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CONSTITUTION 
 
 CODE OF STATUTES (WITH Supplement) 
 
 GRAND ENCAMPMENT 
 
 JCNIGHTS TEMPLAR 
 
 UNITED STATES 
 
 Statutes and Regulations 
 
 Grand Commandery K.\ I", of California. 
 
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 1884. 
 

Banccote LUuMy 
 
 CONSTITUTION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 -^1 QNiTELI STATES DF AMERICA. If 
 
 1877. 
 
 ARTICLE I. 
 
 THE GRAND ENCAMPMENT — OF WHOM COMPOSED. 
 
 Section 1. The Grand Encampment of Knights Templar of the United 
 States consists of the following members : — 
 ( 1 . ) The Grand Master. 
 
 The Deputy Qrand Master. 
 
 The Grand Generalissimo. 
 
 The Grand Captain General. 
 
 The Grand Prelate. 
 
 The Grand Senior Warden. 
 
 The Grand Junior Warden. 
 
 The Grand Treasurer. 
 
 The Grand Recorder. 
 
 The Grand Standard Bearer. 
 
 The Grand Sword Bearer. 
 
 The Grand Warder. 
 
 The Grand Captain of the Guard — 
 the first nine of whom, (except the Grand Prelate,) shall be elected by ballot, 
 and the remaining five shall be appointed by the Grand Master. 
 (2.) All Past Grand Masters. 
 
 All Past Deputy Grand Masters. 
 
 All Past Grand Generalissimos, and 
 
 All Past Grand Captains General of the Grand Encampment. 
 (3.) All Grand Commanders. 
 
 All Past Grand Commanders. 
 
 All Deputy Grand Commanders. 
 
 All Grand Generalissimos, and 
 
 All Grand Captains General of each Grand Commandery 
 acknowledging the jurisdiction of the Grand Encamp- 
 ment ; each of whom shall be entitled, when present, 
 to one vote, and no more, (except as proxy,) in all the proceedings of the 
 Grand Encampment. 
 
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 (4. ) The tirst three otficers of each Commandery holding its charter imme- 
 diately from the Grand P^ncampment, who, or as many of whom as may be 
 present at aay Conclave of the Grand Encampment, shall be entitled, collec- 
 tively, to one vote. 
 
 Section 2. All officers of the late General Grand Encampment shall 
 rank and have all the privileges of members of equal rank, as jjrovided for 
 herein. 
 
 Section 3. No persons shall l)e eligible to any office in the Grand En- 
 campment, unless he shall be at the time a member of some subordinate 
 Commandery, under the general or immediate jurisdiction of the Grand En- 
 campment. 
 
 PROXIES. 
 
 Section 4. The iirst four officers named in the tirst Section ; the tirst four 
 officers of Grand Commanderies, and the tirst three officers of subordinate 
 chartered Commanderies, held under the immediate jurisdiction of the Grand 
 Encampment, may appear and vote by jrroxy; said proxy being, at the tinie of 
 service, a member of a subordinate Commandery, and producing a properly 
 authenticated certificate of his appointment. 
 
 Section 5. The title and designation of the Grand Master of the Grand 
 Encampment of the United States, is Most Eminent Grand Master of Knhjhts 
 Templar. 
 
 That of the Deputy Grand Master, Rhjlit Eminent. 
 
 That of the remaining officers of the Grand Encampment, Very Eminent. 
 
 conclaves. 
 
 Section 6. A Grand Conclave of the Grand Encampment shall be held 
 triennially, at such time and place as may have been previously designated by 
 the Standing Committee, and approved by the Grand Encampment. 
 
 Section 7. Special Conclaves may be called by the Most Eminent Grand 
 Master, at his discretion. And it shall be his duty^ upon the requisition of the 
 majority of the Grand Commanderies, to him directed in writing, to call a 
 special Conclave. 
 
 Section 8. No business shall be transacted at a special Conclave, except 
 that which was specified in the original summons. 
 
 POWERS AND DUTIES. 
 
 Section 9. 1. The Grand Encampment, at its regular Conclaves, shall 
 review and consider all the official reports of its officers, and the proceedings 
 of the Grand Commanderies and subordinate Commanderies under its imme- 
 diate jurisdiction, for the preceding three years. 
 
 2. It shall elect by ballot its several officers, except the Grand Prelate, 
 Grand Standard Bearer, Grand Sword Bearer, Grand Warder and Grand 
 Captain of the Guard, who shall be appointed by the Grand Master, to serve 
 during his term of office. 
 
 3. It shall adopt such Rules and Edicts as may be necessary for the good 
 of the Order. 
 
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 4. It shall examine the accounts of the Grand Treasurer and Grand Re- 
 corder. 
 
 5. It shall supervise the condition of the finances, and adopt such meas- 
 ures in relation thereto as may be necessary to increase, secure and preserve 
 the same, and also to insure the utmost fidelity and punctuality on the part of 
 every accounting officer, in the safe keeping and jjaying over the funds and 
 property of the Grand Encampment. 
 
 6. It may grant or withhold warrants, dispensations and charters for new 
 Grand or subordinate Commanderies. 
 
 7. For good cause, it may revoke pre-existing warrants, charters or dis- 
 pensations. 
 
 8. It shall assign the limits of the Grand Commanderies, and settle all 
 controversies that may arise between them. 
 
 9. And finally, it shall consider and do all matters and things appertain- 
 ing to the good, well-being and perpetuation of the principles of Templar 
 Masonry. 
 
 Section 10. At every Conclave, all questions shall be determined by a 
 majority of votes, the presiding officer being entitled to one vote. In case the 
 vote is equally divided, he has the casting vote. 
 
 Section 11. This Grand P]n<iampment being a legislative body, acknowl- 
 edging no superior, admits an appeal to l)e taken by any member from the de- 
 cision of the chair on any question under consideration therein : Provided, 
 however, that such appeal shall not be maintained unless two-thirds of all the 
 members present shall vote therefor. 
 
 This rule is adopted for this Grand Encampment alone, and is not to be 
 construed as establishing a precedent for the guidance of any other Masonic 
 Body. 
 
 TENURE OF OFFljDE. 
 
 Section 12. The officers of the Grand Encampment shall hold their re- 
 spective offices until their successors shall be duly elected and installed. 
 
 THE GRAND MASTER. 
 
 Section 13. It is the prerogative and duty of the Grand Master, gener- 
 ally to exercise, as occasion may require, all the rights appertaining to his 
 high office, in accordance with the usages of Templar Masonry. 
 
 And as a part thereof, he shall have a watchful supervision over all the 
 Commanderies, Grand and subordinate, in the United States, and see that all 
 Constitutional Enactments, Statutes and Edicts of the Grand Encampment 
 are duly and promptly observed. 
 
 And that the work and discipline of Templar Masonry everywhere, are uni- 
 form throughout the jurisdiction of the Grand Encampment ; and that the 
 dress is uniform, unless otherwise ordered by the Grand Encampment. 
 
 Among his special duties and prerogatives, are the following : — 
 
 1. To appoint the Grand Prelate, Grand Standard Bearer, Grand Sword 
 Bearer, Grand Warder, Grand Captain of the Guard, to serve during his term 
 of office. 
 
 2. To visit and preside in any Commandery, Grand or subordinate, in the 
 United States, and give such instruction or directions as the good of the Order 
 
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 may require, always adhering to the Constitution, Statutes and Edicts of the 
 Grand Encampment. 
 
 3. To cause to be executed, and securely preserve and keep, the official 
 bonds of the (^Irand Treasurer and Grand Recorder. 
 
 4. To grant Letters of Dispensation, during the Recess of the Grand En- 
 campment, for the institution of new Commanderies, such dispensation to be 
 in force no longer than the next Triennial Conclave of that body, and promptly 
 to notify the Grand Recorder of the issuing of said Letters of Dispensation. 
 
 5. To grant wai rants during the recess of the Grand Encampment for the 
 institution of Grand Commanderies in States, Districts or Territories, where 
 the same have not been heretofore established. 
 
 6. To manage and control his contingent fund. 
 
 THE DEPUTY GRAND MASTER. 
 
 Section 14. The Deputy Grand Master, in the event of the death, re- 
 moval or physical incompetency of his superior, shall act as the Grand Master. 
 At all other times he shall perform such duties as may be assigned him by the 
 Grand Encampment or the Grand Master. 
 
 THE GRAND GENERALISSIMO AND (iKAND CAPTAIN GENERAL. 
 
 ♦ 
 
 Section 15. In the absence of their respective superiors, the Grand Gen- 
 eralissimo and Grand Captain General shall severally act as Grand Master, in 
 order, according to rank. At all other times they shall perform such duties 
 as may be assigned them by the Grand Encampment, or such as are tradition- 
 ally appropriate to their respective stations. 
 
 THE GRAND TREASURER. 
 
 Section 16*. 1. The Grand Treasurer, unless otherwise directed by the 
 Grand Encampment, shall invest, from time to time, all such moneys as may 
 come to his hands., belonging to the Grand Encampment, over and above the 
 sum of three hundred dollars, in such way as he may judge most to the in- 
 terest of the Grand Encampment, but subject to call on thirty days' notice. 
 And the same shall be at his command on the first day of the month preceding 
 the Triennial meeting of the Grand Encampment. 
 
 2. He shall render to the Grand Encampment, at its Triennial Conclaves, 
 a true and perfect account of his doings in this respect, together with an ac- 
 count of ail moneys received, and the earnings thereon accrued from invest- 
 ments, and the amounts disbursed by him during the vacation. 
 
 3. Also a copy of the same to the Grand Mjister, by the first day of the 
 month preceding the Triennial Meeting, to the end that the Grand Master 
 may make such suggestions on account thereof as he may deem necessary. 
 
 4. He shall pay all . drafts drawn upon the contingent fund by the Grand 
 Master. 
 
 5. He shall carefully preserve, and render from time to time, as ordered, 
 an inventory of all property belonging to the Grand Encampment entrusted to 
 his keeping. 
 
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 THE GRAND RECORDER. 
 
 Section 17. 1. The Grand Recorder shall collect and receive all the 
 revenue of the Grand Encampment, and pay over the amount to the Grand 
 Treasurer whenever it reaches the sum of one hundred dollars. 
 
 2. He shall render, annually, to the Grand Master and to the Grand 
 Treasurer, copies of his accounts of all moneys received and paid to the Grand 
 Treasurer — naming the sources from which they were received — bringing up 
 said accounts to the first day of September ; provided, that in the year in 
 which the Conclave is held, it shall be rendered the first day of the month 
 preceding. 
 
 3. And also to the Grand Encampment, triennially, a general account of 
 the same, with his expenditures of the " contingent fund " of his office. 
 
 4. He shall forward to each newly constituted Commandery, immediately 
 upon receiving official notice that a dispensation has issued, a copy of this 
 Constitution, together with whatever Statutes and Edicts are in force, 
 
 5. He shall report to the Grand Encampment, on the first day of each 
 Triennial Meeting, the names of the Grand Commanderies, and of those Com- 
 manderies working under the immediate jurisdiction of the Grand Encamp- 
 ment, which have not complied with the requisition to furnish him with its full 
 annual historical and financial returns for the use of the Grand Encampment. 
 
 6. He shall report annually, on the first day of September, except the year 
 of the Grand Conclave, when it shall be a month preceding, to the Grand 
 Master, the names of the Grand Commanderies, and those Commanderies 
 working under the immediate jurisdiction of the Grand Encampment, which 
 have not complied with the requisition to furnish its full animal historical and 
 financial returns for the use of the Grand Master. 
 
 7. He shall open and keep a "Book of Templar Masonry," in which shall 
 be entered, in appropriate columns, the following subjects : — 
 
 A. A Register of Commanderies — to contain — 
 
 1. 1. The date of issuing every warrant by the Grand Master for the 
 forming of a Grand Connnandery. 
 
 2. The date of issuing every dispensation for a subordinate Commandery, 
 and — 
 
 3. The date of issuing every charter for a subordinate Commandery, 
 granted by authority of the Grand Encampment since its origin (1816). 
 
 II. 1. The Roll of Officers of the -'Great Priory of the United Orders of 
 the Temple and Malta, in England and Wales." 
 
 2. The Roll of Priories and Officers of the ' ' Great Priory of the United 
 Orders of the Temple and Malta, for the Dominion of Canada. " 
 
 B. A Register of Membership. 
 
 1. The Roll of Officers of the Grand Encampment, with their terms of ser- 
 vice, etc., since the origin of the same. 
 
 II. 1. The roll of elective Officers of the Grand Commanderies, terms of 
 service, etc. , from the organization of each. 
 
 2. The Roll of Officers of the subordinate Commanderies working under 
 the jurisdiction of the Grand Encampment. 
 
 3. With all the current changes resulting from dismissions, suspensions, 
 expulsions and deaths. 
 
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 0. Historical data, tending to complete the history of Templar Masonry 
 in the United States. 
 
 1. To collect and bind in orderly volumes, a copy of all the proceedings 
 of the Grand Encampment since its organization. 
 
 II. 1. To collect and bind in orderly volumes, copies of the proceedings 
 of all the Grand Commanderies, from the organization of each. 
 
 2. To collect and bind in orderly volumes, copies of the By-Laws of all 
 the Grand Commanderies. 
 
 3. To collect and bind in an orderly volume, impressions of tlie seals of 
 all the Grand Commanderies. 
 
 III. 1. To collect and bind in orderly volumes, copies oi the By-Laws of 
 all the subordinate Commanderies working under the immediate jurisdiction 
 of the Grand Encampment. 
 
 2. To collect and bind in an orderly volume, impressions of the seals of 
 each subordinate Commandery working under the immediate jurisdiction of 
 the Grand Encampment. 
 
 8. And he shall also make a triennial report to the Grand Encampment of 
 his otficial acts. 
 
 THE REMAININfl 0FFTCET18. 
 
 Section 18. The duties of the remaining Officers of the Grand Encamp- 
 ment are such as are traditionally appropriate to their respective stations, or 
 such as may be assigned them by the Grand Encampment. 
 
 GENERAL PROVISIONS. 
 
 Section 19. The Grand Master, the Deputy Grand Master, the Grand 
 Generalissimo, and the Grand Captain General, are severally authorized to 
 visit and preside in any Commandery of Knights Templar throughout the 
 jurisdiction of the Grand Encampment, and to give such instructions and 
 directions as the good of the Institution may require, always adhering to the 
 Constitution, Statutes and Edicts of the Grand Encampment. 
 
 Section 20. In the event of the absence of all the four principal officers 
 of the Grand Encampment, the Past Grand Officers, according to rank and 
 seniority of service, shall be empowered to preside. 
 
 Section 21. The Grand Treasurer and the Grand Recorder shall severally 
 give bond, with sureties, in such form and to such an amount — but not less 
 than double the estimated triennial receipts by either — as shall from time to 
 time be determined by the Grand Master, who shall judge and approve the 
 efficiency of such bonds and sureties, and who shall keep and preserve the 
 same. 
 
 Section 22. Any Grand Officer, save as above accepted, coming into the 
 receipt of money or property belonging to the Grand Encampment, shall forth- 
 with remit the same to the Grand Recorder. 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 
 GRAND COMMANDERIES — HOW CONSTITUTED. 
 
 Section 23. Whenever there shall be three or more Subordinate Char- 
 tered Commanderies instituted or holden under this Constitution, in any one 
 
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 State, District, or Territorj% in which a Cxrancl Commandery has not been 
 heretofore formed, a Grand Commandery may be formed, after obtaining the 
 Warrant of the Grand Encampment. 
 
 Section 24. Its jurisdiction shall be the territorial limits in which it is 
 holden. 
 
 Section 25. Tlie (xrand Commandery of Massachusetts and Rhode Island 
 is recognized as holding jurisdiction over both those States. 
 
 or WHOM COMPOSED. 
 
 Section 26. A Grand Commandery consists of the following members : — 
 (1.) The Grand Commander. 
 
 The Deputy Grand Commander. 
 The Grand Generalissimo. 
 The Grand Captain General. 
 The Grand Prelate. 
 The Grand Senior Warden. 
 The Grand Junior Warden. 
 The Grand Treasurer. 
 The Grand Recorder. 
 The Grand Standard Bearer. 
 The Grand Sword Bearer. 
 The (irand Warder, and 
 The Grand Captain of the Guard, 
 The first nine of whom shall be elected by ballot, and the remaining four 
 shall be elected or appointed, as the Grand Commandery may direct. 
 (2.) All Past Grand Commanders. 
 
 All Past Deputy Grand Commanders. 
 All Past Grand Generalissimos, and 
 
 All Past Grand Captains General, of the same Grand Com- 
 mandery, so long as they remain members of the subor- 
 dinate Commanderies under the same territorial juris- 
 diction. 
 (8. ) The Commander. 
 
 The Generalissimo, and 
 
 The Captain General of each subordinate Commandery 
 working under the same Grand Commandery. 
 (4.) All Past Commanders of the subordinate Commanderies 
 working under the same Grand Commandery, so long as 
 they remain members of subordinate Commanderies un- 
 der the same territorial jurisdiction; Provided, however^ 
 that when a Past Commander changes his membership to 
 a subordinate of a different Grand Commandery, such 
 Grand Commandery may elect him to membership therein 
 to continue as long as he is a member of a subordinate 
 Commandery under its jurisdiction. 
 Each of whom shall be entitled, when present, to one vote, and no more, 
 (except as proxy, ) in all the proceedings of the Grand Commandery. 
 
