THE UNIVERSITY
OF ILLINOIS
LIBRARY
v. ^
PROCEEDINGS
. W. GRAND LODGE
OF
ANCIENT, FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS,
OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS,
AT ITS
Thirty-Third Grand Annual Communication
HELD AT
CHICAGO, OCTOBER 7th, 8th and 9th, A. L 5873.
JAMES A. HAWLEY, M. W. Grand Master.
JOHN P. BURRILL, R. W. Grand Secretary.
SPRINGFIELD:
ILLINOIS STATE REGISTER STEAM PRINT.
1873.
G-:K,^_3sr:D officers
GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS,
Elected and appointed at the Annual Communication, October, 1873.
M. W . JAMES A. H AWLEY Grand Master Dixon.
R. W. GEORGE E. LOUNSBURY Deputy Grand Master . . . . Mound City.
R. W. JOSEPH ROBBINS Senior Grand Warden.. .Quincy.
R. W. W. J. A. DbLANCEY Junior Grand Warden Centralia.
M . W. HARRISON DILLS Grand Treasurer Quincy.
R. W. JOHN F. BURRILL Grand Secretary Springfield.
R. W. and Rev. W. H. SCOTT Grand Chaplain Metropolis.
R. W. JOHN DOUGHERTY Grand Orator Jonesboro.
W. FRANK HUDSON, Jr Deputy Grand Secretary.. Springfield.
W. THOMAS C. CLARK Grand Pursuivant Chicago.
W. HARRY DU VALL Grand Marshal Chicago.
W. WILLIAM H. LONG Grand Standard Bearer. . .Mount Carmel.
W. WILLIAM E. GINTHER Grand Sword Dearer Charleston.
W. HENRY E. HAMILTON Senior Grand Deacon Chicago.
W. JOHN D. HAMILTON Junior Grand Deacon Carthage.
W. MENNO S. BOWMAN Grand Steward Sterling.
W. L. A. HAMBLIN Grand Steioard Chicago.
W. C. BRINKME1ER Grand Steward Chicago.
W. H. HOHNSHEIDT Grand Steward Bloomington.
BRO. JOHN P. FERNS Grand Tyler Chicago.
ANNUAL PROCEEDINGS.
The Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Ancient Free
and Accepted Masons of the State of Illinois met in Annual
Grand Communication at McCormick's Hall, in the city of Chi-
cago, on Tuesday, the seventh day of October, A. D. 1873, A. L.
5873, at 10 o'clock a. m.
PRESENT.
GRAND OFFICERS.
M. W. JAMES A. HAWLEY Grand Master.
R. W. GEORGE E. LOUNSBURY Deputy Grand Master.
11. W. JOSEPH ROBBINS Senior Grand Warden.
R. W. W. J. A. De LANOEY Junior Grand Warden.
M. W. HARRISON DILLS Grand Treasurer.
R. W. ORLIN H. MINER Grand Secretary.
R. W. and REV. JOHN W. AG ARD Grand Chaplain.
R. W. T. T. G URNEY Grand Orator.
W. JOHN F. BURRILL Deputy Grand Secretary.
W. HENRY W. DYER Grand Pursuivant.
W. WILLIAM H. LONG Grand Marshal.
W. ISAAC E. HARDY Grand Standard Bearer.
W. WILLIAM E. GINTIIER Grand Sword Bearer.
W. HENRY E. HAMILTON Senior Grand Deacon.
W. JOHN D. HAMILTON Junior Grand Deacon.
W. L. A. HAMBLTN Grand Steward.
W. MENNO S. BOWMAN Grand Steward.
W. GEORGE W. HARTMAN Grand Steward
BRO. JOHN P. FERNS Grand Tyler.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Oct-
DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND MA8TEB8.
K. W. <;. W. BARNARD First District.
R. W. EDWIN POWELL Second District.
R W. J. B. BABCOCK Fourth District.
R. W. I,. L. MUNN Fifth District.
R. W. J. C. SMITH Sixth District.
U. \Y. JOHN I). CKARTREE Seventh District .
R. W. S. G. STEARNS , Eighth District.
R. W. W. S. EASTON Ninth District.
R. \V. JOHN C. BAGBY Twelfth District.
R. W. J. C. McMURTRT Thirteenth District.
R. W. WILLIAM ROUNSEVILLE Fourteenth District.
R. XV. WILSON HO AG Fifteenth District.
R. W. II. C. CLARK Sixteenth District .
R. W. W. H. BROWN Seventeenth District.
R. W. A. A. MURRAY Eighteenth District.
R. W. CHARLES FISHER Nineteenth District.
R. W. A. A. GLENN Twentieth District.
R. W. E. C. SELLECK Twenty-first District.
R. W. GEORGE W. DAVIS Tioenty-second District.
R. W. GEORGE M. RAYMOND Twenty-third District.
R. W. JOHN L. McCULLOUGH Twenty-fourth District.
R. W. H. W. HUBBARD Twenty-fifth District.
R. W. JOHN M. PEARSON Twenty-sixth District.
R. W. B. J. VAN COURT Twenty-seventh District.
R. W. C. II. PATTON Twenty-eighth District.
RKFRKSENTAT1VES OF OTHER GRAND LODGFS NEAR TirE GRAND LODGE OF
ILLINOIS.
R. W. BRO. ORLIN H. MINER Ohio, Oregon, Florida, and Royal
York, Berlin, Prussia.
M. W. D. C. CREGIER hidiana, Mississippi, Connecticut ,
3tichigan, District of Columbia,
ami Quebec.
R. W. WILEY M. EGAN Ireland.
R. W. JOSEPH ROBBINS Iowa.
R. W. W. J. A. DeLANCEY Georgia .
PAST GRAND MASTKRS.
M. W. WILLIAM LAVELY, M. W. LEVI LUSK,
M. W. HARRISON DILLS, M. W. JEROME R. GORIX,
M. W. DEWITT C. CREGIER.
A constitutional number of representatives being present, the
Grand Master opened the Grand Lodge on the three degrees in
Masonry in ample form.
1873.] GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS. 5
The blessing of the Grand Architect of the Universe was in-
voked by the Grand Chaplain, after which the following ode was
sung by the choir, under the direction of Brother W. H. Cutler :
All hail ! all hail ! to thee,
Genius of Masonry,
Ruling our hearts each day
To seek the Master's way.
All hail ! all hail ! our art divine,
And may our vows be truly thine.
All praise ! all praise to thee,
Sublime in unity,
Guard well our Brotherhood,
Each precept understood.
All hail ! all hail ! our art divine,
And may our vows be truly thine.
The Committee on Credentials having reported a quorum
present, the Grand Master declared the Grand Lodge ready for
the transaction of business.
RESOLUTIONS.
M. W. Bro. Cregier, P. G. M., offered the following resolu-
tions, which, upon his motion, were referred to the Committee on
Finance :
Resolved, That the Masonic Fraternity of the State of Illinois in Grand Lodge
assembled, tender to the people generally, and to our brethren in particular, of the
cities of Shreveport and Memphis, expressions of profound sympathy in their
present hour of distress, due to the epidemic now raging in their midst.
Resolved, That our M. W. Grand Master be, and is hereby authorized, to notify
theM. W., the Grand Master of Masons in Louisiana to draw upou this Grand
Lodge for the sum of three, hundred dollars ($300). to be applied to the relief of our
brethren, their widows and orphans, resident at Shreveport, who may be in
distress.
Resolved, That our M. W. Grand Master be authorized to, in the same manner,
tender to the Grand Master of Tennessee the sum of two hundred dollars ($300), to
be devoted to the relief of our brethren, their widows and orphans, resident in the
city of Memphis, who may be sufferers by the present epidemic.
READING OF MINUTES DISPENSED WITH.
Upon motion of E. W. Bro. Lounsbury, the reading of the
minutes of the last Annual Grand Communication was dispensed
with, printed copies being in the hands of the members and
representatives.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Oct.
The M. W. Grand Master announced the appointment of the
following
COMMITTEES.
ON CREDENTIALS.
John D. Crahtkee (7), A. D. Hutch ins (78), A. Wood (3).
ON FINANCE.
Edward Cook (271), Daniel Dustin (134), Geo. W. Davis (50).
TO EXAMINE VISITING BRETHREN.
G. \V. Barnard (141), K. D. Hammond (553), Thos. J. Wade (40), D. C. Jones
(130), Geo. H. Sampson (338), Levi Lusk (0), H. Robinson (4).
ON PETITIONS.
A. Sallee (189), CnARLES Trowbridge (159), Henry Bishop (8), Alex. Hearst
(46), J. L. Pratt (134).
GENERAI; COMMITTEE.
W. H. Brown (280), W. H. Scott (01), Sylvester Stevens f66).
ON OBITUARIES
James S. McCall (381), J. R. Gorin (8), J. V. Thomas (7).
on chartered lodges.
J. C. Smith (273), W. H. Eastman (448), C. Kirkpatrick (520), D. W. Thomson
(189), L. R. Jerome (112), H. E. Hamilton (611), W. H. H. Rader (465), A. W.
Blakesley (1), E. K. Conklin (633), H. F. Holcomb (141).
on lodges under dispensation.
R. D. Hammond (553), A. H. Wooster (178), George Dills (1).
on mileage and per diem.
S. W. Waddle (512), D. J. Avery (411), G. M. Evatt (659).
ON masonic correspondence
Joseph Robbins (206), David A. Cook (176), John O'Neil (393).
ON MASONIC JUHISrUUDENCE.
DeWitt C. Cregier (271), William Layely (4), Wiley M. Egan (211), John M.
Pearson (27), J. O. Cunningham (157), Geo. O. Ide (587), Asa W. Blakesley (1).
on library.
Grand Secretary, Enoch Brown, T. A E. Holcomb.
ON APPEALS AND GRIEVANCES.
A. A. Glenn (44), H. W. Hubbard (201), John W. Clyde (33), Joseph Holland
(70), Miles II. Wilmot (521).
auditing committee.
Edward Cook, Reuben Adams, Daniel Dustin.
restoration of records.
A. \V. Blakesley (1), Harrison Dills (1), E. C. Selleck (296).
1873.]
GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS.
The M. W. Grand Master then delivered the following
ADDRESS.
Brethren of the Grand Lodge : —
Another twelve months have passed, and again we are permitted to assemble in
Grand Communication, and it becomes my pleasant duty to extend to you, one and
all, a most fraternal and hearty welcome.
We have met at this time to counsel together and take such legislative action as
will, I hope, tend to promote the peace and prosperity of our beloved Institution.
In this great metropolis of Chicago there is at all times much to divert our minds
and attention from the business that has called us together, and such is especially
the case at the present time. The great industrial convention now in progress,
wherein are displayed the wouderful achievements of man's industry and genius,
which is so attractive to the true craftsman, will be liable to make us forget the
importance of the work before us. But, my brethren, notwithstanding all this, let
us see to it that we faithfully discharge the important trusts committed to us, and
make it our first and only duty to be present at and take part in the labors of the
session before us, thereby enabling us at its close to return to our several homes
with the happy consciousness of having devoted our time and services in promoting
the best interests of the Craft by whom we have been honored.
In the history of Masonry, the past year has been an uneventful one in this Grand
Jurisdiction. Peace, harmony and prosperity, as a rule, have prevailed among the
Craft in all parts of the State ; and, considering the large number of Lodges in this
jurisdiction, there have been but few calls upon me in my official capacity for
interference, and these have, for the most part, been happily adjusted without using
extreme measures.
Thus, while we have been so favorably dealt with as Masons, we have, as
a people, been abundantly blessed in " basket and store," and have every reason, as
it is our bounden duty so to do, to thank God, " from whom all blessings now,"
with sincere and devout hearts.
Immediately after the close of the last Grand Communication, I issued proxies to
constitute the Lodges then chartered, and install the officers thereof, as follows :
BY WHOM CONSTITUTED.
R. D. Hammond Burnside
Bennett Galatia
James C. McMurtry Rio
DeWitt C. Cregier Cashman
M. D. Chamberlain Orangeville
Rodney Ashley Clifton ,
J. H. Fawcett... Advance
David A. Cashman Englewood
S. M. Gentry Iola
George M. Raymond Raymond
A. N. Lodge Hen-ins1 Prairie.
S. P. Mooney.
James Douglas
Charles H. Patton.
D. H. Kilmore
.ICenter
.Shilob Hill
. Belle Rive
.Richard Cole.
683
084
085
686
087
0S0
089
000
091
092
093
094
095
090
097
WHEN CONSTITUTED.
October 5th, 1872.
October 28th, 1872.
October 29th, 1872.
October 25th, 1872.
January 18th, 1873.
October 13th, 1872.
October 10th, 1872.
October 17th, 1S72.
November 2d, 1872.
November 22d, 1872.
December 14th, 1872.
November 7th, 1872.
October 24th. 1872.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Oct.
HUTTON LODGE.
A charter was issued to Ilutton Lodge, U. D., as contemplated by the resolution
of this Grand Lodge, and ttiis Lodge was duly constituted December 18th, 1872, by
W. Bro. W. E. Ginther, as Hutton Lodge No. 60S.
October 31st, 1872, I issued my proxy to R. W. Wiley M Egan to install R. W.
Thbodobb T. Gl'kxev Grand Orator, and W. Bro. Henry E. Hamilton Senior
Grand Deacon, these brethren not having been present at the installation of officers
at the last Annual Communication. This duty was performed by R. W. Bro.
Egan in December last, at a regular communication of Cleveland Lodge No. 211,
and due return thereof made.
November 1st, 1872, at the request of the VV. M. of San Jose Lodge No. 04o, I
appointed W. Bro. T. Van Hague as my proxy to visit that Lodge and preside
at the trial of Bro. James I. Crites, which duty was satisfactorily performed.
July 7th, 1873, I appointed W. Bro. J. W. Butler as my proxy to open
Abingdon Lodge No. 185, and hold a special election for W. M. and S. W. of said
Lodge, as provided for in a special dispensation issued for that purpose.
LODGES U. D.
The following Lodges were continued under dispensation for the present year, in
accordance with recommendation of the Grand Lodge, made at its last session, as
follows :
Prince Edward of York Lodge, Chicago, Cook county.
Alexandria Lodge, Alexandria, Warren county.
Temple Hill Lodge, Temple Hill, Pope county.
Johnsonville Lodge, Johnsonville, Wayne county.
Libauus Lodge, Rosemond, Christian connty.
Collinsville Lodge, Collinsville, Madison county.
Pleasant Plains Lodge, Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county.
1873.]
GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS.
In addition to these I have during
thirteen new Lodges, as follows :
the year, granted dispensations to form
DATE
OF DISPEN-
SATION.
18721
Nov. 12th.
1873
Jan. 10th.
Feb. 10th.
Mar. 3d.
April 8th
May 30th.
June 7th.
June 27th.
July 5th.
July 5th.
July 22d.
Aug. 11th.
Aug. 23d.
NAME OF LODGE.
Star* Hloopestou.,
Circle
Providence ..
Farmer City.
Joppa
Braidwood...
Lemont
Ewing
Newton
Varna
Elvaston
Lumbermen's
Calumet
Mattoon
Jefferson
Farmer City..,
Cowden
NAMES OF OFFICERS.
AM'T
KEC'D.
( I Jonathan Bedell. W.M.I
Vermilion < Geo. Steely S. W.\ $100 00
Wm. Moore J. W.
Coles ...
Cook ....
DeWitt.
Shelby .
Braidwood iWill.
Lemont
Ewing
Newton
Varna
Elvaston
Chicago
Blue Island.
Cook
Franklin ...
Vermilion..
Marshall....
Hancock ...
Cook
Cook
Jas. Gowenlock.AV. M.
F. K. Lafever S. W.
Benj. L. Casper. ..J. W.
L. A. Budlong...W. M.
And. Dunning... S. W.
S.H Burhaus J. W.
WmC.McMurry..W.M.
Henry Funk S. W.
Alden S. BisselL.J. W.
L H. Williams... W. M
L. G Torrencc. .S. W.
Henry Ledbetter.J. W.
Alex. Patterson... W.M.
Ira R. Marsh S. VV.
E. W. Felton T. W.
Wm. P. Peirce...W. M.
James Box S. W.
Thos. J. Huston. ..J. W
John R. Reese. ...W. M.
R. P. demons S. W.
John M. Darr J, W.
A. G. Payne W. M.
John O. Farrell...S. W.
Thos. J. George. ..J. W.
S. V. Jones W. M.
Zach. Taylor S. W.
Benj. Warren J. W.
F. M. McClellaud.W.M
Thos. Allison S W.
David Miller J. W.
S. S. Buffum W.M.
P. Spaulding S. W.
Alex. P. Beck J. W.
John Sidel W.M.
H. B. Robinson...S. W.
Alden P. Feirec.J. W.
100 00
100 00
100 CO
100 00
100 00
100 00
100 00
100 00
100 00
100 00
100 00
100 00
* Dispensation fee for Star Lodge, U. D., was paid to Grand Secretary in 1872.
Every thoughtful Mason will, I think, admit that the increase in the number of
Lodges in. this grand jurisdiction has been disproportionate to our membership,
and that there is great danger of inflicting an irreparable injury upon the institu-
tion of Masonry by increasing "ad infinitum'1'' their already too large number.
Yet it is necessary, however, as our state becomes more and more developed, and
the building up of new towns and cities changes the business centers from one part
of the country to another, that new Lodges should from time to time be established.
But it should be our constant care to discourage and prevent any greater increase
than is actually necessary for the real interests of Masonry.
Before granting dispensations to the above named Lodges, I required from them
a strict compliance with the law governing the same, and endeavored to satisfy
myself that the welfare and prosperity of our Order demanded that the prayer of
their petition should be granted.
I am led to believe, from information received, that the territory and population
embraced in the jurisdiction of these Lodges are amply sufficient to build up and
sustain healthy Lodges therein.
2
1 0 PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Oct.
1 would recommend that the General Regulation relating to the forming of
Lodges U. D. be so amended as to require that a dispensation snail not be granted
for a new Lodge, the location of which shall be within ten miles of any existing
Lodge, unless the said Lodge shall consist of at least sixty resident members, or
the Lodge prayed for is to be located in a city or town containing a population of
Ave thousand inhabitants.
The mobt of the Lodges now under dispensation will apply to you at this session
"I tin Grand Lodge for charters. Whether you should grant their request or not
depends upon the exhibit they make.
The work and returns of these Lodges have been placed in the hands of the
Committee on Lodges U. D. for examination. This committee is composed of
good men and true, and from their known skill and ability I have no doubt the
duty confided to them will be faithfully performed.
The question as to the status of members of chartered Lodges while assisting in
the formation of new Lodges, although clearly presented in the Grand Master's
address of last year, does not seem to be understood, and has during the past year
been the cause of serious trouble in one or more Lodges, and I would renew the
recommendation made by my immediate perdecessor^" that some regulation should
be framed to cover this question, and be incorporated in the body of the printed
dispensation."
SPECIAL DISPENSATIONS.
A large number of applications have been presented to me during the year praying
for authority to initiate, pass and raise candidates in less than the time prescribed
by the by-laws of this Grand Lodge.
In the matter of initiations, 1 have, in all cases but three, declined to issue
dispensations, and these would not have been granted had I not been first satisfied
that they were cases which fully justified me in setting the law aside. The power
vested in the Grand Master " to make Masons at sight " is one of the most important
of his prerogatives, and should at all times be exercised with the utmost caution.
Rut cases of emergency do arise when, to exercise this power, is, in my opinion,
not only proper and right, but is one of the means whereby the intere.-ts of Masonry
are promoted.
1873.]
GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS.
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Dispensations to confer degrees have been granted as follows:
NAMES.
NUMBER
OF
LODGE.
AMOUNT.
NAMES.
NUMBER
OF
LODGE.
AMOUNT.
Urbana
157
150
344
254
300
561
176
188
4
90
558
130
437
439
27(5
209
15
188
656
46
81
470
363
59
687
221
645
$5 00
5 00
5 00
5 00
5 00
5 00
5 00
5 00 i
5 00
5 00
5 00 i
5 00 j
5 00
5 00
5 00
5 00
5 00
5 00 1
5 00
5 00
5 00
5 00
5 00
5 00
5 00 ]
5 00 I
5 00 ;
5 00 1
5 00 i
5 00
Belle Rive.. .
696
575
460
414
370
23
484
596
510
637
290
157
140
308
27
96
385
369
615
80
102
228
252
463
134
1
$5 00
5 00
Capron
Jeffersonville
5 00
[Evening Star
5 00
Trinity
|Cass
5 00
5 00
Edgewood
5 00
[National
5 00
Alexandria U. I)
Circle U. D
5 00
Springfield
John D. Moodv
Burlington
Cache.
5 00
5 00
5 00
5 00
Chicago
Luce
Olney
5 00
5 00
Circle U. 1)
Piasa
5 00
Elizabeth
Samuel H. Davis
Mississippi
5 00
Wm. B. Warren
5 00
Peoria
5 00
Anchor
5 00
Mozart
White Hall...
5 00
Vitruvius
Rockford
5 00
5 00
Aledo
5 00
Horeb
Ewing U. D.. .
5 00
Palmyra
5 00
Sycamore
5 00
Braidwood U. D
500
5 00
San Jose
5 00
$300 00
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
[Oct.
I have also issued dispensations for elections, installations of officers, etc., as
follows :
NAMES.
NUMBER
OF
LODGE.
AMOUNT.
NAMES.
NUMBER
OF
LODGE.
AMOUNT
308
411
271
643
33
539
31
508
348
bo3
623
508
645
587
14
390
241
635
254
90
676
546
681
332
689
$2 00
2 (X)
2 00
2 00
2 00
2 oo
2 00
2 00
2 00
2 00
2 00
2 00
2 00
2 00
2 00
2 00
2 00
2 00
2 00
2 00
2 00
2 00
2 00
2 00
2 00
Golden Gate
248
297
59
82
86
636
454
521
552
104
485
470
545
431
116
47:;
348
185
7
277
393
28
47
660
$2 00
Benjamin
2 00
New Boston
Metamora
2 00
2 00
Kaskaskia
Peotone
Illiopolis
Edward Dobbins
Elkhart
0 iO to
8 5 E
2 00
2 00
2 oo
Home
2 00
2 00
2 00
200
2 00
200
Abingdon
200
200
200
Jerusalem Temple
A. 0. Fay
2 00
Blair
! Caledonia
2 oo
200
200
Grand Chain
2 00
$98 00
RECAPITULATION.
Total amount of fees received for dispensations for new lodges is $1,300 00
Total amount of fees received for dispensations to confer degrees is 300 00
Total amount of fees received for dispensations for other purposes is 98 00
Grand total $1,698 00
DISCIPLINE.
It has been my exceeding good fortune to have been called upon but in few cases
to enforce discipline, and, therefore, my report under this head will be quite brief.
I have during the year had occasion to set aside the proceedings of Lodges in
cases of trials, owing to informalities and other causes. This has been done upon
application of the Lodge itself, or a sufficient number of brethren to warrant the
action, and has, so far as I am able to learn, resulted satisfactorily, and obviated the
necessity of an appeal to this Grand Body.
On tke 15th day of April last, R. W. James C. McMurtry, D. D. G. M., at my
request, visited Abingdon Lodge No. 185, and presided at the trial of Bro. Thomas
Eagle, a member of that Lodge, it having been alleged that the W. M. was inter-
ested in the result.
The trial resulted in a dismissal of the charges, which dismissal was based upon
the request of the prosecution. Subsequently, but on the same eveniug, other
charges were preferred, which the Lodge, by a large majority, refused to receive,
the members being fully satisfied that the matter ought not to have been brought
before the Lodge. Bro. Eagle having previously petitioned for a dimit to join
a Lodge nearer his place of residence, it was then granted him.
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Owing to this action of the Lodge. W. Bro. D. W. Andrews. Master, and
Bro. J. M. Antiiony, S. W., of said Lodge, declined to serve the Lodge further
in their official capacity ; and as Bro. J. J. Bradbury, J. W., had removed too
far beyond the jurisdiction of his Lodge to enable him to perform the duties which
would in this case necessarily devolve upon him, R. W. Bro. McMurtry closed
the Lodge until such time as the matter could be properly investigated.
On the 1st of July I visited the Lodge in person, and had an interview with the
W. M., and afterwards a long consultation with the members of the Lodge ; and
becoming fully satisfied that harmony could not exist with either the W. M. or S.
W. as presiding officers, and as they expressed a desire to be relieved from the
duties of their respective offices, I deposed them therefrom. A dispensation to
hold an election (on a subsequent evening) to till vacancies was then granted, and
the members were duly summoned for that purpose. This action was in harmony
with the wishes of the members of the Lodge, they having previously petitioned
for authority to hold such special election.
On the 26th of August last I appointed R. W. P. W. Barclay, D. D. G. M., and W.
Bro. James S. Reardon, a commission to inquire into certain charges preferred
by Bro. Joiin Mitchel, alleging gross unmasonic conduct on the part of W.
David F. Frayser, Master of Cave-in-Rock Lodge No. 444.
The commission met on the 17th day of September, and after a careful investiga-
tion of the charges, reported that they fouud W. Bro. Frayser guilty of the
crime of adultery, as set forth in charges and specifications, and recommended that
he be suspended from the exercise of the functions of his office. I examined the
evidence submitted to me, and, believing that the charge of adultery was fully sus-
ained, I approved of the findings of the commission, and, in accordance with their
recommendation, I suspended W. Bro. Frayser from his office as W. M. until
this meeting of the Grand Lodge.
The papers in each of these cases are herewith submitted.
Frequent complaints have been made against Lodges for invasion of jurisdiction,
and for other violations of Masonic rights. In almost every instance I have found
that such violations are the result of a misunderstanding or misinterpretation
of the law, and not from any desire or intention to do wrong ; while in some I
have been compelled to believe the aggression was committed In defiance or in a
total ignorance of the law relating to the jurisdiction of Lodges. It should be
clearly understood that the territorial jurisdiction of a Lodge (except in towns
and cities where there is more than one Lodge), extends in an air line direction
one-half the distance to the nearest Lodge within the State.
The right of objection, as laid down in our by laws, is a source of constant and vexa-
tious trouble, and I presume to say that a majority of our Lodges, unaided by any
explanation or decision, would be led into error, so contradictory does the law
appear upon this subject.
The right of absolute objection to a candidate after he has been favorably balloted
upon, as set forth in section 49 of our by-laws, has been construed by my imme-
diate predecessor, as well as by myself, to apply to those only who are seeking
initiation into our Lodges.
When objections are made to the advancement of a brother, reasons for such
objection must be assigned, subject to the approval of the W. M., or Lodge, as pro-
vided in section 45. The apparent conflict between sections 45 and 49 upon this
question should be definitely settled by this Grand Lodge, that the law as here
defined may be clearly understood.
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CEDAR F.ODCE.
In the matter of Cedar Lodge No. 124, which was referred to the Grand Master
with power, I have to report that, after consultation with M. W. Bro. Creoier,
who was fully conversant with all the points in the case, I learned that a
majority of the members of said Lodge were not only willing to perform their
duties, but had done all they could to protect and maintain the principles of Ma-
sonry. Believing, from information received from him and members of the Lodge,
that those members who had allowed personal friendship for a brother to out-
weigh their duty to their Lodge did, after mature reflection, regret their action ;
and fueling that the Lodge had been humbled and severely punished by the tem-
porary suspension of its labors, because of the unmasonic course of a minority of
its members, I ordered their^charter restored to them. This duty was performed
by M. W. Bro. Creoikr, November 19th, who reported that harmony and good
feeling prevailed, and that members of the Lodge unanimously adopted resolutions
expressing their, entire satisfaction with the course of our late Grand Master, and
with the action of the Grand Lodge in the premises.
OBLONG CITT LODGE NO. 644.
having complied with the order of the Grand Lodge by publishing in the newspa-
pers of Crawford county a retraction of the article wherein they falsely represented
Bro. J. W. Hearer as an impostor, I ordered the Grand Secretary to restore
to them their charter, as contemplated by the resolution of this Grand Lodge.
DECISIONS.
I have had almost innumerable questions presented to me for my decision during
the past year. A majority of these might have been solved by a little research
into the proceedings of this Grand Body, or by examining decisions heretofore
made, and thus obviated the necessity of inquiry.
The following I submit for your consideration :
First. That a Brother who has been elected and installed as W. M. or Warden
of a lawfully constituted Lodge in another jurisdiction is eligible to the office of
W. M. in this.
Second. That a Lodge cannot lawfully ballot upon the petition of a candidate
to be made a Mason, unless there are seven of its members present.
Third. That a subordinate officer cannot be removed from office by either W.
M. or Lodge, after having been elected and installed, without due trial.
Fourth. That a profane cannot be allowed to serve as counsel in Masonic
trials, either in Lodge or before committee appointed for purpose of taking evidence
therein.
Fifth. That a brother can appear as counsel in trials who has been expelled,
but subsequently restored to good standing in the fraternity.
Sixth. That Lodges can change their place of meeting from one hall to another
in the same city or village, without dispensation from Grand Master so to do.
Seventh. That members of chartered Lodges are liable for dues, and entitled to
all the rights and privileges of membership therein while assisting in forming new
Lodges.
Eighth. That a brother's objection to the advancement of a candidate ceases
upon his dismission or expulsion from the Lodge.
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Ninth. That the application for restoration of a brother who has been indefin-
itely suspended must lie over one regular meeting, unless all the resident members
of the Lodge have been duly notified of such intended application.
Tenth. That in absence of any local law on the subject, Lodges can, by their
by-laws, authorize the election of Master Masons in good standing to honorary
membership therein.
Eleventh. That honorary members of a Lodge are entitled, by their election
thereto, to all the rights and privileges guaranteed to them by the by-laws of the
Lodge not inconsistent with the General Regulations of Masonry.
Twelfth. That a non-affiliated Mason who is an actual Past Master can legally
install the officers of a Lodge when invittd to do so by the proper authority.
Thirteenth. A candidate must have resided in the state twelve months imme-
diately preceding the date of his application.
CORNER STONES.
On the 30th day of October last, M. W. DeWitt C. Cregier, as my proxy,
assisted by R. W. Brethren E. Powell, D. G. M., G. W. Barnard, S. G. W., and
W. Bro. John Sutton, J. G. W. laid the corner stone of the " Fire Monument " in
the presence of a large number of the Masons and citizens of Chicago. The Sir
Knights of Chicago Commandery No. 19, under command of E. Sir A. R. Atkins,
did guard and escort duty to the Grand Lodge, and by their knightly bearing did
honor to Templar Masonry. This monument was erected as a memorial of the
whirlwind of fire that 6wept over the city one year before, and was therefore of
unusual interest to the citizens of this place. The arrangements were under super-
vision of Brother Harry Duvall, and were perfect in every detail.
On the 5th of June, R. W. Thomas Moore, as my proxy, laid the corner stone of
Masonic Hall at Shawneetown.
On the 28th June, R. W. David A. Cashman, as my proxy, laid the corner stone
of the Classical and Military College at Washington Heights, in this city.
On the 7th of August, R. W. B. J. Van Court, as my proxy, laid the corner
stone of building erected by the Illinois Educational Association at East St. Louis.
On the 26th of August, R. W. E. R. Roe, as my proxy, laid corner stone of the
Masonic Hall at Clinton.
October 3d, 1872, W. Bro. Samuel M. Martin, as proxy for M. W. DeWitt C.
Cregier, Grand Master, laid the corner stone of the City Hall at Virginia, Cass
county.
DEDICATIONS.
October 29th, M. W. DeWitt C. Cregier dedicated the new hall of D. A. Cash-
man Lodge No. 686.
November 7th. R. W. Chas. H. Patton dedicated the new hall of Belle Rive
Lodge No. 696.
December 22, M. W. DeWitt C. Cregier dedicated the new hall of Pleiades
Lodge No. 478.
December 27th, R. W. L. D. Bennett dedicated the new hall of Mount Carmel
Lodge No. 239.
January 22d. W. Bro. Isaac Miller dedicated the new hall of Washington
Lodge No. 55.
February 1st, M. W. DeWitt C. Cregier dedicated the new hall of Oriental
Lodge No. 33.
June 24th, W. Bro. A. N. Lodge dedicated the new hall of Fellowship Lodge
No. 89.
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June 3d, M. W. DeWitt C. Ckegiek dedicated Corinthian Hall, owned aud
occupied by Kilwinning Lodge No. :ill and Covenant Lodge No. 520.
October 1st, R. W. William Rounseville dedicated the new hall of Farmington
Lodge No. L92.
CANADA.
At the last Annual Grand Communication a resolution was adopted requesting
the Grand Master, in cas^j the Grand Lodge of Canada should refuse to recede from
its then aggressive position towards the Grand Lodge of Quebec, to revoke the
commission of the Representative of the Grand Lodge of Illinois, near the Grand
Lodge of Canada, and also authorizing him, in case such refusal was persisted in, to
proclaim non-intercourse between the Grand Lodge of Canada and this Grand Lodge.
Hoping, in common with the great mass of Masons in the United States, that the
Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Canada, if it could not see its way clear to accord
to the Grand Lodge of Quebec such recognition as would at once restore harmony
aud good feeling between them, would at least consider it wise to withdraw the
warrants whose issue was the immediate occasion of our action ; and, believing that
the power vested in me as Grand Master by the aforesaid resolution was discretion-
ary, I decided to withhold any action whereby our then harmonious relations with
the Grand Lodge of Canada should be disturbed until such time as I should be
officially advised of the action that Grand Lodge would take at its Annual Commu-
nication iu July last.
Having, on the 20th ultimo, received official information to the effect that the
Grand Lodge of Canada had not only refused to recede from its position towards
the Grand Lodge of Quebec, but still persisted in her aggressive course towards that
Grand Lodge, and continued to invade her territory by establishing Lodges therein,
aud had, in defiance of all Masonic laws and usage, held her Annual Communica-
tion in the city of Montreal, and within the territory of the Grand Lodge of Quebec,
and feeling that all had been done that could be done to avert an interruption of
the cordial and fraternal relations so long subsisting between the Grand Lodge of
Canada and this Grand Lodge, and, believing that the action of this Grand Lodge
iu according recognition to the Grand Lodge of Quebec was eminently proper and
right, and fully justified by inter-masonic law and usage, I could no longer hesitate
in carrying into effect the resolution referred to.
M. W. William M. Wilson, Representative of the G;and Lodge of Illinois
near the Grand Lodge of Canada, tendered his resignation in March last,
thereby relieving me from the first duty assigned me. But, on the 24th ultimo, I
did though with profound regret, issue a proclamation of non-intercourse, thereby
severing our relations with the Grand Lodge of Canada. If I correctly understand
the feelings of this Grand Lodge, this action ou the part of your Grand Master was
not made a necessity because of any unfriendly feeling towards the Graud Lodge of
Canada, but to maintain a principle which underlies the jurisdictional rights of every
Grand Lodge, the surrendering of which would be fatal to our own sovereignty. I
am confident that I but reflect the sentiments and feelings of every Illinois Mason
to-day, when I say that I hope the necessity of the present interruption of our
relations with the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Canada will be of short duration,
and that my successor will have the proud satisfaction of being able to revoke this
proclamation, and declaring harmony and good feeling restored.
