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 THE BOOK 
 
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 CONSTITUTION 
 
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 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. 
 
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 PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE GRAND LODGE 
 
 By MURRAY & CO., 
 
 STATIONERS' HALL, MONTREAL. 
 
 1871. 
 
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 The Grand Lodge having Resolved: 
 
 That a new edition of the Book of (Constitution, 
 with all necessary corrections and alterations thereto- 
 fore made by the Grand Lodge, be forthwith printed, 
 the Grand Secretary has, in accordance with that 
 resolution, superintended the publication of this 
 edition, including all corrections and alterations to the 
 present time. 
 
 
 GRi^ ND SECRETARY'S OFFICE, "» 
 
 Montreal, Ist Nov., 1870. / 
 
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 THE 
 
 CHARGES OF A FREEMASON : 
 
 EXTRACTED 
 
 FROM THE ANTIENT RECORD OF LODGES 
 THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, 
 
 FOR THE USE OF LODGES. 
 
 TO BI RIAD AT THE MAKING OF NKW BRETHREN, OR WHEN THE 
 
 MASTER SHALL ORDER IT. 
 
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THE GENERAL HEADS OF THE CHARGES 
 OF A FREEMASON, &c. 
 
 I. Of God and Religion. 
 n. Of the Civil Magistrate, supreme and subordinate. 
 
 III. Of Lodges. 
 
 IV. Of Masters, Wardens, Fellows and Apprentices. 
 
 V. 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 formed. 
 
 4. In presence of strangers, not masons. 
 
 5. At home and in your neighborhood. 
 
 6. Towards a strange brother. 
 
 VII. Antient Charges — To the Master-Elect. 
 
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REFERE.VCE TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
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 Title I 
 
 Sanction iii 
 
 The Charges of a Freemason V 
 
 The General Heads of Charges, &c vi 
 
 I. — Concerniug God and Religion 1 
 
 II. — Of the Civil Magistrate, Supreme and Subordinate. 1 
 
 III. -Of Lodges 2 
 
 17. — Of Masters, Wardens, Fellows and Apprentices... 3 
 
 V. — Of the Management of the Craft in Working 4 
 
 YI. — On Behaviour, viz. : — 
 
 ' 1. In the Lodge while constituted 5 
 
 2. Behaviour after the Lodge is over and the 
 
 Brethren not gone 6 
 
 3. Behaviour when Brethren meet without stran- 
 
 gers, but not in a Lodge formed 7 
 
 4. Behaviour in presence of strangers not Masons 7 
 
 5. Behaviour at home and in your neighborhood 7 
 
 6. Behaviour towards a strange Brother 8 
 
 Summary of the Antient Charges and Regulations 9 
 
 Constitution of the Grand Lodge 12 
 
 Regulations for the government of the Grand Lodge during 
 
 th& time of business 19 
 
 Of Grand Master 21 
 
 Of Deputy Grand Master 23 
 
 Of District Deputy Grand Master 23 
 
 Of Grand Wardens 26 
 
 Of Grand Chaplain 26 
 
 Of Grand Treasurer 26 
 
 Of Grand Registrar 27 
 
 Of Grand Secretary 27 
 
 Of Grand Deacons 28 
 
 Of Grand Director of Ceremonies, Grand Organist, Grand 
 
 Pursuivant, Grand Stewards, and Grand Tyler 28 
 
ii REFERENCE TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
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 Of Board of General Purposes 29 
 
 Of Private Lodges 34 
 
 Of Masters and Wardens of Lodges 43 
 
 Of Tylers '. . 45 
 
 Of Members and their duty 45 
 
 Of Honorary Members 47 
 
 Of Proposing Members 48 
 
 Of the Lodge Seal 51 . 
 
 Of Lodges of Instruction 52 
 
 Of Visitors 52 
 
 Of Certificates 53 
 
 Of Public Processions 54 
 
 Of Appeal 55 
 
 Of Fees 56 
 
 Of Fegalia 57 
 
 Of Jewels 57 
 
 Of Collars 60 
 
 Of Aprons 60 
 
 Of Constituting a New Lodge *. 63 
 
 Ceremony of Laying a Foundation Stone 67 
 
 The Funeral Service 70 
 
 Prayers 81 
 
 Chr.rge to the newly initiated Candidate 82 
 
 Charge to the newly passed Candidate 85 
 
 Charge to the nevdy raised Candidate 87 
 
 Appendix — Forms of Entry in Minute Book. . . . i. ir, in. iv, v. 
 Index .... i. ii' iii. iv. v . vi. vii. viii. ix. x. xi. xii. 
 
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 I.— CONCERNING GOD AND RELIGION. 
 
 
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 A MASON is obliged, by his tenure, to obey the 
 moral law, and if he rightly uijderstand 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 ] |h 
 
 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 morahty. 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. 
 
 n.— OF THE CIVIL MAGISTRATE, SUPREME 
 AND SUBORDINATE. 
 
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 A MASON is a peaceable subject to the civil powers , 
 wherever he resides or works, and is never to be |« 
 
2 ANTIENT CHARGES. 
 
 concerned in plots and conspiracies against the peace 
 and welfare of the nation, ntr to behave himself 
 undutifully to inferior magistrates. He is cheerfully 
 to conform to every lawful authority ; to uphold, on 
 every occasion, the interest of the community, and 
 zealously promote the prosperity of his own country. 
 Masonry has ever flourished in times of peace and 
 been always injured by war, bloodshed and confusion, 
 so that kings and princes in every age have been 
 much disposed to encourage the craftsmen on account 
 of their peaceableness and loyalty, whereby they 
 practically answer the cavils of their adversaries and 
 promote the honor of the fraternity. Craftsmen are 
 bound by peculiar ties to promote peace, cultivate 
 harmony, and live in concord and brotherly love. 
 
 III.— OF LODGES. 
 
 A LODGE is a place where freemasons assemble to 
 work and to instruct and improve themselves in the 
 mysteries of their antient science. In an extended 
 sense it applies to persons as well as to place ; hence 
 every regular assembly, or duly organized meeting of 
 masons is called a lodge. Every brother ought to 
 belong to some lodge and be subject to its by-laws and 
 the general regulations of the craft. A lodge may be 
 either general or particular, as will be best understood 
 by attending it, and there a knowledge of the 
 established usages and customs of the craft is alone to 
 be acquired. From antient times no master or fellow 
 could be absent from his lodge, especially when warned 
 to appear at it, without incurring a severe censure, 
 unless it appeared to the master and wardens that pure 
 necessity hindered him. - 
 
 The persons made masons or admitted members of 
 a lodge must be good and true men, free bom, and 
 
ANTIENT CHARGES. 
 
 of mature and discreet age and sound judgment, no 
 bondmen, no women, no immoral or scandalous men, 
 but of good report. 
 
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 IV.— OF MASTERS, WARDENS, FELLOWS 
 AND APPRENTICES. 
 
 All preferment among masons is grounded upon 
 real worth and personal merit onlj, 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 
 learp them in a way peculiar to this fraternity. 
 Candiu^ies may, nevertheless, know that no master 
 should take an apprentice, unless he has sufficient 
 employment for him ; and, unless he be a perfect 
 youth^ having no maim or defect in his hody^ 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 before his election, who is also 
 to be nobly born, or a gentleman of the best fashion, 
 
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 6r somo eminent scholar, or somo curious architect 
 or other artist descended of honest parents, and who 
 is of singularly great merit in the opinion of the 
 lodges. 
 
 These rulers and governors, supreme and subordi- 
 nate, of the antient lodge, are to be obeyed in their 
 respective stations by all the brethren, according to the 
 old charges and regulations, with all humility, rever- 
 ence, love and alacrity. 
 
 iV. B. — In antient times 7io brother^ however skilled 
 in the craft, was called a master-mason iintil he had 
 been elected into the chair of the Lody 
 
 v.— OF THE MANAGEMENT OF THE GRAFT 
 
 IN WORKING. ,... 
 
 All masons shall work honestly on working days 
 that they may live creditably on holy days ; and the 
 time appointed by the law of the land, or confirmed by 
 custom, shall be observed. ^ 
 
 The most expert of the foUow-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 ill 
 language, and to call each other by no disobliging 
 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 receiving their 
 wages, justly, shall be faithful to the lord, and 
 honestly finish their work, whether task or journey ; 
 
ANTIENT CHARGES. ^ 
 
 nor put the work to task that hath been accustomed to 
 journey. 
 
 None shall discover envy at tlie prosperity of a 
 brother, nor supplant h^m, or put him out of his 
 work, it he be capable it finish the same ; for no man 
 can finish another's work so much to the lord's profit, 
 unless he be thoroughly acquainted with the designs 
 and draughts of him that began it. 
 
 When a fellow-craftsman 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 abscence, 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 the 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. 
 
 YL— ON BEHAVIOUR. Viz: 
 
 • ' l.-IN THE LODGE WHILE CONSTITUTED. 
 
 ' You are not to hold private committees, or separate 
 conversation, without leave from the master, nor to 
 talk of anything impertinently or unseemly, nor 
 interrupt the master or wardens, or any brother speak- 
 
§ ANTIENT CnARQES. 
 
 ing to the master : nor behave yourself ludicrously or 
 jestingly while the lodge is engaged in what is serious 
 and solemn : nor use any unbecoming language upon 
 any pretence whatsoever : but to pay due reverence 
 to your master, wardens and fellows, and put them to 
 worship. 
 
 If any complaint be brought, the brother found 
 guilty shall stand to the award and determination of 
 the lodge, who arc the proper and competent judges 
 of all such controversies, (unless you carry them by 
 appeal to the grand lodge,) and to whom they ought 
 to be referred, unless a lord's work be hindered the 
 meanwhile, in which case a particular reference may 
 be made ; but you must never go to law about what 
 concerneth masonry, without an absolute necessity 
 apparent to the lodge. 
 
 2.-BEnAVI0UR AFTER THE LODGE IS OVER, AND THE 
 
 BRETHREN NOT GONE. 
 
 You may enjoy yourselves with innocent mirth, 
 treating one another according to ability, but avoiding 
 ill excess, or forcing any brother to eat or drink 
 beyond his inclination, or hindering him from going 
 when hi» occasions call him, or doing or saying any 
 thing oifensive, or that may forbid an easy and free 
 conversation, for that would blast our harmony, and 
 defeat our laudable purposes. Therefore no private 
 piques or quarrels must be brought within . the door 
 of the lodge, far less any quarrels about religion, or 
 nations, or state policy, we being, only as masons, of 
 the universal religion above-mentioned ; we are also 
 of all nations, tongues, kindreds and languages, and 
 are resolved against all politics, as what never yet 
 conduced to the welfare of the lodge nor ever will. 
 
ANTIENT CHARGES. 
 
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 o. -BEHAVIOUR WHEN EKETHREN MEET WITHOUT 
 STRANGERS, BUT NOT IN A LODGE FORMED. 
 
 You are to salute one another in a courteous manner 
 as you will be instructed, calling each other brother, 
 freely giving mutual instruction as shall be thought 
 expedient, without been 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 honour 
 from a man that he had before ; nay rather it adds 
 to his honour, especially if he has deserved well of the 
 brotherhood, who must give honour to whom it is due, 
 and avoid ill manners. 
 
 4. -BEHAVIOUR IN PRESENCE OF STRANGERS, NOT 
 
 MASONS. 
 
 You should 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 be 
 intimated ; and sometimes you shall divert a discourse, 
 and manage it prudently for the honour of the worship- 
 ful fraternity. 
 
 5.-BEHAVI0UR AT HOME AND IN YOUR NEIGHBOUR- 
 HOOD. 
 
 You are to act as becomes a moral and wise man ; 
 particularly not to let your family, friends, and 
 neighbours know the concerns of the lodge, &c. ; but 
 wisely to consult your own honour, 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 passed; and by avoiding 
 
ANTIENT CHARGES. 
 
 gluttony or drunkeness, that your family be not 
 neglected or injured, or you disabled from working. 
 
 6. -BEHAVIOUR TOWARDS A STRANGE BROTHER. 
 
 You are cautiously to examine him in such a method 
 as prudence shall direct you, that you may 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 yea 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 circum- 
 stances. 
 
 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 brother, but defending his character 
 and doing him all good offices, as far as is consistent 
 with your honour 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 appesJ to 
 , i the grand lodge, at the annual communication, as has 
 
 been the antient laudable conduct of our forefathers in 
 every nation ; never taking a legal course but when 
 the case cannot be otherwise decided, and patiently 
 listening to the honest and friendly advice of masters 
 and fellows when they would prevent your going to 
 
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 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 submission is 
 impracticable, they must, however, carry on their 
 process, or law-suit without wrath and rancour, (not in 
 the common way) saying or doing 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, bo mote it he. 
 
