 OF THE LODGE SEAL, &0. 
 
 OF THE LODGE SEAL, 
 
 1. Every lodge shall have a masonic seal, to be 
 affixed to all documents proper to be issued. 
 
 2. An impression of the seal is to be sent to the 
 grand secretary, and whenever changed, an impression 
 of the new seal shall in like manner be transmitted. 
 
 LODGES OF INSTRUCTION. 
 
 1. No general lodge of instruction shall be holden, 
 unless under the sanction of a regular warranted 
 lodge or by the special license and authority of the 
 
 fraud master, or the district deputy grand master, 
 he lodge giving its sanction, and the brethren to 
 whom such license is granted, shall be answerable for 
 the proceedings of such lodge of instruction, and 
 responsible that the mode of working there adopted 
 has received the sanction of grand lodge. 
 
 2. Notice of the times and places of meeting of the 
 lodges of instruction shall be given to the grand 
 secretary. 
 
 3. Lodges of instruction shall keep a minute of all 
 brethren present at each meeting, and of brethren 
 appointed to hold office, and sucn minute shall be 
 produced when called for by the grand master, the 
 district deputy grand master, or lodge granting the 
 sanction. 
 
 4. If a lodge which has given its sanction for a 
 lodge of instruction being held under its warrant shall 
 see fit, it may at any regular meeting withdraw that 
 sanction by a resolution of the lodge, to be 
 communicated to the lodge of instruction : provided 
 that notice of the intention to withdraw the sanction 
 be inserted in the summons for that meeting. 
 
OF VISITORS, &0. 
 
 59 
 
 OF VISITORS. 
 
 1. Ko visitor shall be admitted into a lodge, unless 
 he be personally known or recommended, or well 
 vouched for ; and after due examination by one or 
 more of the brethren present, and shall have entered 
 his name, masonic rank, the name of his mother lodge, 
 or the lodge he hails from, in a book to be kept by 
 every lodge for that purpose; and during his 
 continuance in the lodge, he must be subject to the 
 by-laws of the lodge. The master of the lodge is 
 particularly bound to enforce these regulations. 
 
 2. No brother residing in the province, and not 
 affiliated with some lodge, shall be entitled to the 
 benefit of the benevolent fund for himself or family, 
 nor to masonic burial, nor to take part in any masonic 
 ceremony, public or private, nor be entitled to ^ any 
 masonic privilege whatever, nor can he be permitted 
 to visit any one lodge in the town or place where he 
 resides more than once during his secession from the 
 craft. 
 
 The attention of the brethren is particularly called to the exercise 
 of the greatest caution in vouching for brethrea 
 
 OF CERTIFICATES. 
 
 1. Every brother shall be entitled to a grand lodge 
 certificate, immediately upon being registered in the 
 books of the grand lodge, for which certificate the 
 lodge shall pay two dollars. Each lodge, therefore, 
 when it makes a return of the masons whom it has 
 initiated, shall, in addition to the register fee, make a 
 remittance of the money for the certificates. 
 
 2. Every brother to whom a grand lodge certificate 
 is granted must sign his name on the margin thereof, 
 or it will not be valid. This should be done in the 
 
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 OF PUBLIC PROOESSIONS. 
 
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 presence of the worshipful master or the secretary of 
 
 the lodge. 
 
 3. ISTo brother shall obtain a grand lodge certificate 
 if he shall have been admitted to more than one 
 degree of masonry on the same day, or at a shorter 
 interval than one month from his receiving a previous 
 degree, unless by dispensation from the grand master. 
 
 4. Every return or other document upon which a 
 grand lodge certificate is to be issued, must specify 
 not only the date of initiation but also the days on 
 which the brother was advanced to the second and 
 third degrees. 
 
 6. All applications for grand lodge certificates 
 must be made to the grand secretary; and if the 
 name of the brother wishing for the certificate has 
 not previously been registered, the money payable on 
 registration must be transmitted at the same time, as 
 no certificate can on any account, be issued until 
 such money has been paid. 
 
 6. No lodge shall grant a private lodge certificate 
 to a brother, except for the purpose of enabling him 
 to obtain a grand lodge certificate, in which case such 
 certificate shall be specifically addressed to the grand 
 secretary, and except also such certificates as may be 
 required by the laws of the grand lodge, or called for 
 by any of its committees, or issued to a member on 
 retirement or exclusion from a lodge for the purpose of 
 evidence of standing. Nor shall a lodge, under any 
 pretence, make a charge for a private lodge 
 certificate. 
 
 OF PUBLIC PROCESSIONS. 
 
 1. No public procession shall on any pretence be 
 allowed, without the permission of the grand master 
 
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 OF APPliAL. 
 
 61 
 
 or district deputy grand master, except a masonic 
 funeral, the urgency of which will not admit ol tne 
 delay necessary to communicate with the grand 
 master or the district deputy grand maste?. bucH 
 proceeding shall be immediately reported by the 
 master of the lodge to the grand master, through the 
 grand secretary, and to the district deputy grand 
 Til aster 
 
 2 If any brother shall attend as a mason, clothed 
 in any of the jewels or badges of the craft, at any- 
 public procession, except a masonic funeral, witliout 
 the permission of the grand master, or distnct deputy 
 grand master, he shall be rendered incapable ot ever 
 tfter being an officer of a lodge, and also be excluded 
 the benefit of the general charity. And if any lodge 
 shall so offend, it shall stand suspended until the 
 o-rand lodge shall determine thereon. 
 
 OF APPEAL. 
 
 1. As the grand lodge, when congregated, is a 
 representation of every individual member of the 
 fraternity, it necessarily possesses a supreme superin- 
 tending authority, and the power of finally deciding 
 on every case which concerns the interest of the cratt. 
 Any lodge or brother, therefore, who may teel 
 aggrieved by the decision of any other masonic 
 authority or jurisdiction, may appeal to the grand 
 lodge against such decision. The appeal must be 
 male in writing, specifying the particular grievance 
 complained of, and be transmitted to the grand 
 secretary. A notice and copy of the appeal must also 
 be sent by the appellant to the party agamst whose 
 decisioii the appeax is 
 
 
62 
 
 OF FEES. 
 
 2. Notice of all appeals must be given in writing 
 to the grand secretary within fourteen days from the 
 receipt of the decision appealed against, in proper and 
 respectful language. 
 
 'fees. 
 
 The following shall be the fees payable to the grand 
 lodge : — 
 
 For granting a new warrant, thirty dollars. 
 
 For a dispensation for a new lodge, twenty dollars. 
 
 For a warrant of confirmation, ten dollars. 
 
 For a new warrant, in case of loss by fire or 
 otherwise, properly certified, ten dollars. 
 
 For a dispensation to initiate a candidate under 
 twenty-one years of age, twenty dollars. 
 
 For a dispensation to confer any degree in less time 
 than one month, twenty dollars. 
 
 For a dispensation to initiate a person from without 
 the jurisdiction of a lodge, ten dollars. 
 
 For a dispensation for any public procession, one 
 dollar. 
 
 For a grand lodge certificate, two dollars. 
 For every person initiated in a lodge, one dollar 
 registration fee. 
 
 For every entered apprentice or fellow-craft joining 
 from without the jurisdiction, one dollar and fifty- 
 cents. 
 
 For every master mason joining from another lodge, 
 fifty cents. ^ ' 
 
 ^ For every master mason joining from without the 
 jurisdiction, one dollar. 
 
 Every member of each lodge shall pay toward the 
 lujvi iv^ giauu iuugu purposes, mxy cents per annum. 
 
 
OF REGALIA, &0. 
 
 68 
 
 A dispensation to pass or raise sea-going mariners, 
 initiated in lodges at the ports of Quebec or Montreal, 
 at a less interval of time than one month, must be 
 obtained of the grand master, and the dispensat'an to 
 be issued without charge. 
 
 OP REGALIA. 
 
 The following masonic clothing and insignia shall 
 be worn by the craft ; and no brother shall, on any 
 pretence, be admitted into the grand lodge, or any 
 subordinate lodge, without his proper clothing. 
 
 No honorary or other jewel or emblem shall be 
 worn in the grand lodge, or any subordinate lodge, 
 which shall not appertain to, v^r be consistent with 
 those degrees which are recognized and acknowledged 
 by the grand lodge. 
 
 JEWELS. 
 
 The grandmaster The compasses extended to 
 
 45°, with the segment of 
 a circle at the points and 
 a gold plate included, on 
 which is to be repre- 
 sented an eye irradiated 
 within a triangle also 
 irradiated. 
 
 Fast grand masters A similar jewel, without 
 
 the gold plate. 
 
 Deputy grand master. . . .The compasses and square, 
 
 united, with alive-pointed 
 star in the centre. 
 
 Past deputy grand master.The compasses and square 
 
 only. 
 
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 64 OF JEWELS. 
 
 District dep. gramd mmter!^^ compasses and square, 
 
 unitedjwith afive-pointod 
 star in the centre, the 
 whole to be placed within 
 a circle, on which the 
 name of the district is to 
 be engraved. 
 
 Past district deputy grand 
 
 masters The same, omitting the five 
 
 pointed star in the centre. 
 
 Grand senior wa/rden . . . .The level. 
 
 Grand junior wa/rden The plumb. 
 
 Grand chaplains A book on a triangle. 
 
 Grand treasurer A chased key. 
 
 Grand registrar A scroll. 
 
 Grand secretary Oross-pens, with a tie. 
 
 Grand deacons Dove and olive-branch. 
 
 Grand superintendent of 
 works A semi-circle protractor. 
 