 Section 27. No person shall be eligible to any office in a State Grand 
 
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 Commandery, unless he shall be at the time a member of some subordinate 
 Commandery working under the same Grand Commandery. 
 
 Section 28. Any officer specified in the twenty- sixth section, except Past 
 Commanders, may appear and vote hy proxy, said proxy being at the time of 
 service a member of the same subordinate Conmiandery as his principal, and 
 producing a properly authenticated certificate of his appointment. ♦ 
 
 Section 29. The title and designation of the Grand Commander of a State 
 Grand Commandery, is Rigid Eminent. 
 
 That of Deputy Grand Commander, Very Eminent. 
 Oi the remaining officers of the Grand Commandery, Eminent. 
 
 CONCLAVES. 
 
 Section 30. Each Grand Commandery shall hold a regular Conclave 
 annually, at such time and place as it may direct. 
 
 Section 31. Special Conclaves may be called by the Grand Commander. 
 
 Section 32. No business shall be transacted at a Special Conclave except 
 that which was specified in the original summons. 
 
 powers and duties. 
 
 Section 33. (1.) Each Grand Commandery, at its Annual Conclave, 
 shall review and consider all the official reports of its officers, and the pro- 
 ceedings of its subordinates for the preceding year. 
 
 (2. ) It shall elect by ballot its several officers ; Provided, that the Grand 
 Standard Bearer, the Grand Sword Bearer, the Grand Warder, and the Grand 
 Captain of the Guard, may be elected or appointed, as the Grand Commandery 
 may direct. 
 
 (3. ) It shall have power to adopt such Rules and Edicts, subordinate to 
 the Constitutions and the Statutes of the Grand Encampment of the United 
 States, as may be necessary for the good of the Order. 
 
 (4.) It shall examine the accounts of the Grand Treasurer and Grand 
 Recorder. 
 
 (5.) It shall supervise the state and condition of the finances, and adopt 
 such measures in relation thereto as may be necessary to increase, secure, and 
 preserve the same, and also to secure the utmost punctuality on the part of 
 every accounting officer in the safe keeping and paying over the funds and 
 property of the Grand Commandery. 
 
 (6.) It may grant or withhold Dispensations and Charters for new Com- 
 manderies. 
 
 (7. ) For good cause it may revoke any pre-existing Charter or Dispensa- 
 tion. 
 
 (8.) It may assign the limits of subordinate Commanderies within its own 
 jurisdiction, and settle all controversies that may arise between them. 
 
 (9. ) And finally, it shall consider and do all matters and things appertain- 
 ing to the good, well-being, and perpetuation of Templar Masonry, but always 
 subordinate to the Grand Encampment of the United States. 
 
GRAND ENCAMPMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 11 
 
 Section 34. At every Conclave, all questions shall be determined by a 
 majority of votes, the presiding officer, for the time being, being entitled to 
 one vote. In case the votes are equally divided, he shall also give the casting 
 vote. 
 
 Section 35. No appeal shall lie to the Grand Commandery from the de- 
 cision of the Grand Commander, except on questions arising as to the con- 
 struction of the Rules and Edicts of the Grand Commandery. 
 
 TENURE OF OFFICE. 
 
 Section 36. The several Grand Officers shall hold their respective offices 
 until their successors shall be duly elected and installed. 
 
 THE GRAND COMMANDER. 
 
 Section 37. (1.) The Grand Commander shall have a watchful super- 
 vision over all the subordinate Commanderies under his jurisdiction, and see 
 that the Constitution, Statutes and Edicts of the Grand Encampment, and the 
 Constitution, Rules and Edicts of his own Grand Commandery, are duly and 
 promptly observed. 
 
 (2. ) He shall have the power and authority, during the recess of his Grand 
 Commandery, to grant Letters of Dispensation to nine or more petitioners 
 residing within his jurisdiction, and possessing the constitutional qualifications 
 empowering them to form and open a Commandery. 
 
 (3. ) Such Dispensation shall be in force no longer than the next Annual 
 Conclave of his Grand Commandery. 
 
 (4. ) But no Letters of Dispensation for constituting a new Commandery 
 shall be issued save upon the recommendation of the Commandery in the same 
 territorial jurisdiction nearest the location of the new Commandery prayed for. 
 
 (o. ) During the recess of his Grand Commandery, he may suspend from 
 the functions of his office any officer of the Grand or subordinate Commandery, 
 or arrest the Charter or Dispensation of a Commandery ; but in neither case 
 shall such suspension affect the standing in the Order of such officer, or his 
 membership in the Commandery. And he shall report his action in full therein 
 to the next Conclave of the Grand Commandery for its final action. 
 
 (6. ) He may visit and preside at any Commandery within the jurisdiction 
 of his Grand Commandery, and give such instructions and directions as the 
 good of the Order may require, always adhering to the Constitution, Statutes 
 and Edicts of the Grand Encampment, and the Constitution, Rules and Edicts 
 of his Grand Commandery. 
 
 (7.) It is his duty, either in person, or by proxy, to attend all Conclaves 
 of the Grand Encampment, and to see that the Grand Recorder promptly dis- 
 charges the duty enjoined in Section 40 (3). 
 
 THE deputy grand COMMANDER. 
 
 Section 38. (1.) The Deputy Grand Commander, in the event of the 
 death, removal, or physical incompetency of his superior, shall act as the 
 Grand Commander. At all other times, he shall perform such other duties as 
 may be assigned him by the Grand Commander or the Grand Commandery. 
 
 (2. ) It is his duty, either in person, or by proxy, to attend all Conclaves 
 of the Grand Encampment. 
 
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 CRAND GENERALISSIMO AND GRANU CAPTAIN GENERAL. 
 
 Section 39. (1.) In the absence of their respective superiors, the Grand 
 Generalissimo and Grand Captain General shall severally act as Grand Com- 
 manders, in order, according to rank. At all other times they shall perform 
 such duties as may ])e assigned them by the Grand Commandery, or such as 
 are traditionally appropriate to their respective stations. 
 
 (2.)' It is their duty, either in person, or by proxy, to attend all Conclaves 
 of the Grand Encampment. 
 
 THE GRAND RECORDER. 
 
 Section 40. (1.) The Grand Recorder shall make an annual communica- 
 tion to the Grand Recorder of each of the other Grand Commanderies, likewise 
 to the Grand Master and the Grand Recorder of the Grand Encampment. 
 
 (2. ) Said comnmnication shall embrace the roll of Grand Officers, and such 
 other matters as may conduce to the general good of the Order. 
 
 (3. ) He shall forward to the Grand Recorder of the Grand Encampment, 
 on or before the first day of July of each year. Annual Returns and Dues for 
 his Grand Commandery. [As amended at Chicago, August 20, A. I). 1880.] 
 
 (4. ) He shall also annually transmit to the (4rand Master and Grand Re- 
 corder of the Grand Encampment of the United States copies of all its printed 
 Proceedings, and of the Statutes, Rules and Edicts adopted by this Grand 
 Commandery. 
 
 THE remaining OFFICERS. 
 
 Section 41. The duties of the remaining officers, as well as those above 
 specified, shall be such as are traditionally appropriate to their respective sta- 
 tions, or allotted to them by the Grand Commandery, and corresponding as 
 near as may be to those of the corresponding officers of the Grand Encampment 
 of the United States. 
 
 GENERAL PROVISIONS. 
 
 Section 42. In the event of the absence of the first four officers of the 
 Grand Commandery, the Past Grand Officers, according to the rank and 
 seniority of service, shall be empowered to preside. 
 
 ARTICLE III. 
 
 SUBORDINATE COMMANDERIES — HOW CONSTITUTED. 
 
 Section 43. Each Grand Commandery shall have exclusive power to con- 
 stitute new Commanderies within its jurisdiction. 
 
 Section 44. The Grand Encampment shall have exclusive power to con- 
 stitute new Commanderies within any State, District or Territory, wherein 
 there is no Grand Commandery regularly formed under the authority of the 
 Grand Encampment. 
 
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 OF WHOM COMPOSED. 
 
 Section 45. A subordinate Commandery consists of the following mem- 
 bers : — 
 
 (1.) The Commander. 
 
 The Generalissimo. 
 
 The Captain General. 
 
 The Prelate. 
 
 The Senior Warden. 
 
 The Junior Warden. 
 
 The Treasurer. 
 
 The Recorder. 
 
 The Standard Bearer. 
 
 The Sword Bearer, and 
 
 The Warder. 
 (2.) As many members as may be found convenient for work and dis- 
 cipline ; each of whom shall be entitled when present, to one vote in the 
 proceedings of the subordinate Commandery. 
 
 TITLES. 
 
 Section 46. The title and designation of the Commander of a subordinate 
 Commandery is Eminent. 
 
 CONCLAVES. 
 
 Section 47. The Stated Conclav^es of a subordinate Commandery shall be 
 held at least semi-annually, at such time and place as may be specified in the 
 charter, or designated in the By-Laws of the Commandery. 
 
 Section 48. Special Conclaves may be called by the Commander. 
 
 Section 49. No business shall be transacted at the Special Conclaves ex- 
 cept that which was specified in the original summons. 
 
 POWERS AND duties. 
 
 Section 50. At every Conclave all questions shall be determined by a 
 majority of votes, the presiding officer, for the time being, being entitled to 
 one vote. In case the votes are equally divided, he shall also give the casting 
 vote. 
 
 Section 51. No appeal shall lie to the Commandery from the decision of 
 the Commander. 
 
 officers. 
 
 Section 52. The several officers shall hold their respective offices until 
 their successors are duly elected and installed. 
 
 the commander. 
 
 vSection 53. (1.) The Commander has it in special charge to see that the 
 By-Laws of his Commandery are duly observed, as well as the Constitution, 
 Statutes, Rules and Edicts of the Grand Commandery, and of the Grand En- 
 campment of the United States. 
 
 (2. ) That accurate records are kept and just accounts rendered. 
 
 (3. ) That regular returns are made to tne Grand Encampment or Grand 
 Commandery annually, and that the annual dues are promptly paid. 
 
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 (4.) It is his duty, together with the Generalissimo and Captain General, 
 either in person or by proxy, to attend all Conclaves of the Grand Encamp- 
 ment or of his Grand Commandery. 
 
 THE RECORDER. 
 
 Section o4. (1.) It shall be the duty of the Eecorder of every subor- 
 dinate Commandery, working under the immediate jurisdiction of the Grand 
 Encampment, 
 
 (2.) To report annually to the (4rand Recorder of the Grand Encampment, 
 up to the first day of July, the roll of his officers and members, and the work- 
 ing roll of his Commandery. [As amended August 20, 1880.] 
 
 (3.) And to accompany the same with the amount of dues to the Grand 
 Encampment ; provided, that in the year in which the Grand Conclave is held, 
 these duties shall be reported a month preceding. 
 
 (4. ) For failure herein, the Commandery so offending shall be subject to 
 knightly discipline. 
 
 GENERAL PROVISIONS. 
 
 Section 55. In the event of the absence of the first three officers of the 
 Commandery, the Past Commanders, according to seniority of service, shall be 
 empowered to preside. 
 
 ARTICLE IV. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS — DUES, FEES, AND FINANCES. 
 
 Section 56. The Grand Commanderies, in such manner as they may re- 
 spectively determine, shall annually collect and pay to the Grand Recorder of 
 the Grand Encampment an amount equal to five cents for each Sir Knight re- 
 turned as a member of their respective subordinate Commanderies, at the 
 Conclave of the Grand Commandery preceding July the first in each year. 
 [As amended August 20, 1880.] 
 
 Section 57. This fund, mth the returns of the. (i rand Commandery, shall 
 be forwarded to the Grand Recorder of the Grand Encampment on or before 
 the first day of July in each year. Returns and dues shall be forwarded the 
 month preceding. [As amended August 20, 1880.] 
 
 Section 58. The fee for instituting a new Commandery shall not be less 
 than ninety dollars. 
 
 Section 59. For every Knight Templar created in any Commandery, 
 whilst under the immediate jurisdiction of the Grand Encampment, there shall 
 be paid two dollars into the treasury of the Grand Encampment. 
 
 Section 60. The Grand Recorder of the Grand Encampment shall receive 
 ten dollars as his fee for each charter issued, and five dollars for endorsing, 
 under the seal of the Grand Encampment, the extension of a dispensation. 
 
 Section 61. The Grand Commanderies, respectively, shall possess au- 
 thority, upon the institution of new Commanderies within their respective 
 jurisdictions — 
 
 (1.) To require from the several Commanderies within their respective 
 jurisdictions, such proportions of the sums received by them for conferring the 
 orders ; 
 
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 (2.) Also such sums in the form of annual dues from their respective mem- 
 bers as may be necessary for supporting the Grand Commandery. 
 
 Section 62. No subordinate Commandery shall confer the Orders of 
 Knighthood for a less sum than twenty dollars. 
 
 UK AND master's CONTINGENT FUND. 
 
 Section 63. There shall be a Contingent. Fund of three hundred dollars 
 placed to the credit of the Most Eminent Grand Master, on the books of the 
 Grand Treasurer, at the close of each Triennial Conclave, out of which the 
 Grand Master shall reimburse himself for his necessary cash expenses in the 
 performance of his constitutional duties, and make a triennial report of the 
 same to the Grand Encampment. 
 
 GRAND recorder's CONTINGENT FUND. 
 
 Section 64. There shall be appropriated, at each Triennial Conclave of 
 the Grand Encampment, a sufficient. sum to be used by the Grand Recorder to 
 meet the current expenses of the secretariat, of which he shall render an ac- 
 count at the succeeding Triennial Conclave. 
 
 ROYAL ARCH MASONS ONLY ELIGIBLE TO THE ORDER. 
 
 Section 65. (1.) No Commandery, Grand or subordinate, shall confer the 
 Orders of Knighthood upon any one who is not a regular Royal Arch Mason, 
 according to the requirements of the (Tcneral Grand Chapter of the United 
 States. 
 
 ORDER OF SUCCESSION. 
 
 (2. ) The rule of succession in conferring the Orders of Knighthood shall 
 be as follows : 1. The Knight of the Red Cross. 2. Knight Templar, and 
 Knight of Malta. 
 
 COMMANDERY TO HAVE DISPENSATION OR CHARTER. 
 
 (3. ) Every Commandery working in a State, District, or Territory, where 
 there is a Grand Commandery, shall have a dispensation or charter from said 
 Grand Commandery. And no Commandery hereafter to be formed or opened 
 in such State, District, or Territory, shall be deemed legal without such dis- 
 pensation or charter. 
 
 WITHOUT CHARTER, ALL TEMPLAR COMMUNICATION FORBIDDEN. 
 
 (4. ) All Templar communication is interdicted between any Commandery 
 working under the general or special jurisdiction of this Grand Encampment, 
 or any member thereof, and any Commandery or member of such, that may 
 be formed, opened, or holden in such State, District, or Territory, without 
 such dispensation or charter. 
 
 SOJOURNER NOT ELIGIBLE TO THE ORDER. 
 
 (5. ) It shall be deemed irregular for any Commandery to confer the Orders 
 of Knighthood, or either of them, upon any sojourner, whose place of residence 
 is within any State, District, or Territory in which there is a Commandery 
 regularly at work, until the consent of the Commandery having territorial 
 jurisdiction is first obtained. 
 
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 DISCIPLINE FOR VIOLATION OF (5). 
 
 (6. ) 111 the event of the violation of this interdict, the Commandery so 
 offending shall be subject to knightly discipline, and be required to pay over 
 to the Commandery having jurisdiction the amount of fees received for such 
 admission. 
 
 vow OF OFFICE. 
 
 (7.) The officers of every Commandery, Grand and Subordinate, before 
 entering upon the exercise of their respective offices, shall take the following 
 vow, viz.: " I, (A. B. ), do promise and vow that I will support and maintain 
 the Constitution and Code of Statutes of the Grand Encampment of Knights 
 Templar of the United States of America." 
 
 PROXIES MAY CONSTITUTE. 
 
 (8.) The Grand Master of this Grand Encampment may issue his proxy to 
 any Knight Templar in regular standing, authorizing him to constitute a sub- 
 ordinate Commandery which has received a charter ; and any Commandery 
 thus constituted shall be deemed regularly constituted. 
 
 READING OF THE JOURNAL. 
 
 Section 66. (1.) After the opening of the Grand Encampment, it shall 
 be the duty of the Grand Recorder to read the journal of the last Triennial 
 Conclave, unless such reading be dispensed with ; and at the resumption of 
 business in each successive morning session, the minutes of the preceding day 
 shall also be read. 
 
 COMMirrEE ON CREDENTIALS. 
 
 (2. ) A Committee on Credentials, consisting of three, shall be appointed 
 by the Grand Master at the opening of the Grand Conclave, to report at the 
 opening of the next session. Promdedy that no Grand or Subordinate Com- 
 mandery shall be reported as represented, nor shall its representatives be en- 
 titled to seats unless the dues shall have been paid and the returns filed in the 
 Grand Recorder's office, except hy a vote of the Grand Encampment. [^tS* 
 amended August ^W, 1880.] 
 
 REPORTS OF GRAND OFFICERS. 
 