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 Summary of the Antient Charges and Regulations 
 to he read hy the Qrand Secretary^ (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 laws 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 
 honourably by all men. 
 
10 ANTIENT CHARGES. 
 
 6. You agree to hold in veneration the original 
 Fulera 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 resolutions of your brethren in general 
 lodge convened, in every case consistent with the 
 constitution 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 carriage and 
 behaviour, courteous to your brethren, and faithful to 
 your lodge. 
 
 8. You promise to respect genuine and true brethren 
 and to discountenance impostors 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 in- 
 fluence 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 of the 
 grand lodge. 
 
 . 11. You admit that it is not in the power of any 
 man, or body of men, to make innovation in the body 
 of masonry. 
 
 12. You promise a regular attendance on the com- 
 munications 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 formed 
 without permission of the grand master, and that no 
 countenance ought to be given to any irregular lodge 
 or to any person initiated therein ; and that no public 
 
ANTIENT CIIAROES. 
 
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 processions of masons clothed with the badges of the 
 order can take place without special license of the 
 grand master. 
 
 14. You admit that no person can regularly bo 
 made a freemason, or admitted a member of any lodge, 
 without previous notice and due enquiry into his cha- 
 racter ; 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 produc- 
 ing proper vouchers of his having been initiated in 
 a regular lodge. 
 
 At the conclusion, the grand master or installing 
 officer addresses the master-elect, as follows : — " Do 
 " you submit to and promise to support these charges 
 " and regulations as masters have done in all ag s,** 
 upon his answering in the affirmative, the ceremony of 
 installation proceeds . 
 
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 CONSTITUTION 
 
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 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. ' ■ '' ? 
 
 /tf The Grand Lodge of Quebec,* Ancient Free 
 AND Accepted Masons, in order to form perfect 
 fraternal union, to establish order, to insure tranquil- 
 lity, to provide for and promote the general welfare 
 of the craft, and to secure to the fraternity of Quebec 
 all the blessings of masoric privileges, do order and 
 Bstablish this constitution. 
 
 OF THE GRAND LODGE. 
 
 1. The style and title of the grand lodge shall be 
 *' The Grand Lodge of Quebec, Ancient Free and 
 Accepted Masons.'' 
 
 2. The officers of the grand lodge shall be respec- 
 tively elected or appointed, as hereinafter provided, and 
 hold their offices for one year, or until their successors 
 shall have been regularly elected or appointed. 
 
 3. The grand master, or presiding officer, at the 
 annual communication, shall appoint three scrutineers, 
 whose duty it shall be to collect the ballots for grand 
 officers, and lists of members for the board of general 
 
 * Wherever the word Quebec occurs iu this Constitution, it is 
 to be understood as meaning the Province of Quebec, unless 
 otherwise stated. 
 
THE GRAND LODGE. 
 
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 The most worshi 
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 purposes from the brethren to whom they have been 
 delivered. The scrutineers shall solemly pledge them- 
 selves to make a correct report under their hands of 
 the result of the ballot, and 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 take place at the annual communica- 
 tion, when those present shall be duly installed or 
 invested, and proclaimed in ancient form. 
 
 6. The following officers shall be elected, viz. : 
 
 By ballot of the grand lodge — 
 
 ipful the grand master. 
 
 deputy grand master, 
 grand senior warden, 
 junior warden, 
 chaplain, 
 treasurer, 
 registrar, 
 secretary. 
 
 By an open vote of the grand lodge — 
 
 The grand tylcr. 
 
 * Each lodge represeuted by its master and wardens, or by 
 proxy, shall be entitled to three votes. If represented by proxy, 
 the said proxy shall cast three votes for the lodge; if only one 
 of the officers of the lodge be present, he shall cast the three 
 votes ; if the master and senior warden be present, the master 
 shall be entitled to two votes and the senior warden to one 
 vote ; if the master and the senior and junior wardens be present, 
 each shall have one vote ; if the senior and junior wardens only, 
 be present, the senior warden shall have two votes, and the junior 
 warden one vote. Past masters of lodges, who have regularly 
 served a term of office as master of a lodge, shall be entitled to 
 one vote, N'o grand officer, past master, or member of grand 
 lodge shall be entitled to, or cast more than ouo vote, except as 
 above provided. Past masters voting as masters of lodges shall 
 not have a vote as past masters. 
 
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 By the majority of the representatives and past 
 masters of the lodges of the respective districts present 
 at the annual communication, subject to the confirma- 
 tion of the grand master — 
 
 The right worshipful the district deputy grand 
 master. 
 
 In order that all sections of the province may enjoy 
 a proper representation, no two of the four following 
 officers, viz. : the grand master, the deputy grand 
 master, the grand senior warden, and the grand junior 
 warden, shall be elected from the same district. 
 
 6. The following officers shall be appointed by the 
 grand master, viz. : 
 
 The very worshipful grand senior deacon. 
 " " " " junior deacon. 
 
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 H a 
 
 director of ceremonies. 
 
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 • " four " 
 
 organist. 
 
 pursuivant. 
 
 stewards. 
 
 7. The grand lodge shall consist of the elective and 
 appointed officers (excepting the grand tyler) men- 
 tioned 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 re- 
 turned), and all past masters (duly returned) being 
 members of a private 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 past master of the lodge, to represent 
 
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 THE GRAND LODGE. 
 
 15 
 
 their lodge, but no proxy shall bo 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. 
 
 9. The rank of officers and members of grand lodge 
 shall be as follows : 
 The grand master. 
 
 Past grand masters, according to seniority. 
 The deputy grand master. 
 Past deputy grand masters. 
 District deputy grand master, Stadacona district. ''' 
 
 ^^^ " " Montreal 
 
 ' ^ « " Bedford 
 
 « ^ \ *< " St. Francis 
 
 Past district deputy grand masters. 
 Grand senior warden. 
 
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 a 
 
 a 
 
 Past " 
 
 Grand junior warden. 
 Past « " " 
 
 Grand chaplain. 
 Past " " 
 
 Grand treasurer. 
 Past " " 
 
 Grand registrar. 
 Past '' " 
 
 Grand secretary. 
 Past " " 
 
 Grand senior deacon. 
 Past " " " 
 
 Grand junior deacon. 
 Past" « " 
 
 Grand director of ceremonies. 
 Past " « « - 
 
 Grand organist. 
 Past " 
 
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16 ^ THE GRAND LODGE. 
 
 Grand pursuivant. ' 
 
 Past " ^ 
 
 The masters, past masters, and senior and junior war- 
 dens, of private lodges, in the order of the numbers 
 of their respective lodge warrants. 
 
 10. The elective officers, except the tjler, are to be 
 chosen by ballot, and shall require a majority of all 
 the votes present. 
 
 11. No brother shall be eligible to any office in the 
 grand lodge (except that of grand chaplain or grand 
 organist), unless he has been regularly installed 
 worshipful master of a private lodge. 
 
 12. Should any vacancy occur in any office of the 
 grand lodge, the grand master shall appoint a quali- 
 fied brother to supply the place, pro tempore. 
 
 13. Brethren 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. 
 
 14. No member of the grand lodge shall attend 
 therein without his proper jewel and clothing, nor wear- 
 ing any jewel not recognized by the grand lodge. 
 
 15. Should any lodge have neglected to make its 
 returns and payments to the grand lodge for more 
 than one year, the master, wardens, or other repre- 
 sentatives 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 be permitted to attend the 
 
THE GRAND LODGE. 
 
 17 
 
 gi'and lodge as master, past master, or warden, until 
 his name and appointment shall have been duly re- 
 turned and transmitted to the grand secretary's office. 
 
 17. The annual communication of the grand lodge 
 shall be holden on the fourth Wednesday in the month 
 of September, at Montreal. 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 fiis like ab- 
 sence, the grand wardens, may summon and hold 
 grand lodges of emergency, whenever the good of 
 the craft shall, in their opinion, require it ; the par- 
 ticular 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 due form when 
 a past grand master, or the deputy presides ; at all 
 other times only in form, yet with the same authority. 
 
 20. The power of any pro tempore presiding officer 
 shall be the same as those properly belonging to the 
 office so filled by him. 
 
 21. In the grand lodge alone resides the power of 
 
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 ' 18 THE GRAND LODGE. 
 
 enacting laws and regulations for the government of 
 the craft, anl 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 par- 
 ticular 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, or any brother ex- 
 pelled, unlJil the master or officers of the lodge, or the 
 oflfending brother shall have been summoned to show 
 cause, in the grand lodge, why such sentence should 
 not be recorded and eiSbrced: such summons 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 cannot be 
 accommodated 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 
 lodge. When all the parties shall have been sum- 
 moned 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 
 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 
 
THE GRAND LODGE. 
 
 19 
 
 ide 
 of 
 
 not contain any improper matter, or any offensive or 
 indecorous language. 
 
 25. No brother below the rank 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 OP 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 inter- 
 vening grand lodge, are then to be put for confirma- 
 tion, 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 con- 
 sideration, 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 par- 
 ticular subject to the determination of the grand master. 
 When 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 be so unequal 
 as to render counting unnecessary ; but any brother 
 may demand a ballot on any question, either before or 
 
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THE GRAND LODGE. 
 
 immediately after an open vote shall have been taken. 
 
 •3. When any motion not contrary to the law shall 
 have been regularly made and seconded, it shall not 
 be competent for the grand master, or other brother 
 presiding, to refuse to put the same to the vote^ and 
 if any doubts shall arise as to the interpretation of a 
 law, the power of deciding the same shall be vested, 
 not in the chair, but in the grand lodge, on a two-thirds 
 vote of members then present. 
 
 4. All members shall keep their seats, except the 
 grand deacons, grand director of ceremonies, and grand 
 stewards, who are allowed to move about from place to 
 place, in the discharge of their duties. 
 
 5. No brother shall speak twice to the same question, 
 unless in explanation, or the mover of the main motion 
 in reply. 
 
 6. Every one who speaks shall rise, and remain 
 standing, addressing himself to the grand master ; nor 
 shall any brother presume to interrupt him, unless to 
 address the grand master to order, or the grand master 
 shall think fit to call him to order ; but after he has 
 been set right, he may proceed, if he observe due 
 order and decorum. 
 
 7. If any member shall have been twice called to 
 order for transgressing these rules, and shall neverthe- 
 less be guilty of a third offence at the same meeting, 
 the grand master may peremptorily command him to 
 leave the grand lodge for that communication. 
 
 8. Whoever shall be so unmasonic as to hiss at a 
 brother, or at what he has said, shall be solemnly ex- 
 cluded the communication, and declared incapable of 
 being a member of the grand lodge, until at another 
 
OP GRAND MASTER. 
 
 time lie publicly own his fault, and grace bo granted. 
 
 9. No motion on any new subject shall be made, 
 or any new matter entered upon after eleven o'clock 
 at night. 
 
 10. No money grants shall be made by grand lodge 
 on the last day of the communication, unless notice 
 shall have been given the day previous. 
 
 11. No notice shall be entertained for altering or 
 amending 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 amed- 
 ment proposed, having been given at the communica- 
 tion previous to that at which it is to be brought before 
 grand lodge, and no alteration or addition to the 
 constitution shall be made bmding unless supported 
 by three-fourths of the votes present. 
 
 ' OP GRAND MASTER. 
 
 1. The grand master shall, according to ancient 
 usage, be elected and installed at the annual com- 
 munication. He is then to nominate such of his 
 grand officers as it is his prerogative to appoint, who, 
 with the elective grand officers, are, if present, to be 
 thereupon installed or invested in ancient form. 
 
 2. In the temporary absence of the grand master 
 from the province, notified by him to the grand secre- 
 tary, the 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 assume the 
 functions of grand master until the next annual elec- 
 
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 22 OF GRAND MASTER. 
 
 tion ; 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 
 lodge, 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 of the 
 grand lodge, constitute any distinguished brother, who 
 may be regularly deputed from a sister grand lodge, 
 a member of the grand lodge of Quebec with such 
 rank as the grand lodge may deem to be appropriate. 
 
 4. The grand master has full authority to preside 
 in any lodge, and to order any of his grand officers to 
 attend him. His deputy is to be placed on 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, through the grand 
 secretary, 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 complied with, nor a sufficient 
 reason given for non-compliance, such summons is to be 
 repeated as a peremptory summons ; if such last sum- 
 mons be not attended to, such lodge or brother may be 
 suspended, and the proceeding notified to the grand 
 lodge. All summonses must have the grand lodge 
 seal attached. 
 

 OF DEPUTY GRAND MASTER, &C. 
 
 23 
 
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 7. The grand master shall not be applied to offi- 
 cially on any 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 com- 
 munication of the grand lodge. 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. i 
 
 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 h:3 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 pro tempore, 
 
 OF DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND MASTER. 
 