 Grarid director of ceremo- 
 nies Cross-rods. 
 
 Assistant ditto Cross-rods. 
 
 Grand sword hearer Cross-swords. 
 
 Grand organist A lyre. 
 
 Gra/nd pursuivant Arms of the grand lodge, 
 
 with rod and sword 
 crossed. 
 
 The jewels of the grand chaplain, treasurer, 
 registrar, secretary, senior deacon, superintendent of 
 works, director of ceremonies, sword bearer, organist 
 and pursuivant, are to be within a circle with an 
 embossed wreath composed of a sprig of acacia and an 
 ear of corn; and of the grand junior deacon, assistant 
 grand secretarvj assistant grand director of ceremonies, 
 
square, 
 )ointod 
 re, the 
 within 
 ch the 
 ct is to 
 
 :ho five 
 centre. 
 
 le. 
 
 le. 
 ich. 
 
 Lctor. 
 
 lodge, 
 sword 
 
 lasurer, 
 lent of 
 rganist 
 dth an 
 and an 
 3si8tant 
 nonies. 
 
 OF JEWELS. 66 
 
 and assistant grand organist, to be similar to those of 
 their senior aud superior officers, the wreath on tho 
 band being omitted. 
 
 The jewel of a grand steward of the grand lodge, 
 is a cornucopia between the legs of a pair of 
 compasses, extended upon an irradiated gold nlate, 
 within a circle, on which is engraven, "grand lodge 
 of ancient free and accepted masons of Canada." 
 
 Grand tyler The sword in a circle, on 
 
 which is engraven " the 
 grand lodge of Canada, 
 grand tyler." 
 
 All the above jewels to be of gold or gilt. 
 
 Masters of lodges The square. 
 
 Past masters The square and the diagram 
 
 of the4:Tthprob. 1st book 
 of Euclid, engraven on 
 a silver plate, pendant 
 within it. 
 
 Senior warden The level. 
 
 Jy/nior warden The plumb. 
 
 Chaplain A book on a triangle. 
 
 Treasurer The key. 
 
 Secretary The cross-pens. 
 
 Deacons The dove. 
 
 Director of ceremonies . . .The cross-rods. 
 
 Organist The lyre. 
 
 Inner guard The cross-swords. 
 
 Steward The cornucopia. 
 
 Tyler The sword. 
 
 All the above jewels to be of silver. 
 
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66 
 
 OF OOLLABS, &0. 
 
 i 
 
 COLLARS. 
 
 Of lodges To be light-blue ribbon 
 
 four inches broad: if 
 silver chain be used it 
 must be placed over 
 the-light blue ribbon. 
 
 Of the grand lodge To be of garter-blue ribbon 
 
 four inches broad and 
 bound with gold lace. 
 The grand stewards of the year to wear collars of 
 
 crimson four inches broad, bound with silver lace. 
 All past grand officers, except past grand masters 
 
 (who are entitled to wear chains,) to wear the collars 
 
 of their late offices, but without the pendant jewel — 
 
 a similar but smaller jewel in enamel, being worn on 
 
 the breast. 
 
 APRONS. 
 
 Entered apprentice A plain white lamb-skin, 
 
 from fourteen to sixteen 
 inches wide, twelve to 
 fourteen inches deep; — 
 square at bottom and 
 without ornament; white 
 strings. 
 
 Fellow-crafo A plain white lamb-skin, 
 
 similar to that of the en- 
 tered apprentice, with the 
 addition only of two sky- 
 blue rosettes at the bottom 
 
 Master mason. 
 
 The same, with sky-blue 
 lininff and edging,one and 
 a-half inch deep, and an 
 additional rosette on the 
 
OF APRONS. 
 
 67 
 
 fall or jSap, and silver 
 tassels. No other color or 
 ornament shall be allowed 
 except to officers and past 
 officers of lodges, who may 
 have the emblems of their 
 office in silver or white 
 in the centre of the apron. 
 The masters <md jpast 
 
 masters of lodges, To wear, in lieu and in the 
 
 place of the three rosettes 
 on the master's apron, 
 perpendicular lines upon 
 horizontal lines, thereby 
 forming three several sets 
 of two right angles ; the 
 length of the horizontal 
 lines to be two inches and 
 a-half each, and of the 
 perpendicular lines one 
 men; these emblems to 
 be of ribbon, half ar, mch 
 broad, and of the same 
 color as the lining and 
 edging of the apron, or 
 of silver. If grand offir 
 cers, similar emblems, of 
 •garter-blue or gold. 
 Qra/ad stewards^ present 
 and past Aprons of the same dimen- 
 sions, lined with crimson, 
 edging of the same color, 
 three and a-half inches, 
 bound with silver, and 
 silver tassels. 
 
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 68 
 
 OF APEONS. 
 
 Orand officers of the grand 
 lodge^ present and past . Aprons of the same dimen- 
 sions, lined with garter- 
 blue edging of the same 
 color, three and a half 
 inches, bound with gold, 
 and gold tassels, with the 
 emblems of their offices, 
 in gold or blue, in the 
 centre. 
 The apron of the district deputy grand masters to 
 have the emblem of their office in gold embroidery, 
 in the centre, and the acacia and seven eared wheat 
 embroidered on the edging, one on each side. 
 
 The apron of the deputy grand master to have the 
 emblem of his office in gold embroidery in the centre, 
 and the pomegranate and the lotus alternately 
 embroidered in gold on the edging. 
 
 The apron of the grand master is ornamented with 
 the blazing sun embroidered in gold in the centre, on 
 the edging the pomegranate and lotus with the seven 
 eared wheat at each corner, and also on the fall ; all 
 in gold embroidery ; the fringe of gold bullion. 
 
 In the grand lodge and on all occasions where the 
 grand officers appear in their official capacities, they 
 shall wear the jfollowing regalia : 
 
 Grand master Chain over blue collar, 
 
 gauntlets and apron, all 
 bound and embroidered, 
 and jewel. 
 
 Deputy grand master Chain over blue collar, 
 
 gauntlets and apron, all 
 bound and embroidered, 
 
 ai.l.\A JXjW Kii.. 
 
OF OONSTirDTING A NEW LODGE. 
 
 69 
 
 District dej>. grand master. .Blue collar, gauntlets, 
 
 apron, all bound and 
 embroidered, and jewel. 
 Senior and junior grand 
 wardens^ chaplain^ trea- 
 surer, registrar, secretary. .Bhie collar, gauntlets, 
 
 apron, all bound, and 
 jewel. 
 
 All other grand officers Blue collar and apron, all 
 
 bound, and jewel. 
 
 OP CONSTITUTING A NEW LODGE. 
 
 Every application for a warrant to hold a new lodge 
 must be by petition to the grand master, signed by at 
 least seven regularly registered masons; and the 
 lodges to which they formerly belonged must be 
 specified. The petition must be recommended by the 
 nearest lodge, and be transmitted to the district 
 deputy grand master, who is to forward it, with his 
 recommendation or opinion thereon, to the grand 
 secretary, to be submitted to the grand master. K 
 theprayer of the petition be granted, the grand master 
 may issue a dispensation, authorizing the brethren to 
 meet as a lodge, until a warrant of constitution shall 
 be granted by the grand lodge. 
 
 The following is the form of the petition :— 
 
 To the M. W. grand master of the fraternity of 
 ancient free and accepted masons of Canada : 
 
 We, the undersigned, being regular registered 
 masons of the lodges mentioned against our respective 
 «« i^»^:rin» 4-Vip rjrrkai-korifvnf thft ftraft at heart, are 
 
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 TO 
 
 OF CONSTITUTING A NEW LODGE. 
 
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 anxious to exert our best endeavors to promote and 
 diffuse the genuine principles of the art ; and, for the 
 conveniency of our respective dwellings and other 
 good reasons, we are desirous of forming a new lodge 
 
 to be named ; in consequence of this desire, we 
 
 pray for a warrant of constitution, empowering us to 
 
 jmeet as a regular lodge, at , in the county of , 
 
 on the of every month, and there to discharge the 
 
 » duties of masonry, in a constitutional manner, 
 according to the forms of the order and the laws of 
 the grand lodge : and we have nominated and do 
 recommend brother [A.B.] to be the first master, 
 brother [CD.] to be the first senior warden, and 
 brother [E.F.] to be the first junior warden of the 
 Baid lodge. The prayer of this petition being granted, 
 'We promise strict obedience to the commands of the 
 grand master and the laws and regulations of the 
 grand lodge. 
 
 In order to avoid irregularities, every new lodge 
 •should be solemnly constituted by the grand master, 
 with his deputy and wardens ; or in the absence of 
 'the grand master, by his deputy, or the district deputy 
 grand master of that district, who shall choose some 
 master of a lodge to assist him. If both these officers 
 be absent, the grand master may appoint some other 
 grand officer or master of a lodge to act as deputy 
 pro tempore. 
 
 The following is the manner of constituting a new 
 lodge, according to the ancient usages of m.^ sons ; — 
 
 A lodge is duly formed, and, after prayer, an ode 
 in honor of masonry is sung. The grand master is 
 then informed by the secretary, that the brethren 
 
 S resent desire to be formed into a new lodge, &c.,&c. 
 he warrant or charter of constitutio 
 
 
OP OONBTTTUTING A NEW LODGE. 
 
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 The minutes of the lodge, while under dispensation, are 
 likewise read, and,being approved, are declared regular 
 and valid, and signed by the grand master. The grand 
 master then enquires if the brethren approve of the 
 officers who are nominated in the warrant to preside 
 over them. This being signified in masonic form, an 
 oration on the nature and design of the institntion m 
 • delivered. The lodge is then consecrated, according 
 to ceremonies proper and usual on those occasion, 
 but not proper to be written ; and the grand master 
 constitutes the lodge in ancient form. 
 