OUR RELATIONS
with sister Grand Lodges (with the exception referred to), continue to be of the
most pleasant character, and it affords me much pleasure, in looking over the
reports of other Grand Lodges, to find that the Grand Lodge ot Illinois is referred
to in the most favorable terms.
1873.] GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS. 17
The judicious and highly commeudable disposition of the fund contributed by
the Masonic Fraternity for the relief of the sufferers by the Chicago fire of 1871 is
spoken of in the most nattering manner. Our beloved brother, M. W. DeWitt C.
Cregiek, has, by his untiring exertions and integrity of action in connection with
this most sacred of funds, added imperishable laurels to his name, and reflected
honor upon the Craft over whom he so ably presided.
REPRESENTATIVES.
During the year I have had the pleasure of appointing M. W. Henry M. Teller
Representative of this Grand Lodge near the M. W. Grand Lodge of Colorado, and
M. W. Joseph Chapman Representative near the M. W. Grand Lodge of Iowa, vice
R. W. T. S. Parvin, resigned.
I have the honor, also, to acknowledge the receipt of commissions as represent-
ative of the M. W. Grand Lodges of Alabama and Colorado near this Grand Lodge.
INVITATION.
On the 2d of June I received a very cordial and fraternal invitation from the M.
W. the Grand Master of Pennsylvania, to be present at the dedication, on the 26th
ultimo, of the Masonic Temple at Philadelphia. My official duties, however, were
such as to prevent me from accepting.
CHANGE OP LOCATION.
On the 12th of May last, upon the unanimous request of the members of Rus-
sellville Lodge No. 348, I authorized the removal of that Lodge from Russellville,
Lawrence county, to Montgomery, Crawford county, and as it appears that the
Lodge will be more centrally located at the last-named place, and that the juris-
diction of no other Lodge will be affected thereby, I would recommend that the
change be confirmed and made permanent.
STANDARD WORK.
Immediately after the close of the Grand Lodge in October last, I appointed W.
Brethren M. D. Chamberlain, Geo. O. Ide, Edward Cook, and Thomas J. Prick -
ett, as Grand Lecturers and Examiners, to whom those of our brethren desiring
commissions as Assistant Grand Lecturers could apply for examination as to
proficiency in the standard work.
Upon the recommendation of this Board of Examiners, I issued commissions to
W. Brethren G. W. Barnard, Jno. O'Neil, G. P. Randall, D. H. Kilmore (since
resigned), A. T. Darrah, R. D. Hammond, Thos. L. Magee, W. T. Mason, Thos.
J. Wade, Rodney Ashley, Granville M. Evatt and J. H. Fawcett. These
brethren have visited Lodges when called upon, and their labors in promulgating
the work authorized by this Grand Lodge have been attended with success. I am
led to believe, however, from reports received, that unauthorized work is not only
being taught in many of the Lodges in this Grand Jurisdiction, but that the
Lodges and officers are unwilling to take the time or incur the expense necessary
to be put in possession of the correct work. It would seem necessary, therefore,
that some action should be taken in the premises, and I would recommend that
the Grand Master be requested to call the attention of the several subordinate
Lodges to the necessity of complying with the order of the Grand Lodge in this
particular.
NEW CHARTERS.
The charters of Galva, Advance, Metamora and Tuscola Lodges, together with
their halls and furniture, having been destroyed by fire, new charters were issued
to them, as provided for in section 59, Grand Lodge By-Laws.
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LAWS AND REGULATIONS.
The want of a thorough and systematic code of by-laws to supersede those now
in force is one which has long been felt by the Craft in this jurisdiction, and is a
subject which has enlisted the attention of the Grand Lodge annually for a num-
ber of years past.
The action taken at the last Grand Communication relative to this important
matter has resulted in the preparation of an elaborate and systematic code of laws
for the government of grand and constituent Lodges, a printed copy of which
has been submitted to each and every Lodge, in order that the brethren might be
fully informed, and thereby save much valuable time in Grand Lodge.
This new code of by-laws will come before you during the present session for
such further action as may be deemed proper. The present laws and regulations
of this Grand Lodge have been subjected to so many alterations and amendments
that tbey have become ambiguous, and are, therefore, frequently misconstrued by
well-informed brethren. This not only creates confusion, but is the source from
whence many unintentional errors occur.
My own experience, supported by that of others, justifies the assertion that full
and explicit laws, plainly expressed and systematically arranged, will tend to insure
peace, unity, and harmony among the Craft, and will greatly relieve the Grand Master
and others of an unnecessary expenditure of time and labor.
The representatives who are present at this session are doubtless more or less
familiar with the proposed new code. Another year may materially change the
representatives to the Grand Lodge ; therefore, unless the matter is again submit-
ted to the Lodges, no better opportunity will be presented for intelligent action
upon the subject than the present. While the proposed code may not be entirely
free from objections, yet an earnest desire for the welfare of the fraternity induces
me to urge you not to suffjr any mere technicalities to interfere with definite action
upon the subject at this session.
The grim messenger, death, has not ceased to wield " the all devouring scythe
of time" during the past year, and some of our brethren and companions have
fallen. We have, however, cause to be deeply thankiul, amid the appalling disas-
ters that have occurred on sea and land, that so many of us are continued upon
the "roll of time," and so few of our number have been called across the dark
river whose waters lave the shore of that " undiscovered country, that bourne
from whence no traveler returns."
With two exceptions, I shall leave it to the proper committee to report to you
the names of our lamented dead.
W. Bro. Nathan F. Prentice, P. M. of Excelsior Lodge No 97, and M. R.
Thompson Lodge No. 881, died at his residence in the city of Freeport, on Satur-
day, the 19th day of April last.
Bro. Prentice was well known among the Masons of Illinois as one of the
most genial and kindly of men. For many years he has been an earnest and effi-
cient worker in the cause of Masoury, doing much to elevate its standard and
diffuse a true knowledge of its principles among the Craft. He has honorably and
with credit to himself filled many positions of trust and responsibility, having
served as W. M. of Excelsior Lodge No. 97, in 1857, M. R. Thompson Lodge No.
381, U. D., in 1858. He has also served in the various offices in Chapter and Com-
mandery, and was Past Commander of Freeport Commandery No. 7, Past Grand
Commander of the Grand Commandery of the State of Illinois, and at the time of
his decease was Commander-in-Chief of the Freeport Consistory. He died as he
lived, a faithful and courteous Mason and true and exemplary Christian. Thus,
my brethren, has passed away one of the noble and gifted meu of our fraternity.
1873.] GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS. 19
One whose rare capabilities and quiet and unassuming ways won the hearts of all
with whom he was associated, thereby enabling him to exert an influence for good
seldom achieved in this life.
" None knew thee but to love thee,
None named thee but to praise."
M. W. Levi L. Stevenson, Past Grand Master of Masons in Virginia, died at his
residence in Staunton, in that State, August 20th, 1873, of whom it is truly said,
" That another Corinthian pillar has been removed from our time-honored temple
by the fiat of nature and nature's God, and consigned to the cold grave, the com-
mon entrance to the dark valley of the shadow of death." Our distinguished
brother was deeply beloved by his brethren, and died a devout Mason and a con-
sistent and pious Christian, in the full fruition of that blessed and glorious faith
typified by that ever-living sprig of Acacia which blooms at the head of his grave.
Let the memory of such as these, my brethren, inspire us to nobler acts and
deeds, and lead us to look through and above this life to that glorious life beyond
the grave.
DISTRICT DEPUTIES.
The reports of the District Deputy Grand Masters, so far as received, represent
the condition of Masonry in the several districts of the State to be in a united
and prosperous condition. The labors of the Grand Master have been materially
lightened by the efficient and valuable services of these officers.
CONCLUSION.
Brethren, the records of another Masonic year are nearly completed, and I am
soon to return to you the authority with which I was, by your partiality, clothed
one year since. Before doing so, permit me to say, that I am deeply sensible of
the high honor you have conferred upon me. I cannot take official leave of you
without first expressing my sincere thanks for the confidence reposed in me, and
for the uniform kindness and consideration received at your hands. I shall ever
hold in erateful remembrance the many courtesies extended to me by my associate
Grand Officers, and I am especially indebted to M. W. Bro. Ckegier, and R.
W. Bro. Robbins, for much valuable advice and assistance during my term of
office.
It has been my highest ambition to merit the confidence and approbation of my
brethren. If I have failed, it has been the fault of the head and not of the heart.
JAMES A. HAWLEY, Grand Master.
ADDRESS REFERRED.
Upon motion of R. W. Bro. Lounsberry, D. G. M., the
address was referred to a committee of three for subdivision and
reference.
R. W. Brethren J. M. Pearson, L. L. Munn and M. W. Bro.
J. R. Gorin, were appointed said committee.
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SPECIAL REPORT OF GRAND SECRETARY.
The Grand Secretary submitted the following special report,
which, upon motion, was referred to the Finance Committee :
To the M. W. Grand Lodge A. F. &. A. M. of the Stale of Illinois:
The undersigned, Grand Secretary, fraternally reports the payment to him, on or
about the 9th day of January, 1873, by M. W. Bro. Harm \n G. Reynolds, P. G. M.,
of the sum of six hundred and one dollars, which moneys were represented by Bro.
Reynolds as contributions for the relief of Masonic sufferers by the great Chicago
fire, sent to him by Lodges, as shown in the list herewith, viz :
Blazing Star Lodge No. 458 $25 00
Camden Lodge No. 648 20 00
Elbridge Lodge No. 579 25 00
Polk Lodge No. 137 50 00
Gill Lodge No. 382 25 00
Middleton Lodge No. 370 25 00
Carmi Lodge No. 272 50 00
Warsaw Lodge No. 257 28 35
Grand Chain Lodge No. 660 30 00
Jeffersonville Lodge No. 460 25 00
McLean Lodge No. 460 28 00
Columbia Lodge No. 474 50 00
Huntsville Lodge No. 465 25 00
Somonauk Lodge No. 646 25 00
Blueville Lodge No. 647 27 75
Troy Lodge No. 588 50 00
Uongola Lodge No. 581 5 00
New Boston Lodge No. 59 50 00
Belle City Lodge No. 483 10 00
Magnolia Lodge No. 103 13 00
Rossville Lodge No. 527 16 00
Casey Lodge No. 442 4 38 25
.-•ill 35
Credits 40 35
Amount paid me $601 00
Being of the opinion that this money should not be paid by me to the Grand
Treasurer, without the knowledge or consent of the Grand Lodge or of the Lodges
contributing the money for an entirely different purpose, I make the same the
subject of this special report, and respectfully ask instructions as to the dis-
position to be made of the money.
Fraternally submitted, O. H. MINER, Grand Secretary.
GRAND TREASURER'S REPORT.
M. W. Bro. Dills, Grand Treasurer, submitted the following
report :
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Harrison Dills, Grand Treasurer, in account'with
The Grand Lodge of Illinois A. F. and A. M.
Oct. 7, 1873. Dr.
To amount balance in bonds and money, Oct. 3, 1873 $7,310 32
To amount received of Grand Secretary, as per my receipt 30,662 95
To interest on bonds, Jan. J , 1873 84 65
To interest on bonds, July 1, 1873 84 37
To amount received from Grand Cointnaudery Loan, paid £2,500 00
To interest 250 00
2,750 00
$10,892 29
Oct. 3, 1873. Cr.
By paid mileage and per diem orders, as per schedule herewith $15,054 50
By amount of special orders paid 15,566 41
Balance $10,271 38
GRAND MASTER'S ACCOUNT.
Oct. 2, 1872, D. C. Cregier, salary, Order No. 47 $1,500 00
Oct. 3, 1873, D. C. Cregier, Incidental expenses of Grand Master's Office,
Order No. 48 231 34
Oct. 3, 1872, James A. Hawley, expenses attending trial, Order No. 65.. 7 20
Nov. 3, 1872, James A. Hawley, salary, Order No. 78 250 00
Jan. 31, 1873, James A. Hawley, salary, Order No. 80 250 00
Mar. 31, 1873, James A. Hawley, salary, Order No. 82 125 00
Mar. 31, 1S73, James A. Hawley, salary, Order No. 85 125 00
Apr. 30, 1873, James A. Hawley, salary. Order No. 89 [25 00
May 31, 1873. James A. Hawley, salary, Order No. 90 125 00
June 30, 1873, James A. Hawley, salary, Order No. 93 125 00
Aug. 1, 1873, James A. Hawley, salary, Order No. 96 125 00
$1,257 20
GRAND SECRETARY.
Oct. 1 , 1872, O. H. Miner, salary, Order No. 46 $1,000 00
Oct. 3, 1872, O. H. Miner, clerk hire and incidentals, Order No. 50.. .. 1,638 13
Nov 30, 1872, O. H. Miner, salary and clerk hire, Order No. 79 466 66
Jan. 31, 1873, O. H. Miner, salary, Order No. 81 466 66
Feb. 28, 1873, O. H. Miner, salary, ( >rder No. 83 233 34
Mar. 31, 1873, O. H. Miner, salary, Order No. 86 233 33
Apr. 30, 1873, O. H. Miner, salary, Order No. 88 233 34
May 31, 1873, O. H. Miner, salary, Order No. 91 233 33
July 4, 1873, O, H. Miner, salary, Order No. 94 233 34
Aug. 1, 18-~3, O. H. Miner, salary, Order No. 95 233 33
Sept. 1, 1873, O. H. Miner, salary, Order No. 97 233 34
Oct. 3, 1872, John S. Bradford, stationery, Order No. 61 44 55
PRINTING ACCOUNT.
Oct. 3, 1872, Herald Printing Co., printing report of Correspondence
Committee, Order No. 55 $599 85
Oct. 3, 1872, same, printing proceedings of Grand Lodge, Order No. 84. 1,439 43
Oct. 3, 1872, same, printing blank returns, Order No. 92 106 00
Oct. 3, 1872, D. A. Cashman, printing report of Committee on By-Laws,
Order No. 100 101 5S
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[Oct.
Oct. 8, 1872, A. Demaree, attendance on Printing Committee, Order
No. 74
Oct. 3,1872, Charles Shober & Co., printing charter blanks, and for
stone, Order No. 56
Oct. 3, 1872, Hazlett & Reed, printing cards and preparing ballots,
Order No. 53
Oct. 3, 1872, H. G. Reynolds, Jr., printing for Grand Secretary, 1868,
Order No. 72
HALL KENT.
Oct. 3, 1872, J. H. McVicker, Order No. 52
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MISCELLANEOUS.
loan to Grand Commandery, Order No. 77
Harrison Dills, commission, Order No. 49
John P. Ferns, services, &c\, Order No. 51
John P. Ferns, cartage and freight, Order No. 87
J. H. Small & Co., parchment for charters, Order No. 09. .
J. J. French, assisting Grand Master, Order No. 68
Harry Duvall, services and expenses, Order No. 70
M. A. Thayer & Co. three dozen charter cases, Order
No. 69
E. B. Rambo, assisting Grand Secretary, Order No. 71
J. F. Burrill, special allowance for expenses attending
Grand Communication, Order No. 72
Joseph Robbins, chairman of Committee on Masonic Cor-
respondence, Order No. 73
John H. Small & Co., for parchment, charters and for
stationery for session of Grand Lodge 1872, Order
No. 58
.1. U. Agnew, services and materials, Order No. 60
J. Middleton & Son, carpenter work for Grand Lodge, 1871,
Order No. 57
John O'Neil, lamps, &c, Order No. 54
J. S. McCullough, expenses suspending Oblong City
Lodge, by order of Grand Master
B. F. Newlan, expenses incurred by order of Graud Master,
Order No. 67
L. A. Hamblin, lor cartage, Order No. 75
James Rogers, special services, by order of Grand Master,
Order No. —
Thomas A. Hall, for engrossing eighteen duplicate charters,
Order No. 59
MONEY VOTED TO LODGES.
Oct. 3, 1872, Lodge No. 351, charity, Order No. 76.
Oct. 3, 1872, Lodge No. 169, dues refunded, Order No. 18
Oct. 3, 1872, Lodge No. 616, dues refunded, order No. 75
Oct. 3, 1872, Lodge No. 408, dues refunded, order No. 63
Oct. 3, 1872, Lodge No. 389, dues refunded, of 1869, Order No. 24
Oct. 3, 1872, Advance Lodge, U. D., dues refunded on four members,
Order No. 62
28 30
255 50
8 20
52 45
$300 00
§2,500 00
278 28
364 50
16 39
70 00
40 00
126 69
14 40
25 00
50 00
200 00
145 40
28 75
2 50
16 85
7 00
4 15
9 00
10 00
12 00
10 00
27 00
16 50
1 50
55 50
10 50
1873.]
GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS.
23
Aug. 11, 1869, J. C. Luckey, services on committee, Order No. 61 26 00
Oct. 7, 1869, A. A. Glenn, Order No. 6 10 00
Aug. 30, 1869, H. W. Rokker, for book binding, Order No. 69 9 50
Aug. 30, 1869, Johnson & Bradford, charters and stationery, Order
No. 63 91 75
Apr. 28, 1870, M. |D. Chamberlain, attending examinations at Gales-
burg, Order No. 96 26 80
Oct. 7. 1870, M. D. Chamberlain, Committee on Work, Order No. 18. . . 35 00
Oct. 7, 1870, Charles Fisher, work done for Grand Lodge 1869, Order
No. 1 12 50
Oct. 7, 1869, Shipman Lodge, dues refunded 33 75
$15,566 41
GRAND TREASURERS ACCOUNT OF DISBURSEMENTS.
MILEAGE AND PER DIEM ORDERS.
NO.
OP c
RDER. AMOUNT
NO. OP ORDER.
AMOUNT.
NO. OF ORDER.
AMOUNT.
$18 00
43
25 60
97
16 50
8 00
44
29 90
99
33 00
8 00
45
20 60
101
27 20
29 40
45
33 70
102
10 20
16 40
46
31 50
103
27 SO
34 30
47
24 20
104
18 80
31 60
48
21 10
105
27 20
29 00
50
13 80
110
10 50
18 50
52
11 10
112
31 10
33 10
54
5 00
113
31 00
16 00
55
22 80
114
42 10
3 27 50
56
15 90
116
30 90
4 24 50
58
24 50
117
12 00
7 15 90
59
17 80
118
33 20
6 23 50
60
24 50
119
28 40
7 28 70.
61
36 50
120
36 00
8 16 00
62
15 60
121
12 60
9 37 00
63
14 50
122
9 50
■
L0 21 20
65
26 90
123
31 90
:
LI 29 00
66
9 60
125
19 60
■
L2 26 40
68
29 90
126
12 20
:
L3 24 70
69
8 50
127
11 90
L5 29 00
70
19 70
129
16 00
L6 35 40
71
20 80
128
16 70
L7 31 80
72
S5 00
130
30 20
19 31 60
75
25 30
131
28 10
32 24 10
76
38 60
132
25 90
i
33 34 30
77
9 80
133
41 70
35 32 50
78
46 50
134
33 00
36 24 30
79
21 90
136
32 60
38 23 90
80
20 40
137
19 80
39 18 80
82
16 80
138
22 40
50 32 ■ 0
84
19 70
139
21 70
31 14 40
85
33 10
140
19 00
52 9 80
' 87
15 30
142
19 20
33 18 60
89
25 80
143
6 00
34 31 90
90
29 50
144
26 60
35 30 70
93
30 30
146
26 00
37 43 00
94
33 80
145
39 00
39 23 20
95
34 40
147
34 00
a 30 00
96
39 00
148
20 60
24
PKOCEEDINGS OF THE
[Oct.
GRAND TREASURERS ACCOUNT OF DISBURSEMENTS — CONTINUED.
NO OF ORDER.
AMOUNT.
NO. OF ORDER,
AMOUNT.
NO. OF ORDER.
AMOUNT.
149
15 30
220
23 70
313
10 90
150
15 30
227
^4 30
314
18 60
151
10 30
228
9 80
315
29 80
152
18 10
229
32 00
310
20 80
153
27 00
233
12 60
317
32 00
155
14 40
234
23 30
318
15 20
150
19 40
235
19 90
320
16 90
L56
14 40
236
11 50
322
33 20
157
9 80
237
21 10
323
26 00
158
16 00
238
14 80
324
33 20
159
24 00
239
20 90
325
32 80
160
24 60
241
29 40
327
10 40
161
24 50
242
27 00
328
20 80
163
13 30
243
8 50
333
21 30
164
23 30
246
34 70
335
22 10
166
22 00
248
16 90
336
35 70
169
23 10
252
20 50
338
34 10
170
28 50
253
24 50
341
30 30
171
13 10
254
25 70
342
13 30
173
28 80
256
11 80
343
18 50
177
20 20
257
31 60
347
33 50
178
21 30
258
19 50
348
34 00
179
33 50
259
28 20
349
18 10
180
3L 30
202
42 00
350
28 50
181
23 30
203
21 00
352
15 60
182
29 50
264
16 30
354
33 50
183
14 40
266
15 20
355
24 00
184
31 70
267
31 90
360
27 00
185
34 00
268
32 30
362
32 20
186
11 30
269
30 20
363
IS 70
188
21 oo
270
10 00
305
15 10
189
6 00
272
24 00
306
28 90
190
29 80
273
11 50
367
17 70
191
26 60
274
16 70
368
22 80
' 194
27 10
275
10 40
369
14 20
195
31 20
270
15 40
371
23 10
199
20 20
277
14 50
372
9 80
197
19 80
278
10 20
373
27 50
196
23 80
279
25 00
376
27 70
198
20 20
282
6 00
377
6 00
202
30 70
283
6 00
378
6 00
203
23 00
284
23 50
379
6 00
206
17 20
285
27 30
380
20 00
207
47 30
286
8 70
381
18 10
208
27 10
288
31 60
382
17 oo
200
34 90
289
15 90
383
20 20
211
31 10
201
28 70
384
16 30
212
42 50
204
18 40
385
13 60
213
30 40
202
23 00
386
36 10
214
28 20
205
24 50
387
41 70
215
18 80
200
12 90
390
20 10
216
36 so
200
11 50
391
29 00
217
20 00
300
20 70
392
11 00
218
13 50
303
24 50
305
11 30
219
30 so
304
32 90
306
12 40
220
IV so
306
42 50
307
30 00
221
10 00
307
27 00
399'
28 70
222
24 60
309
41 10
401
37 60
223
30 50
311
33 60
406
32 30
225
19 so
312
34 10
407
21 70
»
1873.] GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS. 33
NUMBER III.
A. H. Small )
vs. > Appeal.
Hesperia Lodge No. 411. )
This is an appeal by A. H. Small from the action of Hesperia Lodge No. 411, who
expelled him from said Lodge.
Your committee in this case have carefully and diligently investigated all the
proceedings and testimony, and are fully satisfied that the evidence does not
warrant the finding of the Lodge.
We therefore recommend that the appeal be sustained, the action of the Lodge
set aside, and A. H. Small be restored to all his rights and benefits in said Lodge.
NUMBER IV.
H. M. Van Doken )
vs. > Appeal.
Normal Lodge No. 673. )
This is an appeal by H. M. Van Doren, from the action of Normal Lodge No.
673, who suspended him indefinitely.
To this case your committee have given much time and particular attention to
the voluminous testimony, and such explanations from both sides of the case as
the parlies desired to present, and are satisfied that the Lodge has inflicted, an
unjust penalty.
We would therefore recommend that the appeal be sustained and the action of
the Lodge set aside.
number vi.
John Sdtton, )
vs. > Appeal.
James A. Hawley, Grand Master. )
This is an appeal from the decision of the M. W. Grand Master by Bro. John
Sutton, which, in the opinion of your committee, should have been from the Master
of his Lod^e. As this case involves questions of Masonic law, we respectfully
ask its reference to the Committee on Masonic Jurisprudence.
number vii.
Albert Smith, )
vs. y Appeal.
Temple Lodge No. 46. )
This is an appeal from the action of Temple Lodge No. 46, who suspended him
indefinitely.
After carefully reviewing the testimony in this case, your committee find no
reason why the action of the Lodge should be disturbed.
We therefore recommend that the action of the Lodge he sustained and the
appeal dismissed.
NUMBER VIII.
This is the unanimous recommendation of Franklin Grove Lodge No. 264 for the
restoration of Henry J. Sproule, who was expelled by said Lodge. Your
committee, therefore, recommend that the said Henry J. Sproule be restored to all
the rights and privileges of Masonry.
NUMBER JX.
This is the unanimous recommendation of Mississippi Lodge No. 385 for the
restoration of William C. Meaker, who was expelled by said Lodge.
5
34 PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Oct.
A6 the petitioner has fully atoned for the crime committed, as shown by the
petition, your committee would recommend that William C. Meaker be restored
to all the rights and privileges of Masonry.
NUMBER X.
This is a petition from Patoka Lodge No. 613 for the restoration of Abner S.
Gray, who was expelled by said Lodge in 1870. As it is the unanimous action of
the Lodge, jour committee would recommend that Abner S. Gray be restored to
all the rights and privileges of Masonry.
NUMBER XII.
Henry W. Dunning, )
vs. > Appeal.
Dement Lodge No. 515. )
This is an appeal from the action of Dement Lodge No. 515, brought by Henry
W. Dunning at the last Annual Grand Communication, but not being in time, was
continued over to be acted upon by the Committee on Appeals and Grievances this
year. It appears from the records in this ease, that charges were preferred against
H. W. Dunning for non-payment of dues, and he was found guilty, but the Lodge
failed to inflict any penalty. At a subsequent called meeting, the said H. W-
Dinning was again summoned to appear to answer to same charges. He not
appearing up to 9 o'clock, additional charges were then preferred for disobeying
summons, by the W. M., and evidence was introduced ; after which the question of
guilty or not guilty was taken, and he was found guilty of both charges, and by
vote of said Lodge, the said H. W. Dunning was suspended during the pleasure of
the Lodge.
The proceedings of the Lodge in this case are so irregular, that your cominittc e
would recommend that the action of the Lodge be set aside, and the case remanded
back to the Lodge for new trial.
NUMBER XIII.
Austin G. Kingsbury-, i
vs. >• Appeal.
Mt. Carmel Lodge No. 239. )
This is an appeal brought by Austin G. Kingsbury, a F. C, from the action of
Mt. Carmel Lodge No. 239, who expelled him from all the rights and benefits of
Masonry.
Your committee would recommend, in this case, that the action of the Lodge be
sustained, and the appeal dismissed.
NUMBER XIV.
John S. Kosier, )
vs. V Appeal.
Byron Lodge No. 27L )
This is an appeal brought by Bro. J. S. Kosier, from action of Byron Lodge No.
274, in failing to find Bro. E. H. Evans guilty of charges preferred against him in
said Lodge.
Your committee, after a careful examination of the evidence in this case, are fully
convinced that the'aetion of the Lodge was not in accordance with the testimony
in the case.
We would therefore recommend that the action of Byron Lodge be reversed, and
this case be sent back to said Lodge for a new trial.
1873.] GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS. 35
Geo. H. Wells, Allen Walley and Jat A. Davis, j
NUMBER xv.
VIS, )
Appeal.
Plymouth Lodge No. 286. )
This is an appeal brought by Brethren Wells, Wallet and Davis from the action
of Plymouth Lodge No. 286, in failing to find Bro. J. G. Follin guilty.
Your committee have carefully examined a large amount of testimony in this
case, and find nothing that would warrant them in disturbing the action of the
Lodge, and would recommend that the action of the Lodge be sustained and the
appeal dismissed.
NUMBER XVI.
Hume Hodson j
vs. > Appeal.
Kendbick Lodge No. 430. )
This is an appeal from the action of Kendrick Lodge No. 430, expelling him
(Hodson) from said Lodge.
The evidence in this case clearly shows that the action of the Lodge was strictly
n accordance with the testimony.
We therefore recommend that the action of the Lodge be sustained and the
appeal dismissed.
number xvii.
E. C. Hubbard )
vs. • > Appeal.
Hespebia. Lodge No. 411. )
There have no papers come before the committee in this case, except the notice
of appeal, which notice was filed with the Grand Secretary on the 18th day of
September last, therefore your committee have nothing to act upon.
number xviii.
Petition of E. B. Wilcox for restoration. As this petition is accompanied by the
recommendation of Bureau Lodge No. 112, who expelled him, also the recom"
mendation of Odin Lodge No. 503, where the said Wilcox has resided for the past
seven or eight years, your committee recommend that the prayer of the petitioner
be granted, and said E. B. Wilcox be restored to all the rights and privileges of
Masonry.
number xix.
This i6 a petition from Marion Lodge No. 130, for the restoration of Amaziah M.
Pilcheb. who was expelled from said Lodge while under the jurisdiction of the
Grand Lodge of Missouri in 1846, as shown by an attested copy from said Grand
Lodge records.
The members of Marion Lodge No. 130 have taken great interest in this matter,
as shown by the papers presented to your committee, and as all difficulties and
questions involving the regularity of procedure in this case seem to have been
settled, and at the unanimous request of Marion Lodge, your committee would
recommend that the said Amaziah M. Pilcheb be restored to all the rights and
benefits of Masonry.
NUMBER XX.
This is a petition for restoration from A. Barby, who was expelled from Exeter
Lodge No. 424. As this is accompanied by the unanimous recommendation of
Exeter Lodge at a regular communication, your committee would recommend that
the prayer of the petition be granted, and that A, Babby be restored to all the
rights and benefits of Masonry.
36 PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Oct.
NUMBEK XXI.
This is a petition from T. J. Pickett Lodge No. 307 for the restoration of W. H.
Taylor, who was expelled by said Lodge in 18(59. The members of said Lodge
having become fully satisfied that the said W. H. Taylor has fully atoned for the
crime committed, and at the unanimous recommendation of said Lodge your com-
mittee would recommend that W. H. Taylor be restored to all the rights and
privileges of Masonry.
A A. GLENN, 1
H.W.HUBBARD, |
JOHN W. CLYDE, V Committee.
JO. HOLLAND,
MILES H. WILMOT, J
Upon motion the report was considered seriatim.
Cafe No. i. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. ii. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. iii. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. iv. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. vi. Read, and referred to the Committee on Masonic Jurisprudence
Case No. vii. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. vii. Read, aDd recommendation concuired in.
Case No. ix. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. x. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. xii. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. xiii. Read, and recommendatiou concurred in.
Case No. xiv. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. xv. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. xvi. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. xvii. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. xviii. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. xix. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Cesa No. xx. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. xxi. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
The report of the committee was then adopted.
RESOLUTION.
R. W. Bro. Lounsbury, D. G. M., offered the following
resolution, which was adopted :
Jiesolved, That the thanks of this Grand Lodge are due and are hereby tendered
to Brethren W. H. Cutler, Charles M. Smith, C F.Saxon, John S. Ranney, Al.
Clark, D. A. Kimbark. W. H. Coulston, B F. Tilden nnrt R. R. Stevens for the
beautiful music .-o finely rendered by them at the opening of the Grand Li dge, and
that a copy of the openintf ode, composed by Bro. W H. Cutler for the occai-ion,
be printed in the proceedings of this communication. Also, to Messrs. Reed &
Sons, for the use of the beauiilul Chickeriug Grand Piano furnished by them for
the Ube of th s Grand Lodtre.
1873.] GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS. 37
PETITIONS.
Bro. Bowman (612) presented the following petitions, which
were referred to the Committee on Appeals and Grievances :
To the M. W. Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M. of the State of Illinois:
The undersigned having been a member of Sterling Lodge No. 202, A. F. and A.
M., of Sterling, 111., and being suspended for non-payment of dues, and the charter
of said Lodge being annulled, the undersigned would ask to be reinstated to all the
rights and benefits of Masonry without the payment of back dues indebted to
Sterling Lodge No. 202.
(Signed) LYSANDER MORSE.
To the M. W. Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M. of the State of Illinois :
At a regular meeting of Rock River Lodge No. 612, A. F. and A. M., held on
Friday, the first day of August, A. D. 1873, A. L. 5873, the following resolution
was unanimously adopted :
Whereas, Bro. Lysander Morse having been a member of Sterling Lodge No.
202, at Sterling, 111., and suspended by said L"dge for non payment of dues, and
that, he now prays to be reinstated by the. M. W. Grand Lodge of Illinois A. F. and
A. M., without the payment of dues due said Lodge at the time of suspension, he
being of old age and limited means; therefore,
Resolved, t That this (Rock River) Lodge recommend that the prayer of the
petitioner be granted, and that this (Rock River) Lodge relinquish her right to said
dues. M. S. BOWMAN, W. M.
Attest : W. S. Peebles, Sec'y.
REPORT— Committee on Credentials.
To the M. W. Grand Lodge of A. F. and A. M. of the State of Illinois:
Your Committee on Credentials would respectfully report that the several
persons whose names are set down in the following page6, are entitled to seats in
this Grand Lodge.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
JOHN D. CRABTREE, )
A. D. HUTCHINS, \ Committee.
ABRAM WOOD, )
GRAND OFFICERS.
M. W. JAMES A. HAWLEY Grand Master.
R. W. GEORGE E LOUNSBURY ..Deputy Grand Master.
R. W. JOSEPH ROBBINS Senior Grand Warden.
R. W. W. J. A. DeLANCEY Junior Grand Warden.
M. W. HARRISON DILLS Grand Treasurer.
R. W. ORLIN H. MINER Grand Secretary.
R. W. and REV. JOHN W. AGARD Grand Chaplain.
R. W. T. T. GURNE Y Grand Orator.
W. JOHN F. BURR1LL Deputy Grand Secretary.
W. HENRY W. DYER Grand Pursuivant.
W WILLIAM H. LONG Grand Marshal.
W. ISAAC E. HARDY Grand Standard Dearer.
W. WILLIAM E. GINTHER Grand Sword Dearer.
W. HENRY E. HAMILTON Senior Grand Deacon.
38 PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Oct.
W. JOHN D. HAMILTON Junior Grand Deacon.
W. L. A. HAMBLIN Grand Steward.
W. MENNO 8. BOWMAN Grand Steward.
W. GEORGE W. HARTMAN Grand Steward.
BRO. JOHN P. FERNS Grand Tyler.
DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND MASTERS.
