Name of Grand Lodge. Hiram, U. D................. Zabud, U. D... Leadville, U. D. Glendive, U. D... Custer, U. D.... Adoniram, U. D. Mystic, U. D.. Zabud, U. D... Montana, U. D... Deer Lodge, U. D... Anaconda, U. D. Deming, No. I.. Las Vegas, U. D. Santa Fé, U. D............. Hiram, Ú. D.. Alpha, U. D.... Casselton, No. I Hilkiah, No. 2... Hiram, U. D... Rae, U. D... Zabud, U. D.... Towner, U. D. Adoniram, U. D.. Damascus, U. D. Mizpah, U. D.... Tyrian, U. D.... Bismarck, U. D... Alpha, No. 1.. ... Lakota, U. D.... Black Hills, U. D... Zabud, U. D..... Scotland, U. D.... 9 18 15 22 12 II 12 37 Miles City, Mont. Hot Springs, S. Dak. Scotland, S. Dak.. ... 16 ... 15 23 20 22 19 13 II 17 ΤΟ 9 II 18 23 21 16 16 II ΤΟ 14 17 16 14 14 ΙΟ 19 15 14 13 38 22 ... 18 13 17 .... 12 SUBORDINATE COUNCILS UNDER THE IMMEDIATE JURISDICTION OF THE GENERAL GRAND COUNCIL, 1896. Council. Location. Date of Date of Charter. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Washington, No. 1....... Washington....... No dispensation August 14, 1883. SUMMARY OF GRAND COUNCIL RETURNS FOR THE YEAR 1896. From the Proceedings of the General Grand Council, 1897. CHAPTER LVIII HISTORY OF THE GRAND AND SUBORDINATE COMMANDERIES IN THE SEVERAL STATES AND TERRITORIES OF THE UNITED STATES Templar. HE records of the early conclaves of the General Grand Encampment are the only sources of any definite information in regard to the introduction of the Templar Order into the several Masonic jurisdictions. Whoever, therefore, has gone over the pages of those early records for any extended information will say, that for want of order and exactness they will compare with any other defective records now extant. Discrepancies in dates continually occur, even within a few pages of each other, so that the compiler, after a diligent search and memoranda taken, will very soon have to alter the same. We can refer any reader, for example, to the statistical tables of the dates of organization of the several Grand Commanderies in the Proceedings of 1880 and of 1895, for comparison. In many cases in the reports of the General Grand Officers, as to the formation of the subordinate commanderies, it is said frequently: "Since the last conclave I have issued dispensations to the following subordinate Commanderies," without giving any dates whatever, leaving the compiler the difficult task of searching in the future pages for the definite years, months, and dates to find when these commanderies had their dispensations issued to them. This was a constant source of error in dates, and, frequently, was a great annoyance in the preparation of this sketch. We trust that should errors in dates be found hereafter the finder will consider the quandaries of the compiler, and especially if he should undertake to rectify our errors. We have endeavored sedulously and faithfully, as historian, to gather all the facts upon record, to give a truthful narrative of the formation of the subordinate bodies, as well as the constitutions of them also; and the organization of the Grand Commanderies in the |