 The candidates, or the new master and wardens, 
 being yet among the brethren, the grand master asks 
 his deputy if he hath examined them, and found the 
 candidate-master well skilled in the noble science and 
 royal art, and duly instructed in our mysteries, &c. 
 The deputy answering in the affirmative, he shall {hj 
 the grand master's order) take the candidate from 
 among his fellows, and present him to the grand 
 master saying, "most worshipful grand master, I 
 present this my worthy brother to be installed master 
 of the lodge, whom I know to be of good morals and 
 great skill, true and trusty, and a lover of the whole 
 fraternity wheresoever dispersed over the face of the 
 earth." 
 
 Then the grand master, placing the candidate upon 
 his left hand,having asked and obtained the unanimous 
 consent of all the brethren, shall saj; : " I appoint you 
 the master of this lodge, not doubting your capacity 
 and care to preserve the cement of the lodge, ' &c., 
 with some other expressions that are proper and usual 
 on that occasion, but not proper to be written. 
 
 Upon this the deputy shall rehearse the charges 
 and regulations of a master, and the grand master 
 jshali ask the candidate saying: " Do you submit to 
 
72 
 
 OF OONSTITUnNG A NEW LODGE. 
 
 
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 these charges and promise to uphold these regulations 
 as naasters have done in all ages ?" The candidate, 
 signifying his cordial submission thereto, the grand 
 master shall by certain significant ceremonies and 
 ancient usages, install him, and present him with the 
 book of constitution, the lodge-book, and the 
 instruments of his ofiice, not altogether, but one after 
 another ; and, after each of them, the grand master or 
 his deputy, shall rehearse the short and pithy charge 
 that is suitable to the thing presented. 
 
 After this, the members of this new lodge, bowing 
 all together to the grand master, shall return him 
 thanks, and immediately do their homage to their 
 new master, and signify their promise of subjection 
 and obedience to him, by the usual congratulation. 
 
 The deputy and the grand wardens, and any other 
 brethren present, that are not members of the new 
 lodge, shall next congratulate the new master ; and 
 he shall return his becoming acknowledgment to the 
 grand master first, and to the rest in their order. 
 
 Then the grand master desires the new master to 
 enter immediately upon- the exercise of his office, in 
 naming his wardens ; and the new master, calling 
 forth the two brothers, presents them to the grand 
 master for his approbation. That being granted, the 
 senior or junior grand warden, or some brother for 
 him, shall rehearse the charges of wardens ; and the 
 candidates being soleiiirdy asked by the no^^" master, 
 shall signify their submission thereunto. 
 
 Upon which, the new master, presenting Hi&m with 
 the instruments of their office, shall, in due torm, 
 induct them in their proper places; and the bi ^'hren 
 shall signify their obedience to the new wardens by 
 the usual congratulation. The other' elected officers 
 
OF PUBLIC CEREMONIES. 
 
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 of the lodge, and those appointed, are then invested 
 
 in ancient form. .-11,11 
 
 The lodge, being thus completely constituted, shall 
 be registered in the grand master's book, and by his 
 order notified to the other lodges. 
 
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 i 
 
 CEREMONY OF LAYING A FOUNDATION STONE, &C., BY THE 
 
 M. W. GRAND MASTER. 
 
 The grand lodge having been opened, at a convenient 
 place, and the necessary directions and instructions 
 given, it is called off. The brethren being in their 
 proper clothing and jewels, and wearing white gloves, 
 the procession moves in the following order, viz. : 
 Two tylers with drawn swords. 
 Music. 
 Brethren not members of any lodge, two and two. 
 The lodges according to their numbers, 
 juniors going first. 
 Architect, or builder, with the plans. 
 'A cornucopia with corn, borne ^ 
 Grand by the master of a lodge, 
 
 steward ] Two ewers with wine and oil, 
 [ borne by masters of lodges. 
 Grand pursuivant. 
 Grand organist. 
 Assistant grand director of ceremonies. 
 Grand director of ceremonies. 
 Grand superintendent of works, with the plate bearing 
 
 the inscription. 
 Past grand sword bearers. 
 Past grand, deacons. 
 Grand secretary, with book of constitution, on a 
 
 Grand 
 " steward 
 
 
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 OF PUBUO 0BEEM0NIB8. 
 
 ■« 
 
 Fast grand registrars. 
 
 Grand registrar, with his bag. 
 
 Past grand treasurers. 
 
 Grand treasurer, bearing a phial containing the coin 
 
 f to be deposited in the stone. 
 
 Past grand wardens. 
 
 Past district deputy grand masters. 
 
 District deputy grand masters. 
 
 Past deputy grand masters. 
 
 Past grand masters. 
 
 Visitors of distinction. 
 
 The Corinthian light, borne by the master of a lodge. 
 
 The column of G. J.W. borne by the master of a lodge. 
 
 The G J.W. with the plumb rule. 
 
 atS.| Banner of the grand lodge. } ^g-^,. 
 
 The doric light, borne by the master of a lodgiv. 
 The column of G.S.W. borne by the master of a lodge. 
 
 The G.S.W. with the level, ^he G. J. deacon. 
 
 Grand j The grand chaplain, bearing ) Grand 
 
 steward. | the sacred law on a cushion. J steward. 
 
 Deputy grand master with square. 
 
 The ionic light, borne by the master of a lodge. 
 
 A past grand master or other brother of eminence, 
 
 bearing the mallefc. 
 
 Grand ( The standard of the grand ) Grand 
 
 steward. ( master. J steward'. 
 
 Grand sword bearer. 
 
 The most worshipful grand master, ^j^^ q g ^^^^ 
 
 Two grand stewards. 
 Grand tyler. 
 
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 spot the procession halts, the brethren open to the 
 right and left, face inwards, so as to leave room for 
 the grand master to pass up the centre, he being 
 preceded by his standard, and sword bearer— the 
 grand officers and brethren following in succession 
 from the rear, so as to invert the order of procession. 
 The grand master having arrived at his station on a 
 platform, an ode is sung or music played (previously 
 arranged.) The stone being prepared and the plate 
 with the proper inscription, the upper part of the 
 stone is raised by an engine, the grand chaplain 
 repeats a prayer. The inscription on the plate to be 
 deposited in the stone will then be read, and the grand 
 treasurer having, by the grand master's command, 
 deposited on the plate various coins of the present 
 reign, the cement is laid on the lower stone, and the 
 upper one is let down slowly, solemn music playing. 
 Being properly placed, the grand master descends to 
 the stone, proves that it is properly adjusted, by the 
 plumb rule, level and square, which are successively 
 delivered to him, by the grand junior warden, grand 
 senior warden, and deputy ^rand master ; after which 
 the architect or builder delivers to him the mallet, 
 with which the grand master gives three knocks. 
 The grand master then delivers to the architect or 
 builder the several implements for his use. The plan 
 and elevation of the building are presented by the 
 grand superintendent of the works, to the grand 
 master for his inspection, who, having approved them 
 delivers them to the architect for his guidance. The 
 grand master re-ascends the platform, music playing. 
 An oration suitable to the occasion, is delivered. 
 Some money for the workmen is placed on the stone, 
 by the grand treasurer. 
 
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 If the- building be for a cbari tabic institution, a 
 voluntary subscription is made in aid of its funds. 
 
 The procession then returns to the place from whence 
 it Bet out, and the lodge is closed. 
 
 THE FUNERAL SERVICE. 
 
 The brethren being assembled at a lodge room^ the 
 lodge is opened in the first degree^ and the 
 worshipful master having stated the object of the 
 meeting^ the brethren proceed to the room where the 
 body of the deceased lies, where the service is 
 commenced as follows, the brethren standing to 
 order. 
 
 Worshipful master. — What man is he that liveth 
 and shall not see death ? Shall he deliver his soul 
 from the hand of the grave ? 
 
 Response by the brethren. — Man walketh in a vain 
 shadow, he heapeth up riches and cannot tell who 
 shall gather them. 
 
 TT.ilf. — ^When he dieth he shall carry nothing 
 away, his glory shall not descend after him. 
 
 Response. — Naked came he into the world and 
 naked he must return ; the Lord gave and the Lord 
 hath taken away^ blessed be the name of the Lord. 
 
 W. M. — "Where now is our departed brother ? 
 
 Response. — He dwelleth in night, he sojourn eth in 
 darkness. 
 
 W.M. — Can we offer no precious offering to 
 redeem our lost brother ? 
 
 Response. — We have not the ransom. The place 
 
 NoTiL — No brother bolow the decree dT a master masoxx is entitled 
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 that knew him once shall know him now no more for 
 ever. 
 
 W.M. — Shall his name be lost upon earth ? 
 
 Response. — We will record it in our hearts, we will 
 treasure it in our memories, he shall live in the exorcise 
 of his virtues. 
 
 TT. jr.— He hath fulfilled his earthly destiny. May 
 we all live the life of the righteous that our last end 
 may be like his. 
 
 Response, — God is our God for ever and ever, be 
 He our guide even unto death. 
 
 W.M. — I heard a voice from heaven saying unto 
 me, write, from henceforth, blessed are the dead which 
 die in the Lord, even so saith the spirit, for they shall 
 rest from their labors. 
 
 The worshipful master here receives the roll from 
 the secretary^ and inscribes upon it the name, age, 
 <md masonic rank of the deceased. 
 