R. W. G. W. BARNARD First District.
R. W. EDWIN POWELL Second District.
R. W. J. B. BABCOCK Fourth District.
R. W. L. L. MUNN Fifth District.
R. W. J. C. SMITH Sixth District.
R. W. JOHN D. CRABTREE Seventh District.
R. W. 8. C. STEARNS Eighth District.
R. W. W. S. EASTON Ninth District.
R. W. JOHN C. BAGBY Twelfth District.
R. W. J. C. McMURTRY Thirteenth District.
R. W. WILLIAM ROUNSEVILLE Fourteenth District.
R. W. WILSON HOAG Fifteenth District.
R. W. H. C. CLARK Sixteenth District.
R. W. W. H. BROWN Seventeenth District.
R. W. A. A. MURRAY Eighteenth District.
R. W. CHARLES FISHER Nineteenth District.
R. W. A. A. GLENN Twentieth District.
R. W. E. C. SELLECK Twenty-first District.
R. W. GEORGE W. DAVIS , Twenty-second District.
R. W. GEORGE M. RAYMOND Twenty-third District.
R. W. JOHN L. McCULLOUGH Twenty-fourth District.
R. W. H. W. HUBBARD Twenty-fifth District.
R. W. JOHN M. PEARSON Twenty-sixth District.
R. W. B. J. VAN COURT Twenty -seventh District.
R. W. C. H. PATTON Twenty-eighth District.
PAST GRAND MASTERS.
M. W. WILLIAM LAVELY, M. W. LEVI LUSK,
M. W. HARRISON DILLS, M. W. JEROME R. GORIN,
M. W. DEWITT C. CREGIER.
REPRESENTATIVES OF OTHER GRAND LODGES.
M. W. D. C. CREGIER Indiana, Mississippi, Connecticut,
Michigan, District of Columbia,
and Quebec.
R. W. BRO. ORLIN H. MINER Ohio, Oregon, Florida, and Royal
York, Berlin, Prussia.
R. W. WILEY M. EGAN Ireland.
R. W. JOSEPH ROBBINS Ioioa.
R. W. W.J. A. DeLANCEY Georgia.
1873.]
GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS.
39
REPRESENTATIVES OP LODGES
1 J. Shepherd W.
2 W. H. Crawford* W.
3 M. V. B. Glasgow* W.
4 P. V Van Nostrand* W.
7 J. V. Thomas W.
J. W. Latta S.
J. B. Pomeroy J.
8 E. D. Carter* W.
9 J. C. Bagby W.
13 J. G. Beyer W.
John Snyder J.
14 E. D. Ynungblood W.
15 J. F. Hazzard W.
10 C. W. Higgiubotham* W.
R. H Sturgis* S.
17 A. Eads W.
19 J. Bennett* W.
20 W. R. Hamilton W.
23 H. Garm W.
J. R. Dutch S.
O. Spring* J.
24 J. Heinzelman W.
25 J. W. Collet S.
2(5 A. Stegall S.
27 E. T. Hollister W.
29 Thomas M. Meacham S.
30 W. P. Tanquary W.
31 N. C. Pace W.
33 E. Powell W.
34 B. McConnell W.
35 J. E. Curd* W.
36 Mark Thomas W.
37 M. Halliday W.
38| Johu P. Norvell W.
39 George S. Bert S.
40iRobert Henning W.
42 John Grav W.
43lB. R. Baughen W.
44
45
46
41
48
49
F. Keyser W.
Jason A. Rider W.
Alexander Hearst W.
J. F. Ljerly* W.
D. L. Zabriskie* W.
F. G. Welton W.
J. E. Ayres* S.
C. W. Keeley W.
Fred. Bell* W.
James Waldo S.
H. L. Martin* W.
S. W. Gunter W.
E. Baxter* J.
W. S. Hay* W.
E. Allen W.
H. E. Huston 8.
Walter Pryne W.
C. B. Loop W.
L. C. Rose. W.
L. Church W.
D. M. Browning W.
T. Woodmansee J.
D. B. Gates W. M.
John Linkins* W. M.
M.Baumann I. \V.
C. C. Cromwell . S. W.
James Douglas W M.
S. Widdowson W. M.
William Kerr W. M.
H. Chaffee* 8. W.
R. L. McKinlay \V. M.
A. D Hutchins W. M.
J. A. Watson S W.
Zopher Case W. M.
W. P. Worcester W. M.
J. A. Mason W. M.
J. W. Page W. M.
E. Sylvester Wr. M.
Thomas Boyd* W. M.
G. W. Staley W. M.
J. Weckel W. M.
A. T. Beck W. M.
E. H. Bishop W. M.
James Walker W. M.
J. R.Thomas* W. M.
S. Kendall W. M.
George Bradlev W. M.
D. L. Freeman* W. M.
H. I. Little* W. M.
J. R. Perkins W. M.
W. T. Griffith W. M.
John Hobson* W. M .
W. H. Emerson W. M .
Seeley Perry W. M .
S. B. Mitchell WT. M.
O. M. Baker* I. \\\
C. Fisher W. M.
C. B. Hubbard W. M.
Jeptha Wilson* . .. W. M.
James Wilson W. M.
John Dougherty J. W.
George WTelch W. M.
L. R. Jerome* 8. WT.
T. F. Green T. W.
Samuel Kelly W. M.
E. J. Tower W. M.
J. Kimble 8. W.
G. W. Renwick 8. W.
H. French I. W.
T. J. Davidson W. M.
Jas.G. Hull W. M.
A. S. Rockwell T. W.
J. R.White S. W.
L. P. Lott* W. M.
T. C. Tutewiler W. M.
L. H. Adams* S. W.
E. Woolley I. W.
D.C.Jones W. M.
J.B.Young S. W.
Daniel Beckley W. M.
W.A. Moore* S. W.
(.J. W. Laingor S. W.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
[Oct.
REPRESENTATIVES — CONTINUED.
A. S. Babcock
-I. W. Shaw...
J. R. Hurst*..
•T. ('. Hall
J. B. Babcock.
A. W. Adams..
G. D. Slanker.
J. Butler
L. L. Wadsworth
J.Boyd
.1. L. Morgan..
C. G. Cotting*.
D. D. Hunt....
S. 0. Vuughau*
O. C.Towne...
R. B. Evitts....
L. Slocum
J. S. Hartley...
T. A. Brown...
H.T. Bridges..
John Patrick*.
J. H. MeGriff..
X. R. Wheat...
W. C. Cowan*.
R.Page
T. Van Hatrne.
A. P. Cunningh
(). W. Owen...
C. Trowbridge.
J.C. Howell...
T.J.Tustin....
G. W. Wade...
William Steed.
W. P. Askins*.
Charles Downey
A. Lewis
C. H. Ormsby*.
B.A.Weber...
,T. C.Norton...
T. Loveless*...
A. Snow*
D. Bungye ...
J.D. M.-tcalf...
W. F. Ackerly.
William Hays..
R. S. Brown...
David A. Cook.
M. B. McGarrey
R. B.Tate
B.Scarlett*....
A. N. 8tnyser..
F. W. Hild....
M. M.Morse...
J. W. Butler*..
S.W.Clark...
E. T. E. Becker
E.F.Gage*....
T.S. Gentle
M. Waldenmeyer
William Pool
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204
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208
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210,
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214
216
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240 j
241
243
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246
247
248!
249 j
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251 1
252
253
254
255
250 1
R. Sutton W. M.
J. Brundage 8. W.
C. W. Apperson W. M.
J. M.P.rry W. M.
G. A. Gilbert W. M.
W. A. Conkey * W. M.
G.R.Jones S. W.
M. II. Monkbouse S. W.
N. R. Taylor 8. W.
M. Law W. M.
II. S. Dickinson W. M.
H. V. Leach W. M.
R. H. Nicholson S. W.
L. A. Baker* W. M.
C. H. Shattuck W. M.
E. Bornemaun 8. W.
J. W. Spellman* W. M.
John Whitley W. M.
T. D. Fitch 8. W.
G. W. Deal J. W.
. W.Christopher W. M.
J. Beerb*. . . .". W. M.
T. W. Floyd* W. M.
G. H. Shup W. M.
H. B. Turner W. M.
Johu Andrew W. M.
John Rutherford W. M.
H. D. Williams S. W.
M. 8. Stout W. M.
C. W. Carroll W. M.
N. S. Cutright J. W.
B. F. Seaver W. M.
J. C. Overholt* W. M.
William E. Gilliland W. M.
W. G. Cochran W. M.
T. C.Robinson* W. M.
II. Rhelmier W. M.
A. J. O'Neil W. M.
J. Wessmore* W. M.
B Mendenhall* W. M.
F. M. Si ration 8 W.
John McEwan W. M.
H. J.Mack S. W.
J. Zimmerman W. M.
Charles E. Baker W. M.
J. H. Crandall W. M.
J. L. Finley J. W.
D. A. Baxter W. M.
J. C. Gerrichs W. M.
J. H. Miller* S. W.
M. A. Gushing* 8. W.
G. W. Hamilton W. M.
T. L. Keas W. M.
W. C. Jones* W. M.
Nathan Low* W. M.
George P. Graham W. M.
W. B. Stoddard W. M.
William B. Barnes W. M.
B. F. McLain W. M.
John Peter W. M.
1873.] GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS. 33
NUMBER III.
A. H. Small )
vs. > Appeal.
Hesperia Lodge No. 411. )
This is an appeal by A. H. Small from the action of Hesperia Lodge No. 411, who
expelled him from said Lodge.
Your committee in this case have carefully and diligently investigated all the
proceedings and testimony, and are fully satisfied that the evidence does not
warrant the finding of the Lodge.
We therefore recommend that the appeal be sustained, the action of the Lodge
set aside, and A. H. Small be restored to all his rights and benefits in said Lodge.
number IV.
H. M. Van Doren )
vs. V Appeal.
Normal Lodge No. 673. )
This is an appeal by H. M. Van Doren, from the action of Normal Lodge No.
673, who suspended him indefinitely.
To this case your committee have given much time and particular attention to
the voluminous testimony, and such explanations from both sides of the case as
the parties desired to present, and are satisfied that the Lodge has inflicted an
unjust penalty.
We would therefore recommend that the appeal be sustained and the action of
the Lodge set aside.
number vi.
John Sutton, )
vs. > Appeal.
James A. Hawley, Grand Master. )
This is an appeal from the decision of the M. W. Grand Master by Bro. John
Sutton, which, in the opinion of your committee, should have been from the Master
of his Lod^e. As this case involves questions of Masonic law, we respectfully
ask its reference to the Committee on Masonic Jurisprudence.
number vii.
Albert Smith, )
vs. > Appeal.
Temple Lodge No. 46. )
This is an appeal from the action of Temple Lodge No. 46, who suspended him
indefinitely.
After carefully reviewing the testimony iu this case, your committee find no
reason why the action of the Lodge should be disturbed.
We therefore recommend that the action of the Lodge be sustained and the
appeal dismissed.
NUMBER VIII.
This is the unanimous recommendation of Franklin Grove Lodge No. 264 for the
restoration of Henry J. Sproole, who was expelled by said Lodge. Your
committee, therefore, recommend that the said Henry* J. Sproule be restored to all
the rights and privileges of Masonry.
NUMBER IX.
This is the unanimous recommendation of Mississippi Lodge No. 385 for the
restoration of William C. Meaker, who was expelled by said Lodge.
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34 PROCEEDINGS OF TIIE [Oct.
As the petitioner has fully atoned for the crime committed, as shown hy the
petition, your committee would recommend that William C. Meaker be restored
to all the rights and privileges of Masonry.
NUMBEK X.
This is a petition from Patoka Lodge No. 613 for the restoration of Abner S.
Gray, who was expelled by said Lodge in 1870. As it is the unanimous action of
the Lodge, your committee would recommend that Abner S. Gray be restored to
all the rights and privileges of Masonry.
Henry W. Dunning, )
NUMBER XII.
Appeal.
Dement Lodge No. 515. )
This is an appeal from the action of Dement Lodge No. 515, brought by Henrt
W. Dunning at the last Annual Grand Communication, but not being in time, was
continued over to be acted upon by the Committee on Appeals and Grievances this
year. It appears from the records in this case, that charges were preferred against
II. W. Dunning for non-payment of dues, and he was found guilty, but the Lodge
failed to inflict any penalty. At a subsequent called meeting, the said II. W-
Dunning was again summoned to appear to answer to same charges. He not
appearing up to 9 o'clock, additional charges were then preferred for disobeying
summons, by the W. M., and evidence was introduced ; after which the question of
guilty or not guilty was taken, and he was found guilty of both charges, and by
vote of said Lodge, the said H. W. Dunning was suspended during the pleasure of
the Lodire.
The proceedings of the Lodge in this case are so irregular, that your committee
would recommend that the action of the Lodge be set aside, and the case remanded
back to the Lodge for new trial.
NUMBER XIII.
Austin G. Kingsbury,
[■Appeal.
Mt. Carmel Lodge No. 239. )
This is an appeal brought by Austin G. Kingsbury, a F. C, from the action of
Mt. Carmel Lodge No. 239, who expelled him from all the rights and benefits of
Masonry.
Your committee would recommend, in this case, that the action of the Lodge be
sustained, and the appeal dismissed.
NUMBER XIV.
John S. Kosier, i
vs. > Appeal.
Btron Lodge No. 274. )
This is an appeal brought by Bro. J. S. Kosier, from action of Byron Lodge No.
274, in failing to find Bro. E. H. Evans guilty of charges preferred against him in
said Lodge.
Your committee, after a careful examination of the evidence in this case, are fully
convinced that the action of the Lodge was not in accordance with the testimony
in the case.
We would therefore recommend that the action of Byron Lodge be reversed, and
this case be sent back to said Lodge for a new trial.
1873.] GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS. 35
NUMBER XV.
Geo. H. Walls, Allen Walley and Jat A. Davis, )
os. > Appeal.
Plymouth Lodge No. 286,. )
This is an appeal brought by Brethren Wells, Walley and Davis from the action
of Plymouth Lodge No. 286, in failing to find Bro. J. G. Follin guilty.
Your committee have carefully examined a large amount of testimony in this
case, and fiud nothing that would warrant them in disturbing the action of the
Lodge, and would recommend that the action of the Lodge be sustained and the
appeal dismissed.
number xvi.
Hume Hodson )
vs. > Appeal.
Kendrick Lodge No. 430. )
This is an appeal from the action of Kendrick Lodge No. 430, expelliDg him
(Hodson) from said Lodge.
The evidence in this case clearly 6hows that the action of the Lodge was strictly
n accordance with the testimony.
We therefore recommend that the action of the Lodge be sustained and the
appeal dismissed.
number xvii.
E. C. Hubbard 1
vs. > Appeal.
Hesperia Lodge No. 411. )
There have no papers come before the committee in this case, except the notice
of appeal, which notice was filed with the Grand Secretary on the 18th day of
September last, therefore your committee have nothing to act upon.
number xviii.
Petition of E. B. Wilcox for restoration. As this petition is accompanied by the
recommendation of Bureau Lodge No. 112, who expelled him, also the recora*
mendation of Odin Lodge No. 503, where the said Wilcox has resided for the past
seven or eight years, your committee recommend that the prayer of the petitioner
be grauted, and said E. B. Wilcox be restored to all the rights and privileges of
Masonry.
NUMBER XIX.
This is a petition from Marion Lodge No. 130, for the restoration of Amaziah M.
Pilcher, who was expelled from said Lodge while under the jurisdiction of the
Grand Lodge of Missouri in 1846, as shown by an attested copy from said Grand
Lodge records.
The members of Marion Lodge No. 130 have taken great interest in this matter,
as shown by the papers presented to your committee, and as all difficulties and
questions involving the regularity of procedure in this case seem to have been
settled, and at the unanimous request of Marion Lodge, your committee would
recommend that the said Amaziah M. Pilcher be restored to all the rights and
benefits of Masonry.
NUMBER XX.
This is a petition for restoration from A. Barry, who was expelled from Exeter
Lodge No. 424. As this is accompanied by the unanimous recommendation of
Exeter Lodge at a regular communication, your committee would recommend that
the. prayer of the petition be granted, and that A. Barry be restored to all the
rights and benefits of Masonry.
36 PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Oct.
NUMBER XXI.
This is a petition from T. J. Pickett Lodge No. 307 for the restoration of W. H.
Taylor, who was expelled by said Lodge in 1809. The members of said Lodge
having become fully satisfied that the said VV. H. Taylor has fully atoned for the
crime committed, and at the unanimous recommendation of said Lodge your com-
mittee would recommend that VV. H. Taylor be restored to all the rights and
privileges of Masonry.
A. A. GLENN, 1
H.W.HUBBARD, |
JOHN W. CLYDE, V Committee.
JO. HOLLAND,
MILES H. WILMOT, J
Upon motion the report was considered seriatim.
Ca^e No. i. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. ii. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. iii. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. iv. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. vi. Read, and referred to the Committee on Masonic Jurisprudence
Case No. vii. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. vii. Read, and recommendation concui red in.
Case No. ix. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. x. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. xii. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. xiii. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. xiv. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. xv. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. xvi. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. xvii. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. xviii. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. xix. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Cesa No. xx. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. xxi. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
The report of the committee was then adopted.
RESOLUTION.
R. W. Bro. Lounsbury, D. G. M., offered the following
resolution, which was adopted :
Resolved. That the thanks of this Grand Lodge are due and are hereby tendered
to Brethren W. H. Cutler, Charles M. Smith, C F.Saxon. John S. Ranney, Al.
Clark, D. A. Kimbark, W. B. Coulston, B F. Tilden and R. R. Stevens for ihe
beautiful music .-o finely rendered by them at the opening of the Grand Li dge, and
that, a copy ol the opening ode, composed by Bio. W H. Cutler for the occai-ion,
be printed in the proceedings of this communication. Also, to Mes:-rs. Reed &
Sons, for the use of the beauiilul Chickering Grand Piano furnished by them for
the use of th s Grand Lodge.
1873.] GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS. 37
PETITIONS.
Bro. Bowman (612) presented the following petitions, which
were referred to the Committee on Appeals and Grievances :
To the M. W. Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M. of the State of Illinois:
The undersigned having been a member of Sterling Lodge No. 202, A. F. and A.
M., of Sterling, 111., and being suspended for non-payment of dues, and the charter
of said Lodge being annulled, the undersigned would ask to be reinstated to all the
rights and benefits of Masonry without the payment of back dues indebted to
Sterling Lodge No. 202.
(Signed) LYSANDER MORSE.
To the M. W. Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M. of the State of Illinois :
At a regular meeting of Rock River Lodge No. 612, A. F. and A. M., held on
Friday, the first clay of August, A. D. 1873, A. L. 5873, the following resolution
was unanimously adopted :
Whekeas, Bro. Lysander Morse having been a member of Sterling Lodge No.
202, at Sterling, 111., and suspended by said L<>d«e for non payment of dues, and
that he now prays to be reinstated by the M. W. Grand Lodge of Illinois A. F. and
A. M., without the payment of dues due said Lodge at the time of suspension, he
being of old age and limited means ; therefore,
Resolved, Th;it this (Rock River) Lodge recommend that the prayer of the
petitioner be granted, and that this (Rock River) Lodge relinquish her right to said
dues. M. S. BOWMAN, W. M.
Attest : W. S. Peebles, Sec'y.
REPORT— Committee on Credentials.
To the M. W. Grand Lodge of A. F. and A. M. of the State of Illinois:
Your Committee on Credentials would respectfully report that the several
persons whose names are set down in the following pages, are entitled to seats in
this Grand Lodge.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
JOHN D. CRABTREE, )
A. D. HUTCHINS, } Committee.
ABRAM WOOD, )
GRAND OFFICERS.
M. W. JAMES A. HAWLEY Grand Master.
R. W. GEORGE E. LOUNSBURY ....Deputy Grand Master.
R. W. JOSEPH ROBBINS Senior Grand Warden.
R. W. W. J. A. DeLANCEY Junior Grand Warden.
M. W. HARRISON DILLS Grand Treasurer.
R. W. ORLIN H. MINER Grand Secretary.
R. W. and REV. JOHN W. AGARD Grand Chaplain.
R. W. T. T. GURNEY Grand Orator.
W. JOHN F. BURR1LL Deputy Grand Secretary.
W. HENRY W. DYER Grand Pursuivant.
W WILLIAM H. LONG Grand Marshal.
W. ISAAC E. HARDY Grand Standard Bearer.
W. WILLIAM E. GINTHER Grand Sword Dearer.
W. HENRY E. HAMILTON Senior Grand Deacon.
38 PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Oct.
W. JOHN D. HAMILTON Junior Grand Beacon.
W. L. A. HAM BL IX Grand Steward.
W. MENXO 8. BOWMAN Grand Steioard.
W. GEORGE W. HARTMAN Grand Steward.
BRO. JOHN P. FERNS Grand Tyler.
DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND MASTERS.
R. W. G. W. BARNARD First District.
R. W. EDWIN POWELL Second District.
R W. J. B. BABCOCK Fourth District.
R. W L.L. MUNN Fifth District.
R. W. J. C. SMITH Sixth District.
R. W. JOHN U. CRABTREE Seventh District.
R. W. 8. C. STEARNS Eighth District.
R. W. W. S. EASTON Ninth District.
R. W. JOHN C. BAG BY Twelfth District.
R W. J. C. McMURTRY Thirteenth District.
R. W. WILLIAM ROUNSEVILLE Fourteenth District.
R. W. WILSON HO AG Fifteenth District.
R. W. H. C. CLARK Sixteenth District.
R. W. W. H. BROWN Seventeenth District.
R. W. A. A. MURRAY Eighteenth District.
R. W. CHARLES FISHER Nineteenth District.
R. W. A. A. GLENN Twentieth District.
R. W. E. C. SELLECK Twenty-first District.
R. W. GEORGE W. DAVIS Twenty-second District.
R. W. GEORGE M. RAYMOND Tioenty-third District.
R. W. JOHN L. McCULLOUGH Twenty-fourth District.
R. W. H. W. HUBBARD. Twenty-fifth District.
R. W. JOHN M. PEARSON Twenty-sixth District.
R. W. B. J. VAN COURT Twenty-seventh District.
R. W. C. H. PATTON Twenty-eighth District.
PAST GRAND MASTERS.
M. W. WILLIAM LAVELY, M. W. LEVI LUSK,
M. W. HARRISON DILLS, M. W. JEROME R. GORIN,
M. W. DEWITT C. CREGIER.
REPRESENTATIVES OF OTHER GRAND LODGES.
M. W. D. C. CREGIER Indiana, Mississippi, Connecticut,
Michigan, District of Columbia,
and Quebec.
R. W. BRO. ORLIN H.MINER Ohio, Oregon, Florida, and Royal
York, Berlin, Prussia.
R. W. WILEY M. EG AN Ireland.
R. W. JOSEPH ROBBINS Iowa.
R. W. W. J. A. DaLANCET Georgia.
1873.]
GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS.
39
REPRESENTATIVES OF LODGES
1 J. Shepherd W. M
2 W. H. Crawford* W. M
3 M. V.B. Glnsgow* W. M
4 P. V Van Nostrand* W. M
7. J. V. Thomas W. M
J. W. Latta 8. W
J. B. Pomerny J. AV
E. D. Carter* W. M
9 J. C. Bagby AV. M
13 J . G. Beyer W. M
John Suyder J. W
14 E. D. Youngblood W. M
15 J. F. Hazzard W. M
10 C. W. Iliggiubothaiii* W. M
R. H SturgU,* S. W
IT A. Eads W. M
19 J. Bennett* W. M
•30 W. R. namilton W. M
H. Garm W. M
J. R. Dutch S. W
O. Spring* J. W
24 J. Heinzelman W. M
25 J. W. Collet S. W
2(3 A. Stt-eall S. W
27 E. T. Hollister W. M
29 Thomas M. Meacham S. W.
30 W. P. Tanquary W. M
31 N. C. Pace W. M
33 E. Powell W. M
34 B. McConnell W. M
35 J. E. Curd* W. M
36 Mark Thomas W. M
37 M. Haliiday W. M
38 John P. Norvell W. M
39 George S. Bert S. W
401 Robert Henuiug W. M
42 : John Gray ... W. M
43 B. R. Baughen W. M
44|F. Keyser W. M
45Ja«on A. Rider W. M
46lAlexander Hearst W. M
47! J. F. Ljerly* W. M
48 D. L. Zabriskie* W. M
49 F. G. Weiton W. M
J. E. Ay res* S. W
50IC. W. Keeley W. M
51] Fred. B-dl* W. M
52 James Waldo S. W
53 H. L. Martin* W. M
54 8. W. Gunter W. M
E. Baxter* J. W
55 W. S. Hay* W. M
57 E. Allen W. M
58 H. E. Huston S. W
59 Walter Pryne W. M
60 C. B. Loop W. M
61 L. C. Rose W. M
63 L. Church W. M
64 D. M. Browning W. M
66 T. Woodmansee J. W
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D. B. Gates W. M.
John Lin kins" W. M.
M. Baumann J. AV.
C.C.Cromwell 8. W.
James Douglas W M.
S. Widdowson W. M.
William Kerr W. M.
H. Chaffee* S. W.
R. L. MeKinlay W. M.
A. D Hutchius W. M.
J. A. Watson S. W.
Zooner Case W. M.
W. P. Worcester W. M .
J. A. Mason W. M.
J. W. Page W. M.
E. Sylvester W. M.
Thomas Boyd* W. M
G. W. Staley W. M.
J. Weckel W. M.
A. T. Beck W. M.
E. H. Bishop W. M.
James Walker W. M.
J. R. Thomas* W. M.
S. Kendall W. M.
George Bradley W. M.
D. L. Freeman* W. M
H. I. Little* w. M.
J. R. Perkins W. M
W. T. Griffith W. M.
JohnHobson* W. M.
W. H. Emerson W. M .
Seeley Perry W M .
S. B. Mitchell W. M.
O. M. Baker* r. VY.
C. Fisher AV. M.
C. B. Hubbard W. M.
Jeptha Wilson* . .AV. M.
James Wilson W. M.
John Dnugherty J. W.
George Welch .". W. M.
L. R. Jerome* 8. W.
T. F. Green r. W.
Samut-1 Kelly W. M.
E. J. Tower W. M.
J. Kimble 8. W.
G. W. Renwick 8. W.
H. French I. AV.
T. J. Davidson W. M.
Jas. G. Hull W. M.
A. 8. Rockwell r. AV
J. R.White s. W.
L. P. Lott* W. M
T. C. Tutewiler W. ML
L. II. Ad>ims* 8. W.
E. Woolley T. W.
D. C.Jones W. M.
J. B. Young 8. W.
Daniel Beckley W. M.
W. A. Moore* 8. AV.
ti. AAr. Laingor S. AV.
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143
144
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178 M.B. McGarrey
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R. H. Bacon*
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James Slater W. M.
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399 G. H. Fuller* W. M.
400 John VV. Semple W. M.
401 S. H. Gammon S. W.
402IH. R. Fuller W. M.
40318. M. Badger W. M.
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415| Robert Will S. W.
416! B. F. Mason VV. M.
417 H. K. Waite* W. M.
418| A. Woods S. W.
419 J.P. Woodside W. M.
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422jT. C. Clark* W. M.
423 R. P. Wales W. M.
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426! James Walker W. M.
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429 J. H. Sands W. M.
430 Wm. T. Hobbs W. M.
431 A. W. Allen W. M.
432 J. B. Beadles W. M.
433 Hugh White W. M.
434 J. E. Springer W. M.
435 M. A. Lewis W. M
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113 N. S. Carlisle W. M.
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146 T. S. Arnold S. W.
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F. 8. Sellez* W. M.
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J. Mastin W. M.
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George N. Carr* S. W
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Asa Harman 8. W
John P. Cowden S. W.
Charles Raymond* S. W
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W. H. Brown W. M.
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V. O. Wilcox* W. M.
L. P. R. Yaple* W. M.
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M. May nard* W. M.
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A. J. Guilford W. M.
J. McManus S. VV.
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W. M. Hanes W. M.
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L. Giddings W. M.
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John Braden 8. W.
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L. D. McClure W. M.
Edwin Wiggs W. M.
J. W. Davis W. M.
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J. W. King
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649
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W. M.
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668 W. R. Wheeler
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S. W.
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698
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* Proxy.
Lodges represented 582
Grand officers , . 19
District Deputy Grand Masters 25
Representatives 650
Total 094
1873.] GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS. 45
REPORT— Committee on Petitions.
The Committee on Petitions submitted the following report,
which was received and considered seriatim :
To the M. W. Grand Lodge of A. F. and A. It. of the State of Illinois :
Your Committee on Petitions beg leave to submit the following report :
No. 1. Petition of J. Hendershot, J. W. Rogers, and seventeen others, members
of Corinthian Lodge No. 205, for change of location from East Paw Paw, in DeKalb
county, to West Paw Paw, in Lee county.
There is a remonstrance against removal, signed by several members of said
Lodge. Upon due inquiry we fiud that these places are only two miles apart, and
of nearly the same size, and we think it for the best interests of this Lodge that this
matter be laid over for one year, hoping that the brethren of Corinthian Lodge will
in the meantime amicably adjust this matter.
No. 2. Petition of William M. Hanes, Elisha S. Gibson, and nine others,
members of Allin Lodge No. 605, for change of name and of location of Lodge from
Allin to Stanford.
In this matter it appears that when the charter was granted to Allin Lodge it
was located in the town of Allin, but afterwards the name of the town of Allin was
changed to Stanford by the Legislature. We therefore recommend that the charter
of Allin Lodge be amended so as to show that said Lodge is located at Stanford
instead of Allin.
No. 3. Petition of twenty members of Freemanton Lodge No. 533, for change of
location from Freemanton to Altamont.
We cannot recommend that the prayer of the petition be granted, for the reason
that the petitioners have not obtained the consent of the three nearest Lodges,
believing that the same law should govern this case as that of new Lodges.
No. 4. Petition of J. S. Hartley and thirty other members of Bloomfield Lodge
No. 148, for change of location from Bloomfield to Chrisman.
In this matter we recommend that the prayer of the petition be granted, they
having complied with all the requirements of the law, and having the recommenda-
tion of the District Deputy Grand Master.
No. 5. Petition of William C. McMurry and nine others, who were members of
Mount Pleasant Lodge No. 224, but whose charter was arrested, praying for a
restoration of their charter.
Your committee having examined the testimony which has been laid before them
in this matter, and finding all former obstacles removed, recommend that the
prayer of the petition be granted.
No. 6. Petition of C. H. Wilkinson and nineteen others, who claim to be mem-
bers of Sharon Lodge No. 550, asking that the name of their Lodge be changed to
Tiskilwa.
In this case there is nothing in the papers before us which show that the petitioners
are members of said Lodge, or that the matter was ever acted upon by said Lodge,
and we recommend that it be referred back to Sharon Lodge for their further
action.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
A. SALLEE, "I
ALEX. HEARST, \ n n ....
CH AS. TROWBRIDGE, \CommMee on Petitions.
J. L. PRATT, J
46 PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Oct.
Case No. 1. Concurred in.
Case No. 2. Coucurred in.
Case No. 3. Not concurred in, prayer of petition granted, allowing Freemanton
Lodge No. 533 to remove from Freemanton to Altamont.
Case No. 4. Concurred in.
Case No. 5. Not concurred in.
Case No. 6. Concurred in.
The report as amended was adopted.
ELECTION MADE SPECIAL ORDER.
Upon motion of Bro. J. C. MuMurtky (20), the election of
officers was made the special order for Wednesday at 10 o'clock
A. M.
RESOLUTION.
R. W. Bro. Blakeslet (1) offered the following resolution,
which was referred to the Finance Committee :
Whereas, Kingston Lodge No. 266 has paid Grand Lodge dues for the years
1 868-' 69-' 70-' 71 and '72 lor one Henry A. Fruit, who became a charter member of
Adams Lodge No. 520, which was chartered October, 1869, amounting to #3.75;
therefore,
Jiesolved, That Kingston Lodge No. 266 be credited with said amount, to be
applied on returns for 1874.
REPORT— Committee on (■rand Master's Address.
The Committee on Grand Master's Address submitted the
following report, which was adopted:
To the M. W. Crawl Lodge A. F. and A. M. of Illinois:
Your committee to whom was referred the address of the M. W. Grand Master for
sub division and reference, respectfully report that they have examined the same
and do recommend :
That 60 much of the address as refers to dispensations to form new lodges be
referred to the Committee on Lodges U. D.
That so much of the address as refers to the status of members of chartered lodges,
while assisting in the establishment of new lodges, be referred to the Committee on
Masonic Jurisprudence, with instructions to report some efficient regulations which
shall lie embodied in, and form a part of, the petition for such dispensation.
That the proper construction of Sections 45 and 49 of the Grand Lodge By-Laws
be referred to the Committee on Masonic Jurisprudence, with instructions to reporl
the proper construction of said sections.
That the decisions of the M. W. Grand Master, numbered first to thirteenth,
inclusive, be referred to the same committee.
That the action of the M. W. Grand Master, in carrying out the resolution
adopted by this Grand Lodge at its last communication ih relation to the M. W.
Grand Lodge of Canada, be approved.
That the actions of the M. W. Grand Master in constituting new lodges, whether
in person or by proxies, be approved-
1873.] GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS. 47
That the action of the M. W. Grand Master, in the matter of Abingdon Lodge No.
185, be approved.
That the action of the M. \V. Grand Master, in suspending W. Bro. David F.
Frayser, Master of Cave-in-Kock Lodge No. 444, be approved, and his suspension
continue during his official term.
That the appointing by the M. W. Grand Master of representatives near the Grand
Lodges of Colorado and Iowa be approved, and that this Grand Lodge recognize
with pleasure the appointment of M. AV. James A. Hawley as the representative of
the Grand Lodges of Alabama and Colorado near this Grand Lodge.
That the action of the M. W. Grand Master, in relation to Cedar Lodge No. 124,
be approved.
That the action of the M. W. Grand Master in authorizing the removal of Russell-
ville Lodge No. 348 from Russellville, Lawrence county, to Montgomery, Crawford
county, be confirmed and made permanent.
That so much of the address of the M. W, Grand Master as refers to the death of
members of this Grand Lodge be referred to the Committee on Obituaries.
Your committee notice with pleasure the evident care taken by the M. W. Grand
Master in granting dispensations for the formation of new lodges. The danger of
increasing the number of constituent lodges has long been apparent, and has fre-
quently been the subject of legislation in this Grand Lodge, and while more strin-
gent regulations might sometimes be useful, still the exercise by the M. W. Grand
Master of his constitutional powers in the premises during the past year gives a
guarantee against injury to the craft in this direction. They also note with pleasure
the fact that but three special dispensations have been granted during the year to
initiate candidates without regard to time. It is evidence of an increasing disposi-
tion to conform to the wholesome regulations of the Grand Lodge.
Referring to that part of the address in which the M. W. Grand Master refers to
alleged non-conformity to the standard ritual of this State, your committee
believe that the powers of the M. W. Grand Master, as expressed in Article XV. of
the Constitution, are ample to enforce conformity on the part of each subordinate
lodge ; and that the M. W. Grand Master has full power to compel this conformity,
even to the extent of suspending any lodge refusing to learn and practice the stan-
dard work ; and that no further action is necessary on the part of this Grand Lodge.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN M. PEARSON, )
JEROME R. GORIN, \-Committee.
