Alabama... *Arkansas.. *California.. Canada.. April.... July. December... H. Clay Armstrong.. Montgomery... 1893 Connecticut...... May... *Colorado... . . . . . September.. Ernest L. Foster.... Denver.. 1899 1899 England & Wales. March....... Charles F. Matier.... London, W. C. 1899 October..... William H. Smythe. Indianapolis. 1899 *Indian Territory.. April... Joseph S. Murrow... Atoka..... 1899 *Kansas... Kentucky.. *Louisiana.. *Maine.. *Maryland.... February........ William M. Shaver.. Topeka. 1899 1898 February.... Richard Lambert.... New Orleans... 1897 1899 Michigan... *Minnesota.. Mississippi *Missouri... *Nebraska.. New Jersey... *New York.. *Massachusetts.... December... J. Gilman Waite.... Boston... January..... Jefferson S. Conover. Coldwater.. *New Hampshire.. May.... . . . George P. Cleaves... Concord. 1898 1899 1898 1899 1899 1897 1898 January. *North Carolina... May.. Charles Bechtel...... Trenton... George Van Vliet... New York City. James C. Munds. Wilmington. New Brunswick.. August...... John A. Watson.... *Ohio...... *Oregon. Pennsylvania October..... William E. Evans... Chillicothe.. Rhode Island. April. ..... William R. Greene.. Providence.. G.. G... Council. Sept 24. 1900 Henry W. Mordhurst. Fort Wayne, Ind 1897 Cincinnati, O *Constituent of the General Grand Council. CONSTITUTION. ARTICLE I. This Body shall be known as the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of Maryland. ARTICLE II. SEC. I. This Grand Council shall be composed: 1. Of a Grand Master (whose title is Most Illustrious), a Deputy Grand Master, Grand Principal Conductor of the Work, Grand Treasurer, Grand Recorder, Grand Chaplain, Grand Captain of the Guard, Grand Conductor of the Council, Grand Marshal and Grand Steward. 2. Of the Past Grand Masters, Past Deputy Grand Masters, Past Grand Principal Conductors of the Work, Past Grand Treasurers and Past Grand Recorders, while they continue members of a Council under this jurisdiction. 3. Of the Past Masters of Chartered Councils, being members of Chartered Councils under this jurisdiction, and such Past Masters who have obtained their rank in other jurisdictions and removed hereto and affiliated with a Chartered Council of this jurisdiction and elected to membership by this Grand Council. 4. All Masters, Deputy Masters and Principal Conductors of the Work of the Chartered Councils under this jurisdiction. SEC. 2. No Companion can be an officer or member of this Grand Council, unless he be at the same time a member of some Chartered Council of this jurisdiction. SEC. 3. Each member of this Grand Council has one vote, and the Grand Master an additional vote in case of an equal division, and each Council is entitled to three votes, without reference to its representatives present; a Grand Officer, Past Grand Officer or a Past Master, may vote both as such and as a representative. SEC. 4. Any Subordinate Council entitled to representation in this Grand Council, may appoint a proxy, provided the proxy is a member of the Council he represents. SEC. 5. The first five officers of this Grand Council shall be elected at the Annual Assembly by a majority of written ballots; the remaining officers shall be appointed by the Grand Master at the opening of the |