 (3.) After the report of this committee, the Grand Master, the Deputy 
 Grand Master, the Grand Generalissimo, the Grand Caj)tain General, the 
 Grand Treasurer, and the Grand Recorder will successively read the reports 
 of their doings during the preceding three years. 
 
 These reports shall be referred to the standing committee on the doings of 
 Grand Officers, who may recommend the apportionment of such parts thereof to 
 special or to such other of the standing committees as they may deem necessary. 
 
 STANDING COMMITTEES. 
 
 (4. ) The standing committees shall be : 
 
 1. A Committee on the Doings of the Grand Officers. 
 
 2. A Committee on Finance. 
 
 3. A Committee on Dispensations and New Commanderies. 
 
 4. A Committee on Unfinished Business. 
 
 5. A Committee on Grievances. 
 
 6. A Committee on Templar Jurispfudelice. 
 
 7. A Committee to designate the place of the next Triennial Conclave. 
 
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 8. A Committee on Printing, consisting of the Grand Master, Deputy 
 (Irand Master, and Grand Recorder, who shall contract for the 
 printing of the proceedings of each Triennial Conclave, and deter- 
 mine, in the absence of a vote of the Grand Encampment, what 
 portion of the proceedings shall be printed, and the style in whicli 
 it shall be done. [As Amended August ',W, 1S80.] 
 
 NEW BUSINESS. 
 
 (5.) While the several committees are preparing their reports, the new 
 business may be acted upon ; and if any subject is brought forward requiring 
 a reference to any standing or special committee, it shall be so referred forth- 
 with. 
 
 All committees shall report as soon as convenient after their appointment. 
 
 SPEAK BUT ONCE. 
 
 (6.j No Sir Knight shall be allowed to speak more than once on the same 
 subject, except to explain the meaning of some of his remarks, unless it be by 
 special permission of the (xrand Encampment tirst obtained. 
 
 ELECTION OF OFFICERS. 
 
 (7. ) The Grand Encampment shall proceed to the election of officers for 
 the ensuing three years, immediately after the opening of the first session on 
 Thursday following the commencement of the Triennial Conclave. 
 
 EXEMPLTFICATTON OF THE WORK. 
 
 (8. ) It shall be the duty of the Grand Master at each Triennial Conclave, 
 if time permit, to cause an exemplification of the work appertaining to the 
 Orders of Knighthood before the Grand Encampment ; and also to correct 
 officially all irregularities and discrepancies that exist. 
 
 AMENDMENTS. 
 
 Section 67. The Grand Encampment shall be competent, upon the con- 
 currence of three-fourths of its members present at any reguhir Conclave, to 
 revise, amend, and alter this Constitution. 
 
 Provided, however^ that any member intending to submit a motion relative 
 to a change of the Constitution, Statutes, or Rituals, shall give notice thereof 
 in writing to the Grand Recorder, at least four months before the day on which 
 the Grand Conclave shall be held at which such subject is to be discussed, and 
 notice thereof shall l)e inserted in the summons ; otherwise no such motion 
 shall be entertained. 
 
 Provided, further ^ that the proposed amendments may be modified in any 
 manner by the Grand ICncampment while the same is under consideration. 
 No modification, however, shall be made not germain to tlie matter contained 
 in the original proposed amendment. 
 
18 CODE OF STATUTES OP THE 
 
 CODE OF STATUTES 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Grand EncampmGnt d1 Knights TEmplai 
 
 OF THE 
 
 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
 
 Adopted in 1874. 
 
 I. APPEAL. 
 
 1. All expelled or suspended Knight has the right of appeal to his Grand 
 Commmaiidery. 
 
 2. Effect of appeal. An appeal taken from expulsion, or indefinite sus- 
 pension, does not suspend the judgment appealed from. In other cases an 
 appeal operates as a supersedeas. 
 
 3. If the judgment appealed from be reversed, the Knight who was under 
 discipline is thereby restored to good standing and membership in his Com- 
 mandery. 
 
 4. A Grand Commandery, upon an appeal, may modify the judgments of 
 its subordinates. 
 
 5. If the Grand Commandery shall restore an expelled or suspended Knight 
 to good standing merely, the Grand Recorder shall give a certificate to that 
 effect. 
 
 6. An appeal taken and abandoned leaves the judgment in full force. 
 
 7. Appeal, how heard. A Grand Commandery acting upon an appeal 
 may admit the appellant to argue his own case, although he may have been 
 expelled by his Commandery. 
 
 8. An accused may be represented by counsel at all stages of the trial : 
 provided, such counsel shall be a Knight Templar in good standing. 
 
 9. Appeal from the Grand Commandery. A decision of a Grand Com- 
 mandery is final, and no appeal to the Grand Encampment can be taken, unless 
 the decision involves a construction of the Constitution, Code of Statutes or 
 Edicts, or Statutes of the Grand Encampment. 
 
 II. ABSENTEES — RIGHTS OF. 
 
 A member of a Commannery has the right to know all the transactions at 
 the Conclaves of his Commandery, whether affecting himself or not. 
 
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 III. ADJOURN. 
 
 The Grand Encampment and Grand Commanderies ' ' adjourn. " 
 
 IV. ASSESSMENTS. 
 
 1. May be levied. A Commandery, Grand Commandery, and the Grand 
 Encampment, respectively, has the right to levy and collect such pro rata 
 assessments as may be needed to pay the expenses of the body. 
 
 2. In the absence of any special law, a majority vote may determine the pro- 
 priety of an assessment and the amount thereof ; provided, however, a member 
 of a subordinate Commandery may appeal to his Grand Commandery if he feels 
 aggrieved by such assessment, and claims that it is in violation of Templar law. 
 
 V. BALLOT. 
 
 1. To be secret. The ballot upon a petition for the Orders, or for mem- 
 bership, must be secret, and it must be sacred ; and it can be taken only at a 
 stated Conclave, unlelss by written permission of the Grand Commander. 
 
 2. Who is to vote. Every member present when a ballot is taken is re- 
 quired to vote, unless excused by the Commandery before the balloting has 
 commenced. 
 
 3. When it may be repeated. An Eminent Commander, upon good 
 cause shown, may order one reballot before the result of the ballot has been 
 recorded, and before any member of the Commandery has left the asylum. 
 
 Objections to. See title ''Objection after Ballot.'- 
 
 VI. business. 
 
 Where and when transacted. All business of the Commandery must 
 be transacted in the asylum, and at a stated Conclave, or at a special Conclave, 
 due notice of such Conclave and of the business to be transacted having been 
 ^iven to each member of the Commandery. Arrangements for the funeral of 
 a Knight may be made and the Orders may be conferred at special Conclave. 
 
 VII. BURIAL. 
 
 1. Ritual for. When a Knight is buried by his Commandery the burial 
 ceremony approved by the Grand Encampment in 1859 must be observed. 
 
 2. Right of. An unaffiliated Knight Templar is not entitled to the 
 honors of Knightly burial. 
 
 3. When by Lodge. A Commandery may perform escort duty at the 
 burial of a Knight by his Lodge, when so requested. 
 
 VIII. charter. 
 
 1. Necessity of warrant of Grand Master. A Grand Commandery 
 cannot be constituted without the warrant of the Grand Master, although the 
 Grand Encampment has authorized its formation. 
 
 2. A subordinate Commandery cannot be constituted without a duly exe- 
 cuted charter. 
 
 3. Loss OF. If a Commandery should lose its charter, the Grand Com- 
 mander can authorize it to hold Conclaves and transact business by issuing an 
 order setting forth the facts ; which order shall have the effect of a charter 
 until a duplicate shall be issued by the Grand Commandery. 
 
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 4. Whkn it may be surrendered. No Commaudeiy can surrender its 
 charter so long as there are nine members of the Command eiy who desire and 
 are able to work under said charter, according to the constitution of the Gi'and 
 Commandery. 
 
 5. When surrendered or arrested, status of members. When the 
 charter of a Commandery shall have been surrendered or arrested, the mem- 
 bers thereof in good standing shall, upon payment of their dues to the ( rrand 
 Commandery, be entitled, on proper application, to a certificate of such good 
 standing from the Grand Recorder having charge of the books and effects of 
 the Commandery ; provided, however, in case of the arrest of the charter, the 
 Grand Commander may suspend, and the Grand Commandery may prohibit 
 the issuing of such certificates to those whose actions or neglect of duty may 
 have caused the airest of the charter. 
 
 6. Surrendered and restored. A charter surrendered or arrested can- 
 not be granted to form a new Commandeiy, Init may be restored to tl^ former 
 members in good Templar standing who are unaffiliated. 
 
 7. In this case it is not proper to constitute the Commandery again. 
 
 IX. COMMANDERIES. 
 
 1. Requisites for forming. A dispensation or charter to form a new 
 Commandery cannot be granted except upon a petition of at least nine Knights 
 Templar in good standing. 
 
 2. Petitioners for a new Commandery need not dimit from other Com- 
 manderies. 
 
 See title ^^ Membership, Petitions,''' etc. 
 
 3. The ])etition for a dispensation must have indorsed upon it the lecom- 
 mendation of the Commandery nearest the location designated for the new one. 
 
 4. If the new Commandery is to be stationed in a city where there is more 
 than one Commandery, two of those located in such city must recommend the 
 petition. 
 
 See title '* Meetings — wheru held.^^ 
 
 5. Traveling Commanderies. No dispensation or charter can })e granted 
 to organize a traveling or itinerant Commandery. 
 
 6. Under dispensation. A Commandery under dispensation cannot be 
 constituted. 
 
 7. Extinct Commanderies cannot be revived. When a Commandery U. 
 D. ceases to exist it cannot be revived. 
 
 8. Officers of, not to be elected or installed. Its officers cannot 
 be elected or installed. 
 
 9. Cannot be represented. It cannot be represented in a (xrand Body. 
 
 10. Jurisdiction of. Except as above specified, it has the same rights 
 and powers as a chartered Commandery. 
 
 11. Status of Knights created in. Knights created in a Commandery 
 U. D. are members thereof, and sustain the exact relation to that Com- 
 mandery and to other Templars which is sustained by those knighted in 
 chartered Commanderies. 
 
 12. How affected by the formation of Grand Commanderies. When 
 a Grand Commandery is formed in a jurisdiction in which there is a Com- 
 
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 mandery U. D., the latter comes at once under the authority of the former, 
 and should report to it, and obtain from it or its Grand Commander a contin- 
 uance of its dispensation. 
 
 13. How CREATED. A Commandery is created by the grant of a charter, 
 which is the proper evidence of the fact, and becomes effective only when the 
 Commandery shall have been constituted under it. 
 
 See title ^^ Charter — (1.) Necessity of warrant of Grand Master.'" 
 
 14. No Commandery shall be constituted until it is provided with a suit- 
 able asylum, properly furnished. 
 
 15. When constituted, report thereof should be made to the Crand Master 
 or (Irand Commander (as the case may be) and the Grand Recorder. 
 
 16. Officers of — when to be installed. The officers can only be in- 
 stalled after the Commandery shall have been duly constituted in the presence 
 of at least nine of its members. 
 
 17. The officers of a Commandery which has not been constituted are not 
 members of the Grand Connnandery, and cannot vote therein, although the 
 charter of their Commandery has been issued. 
 
 18. Duty when Grand Commandery is formed. Upon the formation 
 of a Grand Commandery, it is the duty of every subordinate within its juris- 
 diction to enroll itself under such Grand Commandery, have its charter in- 
 dorsed thereby, and to obey its Constitution and Statutes. 
 
 19. Can belon(j to no other Grand Commandery. A subordinate 
 Commandery cannot be under the authority of, or belong to, any Grand Com- 
 mandery but the one having jurisdiction over the State, Territory or District 
 in which it is located. 
 
 20. Failure to meet — effect of. A Commandery failing to meet for 
 twelve consecutive months forfeits all of its rights as a Commandery, and its 
 charter should be arrested. 
 
 21. Dissolution of a Crand Commandery — effect of. If a Grand 
 Commandery should dissolve, its subordinates do not for that cause cease to 
 exist, but pass at once under the immediate authority of the Grand En- 
 campment. 
 
 22. When may appear in public. Commanderies shall not appear in 
 public, as such, without permission of the Grand Commander, except upon 
 funeral occasions. 
 
 23. When Commanderies appear in public, in their own State or out of it, 
 they are under the immediate authority of the Grand Commander if he chooses 
 to assume the command. If he is not present, the officer upon whom under 
 the Constitution his duties devolve, may act in his place. But all are under 
 the authority of the Grand Commander in whose jurisdiction they may, at the 
 time, be. 
 
 Commanderies illeual. See titl^ ''Illegal (Joininanderies.'^ 
 Jurisdiction of. See title ''Jurisdiction.'' 
 
 24. How Conclaves terminate. Subordinate Commanderies " close ;" 
 they do not "call off," or "adjourn." 
 
 See title '^Adjourn.'' 
 
 Charter must be present. See title '^Warrant." 
 
 Uniform of. See title ^^ Uniform.^' 
 
22 CODE OF STATUTES OF THE 
 
 X. CONFER OKDERS— WHO CAN. 
 
 In the absence of the Eminent Commander, the Generalissimo, and in the 
 absence of both, the Captain General, and in the absence of all three, the Past 
 Commander, according to the seniority of service, may preside and confer the 
 Orders of Kniejhthood. (As amended in 1877. See proceedings, p. 172.) 
 
 COSTUME. 
 
 See title "(/«i/b?'m. " 
 
 M. DEBATE. 
 
 How CLOSED. When the presiding- officer wishes the debate to close he 
 rises, and that ends the discussion. 
 
 XII. DECISIONS. 
 
 Decisions of Grand Master, etc., to be digested. All decisions of the 
 ( rrand Master, as approved or modified by the Grand Encampment, and all 
 decisions of the Grand Encampment, to be digested and published as a Sup- 
 plement to the Code of Statutes. The digest to be made by a " special com- 
 mittee." (See proceedings 1877, pp. 18*2, 186.) 
 
 XIII. DIMITS. 
 
 How granted. A member of a Commandery may receive a dimit without 
 a vote of the Commandery, at a stated Conclave, upon request made in the 
 open Commandery ; provided, his dues shall have been paid, and no charges 
 are pending against him. 
 
 Effect of. See titles " Bank of Officers,'' " BuriaW 
 
 XIV. ELE(TriONS. 
 
 1. How held. All elections, in all Templar bodies, must be by ballot. 
 
 2. Blanks void. Blanks are not votes, and cannot be considered as such 
 in the elections of officers. 
 
 XV. eminent commander. 
 
 1. How suspended. An Eminent Commander may be suspended by his 
 Grand Commander, or the officer acting as such, in his own State, or out of it 
 with his Commandery ; and this suspension continues until revoked by the 
 Grand Commander, or reversed by trial. But suspension from office does not 
 affect his membership in his Commandery. 
 
 2. Trial of. An Eminent Commander cannot be tried by his own Com- 
 mandery, but by the Grand Commandery, and by the (Irand Encampment 
 where there is no Grand Commandery. 
 
 XVI. extinct commanderies. 
 
 1. How may become so. See titles " Commanderle.s — Failure to Meet : 
 Charier — When Surrendered,'' etc. 
 
 2. How revived. See title " Charter— Surrendered and Restored." 
 
 3. Revived, not to be constituted. See title ''Charter—Surrendered 
 and Restored." 
 
 4. Status of members of. When a Commandery has ceased to exist, its 
 members may join another Commandery, upon petition, and certificate from 
 
GRAND ENCAMPMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 23 
 
 the Grand Recorder of the State liolding the charter and papers of the extinct 
 Commandery, that his standing therein was good when said Conimandery 
 ceased to exist. 
 
 5. Chartek, when it may be surrendered. See title '^Charter — When 
 it may 6e," etc. 
 
 XVII. EXPULSION OR SUSPENSION. 
 
 1. By Commandery — effect of. The suspension or expulsion of a 
 Knight by his Commandery deprives him of all the rights and privileges of 
 Knighthood so long as the judgment remains in force. 
 
 2. By Lodge or Chapter. Expulsion or suspension from his Masonic 
 rights by his Lodge or Chapter, deprives a Knight of all rights and privileges 
 in his Conimandery, and of all intercourse with the Order. 
 
 3. In such case a certificate of the Lodge or Chapter, of its action, must 
 be filed with the Recorder of the Commandery, and a minute should be made 
 of the reception of such certificate, and of its legal efifect, to- wit : that the 
 Knight is thereby divested of his knightly rank and of all its privileges. 
 
 4. The certificate from the Lodge or Chapter must show not only the fact 
 of suspension or expulsion, but also that the body had jurisdiction. 
 
 5. If a certificate of the facts cannot be obtained from the Secretary of 
 the Lodge or Chapter, they may be proved by oral testimony ; and the same 
 entry should be made as required in paragraph 3. 
 
 6. When the expulsion or suspension is made or confirmed by the Grand 
 Lodge or Grand Chapter, as the case may be, the Commandeiy cannot go be- 
 hind the record or adjudicate upon the question of jurisdiction. 
 
 7. How removed, a Knight who has been expelled by liis Commandery 
 may be restored by a two-thii'ds vote to good standing. 
 
 8. If suspended by his Commandery, a majority vote will restore to good 
 standing. 
 
 9. In either case of suspension or expulsion by his Commandery the 
 Knight can be restored to membership only upon petition and unanimous 
 ballot. 
 