L. L. MUNN, \
Chicago, October 7th, 1873.
RESOLUTION.
Bro. offered the following resolution, which was referred
t<> the Finance Committee:
Resolved, That the Grand Lodge dues of Galva Lodge No. 213 be refunded, they
timing had their hall and furniture destroyed by tire on the 1 1th day of November,
1872.
CALLED OFF.
At 5 o'clock p. m. the Grand Lodge was called from labor to
refreshment.
48 PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Oct.
FIRST DAY— Evening Session.
Tuesday, October 7, 1873, )
Eight o'clock p. m. f
The Grand Lodge was'called from refreshment to labor.
PRESENT.
M. W. James A. Hawley, Grand Master, officers, members
and representatives as in the afternoon.
REPORT— Committee on By-Laws.
The Committee appointed at the last Annual Grand Commu-
nication to prepare a code of By-Laws for the government of
this Grand Lodge, submitted the following report:
To the M. W. Grand Lodge of A. F. and A. M. of the State of Illinois:
Your committee, appointed to draft a code of Grand Lodge By-Laws, as
contemplated in the resolution adopted at the last Grand Communication, and set
forth on pages 83 and 84, Grand Lodge proceedings of 1872, have the honor, to
report, that, in obedience to the instructions of the resolution referred to, we have
given the aubject due consideration, and herewith submit to you the result of our
labors.
In presenting the accompanying code of By-Laws, your committee beg leave to
say that they are justly sensible of the importance of the work contemplated in
the order of the Grand Lodge, and have therefore devoted to the subject much
time and careful study, with the view of providing a full and explicit code, plainly
expressed, and arranged in such order that they will be not only comprehensive,
but convenient of reference.
The code is divided into three parts : Part First, relates to the Grand Lodge ;
Part Second, relates to Constituent Lodges; Part Third, relates to Trials.
It has been the object of your committee to arrange these several divisions
in the order that will naturally occur in the proceedings of a Lodge.
While the matter submitted may appear prolix, compared with the code now in
force, your committee think it will be found not only as concise as the nature of
the subjects will admit, but as much so as the wants and interests of this large
jurisdiction will justify, to insure consistent and uniform government in both the
Grand and Constituent Lodges.
Your committee have been somewhat embarrassed in their work by the tenor of
the Grand Lodge Constitution ; but have carefully framed the present code in strict
accordance with that instrument. It has been their aim, also, to retain in the new
code, all that is fundamental in that now in force ; the substance of the old By-
Laws, with their amendments, is incorporated in the new draft, and no attempt has
been made to depart from the regulations which have hitherto governed in this
jurisdiction ; but, on the contrary, your committee have simply sought to elaborate
and systematize a code of laws, to take the place of those which, through frequent
alterations, have become unsuitcd to the present demands of the fraternity, both by
reason of their ambiguity and their want of systematic arrangement, from which
causes more or less confusion has arisen among Lodges and brethren.
It appears to your committee that a code of By-Laws 60 fully and plainly
expressed that no one need err in the interpretation of its provisions, is an object
1873.] GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS. 49
that should enlist the earnest and zealous co-operation of all concerned, to the end
that the same may be put in force at an early day.
In conclusion, your committee beg leave to acknowledge their obligations to the
Grand Secretary of nearly every Grand Lodge in the United States and Canada, for
their kindness in furnishing your committee with a copy of the By-Laws of their
respective Grand Lodges. From these, and other sources, they have been enabled
to compile a code of By-Laws for the Grand Lodge of Illinois, possessing, as they
believe, the law as it is, or as it is declared to be by the best authorities in the
Masonic World.
Although the printed copy contains a few typographical errors, and although
they do not claim for the work perfection in other particulars, it is presented with
the hope that it will be found, as a whole, sufficiently free from radical defects to
entitle it to the favorable consideration of the Craft.
Leaving whatever imperfections may be discovered in these Laws to be
corrected by the wisdom of an enlightened and intelligent Brotherhood, we
submit the same for your consideration.
DEWITT C. CREGIER, 1
JOHN M. PEARSON,
A. W. ADAMS, \ Committee.
GEORGE O. IDE, |
EDWARD COOK, J
The report of the committee was received, and, upon motion,
the Grand Lodge proceeded to the consideration of the code of
By-Laws as presented by the committee.
Part First was read by sections ; various amendments were
proposed, and, after being discussed by the committee and repre-
sentatives present, were adopted.
Further consideration of the report was then postponed until
to-morrow evening.
RESOLUTION.
Bro. Green (112) offered the following resolution:
Besolved, That an order be drawn in favor of W. Bro. J. Zimmerman, W. M. of
Mt. Carmel Lodge No. 239, for the sum of $5.30, it being the amount due him for
mileage last year more than he received.
The resolution was referred to the Finance Committee.
CALLED OFF.
At 11:30 o'clock p. m. the Grand Lodge was called from labor
to refreshment.
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50 PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Oct.
SECOND DAY— Morning Session.
Wednesday, October 8, 1873. J
Nine o'clock, a. m. f
The Grand Lodge was called from refreshment to labor.
PRESENT.
M.W.James A. Hawley, Grand Master; officers, members
and representatives as on the previous day.
RESOLUTION.
R. W. Bro. Agard, G. C, offered the following resolution,
which was referred to the Committee on Finance :
Resolved, That Hie Grand Lodge dues of Russellville Lodge No. 348 for 1873 be
refunded, they having lost their furniture, books and regalia by fire.
AMENDMENT TO BY-LAWS— Proposed.
M. W. Bro. Gorin (8) offered the following amendment to the
By-Laws, which, being seconded, lies over until the next Annual
Communication :
Resolved, That section one (1) of the Grand Lodge By-Laws be amended as follows :
strike out "Chicago" and insert Decatur.
REPORT — Committee on Masonic Correspondence.
R. W. Bro. Robbins, S. G. W., submitted the report of the
Committee on Masonic Correspondence, which was received and
ordered to be printed with the proceedings. (See appendix.)
REPORT— Committee on Printing.
The Printing Committee submitted the following report, which
was adopted :
To the M. W. Grand Lodge A. F. & A. M. of the State of Illinois :
The undersigned, Committee on Printing, respectfully report : That they invited
proposals for printing the proceedings of the Annual Grand Communication for
1872 from the principal printing houses in the State, and that bids were received
from the following named establishments, viz.:
The Herald Printing Company, at Quincy.
The Illinois State Register, at Springfield.
The Leader Company, at Bloomington.
J. II. Johnson, at Springfield.
The Peoria Review, at Peoria.
1873.] GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS. 51
The bids were in detail for composition, press work, paper and binding, and on a
comparison of the same, estimating the amounts of each class of work to be done
on the basis of the proceedings of the previous year, it was found that the bid of the
Herald Printing Company, of Quincy, was the lowest and most favorable ; the con-
tract was therefore awarded to that company.
The entire cost of printing the proceedings under the contract was $2,039 28,
including the sum of $599 85, the cost of printing the report of the Committee on
Masonic Correspondence in advance of the meeting of the Grand Lodge. The cost
of a single copy of the proceedings is a trifle more than 58 cents.
All of which is fraternally submitted.
O. H. MINER, )
JOHN M. PEARSON, [Committee.
JOSEPH ROBBINS, )
REPORT- Committee on Appeals and Grievances— Supplementary.
The Committee on Appeals and Grievances submitted the
following supplemental report, which was read and considered
seriatim :
NUMBER V.
F. H. Stratton )
vs. > Appeal.
Charter Oak Lodge No. 236. )
This is an appeal by Bro. F. H. Stratton from the action of said Lodge upon
charges that he, the said Bro. Stratton, had brought against one of the brethren
of the same Lodge.
To this case your committee have given their close attention, submitting the
testimony before them to the closest scrutiny, and giving a patient hearing to the
arguments and pleadings of the appellant, and after full deliberation upon the
matter, can see no reason why the decision of the Lodge should be interfered with.
Your committee therefore recemmend that the action of the Lodge be sustained ,
and the appeal be dismissed.
NUMBER XI.
Walter E. Smith )
vs. > Appeal.
Pera Lodge No. 574. )
This case was before the Grand Lodge at its last Annual Communication, then
coming up on an appeal of Bro. N. A. Wantling, from a judgment of indefinite
suspension, for alleged unmasonic conduct, rendered by said Pera Lodge. On
account of the meagre aud imperfect record, the decision of the Lodge was reversed,
and the case remanded for a new hearing. Upon the second trial the accused was
acquitted. The trial, however, was held under such circumstances that the Grand
Master felt constrained to set it aside and order a new hearing. At this third trial
Bro. Wantling was again acquitted, and from this judgment Bro. Smith appeals.
The facts, shown by the very full transcript before us, compel us to say that not
only is the guilt of Bro. Wantling fully established, but by such conclusive
evidence that his acquittal in the face of it indicates a condition of the Lodge that
we feel cannot be lightly passed by.
52 PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Oct.
We therefore recommend that the judgment of the Lodge be reversed, and that
Bro. N. A. Wantling be indefinitely suspended from all the rights and benefits of
Masonry.
An analysis of the vote by which Bro. Wantling was acquitted convinces your
committee that there is a number of the members of Pera Lodge sufficiently large
to prevent the exercise of that discipline necessary to the purity and good name of
Masonry, who have forgotten or become indifferent to those duties whose faithful
discharge can alone attest the fitness of Masons for the exercise of Lodge privileges.
as the only alternative, therefore, your committee recommend that the charter of
Pera Lodge No. 574 be suspended until, in the judgment of the Grand Master, it may
be safely restored.
NUMBER XXII.
This is a recommendation* of Evergreen Lodge No. 170 for the restoration of
Samuel Lebkicker, who was expelled by said Lodge. As this is the unanimous
recommendation of the Lodge, your committee would recommend that the said
Samuel Lebkicker be restored to all the rights and privileges of Masonry.
NUMBER XXIII.
This is a petition from James McCrone, who was expelled by Olive Branch
Lodge No. 38, for restoration.
As this petition is not recommended by any Lodge, your committee would recom-
mend that the prayer of the petitioner be not granted.
NUMBER XXIV.
This is a petition from Clinton Lodge No. 19 for the restoration of William G.
Green, who was expelled by said lodge.
As this Lodge has, by a vote of 42 to 6, recommended his restoration, your com-
mittee would recommend that William G. Green be restored to all the rights and
benefits of Masonry. (See Sec. 25, Grand Lodge By-Laws.)
NUMBER XXV.
John A. Shirley )
vs. /-Appeal.
New Columbia Lodge No. 336. )
The appeal in this case not having been taken in time, and no evidence appearing
in the records as to the time of trial, your committee would recommend that the
appeal be dismissed.
NUMBER XXVI.
This is a petition from Rock River Lodge No. 612 for the restoration of Ltsander
Morse, who was suspended by Sterling Lodge No. 202, now dormant.
It appears from the petition that said Morse was suspended by Sterling Lodge
for non-payment of dues ; that the said Morse is an old man, and with limited
means. Rock River Lodge, by unanimous consent, asks that Ltsander Morse's
dues to the old Lodge be remitted, and that he be restored to all the rights and
benefits of Masonry.
Your committee would, therefore, recommend that the prayer of Rock River
Lodge No. 612 be granted.
NUMBER XXVII.
This is a petition from W. M. Parker for a new trial, in Rushville Lodge No. 9,
who expelled him A pril 4th, 1871.
1873.] GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS. 53
As this is accompanied with the consent of the Lodge, your committee would
recommend that the action of the Lodge be set aside and this case remanded back
to Rushville Lodge for a new trial.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
A. A. GLENN, 1
H. W. HUBBARD, |
JOHN W. CLYDE, j- Committee.
JO. HOLLAND, |
MILES H. WILMOT. J
Case No. v. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. xi. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. xxii. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. xxiii. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. xxiv. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. xxv. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. xxvi. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
Case No. xxvii. Read, and recommendation concurred in.
The report of the committee was adopted.
RESOLUTION.
R. W. Bro. Davis (50) offered the following preamble and
resolution, which was referred to the Committee on Appeals and
Grievances :
Whereas, In the month of October, 1872, Bro. E. S. Valentine, a member of
Greenfield Lodge No. 129, was suspended indefinitely, from which decision the said
Valentine appeals to the Grand Lodge, and
Whereas, From some cause no papers in this case have been furnished the Grand
Lodge, so that no action can be had at this time in the case, thereby virtually
depriving the said Valentine of his constitutional right of appeal ; therefore, be it
Besolved, That the whole matter be referred to the M. W. Grand Master, with
power to act.
REPORT OF GRAND SECRETARY.
R. W. Bro. O. H. Miner, Grand Secretary, submitted his
report, which was referred to the Finance Committee.
54
PROCEEDINGS OF THE
[Oct.
Oki. in II. Miner, Grand Secretary, in account xoith
The M. W. Graud Lodge of A. F. and A. M. of the State of Illinois.
Dr.
lodge dues for the year 1873.
Bodley
Equality
Harmony
Springfield
Friendship
Macon
Kushville
St. John
Warren
Peoria
Temperance
Macomb
Clinton
Hancock
Cass
St. Clair
Franklin
Hiram
Piasa
Monroe
Pekin
Morning Star..
Mount Vernon..
Oriental
Barry
Charleston
Kavanaugh
Monmouth
Olive Branch...
Herman
Occidental
Mount Jpliet ..
Bloomington .
Hardin
Griggsville
Temple
Caledonia
Unity
Cambridge
Carrollton
Mount Moriah.
Benevolent
Jackson
Reclamation ..
Washington ....
Pittsfield
Trio
Fraternal
New Boston....
Belvidere
Lacon
St. Marks
Kenton
Euclid
Knoxville
Acacia
Naples
Eureka
social
Centra]
Chester
Rockton
Roscoe
NO. DUES.
9
13
14
15
16
17
lit
20
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
63
lit
63
66
67
68
69
m
71
72
; i
75
$63 75
21 75
81 75
77 25
89 2."-
102 75
44 25
46 50
33 00
135 oo
48 75
66 75
75 75
46 50
47 25
54 00
51 75
25 50
42 75
14 25
41 25
78 00
54 75
201 00
57 00
59 25
32 75
69 00
84 00
47 25
93 75
92 25
117 75
75 75
44 25
78 75
18 00
31 50
36 00
72 00
77 25
39 75
51 00
30 75
31 50
58 50
111 00
58 50
47 26
62 25
36 00
si 00
57 50
47 25
51 00
57 « 0
28 50
•?! no
37 50
55 50
51 75
34 50
35 25
Blount Nebo
Prairie
Waukegan
Scott
White Hall
Vitruvius
Metamora
DeWitt
Mitchell
Kaskaskia
Mt. Pulaski
Havana
Fellowship
Jerusalem Temple.
Metropolis
Stewart
Toulon
Perry
Sam'lH Davis
Excelsior
Taylor
Edwardsville
Astoria
Rockford
Magnolia
Lewistown
Winchester
Lancaster
Versailles
Trenton
.Tonesboro
Bureau
Robert Burns
Marcelliue
Rising Sun
Vermont
Elgin
Waverly
Henry
Mound
Oquawa
Cedar
Greenup
Antioch
Raleigh
Greenfield
Marion
Golconda
Mackinaw
Marshall
Sycamore
Lima
Hutsonville
Polk
Marengo
Geneva
Olney
Garden City
Ames
Richmond
DeKalb
A. W. Rawson
Lee Centre
76
$59 25
77
60 00
78
83 25
79
40 50
80
69 00
81
26 25
82
28 50
84
7S 00
85
39 75
86
49 50
87
49 50
88
37 50
89
73 50
90
149 25
91
56 25
92
39 75
93
42 75
95
47 25
96
19 5U
97
61 50
98
36 75
99
57 75
ion
4S 75
102
115 50
103
36 75
104
37 50
105
45 00
106
28 50
108
41 25
109
33 00
111
31 50
11?
84 no
113
34 50
114
30 00
115
29 2.5
116
54 00
117
;>7 00
lis
39 75
119
[9 50
122
69 75
123
37 50
124
60 25
125
24 75
127
28 50
138
43 50
129
36 90
130
52 50
131
11 25
m
23 25
133
61 50
134
74 25
135
30 75
136
IS 00
137
35 i 0
138
52 50
139
12 75
140
59 25
141
132 75
142
37 50
143
36 i i
144
til 50
145
33 00
146
25 50
1873.]
GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS.
55
GRAND SECRETARY S ACCOUNT — CONTINUED.
LODGE.
NO.
DUES.
LODGE.
NO.
227
228
229
230
231
232
233
234
285
236
237
238
239
240
241
213
245
246
247
IMS
249
250
251
252
253
251
255
256
257
258
26D
261
262
263
264
265
266
267
268
269
271
272
273
274
275
276
277
278
279
280
282
283
284
285
286
288
290
291
292
293
294
295
296
297
298
299
300
301
302
303
DUEH.
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
168
169
170
171
173
174
175
176
178
179
18o
181
182
183
185
187
188
189
190
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
200
201
203
204
205
206
207
208
209
210
211
212
2 3
214
216
217
21S
219
220
221
222
223
226
$41 25
47 25
43 50
42 75
39 75
36 75
36 75
34 50
85 50
31 50
64 50
25 50
129 35
59 25
45 00
33 75
27 00
36 75
103 50
27 7.5
24 00
87 00
41 25
36 75
54 75
9S 25
79 50
88 50
33 00
39 75
46 50
121 50
38 25
39 00
35 25
23 25
68 25
33 75
51 00
21 00
35 25
69 75
S3 00
37 50
33 00
33 00
31 50
66 00
28 50
38 25
19 50
30 75
29 50
87 00
114 01)
41 25
261 75
31 50
43 50
18 00
36 00
35 25
30 75
38 25
32 25
46 50
32 25
17 25
36 75
$17 25
New Haven
Wyanet
Farmers'
26 -lb
25 50
34 10
Bunker Hill
30 00
Fidelity
Clay
34 50
43 50
39 00
Charter Oak
59 25
57 00
47 25
Black Hawk
34 50
4)) 50
GaWa
83 25
Hope
42 75
Westfield ....
42 75
El Paso
39 00
51 00
41 80
33 75
51 00
38 25
Aledo
Avon Harmony
35 25
42 75
48 00
S3 25
31 50
20 25
35 ■<&
27 75
66 75
52 50
27 75
34 50
Frankin Grove
42 00
35 25
40 50
33 75
74 25
33 75
84 75
44 26
58 50
39 75
Milton
52 50
Elizabeth
31 50
Sheba
57 00
Centralia
56 75
46 50
Flora
33 00
35 25
Catlin
57 75
48 75
42 75
Wm. B. Warren
39 75
30 75
Cleveland
21 75
23 25
33 00
67 50
46 50
Dills
27 00
64 50
36 75
47 25
24 75
12 75
23 25
32 25
34 50
56
PROCEEDINGS OF THE
[Oct.
GRAND SECRETARY S ACCOUNT — CONTINUED.
Cement
Onarga
W. C. Hobba
T J. Pickett
Ashlar
Harvard
Dearborn
Kilwinning
Ionic
York
Palatine
Erwin
Abraham Jonas .
New Liberty
J. L Anderson ...
Doric
Dunlap
Windsor
Orient
Harrlsburg
Industry
Grafton
Altona
Tuscola
Tyrian
Sumner
Schiller
New Columbia ..
Oneida ,
Grand Detour....
Saline
Kedron
Full Moon
Summerfield
Wenona
Mil ledge ville
N D. Morse
Sidney
Russellville
Sublette
Fairview
Tarbolton
Groveland
Kinderhook
Ark and Anchor
Marine
Hermitage
Orion
Blackberry
Princeville
Douglas
Noble
Horeb
Tonica
Bement
Areola
Oxford
Jefferson
Newman
Middleton
Livingston
Galesburg
Chambersburg....
Shabbona
Isaac Underbill..
Archimedes
Aroma
Payson
Liberty
M. R. Thompson
NO.
DUES.
304
$35 25
305
48 00
306
30 75
307
73 50
308
84 75
309
40 50
310
111 00
311
163 50
312
42 00
313
33 75
314
42 75
315
33 00
316
23 25
317
21 00
318
42 00
319
63 00
321
57 75
322
60 00
323
14 25
325
51 00
327
46 50
328
24 00
330
33 00
332
82 50
333
71 25
334
47 25
335
52 50
336
33 75
337
33 00
338
17 25
339
40 50
340
24 75
341
37 50
342
21 00
344
36 75
345
25 50
346
30 (0
347
24 00
348
]5 00
349
17 25
350
36 75
351
61 00
352
20 25
353
25 50
354
55 50
355
28 50
356
39 75
358
21 75
359
21 75
360
21 75
3nl
30 75
362
36 75
363
42 75
364
16 50
365
36 75
366
40 50
367
30 75
368
29 25
369
49 50
370
25 50
371
372
33 75
57 75
1 373
1 374
21 75
37 50
1 375
377
21 75
37 50
378
18 75
379
380
37 50
26 25
381
43 50
Gill
La Moille
Waltham
Mississippi
Bridgeport
Youngstown
El Dara
Kankakee
Ashmore
Tolono
Oconee
Blair
Jerseyville
H. G. Reynolds
Shiloh
Kinmundy
Buda
Pacific
Odell
Kishwankee
Mason City
Batavia
Ramsey
Blue Grass
Stratton
Thomas J. Turner
Mithra
Hesperia
Bollen
Forreston
Evening Star
Lawn Ridge
Paxton
Marseilles
Freeburg
Reynoldsburg
Oregon
Washburn
Landmark
Lanark
Exeter
Kaneville
Scottville
Sunbeam
Chebanse
Kendrick
Summit!
Murrayville
Makanda
Neponset
Philo
Chicago
H. W. Bigelow
Luce
Camargo
Sparland
Casey
Hampshire
Cave -in-Rock
Chesterfield
Watseka
S D. Monroe
Yates Clly
Mendon
Loami
Bromwell
Grant
New Hartford
Maroa
382
$31 50
383
31 6(
384
33 IX
385
19 50
386
27 75
387
24 00
388
26 25
389
59 60
390
27 0C
391
40 5C
392
32 GO
393
122 25
394
61 50
395
21 75
397
22 5(
398
44 25
399
27 75
4u0
41 25
401
48 75
402
15 OC
403
42 75
404
63 01
405
30 0C
407
36 Of
408
45 n
409
63 75
410
55 5C
411
109 50
412
27 0C
413
18 75
414
30 0C
415
24 00
416
48 75
417
39 01
418
24 75
419
39 75
420
45 00
421
24 75
422
46 51
423
31 5t
424
20 21
425
21 0C
426
33 01
428
38 25
429
30 75
430
32 25
431
23 35
432
27 7£
434
48 0(
435
23 25
43b
30 75
437
90 75
438
62 25
439
45 75
440
37 51
441
32 25
442
34 5C
443
22 5C
444
21 Of
445
29 25
446
46 5C
447
29 50
448
51 00
449
31 51
450
37 50
451
36 75
452
25 50
453
17 25
454
41 2a
1873.]
GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS.
57
GRAND SECRETARY'S ACCOUNT — CONTINUED.
LODGE.
NO.
DUES, j
LODGE.
■
NO.
DUES.
455
456
4.7
458
459
4b0
461
462
4i 3
464
4h5
466
467
469
470
471
472
473
474
475
470
477
478
479
480
4bl
482
483
484
485
4-6
487
488
489
490
491
492
493
494
4y5
496
497
498
499
500
501
503
5u4
506
508
509
510
oil
512
513
514
515
516
517
518
519
520
521
522
523
524
525
526
527
528
$S6 75
40 50
34 50
;3 no
25 5>
IS 00
lo 00
18 00
3^ 75
23 25
3j 25
31 50
51 00
25 50
30 00
24 25
4U 50
22 50
21 00
26 25
23 25
23 25
138 U0
5L 00
43 50
42 75
44 25
3) 00
23 25
15 75
18 00
29 25
24 00
24 00
21 75
26 25 |
39 75
23 25
32 25
32 25
39 00
30 00
c3 00
16 50
24 75
18 75
33 00
39 00
24 00
134 25
26 26
28 50
18 00
92 £5
23 25
37 50
34 50
15 75
42 01)
37 50
22 60
29 2
26 25
69 75
33 00
51 75
22 50
132 75
27 75
25 50
529
530
531
532
533
;34
535
536
537
538
539
540
641
542
543
544
54o
547
548
55>
{.51
552
653
5o4
555
556
557
558
559
teo
561
662
563
6b5
566
6t8
569
570
672
573
574
575
£76
577
£78
579
580
681
582
683
584
.'85
686
5S7
588
589
590
591
692
594
595
£98
597
599
600
601
602
603
604
605
$21 00
35 25
■Ik 00
27 00
18 75
29 25
20 25
34 50
3o 00
51 00
26 25
3u 75
12 75
27 60
26 25
Kendall
30 00
15 75
Valley
16 50
19 £0
Walsh ville
26 25
46 50
19 50
Kyle
32 25
25 s^O
21 00
37 tO
50 25
Belle Citv..
21 75
27 00
2S 50
44 75
22 50
Clay Ciiy ..
22 50
Pleasant Hill
36 00
i9 25
Delta
27 75
15 75
Tower Hill
65 25
Bath
37 50
48 75
30 75
31 50
O'Pallon
40 10
Viola
31 25
St. Paul
31 £0
Stark
Elbridtre
31 50
Odin
Hazel Dell
24 75
•22-'. 25
O. H. Miner
17 25
19 50
45 00
21 76
Clinton ville
19 50
28 50
Cold Spring
18 75
Bradford
25 50
24 00
20 26
Litchfield
33 75
12 75
33 t0
69 75
Illiopolis
22 50
15 75
LaClede ,
35 25
12 75
Delia
12 75
Clark
27 75
Eossville
Hebron
21 00
Minooka ,
Allin
14 25
58
PROCEEDINGS OF THE
[Oct.
GRAND SECRETARY S ACCOUNT — CONTINUED.
Wapella
Streator
Piper
Sheldon
Union Park...
Lincoln Park .
Kock River....
Patoka ,
Forrest
Anchor
Wadley
Milan
Basco
Berwick
New Hope ...
Venice
Hopedale
Dubois
Melrose
Union
Mosaic
Tuscan
Norton
Ridge Farm .
K. F. VV. Ellis
Buckley
Rochester
Peotone
Burlington ....
Fortitude
Keystone
Coleta
Comet
Apollo
D. C. Cregier .
San Jose
Somonauk ....
Blueville
Camden
Hinsdale
Irvington
Centre Star ....
Polar Star ....
Greenview ....
Woodford ....
Yorktown
Mozart
Lafayette
Rock Island .
Lambert
Grand Chain .
Bethesda
South Park....
NO.
DUES.
out;
f 14 25
0u7
45 75
008
22 50
009
10 50
610
09 75
611
56 50
612
52 50
613
29 25
614
25 50
616
15 00
616
17 25
617
22 50
618
27 00
619
18 00
620
44 25
621
12 00
622
10 50
624
10 50
625
12 75
627
24 00
623
18 60
630
23 25
031
2(5 25
632
18 75
633
63 75
034
43 50
635
13 50
636
24 75
037
24 75
038
23 25
639
34 50
640
11 25
641
26 25
642
105 75
648
59 25
045
18 00
646
27 00
647
20 25
648
37 50
649
23 25
650
21 75
651
29 25
652
21 75
653
27 00
654
30 75
655
30 75
656
26 25
657
18 00
658
36 75
659
30 00
660
14 25
661
20 25
662
22 50
Phoenix
Mayo ,
Greenland
Crawford
Erie
Burnt Prairie...
Herder
Fillmore ,
Farina
Eddyville
Normal
Wnldeck
Pawnee
A. O. Fay
Enfield
Sheffield
Illinois City ....
Clement
Morrison ville...
Blue Mound ...
Burnside
Gahitia ,
Rio
Cashman
Orange ville
Clifton
Advance
Euglewood
Iola
Raymond
Herrin's Prairie
Centre
Shiloh Hill
Belle Rive
Richard Cole...
Huttou
Newtown
Circle
Johnsville
Collinsville
Providence
Farmer City ...
Temple Hill ....
Joppa
Pleasant Plains
Varna ,
Libanus
Ewing
Lemont
Braidwood
Alexandria
Prince Edwin...
Star
N<
.
DUES.
663
$21 00
664
16 60
605
15 00
666
16 50
667
20 25
668
23 25
060
33 Oil
670
36 75
671
10 00
672
18 00
673
15 75
674
35 25
675
25 50
670
10 00
677
17 25
67 X
17 25
679
21 00
680
24 60
681
31 50
6S2
23 25
683
21 75
684
12 25
685
18 '50
686
39 00
687
12 75
688
10 00
689
12 75
0!l0
29 25
691
17 05
692
18 10
693
18 75
694
10 00
695
16 50
696
15 75
an
20 25
698
16 50
U. D.
10 50
35 25
18 00
15 00
22 50
9 00
10 00
7 50
'
13 50
10 50
7 50
10 00
9 75
12 75
8 25
9 75
10 50
DUES OF 1872.
Hancock
Hiram
Monroe
Morning Star
Bit. Vernon...
Bloomington
Belvidere
Lacon
St. Mark's ...
Benton
White Hall...
20
75
26
21 75
28
14 25
30
76 50
31
75
43
120 75
60
59 25
61
37 50
03
25
64
G2 50
80
2 25
Jerusalem Temple
Stewart
Astoria
Magnolia
Elgin
Cedar
Empire ,
Raleigh
Geneva
Delavan
Atlanta
90
92
100
103
117
124
126
12S
139
156
165
40
42 75
54 00
41 25
57 75
52 50
38 25
45 00
48 00
1 50
75
1873.]
GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS.
59
GRAND SECRETARY S ACCOUNT — CONTINUED.
Wayne
Staunton
Sheba
Lincoln
New Salem
Pana
New Haven ,
Galva
El Paso
Robinson
Algonquin
New Berlin
Milton
Elizabeth
DeSoto
Prophetstown
Mt Erie
Grand Detour
Groveland
Orion
Horeb
Tonica
Bement
Newman
Aroma
Mississippi
Kankakee
Blair
Mason City
NO.
DUES.
172
$12 75
177
41 25
200
30 75
210
75
218
75
226
25
230
32 25
243
2 25
246
62 25
250
41 25
256
20 25
259
21 00
275
45 00
276
30 00
287
26 2b
293
75 00
331
27 00
338
17 25
352
20 25
358
21 76
363
45 75
364
19 50
365
75
369
42 75
378
17 25
385
21 00
389
62 05
393
3 75
403
2 25
Scottville
Annawau
Chicago
H. W. Bigelow
Walshville
Manito
Cooper
St. Paul's
Manteno
Olintonville ...
Evans
Ashton
Lockport
Nilwood
Time
Elbridge
Fairmount
Oilman
Fieldon
Lodi
Dorchester
Dubois
Irvington
Erie
Normal
McHenry
LaHarpe
Oalesburg
Logan
Monroe I 28
Mt. Erie 331
DUES 1871.
17 25 1 1 Evening Star
27 75
426
§30 75
433
25 50
437
85 50
438
83 25
475
24 75
476
23 25
489
24 CO
500
1 55
507
14 10
511
18 70
524
49 50
531
22 50
538
4 50
546
2i 75
569
15 00
579
25 50
590
23 25
591
24 00
592
30 00
594
12 75
598
10 00
624
25
650
21 75
667
22 50
673
14 25
158
25 50
195
69 00
372
57 CO
480
3 50
DISPENSATION FEES.
Farmer City U.
Joppa
Braidwood
Lemont
Varna
Pilot
Ewing
U. D.
loo oo
100 00
100 00
"
100 00
"
100 00
"
100 00
"
100 00
Circle
Providence ....
Elvaston
Lumbermen's
Calumet
Star*
U. D.i
MISCELLANEOUS.
C. B. Marsh, dues to Lafayette Lodge No. 18
P. Campbell, dues to Mt. Pleasant Lodge No. 224
W. P. Craig, dues to same Lodge
L. H. Bradley, Chairman of Committee on Chartered Lodges, 1872.
Estate of C. G. Y. Taylor, P. G. M
100 00
100 00
100 00
100 00
ISO 00
9 00
5 20
3 20
9 75
60 40
*Dispensation fee paid at Grand Communication of 1872, and then accounted for.
RECAPITULATION.
From Jas. A. Hawley, M. W. Grand Master, for dispensation to confer degrees, etc.; $398 DO
Dues of 1873 25,496 45
Dues of 1872 j 2,305 30
Dues of 1S71 ! 47 25
Dispensation fees for new Lodges j 1,200 00
Dispensation fees to confer degrees, etc i 398 00
Miscellaneous 87 55
Total $29,534 55
Received. Chicago, October 8th, 1873, of Orlin H. Miner, Grand Secretary of the Grand
Lodge A. F and A. M., the sum of twenty-nine thousand flvo hundred and thirty. four
dollars and fifty-five cents. ($29,534.55.)
HARRISON DILLS, Grand Treasurer.
60 PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Oct.
PETITION FROM TARBOLTON LODGE.
A petition was received from Tarbolton Lodge No. 351, asking
for an appropriation for the benefit of Bro. S. G. Barnes.
Referred to Committee on Charity.
SPECIAL ORDER— Election.
The hour for the special order having arrived, the Grand
Lodge proceeded to the election of officers for the ensuing year.
TELLERS APPOINTED.
The M. W. Grand Master appointed the following named
brethren as tellers to collect and count the ballots : L. L. Munn,
L. R. Jerome, W. H. Long, Geo. H. Sampson, J. L. McCul-
lough, J. C McMurtry, D. Dustin, and E. C. Selleck.
The ballots having been severally collected and counted, the
tellers reported that the following named brethren had received
a majority of all the votes cast :
JAMES A. HAWLEY M. W. Grand Master.
GEO. E. LOUN8BURY Ji. W. Deputy Grand Master.
inii?PH PORRIMS ... R. W Se.ni.nr Grand Warden.
W. J. A. DeLANCEY B.. W. Junior Grand Warden.
And they were declared duly elected officers of this Grand
Lodge for the ensuing year, and until their successors should be
elected and installed.
RECEPTION— Representative of Grand Lodge of Kansas.
M. "W. Bro. Harrison Dills, G. T., presented his credentials
as the Representative of the M. W. Grand Lodge of Kansas
near the Grand Lodge of Illinois.
The Grand Honors were accorded to the Grand Lodge of
Kansas through its Representative.
REPORT— Orders Drawn.
The Grand Secretary submitted the following report of orders
drawn on the Grand Treasurer at and since the last Annual
Communication.