 1. The district deputy grand master, for each dis- 
 trict, shall be nominated* by the majority of the past 
 masters and representatives of the lodges of such 
 district present 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 
 not at the time master of a lodge and a resident in 
 the district for which he is appointed. 
 
 2. He may preside in every lodge he visits within 
 
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 OF DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND MASTER. 
 
 his district, with the master of the lodge on his right 
 hand. 
 
 3. It shall bo 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 
 refusal or neglect on the part of any lodge to make 
 such returns and payments, he may suspend such 
 lodge. 
 
 4. Ho may hear and determine any subject of 
 masonic complaint or irregularity, respecting lodges 
 or individual masons within his district, and may pro- 
 ceed to admonition or to suspension, until the decision 
 of the grand master shall be known thereon. A 
 minute of all such proceedings, stating the offence 
 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 of so flagrant 
 a nature, as, in the judgment of the district deputy 
 grand master, to require the erasure of 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 ; when satisfied that any brother has 
 been unjustly or illegally suspended, removed, or ex- 
 cluded 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 lodge, the lodge or brother 
 who shall refuse to comply with such order ; and shall 
 immediately report the circumstance to the grand 
 master. 
 
OF DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND MASTER. 
 
 8S 
 
 6. If the district deputy grand master shall neglect 
 to proceed on any case or business, which may bo 
 sent for his decision, within a reasonable time, the 
 application or complaint nrny bo transmitted to the 
 grand secretary. An appeal, in all cases, lies from 
 the district deputy grand master to the grand master 
 or the grand lodge. 
 
 7. The district deputy grand master may summon 
 any lodge or brother within his district 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 complied with, nor a suflBcient 
 reason given for non-compliance, a peremptory sum- 
 mons 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 hia 
 district, but not from his district into another, nor from 
 another district into his own, without the sanction of 
 the grand master. 
 
 9. He has power to grant dispensations for festivals 
 and pubjic 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 withm 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 secre- 
 
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 OF GRAND WARDENS, &C. 
 
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 tary, during pleasure but they 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 ^vardens present shall 
 act p tempore. If no past grand warden be present, 
 the grand master may direct any other member of 
 grand lodge to act as grand warden for that occ^ision. 
 
 3. The grand wardens, whenever commanded, are 
 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 aHend all com- 
 munications and other meetings of the grand lodge, 
 and there offer up solemn prayer suitable to the 
 occasion, as estabhshed by the usages of the fraternity. 
 
 OF GRAND TREASURER. 
 
 1. The grand treasurer shall be elected and invested 
 at the f^nnual communication. 
 
 2. The grand treasurer shall give a joint bond, with 
 two sureties, to the grand master and deputy grand 
 master, in such penalty and with such conditions as 
 may be deemed expedient, for the due performance 
 of his trust. ^ 
 
 3. To the grand treasurer shall be committed all 
 monies raised for the general charity, or for any other 
 
OF GRAND REGISTRAR, &C. 
 
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 vested 
 
 grand 
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 t shall 
 iresent, 
 iber of 
 !C|ision. 
 ed, are 
 ;ides in 
 ardens. 
 
 nvested 
 all corn- 
 lodge, 
 to the 
 ternity. 
 
 nvested 
 
 id, with 
 ^ graiid 
 tions as 
 )rmance 
 
 itted all 
 ly 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 receipts and disbursements before every 
 regular communication, or when called for by the 
 board of general purposes ; and these accounts shall 
 be annually audited by 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 communication. 
 
 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, war- 
 rants, certificates, and other documents issued by 
 authority of the grand lodge, together with such as the 
 grand master, in conformity with the laws and regula- 
 tions of the grand lodge, may direct. •. 
 
 OF GRAND SECRETARY. 
 
 1. Tlie grand secretary shall be elected and in- 
 vested at the annual communication. 
 
 2. The grand secretary is to sign and certify all 
 instruments from the grand lodge, under seal or other- 
 wise ; 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 
 
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28 OF GRAND DEACONS, &C. 
 
 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 with all proper documents and in- 
 formation 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 paper 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 here- 
 tofore have or should have been done, by it, 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 the 
 grand lodge to officiate pro tempore. 
 
 OF GRAND DIRECTOR OF CEREMONIES, GRAND ORGANIST, 
 GRAND PURSUIVANT, GRAND STEWARD, AND GRAND 
 TYLER. 
 
 1. The grand director of ceremonies, organist, 
 stewards and pursuivant are to be appointed annually 
 
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 GRAND DIRECTOR OF CEREMONIES, &C. Z 
 
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 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 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. 
 
 3. 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. 
 
 4. Four 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. 
 
 5. The grand tyler is to be elected by an open 
 vote at the annual communication. 
 
 6. 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. 
 
 OF BOARD OF GENERAL PURPOSES. 
 
 1. The Board shall consist of the grand master, 
 deputy grand master, who shall be ex-offieio, president 
 of the board ; the district deputy grand master of each 
 masonic district, the two grand wardens, grand treasurer, 
 and sixteen other members, eight of whom shall be 
 appointed by the grand master, and the remaining 
 
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 30 BOARD OF GENERAL PURPOSES. 
 
 eight shall be elected by the grand lodge ; the whole 
 sixteen to be selected jfrom among the actual masters 
 and past masters of the lodges. Members thus ap- 
 pointed and elected shall hold office for two years. 
 Not more than one-half of such appointed or elected 
 members are to be past masters at the time of such 
 appointment or election, nor can more than one mem- 
 ber of the same lodge be appointed or elected on the 
 same b< ird; but this shall not disqualify any past 
 master, being a subscribing member and master of 
 another lodge, from being elected for and representing 
 the lodge of which he is worshipful master. One half 
 the members, both appointed and elected, who have 
 served for two years, as hereinbefore provided, must 
 go out of office at each annual communication. Re- 
 tiring members are eligible for re-election or re-ap 
 pointment. 
 
 2. The board shall annually elect one of its mem 
 bers to be vice-president. 
 
 3. The names of the several brethren intended to 
 be put in nomination ad members of the board (four 
 of whom are to be elected at each annual communica- 
 tion), 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 ballotting 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 
 
BOARD OF GENERAL PURPOSES. 
 
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 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. 
 
 6. 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 half-yearly meetings of the board, 
 one of such meetings being held at least one day before 
 the annual communication of the grand lodge, 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. 
 
 7. 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 be 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 res- 
 pecting 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 
 
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 I 32 BOARD OF GENERAL PURPOSES. 
 
 Ill should any case be of so flagrant a nature as to require 
 
 ' i the erasure of a lodge, or the expulsion of a brother, 
 
 i the board shall make a special report thereon to the 
 
 I grand lodge. ^ 
 
 I I 9. The board may summon any lodge or brother to 
 I attend it, and to produce the warrant, books, papers 
 
 ji! and accounts of the lodge, or the certificate of the 
 
 jj! brother. If such lodge or brother do not comply nor 
 
 I i give sufficient reasons for non-compliance, a peremptory 
 
 jll summons shall be issued ; and in case of contumacy, 
 
 !;| the lodge or brother shall be suspended, and the pro- 
 
 i|| ceedings notified to the grand lodge. 
 
 i;; 10. When the board has investigated and decided 
 
 jj: on any case which in its judgment requires admonition, 
 
 III fine or suspension, the fact alleged as the ofience shall 
 III be fully stated in the minute, shall be declared proved, 
 
 the law relating thereto quoted, and the decision re- 
 corded and acted upon. 
 
 11. In case of any charge or complaint afiecting 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 give orders for any alterations that may be 
 
 n considered desirable. 
 
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BOARD OF GENERAL PURPOSES. 
 
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 grand 
 lay be 
 
 15. The board may summon the 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 August 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 statement of the funds in hand, and of all property 
 belonging to the grand lodge, shall be presented and 
 audited ; after which they shall be printed and trans- 
 mitted to each lodge. 
 
 17. The board has the direction of everything relat- 
 ing to the buildings and furniture of the grand lodge, 
 and may suggest any alterations and improvements. 
 
 18. The board shall cause the necessary prepara- 
 tions to be made for the communications of the grand 
 lodge, as well as for days of festivals, public ceremo- 
 nies, &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 recom- 
 mend 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 arrangements 
 of its general transactions. 
 
 20. On the day preceding the meeting of grand 
 
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 OF PRIVATE LODGES. 
 
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 lodge, the board shall appoint four 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. 
 
 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 
 addressing the board. 
 
 22. All communications from the board to the 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. " 
 
 24. 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. 
 
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 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 regu- 
 lation of the priva'^e concerns of the lodge, are to be 
 added a treasurer and secretary. A chaplain, a 
 
OF PRIVATE LODGES. 
 
 35. 
 
 be 
 a 
 
 director of ceremonies, organist and stewards may 
 also be added, and shall hold office until their succes- 
 sor sshall have been regularly elected or appointed. 
 
 2. Every lodge shall annually elect its master, war- 
 dens, 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 committees for 
 conducting the business of the lodge, 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 convened for the con- 
 sideration 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 approbation of 
 the 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. 
 
 4. The by-laws of the lodge shall be fairly written 
 or printed in a book, and shall be delivered to the 
 
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36 
 
 OF PRIVATE LODQES. 
 
 ,2 
 
 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 bo printed for the use of 
 the lodge and dehvered to the members. 
 
 ' 5. The master of every lodge is to cause the antient 
 charges, the regulations of the grand lodge relating to 
 private lodges, and the by-laws of his lodge, to be read 
 in open lodge once every year. 
 
 6. The master is responsible that a book, or books, 
 be kept, in which the secretary shall enter the names 
 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. 
 
 7. 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' notice, 
 by the authority of the master, or, in his absence, of 
 the senior warden, or in his absence, by 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 
 
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01 PRIVATE LODGES. 
 
 37 
 
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 nior 
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 calling the lodge of emergency shall be expressed in 
 the summons, and afterwards recorded in the minute 
 book, and no business but that so 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 names 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 
 grand lodge, nor any of iti members entitled to par- 
 take of the general charity or other masonic privileges, 
 unless it has been regularly constituted and registered. 
 
 11. No lodge shall make a mason or admit a mem- 
 ber, without strictly complying with all the regulations 
 enacted for the government of the craft on these" 
 occasions. 
 
 12. No lodge shall, on any pretence, make more 
 than five 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 in the same 
 or any other lodge within six months from the time of 
 such rejection ; nor shall a higher degree in masonry 
 be conferred on any brother at a less interval than one 
 month from his receiving a previous degree, except by 
 dispensation from the grand master, nor in any case 
 
 
 
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38 
 
 OF PRIVATE LODGES. 
 
 until lie lias passed an examination in open lodge in 
 such previous degree. 
 
 13. No lod;^o sliall make a inason for a less con- 
 sideration than twenty dollars, nor on any pretence 
 remit or defer the payment of any part of tliis sum. 
 It will bo the duty of the master to see that the candi- 
 date has paid all fees for his initiation before he pro- 
 coeds to confer the degree. 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 in 
 registering the names of the brethren initiated therein, 
 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 mem- 
 ber 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 paii the full fees of his lodge, shall be 
 capable of enjoying the full privileges of the craft. 
 But the offending lodge shall be reported to the grand 
 lodge, and rigorously proceeded 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. 
 
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OF PRIVATE LODGES. 
 
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 lecting 
 
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 17. Tho master is to see that all moiiica received or 
 paid on account of tho lodge, bo entered in proper 
 books by the secretary and treasurer, and that tho 
 account of fees or dues received on account of, and 
 payable to the grand lodge^ is kept separate and dis- 
 tinct from tho monies belonging to the jn'ivate fund of 
 tho lodge. The accounts of the lodge shall be audited 
 at least once in every year, by a committee appointed 
 by the lodge. 
 
 18. Each lodge shall procure for every brother in- 
 itiated, passed and raised therein, a grand lodge certifi- 
 cate, to be paid by the lodge. 
 
 19. No lodge or oflficer, or member of a lodge, shall, 
 under any circumstance, give a certificate or recom- 
 mendation, 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 proces- 
 sion, without a dispensation from the grand master, or 
 district deputy grand master, except in the case of a 
 funeral — which shall be immediately reported to the 
 grand 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 im- 
 proper, and cannot be justified or countenanced. In 
 order to preserve this uniformity, and to cultivate a 
 good understanding among freemasons, some member 
 of every lodge should be deputed to visit the other 
 lodges as often as may be convenient. 
 
 22. If any brother behave in such a manner as to 
 disturb the harmony of the lodge, and be thrice form- 
 ally admonished by the master, and persist in his irre- 
 
 
 

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 OP PRIVATE LODGES. 
 