 10. W^heii the suspension or expulsion from the Commandery was the 
 result of suspension or expulsion by Lodge or Chapter, a certificate of his 
 restoration in the body which disciplined him will restore the Knight to good 
 standing and membership. 
 
 11. In case of definite suspension, the restoration of the Knight to his 
 Lodge or Chapter restores him to knightly standing.* 
 
 xviii. fees. 
 Cannot be remitted. The prescribed fees for the Orders of Knighthood 
 cannot be remitted by a Commandery, directly or indirectly. 
 
 XIX. foreign knights. 
 
 Not Red Cross. A Knight Templar created in a foreign jurisdiction, and 
 who has not received the Order of Red Cross, may, at his examination, take 
 the vow and have that Order communicated to him, and thereafter may be 
 admitted to the asylum. 
 
 Foreign Representatives. See title '^Representatives^'' etc. 
 
 * Note— See Digest, •* Expulsion and Suspension." 
 
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 XX. GRAND COMMANDERIES. 
 
 1. How FORMED. A Grand Commandery can be formed only in a State, 
 Territory or District where none exists, and only upon tlie petition of at least 
 
 ♦ three chartered Commanderies. 
 
 2. The warrant of the Grand Master is necessary, although the Grand 
 Encampment may have authorized a warrant to be issued. 
 
 3. Each subordinate Commandery must l)e represented, and there must 
 be at least nine members present. 
 
 4. When a warrant is duly issued, a convocation of the representatives of 
 at least three of the petitioning Commanderies is held ; the warrant of the 
 Grand Master is read ; credentials are examined and approved ; a resolution 
 is adopted agreeing to form a Grand Conmiandery ; a Code of Statutes is 
 adopted, and officers are elected and installed. All of these proceedings must 
 be entered upon the journal, and due report thereof made to the Grand Master 
 and Grand Recorder of the Grand Encampment. 
 
 5. The Commanderies rank according to the dates of their Charters ; and 
 the Eminent Commander of the oldest Connnandery is, by courtesy, en- 
 titled to command or preside until a Grand Commander is elected and installed. 
 
 6. When Grand Commandery ceases to exist. A Grand Commandery 
 once formed continues to exist as long as it has nine members ; when the num- 
 ber of its constitutional members becomes less than nine it becomes extinct. 
 
 XXI. healing. 
 
 1. Healing consists in re-obligating the Knight, and correcting what has 
 been done amiss at his creation. 
 
 2. By whom. The Grand Commandery or Grand Commander, (by its 
 authority) in whose jurisdiction a Kniglit was irregularly created, has power 
 to heal him. 
 
 .3. This power may be delegated to a subordinate Commandery or an Em- 
 inent Commander. 
 
 4. W^ho cannot be healed. One Knighted in a clandestine manner or in 
 a spurious Commandery cannot be healed. 
 
 HONORARY MEMBERS. 
 
 See title ' ' Mem hersliip — Hono7'ary. " 
 
 XXII. ILLEGAL COMMANDERIES. 
 
 Without Dispensation or Charter. All Commanderies or pretended 
 Commanderies are spurious unless held under a Dispensation or Charter as 
 herein prescribed ; and all communication with such bodies is forbidden, and 
 also all recognition and intercourse with their members as Knights. 
 
 xxiii. information. 
 
 How OBTAINED. Kuights desiring information relative to any point in law 
 or usage of Templar Masonry, should apply to their Eminent Commander ; the 
 Eminent Commander, if necessary, shall apply to his Grand Commander, and 
 the Grand Commander, in turn, to the Grand Master. 
 
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 XXIV. INSTALL OFFICERS. 
 
 1. Of Grand Encampment— who may. The officers of the Grand En- 
 campment may be installed by the Grand Master, or by a Past Grand Master. 
 If none such are present, then by the oldest Past Grand Commander (by ser- 
 vice) who may be present. 
 
 2. Of Grand Commander y. The officers of a Grand Commandery may 
 be installed by either of the first four officers of the Grand Encampment, by a 
 Past Grand Master, by the Grand Commander, or by a Past Grand Com- 
 mander. If none such are present, then by the oldest Past Eminent Com- 
 mander (by service) who may be present. 
 
 3. Of a Subordinate CoMMANDfcRY. The officers of a subordinate Com- 
 mandery may be installed by any permanent member of the Grand Encamp- 
 ment, by either of the first four officers of the Grand Commandery, by the 
 Eminent Commander, or by a Past Eminent Commander. The ceremony used 
 in such case shall be that prescribed by the Grand Encampment in the "Forms 
 for Installation." [As amended 1877. See Supplement. J 
 
 4. When to be. The officers of a new Commandery cannot be installed 
 at the Conclave of the Grand Commandery at which the Charter is granted, 
 unless the Commandery shall have first been legally constituted, and such 
 officers shall have been duly elected. 
 
 5. When installation is performed by one in office, no special authority is 
 re({uired. 
 
 6. When by proxy. When by a past officer, the commanding officer 
 must be present authorizing it, or his written proxy must be produced. 
 
 7. The officers to be installed cannot be represented by a proxj^ 
 Officers U. D. not to be. See title " Comma7ide7'ies Under Disperisation.'' 
 
 8. When by commission. Officers-elect of the Grand Encampment, or of 
 a Grand Commandery, who cannot be present at the regular time for installa- 
 tion, may be installed in such Commandery as the Grand Encampment or 
 Grand Commandery respectively may designate. 
 
 9. The Recorder of the Commandery in which such installation shall take 
 place shall forthwith certify the fact to the Grand Kecorder. 
 
 XXV. jurisdiction. 
 
 1. Boundaries of. In the absence of a Sta1;ute of the proper Grand 
 Commandery, or of a Special Edict of the Grand Encampment, defining the 
 limits of each Commandery, the jurisdiction thereof, whether chartered or 
 under dispensation, extends in all directions to one-half the distance, by a 
 direct line, between itself and the next nearest Commandery: Provided, that in 
 no case can it extend beyond the limits of the State, Territory or District in 
 which it is located. 
 
 2. Each Commandery has penal jurisdiction over all Knights non-affiliated, 
 as well as affiliated, for violation of moral or Templar law within its territorial 
 jurisdiction. 
 
 3. Violation of. It is not lawful for a Commandery to confer the Orders 
 upon any one residing within the jurisdiction of another Commandery, without 
 first obtaining the permission of such Commander5\ 
 
26 CODE OF STATUTES OF THE 
 
 4. Over sojourners. When a petition for the Orders is received from a 
 sojourner, or from one \Vho has not resided for six months within the juris- 
 diction of the Commandery, it is the duty of the Commandery receiving it to 
 notify the Commandery within whose jurisdiction the petitioner resided, and 
 obtain its consent that jurisdiction shall be exercised over the petition of the 
 petitioner. 
 
 5. It shall be competent, in such cases, for a Commandery to waive its 
 jurisdiction, and permit another Commandery to confer the Orders upon one 
 residing within its jurisdiction* 
 
 XXVI. MEETINGS. 
 
 1. Where held. A Commandery can hold its Conclaves only in the 
 place designated in its Dispensation or Charter. 
 
 2. A Commandery may remove its asylum from one house to another in 
 the same place, by a vote of a majority of its members present at a stated 
 Conclave, and after due notice of the proposed change. 
 
 3. If the regular asylum of a Commandery, from any cause, becomes an 
 unfit or improper place for holding th6 Conclaves, the Grand Commander may 
 authorize them to be held elsewhere in the same place. 
 
 Failure of. See title '' CommandeYks — Failure to Meet.^^ 
 
 XXVII. membership. 
 
 1. Who are members of a Commandery. Those who receive the Order 
 of the Temple in a Commandery are ipso facto members thereof, whether such 
 Commandery be chartered or under dispensation. 
 
 2. Petitioners for a new Commandery— status of. After a Dispensa- 
 tion is granted to form a new Commandery the membership of the Knights 
 who petitioned therefor remains in abeyance as to the older Commanderies to 
 which they belonged when signing the petition. They become active mem- 
 bers of the Commandery while under dispensation, and when a Charter is 
 granted, and the Commandery constituted, they continue to be members of 
 the nesv Commandery, and cease to be members of the old ones. 
 
 3. If the Dispensation should be withdrawn^ or a Charter refused, the 
 Knights who petitioned therefor resume their membership in their former 
 Commanderies without petition or other ceremony. 
 
 4. When a Charter is granted, and the Commandery constituted, the Re- 
 corder of the new Commandery must certify the fact to each Commandery to 
 which any of the petitioning Knights belonged, and this v/ill terminate their 
 former affiliation. 
 
 5. Honorary. Honorary membership does not confer the right to vote, 
 nor any rank or standing therein, but is merely complimentary. 
 
 XXVIII. OFFICERS. 
 
 1. Incompatible. When any one of the first three officers of a Com- 
 mandery shall be elected and installed as Grand Master or Grand Commander, 
 his rights and powers as such subordinate officer, for the time being, ipso facto, 
 ceases, and the vacancy shall be tilled as hereinafter provided for. (See pro- 
 ceedings 1877, p. 174.) 
 
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 2. Succession of. When a vancy occurs in the office of Eminent Com- 
 mander, the powers and duties devolve upon the Generalissimo, and if there 
 should be no Generalissimo, upon the Captain General. 
 
 3. When there is no officer in line to fill a vacancy, the commanding officer 
 shall, by appointment, till the vacancy pro tein. 
 
 4. If a vacancy occur in any elective office other than that of Eminent 
 Commander, the Grand Commander may authorize a new election, upon re- * 
 request to that effect by the Commandery : Provided, however, in case of a 
 vacancy in both the offices of Eminent Commander and Generalissimo, the 
 Captain General shall succeed to the duties and powers of the Eminent Com- 
 mander, without an election. 
 
 5. When the vacancy is in one of the appointive offices, it shall be tilled 
 by appointment by the commanding officer. 
 
 6. Failure to be installed. If any officer duly elected or appointed 
 shall, without reasonable excuse, neglect to attend at the time fixed for install- 
 ation, hi« election or appointment may be declared void by a vote of the body 
 which elected him, or by the officer who appointed him. 
 
 7. Change of residence,' effect of. Whenever a Grand Commander or 
 an Eminent Commander changes his residence to a place beyond the jurisdic- 
 tion of his (4rand Commandery, he thereby vacates his office, and can exercise 
 its powers no longer. 
 
 Rank of. See title ''Bank — 0/ Officers.'^ 
 Who may resign. See title "Besk/n/' 
 
 XXIX. objection after ballot. 
 
 1. Who tmay make. A member of a Commandery in good standing may 
 object to the conferring of the Orders upon an elected candidate, and this 
 whether the objecting Knight was present when the ballot was taken or not. 
 
 2. When such objection is made, either in open Commandery or to the 
 Eminent Commander, the Orders cannot be conferrred ; and the fact of objec- 
 tion alone, and not the name of the objector, should be entered upon the min- 
 utes, and it is equivalent to the rejection of the candidate by ballot. 
 
 3. The objecting Knight cannot be required to disclose his reasons there- 
 for. 
 
 4. Of VISITING Knights. Objections to a candidate may be received 
 from a visiting Knight, and should be duly considered by the Commandery; 
 but they are not conclusive, like those of a member. 
 
 XXX. PETITION FOR ORDERS. 
 
 1 . Form of. Every petition for the Orders of Knighthood shall declare 
 the Lodge and Chapter in which the petitioner received the degrees, and shall 
 state whether he has or has not been previously rejected by any Commandery. 
 
 2. It shall also declare that the petitioner is a firm believer in the Chris- 
 tian religion. 
 
 3. Must be signed. No petition can be received unless signed by the 
 applicant in person, giving his full name, residence and occupation. 
 
 4. But one applicant to sign a petition. No petition can be received 
 which is signed by more than one applicant. 
 
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 5. To r.K Ki:('(>MMKM>Ki). IvK'li petition must l)c signed by two vouchers 
 and reconiinenders, who are iueiid)ers of the Commaiidery to which the peti- 
 tion is presented, 
 
 ()'. (\\NN'>r r.i: w rrii kkawn. ^Vhen a petition has been presented to a 
 Conmiandery it cannot be withdrawn, unless it shall appear that the Coni- 
 niandery has not jurisdiction over the petitioner. 
 
 7. Report not to 3}E re(K)RDED. The character of the report of a com- 
 mittee of inquiry, whether favorable or unfavorable, should never be recorded. 
 
 8. Unfavorable report, effect of. An unfavoralde report does not 
 dispense with the necessity of a ballot, which must be taken in all cases. 
 
 9. When to be received and acted on. Petitions can l)e received or 
 acted on only at stated Conclaves, unless l)y written permission of the Grand 
 Commander. 
 
 10. No ballot can be had upon a petition until after it has been referred 
 to a committee of three members of the Commandery, and that committee has 
 reported, 
 
 11. A petition cannot be balloted on until at Icaist four weeks after it has 
 been presented to the Commandery, iinlesj^ by written permission of the Grand 
 Commander. 
 
 See title ^^ Ballot — to be Secret.''' 
 
 12. When a rejected petttion may Bt: renewed. The petition of one 
 who has been rejected cannot be renewed until at least six months after such 
 rejection. 
 
 13. Where. It may then be received by the Commandery in whose 
 jurisdiction the petitioner then resides : Proolded, the Commandery l)y which 
 he was rejected consents to waive its jurisdiction. 
 
 Prelate in Red Cross. See title " h'ed Cross — High Priest.'' 
 
 XXXI. PROXY. 
 
 In Grand Bodies. No person can give or act as proxy except those upon 
 whom the power is conferred in the Constitution. 
 
 Officers cannot be installed by. See title ''Install Officers — vj/ien by 
 proxij. " 
 
 Installing officer may grant, when. See title ''Install Officers — lolitn 
 by coniinlsslon. " 
 
 XXXII. QUALIFICATION FOR ORDERS. 
 
 What required. See title " Petition for Orders— form of.''' 
 
 1. Council Decrees, etc., not necessary. It is not necessary that 
 petitioners should have received the degrees of Royal and Select Master. 
 
 2. Nor is it necessary that the petitioner be a member of either Lodge or 
 Chapter. 
 
 3. Loss OF A LEG, ETC., EFFECT OF. The loss of a leg or arm by a peti- 
 tioner disqualifies him from receiving the Orders of Knighthood. 
 
 XXXIII. QUORUM. 
 
 What coustitutes. A quorum in the Grand Encampment, Grand Corn- 
 manderies and subordinate Commanderies, consists of nine members entitled 
 to vote therein, including an officer entitled to open the body. 
 
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 XXXIV. RANK. 
 
 1. Ob Commandekies, Grand and Subordinate. Commanderies, Grand 
 and sul)ordinate, take rank according to the date of their several organizations, 
 unless any of them voluntarily waive their proper rank. 
 
 2. Of Officers. Election (or appointment) and installation are neces&ai y 
 to confer rank. 
 
 3. The Standard Bearer outranks the Sword Bearer, and the Sword 
 Bearer outranks the Warder, and the Treasurer outranks the Recorder. 
 
 4. Present officers on duty in their own bodies outrank past officers of 
 any grade. 
 
 5. A Knight dimitting to the jurisdiction of another Grand Commandery 
 forfeits his membership and right to voice and vote in the Grand and subor- 
 dinate Commandery of which he had been a member, and acquires no rank in 
 the Grand Commandery of the jurisdiction in which he has affiliated, but " a 
 Past Commander may be elected to membership therein." 
 
 6. But Past Grand Commanders do not lose their membership in the 
 Grand Encampment by change of membership to another jurisdiction, nor by 
 becoming unaffiliated. 
 
 7. Honorary membership. Honorary membership confers no rank. 
 
 XXXV. RESIGN. 
 
 1. Who may rj^sign. Any officer of a Commandery under dispensation 
 may resign, with the consent of the Grand Master or Grand Commander, re- 
 spectively. 
 
 2. Neither of the first three officers of a chartered Commandery can resign 
 after installation. 
 
 Repeating the ballot. See title ''Ballot — ivhen It may he repeated.''^ 
 
 XXXVI. RED cross. 
 
 From foreign countries. See title ''Foreign Knhjhts.'' 
 High Priest, not Prelate. In the Council of Red Cross Knights "High 
 Priest " is the title of the officer ministering at the altar. 
 
 Revival of old charter. See title "Charter —Surrendered and Rentored.'^ 
 
 xxxvii. representatives. 
 
 Forekjn, not to be appointed by Grand Commanderies. Grand Com- 
 manderies cannot exchange representatives with Templar organizations outside 
 of the jurisdiction of the Grand Encampment of the United States. 
 
 XXXVIII. RITUAL. 
 
 Not TO BE ALTERED. The ritual as promulgated by the Grand Encamp- 
 ment cannot be altered or abridged l)y the Grand Master, (xiand Commander, 
 or Grand Commandery. 
 
 Burial. See title "/??rWa7 — Ritual for. ''^ 
 
 For installation. See title "Install Officers,'' etc., and forms adopted 
 by the Grand Encampment. 
 
 XXXIX. SEAL. 
 
 Form of, adopted. The seal of the Grand Encampment is that adopted 
 September 12, 1844 (see reprint, p. 95), and altered September 15, 1856 (re- 
 
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 print, p. 311), and affixed to the Constitution, edition 1856, and Attestation, 
 1877. 
 