1873.] GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS. Gl
To the M. W. Grand Lodge of Illinois :
The following report of orders drawn on the Grand Treasurer, at and 6ince the
last Annual Grand Communication, is fraternally submitted :
For mileage and per diem of officers, representatives and commlt-
mittees in attendance at last Communication $14,161 30
For articles furnished and services rendered during Communication
of 1872 :
To John P. Ferns, 84 dozen aprons 164 00
To John P. Ferns, services as Grand Tyler 100 00
To John P Ferns, testimonial, for saving jewels 100 00
To J. H. McVicker, rent of theater, 3 days 300 00
To Hazlett & Reed, cards and ballots 8 20
To John O'Neil, lamps, etc 16 85
To Herald Printing Company, printing report of Committee on Cor-
respondence 599 85
To Chas. Shober & Co., lithographing and printing charters, and for
stone
To Jno. Middleton & Son, carpenter work, session 1871
To Jno. H. Small & Co., parchment for charters, and stationery for
session 1872
To Thos. A. Hall, engrossing charters
To T. H. Agnew, services and articles furnished
To Johu S. Bradford, stationery for Grand Secretary's office
To Advance Lodge TJ. D., overpayment dues
To Stratton Lodge No. 408, same
To Fairfield Lodge No. 206, overpayment of dues
To James A. Hawley, expenses attending trial
To J. S. McCullough, expenses suspending Oblong City Lodge
To B. F. Newlan, expenses incurred by order G. M
To J. J. French, assisting G. M
To M. A. Thayer, charter cases
To Harry Duvall, services and expenses
To E. B. Rambo, assisting Grand Secretary
To J. F. Burrill, D. G. Secretary, expenses Communication 1872
To Jos. Robbins, Chairman Committee Masonic Correspondence
To A. Demaree, attending Printing Committee
To L. A. Hamblin, cartage
To Wadley Lodge No. 616, dues refunded
To Tarbolton Lodge No. 351, relief of S. G. Barnes
To Grand Commandery of Illinois, loan
To D. C. Cregier, salary as Grand Master for 1871-'72
To I). C. Cregier, incidental expenses
To H. Dills, Grand Treasurer, per centage on disbursements
To O. H. Miner, Grand Secretary, incidental expenses and clerk hire for
1871-'72
To James A. Hawley, salary as Grand Master for 1S72- '73
To O. H. Miner, salary and clerk hire as Grand Secretary for 1872-'73..
To Herald Printing Company, printing proceedings
To Herald Printing Company, printing 1,500 blank returns for Lodges..
To John P. Ferns, cartage, freight, charter cases, etc
To John H. Small & Co., parchment for dup. charters
255 50
2 50
145 80
12 00
28 75
44 55
10 50
1 50
1 50
7 20
7 00
4 15
40 00
14 40
126 69
25 00
50 00
20J 00
28 30
9 00
16 50
100 00
2,500 00
1,500 00
231 34
278 28
1,633 13
1,500 00
2,800 00
1,439 43
106 00
10 39
70 00
62 PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Oct.
To D. A. Cashman, printing and binding report of Committee on By-
Laws 161 58
Total 128,832 19
All of which is fraternally submitted.
O. H. MINER, Grand Secretary.
REPORT— Committee on Lodges U. D. on Grand blaster's Address.
The Committee on Lodges TJ. D., to whom was referred that
portion of the Grand Master's Address relating to Lodges under
dispensation, submitted the following report, which was received
and adopted.
To the M. W. Grand Lodge of A. F. & A. M. of the State of Illinois :
Your committee on Lodges U. D. would fraternally report as to the matters
contained in the M. W. Grand Master's Address, which have been referred to them :
First. That so much of the Address as refers to Lodges under dispensation h:is
been referred to in our report already submitted.
Second. In regard to the disproportion between membership and the number of
Lodges. This is the more apparent from the following table :
In New York there are 683 Lodges ; average membership, 117.
In Pennsylvania there are 501 Lodges ; average membership, 70.
In Massachusetts there are 201 Lodges ; average membership, 120.
In Rhode Island there are 25 Lodges ; average membership, 145.
In Connecticut there are 105 Lodges ; average membership, 144.
In Maine there are 156 Lodges ; average membership, 105.
In all New England, average membership, 109.
In Illinois there are 676 Lodges ; average membership, 55.
Your committee know of no better means of checking this too exuberant growth
than to concur in the recommendation of the M. W. Grand Master, that General
Regulation No. 1 be amended by striking out in second line the word five and
inserting ten ; striking out in third line the word forty and inserting sixty, and in
last, line three thousand and inserting live thousand.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
R. D. HAMMOND, )
A. II. WOOSTER, }- Committee.
GEO. A. DILLS, )
REPORT— Committee on Obituaries.
The Committee on Obituaries submitted the following report,
which was received and adopted.
To the M. W. Grand Lodge of Illinois A. F. and A. 31.:
Your Committee on Obituaries, to whom was referred so much of the M. W.
Grand Master's address.,as relates to those of our brethren who during the past
year have passed away, would respectfully report that no words of ours can more
fittingly express the regrets felt by thisjGrand Lodge in reference to the decease of
M. W. Bro. Levi L. Stephenson, Past Grand Master of the M. W. Grand Lodge of
Virginia, than those contained iu the address of the M. W. Grand Master.
We further feel that although iu the death of our much esteemed and greatly
1873.] GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS. 63
lamented Bro. Nathan Fay Prentice, our loss is irreparable, one of our strong
pillars being broken, no words of ours can more fully express our sorrow and regret
than those so aptly chosen by the M. W. Grand Master in his address.
Other brethren have also fallen during the past year, and their memories are
already embalmed in the hearts of their several Lodges, and therefore, in that of
this Grand Body. We cannot particularize, as their names have not been brought
before us.
The committee would recommend that the usual custom be adopted, and " In
Memoriam " pages be set apart in the published proceedings of this Grand Lodge
to such of our deceased. brethren as were referred to in the M. W. Grand Master's
address.
JAMES S. McCALL, )
J. R. GORIN, } Committee.
J. V. THOMAS, )
REPORT— Committee on Appeals and Grievances— Supplementary.
R. W. Bro. Holland, from the Committee on Appeals and
Grievances, to whom was referred the case of E. S. Valentine vs.
Greenfield Lodge, made the following report :
E. S. Valentine )
vs. > Appeal.
Greenfield Lodge No. 129. )
This is an appeal by the above named party from the decision of the above uamed
Lodge. On the case there is neither docket, entry nor papers before us, and the
appellant fears that through the negligence of some one such delay may be produced
as will deprive him of his constitutional rights. Your committee, therefore, to
protect said Valentine in bis rights, deem this a proper case to be placed in the
hands of the Grand Master, with power to act.
The report was received and adopted.
REPORT— Committee on Mileage and Per Diem.
The Committee on Mileage and Per Diem submitted their
report, as follows :
To the M. W. Grand Lodge of A. F. and A. M. of the State of Illinois:
Your Committee on Mileage and Per Diem respectfully beg leave to report that
the officers, members and representatives of your honorable body are entitled
under the by-laws to mileage and per diem as set forth in the following pages.
We further respectfully recommend that the members of committees in attendance
on this Grand Communication be allowed additional compensation, at the rate of
three dollars per day, for the time actually employed in such service.
S. W. WADDLE,
D. J. AVERY, \ Committee.
G. M. EVATT,
64:
PROCEEDINGS OF THE
REPORT ON MILEAGE AND PER DIEM.
[Oct.
James A. Hawley Grand Master
Ge jrge E. Lounsbury ... Deputy Grand Master
Joseph Robbins Senior Grand Warden
W. J. A. DeLanccy Junior Grand Warden
H. Dills Grand Treasurer
Orlin H. Miner jGrand Secretary
John W. Agard jGrand Chaplain
T. T. Gurney [Grand Orator
John F. Btirrill [Deputy Grand Secretary..
Henry W. Dyer Grand Pursuivant
William H. Long [Grand Marshal
Isaac E. Hardy [Grand Standard Bearer. . .
William E. Ginther Grand Sword Bearer
H. E. Hamilton Senior Grand Deacon
John D. Hamilton Junior Grand Deacon
L. A. Hamblin Grand Steward
G. W. Hartman 'Grand Steward
M. S. Bowman (Grand Steward
John P. Ferns (Grand Tyler
I No.
[Miles.
98
360
26.J
253
203
185
138
185
360
149 i
256 !
184 !
239
147
110
Mileage.
Per
Diem
$6
$9 80
36 00
6
26 30
6
25 30
6
20 30
6
18 50
6
13 80
6
6
18 50
6
30 00
6
14 90
6
25 60
6
18 40
6
6
23 90
6
6
14 70
6
11 00
6
6
DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND MASTERS.
L. L. Munn I 12t
W. S. Easton | 84
J. C. McMurtry I 161
Wilson Hoag 103
H. C. Clark.
A. A. Murray
Charles Fisher
E. C. Selleek
J. L. McCullough.
C. H. Patton
G. W Barnard ....
56
169
185
263
258
283
12 10
8 40
10 10
10 30
5 60
10 90
18 50
26 30
25 80
28 30
4 I
6 i
6 !
6
6
6
4
6
6
COMMITTEES — JURISPRUDENCE.
DeWitt C. Cregier.
John M. Pearson ..
A. W. Blakesley...
William Lavely
"Wiley M. Ea:an
George O. Ide
R. D. Hammoud.
A. H. Wnoster ...
George Dills
LODGES U. D.
CHARTERED LODGES.
J.C. Smith
C. Kirkpatrick..
W. H. H. Rader.
E. K. Conklin...
\V. II. Eastman .
L. R. Jerome ...
A. W. Blakesley
D. W. Thomson
H. F. Ilolcomb .
H. E. Hamilton
1873.]
GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS.
65
REPORT ON MILEAGE AND PER DIEM — CONTINUED.
APPEALS AND GRIEVANCES.
A. A. Glenn
H. W. Hubbard..
Joseph Holland .
J. W.Clyde ,
Miles H. Wilmot
No.
Miles.
Mileage.
Per
Diem.
Total.
45 50
70 30
56 80
20 00
63 00
8. W. Waddle
D. J. Avery .,
G. M. Evatt ..
MILEAGE AND PER DIEM.
32 60
20 00
46 30
S, Stevens....
W. H. Brown
W. H. Scott..
GENERAL COMMITTEE.
31 90
32 20
55 20
TO EXAMINE VISITORS.
Levi Lusk
George H. Sampson
H. Robinson
D. C. Jones
Thomas J. Wade.. ..
255
104
185
'6i
25 50
10 40
18 50
6 10
15
15
15
15
15
40 50
25 40
33 50
15 00
21 10
J. R. Gorin...
J. C. McCall..
J. V. Thomas.
ON OBITUARIES.
1C9
121
16 90
12 10
9 80
15
15
15
31 90
27 10
24 80
J. D. Crabtree..
A. Wood
A. D. Hutchins.
ON CREDENTIALS.
98
215
36
9 80
21 50
3 60
20
20
20
29 80
41 50
23 60
ON PETITIONS.
A. Sallee
C. Trowbridge.
A. Hearst
J. L.Pratt
136
182
151
60
13 60
13 20
15 10
6 00
20
15
20
20
33 60
28 20
35 10
26 00
ON FINANCE.
Edward Cook I ...
George W. Davis | 249
Daniel Dustin ; 60
24 90
6 00
30
20
30
20 00
44 90
26 00
MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE.
J. O'Niel....
D. A. Cook.
84
8 40
15 00
14 40
r,<;
PROCEEDINGS OF THE
[Oct.
REPORT ON MILEAGE AND PER DIEM — CONTINUED.
REPRESENTATIVES.
NO.
NAMES.
Bodley
Equality
Harmony 3
Springfield 4
Macon 8
Rushville 9
St. John 13
Warren 14
Peoria 15
Temperance 16
Macomb I 17
Clinton 19
Hancock 20
Cass 23
St. Clair 24
Franklin 25
Hiram 26
Piasa 27
Pekin 29
Morning Star 30
Mt. Vernon 31
Oriental 33
Barry 34
Charleston 35
Kavanaugh 36
Monmouth 37
Olive Branch 38
Herman 39
Occidental 40
Mt. Joliet 42
Bloomington 43
Hardin 44
Griggsville 45
Caledonia 47
Unity 48
Cambridge 49
Carrollton 50
Ml. Moriah 51
Benevolent 52
Jackson 53
Reclamation 54
Washington 55
Trio 57
Fraternal 58
New Boston 59
Belvidere 60
Lacon , 61
St. Mark's ■ 63
Benton 64
Knoxville 66
Acacia 67
Naples 68
Social 70
Central 71
Chester 72
Rockton 74
Roscoe 75
Mt. Nebo 76
Prairie 77
Scott 79
J. Shepherd
W. H. Crawford
M. B. V. Glasgow....
P. V. VanNostrand ..
E. D. Carter
J. C. Bagbv
J. G. BeyeV
E. D. Youngblood . . ,
J. F. Hazzard ,
C. W. Higginbotham
A. Eads ,
J. Bennett
VV. R. Hamilton
H. Garm ,
J. Heinzelman
J. Collet
A. Stegall ,
E. T. Hollister
Thos. M. Meacham .
W. P. Tanquary
N. C. Pace
E. Powell
B. McConnell ,
J. E. Curd
Mark Thomas ,
M. Halliday
John P. Norvell.
George Bert ,
Robert Henning.
John Gray ,
B. R. Baughen
F. Keyser
Jason A. Rider
J. F. Lyerly ,
D. L. Zabriskie
F. G. Welton
C. W. Keeley ,
Fred. Bell ,
James Waldo
H. L. Martin
S. W. Gunter
W. S. Hay
E. Allen
H. E. Huston ,
Walter Pryne
C. B. Loop ,
L. C. Rose
L. Church
D. M. Browning
T. Woodmanse
D. B. Gates
John Linkins
M. 3aumand
C. C. Cromwell
James Douglas ,
S. Widdowson
William Kerr
H. Chaffee
R. L. McKinlay
Zopher Case
No.
Miles.
Mileage.
Per
Diem.
Total.
263
$26 30
$6
$32 30
322
32 20
6
38 20
215
21 50
6
27 50
185
18 50
6
24 50
169
16 90
6
22 90
228
22 80
6
28 80
100
10 00
6
16 00
310
31 00
6
37 00
151
15 10
6
21 10
230
23 00
6
29 00
204
20 40
6
26 40
187
18 70
6
24 70
238
23 80
6
29 80
225
22 50
6
28 50
294
29 40
6
35 40
258
25 80
6
31 80
161
16 10
6
22 10
256
25 60
6
31 60
160
16 00
4
20 00
182
18 20
6
24 20
283
28 30
6
34 30
6
6 00
264
26 40
6
32 40
184
18 40
6
24 40
182
18 20
6
24 20
179
17 90
6
23 90
128
12 80
6
18 80
263
26 30
6
32 30
84
8 40
6
14 40
38
3 80
6
9 80
126
12 60
6
IS 60
255
25 50
6
31 50
246
24 60
6
30 60
368
36 80
6
42 80
38
3 80
4
7 80
154
15 40
6
21 4<j
249
24 90
6
30 90
240
24 00
6
30 00
239
23 90
6
29 90
196
19 60
6
25 60
239
23 90
6
29 90
278
27 80
6
33 80
162
16 20
6
22 20
148
14 80
6
20 SO
191
19 10
6
25 10
78
7 80
6
13 80
128
12 SO
6
18 80
51
5 10
6
11 10
306
30 60
6
36 60
169
16 90
6
22 90
99
9 90
6
15 90
236
23 60
6
29 60
118
11 80
6
17 80
185
18 50
6
24 50
321
32 10
6
38 10
91
9 10
6
15 10
85
8 50
6
14 50
333
22 30
6
28 30
164
16 40
6
22 40
261
26 10
6
32 10
1873.]
GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS.
67
REPORT ON MILEAGE AND PER DIEM— CONTINUED.
Whitehall
Vitruvius
Metamora
DeWitt
Mitchell
Kaskaskia
Mt. Pulaski
Havana
Fellowship ....
Jerusalem Temple.
Metropolis
Stewart j 92
Toulon j 93
Perry 95
Sam'l H. Davis \ 90
Excelsior i 97
Taylor
Edwardsviile .
Astoria
Rockford
Magnolia
Lewistown
Winchester . . .
Versailles
Trenton
Jonesboro
Bureau
Robert Burns.
Rising Sun
Vermont
Elgin
Waverly
Heury
Mound
Oquawka
Cedar
Greenup
Raleigh
Greenfield
Golconda
Mackinaw
Marshall
Sycamore
Lima
Hutsonville .. .
Folk
Marengo
Geneva
Olney
Garden City . . .
Ames
Richmond
DeKalb
A. W. Kawson.
Lee Cenlre
Clayton
Bloomfleld .. .
Effingham
Vienna
Bunker Hill...
W. P. Worcester.
J. A. Mason
J. W. Page
E. Sylvester
Thos. Bovd
G. W.Staley
J. Weckel
A.T. Beck
E. H. Bishop
James Walker..,
J. R. Thomas....
S.Kendall
Geo. Bradley.. . .
D. L. Freeman.. .
H.I. Little
J. R. Perkins....
W. T.Griffith....
John Hobson
W. H. EmersoD..
Seeley Perry
S. B.Mitchell
C. Fisher
C. B. Hubbard...
Jeptha Wilson . . ,
James Wilson . .
John Dougherty.
Geo. Welch
Sam'l Kelly
E.J. Tower
J.Kimble
G. W. Renwick..
T. J. Davidson .. .
Jas. G.Hall
A.S.Rockwell...
J. R.White
L. P. Lott
T. C. Tutewiler..
L. H. Adams
E. Woolley
J. B. Young
Daniel Beckley ..
G. W. Laingor. ..
A. S. Babcock
J. W. Shaw
J. R. Hurst
J. C.Hall
J. B. Babcock
A. W. Adams
G. D. Slanker.. ..
J.Butler
J. L. Morgan
C. G. Cotting
D. D. Hunt
O. C. Towne
R. B. Eviits
L. Slocum
J. S. Hartley....
T. A. Brown
H. T. Bridges....
John Patrick
No.
Miles
240
25
137
148
299
3*7
168
191
326
38
402
159
144
251
97
121
140
264
218
93
122
196
235
246
278
330
105
194
47
211
42
218
127
201
202
61
223
306
252
364
146
200
60
267
224
289
66
36
258
Mileage.
$24 00
2 50
13 70
14 80
29 90
32 70
16 80
19 10
32 60
3 80
40 20
15 90
14 40
25 10
9 70
12 10
14 00
26 40
21 80
9 30
12 20
19 60
23 50
24 60
27 80
33 00
10 50
19 40
4 70
21 10
4 20
21 80
12 70
20 10
20 20
6 10
22 30
30 60
25 20
36 40
14 60
20 00
6 00
26 70
22 40
28 90
6 60
3 60
25 80
Per
Diem
136
13 60
60-
6 00
58
5 80
107
10 70
95
9 50
2-12
24 20
154
15 40
199
19 90
345
34 50
253
25 30
$6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
4
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
4
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
Total.
30 00
8 50
19 70
20 80
35 90
38 70
22 80
25 10
38 60
9 80
46 20
21 90
20 40
31 10
15 70
18 10
20 00
32 40
25 80
15 30
18 20
25 60
29 50
30 60
33 80
39 00
16 50
25 40
10 70
27 10
10 20
27 80
16 70
26 10
26 20
12 10
28 30
36 60
31 20
42 40
20 60
26 00
12 00
32 70
28 40
34 90
12 60
9 60
31 SO
6 00
19 60
12 00
11 80
14 70
15 50
30 20
21 40
25 90
40 50
31 30
6S
PROCEEDINGS OF THE
[Oct.
REPORT ON MILEAGE AND PER DIEM — CONTINUED.
No.
Miles.
Fidelity 152 J. H. McGriff
Clay Il53 N. R. Wheat
Russell 154 W.C. Cowan
Alpha 155 ! R. Page
Delavan 156 T. Van Hague
Urbana 1.57 A. P. Cunningham .
McIIenry 158 O. W. Owen
Waubansia 160 J. C. Howell
Virden 161 Wm. Steed
Hope 162 W. P. Askins
Westfield 1 168 Chas. Downey
Edward Dobbins |164!A. Lewis
Atlanta 165 C. H. Ormsby
Star in the East )l66 B. A. Weber
Milford il68!T. Loveless
Nunda 169 A. Snow
Evergreen 170 D. Bungye
Girard 171J. D. Metcalf
Cherry Valley 173 W. F. Ackerly . ,
Lena 1 174 Wni. Hays ,
Matteson 175! R. S. Brown
Illinois Central 178 M. B. McGarey ..,
Wabash 179 R. B. Tate
Mo weaqua 180 B. Scarlett
Moultrie 181 A. N. Smyser
Germania |182 F.W. Hild
Meridian 183 M. M. Morse ....
Abingdon 185 J. W. Butler
Mystic Tie ' 187 S.W.Clark
Cyrus 188 E. T. E. Becker. .
Fnlton City 189 E F. Gage
Farmington 193 T. S. Geutle
Hcrrick |193 M. Waldenmeyer
Freedom 194
Lallarpe il95
Louisville 196
King Solomon's 197
Grandview 198
Homer 199
Sheba 200
Centralia 201
Lavely 203
Flora 204
Corinthian 205
Fairfield 206
Tamaroa 207
Wilmington 808
Wm. B.Warren 809
Lincoln 210
Cleveland 811
Shipman '212
Ipava 813
Gillespie 1214
Newton ,216
Mason 217
New Salem 218
Oakland 219
LeRoy 831
George Washington . . . 222
Kceney !223
Wm. Pool.
R. Sutton
C. W. Apperson...
J. M. Perry
G. A. Gilbert
W. A. Conkey
G. R. Jones
M. H. Monkhouse.
N. R. Taylor
M. Law
H. S. Dickinson.. .
H. V. Leach
R. H. Nicholson..
L. A. Baker
C. H. Shattuck...
J.W. Spellman...
John Whitley
J. W. Christopher.
J. Beers
T. W. Floyd
G. H. Shup
H. B.Turner
John Andrew
John Rutherford.
M. S. Stout
C. W. Carroll
B. F. Seaver
256
267
138
1(54
157
130
51
206
310
198
250
146
93
93
43
121
210
84
134
27
100
179
185
185
*74
173
111
149
136
171
226
71
■1 16
229
257
172
148
282
253
173
237
82
257
280
53
157
238
206
244
885
212
254
173
128
142
175
Mileage.
|85 60
86 70
13 so
16 40
15 70
13 00
5 10
20 60
31 00
19 80
25 00
14 60
9 30
9 30
4 30
12 10
21 00
8 40
13 40
2 70
10 00
17 90
18 50
18 50
7 40
17 30
11 10
14 90
13 60
17 10
22 60
7 10
21 60
33 90
25 70
17 20
14 80
28 20
25 80
17 30
23 70
8 20
25 70
28 00
5 30
15 70
23 SO
20 60
24 40
22 50
21 20
25 40
17 30
12 80
14 20
17 50
Per
Diem.
Total.
$6
6
6
6
6
4
6
6
6
6
6
6
4
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
4
6
6
6
6
6
6
4
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6 I
6
6
fi
6 I
6 i
6 |
!
6
6
6
t
6
o
6
6
6
6
6
6
$31 60
32 70
19 80
22 40
81 70
17 00
11 10
6 00
26 60
87 00
25 so
31 00
is 60
15 30
15 80
10 30
18 lo
'37 00
14 40
19 40
6 70
16 00
23 90
24 50
24 50
6 00
13 40
21 30
17 10
20 90
19 60
23 10
28 60
13 10
27 60
28 90
31 70
23 20
20 80
34 20
31 30
23 30
29 70
14 20
31 70
34 00
11 80
6 00
19 70
4 00
•2'. I 80
22 60
30 40
28 50
27 20
31 40
23 30
18 80
20 20
23 50
1873.]
GRA.ND LODGE OF ILLINOIS.
69
REPORT OF MILEAGE AND PER DIEM — CONTINUED.
Pana 226
Columbus 227
Lovington 228
Wyanet 231
Farmer's J232
Blandinsville i233
DuQuoin 234
Dallas City 235
Charter Oak 230
Cairo 237
Black Hawk 238
Mb. Carmel ,239
Western Star 240
Shekinah 241
Galva 243
Horican
Greenville
El Paso
Rob. Morris. ..
Golden Gate..
Hibbard ,
Robinson
Hey worth
Aledo
Avon Harmony
Aurora
Donnelson
Algonquin
Chemung
Mattoon ,
Amon
Channahan
Illinois
Franklin Grove
Vermilion
Kingston
La Prairie
Paris
Wheaton
Levi Lusk
Blaney
Carmi
Byron
Milton
Elizabeth
Accordia
Jo Daviess
Neoga
Kansas 280
Brooklyn 82
Meteor 283
Alton 284
Catlin 285
Plymouth 28(1
Cache 290
Wataga 291
Chenoa 292
Prophetstown 293
Pontiac 294
Dills 295
244
245
240
247
248
249
250
251
252
253
251
255
256
258
260
201
202
203
264
265
266
267
268
269
270
271
272
274
275
270
277
278
J. C. Overholt
William E. Gilliland.
W.G.Cochran
T. C. Robinson
H. Rehlmier
A.J.O'Neil
J. Wessmore
B.Meudenhall
F. M. Stratton
John McEwan
H.J. Mack
J. Zimmerman
Charles E. Baker
J. H. Crandall
J. L. Finley
D. A. Baxter
J.C. Gerrichs
J. H. Miller
M. A. Cushing
G. W. Hamilton
T. L. Keas
W.C.Jones
Nathan Low
George P. Graham. . .
W. B.Stoddard
William B. Barnes. . .
B. F. McLain
John Peter
W. G. Billings
John F. Lawson
Wm. G. Page ,
J. T. Randall
Wm. Rounseville. . . .
Henry A. Black
J. B. McHaffie ,
C. M. Grammer
R. H. Bacon
J. E. Dyas
J. L. Wheat
M. D. Paxson
Chas. W. Day
J. I. McClintock
J. C. Davis
N. Michael
J. Q. A. Ledbetter. . .
R. C. Feldkamp
A. C. Schadle
S. F. Wilson
Cyrus Stout
W. W. Gil more
Van R. David
H. O. Billings
G.W.Tilton
J. A. Ross
J. A. Wangh
W. H.Wood
Louis Zeigler
John C. Paddock
A.W. Cowan
O.J. Reece
No.
Miles,
202
247
170
112
413
210
289
223
234
365
242
242
128
308
140
75
248
118
115
187
245
234
138
177
184
38
249
48
66
173
139
55
151
88
140
269
234
164
25
92
287
107
258
340
145
185
177
95
57
256
134
223
360
156
103
129
92
259
Per
Mileage.
Diem
$20 20
$6
24 70
6
17 00
6
11 20
6
41 30
6
21 00
6
28 90
6
22 30
6
23 40
6
36 50
6
24 20
6
24 20
6
12 80
6
30 80
6
14 00
6
7 50
6
24 80
6
11 80
6
11 50
4
18 70
6
24 50
6
23 40
6
13 80
6
17 70
6
18 40
6
3 80
6
24 90
0)
4 80
6
6 60
6
17 30
6
13 90
6
5 50
6
15 10
6
8 SO
o.
14 00
6
26 90
6
23 40
6
16 40
6
2 50
0)
9 20
4
6
28 70
6
10 70
0)
25 80
(i
34 00
6
6
14 50
0
18 50
(5
17 70
0
9 50
6
5 70
0
25 60
6
13 40
6
22 30
6
36 00
6
15 60
6
10 30
6
12 90
6
9 20
6
25 90
6
Total.
$26 20
30 70
23 00
17 20
47 30
27 00
34 90
28 30
29 40
42 50
30 20
30 20
18 80
36 80
20 00
13 50
30 80
17 80
15 50
24 70
30 50
29 40
19 80
23 70
24 40
0 so
30 oo
10 80
12 00
23 oo
19 90
11 50
21 10
14 80
20 00
32 90
29 40
22 40
8 50
13 20
6 00
34 70
16 70
31 80
40 00
6 00
20 50
24 50
23 70
15 50
11 70
31 60
19 40
28 30
42 00
21 00
16 30
18 90
15 20
31 90
70
PROCEEDINGS OF THE
[Oct.
REPORT ON MILEAGE AND PER DIEM — CONTINUED.
Quincy
Benjamin
Waconda
Mechaniesburg.
Hanover
Cortland
Raven
Cement
Onarga
W. C. Hobbs ...
T. J. Pickett.. .
Ashlar
Harvard
Dearborn
Ionic
York
Palatine
Erwin
Abraham Jonas.
J. L. Anderson..
Doric
Dunlap
Windsor
Orient
Karrisburg
Industry
Grafton
Altona
Tuscola
Tyrian
Sumner
Schiller
New Columbia. .
Oneida
Grand Detour. .
Saline
Full Moon
Summerfield
WenoDa
Milledgeville .. .
N. D. Morse ....
896
297
3! 18
299
300
301
303
304
305
306
307
308
No.
Miles
E. S. Mulliner 263
G.W.Cyrus 242
D. Huntington 40
William McNeil 199
A.Reynolds ] 186
S. Crossette.
A. B. Smith
H. W. Higby
E. Doolittle
N. B. Crawford
D.D.Pierce
Enos Brown
309 J. W. Grosbeck .
H. S. Tobey ....
R. C. Crocker...
J. A. Rariden...
H. D. Caddwell.
F. W. Ivesting. .
W. H. Bradley..
55
42
04
85
133
192
63
169
213
36
256
99
D. H. Swisegood i 227
G.L.Cromwell 165
George H. Fay 124
Thomas Gavins 185
J.F.Moore 69
J. F. Conover i 306
G.H.Reynolds | 214
F.J. Glazier j 55
J. A. Florentine 148
332: W. F. Bromfield ' 150
333 Frank Hudson, Jr 185
334 T. M. Stevens ! 260
335 J. Korsosky 151
336JS. A. Cummins I 358
337 J. Wallace 152
338' James Rogers 104
339 H. J. Huggins j 351
341 C. Brainard 2T6
342 C. O. Hodgdon 383
344 O. M. Southwell ; 109
345 L. C. Belding, Jr j 125
"546 J. S. True ! 229
347! S.France.
Sidney
Russellville 348 J. Mickey
Sublette 349! J. A. Hodges
Fairview 350 J. B. Negley
Tarbolton :-5l N. T. P. Robertson . . .
Kinderhook 353 William G. Smith
Ark and Anchor 354 D. D. Martin
Marine 355 Jacob Wentz
Hermitage 356 A. B. Mathews
Orion 358 William M. Jackson. .
Blackberry 359iC. Spaulding
Princeville 360j William Simpson .
Douglas 361;C. Lischer
Noble J362 J. F. Palmer
Iloreb |363:H. Steele.
Tonica .
Bement
Areola.
364' E.W. Wood. ..
365 W. A.Pierce...
366 George Klink..
Oxford 367 S. B. Shumway
147
336
92
184
H4
270
200
2V2
245
58
44
147
305
250
163
109
154
158
161
Mileage.
26 30
24 20
4 00
19 90
18 60
5 50
4 20
9 40
8 50
13 20
19 20
6 30
16'90
21 30
2 60
25 60
9 90
22 70
16 50
12 40
18 50
6 90
30 60
21 40
5 50
14 80
15 00
18 50
26 00
15 10
35 80
15 20
10 40
35 10
27 60
28 20
10 90
12 50
22 90
14 70
23 60
9 20
15 40
10 40
27 00
20 00
27 20
24 50
5 80
4 40
14 70
30 50
25 00
16 30
10 90
15 40
15 80
16 10
Per
Diem
1873.]
GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS.
71
REPORT ON MILEAGE AND PER DIEM — CONTINUED.
LODGE.
NO
368
369
370
371
372
373
374
375
377
379
3S0
3&2
383
384
386
387
389
390
391
392
393
394
395
397
398
399
400
401
402
403
404
405
408
409
410
412
415
416
417
418
419
421
422
423
424
425
426
428
429
430
431
432
433
434
435
436
437
438
439
440
NAMES.
No.
Miles.
Mileage.
Per
Diem
Total.
Jefferson
Russell Brown
294
166
282
74
164
244
73
125
294
275
280
224
93
96
254
197
56
192
137
209
262
137
91
230
118
168
82
65
171
38
219
171
...
137
142
103
76
302
337
128
i42
230
49
242
53
65
248
182
226
146
316
124
158
263
156
$29 40
16 60
28 20
7 40
16 40
24 40
7 30
12 50
29 40
27 50
28 00
22 40
9 30
9 60
25 40
19 70
5 60
19 20
13 70
20 90
26 20
13 70
9 10
23 00
11 80
16 80
8 20
6 50
17 10
3 80
21 90
17 10
13 70
14 20
10 30
7 60
30 20
33 70
12 80
14 20
23 00
4 90
24 20
5 30
6 50
24 80
15 20
22 60
14 60
31 60
12 40
15 80
26 30
15 60
$6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
4
6
6
6
4
6
6
6
$35 40
Newman
D. O. Root
A. R. Robinson.
H. A. Kenyon
22 60
Livingston
34 20
13 40
Shabbona
G. Clough
Oscar Dennis
22 40
30 40
G. M. Alexander
P. C. Ransom
13 30
Isaac Underhill
18 50
Archimedes
F.J. Stanfenbeil
J. B. Peck
M. L. Roe
35 90
Payson
33 50
Gill
Waltham
34 00
W. B. Cuthbertson
28 40
15 30
15 60
Bridgeport
31 40
Youngstown
W. W. Shoop
Rodney Ashley
A. T. Darrah
25 70
Kankakee
11 60
Ashmore
25 20
Tolono
19 70
James Slater
26 90
Blair
H. Schofield
J. Gallagher
6 00
Jersey ville
32 20
H. G. Reynolds
Shiloh
G. W. Bennett
Lewis Miller
19 70
15 10
Kinmundy
W. R. Hubbard
G. H. Fuller
John W. Semple
H. R. Fuller
29 00
Buda
17 80
Pacific
22 80
Odell
14 20
Kishwaukee
12 50
Thos. J. Turner
Bollen
Lawn Ridge
S. M. Badger
Thos. Meredith
H. B. McNight
G. C. Smith
Thomas Bollen
Robert Will
23 10
9 80
27 90
23 10
6 00
6 00
19 70
20 20
Paxton
B. F. Mason
16 30
Freeburg
H. K. Waite
A. Woods
13 60
36 20
Washburn
J. P. Woodside
T. C. Clark
39 70
18 80
Landmark
6 00
R. P. Wales
J. B. Gillham
20 20
Exeter
29 00
S. Benton
10 90
Sunbeam
A. Conklin
30 20
11 30
J. H. Sands..
Wm. T. Hobbs
A. W. Allen
12 50
30 SO
24 20
J. B. Beadles
28 60
Hugh White
18 60
Makanda
J. E. Springer
37 60
Philo
W. Fleming
18 40
21 SO
H. W. Bigelow
B. T. Smith
A. Salisbury
4 00
6 00
32 30
21 60
72
PROCEEDINGS OF THE
[Oct.
REPORT ON MILEAGE AND PER DIEM — CONTINUED.