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 m\ 
 
 gular 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 a 
 member for gross, immoral or infamous conduct, or 
 excluding him 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 him- 
 self; 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.* 
 
 24. A member excluded for non-payment of dues, 
 shall be immediately restored by the 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, 
 or for past or ^resent officers of grand lodge, except 
 
 * The term expelled is used only when a brother is removed 
 from the craft by the grand lodge. Upon the removal of a 
 brother from a private lodge, the term excluded or suspended 
 only is applicable. 
 
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 al of a 
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 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, belong- 
 ing 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 tho privilege of giving instructions 
 to the master and wardens, or other representatives, 
 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 have 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. 
 
 29. Each lodge shall make its returns and payments 
 semi-annually to the grand secretary, and in case of 
 neglect for more than one year to make such retuma 
 or 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 n^lected 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 due? of any member 
 in indigent circumstances may be remitted. 
 
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42 
 
 OP PRIVATE LODGES. 
 
 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 th' 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, there- 
 fore, 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 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 
 proceedmg notified to the grand lodge. 
 
OF MASTERS AND WARDENS OF LODGES. 43 
 
 86. 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 
 the board of general purposes, be subject to admonition 
 or suspension, as before provided. 
 
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 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. 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 sum- 
 mons must be issued for the following regular meeting 
 of the lodge, setting forth that the brethren are again 
 to proceed to elect a master ; and on the confirmation 
 of that election, at the following ordinary meeting of 
 the lodge, the installation of the master will follow. 
 
 2. Every master, before 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 ; 
 in order that the same usages and customs may be 
 observed throughout the craft, and a good understand- 
 ing be thereby cultivated among freemasons. 
 
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 44 
 
 OF MASTERS AND WARDENS OV LODGES. 
 
 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 in- 
 capable 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 summoning 
 the lodge until the next election of officers. 
 
 6. If the master be not present, the immediate past 
 master, or if he be not present, the senior past master 
 of the lodge, present, shall take the chair. If no past 
 master of 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 officiate as master, and may confer degrees or per- 
 form any other ceremony. 
 
 8. The master and wardens of every lodge, when 
 summoned so to do, shall attend the grand master, his 
 deputy, the district deputy grand master, the grand 
 lodge, or -any board or committee authorized by the 
 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 or other officer of a lodge can resign 
 his office, nor can he be 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, 
 
OF TYLERS, &C. 
 
 45 
 
 he shall have power to displace such oflficer, and 
 another must be elected or appointed in his place, 
 
 rhen 
 his 
 
 rrand 
 the 
 and 
 
 )eing 
 
 OF TYLERS. 
 
 1. The tylcr 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 enter- 
 ing the lodge, and that he is provided with proper 
 clothing. 
 
 3. If any tyler shall officiate or attend at any meet- 
 ing, 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 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 pro- 
 posing and admitting of candidates shall have been 
 strictly complied with. (See proposing 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 considera- 
 tions, 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. 
 
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46 
 
 OF MEMBERS AND THEIR DUTY. 
 
 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 proceed- 
 ings 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 endea- 
 voring to ascertain how a brother voted, or if he should 
 be aware and mention it to another brother, shall 
 render himself liable to severe masonic censure, and 
 for a second oiFence, expulsion. 
 
 5. The majority of the members present at any 
 lodge, duly summoned, have an undoubted right to 
 regulate their own proceedings, provided that they are 
 consistent with the general laws and regulations of the 
 craft ; no member, therefore, shall be permitted to 
 enter in the minute book of his lodge, a protest against 
 any resolution or proceeding which 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 ex- 
 clusion 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 
 
OF HONORARY MEMBERS. 
 
 47 
 
 h, or 
 53 of 
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 ingof 
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 of the 
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 against 
 taken 
 ary to 
 mrpose 
 nasonic 
 
 or ex- 
 
 If from 
 
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 not be 
 
 eligible for admission to any other lodge. Whenever 
 a member of any lodge shall rer.ign, or whenever, at a 
 future time he Eiay require it, he shall bo 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 mem- 
 bers, that cannot be accommodated privately, or in 
 some regular lodge, shall be reduced in 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. When 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 ad- 
 monition or suspension, or by the grand lodge only, 
 to expulsion. 
 
 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 mem- 
 ber 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 
 
48 
 
 OP PROPOSING MEMBERS. 
 
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 of voting in the lodge unless specially conferred by an 
 unanimous vote at the time of such election. 
 
 OP PROPOSING MEMBERS. 
 
 Great discredit and injury having been brought upon 
 our ancient and honourable 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 foUowuig laws, shall subject the 
 offending 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 meet- 
 ing, 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 ascertauied by ballot. When a lodge has 
 ceased to meet, any former member thereof shall be 
 eligible to 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 worshipM master 
 
OF PROPOSING MEMBERS. 
 
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 of his 
 properly 
 and a 
 master 
 
 to make the necessary inquiries into the character of 
 the candidate, and his name, age, addition or profes- 
 sion, 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 into the first degree of 
 masonry ; but should the report be unfavourable, he 
 shall be considered a rejected candidate. 
 
 3. No lodge shall initiate a candidate whose resi- 
 dence is nearer the jurisdiction of another lodge, with- 
 out 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 any candidate 
 whom they wish to propose, and the circumstances 
 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 thai seven clear days from the 
 issuing of the summons, for the purpose of balloting for 
 the candidate ; 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. 
 
 5. No person under the age of twenty-one years, 
 
50 
 
 OF mo POSING MEMBERS. 
 
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 ill 
 
 I 
 
 shall be made a mason in any lodge, unless by dispen- 
 sation fron;. the grand master ; nor shall any dispensa- 
 tion suspend the operations of the law requiring seven 
 days' notice, or committee of enquiry, or the ballot. 
 Every candidate must be free-born, and at the time of 
 initiation, be known to be iu 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 follov.ing 
 import,* vi^. : 
 
 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 
 voluntarily ofter myself a candidate for the mysteries 
 of masonry ; that I am prompted by a favourable 
 opinion conceived 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 day of , A.L. 
 
 58—. '; 
 
 Recommend by 
 
 (Sig.; 
 
 6. A petition having been received, it cannot be 
 withdrawn. 
 
 * Any individual -vrho cannot write, is consequently ineligible 
 to be admitted into the order. 
 
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 7. No person shall bo made a mason in, or admitted 
 a member of a lodge, if, on the ballot, twc^ black balls 
 appeor 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 l)alls, 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, 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 bo presented to him. 
 
 9. A rejected candidate cannot be balloted for in 
 the same, or any other lodge, wirhin six months frop. 
 the time of his rejection. ' 
 
 10. A lodge is permitted to confer the second or third 
 degree, or both, on a member of another lodge at the 
 request of said lodge — such request to be given in 
 writing, signed by the master and secretary of the 
 lodge and under the lodge seal. No charge shall be 
 made, except for the expenses of a special meeting, if 
 such be called for the purpose. In the case of the 
 request being made by a lodge outside this jurisdiction, 
 the permission of the district deputy grand master 
 must be first obtained, due notice, in any case, being 
 given to the grand secretary. . , . 
 
 OF THE LODGE SEAL. 
 
 1. Every lodge shall have a masonic seal, to be 
 affixed to all do^ aents proper to be issued. 
 
 2. An impression of the seal is to be sent to the 
 
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62 
 
 LODGES OP INSTRUCTION, &C. 
 
 grand secretary, and whenever changed, an impression 
 of the new seal shall in like manner bo transmitted. 
 
 LODGES OF INSTRUCTION. 
 
 1. No general lodge of instruction shall be liolden, 
 unless under the sanction of a regular warranted lodge 
 or by the special license and authority of the grand 
 master, or the district deputy grand master. The 
 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 re- 
 sponsible 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 such 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 communi- 
 cated 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. 
 
 1. No visitor shall be admitted into a lodge unless 
 he be personally known or recommended, or well 
 
 
OF VISITORS AND CERTIFICATES. 
 
 63 
 
 )r a 
 
 1 shall 
 
 that 
 
 luni- 
 
 lotice 
 
 led in 
 
 tnless 
 -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 to 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 brethren. 
 
 OP CERTIFICATES. 
 
 1. Every brother shall be entitled to a grand lodge 
 certificate immediately upon being registered in the 
 books of the grand lodge as a master mason, for which 
 certificate the lodge shall pay two dollars. Each lodge, 
 therefore, when it makes a return of the masons whom 
 it has initiated, passed and raised, 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 
 presence of the worshipful master or the secretary of 
 the lodge. . 
 
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54 
 
 OF PUBLIC PROCESSIONS. 
 
 
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 lip 
 
 3. No 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. 
 
 5. 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 reg- 
 istration 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 wliich case such 
 certificate shall be specifically addressed to the grand 
 secretary, and except also such certificate 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 processions shall on any pretence be 
 allowed, without the permission of the grand master, 
 or district deputy grand master, except a masonic 
 funeral, the urgency of which will not admit of the 
 
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 OF APPEAL. 
 
 65 
 
 delay necessary to communicate with the grand master 
 or the district deputy grand master. Such proceeding 
 shall be immediately reported by the master of the 
 lodge to the grand master, through the grand secre- 
 tary, and to the district deputy grand master. 
 
 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, without 
 the permission of the grand master, or district deputy 
 grand master, he shall be rendered incapable of ever 
 after being an officer of a lodge, and also to be ex- 
 cluded the benefit of the general charity. And if 
 any lodge shall so offend, it shall stand suspended 
 until the grand lodge shall determine thereon. 
 
 OF APPEAL. 
 
 1. As the grand lodge, when congregated, is a 
 representative of every individual member of the 
 fraternity, it necessarily possesses a supreme super- 
 intending authority, and the power of finally deciding 
 on every case which concerns the interest of the craft. 
 Any lodge or brother, therefore, who may feel ag- 
 grieved by the decision of any other masonic authority 
 or jurisdiction, may appeal to the grand lodge against 
 such decision. The appeal must be made 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 against whose decision the appeal is made. 
 
 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. 
 
 
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56 
 
 OF FEES. 
 
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 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, ten dollars. 
 
 For a warrant of confirmation, twenty dollars. 
 
 For a new warrant, in case of loss by fire or other- 
 wise, properly certified as beyond the control of the 
 lodge, two 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, ten dollars, unless under special 
 circumstances, in which case, on the recommendation 
 of th' district deputy grand master, the grand master 
 may remit the fee. 
 
 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 
 fund for grand lodge purposes, fifty cents per annum. 
 
 Each lodge shall pay in all fees half-yearly to the 
 grand secretary with its returns, viz. : on the 1st 
 March and 1st September of each year. 
 
OF REGALIA, &C. 
 
 67 
 
 ; the 
 
 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 or district deputy grand 
 master, and the dispensation to be issued without 
 charge. 
 
 OF 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, or be consistent with those 
 degrees which are recognized and acknowledged by 
 the grand lodge. (Representatives of foreign grand 
 lodges may wear the regalia authorized by their grand 
 lodge.) 
 
 OF JEWELS. 
 
 The grand master- - - - The compasses extended 
 
 45^, with the segment of 
 
 a circle at the points and 
 
 a gold plate included, on 
 
 - which is to be represented 
 
 an eye irradiated within 
 a triangle also irradiated. 
 
 - - A similar jewel, without 
 the gold plate. 
 
 - - The compasses and square 
 united, with a five-pointed 
 star in the centre. 
 
 Pait deputy grand masters - The compasses and square 
 
 only. 
 
 Past grand master - 
 Deputy grand master- 
 
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 68 OF JEWELS. 
 
 District dep. grand ma«<gr- The compasses and square 
 
 united, with a five-pointed 
 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 
 
 " pointed star in the centre. 
 
 G-rand senior warden- - -The level. • . . 
 
 G-rand junior warden - -The plumb. 
 
 Grand chaplain - - - - A book on a triangle. 
 
 Grand treasurer - - - - A chased key. 
 
 Grand registrar - - - - A scroll. 
 
 Grand secretary - - - - Cross-pens, "with a tie. 
 
 Grand deacons - - - - Dove and olive branch. 
 
 Grand superintendent of 
 works A semi-circle protractor. 
 
 Grand director of ceremo- 
 nies Cross-rods. 
 
 Assistant ditto Cross-rods. 
 
 Grand sword bearer - - - Cross swords. 
 
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 Grand organist - - - - A lyre. 
 Grand pursuivant - - - Arms o^ the grand lodge 
 
 ^vith rod and sword 
 ' crossed. 
 
 The jewels of the grand chaplain, treasurer, regis- 
 trar, 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 giand junior deacon, assistant grand 
 secretary, assistant grand director of ceremonies, and 
 
regis- 
 rorks, 
 
 It and 
 )ossed 
 jar of 
 
 [grand 
 \, and 
 
 OF JEWELS. ^9 
 
 assistant grand organist, to be similar to those of their 
 senior and superior officers, the wreath on the 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 plate, within a circle, 
 on which is engraven, " Grand lodge of Quebec ancient 
 free and accepted masons." 
 