 XL. SUMMONS. 
 
 1. What is legal. A notice published in the newspapers is not a legal 
 summons ; it must be by personal service, or by notice left at the residence or 
 place of business of the person summoned, or deposited in the post office, 
 directed to his usual address. 
 
 2. Seal necessary. It is necessary that the seal should be affixed to a 
 summons, but not to a notice of a Conclave. 
 
 3. Knights should obey. Every Knight should promptly and strictly 
 obey the summons of his Commander. 
 
 4. Contain notice, etc. All propositions to amend Code, etc., must be 
 inserted in the summons to attend Triennial Conclave. 
 
 Suspension. See title ^' Expulsion or Suspension.'^ 
 
 XLI. TITLE. 
 
 What constitutes. One who has tilled by election and a term of service 
 an elective office retains the rank and title, with the word " Past" prefixed — as 
 Past Eminent Commander, Past (J rand Commander, Past Grand Master. 
 
 Of Prelate. See title ""Red Cross— High FrksC 
 
 XLII. TRIAL. 
 
 1. How CONDUCTED. Trials of Sir Knights shall be in oj)en Commandery; 
 and the Eminent Commander shall preside, and decide all questions of law 
 and all questions upon the admissibility of evidence. And the trial shall be 
 conducted as prescribed in the " Forms for Templar Trials," enacted and pro- 
 mulgated by the Grand Encamjjment. 
 
 2. W^hen a trial takes place in the Grand Commandery, the Grand Com- 
 mander shall preside ; when in the Grand Encampment, the Grand Master 
 shall preside. 
 
 See titles '"'Appeal — How heard ;""' ^'Eminent Commander -Trial oj."*' 
 
 XLIII. UNAFFILIATED KNIGHTS. 
 
 Cannot vote. Unaffiliated Knights cannot vote in person or as proxy, or 
 hold office in any Commandery, Grand or subordinate. They are, however, 
 amenable for violation of moral or Templar law to the Commandery within 
 whose jurisdiction they reside. 
 
 Effect of dimit. See titles '' Burial —Birjht of;" '' Rank— Of Officers ;'' 
 ^'Dimit — Effect of ."' 
 
 Cannot have Knightly burial. See title ''Burial — Right o/." 
 
 XLiv. uniform. 
 
 1. Of Knkuits Templak. The uniform of a Knight Templar is that pre- 
 scribed by the Gra»ul Encampment in 1862. No other uniform is allowed, and 
 no authority other than the Grand Encampment cin modify or alter it. 
 
 2. Provided, however, that all members of Commanderies which now have 
 what is known as the " black uniform" be permitted to wear it while members 
 of said Commandery ; but no other Commandery, nor the members thereof, 
 
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 shall be authorized or permitted to wear any other than the regulation pre- 
 scribed in 1862. 
 
 3. Provided, further, that any Commandery in a State where the black 
 uniform is worn may, by permission of its Grand Commandery, adopt and 
 wear such black uniform. 
 
 4. No officer or member can be present in the Grand Encampment, or in 
 a Grand Commandery, unless in full Templar uniform, except by vote of the 
 body excusing him. 
 
 5. Of Knights of the Rkd Cross. The Templar baldric reversed, ex- 
 hibiting the green side ; Templar cap covered ; sword, and white gloves ; con- 
 stitute the uniform of a Red Cross Knight. The Sovereign Master wears the 
 royal robes and crown, and the High Priest his full robes, etc. 
 
 Of Knights of Malta. Same as Knights Templar. 
 
 Under dispensation — Commandery. See title ^^ Commander ie a — Under 
 Dispensation.^^ 
 
 Vacancies— HOW filled. See title '-^Officers — Succession o/*." 
 
 XLV. visiting knights. 
 
 Objection of a member excludes. No visiting Knight can be admitted 
 to an asylum if one only of the regular members present objects. The objection 
 may be made openly or privately to the Eminent Commander, and in neither 
 case can the objector be required to disclose his reasons for his objection. 
 
 XLVi. warrant or dispensation. 
 
 Must be present. The dispensation or charter of a Commandery must 
 always be present at the opening and throughout the Conclave. 
 
32 SUPPLEMENT TO CODE OF STATUTES OF THE 
 
 SUPPLEMENT TO THE CODE OF STATUTES 
 
 OR 
 
 DIGEST OF TEMPLAR LAW 
 
 OF THE 
 
 -)! GRAND ENCAMPMENT DF KNIEHTS TEMPLAR |f 
 
 OF THE 
 
 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
 
 CONTAININO A DIGEST OF THE DECISIONS OF THE CoN(^I.AVES OF A. D., 1H74, 1877, 1880 AND 
 
 1883, MADE BY Sir Knight JOSIAH H. DRUMMOND, Maine, the Special Committee. 
 
 ADVANCEMENT. 
 
 See Ohjfcflon after Ballot, 92, 92a. 
 
 AMENDMENTS. 
 
 1. Proposed amendments to the Constitution or Code, of which notice is 
 given in the summons, may be acted upon by the Grand Encampment in the 
 absence of the proposer. 1877. 
 
 APPEAL. 
 
 la. The appeal of a Sir Knight from the action of the Eminent Commander 
 of his Commandery, although in the pursuance of an order of tlie Grand Com- 
 mander, lies to the Grand Commandery, and not to the Grand Master. 1883. 
 
 ASSESSMENTS. 
 
 2. An assessment for social entertainments cannot be enforced against one 
 not participating. 1874. 
 
 BALLOT. 
 
 3. After a candidate has been declared rejected and the fact recorded, the 
 ballot cannot be repeated, even to correct an alleged mistake. 1880. 
 
 4. A ballot cannot be taken upon a petition at the same Conclave at which 
 it is presented, without a dispensation from the Grand Commander, even by a 
 unanimous vote of the Commandery. 1880. 
 
 4a. In Commanderies under the immediate jurisdiction of the Grand En- 
 campment, the Grand Master may, by dispensation, authorize the reception of 
 a new petition from a rejected candidate within less than six months after the 
 rejection ; and is the exclusive judge of the propriety of granting such dispen- 
 sation. 1883. 
 See Petitions, 97, 99. 
 
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 BOOKS OF THK GRAND TREASFRER AND GRAND RECORDER. 
 
 5. The books of the Grand Treasurer and Grand Recorder shall be sub- 
 mitted, at each Conclave, for the inspection of the Finance Committee. 1877. 
 
 BY-LAWS. 
 
 G. A by-law fixing annual dues and providing that members in arrears for 
 two years shall be ineligible to office and not entitled to vote, and that their 
 names may be dropped from the rolls subject to be reinstated on payment of 
 arrearages by a majority vote, is valid. 1874. 
 
 7. But a member should be disfranchised only after due trial, and the by- 
 laws should make provision therefor. 1877. 
 
 8. A by-law providing that a member, upon the payment of a fixed sum 
 of money, may become a life member and thereafter be exempt from annual 
 dues, is valid. 1880. 
 
 9. A by-law requiring a Red Cross Knight to equip himself with a uniform 
 before he can receive the Order of the Temple is valid. 1880. 
 
 CHARTER. 
 
 10. The Eminent Commander, and no other, is the legal custodian of the 
 charter of the Commandery. 1880. 
 
 CHRISTIAN KNIGHTHOOD. 
 
 lOa. The ritual contains those things which a Knight obligates himself to 
 believe and perform. The Grand Master has no authority to give additional 
 definitions. 1883. 
 
 COMMANDERY. 
 
 11. The funds and property of an extinct Commandery become the prop- 
 erty of the Grand Commandery, which may make such disposition thereof as 
 it deems proper. 1877. 
 
 12. It is improper for a Commandery to ** call off" from one Conclave to 
 another ; but it may close to meet on another day to finish business that is 
 pending. 1874. 
 
 1,3. A Commandery " of the indispensable number " may be authorized by 
 a Grand Commander or Grand Commandery, as well as by the Grand Master 
 or Grand Encampment. 1874. 
 
 14. A Commandery requires no dispensation or permission to change to a 
 " mounted Commandery. " 1880. 
 
 15. Affiliated Sir Knights, petitioning for a new Commandery, are not re- 
 quired to file their dimits with the Grand Recorder ; but non-affiliated peti- 
 tioners must do so. 1880. 
 
 15a. A Commandery cannot confer the Orders upon a candidate elected 
 by another Commandery, at the request of such other Commandery, without 
 a dispensation. 1883. 
 
 See Grand Commandery, 69. 
 
 COMMANDERIES U. D. 
 
 16. The provision requiring the recommendation of the nearest Com- 
 mandery in order to form a new one does not apply to dispensations granted 
 by the Grand Master, who has absolute power in the premises. 1874. 
 
34 SUPPLEMENT TO CODE OF STATUTES OF THE 
 
 17. A CommanderyU. D. reciuires no formal proceedings in order to com- 
 mence work. The members assemble and proceed as if regularly constituted. 
 
 1877. 
 
 18. Their officers ordinarily hold office during the continuance of the dis- 
 pensation ; but the Grand Master [or Grand Commander] has the power to 
 relieve an officer and appoint another. 1874. 
 
 19. Such dues may be collected from the members as the majority of the 
 Commandery may determine. 1874. 
 
 20. Any signer of the petition for a dispensation, by consent of the officer 
 granting the same, and of the Commandery, may dissolve his connection with 
 it ; and, thereupon, his membership i-evives in .his old Commandery. 1874. 
 
 21. The petitioners for a dispensation become charter members unless they 
 have severed their connection with the Commandery U. D. [or their names are 
 omitted from the charter by action of the Grand Commandery]. 1877. 
 
 22. It is not proper to name the officers in the charter of a new Com- 
 mandery. 1874. 
 
 23. It can be constituted only by the Grand Master, or the Grand Com- 
 mander, or his duly appointed proxy. 1874. 
 
 24. It cannot elect officers until it has been constituted ; to save time, 
 however, at the constitution of the Commandery, it is not improper to agree 
 upon the officers in advance, and have a merely formal election at that time. 
 
 See Dispensation, ^7 a; Quorum, 108a; Dues, 40rt. 1874. 
 
 COMMITTEES (STANDIN(j) APPPOTNTED IN ADVANCE. 
 
 25. The Grand Masttr is authorized to appoint the Committee on Tem- 
 plar Jurisprudence at each Conclave, to act during the recess and at the suc- 
 ceeding Conclave. 1877. 
 
 26. And the remaining of the standing committees sixty days previously to 
 each Conclave, notifying the Grand Recorder of said appointments. 1877. 
 
 27. The decisions of the Grand Master shall be referred to the Committee 
 on Jurisprudence. 1877. 
 
 28. The Grand Recorder shall place the financial and all other reports and 
 official papers in the hands of the chairman of the proper committee [under 
 the direction of the Grand Master] thirty days previous to the Conclave. 
 
 1877. 
 
 29. The several committees so appointed shall have their reports ready for 
 submission to the Grand Encampment the first day of its Conclave. 1877. 
 
 COMPLAINTS. 
 
 30. Complaints should be made in the first instance to the Eminent Com- 
 mander, and through him to the Grand Commander, and through him to the 
 Grand Master, if the latter has any jurisdiction in the case. Other communi- 
 cations should go through the same channel, save in special cases, when the 
 officer refuses to act. 1874. 
 
 CORPvESPONDENCE. 
 
 31. It is proper for the Grand Master to correspond through one of his 
 staff with a Grand Commander. 1877. 
 
 32. Correspondence between subordinates of different Grand Commanderies 
 should be forwarded through their respective Grand Commanders. 1877. 
 
GRAND ENCAMPMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 35 
 
 32a. Correspondence between a Commandery under the immediate juris- 
 diction of the Grand Encampment and a subordinate to a Grand Commandery 
 should be through the Grand Master and the Grand Commander. 1883. 
 
 33. The decisions of a Grand Commander are binding on his subordinates 
 as soon as known ; and an officer who has positive knowledge of such decision 
 is as much bound by it as if it had been delivered directly to him. 1877. 
 
 33a. The decision of a Grand Connnander, which his Grand Commandery 
 refuses to approve, is of no binding force after such refusal. 1883. 
 
 336. A member of a Commandery under the immediate jurisdiction of the 
 Grand Encampment, in applying to the Grand Master for a decision, must do 
 so through his Eminent Commander. 1883. 
 
 33c. Questions by members of a Commandery subordinate to a Grand 
 Commandery, or by a Deputy Grand Commander, or a Past Grand Com- 
 mander, should be submitted to the Grand Commander. 1883. 
 See Committees^ 27. 
 
 34. When, upon application by a memljer, the Commandery votes to 
 grant him a dimit, the vote severs the mem])ership, whether a certificate 
 issues or not. 1880. 
 
 35. Application for a dimit must now be made in writing, signed by the 
 member desiring it. 1880. 
 
 See Conimanderi/, 15; Restoration, 118. 
 
 DISPENSATION. 
 
 36. The Grand Connnander has the power to grant a dispensation to act 
 upon a petition in less than four weeks after its presentation, although the 
 by-laws of the Commandery make no such exception. 1880. 
 
 37. Such dispensation can be asked for only by vote of the Commandery ; 
 but a majority vote is sufficient. 1880. 
 
 37a. When a dispensation for a new Commandery has been refused for 
 any cause, the matter can be revived only by a new petition. 1883. 
 
 38. A Commandery cannot exempt a member from all yearly dues by a 
 vote to that effect, or by electing him an honorary member. 1877. 1880. 
 
 39. A member of an extiiict Commandery is not liable for dues after the 
 Commandery becomes extinct. 1880. 
 
 40. But the Grand Commandery has the right to collect from members of 
 an extinct Commandery all dues chargeable against them up to the time it 
 became extinct, and to discipline those who refuse or neglect to pay the same. 
 
 1880. 
 40a. When a member of a chartered Commandery becomes a member of 
 a Commandery U. D., and continues paying dues to the former, it is not 
 liable to pay to the latter the amounts so received, nor is the Sir Knight freed 
 from his liability to pay dues to the Commandery U. D. 1883. 
 
 See Membership, 78 ; By-Latvs, 68. 
 
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 EMINENT COMMANDEK. 
 
 41. When an Eminent Commander vacates his office, by having been 
 elected and installed Grand Commander, or in any other manner, the (jJen- 
 eralissimo (or in his absence the Captain General) succeeds to the office by con- 
 stitutional right until the next annual election, and the Grand Commandery 
 cannot legally order or authorize the election of a new Commander to fill the 
 vacancy. 1880. 
 
 42. An Eminent Commander becomes a Past Commander at the expiration 
 of his term of office, although he may have permanently removed from the 
 State before that time. 1880. 
 
 EXPULSION AND SUSPENSION. 
 
 43. It requires a two-thirds vote to expel, but only a majority vote to 
 suspend. 1880. 
 
 44. When a Templar is expelled or suspended by his Lodge or Chapter, 
 the Code requires that a proper certiticate thereof be obtained if practicable ; 
 but if not, that other evidence be produced to the Commandery, showing the 
 expulsion or suspension, before the Commandery can declare him expelled or 
 suspended. 1880. 
 
 45. When the expulsion or suspension is the act of a subordinate Lodge 
 or Chapter, its jurisdiction should be inquired into by the (Jommandery l^efore 
 final action. 1880. 
 
 46. But if the expulsion or suspension is decreed or confirmed by the 
 Grand Lodge or Grand Chapter, the question of jurisdiction is no longer open. 
 
 1880. 
 
 47. Expulsion or suspension has the same effect, whatever may have been 
 the cause for which it was inflicted. 1880. 1883. 
 
 48. In paragraph eleven of Section XVII of the Code of 1877, the word 
 ** definite" before "suspension" Avas accidentally omitted ; the term means 
 ** suspension for a definite time." 1880. 
 
 49. Suspension for non-payment of dues, by the Lodge or Chapter, has 
 the effect given to it by the laws of the Grand Lodge or Grand Chapter of the 
 jurisdiction ; it depends upon those laws whether all Masonic rhjUts are taken 
 away, or certain disabilities are incurred. Templar rights are taken away in 
 the former case, but not necessarily in the latter. 1874. 1883. 
 
 50. But striking from the roll, without trial, is not suspension. 
 
 1874. 1883. 
 
 51. Striking from the roll of membership by the Lodge or Chapter affects 
 the standing of the Sir Knight in the Commandery precisely the same as it 
 does in the Lodge or Chapter. 1880. 1883. 
 
 52. Suspension for non-payment of dues can be inflicted by the Command- 
 ery only after due notice to the delinquent to appear at the time it is proposed 
 to act upon his case, and an opportunity to be heard in his defence ; and any 
 by-law providing for suspension without such notice and opportunity is illegal 
 and void. 1877. 1880. 
 
 53. Suspension by liodge or Chapter does not deprive his Commandery of 
 jurisdiction to try him for other offences committed either before or after his 
 suspension. 1877, 
 
GRAND ENCAMPMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 37 
 
 oSa. Expulsion or suspension from the rights of Freemasonry by his Lodge 
 or Chapter deprives a Sir Knight of all rights and privileges in his Command- 
 ery and of all intercourse with the Order. 1883. 
 
 5.3/>. When members of a Commandery are summoned to show cause why 
 they should not be suspended, and do not appear, the Eminent Commander 
 cannot declare them suspended until the Commandery has so voted. 1883. 
 See Striking from the Roll. 
 