Sparlaud 441
Casey 442
Hampshire 443
Cave-in-Rock 444
Chesterfield 445
Watseka 440
S.D.Monroe 447
Yates City 448
Mendon 449
Loarni 450
Grant 452
MEaroa 454
Irving 455
Nokomis 456|
Moscow 457 ;
Blazing Star 458
Butler 459
Jeffersonville 4110,
Denver 404]
Cobden 400
South Macon 407
Cheney's Grove 408
McLean 409
Amity 472 i
Gordon 473
Walsh ville 475
Manito 470
New Rutland 477
Pleiades 478
Wyoming 479
Logan 480
Momence 481
Lexington 482
Oskaloosa 485
Bowen 486
Andrew Jackson 487
Clay City 488
Cooper 489
Shannon 490
Martin 491
Liberty ville 492
Tower Hill 493
Bath 494
Stone Fort 495
Tennessee 496
Alma 497
Murphysboro 498
Mt. Zion 499
Saint Paul 500
Stark 501
Woodhull 502
Odin 503
East St. Louis 504
Meridian Sun 1 505
(). II. Miner |500
508
509
.-.ID
512
513
Home
Farkersburg. .
J. D. Moody . .
Wade Barney
Cald Spring.. .
T. E. Gapin
T. F. Gilliland...
N.S.Carlisle
John Tyre
H. J. Loomis
T. S. Arnold
Geo. Conover . . .
G. W. Pierce
D. B. Cook
J. M. Turpin
J. H. Askins
Joseph Jones. ..
H. C. Smith
Geo. Sippell
H. W. Mercer...
II. M. Parks
Thos. Ellimane..
J. P. Johnson. ...
T. M. Orton
Henry Ede
E. D. Cole
P. H. Hiatt
H. W. Wood
F. F. Loveland...
W. C. Harned . . .
W. J. Gorline
F. Knollhoff
W. S. Wayman.. .
W. (J. Godman...
T. W. Bloomer..
F. S. Sellez
W. D. Lane
A. B. Davidson ..
A. Pickthall
J. J. Evans
G. C. Ross
R. E. Duff
J.B. McNair
J. Mastin
J. M. Daggitt . . .
A.H.Webb
B. L. Addington.
T. P. Renshaw...
Wm. R. Mizell . .
J. W. Aiken
Jos. Steele
R. J. Young
A.Pierce
J. F. McNeil
E.G.Hill
W. A. Frazer
T. J. Whitehead.
Anson Gustin . . .
E. P. Allen
J. H. Donavan. .
Wm. Aldrich
Wm. Williamson
J. A. Irwin
B. P. Marsh
E. A. McCrackeu
No.
Miles.
L36
218
55
330
233
82
25 i
105
205
203
203
150
234
224
340
332
243
252
247
323
179
120
141
30
258
248
173
125
i38
157
54
110
233
242
338
244
233
135
187
36
212
200
319
212
300
310
175
185
140
154
244
280
86
89
268
259
120
210
Mileage.
$13 60
21 80
5 50
33 00
23 30
8 20
25 20
16 50
26 50
20 30
26 30
15 60
23 40
22 40
34 60
33 20
24 30
25 20
24 70
32 20
17 90
12 00
14 10
3 00
25 80
24 80
17 30
12 50
13 80
15 70
5 40
11 00
23 30
24 20
33 80
24 40
23 30
13 50
18 70
3 60
21 20
20 00
31 90
21 20
30 00
31 00
17 50
18 50
14 00
15 40
24 40
28 00
8 00
8 90
20 80
25 90
12 00
21 00
Per
Diem.
Total.
$6
$19 6
6
27 8
6
11 5
6
39 0
6
29 3
6
14 2
6
31 2
6
22 5
6
32 5
6
20 3
6
32 3
6
21 0
6
29 4
6
28 4
6
40 0
6
39 2
0
30 3
0
31 2
6
30 7
6
38 3
6
23 9
6
18 0
6
20 1
6
9 O
6
31 8
6
30 8
6
23 3
6
18 5
6
0 (.
0
19 8
4
19 7
6
11 4
6
17 0
6
29 3
6
30 2
6
39 8
6
30 4
6
29 3
0
19 5
6
24 7
6
9 0
6
27 2
6
20 0
6
37 9
6
27 2
6
34 6
6
37 0
6
23 a
6
24 5
6
20 6
4
19 4
0
30 4<
6
34 0i
2
10 6
6
14 9
6
6 0
6
32 8
6
31 9
6
18 61
6
27 0
1873.]
GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS.
73
REPORT ON MILEAGE AND PER DIEM — CONTINUED.
Bradford 514
Dement 515
Andalusia 516
Litchfield 1517
A. Lincoln [518
Roseville 519
Anna ;520
Illiopolis J 521
Evanston 521
Delia |525
Covenant 526
Minooka 528
Adams 529
530
531
532
533
Maquou
Ashton
Seneca
Freemanton
Sherman [535
Plainfield 536
J. R. Gorin 1537
Lockport '538
Chatsworth J539JN.C. Kenyon
Sigel 541 E. Houchins.
Cordova 543 V. O. Wilcox
A. B.Abbott
V. M. Southgate. . .
F. M. Boney
F. R. Milnor
George N. Carr
I. S. Ratekin
Asa Harman
John P. Cowden
Charles Raymond...
Andrew Wiles
S. M.Henderson
G. Dahlen
Oscar Wagy
J. L. Burkhalter. . . .
Eri Bates
Charles O.Thomas..
I. P. Carpenter
W. A. Griffin
E. McAllister
W. H. Brown
J. C. Backus
Virginia 544
Valley !547
Apple River 1.548
Sharon 550
Darwin
Ancona
Kyle
Plum River.
Humboldt .
Dawson
Leland
Thomson.. .
Madison
Trinity ■
Villa Ridjre .
L. P. R. Yaple.
P.J.Pratt
M. Maynard. . .
J.H.Welsh....
B.Francis
Ira D. Bullock.
J. M. Keefer. ..
H.Tyrrell
Henry Koch.
A. F. Thompson...
George F. Watson .
G. W. Sweet
B. H. Hill
O. D. Wilcox
J. W. Mott
O. B.Hamilton...
J.H. South
Hamilton 563
Pleasant Hill 565 .
Albany 566|H. M. Booth
Delta 568 Hiram Bixby
Jacksonville 570 8. M.Martin
Bardolph 572 N. H. Jackson
Gardner 573 C.K. Charlton
Pera 574 J. M. C. Reed
Capron 1575 George H. Merrill.
O' Fallon [576B. J. Van Court . . .
Viola 577 J. B. Longley
Prairie City 1578 William E. Lake . . .
Hazel Dell 580. T. F. Kelley
Dougola !581!H. Mowery
Shirley 582 T. D. Hartsou
Highland 583 Louis Appel
Vesper ] 584 j 0. F. Price
Fisher 585 J. W. Hartsock
Tazewell J586J John Carr
Princeton 587; A. S. Chapman
Troy 5881 Samuel Rawson. ..
10
Miles.
129
70
170
234
186
191
328
188
12
213
'51
279
172
84
71
210
180
41
142
32
97
191
152
212
172
151
122
214
100
204
144
84
196
67
143
236
179
353
272
265
143
365
215
197
63
109
70
291
168
199
231
339
133
267
164
210
157
105
280
Mileage.
$12 90
7 00
17 00
23 40
18 60
19 10
32 80
18 80
1 20
21 30
5 10
27 90
17 20
8 40
7 10
21 00
18 00
4 10
14 20
3 20
9 70
19 10
15 20
21 20
17 20
15 10
12 20
21 40
10 00
20 40
14 40
8 40
19 60
6 60
14 30
23 60
17 90
35 3>
27 20
26 50
14 30
36 50
21 50
19 70
6 30
10 90
7 00
29 10
16 80
19 90
23 10
33 90
13 30
26 70
16 40
21 00
15 70
10 50
28 00
Per
Diem.
Total.
$1S 90
13 00
23 00
29 40
24 00
25 10
38 80
24 80
7 20
27 30
4 00
11 10
33 90
23 20
14 40
13 10
27 00
24 00
8 10
20 20
9 20
15 70
25 10
21 20
27 20
23 20
21 10
18 20
27 40
16 00
26 40
20 40
14 40
25 60
12 70
20 30
29 60
23 90
41 30
33 20
32 50
20 30
42 50
27 50
25 70
12 30
16 90
13 00
35 10
22 80
25 90
29 10
39 90
19 30
32 70
22 40
27 00
21 70
16 50
34 00
74
PROCEEDINGS OF THE
[Oct.
REPORT ON MILEAGE AND PER DIEM — CONTINUED.
El wood 589
Gilinan 591
Fieldon 592
Lodi 594
Miles Hart 595
National 596
Lostant (597
Fowler 599
Cerro Gordo 600
Laclede 1 601
Watson 602
Clark J603
Hebron [604
Allen 605
Wapella
Piper
Sheldon
Union Park. .
Patoka
Forrest
Anchor
Wadley
Milan
Basco
Berwick
New Hope —
Venice
Dubois
Melrose
Union
Tuscan
Ridge Farm . .
Buckley
Rochester
Peotone
Burlington . . ,
Fortitude
Keystone
Coleta
Comet
Apollo
D. C. Cregier.
San Jose
Somonauk —
Blueville
Camden
Hinsdale
Irvington
Polar Star
Greenview.
C. Elkin
E. Weugcr
K. I". Brown
E. P. Robertson..
11. B. Worley....
A.J. Guilford
J. McManus
J.S. McClellan...
Eli Drum
S. M. Gentry
S. T. Hillie.
John A. Ewalt..
D. A. Clary
W. M. Haues ....
606 E. F. Swift
608 R. A.Pope
609 Chas. Mantor
610 G. P. Randall . . .
618 James Simcox ..
614 M. H. Moulton . .
615 J. S. Townsend. .
616 Wm. P. Hart...
617 J. S. Wallin
618 A. J. Davis
619 L. Giddings
620 T. L. Orendorff. .
621 John Braden
624 L. Bunce
625 L#D. McClure...
627 Edwin Wiggs...
630 J. W. Davis
632 1 Jonah Hole
634 J. G. McClave ..
635 Carter Tracey . . .
636 Charles Gates. . .
637 A. J. Mann
638 A. McFarland...
639 E. Ronayne
640 E. Brookfield . . .
641 Fred. Ley
642 G. N.Houghton
Woodford 654
Mozart 656
Lafayette 657
Rock Island 658
Lambert 659
Grand Chain 660
Bethesda 661
South Park 662
Phoenix 663 George B. Slack
Mayo 664'a. M. Clark
C. II. Plants
D. G. Cunningham
C. E. Wright'
W. T. Houston ....
E.B. West
D. A. Courter
E. Milton
William J. Moyers ,
George S. Wade .. .
James Thompson . .
H. Hohnscheidt .. .
F. Baionowsky
M. T. Wiser
George V. Bristol . .
J . Bartleson
H. L. Terpening. . .
John Middleton . . .
No.
Miles.
164
SI
272
51
183
115
252
163
210
206
211
73
138
144
91
91
245
102
171
224
200
246
189
200
277
274
213
339
300
144
93
193
40
57
198
123
143
162
60
203
239
18
259
298
179
118
126
836
162
263
362
118
6
177
212
Mileage.
Per
Diem.
$16 40
$6
8 10
6
27 20
6
5 10
4
18 30
6
4
11 50
6
25 20
0
L6 30
6
21 00
6
20 (JO
6
21 10
6
7 30
6
13 80
6
14 40
6
9 10
0
9 10
6
6
24 50
6
10 20
6
17 10
6
22 40
6
20 00
6
24 60
6
18 90
6
20 00
6
27 70
6
27 40
6
21 30
6
33 90
6
30 00
6
14 40
6
9 30
6
19 30
6
4 00
6
5 70
0
19 80
6
6
12 30
6
14 30
6
6
6
16 20
6
ti 00
6
20 30
6
23 90
6
1 80
6
25 90
6
29 80
6
17 90
6
11 so
4
12 60
6
33 60
6
16 20
6
26 80
6
36 20
6
11 80
6
00
6
17 70
6
21 20
6
1873.]
GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS.
75
REPORT ON MILEAGE AND PER DIEM — CONTINUED.
Greenland 665
Crawford 6G6
Erie 667
Burnt Prairie 668
Herder 669
Fillmore 670
Farina 671
Eddyville 672
Normal 673
Waldeck 674
Pawnee 675
A. O. Fay
Enfield..
Sheffield
George W. Spurgin
S. 11. Newlin
A. McLain
W. R. Wheeler
J. Hammel ,
E. H. Donaldson....
W.L.Arnold
J. W. King
A. F. Dickinson
F. Lehrkamp
G. C. Drennan
676! E. B. Rambo
677 A. M. McClain
678 A. Bowman
Illinois City i679iL. V. Reed
Clement kiSO, George D.Gove.. .
Morrisonville 681 J. P. Stark
No.
Miles.
220
215
133
272
2si
224
380
124
203
23
277
257
182
170
214
Blue Mound 682 IT. Gough | 184
>urnside 683
Galatia.
Rio
Orangeville
Clifton
684
685
687
688
Advance i689
Englewood |690JG. W. Carson.
Iola 691 1 William J. Moore.
Raymond 692'Edward Grimes...
Herrin's Prairie 693 D. R. Harrison
C. H.Phelps.
J. Hooks
Robert Deatheraj
B. H. Bradshaw..
T. Barham
N. Flansberg.
Centre 694
Shiloh Hill 695
Belle Rive 696 _.
Hutton 698! C. P. Rosencrans.
S. W. Bird.
I. Barrow.
C. S. Todd.
22(3
311
165
124
69
140
7
221
222
328
202
300
294
191
Mileage.
Per
Dietn.
$22 00
$6
21 50
6
13 30
6
27 20
6
6
23 10
6
22 40
6
38 00
6
12 40
6
6
20 30
6
2 30
6
27 70
4
25 70
6
18 20
6
17 00
6 j
21 40
6 !
18 40
6
22 60
6
31 10
6
16 50
6
12 40
6
6 90
6
14 00
6
70
6
22 10
6
22 20
6
32 80
6
20 20
6
30 00
6
29 40
6
19 10
6
Total.
$28 00
27 50
19 30
33 20
6 00
29 10
28 40
44 00
18 40
6 00
26 30
8 30
31 70
31 70
24 20
23 00
27 40
24 40
28 60
37 10
22 50
18 40
12 90
20 00
6 70
28 10
28 20
38 80
26 20
36 00
35 40
25 10
The report was received and adopted, and permission granted
to the committee to make corrections.
76 PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Oct.
RESOLUTION.
W. Bro. Avery (411) offered the following resolution, which
was adopted:
Jiesolved. That a committee consisting of three members of this Grand Lodge be
appointed to collect and properly arrange for publication, with a suitable and
convenient index thereto, the decisions of the Grand Masters of this Grand
Jurisdiction which are now in force and recognized as law in this jurisdiction, and
furnish the same to the Grand Secretary in time to be published with the
proceedings of this Grand Communication ; and that the same be printed, bound
and distributed among the Lodges with said proceedings.
Brethren D. J. Avert, (411) D. C. Cregier (271) and the
Grand Secretary, were appointed said committee.
CALLED OFF.
At 12.30 o'clock, the Grand Lodge was called from labor to
refreshment.
SECOND DAY— Afternoon Session.
Wednesday, Oct. 8, 1873, )
Two o'clock, P. M.j f
The Grand Lodge was called from refreshment to labor, M.
W. Bro. James A. Hawlet, Grand Master, presiding.
REPORT— Finance Committee.
The Committee on Finance submitted the following report,
which was adopted :
To the M. W. Grand Lodge A. F. <& A. M. of the State of Illinois :
Your committee, to whom were referred the accounts of the M. W. Grand
Master, the Grand Treasurer and the Grand Secretary, would respectfully report :
First. That during the past year the M. W. Grand Master has received
For 60 dispensations at $5 00 $300 00
For 49 dispensations at $2 00 98 00
Total $398 00
Which amount has been paid to the Grand Secretary, as per receipt now in our
hands.
The fees for dispensations to form new Lodges have been paid to the Grand
Secretary and appear in his account.
We find that the Grand Master has expended for stationery, postage, express
charges, and other necessary expenses incident to his office, the sum of $227.62, as
per itemized bill hereto attached, the same being accompanied with proper
vouchers.
Your committee would therefore recommend that an order for $227.62 be drawn
in favor of M. W. Bro. Jas. A. Hawlet, to reimburse him for said expenditures.
We find the papers, vouchers and accounts of the M. W. Grand Master in neat,
accurate and business-like shape, much facilitating the labors of the committee, and
deserving our highest commendation .
1873.] GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS. 77
Second. Tour committee have examined the accounts of theJGrand Treasurer
and find that he had in his hands, as per report of Finance Committee at the last
Annual Communication,
In cash value of U. S. honds and in currency $7,588 60
That he received from Grand Secretary, Oct. 1872 30,662 95
He has credited for interest on honds 169 02
And has received for loan repaid by Grand Commandery $2,500 00
Interest 250 00
; 2,750 00
Making a total of $41,170 57
He has disbursed, as per paid orders now in the hands of your committee, the
following sums, viz. :
On account of mileage and per diem, orders of 1869 $995 00
On account of mileage and per diem, orders of 1871 149 80
On account of mileage and per diem, orders of 1872 13,909 70
For salary of Grand Master year ending October, 1872 1,500 00
On account of salary Grand Secretary year ending October, 1872 1,000 00
On account of salary Grand Master, past year 1,250 00
On account of salary Grand Secretary, past year 2,566 67
On account of loan to Grand Commandery 2,500 00
On account of dues refunded, as per vote Grand Communication of 1868.. 27 00
On account of dues refunded, as per vote Grand Communication of 1869.. 55 50
H. G. Reynolds, Jr., printing, order of 1869 52 45
On account of special orders passed in 1869 218 50
On account of special orders passed in 1870 26 80
On account of special orders passed in 1872 4,459 59
On account of charity voted in 1872 116 50
On account of orders approved by Auditing Committee past year 1,793 40
Total disbursements $30,620 91
Leaving a balance on hand of $10,549 91
Or cash $7,737 16
United States bonds $2,500 00
Premium 312 50
2,812 50
$10,549 66
Your committee would recommend that the Grand Treasurer be paid one per
cent, of $30,620.91, the disbursements of the past year, and that an order for $306.20
be drawn in his favor for that purpose.
We would also recommend that an order be drawn in favor of the Grand Treasurer
for $49, to reimburse him for incidental expenses of his office for the years 1870,
1871, 1872 and 1873, as per itemized bill hereto attached.
We would again renew the recommendation of our predecessors of the past two
years, to the effect that the Grand Treasurer be instructed to invest the funds in
his hands belonging to the current treasury of this Grand Lodge, and not otherwise
provided for, in United States bonds.
Also, that he be instructed to open and keep a separate account with the charity
fund, aDd that payments made on account of different years and different funds be
by him listed under separate heads and kept distinct.
78 PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Oct.
TmiiD. An examination of the report and accounts of the Grand Secretary shows
that he has received during the past year the following amounts, viz. :
From the Grand Master $398 00
For 12 dispensations to form Lodges 1,200 00
From C. B. Marsh, dues to Lafayette Lodge 9 00
From P. Campbell, dues to Mt. Pleasant Lodge 5 20
From W. P. A. Craig, dues to Mt. Pleasant Lodge 3 20
From L. H. Bradley, chairman Committee on Chartered Lodges, 1872 0 75
From estate of C. G. Y. Taylor, deceased, for debis due to Grand Lodge. . 60 40
For dues of 1871 47 25
For dues of 1872 2,305 30
For dues of 1S73 25,496 45
Total 129,534 55
which sum has been paid to the Grand Treasurer, as per receipt exhibited to your
committee.
We would recommend that an order be drawn in favor of the Grand Secretary for
$815.53 to reimburse him for expenses of his office, such as office rent, stationery,
fuel, express charges, etc., etc., as per itemized and accompanying vouchers hereto
annexed.
It gives your committee great pleasure to testify that we find the books, papers
and accounts of the Grand Secretary in the most admirable and business like form,
deserving the highest praise for neatness, ordGr and accuracy, and the thanks of the
committee are hereby tendered to the Grand Secretary for his efficient and fraternal
assistance in the performance of our duties.
All of which is fraternally submitted.
EDWARD COOK, )
DANIEL DUSTIN, V Finance Committee.
GEO. W. DAVIS, )
RESOLUTION.
W. Bro. Hamilton, S. G. D., offered the following resolution,
which was adopted :
Resolved, That the thanks of this Grand Lodge are hereby tendered to Bro. Edgar
Sanders, of Kilwinning Lodge No. 311, for bouquets presented to this Grand Lodge.
REPORT— Committee on Chartered Lodges.
The Committee on Chartered Lodges submitted the following
report, which was received and adopted :
To the M. W. Grand Lodge of A. F. and A. M. of the State of Illinois :
Your Committee on Chartered Lodges fraternally report that they have carefully
examined the returns of the several Lodges in this jurisdiction, so far as they have
been received by the Grand Secretary, and herewith submit the result of their labors :
The following Lodges have made no return up the present time — noon of
Wednesday : Nos. 126, 177, 217, 244, 427, 507, 564, 5S4, 598, 629.
We find irregularities in the returns of the following Lodges — absence of seal,
signature of officers, and errors of various kinds on the part of secretaries. In
many instances balloting on petitions in less time than one month, and in a few on
1873.]
GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS.
79
the night of receiving the petition. In the latter case a dispensation may have
been applied for and received, but if so, a note of that fact should have been
entered on the return :
Nos. 81, 85, 80, 93, 108, 109, 127, 137, 144, 223, 247, 27S, 304, 310, 313, 317, 322,
330, 337, 340, 342, 349, 350, 351, 413, 414, 415, 431, 444, 476, 520, 524, 554, 559, 560,
572, 576, 579, 580, 594, 603, 608, 616, 630, 662, 676, 679.
We would further report, that unless the returns of the following Lodges can be
explained, said Lodges are indebted to this Grand Lodge for the amount set opposite
their respective numbers :
Nos. 43 $0 75
53 2 25
68 1 50
206 2 25
213 75
236 75
245 1 50
257 75
Nos. 321 $3 00
378 75
407 1 50
412 75
415 75
440 1 50
464 75
470 3 75
Nos. 471 $0 75
475 75
498. 3 00
604 2 25
024 3 00
662 1 50
673 1 50
676 3 00
The following named Lodges have overpaid, as follows
Nos. 75 overpaid $0 75
164 overpaid 75
255 overpaid 75
267 overpaid 75
Nos. 449 overpaid..
516 overpaid..
631 overpaid..
75 ;Nos. 645 overpaid... eO 75
75 j 649 overpaid ... 1 05
75 693 overpaid... 1 56
The Lodges whose dues have not been paid, exclusive of those whose reports have
not yet been received by the Grand Secretary, are as follows :
Nos. 107, 110, 159, 172, 177, 259, 287, 320, 331, 376, 396, 406, 505, 545, 549, 567, 623.
Your committee would fraternally call the attention of this Grand Lodge to the
principal cause of errors in the reports, believing that it arises from the system
prevailing in this Grand Lodge of the exemption from Grand Lodge duee of non-
resident members, thereby causing a transfer and retransfer of the same names from
one page to another. This we believe to be wrong, it being well-known to the
members of your committee that, in many cases, the Lodges collect said dues from
their non-residents ; the Lodge thus becoming the recipient of the money, and if
not collected, then the absent member retains that which he is popularly supposed
to have paid for the support of the Grand Lodge in whose jurisdiction he is residing.
We, therefore, earnestly recommend that all Lodges in this jurisdiction be required
to pay Grand Lodge dues on all members, resident and non-resident, and that the
members of this Grand Lodge may realize the great loss of revenue under the
present system, we have but to add that the reports thus far examined show a non-
resident membership of about 4,000, on which this Grand Lodge, if the amendment
suggested was the law, would have received $3,000, and this without any {injustice
to the members or Lodges.
Your committee can but repeat the suggestions heretofore made, that the
attention of the officers of the Lodges in error be called to the fact of existing
errors in returns, and request more care on the part of secretaries of such Lodges in
their subsequent returns. While many of the returns of the Lodges show both
neatness and ability in execution, there are others which are fearfully and
wonderfully made up.
80 PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Oct.
'|| We would refer to the usual tabular statement of the Grand Secretary for a
detailed statemeut of condition of Lodges. (See Appendix F.)
Fraternally submitted,
J.C. SMITH,
C. KIKKPATRICK,
D. W. THOMSON,
\Y. II. EASTMAN,
L.R.JEROME, | Commlttee
W. E. HAMILTON, f ^ommmee-
W. H. II. RADEH.
A. W. BLAKE8LEY,
E. K. CONKLIN,
H. F. HOLCOMB, ]
AMENDMENT TO BY-LAWS.
R. W. Bro. J. C. Smith (273) offered the following amendment
to the By-Laws, which, being'secondedloy the Grand Lodge, lies
over until the next Annual Grand Communication :
Resolved, That section eight of the By-Laws of this M. W. Grand Lodge be and
is hereby repealed.
RESOLUTION.
W. Bro. Rambo (676) offered the following resolution :
Resolved, That an appropriation be made sufficient to pay the Committees on
Prmtiugand By-Laws the lawful rate of mileage and the per diem rate appropriated
to committees at this Communication, for their services when called together in
November last, to award the contract for Grand Lodge printing.
The resolution was referred to the Committee on Finance.
RESOLUTION.
M. W. Bro. Gorin, P. G. M., offered the following resolution :
Whereas, Up to the year 1853 this Grand Lodge had on hand the sum of $5,500,
or thereabouts, Grand Charity Fund, collected from the Lodges in this Grand
Jurisdiction, who paid it to the Grand Lodge, believing that it would be held sacred
for the purposes for which it was paid into the Grand Treasury, and
Whekeas, By resolution the Grand Lodge borrowed this fund at different times
and applied the same to the payment of the mileage and per diem of members and
for other purposes ; therefore,
Resolued, That a committee of three be appointed by the Grand Master, whose
duty it shall be to ascertain the amount of said Charity Fund so loaned to this
Grand Lodge, and the time when loaned, and report to the Grand Lodge, at its next
Annual Grand Communication, the amount due ihe Grand Charity Fund.
The resolution was adopted.
M. W. Brethren Gorin, Dills and Lavely, were appointed
said committee. [Note. — The jM. W. Grand Master has since
added R. W. Bro. J. C. McMurtry to the committee. — Grand
Secreiary.\
1878.] GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS. 81
INSTALLATION MADE SPECIAL ORDER.
Upon motion of R. W. Bro. Barnard, (141) the installation
of officers was made the special order for to-morrow (Thursday)
morning, at ten o'clock.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON BY-LAWS RESUMED.
The Grand Lodge resumed consideration of the report of the
Committee on By-Laws. Articles One to Six, of Fart Second,
were discussed and amended.
CALLED OFF.
At 5.30 o'clock p. m., the Grand Lodge was called from labor
to refreshment.
SECOND DAY—Evening Session.
Wednesday, October 8, 1873, )
Eight o'clock p. m. f
The Grand Lodge was called from refreshment to labor, M.
W. James A. Hawley, Grand Master, presiding.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON BY-LAWS RESUMED.
The Grand Lodge resumed consideration of the report of the
Committee on By-Laws.
The remaining articles of part second were taken up, discussed
and amended, and at 11.30 o'clock p. m., the Grand Lodge was
called from labor to refreshment.
THIRD DAY— Morning Session.
Thursday, Oct. 9, 1873, \
Nine o'clock, a. m. )
The Grand Lodge was called from refreshment to labor, M. "W.
James A. Hawley, Grand Master, presiding.
RESOLUTION.
R. W. Bro. Robbins, S. G. W., offered the following resolution.
Whereas, It is reported that M. W. Harman G. Reynolds, a Past Grand Master
of this Grand Lodge, who is about to remove from this- jurisdiction, has become
destitute by misfortune, and
Whereas, The record of M. W. Bro. Reynold's official services is in a large
measure the history of this Grand Lodge ; therefore,
Resolved, That the Committee on Charity be instructed to inquire into the
expediency and propriety of appropriating from the funds of this Grand Lodge the
sum of one thousand dollars for his benefit.
The resolution was referred to the Committee on Charity.
82 PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Oct.
AMENDMENT TO BY-LAWS— Proposed.
M. W. Bro. Gorin, P. G. M., ottered the following amendment
to the By-Laws, which, being seconded, lies over until the next
Annual Grand Communication :
Resolved, That Section one (1) of the By-Laws of this Grand Lodge be so amended
as to read : " The communications of the Grand Lodge shall be held in the city of
Decatur on the lirst Tuesday of October, 1874, and every two years thereafter, when
the Grand Lodge shall have power to charter new Lodges, by letters patent under
its seal."
RESOLUTION.
W. Bro. Randall (010) offered the following resolution, which
was referred to the Finance Committee :
Resolved, That the sum of $200 be appropriated to the chairman of the Committee
on Correspondence, in consideration of his labors in the preparation of the report
of that committee.
RESOLUTION.
R. W. Bro. Robbins, S. G. W., offered the following resolution,
which was adopted :
Wuereas, Through a misapprehension, the dispensation of Elvaston Lodge,
U. D., has not been returned as required; therefore,
Resolved, That the question of its continuance be referred to the Grand Master.
REPORT— Committee on 3Iasonic Jurisprudence.
The Committee on Masonic Jurisprudence submitted the fol-
lowing report, which was received and adopted :
To the M. W. Grand Lodge of A. F. and A. M. of the State of Rlinois:
The Committee on Masonic Jurisprudence, to whom have been referred certain
portions of the M. W. Grand Master's address and other matters, fraternally
report :
First. Concerning the status of members of chartered Lodges, when assisting in
the formation of new Lodges, your committee present their conclusions in the form
of the following resolutions, and recommend their adoption :
Resolved, That the status of members of a chartered Lodge, when assisting in
forming a Lodge under dispensation, and acting as nominal members thereof, is in
nowise" affected by their connection with a Lodge U. D., and that such brethren
remain members of the chartered Lodge, entitled to its privileges aud subject to its
by-laws and discipline, until dimitted by the issuance of a charter to the Lodge
under dispensation.
Resolved, That members of chartered Lodges, who petition for a charter for a
new Lodge, are, upon the issuance of such charter from the Grand Lodge, compre-
hending such petitioners, thereby dimitted from the chartered Lodges and consti-
tuted members of the newly created Lodge, without further action.
Rl solved, That it is the duty of the W. Master of every new chartered Lodge,
immediately after its constitution, to notify every Lodge from which members have.
been dimitted by the chartering of such new Lodge, of the fact of tuch constitution,
and to transmit to the Lodge so apprised the names of its members thus dimitted.
Resolved, That the substance of the foregoing resolutions be incorporated in the
budy of all letters of dispensation hereafter issued.
1873.] GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS. 83
Second. Your committee unanimously concur in the decisions of the M. W. Grand
Master, numbered first, second, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and
thirteenth.
The majority of your committee approve of decision number three, with the
modification that the M. W. may suspend a subordinate oflicer from office for just
cause, pending a trial.
A majority of your committee also concur in sustaining decisions ten, eleven
and twelve.
Third. In regard to the right of objection, and the incongruities in this respect
of our present code of By-Laws, so clearly stated by the M. W. Grand Master, your
committee suggest that the new code of By-Laws, now before the Grand Lodge for
consideration, provides the necessary regulations ; and they recommend that the
interpretation of the subject, by the Grand Master, stand as the rule until the
question is settled in the By-Laws.
Fourtii. In the matter of the appeal of W. Bro. John Sutton from the decision
of the M. W. Grand Master, which has been transferred to your committee from
the Committee on Appeals and Grievances, your committee report that they find
the facts in the case present the legal questions covered by decisions ten, eleven
and twelve, and a majority of your committee therefore concur in sustaining the
decision of the M. W. Grand Master, it not being in conflict with any legal
regulation now in force.
All of which is fraternally submitted.
DEWITT C. CREGIER, 1
JNO. M. PEARSON, Committee
YV. M. EGAN, on
A. YV. BLAKESLEY, f Masonic
WM. LAVELY, j Jurisprudence.
GEO. O. IDE. J
RESOLUTION.
W. Bro. Burrill, D. G. S., offered the following resolution,
Yvhich Yvas referred to the Finance Committee :
Resolved, That the Committee on Library be authorized to purchase from YV.
Bro. 0. N. Stafford, bound copies of the proceedings of this Graud Lodge from
1850 to 1870, which said Brother has offered to sell to the Grand Lodge.
INSTALLATION.
The hour for the special order having arrived, the Grand Lodge
proceeded to installation of officers.
The M. W. Grand Master elect, announced the folloYvino;
APPOINTMENTS.
R. YV. and Rev. YV. H. SCOTT Grand Chaplain.
R. YV. JOHN DOUGHERTY Grand Orator.
YV. FRANK HUDSON, Jr Deputy Grand Secretary.
YV. THOMAS C. CLARK Grand rurmivanl.
84 PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Oct.
W. HARRY DUVALL Grand Marshal.
W. Wl LLIAM H. LONG Grand Standard Bearer.
W. WILLIAM E. GINTHER Grand Sxoord Bearer.
W. HENRY E. HAMILTON Senior Grand Beacon.
W. JOHN D. HAMILTON Junior Grand Beacon.
W. MENNO S. BOWMAN Grand Steward.
W. L. A. HAMBLIN Grand Steward.
W. C. BRINKMEIER Grand Steward.
W. H. HOHNSHEIDT Grand Steward.
BRO. JOHN P. FERNS Grand Tyler.
The Grand Master announced the reception and approval of
the bonds of the Grand Treasurer and Grand Secretary.
M. W. Bro. Dewitt C. Cregier, assisted by W. Bro. W. H.
Long, Grand Marshal, duly installed M. W. Bro. James A.
Hawley, of Dixon, (7) Grand Master of Masons of the State of
Illinois, for the ensuing year, and until his successor shall be duly
elected and installed.
He was conducted to his station in the East, and having been
duly proclaimed, was saluted as Grand Master of Masons.