 W. M. — Almighty Father, in thy hands we leave 
 with humble submission the soul of our departed 
 brother. 
 
 Response. — ^The will of God is accomplished. — 
 Amen. 
 
 The worshipful master am^d brethren give the gra/nd 
 honors, all repeating — So mote it be. 
 
 W. M. — Most gracious God, great architect of the 
 universe, author of all good and giver of all mercy, 
 pour down we implore thee thy blessings upon us, and 
 grant that the solemnity of this occasion may bind us 
 yet closer together in the ties of brotherly love. May 
 the present instance of mortality forcibly remind us 
 all of our approaching and inevitable destiny, and 
 weaning our affections from the things of this world, 
 fix them more devotedly on thee our only sure refuge 
 
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 in the hour of need, and grant, O God, that when the 
 awful summons shall arrive for us to quit our 
 transitory lodge on earth, the light which is from 
 above shall disi)el the gloomy darkness of death, and 
 that departing hence v/ith faith in our redeemer, in a 
 full hope of a resurrection, and in charity with all 
 men, we may, through thy favor, be admitted to thy 
 celestial lodge on high, to partake in peaceful re-union 
 with the souls of our departed brethren, the mysterious 
 and unspeakable happiness of thine everlasting 
 kingdom. 
 Sesponse. — So mote it be. 
 
 The procession is then formed. The different lodges 
 rank according to seniority .^the junior preceding^ each 
 lodge forms one division, and the following order is 
 observed^ the brethren walking together two and 
 two : — 
 
 The tyler with drawn sword. 
 
 Two stewards with white wands. 
 
 The brethren two and two, 
 
 the junior preceding. 
 
 The inner guard, with sword. 
 
 Senior and junior deacons with wands. 
 
 Secretary and treasurer. 
 
 Senior and junior wardens. 
 
 Past masters. 
 
 The worshipful master. 
 
 Royal arch masons. 
 
 The lodge to which deceased belonged in the following 
 
 order, all the members having sprigs of evergreens 
 
 i in their hands. 
 
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 The tyler with drawn sword. 
 
 Stewards with white wands. 
 
 Members of the lodge two and two, 
 
 the junior preceding. 
 
 The inner guard, with sword. 
 
 Director of ceremonies and organist. 
 
 Tlie senior and junior deacons, with wands. 
 
 The secretary with roll, and the treasurer with badge 
 
 of office. 
 
 The junior warden, with the plumb-rule, and the 
 
 senior warden with level. 
 
 The past master with badge of office.^ 
 
 The volume of the sacred law, on a cushion, 
 
 covered with black crape, 
 
 borne by the oldest member of the lodge. 
 
 The worshipful master with the gavel. 
 
 Two stewards, with wands. 
 
 Chaplain, or officiating clergyman. 
 
 The coffin, 
 
 with the regalia of the deceased thereon. 
 
 The pall borne by six or eight brethren. 
 
 Chief mourners. 
 
 When the procession arrives within a projper 
 distance of the gra/ve^ the hrethren wilVJialt am^d open 
 out right and left^ and face inwards to allow the 
 latter part of the procession to pass hetween them m 
 the following order: 
 
 Chaplain, or officiating clergyman. 
 
 Coffin. 
 
 Mourners. 
 
 Stewards. 
 
 "Worshipful master, and members of deceased's lodge 
 
 in the reverse of their previous order. 
 
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 The other lodges following, their order, and the order 
 of their members being also reversed. 
 
 On arriving at the grave, the brethren form a circle round 
 it, the clergy and officers of deceased's lodge taJce their station 
 at the head, the mourners at the foot The regalia is taJcen 
 from the coffin ly the senior deacon. The clergyman 
 concludes the funeral service of the church to which deceased 
 belonged, after which the worshipful master proceeds as 
 follows : 
 
 W. M. — My brethren, we are again called upon by 
 a most solemn admonition to regard the uncertainty 
 of human life, the immutable certainty of death and 
 the vanity of all earthly pursuits — decrepitude and 
 decajr are written on every living thing — weakness 
 and imperfection are the incidents of our fallen 
 condition — the damp, dark, grave is our destiny and 
 our doom — the cradle and the coffin stand in juxta- 
 position, and as soon as we begin to live, that 
 moment do we also begin to die. What an eloquent 
 commentary is here exhibited on the instability of 
 every human pursuit, and how touchingly does it 
 echo the sad sentiment of that great preacher, who 
 wrote^ for our perpetual warning the immortal text, 
 " vanity of vanities, all is vanity." 
 
 The last sad offices paid to the dead are but useful 
 as lectures to the living — from them we are to derive 
 instruction, and consider every solemnity of this kind 
 as a summons to prepare for our approaching 
 dissolution; but notwithstanding the various mementos 
 of mortality we meet in our daily progress, and 
 notwithstanding that death has established his empire 
 ovb- all the work of nature, yet through some 
 PTjr^ccountable infatuation we willfully forget that we 
 are all born to die. We go on from one desio-n to 
 another, add hope to hope,"and lay out plans for the 
 
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 employment of many years until we are suddenly 
 alarmed by the approach of death, when we least 
 expect him, and at an hour which we probably may 
 have considered the meridian of our existence. 
 
 What are all the externals of human dignity — the 
 power of wealth, the dreams of ambition, the pride 
 of intellect, the charms of beauty — when nature has 
 paid her just debt. Fix your eyes on the last scene 
 and view humanity stripped of its dazzling 
 meretricious ornaments, and exposed in its natural 
 meanness, and you will be convincedof the futility of 
 those empty delusions. In the grave all fallacies are 
 detected, all ranks are levelled, and all distinctions 
 are swept away. 
 
 While we drop a sympathetic tear over the grave 
 of our departed brother, let us cast around his foibles, 
 whatever they may have been, the broad mantle of 
 a mason's charity, and let us cheerfully render to his 
 memory the praise to which his virtues have entitled 
 him. Suffer the apologies of human nature to plead 
 in his behalf. Perfection on earth has never been 
 attained, the wisest as well as the best of men have 
 erred. His meritorious actions it is our duty to 
 imitate, and from his weakness we ought to derive 
 instruction. 
 
 W.M. — My brethren, may we be all true and 
 faithful to each other, and may we live and die in 
 brotherly love. 
 
 Response. — So mote it be. 
 
 W.M. — May we profess what is good, and always 
 act agreeably with our professions. 
 
 Response. — So mote it be. 
 
 W. Jfef.— May the Lord bless us and keep us ; may 
 the Lord be gracious unto us, and grant that our good 
 intentions mav be crowned with success. 
 
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 Besponse.So mote it be. 
 
 TT.if.— Glory be to God in the highest ; on earth, 
 peace, and good will towards men. 
 
 Response.— ^o mote it be, now, henceforth, and for 
 evermore. Amen. 
 
 The secretary will then advance and deposit the roll 
 in the grave with the usual ceremonies. 
 
 F.Zlf. — Fi'cnd and brother, we bid thee a long, a 
 last farewell. Thou art at rest from thy labors ; may 
 it be in iioly peace. 
 
 Eesvonoe: —Amen. So mote it be. 
 
 The senior deacon then hands the worshipful master 
 
 the apron. 
 
 TT. J[f.— The lambskin apron of a mason is more 
 ancient than the golden fleece or roman eagle, and 
 more honorable than the star and garter or any other 
 ^.'der in existence, being the badge of innocence and 
 the bond of friendship. 
 
 The master then deposits it m the grame. 
 
 -||7.j|f.__.The emblem now deposited in the grave 
 of our deceased brother reminds us of the universal 
 dominion of death, and that the wealth of the world 
 cannot purchase our release ; nor the strong arm of 
 friendship, nor the virtue of innocence^ can prevent 
 his coming. 
 
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 MASONIC FUNERAL HYMNS. 
 
 Deep sorrow now pervades eacb heart, 
 
 And grief our bosoms swell ; 
 A brother from our band departs, 
 
 In that new home to dwell. 
 No more in our loved lodge again 
 
 Shall we our brother greet ; 
 But in that lodge that's free from pain 
 
 Shall we our lost one meet. 
 Here rest in peace, thy labors o'er,— 
 
 Our brother we resign, 
 Till the Grand Master's word restore 
 To light and life divine. 
 
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 Brother, thou art gone before us ; 
 
 And thy saintly soul is flown 
 Where tears are wiped from every eye, 
 
 And sorrow is unknown ; 
 From the burthen of the flesh, 
 
 And from care and fear released. 
 Where the wicked cease from troublmg, 
 
 And the weary are at rest. 
 
 Earth to earth, and dust to dust, 
 
 The solemn priest hath said ; 
 So we lay the turf above thee now, 
 
 And we seal thy narrow bed- 
 But thy spirit, brother, soars away 
 
 Among the faithful blest, 
 Where the wicked cease from troublmg, 
 
 And the weary are at restl 
 And when the Lord shall summon us, 
 
 Whom thou hast left bebind, 
 May we untainted by th- ^vorld. 
 
 As sure a welcome f * ' 
 May each, like thee, depart in peace, 
 
 To be a glorious guest, 
 Where the wicked cease from troublmg, 
 And the weary are at rest 1 
 
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 The master holding the evergree7h in his hand, 
 
 continues : 
 
 W.M. — ^This evergreen is an emblem of our faith 
 in the immortality of the soul. By it we are reminded 
 of our high and glorious destiny beyond the world of 
 shadows, and +ha<-. there dwells within our tabernacle 
 of clay, an imperishable and immortal spirit, which 
 the grave shall never receive, and over which death 
 has no dominion. 
 