 FEE8. 
 
 54. The fees for the Orders cannot be remitted directly, or indirectly by 
 vote of money to the candidate. 
 
 55. No custom, however long it has existed, justifies the conferring of the 
 Orders upon any one without the payment of the prescribed fees. 
 
 FUNERAL. 
 
 56. A Commandery cannot appear in public at the funeral of any other 
 than a Templar, without the permission of the Grand Commander. 
 
 1877. 1880. 
 
 57. It is not proper for a Commandery, as escort, to attend the funeral of 
 any one who is not buried with Masonic ceremonies. 1877. 
 
 GOOD STANDING. 
 
 58. A member of a Commandery is affected by his standing in his Lodge 
 and Chapter. 1880. 
 
 59. A candidate not in good standing in Lodge and Chapter is not eligibl!e 
 to receive the orders of Knighthood. 1880. 
 
 60. The forfeiture or surrender of the charter does not, of itself, affect the 
 good standing of the members. 1880. 
 See Expulsion and Suspen.'ilon, 49, 51 ; Membevfi/up, 86 ; Non-affiliates, 89 ; 
 
 Reinstatement, 112; Restoration, 114, 116, 118; Striking from the Roll. 
 
 GRAND COMMANDERY. 
 
 61. To form a Grand Commandery, at least three Commanderies must be 
 represented in the convention ; but Fast Commanders may participate in the 
 convention, and be counted in making the required number of Knights. 
 
 1877. 
 
 62. The memoership of a Grand Commandery cannot be enlarged, or re- 
 stricted from that prescribed by the Constitution of the Grand Encampment. « 
 
 1874. 
 
 63. Any member of a subordinate Commandery is eligible to office in the 
 Grand Commandery. 1874. 
 
 64. A member can have but one vote in his own right in a Grand Com- 
 mandery, nor can he vote personally in one capacity and by proxy in another. 
 
 1874. 
 64a. This rule applies to an officer or permanent member of the Grand 
 Commandery, who is at the same time one of the first three officers of his 
 Commandery. 1883. 
 
 65. Hence an officer of a subordinate Commandery, although the others 
 are absent, cannot [in the Grand Commandery] cast more than one vote, un- 
 less he holds the duly authenticated proxies of the absent officers. 1877. 
 
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 66. No person, other than those named in the Constitution of the Grand 
 Encampment as members of a Grand Commandery, can vote therein in his 
 own right, by virtue of any authority whatever, nor as proxy of any other 
 than a member of his own Commandery, who, under the provisions of 
 that Constitution, is a member of the Grand Commandery, and authorized to 
 appoint a proxy. 1874. 
 
 67. No one can be appointed upon a committee in the Grand Commandery 
 unless he is a member thereof in his own right or as proxy ; but a member may 
 be appointed, though not present. 1880. 
 
 68. A non-resident of the State is not eligible to office in the Grand Com- 
 mandery 1880. 
 
 69. Any officer of the Grand Commandery, except the Grand Commander, 
 may be tried by his Commandery for unknightly conduct. 1880. 
 
 See Rank, 110, 111. 
 
 (^RAND MASTER. 
 
 69r(. The Grand Master, as the executive head of the Grand Encampment 
 is, by the general principles of Masonic and Templar law, responsible for the 
 discharge of every executive duty to be performed in behalf of the Grand En- 
 campment not by enactment devolved upon others. 1883. 
 
 696. It is not his duty to pass upon merely moot {questions; l^ut only those 
 w^hich actually arise in the administration of the affairs of the Oand Encamp- 
 ment, Grand Commanderies, or subordinate Commanderies. 1883. 
 
 GRANI> OFFICERS. 
 
 69c. The Grand. Master or his representative, the Deputy Grand Master, 
 Grand Generalissimo, and Grand Captain General of the Grand Encampment, 
 when visiting a body of the Order, are entitled to be received under the Arch 
 of Steel. 1883. 
 
 69^/. The Grand Encampment has not prescribed the manner of receiving 
 the officers of a Grand Commandery, and any regulation made by a Grand 
 Commandery in relation thereto is binding on the members of its obedience. 
 
 1883. 
 
 INSTALLATION. 
 
 70. It is not necessary for a re-elected officer to be installed, as he holds 
 over, by virtue of his former election and installation, until his successor is 
 installed. 1877. 
 
 71. A Commandery may hold a public installation in its own asylum, 
 without a special dispensation from the Grand Commander. 1880. 
 
 72. But such dispensation is required in order to hold a public installa- 
 tion in any other place. 1880. 
 
 JEWEL OF PAST ORAND MASTER. 
 
 73. The form of the Jewel prepared for Past Grand Master Fellows [see 
 Proceedings, with engraving] is adopted as the appropriate Jewel of a Past 
 M. \ E. '. Grand Master of Knights Templar of this Grand Encampment. 
 
 1877. 
 
GRAND ENCAMPMENT OF I^HE UNITED STATES. 39 
 
 JURISDICTION. 
 
 I. Territorial. — 74. The jurisdiction of a Commandery [except when 
 otherwise specially provided] extends half-way to the nearest Commandery in 
 the same jurisdiction; and a Commandery U. D., while its dispensation is 
 in force, has the same jurisdiction as a chartered Commandery. 1874. 
 
 75. A Companion, residing in any Territory in which there is no Com- 
 mandery, may apply to any Commandery for the Orders ; but when there is a 
 Commandery in such Territory he can apply elsewhere only by its permission, 
 the Grand Master having no power in the premises. 1874. 
 
 II. Personal. — 76. A rejected candidate cannot apply to another Com- 
 mandery, without the consent, by a unanimous vote, of tlie one by which he 
 was rejected. 1877. 
 
 77. The same rule applies to an elected candidate who fails to present 
 himself to receive the Orders. 1877. 
 
 MEMBERSHIP. 
 
 78. A Templar cannot be a member of two Commanderies at the same 
 time, although they are not in the same State. 1880. 
 
 79. An unaffiliated Knight is not entitled to Templar honors ; but the 
 Commandery may grant them, or it may withhold them, without breach of 
 knightly duty. 1874. 
 
 80. The *' honorary membership" named in the Code refers to the election, 
 as an honorary member, by one Commandery, of the member of another. 
 
 1877. 
 
 81. Such honorary member is not liable to dues, and the election confers 
 no rights, being a mere compliment. 1880. 
 
 82. The election of a member of the same Commandery as an honorary 
 member deprives him of none of the rights of active membership. 1877. 
 
 88. Nor does it relieve him from the payment of dues. 1880. 
 
 84. A plan of life membership approved. See Proceedings of 1874, page 
 50. 1874. 
 
 85. A by-law providing that a member, upon the payment of a fixed sum 
 of mone}^ may become a life member, and thereafter be exempt from the pay- 
 ment of annual dues, is valid. 1880. 
 
 86. When a Templar, after suspension and restoration to good standing, 
 applies for membership, he must do so by petition, setting forth that he had 
 been a member of a Commandery, been suspended, and restored to good stand- 
 ing : such petition [if in the same Commandery] need not lie over, but may be 
 acted upon at once. 
 
 86rt. Affiliation is a thing wholly between the applicant and the Com- 
 mandery. 1883. 
 ^ee By- Laics, 8; Restoration, 115, 117. 
 
 MEMBERSHIP IN GRAND ENCAMPMENT. 
 
 . 86ft. The election [and installation] of a Sir Knight as a Grand Commander 
 make him a member of the Grand Encampment. 1883. 
 
 86c. Documents distributed by the Grand. Encampment to its members 
 do not belong to the proxies attending the Grand Encampment, but to the 
 members themselves. 1883. 
 
40 SUPPLEMENT T'O CODE OP STATUTES OP THE 
 
 87. At the close of every Conclave, the minutes should be read, corrected, 
 and approved ; they should be entered on the record l)efore the next stated 
 CJonclave, when the journal should be read, corrected, and approved by the 
 Conimandery, and signed by the Recorder. 1874. 
 
 MONEYS — HOW PAID OUT. 
 
 88. No money belonging to the Grand Encampment shall be paid out 
 except upon a warrant or order signed by the Grand Master and attested by 
 the Grand Recorder. 1877. 
 
 NON-AFFILIATES. 
 
 89. By merely becoming non-affiliate in Lodge or Cliapter, a Templar does 
 not lose his standing in the Commandery. 1880. 
 
 OBJECTION AFTER BALLOT. 
 
 90. An objection after ballot may be withdrawn before it has been entered 
 on the minutes ; after that, the only course is to present a new petition in the 
 same manner as if the rejection had been by ballot. 1877. 
 
 91. Objection after ballot is in all cases equivalent to a rejection, whether 
 the objector gives his reasons or not ; if he does give them, the Commandery 
 has no right to determine their sufficiency. 1880. 
 
 92. Objection to the advancement of a Red Cross Knight is equivalent to 
 a rejection by ballot, and holds good for six months, and no longer. 1880. 
 
 92rt. Objection to the advancement of a Red Cross Knight is equivalent to 
 a rejection by ballot, and-the money paid for the advancement should be re- 
 turned to the candidate. 1883. 
 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 93. By election and installation as Grand Commander, any one of the first 
 three officers in a Commandery vacates his office. [See Code, "Offices — 
 Incompatible.^'] 1877. 
 
 94. Section XXVI II of the Code applies to such a vacancy, in the same 
 manner as it applies to other vacancies. 1877. 
 
 See Eminent Commander ^ 41 ; Grand Commander, 69. 
 
 PAST COMMANDER. 
 
 95. A Past Commander, when presiding in the absence of the Eminent 
 Commander, Generalissimo, and Captain-General, may confer the Orders. 
 
 1877. 
 95rt. The Past Commander who may preside in the absence of the first 
 three officers of a Commandery is the Senior Past Commander present who is a 
 member, without reference to the Commandery in which he acquired the title. 
 
 1883. 
 See Eminent Commander, 42. 
 
 PETITIONS. 
 
 96. Petitions must contain what is prescribed by the Code of Statutes. 
 No Commandery has the right to add new requirements. 1877. 1883. 
 
GEAND ENCAMPMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 41 
 
 97. They cannot be acted upon in less than four weeks from their presen- 
 tation, without the special dispensation of the Grand Commander, even if the 
 Commandery holds stated Conclaves weekly. 1877. 
 
 98. The report thereon must be in writing [but not entered upon the min- 
 utes], and the proper entry is ' ' the committee, etc. , presented their report, 
 whereupon a ballot was had." 1877. 
 
 99. When the Eminent Commander has good reason to believe that there 
 has been an error in announcing the acceptance of a candidate, he may, by 
 
 ermission of the Grand Commander, order a new ballot, first giving notice, to 
 all the members, of the time when it will be taken. 1877. 
 
 See Ballot, 3, 4. 
 
 PRINTING — COMMITTEE ON. 
 
 99a. The legislation of the Grand Encampment shows its intention that 
 the printing should be under the supervision of its Committee on Printing. 
 
 1883. 
 
 99?>. But the reprinting of the Proceedings 1859-1868 was made an ex- 
 ception to the rule, and intrusted to the Grand Recorder. 1883. 
 
 PRINTING REPORTS IN ADVANCE. 
 
 100. The Grand Recorder shall cause to be printed in advance of each 
 Conclave a sufficient number of copies of the reports of the Grand Officers for 
 the use of the committees and members, that each member present at the 
 Conclave shall have a copy. 1871. 1877. 
 
 PUBLIC PARADES. 
 
 101. The Grand Encampment will accept no invitation to unite in a 
 Templar parade during its Conclave. 1874. 1877. 
 
 102. It prohibits any of its members from participating therein during 
 such Conclave, except to escort the Grand Encampment at the opening session 
 of the Conclave. 1874. 1877. 
 
 103. The Grand Encampment requests the Grand Commandery within 
 whose jurisdiction it may hold its Conclave, to prevent any Templar parade in 
 the city where the Conclav^e is held on any day thereof after the first. 
 
 1874. 1877. 
 103a. A Commandery should appear in public in Templar costume only 
 on Masonic occasions ; and a dispensation for that purpose should be restricted 
 to such an occasion. 1883. 
 
 103/>. The determination of what is a Masonic occasion belongs to the 
 Grand Lodge. 1883. 
 
 See Funeral, 5G, 57 ; Installation, 71, 72. 
 
 QUALIFICATIONS FOR ORDERS. 
 
 104. If the candidate can give all the signs, and go through all the cere- 
 monies, he is eligible, and not otherwise ; and the Eminent Commander and 
 the members of the Commandery are the judges of his eligibility under this 
 rule. 1874. . 
 
42 SUPPLEMENT TO CODE OF STATUTES OF THE 
 
 105. But the Commandery should be more exacting than the Lodge or 
 Chapter, and the petitioner should be capable of enduring pilgrimage and war- 
 fare, and should not by his presence mar the symmetry of a parade. 1877. 
 
 105a. The decision of the question whether a candidate can comply with 
 the requirements of the ritual and drill is left to the Commandery. 1888. 
 
 106. No Commandery or Grand Commandery has the right to add to or 
 take from the qualifications of candidates prescribed in the Constitution and 
 Code of tlie Grand Encampment. 1877. 1880. 1883. 
 
 107. Hence the Council degrees are not prerequisite, and membership in 
 Lodge or Chapter is not required. [See Code XXXII.] 1877. 
 
 107«. Hence, also, a candidate cannot be required to become a member of 
 a Lodge or Chapter after receiving the Orders. 1883. 
 
 See Good Standing. 59. 
 
 QUORUM. 
 
 108. A quorum being present, the vote of a less number is valid. 1874. 
 108o. The la^ requiring nine members of the Commandery to be present 
 
 in order to transact any business, applies to Commanderies U. D. 
 
 109. A Past Grand Commander remains a member of the Grand Encamp- 
 ment as long as he is in good standing, whatever be his residence. 1880. 
 
 110. He remains a member of his own Grand Commandery as long as he 
 is a member of one of its subordinates, whether he continues to reside in its 
 jurisdiction or not. 1880. 
 
 111. But if he affiliates in another jurisdiction, he loses his membership 
 in his own Grand Commandery, and does not acquire membership in that of 
 his new affiliation until elected, as provided in Section XXVI of the Consti- 
 tution of the Grand Encampment. 1880. 
 
 REINSTATEMENT. 
 
 112. When a member of a Commandery loses his good standing by being 
 ** stricken from the roll" by his Lodge or Chapter, his reinstatement in the 
 Lodge or Chapter reinstates him in the Commandery. 1880. 
 
 RESTORATION. 
 
 113. The provisions of the Code, in relation to restoration, apply to cases 
 of suspension for a definite time, as well as to suspension for an indefinite time. 
 
 1877. 
 
 114. The Grand Encampment has adopted the generally received law that 
 the restoration, by his Lodge or Chapter, of a Templar expelled or suspended 
 by such Lodge or Chapter, restores him to all the rights of which he was de- 
 prived by the Lodge or Chapter, viz., to good standing as a Templar, and to 
 membership in his Commandery. 1880. 
 
 115. Under the law of the Grand Encampment, suspension, as well as 
 expulsion, by the Commandery, severs membership therein. 1880. 
 
 116. A Sir Knight may be restored to good standing as an unaffiliated 
 Knight by a majority vote when he has been suspended, and by a two-thirds 
 vote when he has been expelled. 1880. 
 
GRAND ENCAMPMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 43 
 
 117. But in either case he can be restored to membership only by a unani- 
 mous vote. 1880. 
 
 118. When a suspended Sir Knight is restored to good standing, his Com- 
 mandery should give him a certificate, stating that he had been a member, 
 had been suspended [not stating the cause], and had been [at a given date], 
 restored to good standing ; and such certificate would be equivalent to a 
 dimit. 1880. 
 
 SEAL. 
 
 119. The officers of a Commandery have the right to order its seal affixed 
 to any certificate or other documents which they can legally issue in the name 
 of the Commandery. 1874. 
 
 STRIKING FROM THE ROLL. 
 
 119rt. Strikhuj froyn the roll is ordinarily not expulsion or suspension, but 
 results in non-affiliation merely. 1883. 
 
 1196. If, however, strikimj from the roll of a Lodge or Chapter is held by 
 its Grand Lodge or Grand Chapter to deprive the member of his MaRonic 
 rlr/hts, it has the same effect as expulsion or suspension. 1883. 
 
 119c'. But if striking from the roll, under the law of the Grand Lodge or 
 Grand Chapter of the jurisdiction, merely deprives the party of membership 
 in his Lodge or Chapter, it has no effect upon the general standing of the Sir 
 Knight, or his membership in his Commandery. 1883. 
 
 SUMMONS. 
 
 120. A summons in a subordinate Commandery should be used only in 
 cases of urgent necessity. 1874. 
 
 TEMPLAR NOMENCLATURE. '' 
 
 121. The style " Sir Knight A B " is correct. 1880. 
 
 TITLE. 
 
 122. No past officers, except the presiding officer of a Grand or subordinate 
 Commandery, retain their official title. 1877. 
 
 TRIALS. 
 
 123 Trials must take place in open Commandery, as provided in the 
 Code. A committee may be appointed to take the depositions of such wit- 
 nesses only as cannot be examined in open Commandery, to be returned to the 
 Commandery. 1877. 
 