M. W. Bro. Cregier then proceeded to install the remaining
Grand Officers, as follows :
R. W. BRO. GEORGE E. LOUNSBURY, of Mound City (390) . . Beputy Grand Master.
R. W. BRO. JOSEPH ROBBINS, of Quincy (296) Senior Grand Warden.
R. W. BRO. W. J. A. DeLANCEY, of Centralia (201) Junior Grand Warden.
M. W. BRO. HARRISON DILLS, of Quincy (1) Grand Treasurer.
R. W. BRO. JOHN F. BURRILL, of Springiield (333) Grand Secretary .
R. W. and REV. BRO. W. H. SCOTT, of Metropolis (91) Grand CJiaplain.
R. W. BRO. JOHN DOUGHERTY, of Jonesboro fill) Grand Orator.
W. BRO. T. C. CLARK, of Chicago (422) Grand Pursuivant.
W. BRO. HARRY DUVALL, of Chicago (271) Grand Marshal.
W. BRO. WM. H. LONG, of Mt. Carroll (188.) Grand Standard Bearer
W. BRO. WM. E. GINTHER, of Charleston (35) Grand Sioord Bearer.
W. BRO. HENRY E. HAMILTON, of Chicago (Gil) Senior 9rand Beacon.
W. BRO. JOHN D. HAMILTON, of Carthage (20) Junior Grand Beacon.
W. BRO. MENNO S. BOWMAN, of Sterling (612) Grand Steward.
W. BRO. L. A. HAMBLIN, of Chicago (596) Grand Steward.
W. BRO. C. BRINKMEIER, of Chicago (410) Grand Steward.
W. BRO. H. HOHNSHEIDT, of Bloomington (512) Grand Steward.
BRO. JOHN P. FERNS, of Chicago (438) Grand Tyler.
1873.] GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS. 85
Upon motion of W. Bro. Hamilton, S. G. D., the Committee
on By-Laws were instructed to prepare an installation service for
the use of this Grand Lodge and the subordinate Lodges of this
Grand Jurisdiction, to be printed with the proceedings of this
Grand Lodge.
REPORT— Finance Committee on Special Report of Grand Secretary.
To the M. W. Grand Lodge of A. F.& A. M. of the State of Illinois :
Your committee to whom was referred the special report of the Grand Secretary
in regard to certain moneys paid him by P. G. M. Reynolds, have had the same
under careful consideration, and would respectfully report that this case presents so
much that is praiseworthy and noble on the part of the Lodges contributing the
money, and so much of an apparently opposite character in the brother who
received it from them, but who withheld it from those for whom the generous
donors des;gned it, that we And it difficult to properly express our admiration for
the acts of the one, or our pain at having to refer to the conduct ot the other;
and while we would fain pass over the unpleasant business of calling attention to
the omissions of any brother, more especially of one who has been so highly
honored by this Grand Lodge, we yet feel that we should do less than our duty
should we fail to present the facts in this case as they have come to our knowledge,
and it is our opinion that this Grand Lodge cannot afford to pass silently over an
act that, should we fail to place the seal of condemnation upon it, would sadly
cloud the fair fame that has come to us through the uoble manner in which those
chaigud with the delicate, important and sacred trust of distributing the alms of
the charitable, discharged their arduous duties. It appears that —
Blazing Star Lodge No. 458 contributed $25 00
Camden Lodge No. 648 contributed 20 00
Elbridge Lodge No. 579 contributed 25 00
Polk Lodge No. 187 contributed 50 00
Gill Lodge No. 382 contributed 25 00
Middleton Lodge No. 370 contributed 25 00
Carmi Lodge No. 272 contributed 50 00
Warsaw Lodge No. 257 contributed 28 35
Grand Chain Lodge No. 660 contributed 30 00
Jeffersonville Lodge No. 460 contributed 25 00
McLean Lodge No. 461) contributed 28 00
Columbia Lodge No. 474 contributed 50 00
Huntsville Lodge No. 465 contributed 25 00
Somonauk Lodge No. 646 contributed 25 00
Blueville Lodge No. 647 contributed 27 75
Troy Lodge No. 58S contributed 50 00
Dongola Lodge No. 581 contributed 5 00
New Boston Lodge No. 50 contributed 5p 00
Belle City Lodge No. 483 contributed 10 00
Magnolia Lodge No. 103 contributed 13 00
Rossville Lodge No. 527 contributed 16 00
Casey Lodge No. 442 contributed 38 25
for the relief of sufferers by the great fire in Chicago, October 9, 1871.
86 PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Oct.
Immediately after the fire M. W. Bro. Reynolds, through the " Trowel," invited
contributions for the sufferers, and the above sums were promptly sent him by the
Lodges named, as the supposed proper channel through which to reach the
distressed ; but not only did he pervert these fraternal offerings from their intended
destination, but he has also by his act thus far prevented the givers from receiving
any suitable recognition of their generosity, or the credit to which their kind deeds
so richly entitles them.
It was not until the Fire Board of Relief had disbanded, and had sent out a full
report of their doings, containing a complete list of the donors to the fund so far as
known, that it was discovered that the above Lodges had not been credited with
their contributions; and, although more than a year had elapsed, it was not until
after ''strict search aud due inquiry" had been instituted, that Bro. Reynolds paid
a portion of the above amount ($(i01.00 out of $641.35), to the Grand Secretary.
What disposition was made of the $40.35, for which he takes credit, or of sums
received for a like purpose from without this jurisdiction, your committee have
been unable to learn. Let us hope they have been applied to charitable purposes.
The Grand Secretary, we understand, took charge of this amount, only that it
might be furnished a safe depository until such time as the proper disposition of it
might be determined upon.
Your committee are of the opiuiou that this sum cannot in any sense be deemed
the property of this Grand Lodge, nor subject to its order, and we would
accordingly report adversely to assuming any positive control over it, but as the
same has been receipted for by the Grand Secretary (an officer of this body) some
action on the part of the Grand Lodge would seem to be appropriate, though, in
our opinion, it should be only advisory.
The Chicago Masonic Board of Relief is an incorporated aud responsible body,
now in active operation in this city. It appears to be the regular successor of the
board to which the donors of this money originally intended it should go, having the
same general object in view This board was the recipient of the balance of the
funds remaining in the hands of the old board, after all its expenses were paid, and
the legatee of all the amounts that might subsequently come under the control of
said old board.
Now, in order that these moneys may be placed as nearly as is now possible in
the hands of those who it was originally intended should distribute them, and to the
end that the donors may still have a voice in the control of them, we would
recommend that the Grand Secretary be advised to pay the above sum to the
Chicago Masonic Board of Relief, requesting said board to inform the donors of the
facts in the case, and to be governed by the wishes of the givers as to the final
disposition of the money.
All of which is fraternally submitted.
EDWARD COOK, )
DANIEL DUSTIN, } Finance Committee.
GEO. W. DAVIS, )
Chicago, October 9, 1873.
The report was received and amended by advising Bro. O. II.
Miner to return the money to the several Lodges who donated it,
instead of paying it to the Chicago Masonic Board of Relief, as
recommended by the committee.
1873.] GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS. 87
The report was then adopted.
[Note — Bro. Mineh, P. G. S., has returned to the several Lodges donating these
funds the amounts due them, as follows : — Grand Secretary.']
Blazing Star Lodge No. 458 $23 43
Camden Lodge No. C48 IS 74
Elbridge Lodge No. 579 23 43
Polk Lodge No. 137 40 85
Gill Lodge No. 382 23 43
Middleton Lodge No. 370 23 43
Carmi Lodge No. 272 .. 40 85
Warsaw Lodge No. 257 26 56
Grand Chain Lodge No. 660 28 11
Jeffersonville Lodge No. 460 23 43
McLean Lodge No. 469 26 25
Blueville Lodge No. 647 26 00
Columbia Lodge No. 474 46 95
Huntsville Lodge No. 465 23 43
Somonauk Lodge No. 646 23 43
Troy Lodge No. 588 46 85
Dongola Lodge No. 581 4 68
New Boston Lodge No 59 46 S5
Belle City Lodge No. 483 9 37
Magnolia Lodge No. 103 12 18
Rossville Lodge No. 527 15 00
Casey Lodge No. 442 35 85
Total $601 00
CALLED OFF.
At 12 o'clock the Grand Lodge was called from labor to
refreshment.
THIRD DAY— Afternoon Session.
Thursday, Oct. 9, 1873, (
Two o'clock, p. m. j
The Grand Lodge was called to labor, M. W. Bro. James A.
Hawley, Grand Master, presiding.
RESOLUTION.
W. Bro. L. A. Hamblin offered the following resolution, which
was referred to the Finance Committee :
Whereas, At the time the charter of Wiley M. Egan Lodge No. 593 was arrested,
all the furniture, paraphernalia and property of said Lodge was placed in the
custody of W. Bro. William P. Gray, for safe keeping, and
Whereas, A charter has been granted by this Grand Lodge to a large number of
the brethren who formerly belonged to said Wiley M. Egan Lodge, by the name of
Providence Lodge No. 711 : therefore.
88 PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Oct.
Resolved, That said paraphernalia, furniture and property be given to said Provi-
dence Lodge No. 711, and that W. Bro. William P. Gkat be authorized to deliver
the same to said Providence Lodge, without delay.
CONSIDERATION;OF BY-LAWS RESUMED.
The Grand Lodge resumed consideration of the report of the
Committee on By-Laws.
Part Third was taken up, discussed and amended.
They were then duly seconded by the Grand Lodge, and
ordered to be printed with the proceedings.
Upon motion of R. W. Bro. Robbins, the By-Laws were
referred back to the committee for correction of grammatical and
typographical errors.
REPORT— C'ommiteee on Restoration of Records.
The Committee on Restoration of Records submitted the fol-
lowing report, which was received and adopted :
To the M. W. Grand Lodge of Illinois, A. F. and A. M. :
The undersigned, a committee appointed at the last Annual Communication to
superintend the re-printing of the lost records of this Grand Lodge, from 1840 to
18(30, respectfully report : That in accordance with the instructions of the Grand
Lodge, the Grand Secretary issued a circular to the Subordinate Lodges, requesting
them to subscribe for one or more copies of said reprint. In response to said
circular, only one hundred and eighty-six copies were subscribed for. The com-
mittee only being authorized to have said work done upon three hundred copies
being subscribed for, have done nothing about the matter of reprinting.
A careful estimate of the expense of making said reprint was made in 1871,
showing that the probable cost of one thousand copies, of seven hundred and fifty
pages each, bound in cloth, properly lettered, will cost $2,000. Your committee
deem It highly important that the work should be done, and believe, that if once
done, that every Lodge in the jurisdiction would take a copy.
In view ef the necessity of the object desired to be obtained, your committee
offer the following resolutions .•
Hesolved, That the Grand Lodge proceed to republish so much of the proceedings
of this Grand Lodge as may be deemed necessary, from 1840 to 1860, inclusive.
Hesolved, That the committee on printing be directed to advertise for proposals
for said work at the same time they advertise for proposals to publish the proceed-
ings of this session.
Hesolved, That said republication shall be done under the direction of a special
committee, to be appointed by the M. W. Grand Master. The chairman of said
committee shall read all proof sheets pertaining to the printing thereof. The
chairman and other members of said committee shall be paid a reasonable compen-
sation for their labor, which amount shall be determined by a committee consisting
of the M. W. Grand Master, Senior Grand Warden and Junior Grand Warden, who
shall have full power to adjust and order the same paid. Said proceedings, when
1873.] GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS. 89
republished, shall be placed in the custody of the Grand Secretary, and he stand
charged with same ; and is hereby directed to sell the same at the price of three
dollars per volume, reserving one hundred copies for the use of this Grand Lodge.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
A. W. BLAKESLEY, )
H. DILLS, y Committee.
E. C. SELLECK. |
REPORT— Committee on Charity.
The Committee on Charity submitted their report, as follows :
To the M. W. Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M. of the State of Illinois :
The Committee having had under consideration the petition of Tarbolton Lodge
No. 351, soliciting a donation for the benefit of Bro. S. G. Barnes, report that the
facts in this case are set forth on page 63 of the proceedings of 1872, and you,
committee concur in the judgment of the Grand Lodge at that time, that they were
such as to warrant an appropriation. The same state of facts now exist, and we
recommend that an appropriation of one huudred dollars be made for the benefit of
Bro. S. G. Barnes, of Tarbolton Lodge.
In the case of the petition of Nunda Lodge No. 169, for a donation for the benefit
of Bro. John Walker, a member of Operative Lodge No. 150, Aberdeen, Scotland,
for whom Nunda Lodge has been for some two or three weeks caring, your
committee are of the opinion that the Brother has not yet become a settled charge
upon the Lodge in such a sense as would warrant your committee in establishing
the precedent which a recommendation for an appropriation would involve. They,
therefore, recommend that no further action be had in this case.
Your committee have been instructed to inquire into the expediency and propriety
of appropriating one thousand dollars for the benefit of M. W. Bro. Barman G.
Reynolds, a Past Grand Master of this Grand Lodge.
Your committee are informed that M. W. Bro. Reynolds is, through sickness,
bereavement and other misfortunes, reduced to a condition of actual destitution,
weak in body and broken in spirit, and now seeks assistance to enable him to reach
relatives in the far west, who though illy able to take care of him, will yet afford
him a home.
Your committee feel that the Grand Lodge cannot stop its ears to the cry of
distress coming from one who has filled so large a place in its history, but they do
not feel warranted in recommending the full amount contemplated in the resolution
referred to them. They are, however, of the opinion in view of all the circum-
stances, that an appropriation of five hundred dollars should be made for his benefit,
and they so recommend.
JAMES A. HAWLEY, )
GEO. E. LOUNSBURY, \ Committee.
JOSEPH ROBBINS, )
Upon motion, the report was amended by making the appro-
priation payable to the family of M. W. Bro. Reynolds.
The report as amended was adopted.
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The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the
resolution of W. Bro. Hamblin, asking that the property of
Wiley M. Egan Lodge be given to Providence Lodge No. 711,
reported favorably, and recommended the adoption of the
resolution.
The report was adopted.
R. W. Bro. John M. Pearson presented his credentials as
Representative of the M. W. Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania.
The Grand Honors were awarded to the Grand Lodge of
Pennsylvania, through its Representative.
REPORT — Finance Committee— Appropriations.
To the M. W. Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M. of the State of Illinois:
Tour committee having had under consideration various bills and resolutions
contemplating payment of money, and accounts to them submitted, beg leave
respectfully to report, recommending the payment of the following sums, viz :
To A. W. Adams, for copying code of proposed by-laws, preparing the same
for publication, and reading proof $25 00
To A. L. Ilaie & Bro., for use of tables, chairs, etc., at Annual Communication
of 1873, with cartage to and from place of meeting IS 00
To W. H. Cutler, for use of piano at this Grand Communication, and for all
expenses incident to music furnished at opening of Grand Lodge 25 00
To A. L. Hale & Bro., for furniture to replace that destroyed by fire in 1871,
and belonging to Cleveland Lodge. (See proceedings of 1872, page 128.) 550 00
To Patterson & Co., Springfield, 111., for stationery, etc., for Grand Secretary's
office 27 95
To John H. Small & Co., Chicago, for stationery furnished Grand Secretary
for use of Grand Lodge 18 35
For engraving, printing and framing resolutions of thanks for Fire Board
Relief, as per action of Grand Lodge last year. (See Proceedings
1872, page 86.)
ToChas. Shober& Co $195 00
To R. B. Appleby 99 25
294 25
To Bro. J. Zimmerman, representative of Lodge No. 239, to correct error in
his mileage and per diem, order of 1872 4 40
To Herald Printing Company, of Quincy, 111., for printing Report of
Committee on Masonic Correspondence 866 82
To John M. Pearson, for mileage and per diem attending meetings of Com-
mittees on Printing and on By-Laws 43 90
To L. A. Beebe & Co., for moving stoves, for pipe, etc 4 88
To Kingston Lodge No. 266, for dues paid on, Henry A. Fruit, in 186S-69-70-
71 and 72, while he was a charter member of another Lodge 3 75
To B. J. VanCourt, for expenses in visiting Mouroe Lodge No. 28, by order
of M. W. Grand Master 12 25
To J. C. McMurtry, D. D. G. M. 13th District, for expenses, etc., visiting
Abingdon Lodge No. 185, by order of Grand Master 12 25
1873.] GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS. 91
To Jas. Robbins, for mileage and per dieui attending session of Printing
Committee 15 30
To M. W. Bro. D. C. Cregier, Chairman of Committee on By-Laws, not as by
any means being commensurate payment for the amount of arduous
labor performed, but as a cheerful recognition of his valuable services
in preparing so complete a code , 100 00
To R. W. Bro. Jos. Robbins, Chairman of Committee on Masonic Corres-
pondence, as a like recognition of valued services 200 00
To R. 8. McCormick, for use of Hall, three days 450 00
To Bro. Frank Hudson, Jr., for assisting Grand Secretary at this Com-
munication 25 00
The resolutions referred to this committee, and contemplating the return of Grand
Lodge dues to Galva Lodge No. 243 and Russellville Lodge No. 346, on account of
losses sustained by fire, cannot be entertained by this committee. This Grand
Lodge has twice affirmed the doctrine that such cases should be considered as
matters of charity, and any desired assistance sought through the Committee on
Charity.
To Chas. W. Moore, for Freeman's Monthly Magazine, to January 1, 1874,
as per bill $10 00
From the best information before your committee, this Magazine was subscribed
for by order of the Grand Lodge. We, therefore, recommend the payment of the
bill, and that the Grand Secretary be instructed to notify the publisher to
discontinue the Magazine from and after January 1, 1874, till further orders.
The bill of John H. Johnson, of Springfield, 111., for paper said to have been
furnished in 1868, and amounting to $18.40, we report in favor of disallowing, for
the reason that we have no sufficient certificate that it was for the use of this Grand
Lodge.
The present Grand Secretary knows nothing of the facts in the case, and the
neglect of Mr. Johnson to present the bill at an earlier date being a sufficient
reason why we cannot get proper evidence of its accuracy.
To John P. Ferns, Grand Tyler, for washing and repairing aprons,
for cartage and other incidental expenses, as per bill. . . . = $74 85
To John P. Ferns, Grand Tyler, for services as"Grand Tyler during
the year, and at this Communication 100 00
$174 85
To. R. W. Bro. H. W. Hubbard, for attending trial by order of Grand
Master 5 00
To Bro. Harry Duvall, bill for incidental expenses incurred in preparing
hall for meeting of Grand Lodge, and for ten days' services in doing
same 67 90
To John Conners, Janitor, for extra services during session 10 00
To the Library Committee, to enable them to purchase from W. Bro. O. M.
Stafford, proceedings of this Grand Lodge from 1850 to 1870, for use of
Grand Lodge 25 00
To F. M. Capus, for assisting Grand Tyler 12 25
To Jonathan Clark, for partition around entrance to hall 34 00
To Jno. F. Burrill, Deputy Grand Secretary, for expenses attending this
session 25 00
All of which is fraternally submitted,
EDWARD COOK, )
DANIEL DUSTIN, y Finance Committee.
GEO. W. DAVIS, )
Chicago, October 9, 1873.
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The report was received and amended by making payment to
chairman of Committee on Masonic Correspondence $300 instead
of $200.
The report was adopted.
RESOLUTION.
W. Bro. Long (188) offered the following resolution, which was
adopted :
Whereas, This Grand Lodge has had under consideration for the past two
days the report of the Committee on By-Laws for the government of proceedings
in this Grand Lodge and subordinates under its jurisdiction ; and,
Whereas, The said Code of By-Laws, in their completeness, show a vast, amount
of research into Masonic law and usage in this and other Grand Jurisdictions;
therefore,
Resolved, That the thanks of this Grand Lodge are due, and are hereby tendered
to the Committee on By-Laws for the very able report, which they have made, the
reading and consideration of which has just been completed.
REPORT— Committee on Resolutions.
To the M. W. Grand Lodge of A. F. and A. 31. of the State of Illinois :
Your committee to whom was referred the pleasing duty of having engrossed,
framed and presenting the thanks of this Grand Lodge to the Masonic Relief Com-
mittee of Chicago, respectfully repoit that they have attended to the duties enjoined
upon them by the resolution to be found on page 108, Proceedings of 1872 ; that
the resolutions have been handsomely engrossed on parchment, framed, and are
now ready for presentation to the several persons entitled to the 6ame.
Fraternally submitted,
J. C. SMITH, )
G. W. BARNARD, )■ Committee,
D. A. C ASHMAN,)
The report of the committee was adopted.
RESOLUTION.
W. Bro. Tanquary (30) offered the following resolution, which
was adopted :
Resolved, That the Grand Secretary be instructed, at the earliest practicable date,
to furnish each Lodge with the revised amendments proposed to the By-Laws.
PRESENTATION.
M. W. Bro. Hawley. on behalf of the committee appointed
at the last Annual Grand Communication, presented M. W. Bro.
Dewitt C. Cregier with a beautiful Past Grand Master's jewel,
as an appreciation of his services to this Grand Lodge while
Grand Master. The jewel is of" solid gold, studded with
diamonds, and valued at $1,000,
1873.]
GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS.
93
RESOLUTION.
"W. Bro. Ginther offered the following resolution, which
was adopted :
Resolved, That the thanks of this Grand Lodge are due to all its committees, who
have so ably and faithfully discharged their arduous duties, and thereby so
signally facilitated our proceedings.
CLOSED.
There appearing to be no further business before the Grand
Lodge, solemn prayer was offered by the P. W. and Rev.
Grand Chaplain, when the M. "W. Grand Master closed the
Grand Lodge
IN AMPLE FORM,
Peace and Harmony Prevailing.
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He died as he lived--- A Faithful and Courteous Mason and a
True and Exemplary Christian.
None knew him but to love him —
None named him but to praise."
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON MASONIC! CORRESPONDENCE.
To the M. W. Grand Lodge of A. F. 6° A. Masons, of the State of Illinois :
As we commence printing, we have at hand the Proceedings of forty-four Amer-
ican Grand Lodges, and lack only those of Indiana, Iowa and Wisconsin. If the
missing volumes come to hand in season we shall give them their place in the al-
phabetical list. If they are too long delayed for that, yet reach us while our report
is passing through the press, we shall notice them in an addenda thereto.
ALABAMA.
The Grand Lodge met at Montgomery, Dec. 2, 1872.
The address of Grand Master Johnson opens with an eloquent allusion to the
death of Brethren George Frank Smith and William C. Penick ; the former,
Deputy Grand Master, and the latter, the distinguished Past Grand Master, who for
many years made his influence widely felt through his able reports on correspond-
ence. His memory will be cherished by many outside of the jurisdiction of Alabama.
Memorial tablets are inscribed to these brethren, and also to Edward Hern don,
Past Grand Master, deceased during the year.
The Grand Master, questioning whether there were not already too many Lodges,
thought it a good augury that their borders had not been greatly extended during
the year. He had granted dispensations for four new Lodges. He had taken the
responsibility of interchanging Representatives with the Grand Orient of Brazil,
" Valley of Lavradio," and asked the Grand Lodge to take the necessary steps for
recognition and correspondence. While on this subject he says :
" In this connection, I will state the result of our efforts to restore to their home
in Alabama the family of our lamented Brother. Samuel D. Watson. It will be
remembered that our brother died in the wilds of South America, far from home and
friends, leaving a helpless family, destitute and amongst savages. By your gener-
osity one year ago we were enabled to forward to them the means to return home.
Through Brother L. E. Parsons, the President of the U. S.,and the American Min-
ister, Gen. Partridge, we sent the money intended for the use of Bro. Watson's fam-
ily to Brazil. In the meantime, however, the Masonic Brotherhood of Rio, finding
that there was the widow of a brother from a foreign land in distress in their midst, in
the true spirit of Masonic charity, contributed the amount necessary to defray the
Proceedings of the
expenses of the family to the United States, and sent them home. Our draft,
amounting to four hundred and ten dollars, has since been returned, and the money
handed over to Mrs. Watson."
The Grand Lodge endorsed the action of the Grand Master in the interchange
of representatives, and ordered an engrossed copy of its resolutions on the subject
forwarded U> its Grand Representative at Rio, the "Illustrious" Brother Senor
Pedro Antonio Gomez.
From his title, which is unknown to Ancient Craft Masonry, we presume the rep-
resentative thus accredited to the Grand Orient of Brazil, is a Mason only by virtue
of his connection with a rite of which the Grand Lodge of Alabama has, and can
have, no official knowledge. Speaking for ourselves alone, we think the time has
fully come when the claims of nominally Masonic Bodies should be carefully scru-
tinized by Grand Lodges before according to them the recognition due only to those
which are Masonic in fact as well as name. Perhaps the Grand Lodge of Alabama
has done this in the present instance. It is a sovereign and independent body, and
may do as seems to it best, but we trust that the Grand Lodge of Illinois will steer
clear of all entangling alliances with bodies as to whose position within the pale of
legitimate Masonry there may be the slightest question.
The decisions of the Grand Master are mainly the outgrowth of local regulations.
We subjoin a few that are, however, with one exception— the second — general in
their nature :
1. "That an applicant for the mysteries of Masonry eighty-four (84) years old
ought not to be made a Mason."
2. "That no one is authorized or allowed to preside in a Lodge in this State, ex-
cept a Present Master, one of the Wardens, or a Past Master belonging to this ju-
risdiction."
3. " If a candidate cannot legally be made a Mason, or if he is physically dis-
qualified, the petition may be withdrawn without a ballot."
4. " A Mason having joined a church, the laws of which require a renunciation
of Masonry, notwithstanding he holds a dimit, is not entitled to its benefits, neither
is the widow of such an one so entitled after his death."
5. " That it is unbecoming a Mason to live in adultery with a Master Mason's
daughter, notwithstanding he did not know at the time that she was a Mason's daugh-
ter. It is immoral and ungentlemanly, and, therefore, unmasonic."
We have numbered them for convenience.
We wonder whether the first decision wouldn't have rankled in Thomas Parr's
breast at about his 152nd year, had it been applied to him at the age of 84? His
wife, whom he married when he was a youth of 120, might, however, have com-
mended it as tending to keep him at home of evenings. So of this Alabama gen-
tleman should he prove to be another Henry Jenkins. Looking back through
eighty-five added years, wouldn't he think it a queer institution which cut him off
from its benefits on the score of age, just as he had escaped from adolescence ?
We have instanced these two cases of extreme longevity to indicate that this
question is not one which should, in this form, be passed upon by a Grand Master.
Grand Lodge of Illinois. ill
The landmarks have fixed the qualifications of candidates as well in respect of age as-
in others matters, and at any period between nonage and dotage the Lodge alone is
the judge of their fitness. The Grand Master cannot authorize the Lodge to accept
less than the landmarks require ; he cannot rightfully compel it to demand more.
The italics in the second decision are ours. This decision is new to us, and we
suppose it must be founded on a local regulation, as we have not elsewhere seen
denied the right of the Master, or in his absence the ranking Warden, to invite any
actual Past Master to the chair without reference to such Past Master's domicile or
membership. In our own jurisdiction, in the absence of the Master, no Past Master
can take the chair without the consent of the ranking Warden, who must first have
congregated his Lodge.
It will be noticed that the third decision is in conflict with the letter of our law
in Illinois, which declares that "no Subordinate Lodge shall be permitted to return
a petition which has been presented and referred, for membership or initiation, with-
out first balloting for the candidate." In so far as Grand Master Johnson makes a
distinction between ineligibility and unfitness, we think he is clearly right, and that
our law should be so modified in its phraseology as not to be a stumbling block in
the way of Masters, preventing them, possibly, from doing what it is clearly their
duty to do, that is, to stop further proceedings at any moment when it is discov-
ered that the candidate is ineligible, and that the Lodge had, therefore, no right to
receive his petition.
To the fourth decision we are not prepared to assent. If one cannot, as we all
agree, by any formal renunciation release himself from his obligations to the Fra-
ternity, we fail to see how such an act can release the Fraternity from its corres-
ponding obligations towards him, until, by the judgment of his peers, a sentence of
suspension or expulsion places him without its pale.
In the fifth decision the Grand Master is certainly " child-like and bland." In a
vain attempt to reach the level atfained by him, we may say that the decision, like
the question which called it out, is highly suggestive. As we view it, the query
must have been propounded by some constitutional pundit, who holds that all powers
and privileges not specially delegated, are strictly reserved.
The Grand Master expresses doubts as to the propriety and justice of the action
of the Grand Lodge in having recognized the Grand Lodge of Quebec, having been
placed under conviction by Bro. Gouley's arguments on the subject. While it
gives us pleasure personally to see Bro. Gouley receive such a compliment, we re-
joice in the interests of well-settled Masonic law, founded in justice, that the Grand
Lodge did not, as the Grand Master suggested, retrace its steps.
The Grand Lodge took steps to secure quarters in the Masonic Temple in process
of erection at Montgomery, and, not to put old wine into new bottles, a new supply
of clothing was ordered*
Previous action adopting Cross' Chart for the use of Lodges was repealed, and
the Committee on Work directed to report what, if any, should be adopted.
iv Proceedings of the
JOSEPH H. Johnson, of Talledega, was elected Grand Master; Daniel Sayre,
Montgomery, Grand Secretary.
Two Charters were granted ; two Dispensations continued, and two granted.
The docket of the Commitee on Appeals embraces nine cases. In one case only
was the action of the Lodge confirmed ; the rest were reversed, or sent back for re-
hearing, or on account of defective transcripts. In one case where the accused
had been found guilty, and the Lodge had refused to inflict adequate punish-
ment, the Grand Lodge properly finished the work by expelling him, and cen-
suring the Lodge. The work of the Committee was so thoroughly done that
it ought, perhaps, to condone the stump speech with which its report concludes, and
which displays a mavellous power of "fine writing."
The Grand Secretary having, in the printed proceedings, criticized the reports of
the Committees on Chartered Lodges, the Grand Lodge adopied the following
through its Committee on the Doings of Grand Officers :
"That in the opinion of this committee, no officer of the Grand Lodge has a
right to publicly criticize the report of any committee when it has been adopted by
the Grand Lodge. And although the criticisms made by the Grand Secretary may
have been just, he did wrong in publishing them. Yet we cannot believe this re-
flection cast upon the committee was intentional."
The following from the Committee on Jurisprudence was adopted :
"Resolved, That no brother who has been suspended for non-payment of dues
shall be reinstated until he pay all dues which have accrued during his suspension,
as well as those for which he was suspended."
Which, in our view, would add nothing to his bill. If there is any principle un-
derlying the levying of Lodge dues, it is that they are an equivalent either for
Lodge privileges or for Masonic privileges in a general sense; and as the suspended
Mason enjoys neither, it is difficult to see how dues can accrue against him.
The Report on Correspondence, (99 pp.), from the pen of Bro. Richard F.
Knott, reviews the proceedings of thirty six American Grand Lodges, Illinois in-
cluded. For courtesey, ability and discrimination, this report ranks with previous
papers from the same hand.
Bro. Knott quotes Grand Master Cregier's remarks on the " right of objection,"
and says : "The above is lucidly stated, but we do not understand the force of
affiliated in the third clause, as applied to a brother a member of another Lodge."
The clause referred to is as follows :
"3d. The right of an affiiliated Master Mason to object to the initiation or ad-
vancement of a candidate in a Lodge of which he is not a member."
We think that upon reconsidering the subject, Bro. Knott will see that the al-
leged right of an affiliated Mason to enter an objection in a Lodge not his own,
might present itself to some minds as differing from the claim of a non-affiliate to
do the same thing.
Of the criticism of the New Jersey Committee on the action of Grand Master
Reynolds, Bro. Knott says ;
Grand Lodge of Illinois.
" We cannot go the full length of the Committee in its strictures on the decision
of the Grand Master of Illinois, setting aside a ballot " on a supposed state of facts,
which proved to be untrue," on petition of the Lodge voting. If we cast a ballot
against A. B., and afterwards find out that he was not the A. B. we supposed him
to be, or that we were in error for any other reason, as an honest man, not to say a
Mason, it behooves us to do all in our power to repair the wrong we did. How
can we better do it than to state the facts to our Worshipful Master? Then if he
states to the Lodge that one or more brethren have informed him that they voted
against A. B. under a mistake, and the Lodge unanimously petition the Grand
Master for dispensation to spread the ballot anew, and he granting it, the candidate
be elected, what wrong has been done to Masonry by doing a right to a worthy ap-
plicant ! In our humble opinion, whatever leads to truth is Masonry, whatever
does otherwise is not.
Quoting the remark of Bro. Barkley that a candidate cannot be properly de-
clared rejected until the ballot reveals such rejection, Bro. KNOTT says:
"With which we coincide fully, holding rejection by unfavorable report and
rejection by refusing to receive petition to be practiced innovations."
It is hardly necessary, in view of our frequently expressed opinions, to say that
we hold that a candidate can only be rejected by ballot. So far we agree with Bro.
KNOTT. But we do not agree with his implication that refusing to receive a peti-
tion is a rejection ; or with his idea that it is improper to refuse to receive a petition.
Nor "can such refusal be called a practical innovation. So far as we know, the re-
ception is nowhere a merely passive proceeding; it is the act of the Lodge, and as
it involves considerations thnt do not and should not enter into the ballot, it seems
to us very proper that at this stage the Lodge should act. The question whether
the Lodge will receive, certainly implies its power to refuse.
Alluding to the action of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, which we noticed
last year, in declaring the action of a Lodge irregular, wherein it had approved and
initiated a candidate "most markedly deformed," and directing that his name be
erased from the list of members, Bro. Knott says :
" Without waiting for the reasons which actuated our Pennsylvania brethren, we
simply say that we cannot see how a Lodge can do what it can't ; how it can make
a Mason out of material of which a Mason cannot be made, and, therefore, agree
that the action of the Grand Lodge was strictly correct."
Bro. Knott's ratiocination would be correct but for the stubborn fact that the
Lodge did make the man a Mason ; and as he agrees with Illinois, quoted with con-
currence by Bro. Carr, that "a regular Lodge cannot do clandestine work," we are
at a loss to see how he can agree that the action of the Grand Lodge, in so far as it
directed the erasure of the brother's name from the list of members was correct. We
doubt not that, looking at the matter from another stand point, he would agree with
us that the Grand Lodge oversteps its powers when it goes into a constituent Lodge
and summarily deprives a regularly made member thereof, against whom no charge
is pending, of any portion of his Masonic rights.
On the subject of making negroes Masons, Bro. Knott holds broad views, so
broad, indeed, that he gives his full endorsement both to the argument of Grand
Master Bramlette, of Texas, claiming for the Grand Lodge the right to legislate
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on the subject, and the report of the Texas Jurisprudence Committee by which the
argument was demolished.
We should have been better pleased to notice the many things in Bro. Knott's
report with which we agree, than the few with which we diner, but we must try and
keep our reviews within proper limits.
ARKANSAS.
The Grand Lodge met at Little Rock, Nov. 4, 1872. A large number of the
constituent Lodges declined to attend, with the understanding that the business
would be postponed until the first Monday in January, 1873, agreeable to the sug-
gestion of a proclamation issued by the Grand Master ; the reason for which was
that the Annual Communication fell at the time of the Presidential election.
The Grand Lodge was therefore closed until Jan. 6, 1873, when it met at Little
Rock, with one hundred Lodges, of the two hundred and seventy-six on the register,
represented.
The excellent address of Grand Master Williams begins like a jeremiade, but
proceeds in plain and vigorous words to point out the remedy for the evils it laments.