 The brethren then move round the grave in procession, and at 
 the grave each deposits his sprig of evergreen; when 
 returned to their positions, the worshipful master leads, 
 and all give the public grand honors. 
 
 W.M. — From time immemorial it has been a custom 
 among the fraternity of free and accepted masons, at 
 the request of a brother to accompany his corpse to 
 the place of interment and there to deposite his remains 
 with the usual formalities. In conformity with this 
 usage, and at the desire of our deceased brother whose 
 loss we deplore, and whose memory we revere, we 
 have assembled in the character of masons to resign 
 his body to the earth, whence it came, and to oner 
 up to his memory before the world this last tribute 
 of affection, thereby demonstrating the sincerity of 
 our esteem for him and our inviolable attachment to 
 theprinciples of our order. 
 
 With proper respect, therefore, to the established 
 customs of the country in which we live ; with due 
 deference to our superiors in church and state, and 
 with unlimited good- will to all mankind, we appear 
 here clothed as masons, and publicly express oar 
 perfect submission to the laws of the land ; our 
 unceasing devotion to peace and order, and our ardent 
 desire, as far as in our power, to promote the welfare 
 
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 nf our fellow men. Invested with tlie badges of 
 fl^ocence we humbly bow to the will of the universal 
 CenrTnJ implore\is blessing on every zealous 
 Endeavor to promote peace and good order and 
 ,1 ZSj pra/for perse'verance in the prmcaples of 
 piety and virtue. 
 
 •My brethren the great creator having ^^en pleased 
 ^■nt nf likmercv. to remove our worthy brother Irom 
 ^hecaresrd troubles of a transitory existence to a 
 
 nnr solemnities and pursue with assiduity tne secret 
 netfonir order,lring.the Bhort sp^^ aUott J 
 to our present existence ; wisely and ^iseiully empwy 
 mir time in the reciprocal exchange of kind and 
 friend acs, and mutvW Promote ourown wetfare 
 and happiness, and the weF',re and happiness of all 
 mankind. 
 
 T Pt the present example of our mortality excite our 
 
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 dS and th&ctlnsof a virtuous life, yield our 
 oKmfort and consolation. Thus our expectations 
 on y comiori au summoned unprepwed 
 
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 to whom the secrets of all hearts are known, and from 
 whose dread tribunal no cnlprit can escape. 
 
 Hesponse. — So mote it be. 
 
 W.M. — Almighty and most merciful God, in 
 whom we live and move and have our being, and 
 before whom all men must hereafter appear, to render 
 an account of the deeds done in the body, we do most 
 earnestly beseech thee, as we now surround the grave 
 of our departed brother, deeply to impress upon our 
 minds the solemnities of this day. May we ever 
 remember that in the midst of life we are in death, 
 and so live and act our separate parts that we may 
 have no cause for repentance, when the hour of our 
 departure is at hand. 
 
 And oh, gracious father, vouchsafe us we pray thee, 
 thy divine assistance to redeem our misspent time, 
 and in the discharge of the duties thou hast assigned 
 us in the erection of our moral edifice ; may we 
 have wisdom from on high to direct us ; strength 
 commensurate with our task to support us, and the 
 beauty of holiness to adorn and render all our 
 performances acceptable in thy sight; and at last, 
 when the gavel of death shall call us from our labors, 
 we may obtain a blessed and everlasting rest in that 
 spiritual edifice not made with hands, eternal in the 
 heavens. 
 
 MesponGe,—-A.-niQTi. So mote it be. 
 
 The procession vnll then re-form in the first order, and 
 return to the lodge rooM, where, when the proper forms are 
 gone through , the worshipful master will address the brethren 
 on the proceedings of the day, and the lodge will he closed. 
 
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 INVOCATION, FIEST DEGBBB. 
 
 VoTTOHSAFE thine aid, Almighty Father and supreme 
 Ivernor of the universe, to this our prebent 
 f onvontion, and grant that this candidate for masonry 
 Zy so dedieatetnd devote his life to thy service as 
 ^become a true and faithful brother among us. 
 Endow Mm with acompetency of thy divine wisdom 
 that assisted by the secrets of this our masonic art, 
 KS be ttetetter enabled to display ^e beauties 
 of true godliness, to the honor and glory of thy holy 
 name. — So mote it ie. 
 
 INVOCATION, — SECOND DEORBE, 
 
 We supplicate the continuance of thine aid, O merciful 
 God on behalf of ourselves and of him who kneels 
 Ke ?hee. May the work begun in ^Vr name bo 
 continued to thy glory, and ever more fabl. hed n us, 
 by obedience to thy holy precepts,-*So ruote tt U. 
 
 INVOCATION,— THIRD DEOREB. 
 
 Aianc-iTY and Eternal Being, the glorious architect 
 and ruler of the universe, at whose creative hat all 
 things first were made, we, the frail creatures of thy 
 providence, humbly implore thee to pour down on 
 this convocation assembled in thy holy name, the 
 
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 continual dew of thy blessings ; more especially we 
 beseech thee, to impart thy grace to this thy servant, 
 who offers himself a candidate to partake with us the 
 mysterious secrets of a master mason ; endue him with 
 such fortitude that in the hour of trial he fail not : but 
 pass him safely under thy protection through the 
 valley of the shadow of death, that he may finally 
 arise from the tomb of transgression, to shine as the 
 stars; for ever and ever. — So mote it he. 
 
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 CHARGE TO THE NEWLY INITIATED CANDIDATE. 
 
 As you have now passed through the ceremonies of 
 your initiation, allow mf^ to congratulate you on being 
 admitted a member of our ancient and honorable 
 society. Ancient, as having subsisted from time 
 immemorial, and honorable because, by a natural 
 tendency it conduces to make all those honorable 
 who are strictly obedient to its precepts. ^ Indeed, no 
 institution can boast a more solid foundation than that 
 on which freemasonry rests — the practice of social 
 and moral virtue, and to so high an eminence has its 
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 thought it derogatory from their dignity to exchange 
 the Sceptre for the gavel; have patronized our 
 mysteries, and have joined our assemblies. As a 
 mason, I would first recommend to your most serious 
 contcinplation the volume of the sacred Jaw, charging 
 you to consider it the unerring standard of truth and 
 fustice, and to regulate your acttions by the divine 
 precepts which it contains. Therein you will be 
 taught the important duty you owe to God, to your 
 neighbor, an^ to yourself. To God, by never 
 meStioning His name but with that awe and reverence 
 wbich are due from the creature to his creator, by 
 imploring His aid on all your lawful andertakmgs, and 
 by looking up to Him in every emergency ior comfort 
 and support; to your neighbor, by actmg with him 
 on the square, by rendering him every kind oflice 
 which justice or mercy may reqmre, by relieving his 
 distresses, by soothing his afflictions and by doing to 
 him, as, in similar cases, you would wish he should 
 do unto you ; and to yourself, by such a prudent and 
 well-regulated course of discipline as mj , best conduce 
 to the" preservation of your corporeal and mental 
 faculties in their fullest energy ; thereby enablmg 
 you to exert those talents wherewith God has blest 
 you, as well as to his glory as to the welfare of your 
 fellow creatures. . . 
 
 As a citizen of the world, I am next to enjoin jrou 
 to be exemplary in the discharge of your civil duties, 
 by never proposing, or at all countenancing, any act 
 that may have a tendency to subvert the peace and 
 good order of society ; by paying due obedience to tne 
 laws of any state which may for a time become^ the 
 place of your residence or afford you its protection ; 
 and, aboVe all, by never losing sight of the allegiance 
 due to the Sovereign of your native land; ever 
 
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 remembering that nature has implanted in your 
 breast a sacred and indissoluble attachment to that 
 country from which you derived your birth and infant 
 
 nurture. ^ , , . 
 
 As an individual, T am further to recommend the 
 practice of every domestic as well as public virtue. 
 Let prudence direct you ; temperance chasten you ; 
 fortitude support you; and justice be the guide of 
 all your actions, nnd be especially careful to maintain, 
 in their fullest 8plendor,those truly masonic ornaments, 
 benevolence and charity. 
 
 Still, however, as a mason there are other excellencies 
 of character to which your attention maybe peculiarly 
 and forcibly directed ; among the foremost of these 
 e^^YG secrecy, Jidelity and obedience. ^ 
 
 Secrecy may be said to consist in the inviolable 
 adherence to the obligations you have entered into, 
 nevor improperly to reveal any of those masonic 
 secrets which have now been, or may at any future 
 time be, entrusted to your x.eeping, and cautiously to 
 shun all occasions which might inadvertently lead 
 
 you so to do. 11- 
 
 Your fidelity must be exemplified by a strict- 
 observance of the constitutions of the fraternity ; by 
 adhering to the ancient landmarks of the order ; by 
 never attempting to extort, or otherwise unduly obtain 
 the secrets of a superior degree, and by refraining to 
 recommend any one to a participation of our secrets, 
 unless you have strong grounds to believe that, by a 
 similar fidelity, he will ultimately reflect honor on 
 
 our choice. - 
 
 So must your ohedience be proved by a close 
 conformity to our laws and regulations ; by prompt 
 attention to all signs and summonses ; by^ modest 
 and correct demeanor whilst in the lodge; oy 
 
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 exhort you to dedicate yourself to such pursuits as 
 
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 to tlie society of which you have been tins day 
 
 idiScd a member; to demote your loi-re hours 
 
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 of your attainment, a,.d without neglectmg the 
 
 ordinary duties of your station, to consider yourself 
 
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 ''"Som the very commendable attention which you 
 appear to have given to this charge, I am led to hope 
 ttmt yon will duly appreciate the excellence of 
 fi^emlsonry, and ir^print indelibly on your nnnd the 
 sacred dictates of <r't/A, of honor and ot mrtue. 
 