 124. But it is not proper to refer the charge to a committee for considera- 
 tion ; nor for a committee, appointed to take testimony, to digest it or report 
 any conclusions thereon. 1877. 
 
 UNIFORM. 
 
 125. The uniform is prescribed by a statute, and no Knight, Commandery, 
 or Grand Commandery has any right to add to or take from this statute, any 
 more than any other statute of the Grand Encampment. 1877. 
 
 126. All Past Grand Officers are entitled to wear the Templar Cross. 
 
 1874. 
 
 127. The wearing of shoulder-straps is limited to the officers and past 
 officers enumerated in the statute. 1877. 
 
44 SUPPLEMENT TO THE CODE OF STATUTES. 
 
 128. The Grand Encampment cannot act upon any proposed chansje in 
 the uniform^ unless notice thereof is given in the summons, as provided in the 
 Constitution. 1877. 
 
 I'ISa. When a Commandery is entitled to wear the black uniform, new 
 members as well as old may wear it. 
 
 1286. In the absence of any legislation by the Grand Encampment or the 
 governing Grand Commandery, each Commandery may determine by its by- 
 laws whether or not Sir Knights may be admitted to the sessions without full 
 Templar uniform. 1883. 
 
 See By-Laws, 9. 
 
 VISITORS. 
 
 129. The objection of one member excludes a visitor, ludess he visits in an 
 official capacity. 1874. 
 
 130. A visitor must be examined in all the preceding degrees, as well as 
 in the Order, unless vouched for in whole or in part. 1874. 
 
 131. By the Constitution of the Grand Encampment, all questions [except 
 upon the acceptance, etc., of candidates, and in expulsions and restorations of 
 Knights] are decided by a majority vote. 1874. 1880. 
 
 See Expulsion and Suspension, 43. 
 
 WORK— FORM OF MINUTE. 
 
 132. To change from the Commandery to the Council, the proper entry 
 is, '* The Commandery of Knights Templar was then closed, and a Council of 
 Knights of Red Cross was opened ; " and to change the other way, the entry 
 is, " The Council of Knights of Red Cross was closed, and a Commandery of 
 Knights Templar opened." 1877. 
 
STATUTES 
 
 Of THE 
 OF THE 
 
 STATK OF CALIKORNIA. 
 
 APRIL, A. D. 1884, A. 0. 766. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 RELATIVE TO THE GRAND COMMANDERY. 
 I. 
 
 • 0/ its Title and Seal. 
 
 This Body shall be entitled "The Grand Cominandery of Knights Templar 
 of the State of California ;" and shall have a Seal bearing suitable devices and 
 inscriptions, which shall be affixed to all instruments issued by or under its 
 authority. 
 
 II. 
 
 Of its Officers and Members, 
 
 The Grand Command ery shall be composed of a Grand Commander (whose 
 address is Right Eminent) ; a Deputy Grand Commander (whose address is Very 
 Eminent) ; a Grand Generalissimo; a Grand Captain General ; a Grand Prelate; 
 a Grand Senior Warden ; a Grand Junior Warden ; a Grand Treasurer ; a Grand 
 Recorder ; a Grand Standard Bearer ; a Grand Sword Bearer ; a Grand Warder ; 
 (whose several addresses are Eminent) ; a Grand Organist ; a Grand Captain of 
 the Guards (the Sentinel); all Past Grand Commanders, Past Deputy Grand 
 Commanders, Past Grand Generalissimos, Past Grand Captains General of this 
 Grand Commandery ; all Past Commanders, by service, of chartered Com- 
 manderies under its jurisdiction ; and the Commanders, Generalissimos, and 
 Captains General, for the time, of the several chartered and duly constituted 
 Commanderies subordinate thereto. 
 
46 STATtJTES OF THE 
 
 III. 
 
 Of Qualifications for Office or Membership. 
 
 Every officer and member of the Grand Commandery must be a member of 
 some Commandery under its jurisdiction : and with the suspension or cessation 
 of such membership, shall cease his office and membership in the Grand Com- 
 mandery. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Of its lowers and Authority. 
 
 The Grand Commandery derives all its powers from the Grand Encampment 
 of Knights Templar of the United States of America, to the Constitution and 
 Regulations of which its obedience is ever due. Under these powers it has 
 authority over all Commanderies and Knights Templar within the State of 
 California. It may grant dispensations and charters for forming and holding 
 Commanderies therein, and, at its pleasure, may arrest, suspend, or revoke 
 them. It may enact such statutes, and pass such orders, for its own govern- 
 ment and for that of its subordinates and the Knights within its jurisdiction, 
 as shall not conflict with the Constitution and Regulations of the Grand En- 
 campment ; may alter, amend, or annul the same ; and may e^^ercise all other 
 authority which shall be deemed necessary for the good of the Order in this 
 State, and which shall be in conformity with its precepts and the Constitution 
 and Regulations of the Grand Encampment. ' 
 
 V. 
 
 Of its Conclaves. 4 
 
 The Grand Commandery shall hold an Annual Conclave, for the trans- 
 action of its regular business, at the city of San Francisco, commencing on the 
 first Thursday after the fourth Tuesday in April, at two o'clock f. m. Special 
 Conclaves may be ordered by the Grand Commander, at his discretion, but no 
 business shall be transacted thereat other than that specified in such order. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Of its Elections. 
 
 The Officers of the Grand Commandery shall be chosen by liallot at each 
 Annual Conclave, (except the Grand Standard Bearer, the Grand Sword 
 Bearer, the Grand Warder, and the Grand Captain of the Guards, who shall 
 be appointed by the Grand Commander, ) shall be duly installed before the 
 close thereof, and shall hold their respective offices (except as hereinbefore 
 provided) until their successors are elected, or appointed, and installed. A 
 majority of all the votes cast shall be necessary for a choice. Any vacancy 
 in office, occurring when the Grand Commandery is not in Conclave, may be 
 filled by the Grand Commander, and the officer so appointed shall possess all 
 the powers and be charged with all the duties of one regularly elected. 
 
GRAND COMMANBERY OF CALIFORNIA. 47 
 
 VII. 
 
 Of Proxies. 
 
 Any member of the Grand Conmiandery, except Past Commanders and the 
 Grand Captain of the (guards, may appear and vote by proxy ; but such proxy 
 must, at the time of service, be a member of the same Commandery as his 
 principal, and must present a properly authenticated certificate of his ap- 
 pointment. 
 
 VIIL 
 
 Of Voting. 
 
 Each member of the Grand Commandery present shall be entitled to one 
 vote, and all questions shall be determined by a majority of votes. In case 
 the votes are equally divided, the Grand Commander, in addition to his proper 
 vote, shall give the casting vote. 
 
 IX. 
 
 Of Revenue. 
 
 The revenue of the Grand Commandery shall be derived from fees charged 
 for Dispensations, Charters, Diplomas and other instruments issued under its 
 authority, as follows : — 
 
 1. For a Dispensation, one hundred and twenty-five dollars, of which 
 fifteen dollars shall be the fee of the Grand Recorder ; 
 
 2. For a Charter, seventy-five dollars, of which fifteen dollars shall be the 
 fee of the Grand Recorder ; 
 
 3. For a Diploma, five dollars, of which three dollars shall be the fee of 
 the Grand Recorder ; 
 
 And from the following contributions levied upon the several Command- 
 eries : 
 
 1. For each Order of the Red Cross conferred, two dollars ; 
 
 2. For each Order of the Temple conferred, three dollars ; 
 
 3. For each Knight Templar borne upon the rolls at the date of the 
 annual returns, one dollar. ^ 
 
 X. 
 
 Of Committees, 
 
 The following regular committees, to consist of three members each, shall 
 be appointed by the Grand Commander at each Annual Conclave, viz.: on 
 Credentials, on Reports of the Grand Officers, on Appeals and Grievances, on 
 Jurisprudence, on New Commanderies, on Returns of Subordinates, and on 
 Pay of Delegates. The Grand Commander may also appoint such special 
 committees, at any Conclave, as may be deemed expedient by the Grand 
 Commandery. 
 
48 STATUTES OF THE 
 
 XL 
 
 Of Finances and Accounts. 
 
 The Grand Commander, before the close of each Annual Conclave, shall 
 also appoint a Committee on Finances and Accounts, which shall constitute a 
 standing committee, and whose duty it shall be to meet at the office of the 
 Grand Recorder, on the day preceding the Annual C-onclave of the Grand 
 Commandery, and examine the books, papers, and accounts of the Grand 
 Recorder and Grand Treasurer, and report the result thereof to the Grand 
 Commandery on the first day of the Annual Conclave in each year. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 RELATIVE TO THE GRAND OFFICERS. 
 I. 
 
 Of the Grand Commander. 
 
 The Grand Commander shall, at each Annual Conclave, present a written 
 report of all his official acts during the year, and of the condition of the Order 
 within his jurisdiction, together with such recommendations as he shall deem 
 conducive to its prosperity and advancement. He shall have a watchful super- 
 vision over the subordinate Commanderies, and shall carefully see that the 
 Constitution and Regulations of the Grand Encampment, and the Statutes and 
 Orders of the Grand Commandery, are duly and properly observed. He shall 
 have power, when the Grand Commandery is not in Conclave, to issue Dispen- 
 sations for the formation of new Commanderies, as hereinafter provided ; and 
 shall, either in person, or by proxy, constitute all new Commanderies, when 
 chartered, and install their officers. He may, for good reasons shown, issue 
 special dispensations to Commanderies, authorizing them to hold elections of 
 officers at times other than that named in Statute IV, Chapter III, of these 
 Statutes ; to receive and act again upon the petitions of rejected applicants for 
 the Orders of Knighthood within a less period than the six months pre- 
 scribed in Statute VI, of said Chapter III ; to ballot for and confer the Orders 
 upon candidates, without the reference of their petitions to committees ; and 
 to do such other things, not specifically provided for, as shall not be repugnant 
 to, or inconsistent with the general regulations of the Order. He may order 
 special Conclaves, at his discretion, specifying the object thereof. He may visit 
 and preside in any Commandery within his jurisdiction, and give such orders 
 and instructions as he may deem necessary, and as shall not be inconsistent 
 with the enactments of the Grand Encampment and Grand Commandery. He 
 may arrest the charter or dispensation of any Commandery, for good reasons 
 shown, and for proper cause may suspend any Commander from the functions 
 of his office until the next Annual Conclave. It shall be his duty, either in 
 person or by proxy, to attend all meetings of the Grand Encampment ; and 
 
GRAND COMMANDERY OF CALIFORNIA. 49 
 
 there shall be no appeal to the Grand Commandery from his decisions. He 
 shall also exemplify, or cause to be exemplified, the ritual and drill of the 
 Order at each Annual Conclave. He may also summon the Commander, Gen- 
 eralissimo, and Captain General of each Commandery, to meet him at any 
 convenient place within the jurisdiction, for the purpose of exemplifying the 
 drill and ritual, and the necessary expenses of these ofiicers shall be paid by 
 their respective Commanderies. 
 
 11. 
 
 Of the (befuty Grand Commander. 
 
 The Deputy Grand Commander, in the absence of the Grand Commander 
 from any Conclave, shall take command ; and in the event of the death, absence 
 from the State, or inability to serve, from any cause, of the Grand Commander, 
 he shall succeed to and be charged with all the powers and duties of that officer. 
 At all other times he may perform such duties as may be assigned him by the 
 Grand Commandery or Grand Commander ; and he is required, either in per- 
 son or by proxy, to attend all meetings of the Grand Encampment. 
 
 III. 
 
 Of the Grand Generalissimo and Grand Caftain General. 
 
 The Grand Generalissimo and the Grand Captain General, in the absence of 
 their superiors from any Conclave, shall severally take command, in the order 
 of their rank ; and in the event of the death, removal from the State, or ina- 
 bility to serve, from any cause, of their superiors, shall in like manner succeed 
 to and be charged with all the powers and duties of the Grand Commander. 
 At all other times they shall perform such duties as may be assigned them 
 by the Grand Commandery or Grand Commander ; and they are required, either 
 in person or by proxy, to attend all meetings of the Grand Encampment. 
 
 Of the Grand Treasurer. 
 
 The Grand Treasurer shall receive all moneys belonging to the Grand Com- 
 mandery from the Grand Recorder, and shall pay the same out under such 
 regulations as by it may be provided. He shall keep a just record thereof in 
 proper books, and at each Annual Conclave shall present a detailed account of 
 his receipts and disbursements, together with vouchers for the last, and a full 
 statement of the existing condition of the finances. He shall execute and file 
 with the Grand Recorder, within fifteen days after his installation, a bond, in 
 such terms, in such penal sum, and with such sureties as shall be approved by 
 the Grand Commander, conditioned that he will faithfully discharge the duties 
 of his office. 
 
 V. 
 
 Of the Grand Recorder. 
 
 The Grand Recorder shall keep an accurate record of all the transactions of 
 the Grand Commandery which should be written. He shall collect the reve- 
 nue and pay it over to the Grand Treasurer. He shall present a detailed re- 
 
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50 STATU1?ES 01^ THE 
 
 port of his receipts, and of all business appertaining to his office, at each An- 
 nual Conclave. He shall, as soon as piacticable, after each Annual Conclave, 
 transmit copies of the transactions thereat to the Grand Master of the Order, 
 the Grand Recorder of the Grand Encampment, the Grand Recorders of the 
 several Grand Commanderies under the jurisdiction of that Body, and the Re- 
 corders of the several Commanderies vvdthin this jurisdiction. He shall keep 
 the seal of the Grand Commandery, and shall affix it, with his attestation, to 
 all instruments emanating from that Body, and to all dispensations issued by 
 the Grand Commander. He shall conduct the correspondence of the Grand 
 Commandery, and shall present, at each Annual Conclave, a summary of such 
 proceedings of other Grand Commanderies as may have come into his pos- 
 session. He shall transmit quarterly to each subordinate Commandery a list 
 of all rejections, suspensions, expulsions, or restorations by the various Com- 
 manderies of the jurisdiction which shall have been received by him. He shall 
 report, at each Annual Conclave, all unfinished business, and shall perform 
 such other duties as may be assigned him by the Grand Commandery or Grand 
 Commander. He shall receive such compensation for his services as the Grand 
 Commandery may direct ; and shall execute and tile with the Grand Treasurer, 
 within fifteen days after his installation, a bond, in such terms, in such penal 
 sum, and with such sureties as shall be approved by the Grand Commander, 
 conditioned that he will faithfully discharge the duties of his office. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Of the other Grand Officers. 
 
 The duties of the remaining Grand Officers shall be such as traditionally 
 appertain to their respective stations, and shall correspond, as nearly as may 
 be, to those of the officers of similar rank in the Grand Encampment. In case 
 all the four principal Grand Officers shall be absent from any Conclave, the 
 Past Grand Officers of like rank shall, in the order of their rank and seniority, 
 be empowered to take command. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 RELATIVE TO SUBORDINATE COMMANDERIES. 
 I. 
 
 Upon the petition of nine or more Knights Templar in good standing, the 
 Grand Commandery, or the Grand Commander, may issue a Letter of Dis- 
 pensation, authorizing them to form and open a Commandery of Knights 
 Templar, to confer the Orders, and to receive members by affiliation. But no 
 such dispensation shall issue unless the petition be accompanied by a recom- 
 mendation from the Commandery nearest the location of the proposed new 
 one, which shall certify to the good standing of each of the petitioners, to the 
 proper qualifications of the officers whom they have nominated, and that a 
 suitable place of assembling has been provided. Such dispensation shall 
 terminate on the first day of the month in which the next succeeding Annual 
 Conclave shall be holden, and then shall be returned to the Grand Recorder, 
 together with the book of records, by-laws, and returns to that date, when, if 
 the transactions of the new Commandery shall appear satisfactory to the Grand 
 Commandery, it may, upon petition therefor, receive a charter. 
 
GRAND COMMANDERY OF CALIFORNIA. 51 
 
 II. 
 
 Of whom Composed, 
 
 A Coramandery consists of a Commander, (whose address is Eminent), a 
 Generalissimo, a Captain (jJeneral, a Prelate, a Senior Warden, a Junior 
 Warden, a Treasurer, a Recorder, a Standard Bearer, a Sword Bearer, a 
 Warder, a Captain of the Guards, (the Sentinel), three Guards, and as many- 
 members as may be found convenient for work or discipline. 
 
 III. 
 
 Of Assemblies. 
 
 Each Commandery should hold a stated Assembly at least once in each 
 month, for the transaction of its regular business ; but no action upon peti- 
 tions for the orders or for affiliation shall be had until the expiration of at least 
 four weeks after their reception. Special meetings may be ordered by the 
 Commander, at his discretion, but no business shall be done thereat other than 
 that specified in the order. A failure to assemble for six successive months 
 shall be deemed sufficient cause for the arrest or revocation of its charter. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Of Elections. 
 
 The officers of each Commandery (except the Standard Bearer, the Sword 
 Bearer, the Warder, the Sentinel, and the Guards, who shall be appointed by 
 the Commander), shall be chosen by l^allot at the first stated Assembly in the 
 month of December in each year, and shall be installed before or at the next 
 stated Assembly. A majority of all the votes cast shall be necessary for a 
 choice. 
 
 V. 
 
 Of Voting. 
 
 All questions in a (Jommandery shall be determined by a majority of votes. 
 Each member i>resent shall be entitled to one vote, and when the votes are 
 equally divided (except in elections), the Commander shall, in addition, have 
 the casting vote. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Of Oualificatlons for the Orders. 
 