 (rrand tyler The sword in a circle, on 
 
 which is engraven, " the 
 grand lodge of Quebec 
 grand tyler.'* 
 
 All the above jewels to be of gold or gilt. 
 
 Masters of lodges - - - - The square. 
 
 Past masters The square and the dia- 
 gram of the 47th prob. 1st 
 book of Euclid, engraven 
 on a silver plate, pendant 
 within it. 
 
 Senior warden The level. 
 
 Junior warden The plumb. 
 
 Chaplain - - - - - - A book on a triangle. 
 
 Treasurer The key. 
 
 Secretary The cross pens. 
 
 Beacons The dove. 
 
 Director of ceremonies - - The cross-rods. 
 
 Organist The lyre. 
 
 Inner guard The cross-swords. 
 
 Steward - The cornucopii*. 
 
 Tyler The sword. 
 
 All the above jewels to be of silver. 
 
60 
 
 OF COLLARS, &C. 
 
 ; * 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 rib- 
 bon, 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 
 
 Fellow craft 
 
 '^ 
 
 Master mason - 
 
 -A plain white lamb-skin 
 from fourteen to sixteen 
 inches wide, twelve to 
 fourteen inches deep ; — 
 square at bottom, and 
 without ornament ; white 
 strings. 
 
 -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. 
 
 -The same, with sky-blue 
 lining and edging, one 
 and a half inch deep, and 
 an additional rosette on 
 the fall or flap, and silver 
 
OF APRONS. 
 
 61 
 
 tassels. No other color 
 > ; or ornament shall be al- 
 
 lowed except to officers 
 and past officers of lodges, 
 who may have the em- 
 blems of their office in 
 silver or white in the 
 centre of the apron. 
 The masters and past masters 
 
 of lodges To wear in lieu and in the 
 
 place of the three rosettes 
 on the masters'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 
 inch; these emblems to 
 be of ribt on, half an inch 
 broad, and of the same 
 t color as the lining and 
 
 edging of the apron, or 
 of silver. If grand offi- 
 cers, similar emblems, of 
 garter-blue or gold. 
 
 Aprons of the same dim- 
 ensionSjlined with crimson, 
 edging of the same color, 
 three and a-half inches, 
 bound with sliver, and 
 silver tassels 
 
 Grand stewards ^present and 
 past 
 
62 
 
 OP APRONS. 
 
 ' 1 
 
 Grand officers of the grand 
 lodge, present and past -Aprons of the same dim- 
 
 ensiong, 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 aprons of the district deputy grand masters to 
 have the emblem of their office in gold embroidery, in 
 the centre, and the acacia and s^wen 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 embroid- 
 ered 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 following regalia: 
 
 Q-rand master - - , - 
 
 Deputy grand master 
 
 Chain over blue collar, 
 gauntlets and apron, all 
 bound and embroidered, 
 and jewel. 
 
 Chain over blue collar, 
 gauntlets and apron, all 
 bound and embroidered, 
 and jewel. 
 
OF CONSTITUTING A NEW LODGE. 
 
 63 
 
 dim- 
 irter- 
 same 
 a-balf 
 
 gold, 
 ih. the 
 ffices, 
 [1 the 
 
 ;er3 to 
 5ry, in 
 wheat 
 
 ,ve the 
 centre 
 abroid- 
 
 d with 
 re, on 
 seven 
 
 11 ; all 
 
 re the 
 3, they 
 
 collar, 
 on, all 
 dered, 
 
 collar, 
 
 m, all 
 
 lidered, 
 
 District dep. grand master - Blue collar, gauntlets, 
 
 apron, all bound and em- 
 broidered and jewel. 
 
 Senior and junior grand 
 
 wardens, chaplain, treas- ■ 
 
 urer, registrar, secretary/ - Blue 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 recommen- 
 dation or opinion thereon, to the grand secretary, to 
 be submitted to the grand master. If the prayer 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 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 
 names, having the prosperity of the craft at heart, are 
 anxious to exert our best endeavours to promote and 
 diffuse the genuine principles of the art ; and, for the 
 
 
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 64 OF CONSTITUTING A NEW LODGE. 
 
 convcniency rf 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 
 
 meet 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 [C. D.] to be the first senior warden, and 
 brother [E. F.] to be the first junior warden of the 
 said 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 solemly 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. 
 
 y The following is the manner of constituting a new 
 
 lodge, according to the ancient usages of masons : — 
 
 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 
 ' present desire to be formed into a new lodge, &c., &c. 
 The warrant or charter of constitution is now read. 
 The minutes of the lodge, while under dispensation, 
 are likewise read, and being approved, are declared 
 
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OF CONSTITUTING A NEW LODGE. 
 
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 sation, 
 
 clared 
 
 regular and valid, and signed by the grand master. 
 The grand maater 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 insti- 
 tution is delivered. The lodge is then consecrated, 
 according to ceremonies proper and usual on those 
 occasions, but not proper to be written ; and the grand 
 master constitutes the lodge in ancient form. 
 
 The candidates, or the now 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 (by 
 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 where- 
 soever 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 say : " 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 shall 
 ask the candidate, saying : " Do you submit to these 
 charges and promise to uphold these regulations as 
 masters have done in all ages ? " The candidate sig- 
 
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 OF CONSTITUTINQ A NEW LODGE. 
 
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 nifying 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 office, 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 suit- 
 able to the thing presented. 
 
 After this, the members of the 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 thoir order. 
 
 Then the grand master desires the new master to 
 enter immediately upon the exercise of his office, in 
 naming his wardens ; and the noAv 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 solemnly asked by the new master, shall signify 
 their submission thereto. 
 
 Upon which, the new master, presenting them with 
 the instruments of their office, shall, in due form, in- 
 duct them in their proper places ; and the brethren 
 shall signify their obedience to the new wardens by the 
 usual congratulation. The other elected officers of the 
 lodge, and those appointed, are then invested in 
 ancient form. 
 
OF PUBLIC CEREMONIES. 
 
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 icient 
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 its of 
 and, 
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 owing 
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 ir new 
 n and 
 
 J other 
 le new 
 and he 
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 ice, in 
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 master 
 senior 
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 didates 
 signify 
 
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 )rm, in- 
 trethren 
 by the 
 hs of the 
 Isted in 
 
 The lodge, being thus completely constituted, shall 
 be registered in the grand master's book, and by his 
 
 order notified to the other lodges. 
 
 CEREMONY OP LAYING A FOUNDATION STONE, &C., BY 
 THE M. \V. 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 ^ 
 by the master of a lodge 1 Grand 
 Two ewers with wine and oil, ( steward 
 borne by masters of lodges. J 
 Grand pursuivant. 
 Grand organist- 
 Assistant grand director of ceremonies. 
 Grand director of ceremonies. 
 Grand superintendent of works, with the plate bearin 
 
 the inscription. ^ 
 Past grand sword bearers. 
 Past grand deacons. 
 Grand secretary, with book of constitution, on a 
 
 cushion. 
 
 Past grand registrars. 
 
 Grand registrar, with his bag. 
 
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 Past grand treasurers. 
 
 Grand treasurer, bearing a phial containing the coin 
 
 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 o^ distinction. 
 
 The Corinthian light, borne ^y 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. 
 
 The doric light, borne by the master of a lodge. 
 The column of G.S.W. borne by the master of a lodge. 
 The G.S.W. with the level. 
 
 The G. J. deacon. 
 
 Grand i The grand chaplain, bearing the ) Grand 
 
 steward ) 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, 
 
 bearin- the mallet. 
 Grand { The standa^vi of the grand ) Grand 
 steward ( master ] steward 
 
 Grand sword bearer. 
 The most worshipful grand master. 
 
 ^ The G. S. deacon. 
 
 T*fo grand stewards, 
 Grand tyler. 
 
 Having arrived within a proper distance of the spot 
 the ^rocesf ion halts, the brethren open to the right and 
 lefb, face inwards so as to leave room for the grand 
 
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 master to pass up the centre, he being preceded by 
 his standard and sword bearer, — the grand u^Jticers and 
 breuiren 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 plujib rule, level and 
 square, which are successively deUvered to him, by 
 the grand junior warden, grand senior warden, and 
 deputy grand 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. 
 
 If the building be for a charitable institution, a 
 voluntary subscription is made in aid of its funds. 
 
 The procession then returns to the place from whence 
 it set out, and the lodge is closed. 
 
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 THE FUNERAL SERVICE. 
 
 The brethren being assembled at a lodge room^ the 
 lodge is opened in the first degree, and the worship- 
 ful master, having stated the object of the meeting, 
 the brethren proceed to the room ivher.. the body of 
 the deceased lies, tvhen the service is commenced as 
 follows, the brethren standing to order. 
 
 Worshipful Blaster. — What man is he that hvcth 
 and shall not see death ? Shall ho deliver his soul 
 from the hand of the grave? 
 
 Response by the brethren. — Man walkoth in a vain 
 shadow, he heapeth up riches and cannot tell Avho shall 
 gather them. * 
 
 W. M. — When ho dleth 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 sojourneth in 
 darkness. 
 
 W. M. — Can we offer no precious offering to redeem 
 our lost brother ? 
 
 Response. — We have not the ransom. The place 
 that knew him once shall know him now no more for 
 ever. 
 
 W. M. — Shall his name be lost upon earth ? 
 
 Note. — No brother below the degrea of a master manoa is 
 entitled to receive a masonic burial. 
 
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 Response. — "VVe will record it in our hearts, we will 
 treasure it in our memories, lie sliall live in the exercise 
 of his virtues. 
 
 TF. M. — He hath fulfilled his earthly destiny. !May 
 we all live the life of the righteous, that our last end 
 may he 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 tlie spirit, for they shall 
 rest from their labors. 
 
 The ivorsJupfid master here receiv'~°y a roll from 
 the secretary.^ and inscribes upon it the name., aye and 
 masonic rank of the deceased. 
 
 W. M. — Almighty Father, in thy haiids we leave 
 with humble submission the soul of our departed 
 brother. 
 
 Response. — The will of God is accomplished. — 
 Amen. 
 
 The ivorshipful master and hrethren yive the grand 
 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 tlAat 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 
 
72 
 
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 in the hour of need, and grant, God, that when the 
 awful summons shall arrive for us to quit our transitory 
 lodge on earth, the light which is from ahove shall 
 dispel the gloomy darkness of death, and that departing 
 hence with 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 unspeak- 
 able happiness of thine everlasting kingdom. 
 
 Response. — So mote it bo. ' 
 
 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. '^<^ J^ 
 The lodge to which deceased belonged in the following 
 order, all the members having sprigs of 
 evergreens in their hands. 
 Musicians. 
 Drums muffled and trumpets covered with black 
 
 crape. 
 
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 73 
 
 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. 
 
 The 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, 
 
 home 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. 
 
 blowing 
 
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 When the procession arrives within a proper dis- 
 tance of the grave, the brethren will halt and open out 
 right and left, and face inwards, to allow the latter 
 part of the procession to pass between them in the 
 following order : — 
 
 Chaplain, or officiathig 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 
 around it, the clergy/ and officers of deceased's lodge 
 take their station at the head, the mourners at the 
 foot. The regalia is taken from the coffin by the 
 senior deacon. The clergyman concludes the funeral 
 service of the chufch 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 
 decay 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 commen- 
 tary 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 approachmg dissolution ; 
 but notwithstanding the various mementos of mortality 
 we meet in our daily progress, and notwithstanding 
 that death has established his empire over all the work 
 of nature, yet through some unaccountable infatuation 
 we wilfully forget that we are all bom to die. We go 
 on from one design to another, add hope to hope, and 
 
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 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 convinced of 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 
 iDemory 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. 
 
 TT. 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. 
 
 TF. M. — May we profess what is good, and always 
 act agreeably with our professions. 
 
 Response, — So mote it be. 
 
 IF. M. — May the Lord bless us and keep us ; may 
 
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 the Lord be gracious unto us, and grant that our good 
 intentions may be crowned with success. 
 
 ReBponse. — So mote it be. 
 
 W. M. — Glory be to God in the highest ; on earth, 
 peace, and good will towards men. 
 
 Response — So 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. 
 
 W. M. — Friend and brother, we bid thee a long, a 
 last farewell. Thou art at rest from thy labors ; may 
 it be in holy peace. 
 
 Response — Amen. So mote it be. 
 
 The senior deacon then hands the worshipful mas t ( r 
 
 the apron. ,— 
 
 W. M. — 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 
 order in existence, being the badge of innocence and 
 the bond of friendship. 
 
 77ie master then deposits it in the grave. 
 