 CHARGE TO THE NEWLY PASSED CANDIDATE. 
 
 Broffer.-Being advanced to the second degree of 
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 The internal and not the external qualifications ot_a 
 man are what masonry regards. As you increase in 
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 interconree. It is unnecessary for me to recapitulate 
 the duties whi(di, as a mason, you are now bound to 
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 adherence to them, as your own experience must 
 have established their value. It may be sufficient to 
 observe, tliat as your past behavior and regular 
 deportment have merited the honor which we have 
 conferred, in your new (character it is expected that 
 you will not only conform to the principles of the 
 order, but steadily persevere in the practice of 
 every virtue. The study of the liberal arts, 
 that valuable branch of education which tends so 
 effectually to polish and adorn the mind, is earnestly 
 recommended to your consideration, — especially 
 geometry, which is established as the basis'of our art. 
 [Geometry, ormasonry, originally synonymous terms, 
 is of a divine and moral nature, enriched with the 
 most useful knowledge, so that while it proves the 
 wonierful properties of nature, it demonstrates the 
 more important truths of morality.] 
 
 As the solemnity of our ceremonies requires a serious 
 deportment, you are to be particularly attentive to 
 your behavior at our regular assemblies. You are to 
 preserve our ancient usages and customs cacred and 
 inviolable, and induce others, by your example, to 
 hold them in due veneration. 
 
 The laws and regulations of the order you are 
 strenuously to support and maintain. You are not to 
 palliate or aggravate the offences of the brethren ; 
 but, in the decision of every trespass against our rules 
 judge with candor, admonish with friendship, and 
 reprehend with mercy. 
 
 As a craftsman, in our private assemblies you may 
 offer your sentiments and opinions on su^-'i subjects as 
 are regularly introduced in the lecture, under the 
 superintendence of an experienced master, who will 
 guard the landmarks against encroachment. By this 
 privilege you may improve your intellectual powers; 
 
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 qualify yourself to become a useful member of society ; 
 and, like a skilful craftsman, strive to excel in what is 
 gooil and great. 
 
 You are to cncoura<re industry and reward merit; 
 supply tlie wants and relieve tlic necessities ot'brethren 
 and fellows to the utmost of your power and ability, 
 and on no account wrong them or see them wronged, 
 but apprise them of approaching danger, and 
 view their iur-erests as inse-j) arable tVom your own. 
 
 Such is the nature of your engagements, as a 
 craftsman ; and these duties you are now bound, by 
 the most sacred ties, to observe. 
 
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 en AUG B TO THE KEWLY RAISED CANDIDATE. 
 
 Brother,— Yowv zeal for the institution of free 
 masonry, the progress you have already made, and 
 your conformity to cnr general regulations, have 
 pointed you out as a fit object of esteem and tavor. 
 In the character of a master mason you are hencetorth 
 authorized to correct the c.-rors and irregularities ot 
 vour youncrer brethren, and guard them against a 
 breach of ridelity. To improve the morals and correct 
 the manners of men in society ought to be your 
 constant care. You are to inculcate universal 
 benevolence, and by the regularity of your own 
 behavior, afford the best example for the conduct ot 
 others. The ancient landmarks of the order you are 
 to preserve sacred and inviolable, and never sutler an 
 infringement of our customs, or a deviation trom 
 
 established usages. 
 
 Duty, honor and gratitude, now bind you to your 
 trust, iet no motive, therefore, ever make you swerve 
 
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 from your duty, but be true and faitliful, and imitate 
 the example of that celebrated artist, wlioin you Ijavo 
 once represented. Endeavor, in a word, to convinco 
 the world that merit has been yuiir title to our 
 privileges, and that on you our favors have not been 
 undeservedly bestowed. 
 
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 IN THE MINUTE BOOK OF PKIYATE LODGES. 
 
 OPENING LODGE. 
 
 The Lodge was opened in the First Degree, at , [giving the 
 
 hour.] 
 
 The Minutesof last Regular Meeting [and subsequent emergencies, 
 if any] were read, and, on motion, were confirmed. 
 
 REPOETS or COMMITTEES OH PETITIONS. 
 
 The Committee on the petition of Mr. , a Candidate for 
 
 Initiation, reported favorably, [or unfavorably, as the case may be.] 
 
 SEPOKTS GENERAL. 
 
 The Committee appointed to take into consideration, [here state 
 
 the subject] submitted their report, which was, on motion of Br. , 
 
 seconded by Br. , received and adopted. 
 
 PAYMENT OF ACC0TINT8. 
 
 On the motion of Br. , seconded by Br. 
 
 That the sum of $ , in full of Account for- 
 payment, as the case may be] was ordered to be paia. 
 
 -, [or in part 
 
 PROPOSAL OF CANDIDATES. 
 
 It was moved by Br. , seconded by Br. , and adopted, [or 
 
 rejected, as the case may be.] 
 
 That the appUcation of Mr. , be received and placed on the 
 
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 APPENDIX. 
 
 Minutes to be balloted for, at the next regular meeting, for initiation 
 into the mysteries of Freemasonry. 
 
 [The same Form to be used for joining members, substituting the 
 word "Br." for "Mr.," " and to become a member," in the place of 
 " for initiation," AcJ 
 
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 APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEES ON PETITI0NS.3 
 
 The Worshipful Master appointed Brs. , , and -- 
 
 Committee to make the necessary enquires on the application of. 
 for ; to report thereon at the next regular meeting. 
 
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 APPOINTMENT OP QENEBAL COMMITTEES- 
 
 The same form, only insert the specific business. 
 
 BALLOT, 
 
 The W. M. ordered the Ballot to be passed for Mr. 
 
 Candidate for initiation into the mysteries of Freemasonry, which was 
 taken, and on examination, declared in favor of [or against] the 
 Candidate, as may be. 
 
 [The same form will apply to joinmg members, usmg the term 
 •• Br." for " Mr.," and the words " to become a member," for " initia- 
 tion," &c.] 
 
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 BOABD OP TRIAL. 
 
 The W. M. appointed Brs. and , a Board of Trial, to put 
 
 the necessary questions to Mr. , a Candidate for initiation. If more 
 
 than one, state then- several names, and say " candidates." 
 
 INITIATION OP CANDIDATES. 
 
 The Board of Trial, having reported to the W, M. that the 
 Candidate had answered the necessary questions satisfactorily, and the 
 Candidate having been properly prepared, he was [or they were sever- 
 all^ 1 mitiated into the First Degree of Freemasonry. 
 
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 III. 
 
 FASSmO. 
 
 Br [or Brs.l a Candidate [or Candidates] for advancement, 
 
 was [or were] examined in open Lodge, and directed to retire. 
 
 The Lodge was opened in the Second Degree, at , [st^te the 
 
 hour.] 
 
 [No objection being made] Br. , [or Brs.] having oeen found 
 
 worthy of advancement, and having been properly prepared, he was 
 [or they were severally] passed to the second or Fellow Craft s Degree. 
 
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 BAISIKG. 
 
 Br [or Brs.] a Candidate [or Candidates] for further 
 
 advancement, 'was [or were] examined in open Lodge as to his [or 
 their] proficiency, and directed to retire. 
 
 The Lodge was then opened in the Third Degree, at . [state 
 
 the hour.] 
 
 [No objection being n-ade] Br. — [or Brs.] having been found 
 well skilled, he was [or they were severally] raised -to the third or 
 sublime degree of Master Mason. 
 
 CALLING FEOM LABOR TO REFBESHMENT. 
 
 The Lodge was called from labor to refreshment, at o'clock. 
 
 CALLING FROM REFRESHMENT TO LABOB- 
 
 The Lodge resumed labor at ■ o'clock. 
 
 CLOSING THE LODGE. 
 
 The Lodge was closed in harmony in the first degree.at o'clock, 
 
 [state the time.] 
 
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 [If opened in the Tnree Degrees, bu^- =e\vr«ii7 -u -^ - 
 
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 Second and First :" if opened in the Second Degree, say •• severally in 
 the Second and First. 
 
 Confirmed in open Lodge, [give date] A. L., 
 (Master's Signature.) {Secretary's Signature.) 
 , W. M. ^ ;sec'y. 
 
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 REGULATIONS. 
 
 For the sake of clearness and distinction, a line at least should be left 
 blank between each minute, and a marginal note made of its contents. 
 
 Each Lodge must keep a book or books, outside the lodge-room, for 
 members and visitors to enter their names as they arrive, which it is 
 the duty of the Tyler to see done before he gives notice of their being 
 present. It must be borne in mind that no visiting brother, unless he 
 be a subscribing member of some regular Lodge, has a right to visit a 
 Lodge more than once during his non-affiliation with the Craft. 
 
 Lodge Minutes are to be read on regular nights only; and after 
 having read the minutes of the previous regular meeting, those of any 
 subsequent emergency are to be read for confirmation. 
 
 Secretaries of Lodges should always keep a rough minute book— and 
 never, on any account, use slips of paper- to enter the proceedings of 
 the Lodge as they occur, and afterwards fairly copy them in the regular 
 Minute Book, to which he must actach his signature ; and when they 
 have been read and confirmed in open Lodge, the W. M. likewise signs 
 them at the left hand corner. 
 
 It is usual, on the presentment of Reports from Committees, to move 
 their reception, or their rpception and adoption. If open to discussion 
 or amendment, first move their reception, and afterward their adoption. 
 
