IN UNION WITH THE MOST ANCIENT AND HONORABLE GRAND LODGES IN
EUROPE AND AMERICA, ACCORDING TO THE OLD CONSTITUTIONS,

From March 9 to Dec. 27, 1870;

BEING ITS ONE HUNDREDTH AND THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY,

M.W. WILLIAM SEWALL GARDNER, GRAND MASTER.
R.W. SOLON THORNTON, GRAND SECRETARY.

Ordered to be Read in all the Lodges.

BOSTON:

PRINTED BY SOLON THORNTON.

1871.

CONTENTS.

QUARTERLY COMMUNICATION, March 9, A.L. 5870

Officers present

Reading of the records dispensed with.

Proxies recognized

Roll of Lodges called

Petition for Charter for Rabboni Lodge

Petition for Charter for Globe Lodge

Petition for Charter for Charity Lodge

Communication from the Grand Lodge of Montevideo.

Complaint against Saint Bernard's Lodge

Proceedings of Pacific Lodge vs. George H. Blanchard

Proceedings of Tuscan Lodge rs. J. W. Hanson

Communication from R. W. W C. Blanchard, D.D.G.M., for China
Address of the M.W. Grand Master

Appendix to the Address

Recorded meetings of the Massachusetts Grand Lodge, from

1776 to 1792 .

Charter granted by the "Massachusetts Grand Lodge" after

its independence, from March 8, 1777, to Dec. 8, 1792.

Copy of the Charter of the African Lodge

Document from the "Massachusetts Centinel" of May 2,

Page.

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10

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11

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1787

Extract from an Address of John V. De Grasse, June 30,

1858

Declaration of Independence, June, 1827

Letter from John Hervey, Grand Secretary, Grand Lodge of

England

Extract from the report of James Herring, Grand Secretary

to the Grand Lodge of New York, June 2, 1846

Letter of J. S. Rock to Peter G. Smith, September 6, 1855

Letter of Phillip C. Tucker, Grand Master of Vermont, to

Peter G. Smith

Letter from the Grand Secretary of England.

Letter of Prince Hall to Grand Lodge of England

Petition of Samson H. Moody and others, to the Grand

Lodge of England

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Address of the M. W. Grand Master referred to a committee.

Report of the Committee on complaint of Br. Henry Crippen

Committee on Communication from Grand Lodge of Italy

was granted further time

Report of the Committee on the Amendment to Part I.,

Article 3, Section 1 of the Constitutions

Report of the Committee on the Amendment to Part I.,

Article 8, Section 9, and Part 3, Article 1, Section 1 of

the Grand Constitutions

Amendment to Part I., Article 8, Section 9

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13

13

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