 W. M. — 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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 ( One of the following hymns may or may not be sung 
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 Deep sorrow now pervades each heart, 
 
 And erricf 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 tree from pain 
 
 Shall we our lost one meet. 
 
 Here rest in peace, thy labor's o'er — 
 
 Our brother we resign, 
 Till the Grand Master's word restore 
 
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 "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 troubling. 
 
 And the weary are at rest I 
 
 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, brOk,her, soars away 
 
 Among the faithful blest, 
 Where the wicked cdase from troubling, 
 
 And the weary are at rest ! 
 
 And when the Lord shall summon us, 
 
 Whom thou hast left behind, , . 
 
 May we untainted from the world, 
 
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 May each) like thee, depart in peace, 
 
 To be a glorious guest, 
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 The master holding the evergreen in his handy 
 t . * 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 that 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 around the grave in proces- 
 sion^ 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 deposit 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 offer 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 the 
 principles 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 our 
 
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 perfect submission to the laws of the land ; our unceas- 
 ing devotion to peace and order, and our ardent desire , 
 as far as in our power, to promote the welfare of our 
 fellow men. Invested with the badges of innocence 
 we humbly bow to the will of the universal parent and 
 implore his blessing on every zealous endeavour to 
 promote peace and good order, and earnestly pray for 
 perseverance in the principles of piety and virtue. 
 
 My brethren the great Creator having been pleased 
 out of his mercy to remove our worthy brother from 
 the cares and troubles of a transitory existence to a 
 state of eternal duration, and thereby to weaken the 
 chain by which we are united man to man, may we 
 who survive him anticipate our approaching fate, and 
 be more strongly cemented in the ties of union and 
 friendship. Let us support with propriety the character 
 of our profession ; advert to the nature of our solemni- 
 ties and pursue with assiduity the secret tenets of our 
 order, during the short space alloted to our present 
 existence ; wisely and usefully employ our time in the 
 reciprocal exchange of kind and friendly acts, and 
 mutually promote our own welfare and happiness, and 
 the welfare and happiness of all mankind. " 
 
 Let the present example of our mortality excite our 
 most serious thoughts and strengthen our resolutions of 
 moral amendment As life is uncertain, and all earthly 
 pursuits are vain, let us no longer postpone the impor- 
 tant concern of preparing for eternity, but embrace the 
 present moment, whilst time and opportunity offer, to 
 provide against the great change, when all the pleasures 
 of the world shall cease to delight, and the reflections 
 of a virtuous life, yield our only comfort and consola- 
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 Response . — 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 solemni- 
 ties 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 repen- 
 tance, 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. 
 
 Response, — Amen. So mote it be. 
 
 The procession will then reform 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. 
 
PRAYERS. 
 
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 PRAYERS. 
 
 INVOCATION, — FIRST DEGREE. 
 
 Vouchsafe thine aid, Almighty Father and supreme 
 governor of the universe, to this our present conven- 
 tion, and grant that this candidate for masonry may so 
 dedicate and devote his life to thy service as to become 
 a true and faithful brother among us. Endow him 
 with a competency of thy divine wisdom, that, assisted 
 by the secrets of this our masonic art, he may be the 
 better enabled to display the beauties of true godliness, 
 to the honor and glory of thy holy name. — So mote 
 it be. 
 
 INVOCATION. — SECOND DEGREE. 
 
 We supplicate the continuance of thine aid, merciful 
 God, on behalf of ourselves and of him who kneels 
 before thee. May the work begun in tliy name be 
 continued to thy glory, and ever more established in 
 us by obedience to thy holy precepts. — So mote it be. 
 
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 day. 
 
 INVOCATION, — THIRD DEGREE. 
 
 Almighty and Eternal Being, the glorious architect 
 and ruler of the universe, at whose creative fiat 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 continual 
 dew of Thy blessing ; more especially we beseech 
 thee, to impart thy grace to this thy servant, who offers 
 himself a candidate to partake with us the mysterious 
 
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 82 
 
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 secrets of a master mason ; endue him with such forti- 
 tude 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 be. 
 
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 THE CHARGES 
 
 CHARGE TO THE NEWLY INITIATED CANDIDATE. 
 
 As you have now passed through the ceremonies of 
 your initiation, allow me 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 insti- 
 tution can boast a more solid foundation than that on 
 which freemasonry rests — the practice of every social 
 and moral virtue ; and to so high an eminence has its 
 credit been advanced, that, in every age, monarchs 
 themselves have been promoters of the art ; have not 
 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 
 
THE CHARGES. 
 
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 contemplation the volume of the sacred laAV, charging 
 you to consider it the unerring standard of truth and 
 justice and to regulate your actions by the divine pre- 
 cepts which it contains. Therein you will be taught 
 the important duty you owe to God, to your neighbor 
 and to yourself. To God, by never mentioning His 
 name but with that awe and reverence which are due 
 from the creature to his creator, by imploring His aid 
 on all your lawful undertakings and by looking up to 
 Him in every emergency for comfort and support, to 
 your neighbor, by acting with him on the square, by 
 rendering him every kind office which justice or mercy 
 may require, by relieving his distresses, by soothing his 
 afflictions, and by doing to him, as in simUar cases, you 
 would wish he should do unto you ; and to yourself, by 
 such a prudent and well-regulated course of discipline 
 as may best conduce to the preservation of your cor- 
 poreal and mental faculties in their fullest energies ; 
 thereby enabling you to exert those talents wherewith 
 God has blest you, as well to his glory as to the welfare 
 of your fellow creatures. 
 
 As a citizen of the world, I am next to enjoin you 
 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 the 
 laws of any state which may for a time become the 
 place of your residence or aftbrd you its protection ; 
 and, above all, by never losing sight of the allegiance 
 due to the Sovereign of your native land; ever 
 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, I am further to recommend the 
 
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 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, and be especially careful to maintain in 
 their fullest splendor, those truly masonic ornaments 
 benevolence and charity. 
 
 Still, however, as a mason there are other excellencies 
 of character to which your attention may be peculiarly 
 and forcibly directed ; among the foremost of these 
 are secrecy ^ fidelity and obedience. 
 
 Secrecy may be said to consist in the inviolable 
 adherence to the obligations you have entered into, 
 never impijopcrly to reveal any of those masonic secrets 
 which have now been, or may at any future time be, 
 entrusted to your keeping, and cautiously to shun all 
 occasions which might inadvertently lead you so to do. 
 
 Your fidelity must be exemplified by a strict obser- 
 vance 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 ground to believe that, by a 
 similar fidelity, he will ultimately reflect honor on our 
 choice. 
 
 So must your obedience be proved by a close con- 
 formity to our laws and regulations ; by prompt 
 attention to all signs and summonses ; by modest and 
 correct demeanor whilst in the lodge ; by abstaining 
 from every topic of religious or political discussion ; 
 by ready acquiescence in all votes and resolutions duly 
 passed by the brethren, and by perfect submission to 
 the master and his wardens whilst acting in the dis- 
 cbarge of their respect offices. 
 
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 85 
 
 And, as a last general recommendation, let me 
 exhort you to dedicate yourself to such pursuits as 
 may enable you to become at once respectable in your 
 rank of life, useful to mankind, and an ornament to 
 the society of which you have been this day admitted 
 a member ; to devote your leisure hours more especi- 
 ally to the study of such of the liberal arts and sciences 
 as may lie within the compass of your attainment, and 
 without neglecting the ordinary duties of your station, 
 to consider yourself called upon to make a daily ad- 
 vancement in masonic knowledge. • 
 
 [From the very commendable attention which you 
 appear to have given to this charge, I am led to hope 
 • that you will duly appreciate the excellence of free- 
 masonry, and imprint indelibly on your mind the 
 sacred duties of truth of honor and of virtue.'] 
 
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 CHARGE TO THE NEWLY PASSED CANDIDATE. 
 
 Brother., — Being advanced to the second degree of 
 masonry, we congratulate you on your preferment. The 
 internal and not the external qualifications of a man 
 are what masonry regards. As you increase in knowl- 
 edge so you will consequently improve in social inter- 
 course. It is unnecessary for me to recapitulate the 
 duties which, as a mason, you are now bound to 
 discharge, or to enlarge on the necessity of a strict 
 adherence to them, as your own experience must have 
 established their value. It may be sufficient to 
 observe, that as your ^jast behaviour 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 
 
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 branch of education which tends so effectually to polish 
 and adorn the mind, is earnestly recommended to your 
 consideration, — especially geometry, which is estab- 
 lished as the basis of our art. [Geometry or masonry, 
 originally synonymous terms, is of a divine or moral 
 nature, enriched with the most useful knowledge, so that 
 while it proves the wonderful 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 behaviour at our regular assemblies. Your are 
 to preserve our ancient usages and customs sacred and 
 inviolable, and induce others, by your example, to 
 hold them in due veneration. 
 
 The laws and regulations of the order you are stren- 
 uously 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 such subjects as 
 ^re 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 ; 
 qualify yourself to become a useful member of society ; 
 and like a skilful craftsman, strive to excel in what 
 is good and great. 
 
 You are to encourage industry and reward merit ; 
 supply the wants and relieve the necessity of 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 interests as inseparable from your own. 
 
THE CHARGES. 
 
 87 
 
 Such is the nature of your engagements, as a crafts- 
 man ; and these duties your are now bound, by the 
 most sacred ties, to observe. 
 
 to 
 
 CHARGE TO THE NEWLY RAISED CANDIDATE. 
 
 Brother^ — Your zeal for the institution of free- 
 masonry, the progress you have already made, and 
 your conformity to our general regulations, have 
 pointed you out as a fit object of esteem and favor. 
 In the character of a master mason, you are henceforth 
 authorized to correct the errors and irregularities of 
 your younger brethren, and guard them against a 
 breach of fidelity. To improve the morals and correct 
 the manners of men in society ought to be your con- 
 stant care. You are to inculcate universal benevolence, 
 and by the regularity of your own behaviour, afford 
 the best example for the conduct of others. The 
 ancient landmarks of the order you are to preserve 
 sacred and inviolable, and never suffer an infringement 
 of our customs, or a deviation from established usages. 
 
 Duty, honor and gratitude, now bind you to your 
 trust, let no motive, therefore, ever make you swerve 
 from your duty, but be true and faithful, and imitate 
 the example of that celebrated artist, whom you have 
 once represented. Endeavor, in a word, to convince 
 the world that merit has been your title to our privil- 
 eges, and that on you our favors have not been 
 undeservedly bestowed. 
 
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 111 
 
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APPENDIX. 
 
 FOI^3S^S OF ElSTTIi 
 
 IN THE MINUTE BOOK OP PRIVATE LODGES. 
 
 [giving 
 
 OPENING LODGE. 
 
 The Lodge was opened in the First Degree, at , 
 
 the liour.] 
 
 The Minutes of the last Regular Meeting [and subsequent 
 emergencies, if any,] were read, and on motion, were confirmed. 
 
 BEFORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PETITIONS. 
 
 The Committee on the petition of Mr. , a Candidate fof 
 
 Initiation, reported favorably, [or unfavorably, as the case may 
 
 REPORTS GENERAL. 
 
 The Committee appointed to take into consideration, [here 
 state the subject] submitted their report, which was, on motion 
 of Bro. , seconded by Bro. , received and adopted. 
 
 PAYMENT OF ACCOUNTS. 
 
 On the motion of Bro. , seconded by Bro. . 
 
 The sum of $ , in full of Account for , [or in part 
 
 payment, as the case may be] was ordered to be paid. 
 
 PROPOSAL OF CANDIDATES. 
 
 It was moved by Bro. , seconded by Bro. - 
 
 adopted or rejected, as the case may be.] 
 That the application of Mr. be received and placed on 
 
 -, [and 
 
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 APPENDIX. 
 
 the 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 "Bro." for » Mr." and "to become a member" in the 
 place of " for initation," &c.] 
 
 APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEES ON PETITIONS. 
 
 The Worshipful Master appointed Bros. , , and , 
 
 a Committee to make the necessary enquiries on the application 
 of for , to report thereon at the next regular meeting. 
 
 APPOINTMENT OF OErEBAL COMMITTEES. 
 
 The same form, only insert the specific business. 
 
 BALLOT. 
 
 The W. M. ordered the ballot to be passed for Mr. , a 
 
 Candidate for initiation, into the mysteries of Freemasonry, 
 which was taken, and on examination, declared in favor of the 
 Candidate, [or against] as may be. 
 
 [The same form will apply to joining members, using the term 
 " Bro." for " Mr." and the words " to become a member " for 
 "initiation," &c.] 
 
 BOABD OF TBIAL. 
 
 The W. M. appointed Bros. and — 
 
 to put the necessary questions to Mr. , 
 
 initiation. If more than one, state their several names, and 
 say "Candidates." 
 