 The Constitution declares twenty dollars ($20) the lowest fee that can 
 be charged for the Degrees of Freemasonry, which is to be paid 
 previously to the Candidate's initiation. This sum includes also the 
 fee for registering the Candidate's name in the books of the Grand 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
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 The W. M. is responsible for the fees collected on behalf of the 
 Grand Lodge, and it is his particular duty to see that the same are 
 regularly forwarded with the returns. 
 
 In all cases, and under all circumstances, the Lodge must be opened 
 in the First Degree, and in this degree all the ordinary business of the 
 Lodge is to be transacted. If a Candidate make application for the 
 Second Degree, he must undergo an examination in open Lodge in the 
 First Degree : he is then directed to retire — the Lodge is then opened 
 in the Second Degree ; and if it appear that the Candidate has made 
 suitable- proficiency, he may be passed. The same may be said with 
 reference to a Candidate for the Tliird Degree. The Candidate is 
 examined in a Lodge of Fellow-Crafts, and directed to retire. The 
 Lodge is then opened in the Third Degree. If the Candidate be found 
 worthy, he may be raised to the sublime degree of a Master Mason, 
 and the Lodges are then closed down, commencing with the Third, 
 next the Second, and lastly, the Mist. 
 
 Newly initiated Candidates are required to sign the By-Laws on the 
 night of initiation, as an evidence of their membership and a willingness 
 of obedience to the same. 
 
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INDEX. 
 
 PAOS. 
 
 Accounts of grand lodge, directions in reference to 89 
 
 — of private lodges 45 
 
 Admission of members, qualifications necessary for 61 
 
 Admonition of lodges ... 49 
 
 — of a brother in a private lodge 46 
 
 Adjourn, lodges cannot 43 
 
 Age at which a man may be made a mason 66 
 
 Ample form, when grand lodge is declared to be opened in 23 
 
 Antient charges, summary of, to be read on installation of master. . 15 
 
 — concerning God and religion 1 
 
 — of the civil magistrate, supreme and subordinate. . 7 
 
 — of Lodges 8 
 
 — of masters, wardens, fellows and apprentices 9 
 
 — of the management of the craft in working. 10 
 
 — when to be read in Lodges 42 
 
 — of behaviour, viz : 
 
 in the lodge while constituted 11 
 
 after lodge, brethren not being gone 12 
 
 when brethren meet without 8trangers,but not 
 
 in a lodge 12 
 
 in presence of strangers, not masons 13 
 
 at home and in the neighborhood 13 
 
 towards a strange brother 13 
 
 Appeals to grand lodge, form of 62 
 
 Applications to grand master, how made » 28 
 
 — for warrant to hold a new lodge 69 
 
 — for grand lodge certificate 60 
 
 Appointments to be notified to grand secretary. 47 
 
 Aprons, description of 66 
 
 Assistant grand director of ceremoniest 84 
 
 — grand secretary 84 
 
 — grand organist : > 84 
 
 Audit, grand lodge. ..... 32 
 
 — private lodges 45 
 
 Ballot for initiation or admission 44 
 
 — for members of board of general purposes 86 
 
 — for omcers of grand lodge ly 
 
 •— for officers of private lodge .41 
 
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 Ballot tor a rejected candidate, cannot be taken again within 
 
 twelve montha 44 
 
 Ballot for, two black balls exclude 5»y 
 
 — secrecy of !.'.'.*]!'. 62 
 
 Board of general purposes, of whom it consists 86 
 
 — how nominated and elected ,' * . sg 
 
 ■— to elect vice-president 37 
 
 — mode of election ',..'.'. 87 
 
 — • vacancy caused by death or removal, how to be filled up 87 
 
 — who to preside in the absence of the president and vice- 
 
 president gty 
 
 — when to meet. , 37 
 
 — how many constitute a quorum, and how questions are 
 
 to be decided 38 
 
 — authority of 38 
 
 — may summon lodge or brother to attend and produce 
 
 warrant, <fec., in case of contumacy 3^ 
 
 — how to proceed in cases requiring admonition, fine, or 
 
 suspension 88 
 
 — in case of a complaint afiecting a member or his lodge, 
 
 such member is to withdraw 39 
 
 — on what occasions members must be in masonic 
 
 clothing 89 
 
 — shall have charge of fi,nance8 39 
 
 T— may inspect books, summon oflScers, and give orJers 89 
 
 — to balance yearly accounts, which shall be printed and 
 
 transmitted to lodges 39 
 
 — has the direction as to buildings, furniture, &c. . . . ! . . 39 
 
 — to cause necessary preparations to be made for commu- 
 
 nications of grand lodge 40 
 
 — to regulate the concerns of the grand lodge 40 
 
 — may recommend measures to grand lodge and originate 
 
 plans 40 
 
 — recommendations to, must be in writing and signed. . . 40 
 
 — all communications from, to be in writing 40 
 
 — to consider first, business referred to it by grand master 
 
 or grand lodge 41 
 
 — may appoint sub-committees 41 
 
 — resolutions and transactions of, to be entered in a 
 
 minute book 41 
 
 Books to be kept by lodges , \ 42 
 
 — of lodges to be produced when required 38 
 
 Business of grand lodge, how to be conducted 26 
 
 By-laws, every lodge has power to frame .'.*.*,*.* 42 
 
INDEX 
 
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 By-laws, master to pledge himself to, on installation 60 
 
 — members to sign 6S, 42 
 
 Candidates qualiflcation of, for initiation 66 
 
 — declaration to be signed by 66 
 
 — promise to be made by, on initiation 57 
 
 — committee on character of. 66 
 
 — members proposing responsible for fees 44 
 
 — age necessary to render eligible for initiation 66 
 
 Ceremonies, grand director of 86 
 
 Ceremony of constituting a new lodge 70 
 
 — of laying a foundation stone 78 
 
 — of installing master 41, 49 
 
 Certificate, grand lodge, every registered brother to have one 46 
 
 — what shall be paid for same 69 
 
 — lodge to pay for same 69 
 
 — how to be procured 60 
 
 — must be signed by the brother receiving it 69 
 
 — who is excluded from receiving 60 
 
 — application for, how made CO 
 
 — private lodges not to grant 60 
 
 Chair of grand lodge, regulations as to : 26 
 
 — private lodges, regulations as to 60 
 
 Chaplain, grand 82 
 
 Charges, antient 42, 16 
 
 — to newly initiated candidate 88 
 
 — to newly passed brother 91 
 
 — to newly raised brothar 93 
 
 — against a brother, notice of 53 
 
 Clandestine lodges, reference to 52 
 
 — initiations 62 
 
 Clothing and insignia 63 
 
 Committee of private lodges 55 
 
 — on propositions 66, 56 
 
 Communications of grand lodge when held 23 
 
 Complaints, how to be preferred 24 
 
 — authority of board of general purposes, as to 88 
 
 Constituting a new lodge, petition for 69 
 
 — ceremony of ^ "^O 
 
 Contributions and payments to grand lodge 62 
 
 Contents, table of 5 
 
 Conspiracies may not be engaged in 8 
 
 Customs and uaagos, uuiforiiiiiy to be observed 46 
 
 Declaration to be signed by candidates 56 
 
 Degrees, time between conferring 44 
 
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 PAOE. 
 
 Deputy grand master not to be of the same section of province as 
 
 grand master 28 
 
 — may preside in lodges with the district deputy grand 
 
 master on his right 29 
 
 District deputy grand mastei to be nominated by lodges of district 29 
 >— may hear and decide on complaints 30 
 
 — may preside in lodges with the master of lodge on his 
 
 right 29 
 
 — may admonish or suspend , 80 
 
 Differences among members, made of adjusting 58 
 
 Director of ceremonies, grand lodge 86 
 
 — private, lodges 41 
 
 Dispensation to advance in less time than the regular require- 
 ments 62, 60 
 
 — to initiate candidates under 21 years of age 60 
 
 — to initiate more than five candidates in one day. ... 62, 44 
 
 — for processions 62, 60 
 
 Due form when grand lodge is opened in 23 
 
 Dues may be remitted 48 
 
 Elective ofiBcers, grand lodge 19, 22 
 
 — private lodges 41 
 
 — who are eligible for the oflSce of master of private lodges 41 
 
 — who are eligible for grand officers ,. 22 
 
 Emergency of grand lodge 28 
 
 — of private lodges 43 
 
 — for admission of candidates 65 
 
 Erasure of lodges 48 
 
 Examination for higher degrees 44 
 
 Exclusion of members 46 
 
 Expulsion of members, (note) 46 
 
 Fees in general. 62 
 
 — may be remitted. 48 
 
 — private lodges, initiation 44 
 
 — the brother proposmg responsible for 44 
 
 — to grand lodge ... 62 
 
 Finances, grand lodge, in charge of board of general purposes 89 
 
 Form, when grand lodge is opened in 23 
 
 Foundation stone, laying of by grand master 78 
 
 Freemasons, general heads of charges 6 
 
 Free-born, (see antient charges) 66 
 
 Funerals, masonic 61 
 
 — master masons only entitled to '76 
 
 Furniture of lodges , 4*7 
 
 General heads of the charge of a freemason 1 
 
 Grand master shall appoint scrutineers 18 
 
 — Bbsent from grand lodge, 28 
 
INDEX. 
 
 PAOK. 
 
 28 
 48 
 65 
 48 
 44 
 46 
 46 
 62 
 48 
 44 
 44 
 62 
 89 
 23 
 78 
 
 6 
 56 
 61 
 76 
 47 
 
 1 
 18 
 28 
 
 Grand lodge officers to be installed or invested 19. 
 
