Proceedings

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1883

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Page 152 - Masonry, containing the Degrees of Mark Master, Past Master, Most Excellent Master, and Royal Arch ; together with the Order of HighPriesthood ; the Ceremonies for Installing the Officers of a Chapter, with Forms of Masonic Documents.
Page 59 - Any number of masonic bodies within the state, chartered by the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the state of New York...
Page 241 - Whenever a member of any lodge shall resign, or shall be excluded, or whenever, at a future time, he may require it, he shall be furnished with a certificate, stating the circumstances under which he left the lodge; and such certificate is to be produced to any other lodge of which he is proposed to be admitted a member, previous to the ballot being taken.
Page 8 - Masonic bodies of the United States of America, and those of corresponding rank in foreign countries, to wit : the Grand Lodges of Free and Accepted Masons of the several States and Territories ; the General Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of the United States...
Page 70 - Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons of England and Wales, and the Colonies and Dependencies of the British Crown.
Page 8 - Commander; and the Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry for the Northern Jurisdiction of the United States, of which HENBY L.
Page 372 - In the West see the Wardens submissively stand, The Master to aid, and obey his command ; The intent of his signal we perfectly know, And we ne'er take offence when he gives us a blow.
Page 155 - Quebec, is unlawful and inexcusable, and your committee recommend that all Masonic intercourse between this Grand Chapter and the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons of England, cease ; and...
Page 8 - It is hereby declared that any Royal Arch Mason who shall hereafter take or receive any so-called Masonic degree or order of Knighthood from any man or body of men not hereinbefore acknowledged to be legitimate and genuine, ehall be liable to be expelled from all the rights and privileges of a Royal Arch Mason.
Page 152 - ... they separated, there could have been no permanent organization of Speculative Masons, and no necessity for contributions to constitute a Lodge fund. Dues must therefore have been unknown except in the Lodges of Operative Masons, which, as we find, especially in Scotland, had a permanent existence. There is. accordingly, no regulation in any of the old Constitutions for the payment of dues. It is not a general Masonic duty, in which the Mason is affected to the whole of the Craft, but an arrangement...

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