 , a Board of Trial, 
 a Candidate for 
 
 INITIATION OF 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 severally] initiated into the First Degree of Free- 
 masonry. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
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 ig, for 
 
 ituting 
 in the 
 
 id , 
 
 lication 
 aeeting. 
 
 PASSING. 
 
 Bro. — — , [or Bros.] a Candidate [or Candidates] for advance- 
 ment was [or were] examined in open Lodge, and directed to- 
 retire. 
 
 The Lodge was opened in the Second Degree, at — — , [state 
 the hour.] 
 
 [No objection being made] Bro. , [or Bros.] having been 
 
 found worthy of advancement, and having been properly pre- 
 pared, he was, [or they were severally] passed to the Second or 
 Fellow Craft's Degree. 
 
 masonry, 
 ror of the 
 
 the term 
 iber" for 
 
 of Trial, 
 lidate for 
 j,mes, and 
 
 ;. that the 
 isfactorily, 
 le was [or 
 se of Free- 
 
 BAISING. 
 
 Bro. , [or Bros.] a Candidate [or Candidfc,tes] 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 made] Bro. , [or Bros.] having been 
 
 found well skilled, he was [or they were, severally] raised to the 
 Third or Sublime Degree of Master Mason. 
 
 CALLING 7B0M LABOS TO BEFBESHMENT. 
 
 The Lodge was called from labor to refreshment, at — o'clock. 
 
 CALLING FBOM BEFBESHMENT 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.] 
 [If opened in Three Degrees, say " severally in the Thirds 
 
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 IV 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Second and First;" if opened in tlie Second Degree, say 
 " sevei-ally in the Second and First." 
 
 Confirmed in open Lodge, [give date] A. L. 
 y(Master'8 Signature.) (^Secretary's Signature.) 
 
 , W. M. , Sec'y. 
 
 BEGULATION. 
 
 For the sake of clearness and distinction, a line at least should 
 he 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 mast 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 confir- 
 mation. 
 
 ^ ecretaries of Lodges should also keep a rough Minute book 
 — anS"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 attach 
 his signature ; and when they have been read and confirmed in 
 open Lodge, the W. M. likewise signs them at the left hand 
 vcorner. 
 
 It is usual on the presentment of Reports from Committees, 
 to move their reception, or their reception and adoption. If 
 open to discussion or amendment, first move their reception, and 
 afterwards 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 also 
 
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APPENDIX. 
 
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 ature.) 
 ec'y. 
 
 sbmild 
 3 made 
 
 Lodge- 
 as they 
 jfore he 
 n mind 
 mber of 
 lan once 
 
 \y I and 
 meeting, 
 r confir- 
 
 includes the fee for registering the Candidate's name in the 
 hooks of the Grand Lodge, and a Grand Lodge certificate. 
 
 The W. M. is responrible 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 Lodgo must be 
 opened in the First Degree, and in this Degi-ee all the ordinary 
 business of the Lodge is to be transacted. If a Candidate mrVes 
 application for the Second Degree, he must undergo an examina- 
 tion 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 Third 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 First. 
 
 Newly-initiated Candidates are required to sign the By-Laws 
 on the night of initiation, as an evidence of their member-^hip 
 and willingness of obedience to the same. 
 
 ite book 
 inter the 
 ds. fairly 
 Bt attach 
 irmed in 
 eft hand 
 
 nmittees, 
 )tion. If 
 )tion, and 
 
 lowe$t fee 
 hich is to 
 sum also 
 
■nil 
 
 r'l!i ; 
 
^h: 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 . ■.■" . PAOB. 
 
 Absence of master 44 
 
 Accounts of grand lodge, directions in reference to 32 
 
 — of private lodges B9 
 
 Admission of members, qualifications necessary for 45 
 
 Admission to grand lodge 29 
 
 Admonition of lodges 43 
 
 — of & brother in a private lodge 39 
 
 Adjourn, lodges cannot 37 
 
 Age at which a man may be made a mason 49 
 
 Ample form, when grand lodge is declared to be open in 17 
 
 Annual election 35 
 
 Antient charges, summary of, to be read on installation of master. 9 
 
 — concerning God and religion 1 
 
 — ofthe civil magistrate, supreme and subordinate.. 1 
 
 — of lodges 2 
 
 — of masters, wardens, fellows and apprentices... 3 
 
 — of the management of the craft in working 4 
 
 — when to be read in lodges 9 
 
 — of behaviour, viz. :— 
 
 in the lodge while constituted 5 
 
 after lodge, brethren not being gone 6 
 
 when brethren meet without strangers, but 
 
 ^,/ , .. not in a lodge 7 
 
 in presence of strangers not masons 7 
 
 at home and in the neighbourhood 7 
 
 towards a strange brother 8 
 
 Appeals to grand lodge, form of. 65 
 
 Applications to grand master, how made 23 
 
 — for warrant to hold a new lodge 63 
 
 — for grand lodge certificate 54 
 
 Appointments to be notified to grand secretary 41 
 
 Appointments to vacancies 44 
 
 Aprons, description of. 60 
 
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 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Attendance book 37, 49, 53 
 
 Audit, grand lodge 27 
 
 •— private lodges 39 
 
 Ballot for initiation or admission 37 
 
 — members of board of general purposes 30 
 
 .. officers of grand lodge 13 
 
 — officers of private lodges 35 
 
 — a rejected candidats, cannot be taken again within 
 
 six months 87 
 
 ~- two black balls exclude 61 
 
 — secrecy of. 46. 
 
 Ballot may be demanded on any question 1^ 
 
 Balloted for, candidates to be 49, 61 
 
 Behaviour in lodge 39 
 
 Black balls, two exclude 51 
 
 Board of general purposes, of whom it consists 29 
 
 — how nominated and elected 29 
 
 — to elect vice-president 30 
 
 — mode of election 30 
 
 — vacancy caused by death ur removal, how to be filled up.. 3(1 
 
 — who to preside in the absence of the president and vice^ 
 
 president «, 31 
 
 — when to meet 31 
 
 _ how many constitute a quorum, and how questions are 
 
 to be decided ^, 31 
 
 — authority of. »,.; 31 
 
 — may summon lodge or brother to attend and produce 
 
 warrant, &c., in case of contumacy 32 
 
 — how to proceed in caaes requiring admonition, fine, or 
 
 suspension , 32 
 
 «— in case of complaint affecting a member of his lodge, 
 
 such member is to withdraw..... 32 
 
 i— on what occasion members must be in masonic clothing.. 32 
 
 — shall have charge of finances 32 
 
 — may inspect books, summon officers, and give orders to 
 
 balance yearly accounts, which shall be printed and 
 
 transmitted to lodges 32 
 
 -> has the direction as to buildings, fhrniture, kc 33 
 
 — to cause the necessary preparations to be made for 
 
 communications of grand lodge Sa 
 
PA.OE. 
 
 1, 45, 53 
 
 27 
 
 39 
 
 37 
 
 30 
 
 13 
 
 36 
 
 y^ithin 
 
 37 
 
 51 
 
 4& 
 
 1» 
 
 49, 51 
 
 39 
 
 51 
 
 29 
 
 29 
 
 30 
 
 30 
 
 led up.. 3a 
 id vicQ-^ 
 
 31 
 
 ions are 
 
 31 
 
 \ 31 
 
 produce 
 32 
 
 ., fine, or 
 32 
 
 is lodge, 
 
 32 
 
 clothing.. 32 
 
 32 
 
 orders to 
 inted and 
 
 32 
 
 /. 33 
 
 made for 
 33 
 

INDEX. 
 
 111 
 Paok 
 
 Board, to regulate ibe concerns of grand lodge 33 
 
 may recommend measures to grand lodge and originate 
 plans 33 
 
 — recommendations to, mu. be in writing and signed 34 
 
 — all communications from, must be in writing 34 
 
 — to consider first, business referred to it by grand master 
 
 or grand lodge S4 
 
 — may appoint sub-committees 34 
 
 ~ resolutions and transactions of, to be entered in a 
 
 minute book 34 
 
 Books to be kept by lodges 36 
 
 — of lodges to be produced when required 32 
 
 — o^ lodges 35, 36, 37, 44, 53 
 
 Brethren offending to be admonished or suspended 47 
 
 Business of grand lodge, bow to be conducted 19 
 
 By-laws, every lodge has power to frame S6 
 
 — master to pledge himself to, on installation 36, 44 
 
 •— members to sign 36 
 
 Candidates, qualification of, for initiation 60 
 
 — declaration to be signed by. 50 
 
 — promise to be made by, on initiation 50 
 
 — committee qn character of. 49 
 
 — age necessary to render eligible for initiation 49 
 
 Ceremonies, grand director of. 29 
 
 Ceremony of constituting a new lodge 64 
 
 — laying a foundation stone 67 
 
 — installing master 35, 43 
 
 Certificates when lodges cease to meet 48 
 
 Certificate, grand lodge, every registered brother to have one... 53 
 
 — what shall be paid for same 56 
 
 — lodge to pay for same 53 
 
 — how to be procured 54 
 
 — must be signed by the brother receiving it 53 
 
 — who is excluded from receiving 54 
 
 — application for, how made 54 
 
 — private lodges not to grant 54 
 
 Chair of grand lodge, regulations as to 19 
 
 — private lodges, regulations as to 43, 44 
 
 Chaplain, grand » 26 
 
 Character of candidates 48 
 
 6 
 
Itlll 
 Jjtl 
 
 I 
 
 iv INDEX. 
 
 Paok 
 
 Charges preferred, due notice of. 40 
 
 Charges, Rntient 1, 9, 36 
 
 — to newly initiated candidate 82 
 
 — to newly passed brother 85 
 
 — to newly raised brother S7 
 
 — against a brother, notice of. ,.... 47 
 
 Clandestine lodges, reference to 45 
 
 — • initiations 45 
 
 Clothing and insignia 57 
 
 Committee of private lodges 49 
 
 — on propositions 49 
 
 Communications of grand lodge when held 17 
 
 Complaints, how to be preferred 18 
 
 — authority of board of general purposes as to 31 
 
 Committees, reports of, to grand lodge 19 
 
 Complaints, D. D. G. M. may hear 24 
 
 Constituting a new lodge, petition for 63 
 
 — ceremony of. 64 
 
 Contributions and payments to grand lodge 56 
 
 Contents, table of. vii 
 
 Conspiracies may not be engaged in 2 
 
 Confirming minutes 19, 35, 43 
 
 Constitution, how may be altered 21 
 
 — candidate must submit to 51 
 
 Customs and usages, uniformity to be observed 39 
 
 Declaration to be signed by candidates 50 
 
 Degrees, time between conferring 87 
 
 Deaths— of grand master 21 
 
 — deputy grandmaster 22 
 
 — of master of subordinate lodges 44 
 
 Decisions of questions in grand lodge 19 
 
 ■— of subordinate lodges 46 
 
 Degrees, application for certificates 64 
 
 Deputy grand master, how elected 14, 23 
 
 — ex-officio president of the board of general 
 
 purposes 29 
 
 — may preside in lodges with the district 
 
 deputy grand master on his right 23 
 
 District deputy grand master to be nominated by lodges of district 23 
 — may hear and decide on complaints 24 
 
INDEX. 
 