 QlAud lodge, powers of • • 
 
 " oflicers of, elected and appointed 
 
 — officers, order of rank 
 
 — title • • 
 
 Higher degree not to be conferred in less than one month. . 
 
 Honorary members, grand lodge 
 
 — private lodges, who are eligible 
 
 must p;iy grand lodge dues 
 
 24 
 
 20 
 20 
 18 
 
 44 
 
 22 
 
 64 
 64 
 
 have no vote unless specially conferred 64 
 
 Initiation, qualification for ^^ 
 
 — declaration to be signed before 56 
 
 Improper matter in memorials to grand lodge, .... 25 
 
 Indecorous or offensive behaviour 46 
 
 Initiation, propositions and ballot for ... 66 
 
 — promises to be made by candidates for • 66 
 
 — fees, on ^* 
 
 number of candidates in same day eligible for 44 
 
 In form, when grand lodge is opened 23 
 
 Insignia and clothmg, masonic 63 
 
 Installation of grand master and officers 27 
 
 of masters and wardens of private lodges 49 
 
 ' masters of private lodges cannot fill chairs, till after.. 49 
 
 — antient charges to be read to masters and assented to 
 
 prior to 
 
 Instruction, lodges of ; • 
 
 Jewels and clolliing. grand lodge, injunctions in relation to 
 
 — private lodges • 
 
 of degrees, not acknowledged by grand lodge, not to be 
 
 worn in grand lodge 
 
 Joining members, regulations as to. 
 
 Laws, power of enacting 
 
 — private lodges may make by-laws * 
 
 Lodges of emergency, grand lodge 
 
 — cannot adjourn... 
 
 — private 
 
 — of instruction 
 
 — what officers aro to be elected and appointed to 
 
 — powers of, to make by-laws 
 
 — removal of •* 
 
 — precedence of •.••*". 
 
 .— not to initiate more than five candidates in one day. . . 
 •— not to confer a liighcr degree insido of one month from 
 
 the last 4* 
 
 15 
 58 
 G3 
 65 
 
 63 
 63 
 42 
 42 
 23 
 43 
 43 
 68 
 41 
 4^ 
 31 
 43 
 44 
 
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 PAQB. 
 
 Lodges not to confer a degree without examination in open 
 
 lodge 44 
 
 — bound to receive a member, initiated therein 44 
 
 — shall not make a mason for less than $20 44 
 
 — must register every Brother in Grand Lodge Books. ... 44 
 
 — must procure a certificate for every brother initiated. . 45, 59 
 
 — cannot give a Certificate except in certain cases 45 
 
 — bound to observe estabhshcd usages 46 
 
 — can- instruct Master or Warden on vote 47 
 
 — to make returns to Grand Secretary 47 
 
 — the minority of the members of, if not less than seven, 
 
 can hold warrants 48 
 
 — constitution of new 69 
 
 — dues of, to . Grand Lodge. 62 
 
 — erasure of, not till Master or Officers are summoned. . . 48 
 
 — offending against regulation or law. ... 49 
 
 — to meet only on working days 10 
 
 — why so called 8 
 
 Lodge Seal , 68 
 
 Making Masons, regulations as to 44 
 
 Masonic Clothing and Regalia 63 
 
 — Funerals . . . , 61 
 
 — Processions 60 
 
 Masons offending against law 63 
 
 — to bo courteous towards each other 10 
 
 — should belong to a lodge 8 
 
 — who may be made such , 8, 9 
 
 Master of Lodge a member of Grand Lodge. 20 
 
 — qualification, election, and installation of. .9, 49 
 
 . — pledge, or obligation of 50 
 
 — to visit other Lodges 60 
 
 — to observe laws 60 
 
 — death, removal, or absence of 60 
 
 — to attend summons and produce warrant.. .28, 30, 38, 51 
 
 — Lodge may instruct its 47 
 
 — to see that all money that is received and paid is 
 
 accounted for 60 
 
 — to produce books of Lodge 28, 30, 38, 61 
 
 •— not to assume chair till installed 49 
 
 — not to be chosen for seniority 9, 49 
 
 Members, admission of 51 
 
 — not to attend an irregular Lodge 62 
 
 — not to hold private conversations whiU^t the lodge is at 
 
 labor, ] 11 
 
 — not to print proceedings of Lodges 62 
 
 — not to violate secrecy of ballot 62 
 
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INDEX. 
 
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 . 49 
 . 49 
 . 61 
 . 52 
 t 
 
 11 
 . 63 
 
 63 
 20 
 
 64 
 47 
 
 Members not to protest against resolutions 63 
 
 — retiring from a Lodge, rules for 63 
 
 — joining a Lodge, riiles for • . 
 
 •— of Grand Lodge, who are 
 
 •— honorary 
 
 — suspended for non-payment of dues, to be restored .... 
 
 Minutes to be kept, form of 95 
 
 Motion in Grand Lodge, notice to be given of 26 
 
 Moral law, a mason to obey ; ' 7 
 
 Names of Past Master, Master and "Wardens to be returned to 
 
 Grand Lodge .... 4t 
 
 of brethren excluded to bo sent to Grand Secretary. . . 46 
 
 — brethren excluded to be sent also to District Deputy 
 
 Grand Master 46 
 
 Neglect of Lodges to make returns, liabilities on account of 48 
 
 New Lodge, how constituted. 69 
 
 — warrant 69 
 
 Notice of motion to be given 26 
 
 Offences of Lodges and Brethren, reference to 24, 38, 48, 49 
 
 Officers of Grand Lodge and private Lodges 19, 41 
 
 — Past Grand, members of Grand Lodge , . . 20 
 
 — of private Lodges canno t resign 61 
 
 — tenure of oflBce 18 
 
 •^ when appointed . 10 
 
 Page, title , l 
 
 Past Grand Masters members of Grand Lodge 20 
 
 Past Masters, members of Grand Lodge 20 
 
 Petitions for a new Lodge 69 
 
 Procession, masonic, restrictions in reference thereto 45, 61 
 
 Proposing members. 54 
 
 Passing and raising, not without due instruction 54 
 
 Political and religious discussions not allowed 12 
 
 Plots, a mason may not be engaged in 8 
 
 Private piques not to be brought into lodge , 12 
 
 Proxy for a Lodge 20 
 
 Promise of a candidate .' , 5*7 
 
 Prayers , , , ^ gi| 
 
 Public ceremonies .*.'. ,**.*, , , ^3 
 
 Pursuivant, Grand . ...36 
 
 Quarrels not to be brought into lodge , . , , 12 
 
 Rank of grand officers 20 
 
 Recommendations to Board of General Purposes 40 
 
 Resralia descrintion of. . . a« 
 
 Registrar, Grand 82 
 
 Registration of members .'. !'.!!!! 44 
 
 Regulations for the Government of Grand Lodge*. '.!........*!!.'.* 25 
 
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 Regulations for the Government of Private Lodges 41 
 
 Religion, not to exclude • • • 
 
 Removal of Lodges. ..... . 81 
 
 Restoring of Bretliren i . . . .............;.......•••• 80 
 
 Representatives of lodges to nominate D. D. Or. M 19 
 
 Representatives in sister Grand lodges 27 
 
 Returns and payments to Grand Lodge. 23, 47 
 
 Resolution to reprint constitution • • • • • • . 3 
 
 Scrutineers Xm ballot. 19 
 
 Scrutineers for grand lodge , '...... l6 
 
 Seals of Grand Lodge and private Lodges 83, 58 
 
 Secretary, Grand;... v.-.^.. 83 
 
 — of Lodges. ... .41 
 
 Serving Brethren, initiation of. .....*...... 44 
 
 Stewards . . • ... 84, 41, *51 
 
 Summcns to Lodge or Brother 28, 80, 88, 51 
 
 Suspension of Lodge or Brother 28, 81, 38, 46 
 
 — for non-payment of dues... ..• 46 
 
 Secrecy of ballot, not to be virfated. 52 
 
 Sword Bearer, Grand ?. 3* 
 
 Standard Bearers, Grand. 86 
 
 Table of Contents » i * 8 
 
 Time allowed for appeals to be made 62 
 
 Title, grand lodge IJ 
 
 — page... * 
 
 Treasurer, of Grand Lodge and Private Lodges 82, 41 
 
 Tyler, of Grand Lodge and Private Lodges 86, 42, 61 
 
 Tylers, to be excluded general charity • 51 
 
 Uniformity of work, to observe • • • • 46 
 
 Visitors to Grand Lodge • 23 
 
 — to Private Lodges -59 
 
 VaCftDcies in Grand Lodge i... .........*. ...•• 22 
 
 r- in Private Lodges ... ou 
 
 Votes by proxy •• *'** «V k.i 
 
 — aato ; -25, 6^ 
 
 Wardens,»Grand Lodge " " ao 
 
 — Private Lodges * * * " * * * ' Jn 
 
 — cannot confer degrees 50 
 
 — cannot resign office. " * * * 69 
 
 Warrants, petitions for, Ac • • ' Jj 
 
 Warrants not transferrable. . * " * oV'«n * Va' ki 
 
 Warrant to be produced • 28, 80, 88, oi 
 
 rtr .. ^^^ - J?-!--" t- Vj-.. ~V«1»» >/ ^ fn/\i-a\ -, -- ...-••.'• Do 
 
 Work, Lodges must observe the same • ' * * * * * * JJ 
 
 Works, Grand Superintendent of • « ....... 8* 
 
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 58 
 
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