 No Commandery shall confer an Order of Knighthood upon any one who is 
 not a regular Royal Arch Mason, according to the requirements of the General 
 Grand Chapter of the United States of America, nor unless he shall have pro- 
 duced evidence of his good standing at the time of application ; and no appli- 
 cation for the orders shall be received by any Commandery from one who, 
 within six months next preceding, shall have been rejected by any Com- 
 mandery (unless by dispensation from the Grand Commander), nor unless the 
 applicant shall have resided one year next preceding in this State, and three 
 months next preceding within its jurisdiction, except by permission of the 
 Commandery nearest his place of residence. 
 
52 STATUTES OF THE 
 
 vn. 
 
 Of Fees and ^ues. 
 
 No Commandery shall confer the several Orders of Knighthood for a less 
 fee than sixty dollars, and no application therefor shall be received nnless ac- 
 companied by such fee. The dues of the members of each Commandery shall 
 be such as may be provided iu its by-laws, and the non-payment of such dues 
 for a period of six months, unless good reason therefor be shown, shall be 
 punished by suspension. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Of the ComYnander. 
 
 Each Commander has it in special charge to see that the By-Laws of his 
 Commandery, the Statutes and Orders of the Grand Commandery, and the 
 Constitution and Regulations of the Grand P]ncampment are duly observed by 
 the Knights under his command ; that accurate records are kejit, and just 
 accounts and proper reports rendered by his officers, and that regular returns 
 are annually made to the Grand Commandery at the time prescribed therefor, 
 with prompt payment of the annual dues. From his decision there shall be 
 no appeal to the Commandery, but any five members thereof may complain of 
 his decisions or conduct, to the Grand Commandery or Grand Commander. It 
 shall be his duty, either in person or by proxy, to attend all Conclaves of the 
 Grand Comniandery. 
 
 IX. 
 
 Of the Generalissimo and Ca^ptain General. 
 
 The Generalissimo and Captain General shall perform the duties severally 
 assigned them by the traditional usages of the Order ; and, in the absence of 
 the Commander, shall, in the order of their rank, succeed to and be charged 
 with all his powers and duties. It shall be the duty of both, either in person, 
 or by proxy, to attend all Conclaves of the Grand Commandery. In the ab- 
 sence of all the three principal officers, the Past Commanders, in the order of 
 their seniority, may take command. 
 
 X. 
 
 Of the Treasurer and Recorder. 
 
 The Treasurer shall receive from the Recorder, and safely keep, all moneys 
 belonging to the Commandery ; and shall pay the same out under such regula- 
 tions, and account therefor at such times and in such manner, as by it may be 
 prescribed. The Recorder shall keep an accurate record of all the transactions 
 of the Commandery, which should be written, including a list of the officers, 
 members, and visitors present at each Assembly; shall collect the revenue and 
 Xjay it over to the Treasurer ; shall keep correct accounts of the dues of mem- 
 bers ; shall prepare and transmit the annual returns to the Grand Recorder ; 
 shall keep the seal of the Commandery, and affix it to all documents emanating 
 therefrom ; and shall perform such other duties as may be required of him by 
 the Commandery or Commander. 
 
GRAND GOMMANDERY OF CALIFORNIA. 53 
 
 XI. 
 
 0/ Returns. 
 
 The Returns of each Commandery shall be made up to the first day of Feb- 
 ruary in each year, in such form as shall be prescribed by the Grand Command- 
 ery ; and shall immediately be forwarded to the Grand Recorder with the dues 
 as hereinbefore provided. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 I. 
 
 Of Trials and Appeals. 
 
 The mode of proceeding in all trials shall, as nearly as may be, be that 
 which is now or may be hereafter presciibcd in the Regulations of the Grand 
 Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of this State ; and appeals from the re- 
 sults of such trials may, in like manner as is directed by the Grand Lodge, be 
 made to and adjudicated by the Grand Commandery. 
 
 II. 
 
 Of T^enalties. 
 
 Censure, suspension, or expulsion may be inflicted by any Commandery 
 upon any Knight within its jurisdiction, for unknightly conduct, or for viola- 
 tion of, or disobedience to any of the By-Laws, Statutes, Orders, Regulations, 
 or Constitutions of the Order. Information of a suspension or expulsion by 
 any Commandery shall immediately be communicated by its Recorder to the 
 Grand Recorder ; but no publication thereof shall be made except by the Grand 
 Commandery. Suspension may be removed by the Commandery which im- 
 posed it, but an expelled Knight can only be restored by the Grand Com- 
 mandery. 
 
 IIL 
 
 Of Vows of Office. 
 
 All Officers of the Grand Commandery and of its subordinates, before 
 entering upon the duties of their respective stations, shall take a solemn vow 
 that they will maintain and support the Constitution and Regulations of the 
 Grand Encampment of Knights Templar of the United States of America, 
 and the Statutes and Orders of the Grand Commandery of the State of Cal- 
 ifornia. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Of Amendments. 
 
 The Statutes may be altered or amended at any Annual Conclave by the 
 votes of two-thirds of the members present. 
 
64 GENERAL BEGULATIONS OF THE 
 
 GENERAL REGULATIONS 
 
 GRAND COMMANDERY OF CALIFORNIA. 
 
 L Th.it the Grand Eecorder be instructed to procure the portrait of each 
 retiring Grand Commander, and have it placed with those heretofore ordered 
 by the Grand Commandery. [October, 1867.] 
 
 2. That the officers of the Grand Commandery of California be re(|uired 
 to present themselves for duty at any of its sessions, equipped in the uniform 
 prescribed by the Grand Encampment of the United States. [April, 1874.] 
 
 3. That the members of the Grand Commandery of the State of California 
 be required to appear at its Annual Conclave, clothed in the uniform of the 
 Order as worn by their respective Commanderies. [April, 1875.] 
 
 4. That each Commander of a subordinate Commandery of-^ this State be 
 required to open and close his Commandery in accordance with the drill and 
 lecture this day adopted. [Apiril, 1878.] 
 
 5. That the several subordinate Commanderies of this jurisdiction be re- 
 quested to assemble in their respective Asylums on Good Friday, Easter, 
 and Ascension day of each year, and proceed in a body from thence to some 
 place of public worship, for Divine service ; and in case no place of public 
 worship can be had, then such service shall be held in the Asylum of their 
 said Commanderies. [April, 1879 and 1883.] 
 
 6. That in order to be in good standing as a Knight Templar, it is neces- 
 sary to be in good standing as a Master Mason, as such standing is defined by 
 the laws of the Grand Lodge of this State. [April, 1880.] 
 
 7. That all Red Cross Knights, before they shall receive the Order of the 
 Temple, shall be subjected to an examination in open Commandery, or before 
 a special committee of three Sir Knights, and be declared or reported pro- 
 ficient in the manual of the sword, facings, marching, and the cuts, signs, 
 grip, and words of the illustrious Order of Red Cross Knights. [April, 1880.] 
 
 8. That the Recorders of subordinate Commanderies be required to add 
 to the Annual Reports made to the Grand C^ommandery, the number of regu- 
 lation uniforms belonging to their respective Commanderies, and to the indi- 
 vidual members thereof. [April, 1881.] 
 
aHAKD COMMANDERY OF CALIFORNIA. , 55 
 
 9. That applications for a waiver of jurisdiction over candidates for the 
 orders of Knighthood shall be read in open Commandery at least four weeks 
 previous to a vote being had thereon ; and such waiver shall only be granted 
 on the unanimous vote of the Sir Knights present who are members of the 
 Commandery to which the application is made. [April, 1882.] 
 
 10. That it shall be deemed unk nightly conduct in any Sir Knight who 
 shall importune or solicit any companion to apply for the orders of Knight- 
 hood, or for admission, to any Commandery. [April, 1882.] 
 
 11. That dispensations to enable a Commandery to re-ballot for a candi- 
 date, and to shorten the time for taking such ballot upon the application of a 
 companion, be issued by the Grand Recorder, upon the order of the i?. *. E. \ 
 Grand Commander, and under the seal of the Grand Commandery, and that a 
 fee of five dollars be paid therefor to the Grand Recorder. [April, 1884.] 
 
INDEX. 
 
 A 
 
 Absentees — Rights of, 18 
 
 Adjourn — Which bodies do, 19 
 
 Amendments — To Constitution or Code, 1 7, 30, 32 
 
 Appeal — Who may — Effect of, etc. , IS 
 
 Assessments — May be levied 19 
 
 When not enforced, 32 
 
 B 
 
 Ballot — Relative to, 19, 40 
 
 Blanks void, 22 
 
 When may be repeated, 19, 32, 40, 41 
 
 Objection after, 40 
 
 Books — Of Grand Treasurer and Grand Recorder, 33 
 
 Burial— Right of— Ritual for, ... * 19 
 
 Business — When and where transacted, 19 
 
 By-laws — Restrictions, 33 
 
 o 
 
 Charters— Relative to, 19, 20, 33 
 
 Loss of, , 19 
 
 Custodian of, 33 
 
 Closing — Of subordinate Commanderies, 21, 33 
 
 Commander — How suspended — Trial of, . 22 
 
 Custodian of charter, 33 
 
 When a Past, 3() 
 
 Commanderies — Requisites for forming, 20, 33 
 
 Of whom comprised, 13 
 
 Under dispensation — Relative to, 20, 33, 34 
 
 Officers o/— When to be installed, 21 
 
 How created, 2(5 
 
 Duty of when Grand Commandery is formed, 21 
 
 Failure to meet — Effect of, 21 
 
 Status of members of extinct, 22, 23 
 
 ' When may appear in public — who commands, 21 
 
 Illegal— When, 24 
 
 Who may install officers of, 25 
 
 Committees— Standing — when appointed,. 34 
 
 Complaints — How made, 3 t 
 
ii Index, 
 
 (>)xrLAVES— How terminated, 19, 21, .S3 
 
 Of Grand Encampment— Relative to, 4 
 
 Of Grand Commanderies, 10 
 
 Confer Orders — Who may, .... 22 
 
 ('oxsTiTUTiON — Of Grand Encampment, 8-17 
 
 Correspondence — Through whom forwarded, 34, 35 
 
 Debate— How closed, 22 
 
 Decisions — Of Grand Master — To be digested 22 
 
 Of Grand Commander — On whom binding, 35 
 
 Deputy Grand Commander — Duties of, 11 
 
 DiMiTS — How granted — Relative to, 22, 35 
 
 Dispensations, 35 
 
 Dues — Non-payment of, 36 
 
 Members not exempt from, 34, 35 
 
 E 
 
 Elections — How held, '. 22, 46 
 
 Blank ballots at— Void, 22 
 
 Eminent Commander — Relative to, 22, 35, 40 
 
 How suspended, 22 
 
 Trial of, by whom, 22 
 
 Expulsion or suspension — Relative to, 23, 36, 37 
 
 By Lodge or Chapter, 23, 36 
 
 How restored, 23 
 
 When certificate of required, 23 
 
 Extinct Commanderies— Relative to, 22 
 
 Status of members of, 22, 23 
 
 Fees — Cannot be remitted, 23, 37 
 
 Finances —Dues, Fees, etc., 14, 47 
 
 Foreign Knights — Not Red Cross, 23 
 
 Foreign Representatives — Not allowable, 29 
 
 Form— Of Petitions, 27, 40 
 
 Funerals — When Commandery may appear at, 37 
 
 Or 
 
 Good Standing — When effected, 37 
 
 Grand Commandery — How formed, , 8, 24, 37, 38 
 
 Of whom composed, .9 
 
 Powers and duties of , 10, 46 
 
 Duties of officers of, 11,12 
 
 Rank of subordinates, 24 
 
 Adjourn— Not close, 19 
 
 Conclaves, 10, 46 
 
 Who eligible to office in, 37 
 
 Of its elections, 46 
 
Index. iii 
 
 Grand Com^siandery — Tenure of office in, 11 
 
 Who may vote, .... 37, 47 
 
 Proxies, 10, 28, 47 
 
 Voting in, 47 
 
 Grand Commander — Duties of, 11 
 
 Grand Recorder — Duties of, 12, 49, 50 
 
 Duties of other officers, . . 12, 50 
 
 Grand Encampment — Of whom composed, 3, 4 
 
 Powers and duties of, 4, 5 
 
 Duties of officers of, 5, 6, 7, 8 
 
 Tenure of office in, 5 
 
 Conclaves, 4 
 
 Proxies — Titles, 4 
 
 General provisions concerning, 8 
 
 Gran J) Master — Duties of, ... , .... 5, 6 
 
 Grand Treasurer— Relative to, 6 
 
 Grand Recorder — Duties of, 7, 8 
 
 Duties of other officers, 8 
 
 H 
 
 Healini^ — Relative to, 24 
 
 Honorary Members — Not entitled to vote, etc., 2(5 
 
 I 
 
 Illegal Commanderies — What are, 24 
 
 Information— How obtained, 24 
 
 Installation — Of re-elected officers not necessary, 38 
 
 Who may install, 25 
 
 When by commission, 25 
 
 May be public, 38 
 
 Ceremony to be used, 25 
 
 Failure to be installed, 27 
 
 J 
 
 Jewel— Of Past Grand Master, 38 
 
 Jurisdiction — Territorial — Personal, 39 
 
 Over sojourners, 26, 39 
 
 Over candidates, 25, 39 
 
 Violation of, 25 
 
 M 
 
 Meetings — When held, 26 
 
 Failure of, 21 
 
 Membership — Relative to, ». . 26, 34, 39, 46 
 
 Honorary, 26, 39 
 
 Life — Approved, 39 
 
 In Grand Encampment, 39 
 
 Minutes- To be read at close of Conclave, 40 
 
 Form of, 44 
 
iv Index, 
 
 Miscellaneous— Dues— Fees^and Finances, 14 
 
 Moneys — How paid out, 40 
 
 N 
 
 New Business— When may be entered upon, 17 
 
 Nomenclature — Templar, 48 
 
 Non-affiliates— Relative to, 38, 40 
 
 o 
 
 OivjECTiONS— After ballot, 27, 40 
 
 Who may make — Effect of, 27 
 
 When by visiting Knight, 27' 
 
 May be withdrawn, 40 
 
 Offices — Incompatible — What are. 26, 40 
 
 Succession in, 27 
 
 Vacancy in — How filled, 27 
 
 Officers— Failure to be installed, 27 
 
 Rank of, 29, 42 
 
 AVho may, and may not, resign, 29 
 
 Change of residence — Effect of, 27 
 
 ( >K I) ERs -Petition for, 27, 40 
 
 Who may confer, 22 
 
 Qualifications for, 28, 41, 42 
 
 p 
 
 Parades — W^hen not allowe<l, 21,41 
 
 Past Commander — Senior — To preside, etc., 22, 40 
 
 Penalties — Relative to, 58 
 
 pETinoNS — For orders, 27, 40 
 
 Form of, 27, 40 
 
 Cannot be withdrawn, 28, 41 
 
 Report on — Not to be recorded, 28 
 
 When may be renewed, 28, 32 
 
 When acted upon, 28, 41 
 
 PRINTINC Reports — In advance, 41 
 
 Proxies— Relative to, 4, 28, 47 
 
 Public Parades— Relative to, 21, 41 
 
 Q 
 
 Qualifications — For orders, 28, 41, 42, 51 
 
 Quorum — W^hat constitutes, 28, 42 
 
 R 
 
 Rank — Of Commanderies, 29 
 
 Of Officers, 29, 42 
 
 Repeating Ballot — When allowable, 19 
 
 Representativ e3 — Foreign prohibited, 29 
 
 Resion — Who may, 29 
 
 Restoration — Relative to, 23, 39, 42, 48 
 
Index, V 
 
 Ritual — Cannot be altered, 29 
 
 For burial, 19 
 
 Royal Ahch Masons— Only eligible, .15 
 
 S 
 
 Seals — Relative to, 29, 43, 45 
 
 Shoulder Straps — Who may wear, 43 
 
 Sojourner — Not entitled to Orders, 15 
 
 Subordinate Commanderies — How constituted, 12, 50 
 
 Of whom composed, 13, 51 
 
 Jurisdiction of, 25, 39 
 
 Assemblies of, 51 
 
 Elections in, 51 
 
 Powers and duties of, 13 
 
 Titles, 13 
 
 Summons —What is legal, 30 
 
 In Subordinate Commandery — relative to, 43 
 
 Suspensions— Relative to, 23, 36, 39, 42, 43 
 
 T 
 
 Title — What constitutes, •. 30 
 
 Who may retain, 43 
 
 Trials — How conducted, 30, 43 
 
 Who presides at, 30 
 
 Charges cannot be referred , 43 
 
 u 
 
 Unaffiliated Knights — Rights of, 30 
 
 Uniform— Of Knights Templar, 30, 31, 43, 44 
 
 Shoulder straps — Who entitled to, 43 
 
 V 
 
 Vacancies in Office — How tilled, 27 
 
 Visiting Knights — Objection of member excludes, 44 
 
 How examined, 44 
 
 Vote — How decided, 44 
 
 Who entitled to, . . , .'. 3, 9, 47 
 
 w 
 
 Warrant or Dispensation — Must be present, 31 
 
 Custodian of, 33 
 
 Work — Form of minutes of, 44