 56 
 
 VII 
 
 2 
 
 ,35, 43 
 
 21 
 
 51 
 
 39 
 
 50 
 
 S7 
 
 21 
 
 22 
 
 44 
 
 19 
 
 46 
 
 54 
 
 ....14, 23 
 neral 
 29 
 
 strict 
 
 23 
 
 [strict 23 
 laints 24 
 
 Pace 
 District deputy j/rand m:.3ter may preside in lodges with the mas- 
 ter or lodge on his right 23 
 
 — ' • may admonish or suspend 24 
 
 •«• *: ,- difference^ among members, mode 
 
 of adjusting. 47 
 
 Director of ceremonies, grand lodge 29 
 
 — private lodges 35 
 
 Dispensations, D. D. G. M. may issue 25 
 
 — to initiate a candidate from without ths jurisdic- 
 tion of lodge 49 
 
 — certificates cannot be had unless by 54 
 
 — for new lodge 5i3 
 
 — constituting newlodge 63 
 
 Dissolution of lodge, warrant reverts to G. M 42 
 
 Dispensation to advance in less time than the regular require- 
 ments 54, '6 
 
 Dispensation to initiate candidates under 21 years of age 56 
 
 — for processioDS 54, 56 
 
 Due form, when grand lodge is opened in 17 
 
 Dues may be remitted 41 
 
 — suspended for 40 
 
 Election of grand master 21 
 
 — of master of lodges 35 
 
 — of master, if not confirmed 43 
 
 Eligibility to office 16, 35, 43 
 
 Elective officers, grand lodge 13, 16 
 
 — private lodges 35 
 
 — who are eligible for the office of master of private lodges 35 
 
 — who are eligible for grand offices 16 
 
 Emergency of grand lodge 17 
 
 — of private lodges 33 
 
 — for admission of candidates 49 
 
 Enquiry, committee of 49 
 
 Erasure of lodges ...18, 24, 32, 42, 48 
 
 Established usages and customs 39 
 
 Examination for higher degrees 38 
 
 Exclusion of members 40, 46 
 
 Expenditure of grand lodge 32 
 
 Bxpujsipn 18, 24, 32, 40, 46, 47 
 
Tl INDEX. , 
 
 Paob 
 Expulsion of members, (note) 40 
 
 Fees in general 56 
 
 — may be remitted 41 
 
 •— private lodges initiation S8 
 
 — if» grand lodge 56 
 
 — when paid and not returned to grand lodge 38 
 
 Finances, grand lodge, in charge of board of general purposes... 32 
 
 Form, when grand lodge is opened in 17 
 
 Foundation stone, laying of, by grand master 67 
 
 Freemasons, general heads of charges vi 
 
 Free-born, (see antient charges) , 2, 50 
 
 Funerals, masonic ,, 36, 53, 55, 70 
 
 — ' master mascus only entitled to , 70 
 
 Furniture of lodgos 40 
 
 General heads of the charge of a freemason , .... vi 
 
 Grand master shall appoint scrutineers 12 
 
 Grand master, absence from grand lodge 17 
 
 Grand lodge officers to be installed or invested 13 
 
 — powers of 17 
 
 — officers of, elected and appointed 14 
 
 — order of rank 15 
 
 — title 12 
 
 Harmony of lodges 39 
 
 Higher degree not to be conferred in less than one mouth 37, 54 
 
 Honorary members, grand lodge 16 
 
 — private lodges, who are eligible 47 
 
 — must pay grand lodge dues 47 
 
 -- have no vote unless specially conferred 47 
 
 Initiation, qualification for 49 
 
 — declaration to be signed before 60 
 
 — propositions and ballot for 50 
 
 — promises to be made by candidates for 50 
 
 — fees, on 38 
 
 — number of candidates in same day eligible for. 37 
 
 Improper matter in memorials to grand lodge 18 
 
 Indecorous or offensive behaviour 39, 40 
 
 In form, when grand lodge is opened 17 
 
 Insignia and clothing, masonic 57 
 
 Installation of grand master and officers 21 
 
 — masters and wardens of private lodges 36, 43, 65 
 
INDEX. viT 
 
 Page. 
 Installation, antient charges to be read to masters and assented 
 
 to prior O' 
 
 Instruction, lodges of 52' 
 
 — lodges may give 41 
 
 Investigation 18, 82 
 
 Irregular lodges ...».» 45 
 
 Jewels and clothing, grand lodge injunctions in relation 57 
 
 — private lodges 59 
 
 — of degrees, not acknowledged by grand 
 
 lodge, not to be worn in grand lodge... 57 
 
 Jewels that may be worn in subordinate lodges 40 
 
 Joining members, regulations as to 47, 43 
 
 Jurisdiction of lodges 48, 49 
 
 Laws, power of enacting 35 
 
 Laws, alteration of, grand lodge 21 
 
 — private lodge may make by-laws 35 
 
 Lodges of emergency, grand lodge IT 
 
 ~ cannot adjourn 3T 
 
 mm private ■ 34! 
 
 mm of instruction 52: 
 
 mm what officers are to be elected and appointed to 34 
 
 — powers of, to make by-laws 35 
 
 — removal of 35 
 
 — precedence of. 37 
 
 — not to initiate more than five candidates in one day... 37 
 >- not to confer a higher degree inside of one month 
 
 from the last 37 
 
 Lodges not to confer a degree without examination in open lodge. 38 
 
 — bound to receive a member initiated therein... .,.••••• 38 
 
 — shall not make a mason for less than $20 38 
 
 — must register every brother in grand lodge books 38 
 
 — must procure a certificate for every brother 
 
 Initiated 39, 53 
 
 cannot give a certificate except in certain cases 39 
 
 — bound to observe established usages 39 
 
 — can instruct its master or warden on vote 41 
 
 — to make returns to grand secretary 41 
 
 — the minority of the members of, if not less than 
 
 seven, can hold warrants 42 
 
 » constitution of new 63 
 

 Vlll INDEX. 
 
 Paoe 
 Lodges, dues of, to grand lodge 56 
 
 — erasure ofi not till master or officers are summoned .. 42 
 
 — offending against regulation or law 43 
 
 — to meet only on working days 4 
 
 — why so called 2 
 
 Lodge seal 51 
 
 Making masons, regulations as to 38 
 
 Masonic clothing and regalia 57 
 
 — funerals 55 
 
 — processions 54 
 
 Masons offending against law 47 
 
 — to be courteous towards each other 4 
 
 — should belong to a lodge 2 
 
 — who may be made such 2, 3 
 
 Master of lodge a member of grand lodge 14 
 
 — qualification, election, and installation of. ", 43 
 
 — pledge, or obligation of. 43 
 
 — to visit other lodges 43 
 
 — to observe laws 43 
 
 — death, removal, or absence of 44 
 
 — to attend summons and produce warrant 22, 25, 32, 44 
 
 — lodge may instruct its 41 
 
 — to see that all money that is received and paid is 
 
 accounted for 39, 44 
 
 — to produce books of lodge 22, 25, 32, 44 
 
 — not to assume chair till installed 43 
 
 •— not to be chosen for seniority 3, 43 
 
 Meetings of lodge 36 
 
 Members, candidates when initiated become 38 
 
 — admission of 45 
 
 — not to attend an irregular lodge 45 
 
 — not to hold private conversations whilst the lodge is 
 
 at labor 5 
 
 — not to print proceedings of lodges , 46 
 
 — not to violate secrecy of ballot 46 
 
 — not to protest against resolutions 46 
 
 — retiringfrom a lodge, rules for 46 
 
 — joining a lodge, rules for 47 
 
 — of grand lodge, who are 14 
 
 — honorary 47 
 
i 
 
 .... 5 
 .... 46 
 .... 46 
 .... 46 
 
 46 
 
 .... 47 
 
 14 
 
 47 
 
 .,.■:,;;.;■■;'■ INDEX. ■ :; V : ,-.( .,_; ij ix 
 
 Paor 
 
 Members suspended for non-payment of dues, to be restored 40 
 
 Minntes to be kept, form of. 89 
 
 Minority, (if seven") may hold warrant 42 
 
 Minutes to be read before installation of master 35. 43 
 
 Motion in grand lodge, notice to be given of. 21 
 
 Moral law, a mason to obey 1 
 
 Names of past master, master and wardens to be returned to 
 
 grand lodge 41 
 
 — brethren excluded to be sent to grand secretary 40 
 
 — brethren excluded to be sent also to district deputy 
 
 grand master 40 
 
 Neglect of lodges to make returns, liabilities on account of. 41 
 
 New lodge, how constituted 64 
 
 — warrant.; 64 
 
 Notice of motion given 21 
 
 Number of initiations in one day 37 
 
 — members who may hold warrants 42 
 
 Obligation of master 43 
 
 OflTensive behaviour £9 
 
 Offences of lodges and brethren, reference to 22, 31, 41, 42, 43 
 
 Officers, who are , Bt 
 
 Officers of grand lodge and private lodges 13, 34 
 
 — past grand, members of grand lodge 14 
 
 — of private lodges cannot resign 44 
 
 — tenure of office 12 
 
 — when appointed 13 
 
 Past masters members of grand lodge 14 
 
 Payments to grand lodge.. » 41 
 
 Perfect man, candidate must be 3 
 
 Petitions cannot be withdrawn 50 
 
 — for a new lodge 63 
 
 Precedency of lodges 37 
 
 — of grand officers 15 
 
 Property of lodge, who owns ., 40 
 
 Protest, when allowed to be recorded 46 
 
 Processions, masonic, restrictions in reference thereto.39, 53, 54,67; 70 
 
 Proposing members , 48 
 
 Passing and raising, not without due instruction 48 
 
 Political and religious discussions not allowed 6 
 
 Plots, a mason not to engage in 2 
 
X '.■.'(■ • , ■ .. " INDEX. ' ■■ 
 
 Pagk 
 
 Private piques not to be brought into lodge.. .„„►«.► 6 
 
 Proxy for a lodge 14 
 
 Promise of a candidate 51 
 
 Prayers 81 
 
 Public ceremonies 67 
 
 Pursuivant, grand 29, 
 
 Punishment 40, 42, 43, 48, 55 
 
 Qualification of master 43 
 
 — of candidate 48, 49 
 
 Quarrels not to be brought into lodge 6 
 
 Rank of grand oflficers 15 
 
 Raise without examination, must not 38 
 
 Rank of lodges 37 
 
 Recommendations to board of general purposes 34 
 
 Regalia, description of 57 
 
 Registrar, grand 27 
 
 Registration of members 38 
 
 Regulations for the government of grand lodge 19 
 
 Registrar book 37 
 
 Registration ,...38, 53, 54 
 
 Regulations for the government of private lodges 34 
 
 Reinstate , 24 
 
 Rejected, candidate to be declared 49 
 
 — candidates cannot be ballotted for within six months.37, 51 
 
 Religion, not to exclude 1 
 
 Removal of lodges 25 
 
 — of officers., 21, 44 
 
 Reputable circumstances 50 
 
 Representaiivfes of lodges to nominate D. D. G. M 14 
 
 — in sister grand lodges 22 
 
 Restoring of brethren 24. 40 
 
 Residence of candidate 49 
 
 Resign, officers cannot 44 
 
 Resignation of members 47, 54 
 
 Returns of subordinate lodges 38, 41, 53 
 
 — - and payments to grand lodge 16, 41 
 
 Resolution to reprint constitution in 
 
 Rule in lodge, who may 43, 44 
 
 Scrutineers on ballot 12 
 
 Scrutineers for grand lodge 12 
 
b 
 
 Paor 
 
 14 
 
 51 
 
 81 
 
 67 
 
 29, 
 
 3, 48, 55 
 
 43 
 
 48, 49 
 
 6 
 
 15 
 
 38 
 
 37 
 
 34 
 
 57 
 
 , 27 
 
 , 38 
 
 19 
 
 37 
 
 J8, 53, 54 
 
 34 
 
 24 
 
 49 
 
 ths.37, 51 
 
 I 
 
 25 
 
 ..21, 44 
 
 50 
 
 14 
 
 22 
 
 ,..24. 40 
 
 49 
 
 44 
 
 ...47, 54 
 38, 41, 53 
 ,... 16, 41 
 
 Ill 
 
 ...43, 44 
 
 12 
 
 12 
 
 - INDEX. XI 
 
 PAnE 
 
 Seal of grand lodge and private lodges 27, 51 
 
 Secretary, crand 4.... 27 
 
 — of lodges 36 
 
 Serving brethren, initiation of 38 
 
 Seven da}'s for holding a lodge of emergency 49 
 
 Sign by-laws, members must ri 
 
 Secrecy of ballot, not to be violated 46 
 
 Stewards 29, 35, 36 
 
 Summons to Iodide or brother 22, 25, 32, 42, 44, 49 
 
 Suspension of lodge or brother 22, 25, 32, 40, 43 
 
 — for non-payment of dues 40 
 
 Sub-committees, board of general purposes 34 
 
 Time allowed for appeals to be made 55 
 
 — between degrees 37, 54 
 
 Title, grand lodge 12 
 
 Tr^l 18, 22, 24, 32, 40, 47 
 
 Treasurer, of grand lodge and private lodges 26, 35 
 
 Tyler, of grand lodiie and private lodges 29, 3'>, 45 
 
 Tylers, to be excludei general charity 45 
 
 Uniformity of work to obs'^rve 39 
 
 Visitors to grand lodge 17 
 
 — to private lodtres 52 
 
 Vacancies in grand lodge 16 
 
 — in private lodges 44 
 
 Votes by proxy 14 
 
 — as to 19, 20, 21, 46 
 
 Visits 43, 52 
 
 Vouching for ^3 
 
 AV^ardens, grand lod^ie 26 
 
 Wardens, private lodges 41, 43 
 
 — cannot confer degrees 44 
 
 — cinnot resign office • 44 
 
 Warrants, petitions for, &c... 63, 64 
 
 — not transferable 42 
 
 to be produced 22, 24, 32, 44 
 
 Withdrawal of petition 50 
 
 — from membership irregularly 46 
 
 Write, candidates must be able to— (note) 50 
 
 Work, lodges must observe the same 39 
 
 Yearly, meetings of grand lodge 17