Condemning the crying evils of intemperence and gambling, he characterizes the
Mason who has not the courage to war against vice as a moral poltroon; and one
who is addicted to and influenced by vice, and lends himself to prevent discipline,
as a traitor and spy of the enemy. The following is, unfortunately, true of other
jurisdictions than Arkansas;
"We find Masons in formal good standing in their Lodge, who are grossly in-
temperate; who encourage this worst scourge of humanity, by dealing out death to
the body and damnation to the soul at so much per glass, who haunt the gambling
hells and moral sinks of our towns and cities."
"Gambling is another crying evil of the age. It is not necessary merely to refer
to the card-table, the faro-bank, keno, or any other of the gambling devices which
are exhibited to decoy the young and unwary ; nor do I suppose that many Masons
are addicted to this gross and more revolting form of gambling. It presents itself
in a more insidious and dangerous form, and even the church is not free from its
cursed taint — the lottery, raffle, prize scheme and gift enterprise. We find these
heralded upon every corner, practiced everywhere. Even good-meaning ladies at
a church fair will ask us to take a chance in some raffle for the benefit of the
church."
He regards the dignity of labor as the cardinal idea of Masonry, placing the in-
stitution at war with the gambling spirit that seeks riches without toil.
He had issued twenty-five dispensations for new Lodges.
Of his decisions on points of law and practice, he submitted twenty-two. We
copy only such as touch new points, or with which we do not agree :
"4. In case of difference between two brothers, one applied for a dimit on ac-
count of this difference. The Lodge refused it. I was asked — first, did the Lodge
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do right ; secondly, what should be done. I held that the dimit was properly re-
fused ; that a committee should be appointed to reconcile the brothers; if they
would not be reconciled, charges should be preferred, and inflict punishment not
less than suspension on the guilty."
We doubt the propriety of holding as a rule, that in such cases charges should be
preferred. We would let Time, the great healer of differences, as of wounds, have
an opportunity to do his work before resorting to coercive measures, which aggravate
rather than allay.
The following seems to us just, where the Lodge is permitted to excuse a brother,
at his request, from voting :
"II. That on a trial upon charges the prosecutor was excused from voting; and
the Lodge might, by vote, excuse any brother at his request, as decided by the Com-
mittee on Masonic Law and Usage at the last session of the Grand Lodge of Ar-
kansas As it requires two-thirds of all present, voting in the affirmative, to convict,
the brethren who are excused from voting should either retire, or at least be re-
garded, for the purpose of the trial, as not present. Otherwise they would be
counted always in the negative, and might prevent a just and proper conviction,
although all present actually voting might vote in the affirmative Thus, ten mem-
bers are present; one is the prosecutor. The Lodge, for good reasons, excuse
three. If these four are counted as present, the remaining six might all vote for
conviction; yet the accused go unpunished, because six would not be two thirds of
ten. Thus demonstrating that if the brethren excused from voting are counted as
present, they do vote practically every time in the negative, because their presence
has to be overcome by the affirmative vote. Being convinced that such was not the
intention of the framers of the by-law, I have held that the two-thirds present
means two-thirds of those actually required to vote."
We do not know whether the Grand Lodge, through its regulations, or the Grand
Master, is responsible for the misapprehension as to the true functions of the Com^
mittee embraced in the following :
"17 A committee to whom charges have been referred for investigation, must
ascertain from such proof as they can obtain, whether or not there is cause to believe
the brother guilty of un-Masonic conduct, and report accordingly."
The duty of a committee of this kind is to report facts, not a verdict. The ju
ridical function rests in the Lodge alone.
The following was partially reversed by the Grand Lodge through the report of
the Committee on Masonic Law and Usage :
" 19 The vote on a trial for un-Masonic conduct ought to be open, not by ballot ;
but the brother on trial has no right to know how any brother voted."
The Committee say :
"The following decision, viz: The vote on a trial for un-Masonic conduct ought
to be open, not by ballot, but the brother on trial has no right to know how any
brother voted; the Committee would change to read as follows, viz: " The vote on
a trial for un-Masonic conduct may be open or by ballot, but the brother on trial has
no right to know how any brother voted." The Committee believe that if the ballot
must be open, that the ends of justice would often be defeated through intimidation
or for other obvious reasons."
The reason given by the Committee for thus modifying the decision, is sufficient;
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it is also sufficient, to demand with equal force, the modification of their own ut-
terance to the simple declaration that the vote must be by secret ballot.
A District Deputy having decided "That the Worshipful Master has but one vote
even in case of a tie," the Grand Master says :
" Without assuming to decide, I am inclined to believe that the Master of a
Lodge, in all cases where he chooses to exercise the right, can vote as a member;
and in case of a tie, the question is never lost as in ordinary deliberate bodies, but
the Master, as such, gives the casting vote."
Aside from the authority (Bro. Mackey) quoted in favor of this view, he thinks
it sustained on principle, holding that "a Master is certainly not disfranchised as a
member by becoming such, and his vote, as a member, certainly is not the exercise
of his magisterial vote in deciding a tie."
The Commitee on Law and Usage, however, recommended the approval of the
decision as made by the Deputy, it being in accordance with Regulation XVIth of
the Grand Lodge of Arkansas, and says:
" The opinion of the M. W. Grand Master, that the regulation is wrong in principle,
may be correct, for the reasons by him stated, yet as American Masonry has made
the matter the subject of local regulation by the several Grand Lodges, ignoring
thereby the usage established by the General Regulations of 1 72 1, and as this Grand
Lodge has established its usage as stated, the Committee are not in favor of recom-
mending any change or alteration thereof."
The Grand Lodge concurred.
Although our Grand Lodge, in 1871, confirmed the decision of Grand Master
Cregier that in addition to the vote to which he was entitled as a member, it would
be proper for the Master of a Lodge, in the event of a tie, to cast a deciding vote
as Master, we can find no warrant lor it except in the questionable analogy furnished
by the Xllth Regulation of 1 721, wherein it is provided that the Grand Master
shall have two votes, and is understood to apply to cases of tie. Unless general and
immemorial usage has vested such a right in the Master, — and if it has we have not
been made aware of it — we know of no sufficient reason for inaugurating or per-
petuating a departure from the just principles of parliamentary law.
Grand Master Williams again urges the importance of an endowment for St.
John's College, and a committee was charged with the duty of reporting a plan for
such endowment at the next Communication. As usual the Grand Lodge appro-
priated its surplus funds to the institution.
The Grand Master announced the demise during the year, of Past Grand Master
James McVicar ; Past Junior Grand Warden Isaac C. Hicks ; Past Senior Grand
Warden A. M. Ward, and Past (who was also the first) Grand Secretary George
C. Watkins. Memorial pages are set apart for them.
The postponement of the Grand Lodge from November to January, raised a
question in the minds of the Committee on Credentials. They say :
"Your Committee would further show that in passing upon credentials of
delegates to this Grand Lodge they have regarded this as the Grand Lodge of 1872,
and that all officers who have been elected since the close of the last Masonic year,
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except such as were re-elected, your Committee have adjudged as proxies for retired
officers, who, in the judgment of your Committee, were entitled to represent their
respective Lodges."
The list of names reported by the Committee was adopted, and the question
whether the officers elected subsequent to the first Monday in November were the
representatives to the Grand Lodge, or those who would have been had the Grand
Lodge met on the first Monday in November, was referred to the Committee on
Masonic Law and Usage. Wisely, perhaps, the Committee allowed the matter to
sleep, and the question whether sundry brethren were Masters, Wardens or proxies, is
likely to take its place among those unsolved problems, which, like the authorship
of "Junius," and the identity of the "Man in the Iron Mask," bid fair to vex mankind
forever.
Desiring to change its time of meeting to the second Monday in October, the
Grand Lodge, having found the manner of changing the Constitution, according to
its present requirements, to be inoperative by reason of non-action of the Constituent
Lodges, was driven to the alternative of calling a Convention of its Constitutional
Constituency, in order to make the necessary change, which it did by unanimous
vote.
Twenty-three Charters were granted; two Dispensations for new Lodges were
granted and three continued.
The Grand Lodges of British Columbia and Utah were recognized, as was also
the Grand Orient of Brazil, Valley of Lavradio.
E. R. DuVal, of Fort Smith, was elected Grand Master ; L. E. Barber, Little
Rock, Grand Secretary.
The docket of the Committee on Appeals and Grievances embraces nine cases.
In one case a brother had been tried in Lodge No. 122, and last year, on appeal,
the decision of the Lodge was reversed and a new trial ordered, with a change
of venue to No. 160. This year No. 122 appeals from the decision of No. 160.
The Committee recommended the approval of the decision of No. 160 and the
Grand Lodge concurred ; subsequently, however, on a reconsideration, the case was
again remanded for trial to No. 122, the Lodge having original jurisdiction.
This is the only instance in the history of the Grand Lodge where it has exercised
the power, on reviewing a judgment of expulsion, to remand a case with a change
of venue, and the Committee on Law and Usage expresses the hope that another
instance may never occur where it may find it necessary to exercise this delicate power.
They very properly say that it would defeat the very object of transferring the trial
from the expelling Lodge to another, to allow the members of the expelling Lodge
to vote on the trial in the Lodge to which the case is transferred, as contemplated
in the resolution which called forth their report.
Bro. DuVal from the Committee on the Masonic History of Arkansas, presented
a report embracing much interesting information relative to the early history of
Masonry in the State. The Committee was continued, with leave to perfect its
work.
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Proceedings of the
The Report on Correspondence, (pp. 131 ), the work of Bro. George E. Dodge,
reviews forty-six American Grand Lodges.
Bro. Dodge wields a sprightly, as well as an able pen, and his facility at catching
the ludicrous aspect of things is such that not even Bro. Gouley, in his most'
mournful mood — fitting in moist disconsolateness astride his grief compelling mon-
ument to Grand Lodge Sovereighty deceased — could read him and repress an
audible smile.
At the outset the reviewer says :
"If there lives a brother with "soul so dead" as to carp at the length of this
report, when the time and labor involved in the same are furnished gratuitously,
and at no small personal sacrifice, we will not advertise the existence of such a
specimen of petrifaction by making an apology."
Illinois receives very complimentary notice. Of the address of Grand Master
Crecier, he says :
"The details of the Grand Master's arduous duties during the year, together with
his recommendations, decisions, etc., are set forth with such method and precision as
entitle its author to special praise. Some idea of the magnitude of the Masonic
work in Illinois may be arrived at from the amount received during the year from
Dispensations alone, footing up to the snug sum of $1,288, and yet it was not a
good year for Dispensations, as the Grand Master discriminated closely in the ex-
ercise of his prerogative."
He dissents from Grand Master Cregier's decision that the Master of a Lodge is
entitled to one vote as a member and another as Master, but holds all the rest to be
correct.
Relative to the destruction of proceedings received before the destruction of our
archives at Springfield, he says :
"We notice, with regret, ours mentioned among those which "were received in
time to be burned." We will try to be a little later next time, and not dry enough
to burn readily. We hope we have not "burned our fingers" by thus courting
comment."
We cannot forbear a quotation showing Bro. Dodge's style. Only those, how-
ever, who have read the exhaustive report referred to, can quite appreciate the fol-
lowing relative to New Hampshire :
" The principle feature of these proceedings appears to be the report of the
"Committee on Trials and Appeals." "Cromwell Kimball's case" heads the list,
and occupies over twenty-seven pages of fine print (fifty-six lines to the page).
" The Committee start out by saying: "This is an extraordinary case." We
should say so; "Tarndice" isn't a circumstance. "It is a comedy of errors, and
something more," say the Committee, and we cannot find it in our heart to contra-
dict them. " We fervently trust, for the honor of the Craft, that its like will never
be known again." Amen, say we.
"A committee was appointed to condense the report for publication. Their report
consisted of four lines, to the effect that "that little thing can't be did," without
" marring its symmetry," etc. This is a sufficient excuse for our not attempting to
condense or synopsize it, We almost forgot to say that " Cromwell Kimball" was
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declared indefinitely suspended. We have not learned what was done with the
Committee, but suppose they were sent to the hospital or sea-shore."
Of Bro. Bain's North Carolina Report, he says :
" Speaking of Past Grand Master Blocker 's address, which he says " furnishes
evidence of ability and faithfulness in the discharge of his official duties," he cor-
rects his " front name" saying "Wm. D. BlocKer (not O. H. as published in our
report of 1870)." We refuse to be comforted until Bro. Bain corrects that
"cussed" little k. It will take one more year to untangle Bro. Blocher's name,
and then we shall expect Bro. Bain to go to work reconstructing Bro. Smithee's,
which looms up in painful prominence as " Smythee." We submit it to Bro. Bain
in all candor and with tears in our eyes, is there a reasonable probability that a man
could 'have such a name ?"
We have marked many things which we should be glad to quote, but can only
permit ourselves space to condemn most emphatically the pernicious doctrine, held
to by Bro. Dodge, that a brother under charges is not entitled to the "presumption
of innocence."
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
This nicely printed pamphlet contains the record of a Special Communication,
held at New Westminster, July 30, 1872, to lay the corner Stone of the Mortuary
Chapel of the Masonic Cemetery, at Sapperton, on which occasion an Odd Fellows
Lodge was improperly assigned a place in the procession ; and of the Annual Com-
munication held at Victoria, Dec. 7, 1872.
Grand Master Powell delivered a brief, but excellent address. We quote :
" It is, to me, a matter of great pride and supreme gratification to refer to the
very favorable criticisms with which our proceedings in the formation of this Grand
Body have been reviewed by so many Sister Grand Lodges. Complimentary Reso-
lutions on the regularity of our work and distinguished assurances of warm welcome,
reach us from all quarters, and I am free to observe, if the future prosperity of the
Young Grand Lodge of British Columbia depends upon the good will and friendly
wishes of her older and more experienced Sisters, it may indeed be regarded with
certainty.
It would be invidious for me to attempt to distinguish among these many messages
of encouragement ; but I should recommend the appointment at this Communica-
tion, of a Committee of Correspondence, who in their Report for the information
of our own Lodges, would embrace the opportunity of reciprocating in fitting terms
these fraternal greetings, and assure the kindred spirits "from over and beyond the
border" how deeply we have realized from their goodness that
"Kind words are more than Coronets,"
" And simple faith than Norman Blood."
I am, too, glad to inform you that all the Grand Lodges of our Sister Provinces
in the Dominion, and those in the United States, so far as heard from, have, with
the exception of one — the Grand Lodge of Indiana — accorded us a hearty recog-
nition and warm .welcome. This last named Grand Lodge has not positively
refused to recognize us, but unlike their predecessors, "the Colonists of old," will
await the action of England in the matter. It is therefore a subject entirely for the
development of the future, when the Grand Lodges of England, Scotland and
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Indiana will accord us Independence, nothing having as yet come to us from the
two former Bodies. I had the honor of being Provincial Grand Master under the
Scottish Jurisdiction in this Province for a number of years, and for two years pre-
vious to my resignation I found it impossible to obtain any correspondence whatever
from her. As you are aware I resigned my Commission upon the formation of this
Grand Lodge, and though a further period of some eighteen months have elapsed,
I have not yet been honored with any acknowledgement of my notice of resignation,
and certainly I have yet to receive any words of good cheer for yourselves. How-
ever, we love our Mother Grand Lodge too well, and cling too fondly to old and
highly prized associations to question even her silence ; but from our own experi-
ence, we may be pardoned for inability to repress a smile in our grief, when we hear
that an enterprising Sister intends keeping us out in the cold until she hears about
us from that 'dear old quarter.'"
He reported that Union Lodge, late 889 of the English Registry, had unani-
mously surrendered her charter under the Grand Lodge of England, and affiliated
with the Grand Lodge of British Columbia. We heartily congratulate the new
Grand Lodge on its having thus amicably acquired the exclusive jurisdiction to
which it was entitled.
Though he had as yet refrained from the practice, he recommended the adoption
of the Grand Representative system, which was inaugurated during the session by
the reception and recognition of Grand Secretary Heisterman as the Representative
of the Grand Lodge of Utah.
Steps were taken looking to the inauguration of a Benevolent Fund.
An effort is being made to amend the constitutional rule requiring unanimity in
the election of candidates, which, for the welfare of Masonry in British Columbia,
we trust will not prevail.
Israel Wood Powell, of Victoria, was re-elected Grand Master; H. F. Heis-
terman, Victoria, re-appointed Grand Secretary. In recognition of his eminent
services, gratuitously rendered, the latter was presented with a handsome gold
chronometer watch, suitably engraved.
A Committee on Correspondence was appointed, with Past Grand Master
Burnaby as Chairman.
CALIFORNIA.
The Grand Lodge met at San Francisco, Oct. 8, 1872.
The brilliant and able address of Grand Master Pratt is pitched in quite a dif-
ferent key from that of last year. "Then," he says, "we could not rejoice save in the
doubtful blessing that our lives had been prolonged to behold another annual fes-
tival ; but today no wealth of gratitude can be in excess of what we owe the
beneficent Father whose paternal hand has given us all."
He makes an eloquent appeal for personal fidelity, as being the virtue whose
cultivation is the peculiar province of Masonry, and which he declares to be the
strongest similitude of the divine, and the crowning glory of human character.
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The lack of fidelity to one another, and a want of attention and courtesey to strange
brethren, have been, he says, the evils and omissions which have most attracted his
attention in the course of his visitations.
A large amount of public work had been done during the year, by himself or his
special deputies.
That but four Dispensations had been issued for new Lodges, and that two
Lodges had surrendered their charters, lie regards as healthful rather than discour-
aging. As a Lodge should serve some other purpose than the gratification of per-
sonal ambition by making indifferent Masters and sending its representatives to the
Grand Lodge, he hailed the surrender of every Charter by a weak and decaying
Lodge as an evidence of returning sense and wisdom, rather than declining zeal.
In the way of decisions, he had held, properly, we think, that the loss of one
eye did not disqualify the candidate, yet confessed that he should not regret to see
his decision overruled ; that while the accuser could not dismiss charges once
preferred, (entertained, we should say), the Lodge might dismiss them at any time;
that where a candidate had been elected to receive the three degrees in a certain
Lodge, and had received the first, and when on account of his removal another
Lodge had been requested to confer the remaining degrees, though the Lodge which
had been requested merely to do the work for another might decline at its option,
yet an objection made to his advancement should be disregarded, with which we
agree. Of another question he says :
" I have also been called upon to consider whether a dimitted Mason may affiliate
with a Lodge other than that within the jurisdiction of which he resides. I think
the intendment of our Constitution to be that he should apply to the Lodge where
he resides, though it is not so expressly stated, and possibly affiliation anywhere
might be a compliance with its terms. The latter construction, however, might
lead to curious results ; for, if the applicant may go to a distant Lodge in this State for
affiliation, I do not see why he may not apply to some Lodge out of the State. In-
deed, in the very case presented, the brother, fearing that he would be rejected in
the Lodge within whose jurisdiction he resided, was about to send his dimit and
petition to his mother Lodge in Tennessee. Without exactly deciding the question,
I discouraged the enterprising brother with so much energy that he abandoned
the project of affiliating in Tennessee. I should be glad, however, to have the
question settled authoritatively. An impression prevails, I think, that a brother
may affiliate with any Lodge he may select. I am sure that such ought not to be
the rule, and I hope that it is not in this jurisdiction."
In Illinois not only the impression but the rule prevails that the brother has the
right to affiliate wherever he chooses. If it be said that this would permit him to
apply to some Lodge in another jurisdiction, we answer that we know of no reason
why he should not, nor where any one derives the power to say that he shall not.
We quote the following, notwithstanding its length as containing food for reflec-
tion on a subject about which the entire craft need to think against that day when
we shall pause to consider the far-reaching consequences of the establishment of
permanent Lodges, and to inquire what will be left when its remorseless logic shall
have completed the revolution it is surely but almost imperceptibly working :
"One of those cases of hardship which occasionally arise under our law has within
the last week been brought to my attention. It has excited so much of my sympa-
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thy that I cannot refrain from reporting it for your consideration, that you may in-
quire whether any safe and practicable remedy can he devised for like cases hereafter.
A worthy and estimable member of one of our city Lodges was spending the season
in a remote part of the State. There he received the usual notice from the Secre-
tary of his Lodge that his dues were delinquent, and that unless payment was made
his suspension would follow at the next stated meeting. He immediately wrote to
a relative in the city, requesting him to pay his dues, but omitted to name the Lodge
to which they were to be paid. The party was ready to pay as requested, but was
obliged to write to the brother to ascertain where payment was to be made. Pend-
ing the delay thus occasioned the stated meeting occurred, the brother was declared
suspended, and, before he could be reinstated, died. The widow and children
begged for a Masonic burial ; and I cannot express to you the shame, the bitterness
and regret with which I was obliged to say that I could not undo the ban of sus-
pension— that the law was inexorable — and that the last rites of the fraternity must
be denied him. If ever I have chafed under the restrictions of the law, and been
savagely tempted to depart from and over-ride its plain provisions, it was when the
piteous appeal of this poor woman and her fatherless children came to me, implor-
ing that the penalty of neglect, which was no fault of his, might not follow their
dead idol to and beyond his grave. Nor does the evil stop here. How many years
may he have served the Masonic fraternity with his time, his labor, and his means
— how much of zeal and devotion may he have manifested, and what sacrifices
may he have made — with what faith and trust may he have anticipated the paternal
care and kind solicitude of the fraternity to his surviving family when death should
have taken him away ! Yet the trick of an accident has destroyed all, and the
widow and orphan are as homeless to-day as if the husband and father had never
passed the portals of the temple. Here, indeed, they will not be permitted to suffer.
We, who know the facts, will not seek to evade our obligations by invoking the cold
letter of a law which, indeed, cancels their legal claim, but which can never undo
the moral duty which rests upon us. But we can give no evidence of their claim
upon the fraternity which can be recognized abroad ; and, beyond the little circle of
personal acquaintances, they must be treated as the survivors of one who died under
the ban of suspension. Neither as man nor as Mason can I reconcile myself to this
result, and I ask you again if there can not some plan be devised for the relief of
just such cases as this, without at the same time opening the door to the claims of the
drone, the unworthy, and undeserving ? If there can not, then I have only to add
that, for niyself, I would rather be imposed upon and tricked a thousand times by
undeserving cheats and pretenders, than be a participant in any degree in the wrong
wrought upon this dead brother and his family. I am at war with a system or a law
which by any possibility can work or permit such wrong, and I do not propose to
yield it my approval until the system is modified, or some officer, board, or tribunal
is created, with power to undo an injury in a case of unmistakable merit, where
there was no fault on the part of the sufferer."
A pleasanter theme is the following :
" It will be remembered that at your last Annual Communication, this Grand
Lodge donated a considerable sum for the relief of our brethren who were sufferers
by U^e great fire at Chicago. The sequel to this is curious, and, I apprehend, unpre-
cedented. It would seem that the world-wide charity which poured its prolific
offerings into the hands of those afflicted people, was more than sufficient to supply
their every want; for a lew days since I received from the Grand Master of Illinois
a draft for eighteen hundred and seventy-four dollars, which he returns as our pro-
portion of the unexpended funds which they do not need. This is indeed suggest-
ive. It is suggestive of the spirit and manhood of our Chicago brethren and their
high appreciation of true Masonic charity. It is suggestive also of the vitality and
earnestness of that Freemasonry which hastened to give more than that most ap-
palling calamity called for It is suggestive also of the progress of our civilization,
for never before in the world's history has such overwhelming disaster been thus
entirely relieved. It speaks well of our recognition of our obligations as members
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of a great social compact — of our fidelity and devotion to our vows of fraternal
assistance and regard — and, more than all, it tells us in unmistakable terms how
■much of good, after all, even in this age of mammon-worship, may be still found in
the elements which make up our common humanity."
The Grand Master again speaks highly of the efficiency of their system of In-
spection, and says that the good already effected by it is incalculable.
He noticed the death of John Sherrill Ward, Past Senior Grand Warden.
A memorial tablet is inscribed to him.
From the admirable report of the Grand Secretary, we learn that one hundred
and seventy-nine Chartered Lodges existed in the jurisdiction. Five were added
at this Communication. As usuul no Lodge was in arrears for dues at the end of
the fiscal year. One hundred and seventy Lodges were represented in this Commu-
nication.
For the fifth time Bro. William H. Hill presented the report on Correspond-
ence, (pp. 123), reviewing thoroughly and ably the proceedings of all the American
Grand Lodges, save Ohio and Rhode Island, some of them for two or more years
•
Of our Annual Communication of 1871, he says:
" Seven hundred and twenty-three representatives were present from five hundred
and forty Lodges. If Bro. Cregier had the nerve and the tact to keep order in an
assemblage of that size, we respectfully nominate him as the next Speaker of the
House of Representatives. As the old deacon said when he tried to preach and
failed, ' If anybody else thinks he can do better just let him come up here and try.' "
He gives quite a thorough synopsis of Grand Master Cregier's address, espe-
cially commending, as consonant with common sense as well as Masonic law, his
decision that a visiting brother is not obliged to exhibit a traveling certificate. He
concurs, too, in the decision, that while a member of a particular Lodge has the ab-
solute right to object to the iniation of a profane, he can only stop the advancement
of a brother where good reasons are given. He dissents, however, from the ruling
that neither Master nor Wardens can resign or dimit during their term of office.
The Report on Correspondence is kindly noticed..
We are glad to see that Bro. Hill loses no opportunity to protest against placing
Entered Apprentices and Fellow Crafts on the same footing with profanes, by re-
cognizing the right of peremptory objection to their advancement. He says :
" It is a part of the great unwritten law of common sense, as well as of Masonry,
that when a man, and especially a brother, has been endowed with certain rights,
as is undisputably the case with the Entered Apprentice and Fellow Craft, he can
not be deprived thereof by the mere ipse dixit of another. If unworthy to go on,
let that fact be made known in the proper way, and justice be done the Lodge and
the brother fearlessly. But no assassinations from behind masked batteries."
He thinks Indiana correct in holding that no Lodge is competent to do business
with less that seven members present.
From the Report of the San Francisco Masonic Board of Relief, we find that
two applicants from Illinois received aid to the amount of $193.
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A communication was received from the Grand Orient of France, expressing a
desire for the renewal of fraternal relations, covering a report presented to the
Council of the Order, April 2, 1872, by Bro. Cauhet, which closes with the dec-
laration that the Grand Orient cannot reconsider or change the conclusions of the
decree, in consequence of which those relations had been broken off by certain
Masonic Powers.
The report of the Committee on Jurisprudence on this paper is able and severe.
In closing, the Committee say :
"This Grand Lodge heartily reciprocates the desire expressed by the Grand
Orient of France for the renewal of friendly relations, but that can be only upon
such terms as would be consistent with its own integrity as a Grand Lodge. It re-
news the expression of its earnest hope that better and wiser counsels will direct
the action of that Grand body, and cause it to recognize the rights of every Grand
Lodge on this continent to govern the Craft within its own territorial limits in such
wise as shall to it seem best adapted to promote the interests of Masonry, and to ex-
ereise exclusive, supreme, and perpetual control over the first three degrees of
Masonry within those limits. Upon no other condition can this Grand Lodge desire
to renew those relations."
Under the lead of the same Committee the Grand Lodge overruled the opinion of
the Grand Master that the loss of one eye did not disqualify for the degrees.
The Committee quote their General Regulations, which they hold must govern
the decision. We give it :
"The person who desires to be made a Mason must be a man; no woman nor
eunuch ; free born, being neither a slave nor the son of a bond-woman; a believer
in God and a future existence ; of moral conduct ; capable of reading and writing ;
not deformed or dismembered, but hale and sound in his physical conformation,
having his right limbs as a man ought to have ; and able to conform literally to what
the several degrees respectively require of Aiw."
Just how the Committee manage to find a basis for their judgment in this regula-
tion, we don't know. Reasoning by a process of exclusion, however, we imagine
they must have supposed it to lie somewhere in the line "not deformed or dis-
membered, but hale and sound in his physical conformation." Now however much
a man may be disfigured by the loss of an eye, he is not deformed ; nor is he
dismembered in the obvious sense of the language here used. It follows, then,
that he must be rejected on the ground of unsoundness " in his physical conforma-
tion." Rigidly apply the test of physical soundness, and the most conservative
would cease complaining that we are making Masons too fast. Every time a dentist
extracted a tooth a possible ashlar would have been spoiled ! Very probably we
shall be told that we carry our deductions to a ridiculous extreme. Yes, just far
enough to show that the line must be drawn somewhere, and that tinker as we will,
we shall not improve on the common sense of the Old Charge: "Having no
maim or defect in his body that may render him incapable of serving his master's
Lord;" or, in other words, "able to conform literally to what the several degrees
respectively require of him."
The Committee on Jurisprudence submitted, and the Grand Lodge concurred in
a most remarkable report on the subject of electioneering for office. We are sorely
tempted to copy it entire, but must content ourselves with a portion, as follows :
Grand Lodge of Illinois. xvn
"At the last Annual Communication, Bio. John H. McCune presented a copy
of a circular letter and moved its reference to this committee, in the following form :
" ' A circular having, to some extent, been sent to certain members of the craft
prior to the assembling of this M. W. G. L., intended apparently to forestall the
action of this G. L., a copy of which is hereto annexed, (omitting the address), I
move that it be referred to the Committee on Masonic Jurisprudence, with instruc-
tions to inquire and report
'" 1st. Whether such a paper has been circulated, by whom and to what extent?
" ' 2d. Whether such action violates any edict or resolation of this G. L.
"'3d. Whether according to the general principles of Masonic jurisprudence elec-
tioneering documents or letters may be lawfully circulated among the Craft with a
view to influence elections.
"'4th. Whether any officer of this G. L. may without violating any law insert in
an official paper report or address any matter intended directly to influence an elec-
tion.
" Copy of Circular.
"'San Francisco, 27th Sept., 1871.
"'Bro. ,
'"I would be very glad to see you at the next Communication of the Grand
Lodge, which commences on the 10th proximo.
" ' I understand that there is to be a strong effort to relieve me from the duties of
Grand Secretary, and as I don't particularly want to be relieved, it would give me
great pleasure to see here the old friends who know me and will be able to make me
known properly to those of their friends and neighbors with whom I have no per-
sonal acquaintace. Yours truly and fraternally,
"' Alex. G. Abell.
" Your committee have inquired into the matter to which their attention was
directed, have considered the said circular, and report as follows :
" 1st. They inquired of Bro. Abell as to the circular letter, and were informed
by him that he had written the letter in question and caused it to be printed, and
had sent copies thereof, over his own signature, to several members of the Grand
Lodge, perhaps fifty or sixty in all, though he was unable to state the exact number.
" 2d. Such action on the part of Bro. Abell did not, in the judgment of your
committee, violate the letter or spirit of any edict or regulation of this Grand
Lodge.
" 3d. Your committee, after a very careful research, have been unable to find
any law of Masonry, or to discover any principle of Masonic jurisprudence, which
forbids the circulation among the craft of even an "electioneering document,"
with a view to influence elections, provided always such document be truthful in its
statements.
"4th. Your committee are not advised of any law of this Grand Lodge, or of Ma-
sonry, that directs what matters shall or shall not be inserted or stated in the ad-
dresses, reports, or official papers of the officers of the Grand Lodge ; or of any
law that would be violated by the insertion in such address, report, or official paper
of any truthful and pertinent matter, even if it were intended to have a direct in-
fluence upion an election.
" Having thus answered the questions to which their attention was specially
directed, you committee take leave to express the following opinions:
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" In regard to the circular letter referred to them, they have examined it carefully
and critically, and have been unable to find anything in it to which any man ought
to take objection. It is addressed to a particular person — requests his attendance at
the then approaching session of the Grand Lodge — sates, in effect, though in very
modest terms, that strong efforts would be made to defeat the re-election of the
writer to the office of Grand Secretary — and expresses a desire to see his old friends
who knew him and could make him known to their friends, with whom he had no
personal acquaintance.
" Any member of this Grand Lodge has the undoubted right to aspire to any
office within its gift, and to announce to every Mason of the jurisdiction that he is
an aspirant, if he so desires to do. Under ordinary circumstances, the modesty and
good taste of the party who should make such an announcement would not be as
conspicuous as some other less commendable qualities, and he would stand in about
the same relation to the office sought as George Francis Train does to the Presi-
dency. He would see it in a vision afar off. But it is quite another thing when
one who has occupied for many years a position like that of Grand Secretary, and
desires to be re-elected to the same position. He has an undoubted right to desire
to be re-elected, and to make known his desire to every member of the Grand
Lodge, in any proper form; and if he learns that strong efforts, or any efforts, are
being made, or are to be made, to defeat his re-election, he may, without any im-
propriety, inform his friends,, or those whom he supposes to be his friends, of the
fact, and request their attendance — in the reasonable expectation that they will sup-
port him and use their influence, in all proper ways, to induce their friends also to
support him."
The Committee proceed to give the mover a smart rap over the knuckles for in-
sinuating in the 4th subdivision of the instructions that officers of the Grand Lodge
had inserted in addresses, reports and official papers, matters intended to influence
the elections, and say that a careful search running back through five years, fails to
disclose anything to justify or give color even to the insinuation.
Perhaps the most extraordinary feature of this report, is the declaration of the
Committee that while under ordinary circumstances a person electioneering for
office in a Masonic body would be conspicuous for qualities less commendable than
modesty and good taste, yet one who has held an office for many years may do the
same thing " without itnpropriety.'''' We fail to see any essential difference be-
tween desiring to be elected and desiring to be re-elected.
Superior ability and aptness for the duties of a position may be reasons quite
sufficient why the Craft should re-elect a brother thereto, but while they properly
command* respect and confidence, they endow their possessor with no privileges
that the humblest Craftsman may not with the same propriety avail himself of to
attain the same position. Masonry knows no privileged class.
This report is signed by those whose eminence in jurisprudence is recognized
throughout the country, but the weight of their names will carry its doctrines no-
where beyond the confines of their own jurisdiction; and when time shall have
eliminated the heat generated by personal considerations, California will unite with
all her sister jurisdictions in the declaration that " Electioneering for office is
un-Masonic."
The docket of the Committee on Grievances embraced eighteen cases. The
reports thereon evince great ability and a thoroughness worthy of all praise.
Grand Lodge of Illinois. Xix
It was held by the Committee, the Grand Lodge concurring, that "if acquitted
on all the specifications, the accused is entitled to a verdict of not guilty upon the
charge. If found guilty of any part of the specifications, it is then to be decided
whether or not he is guilty of un- Masonic conduct, for it might be that the facts
proven would not render him amenable to Masonic censure," a clear and correct
statement of a point on which Masters are apt to get muddled. Also, that the mere
fact of being non-affiliated does not always disqualify a brother from acting as
counsel, for though un-affiliated he may be in good standing.
The Grand Lodges of Utah, British Columbia and Quebec, were recognized. On
the question of recognizing the latter, majority and minority reports were again
made by the Committee on Jurisprudence. The majority report is signed by Grand
Masters Belcher and Davies, who, while claiming that Quebec was not sufficiently
independent to warrant the formation of a Grand Lodge, further say :
" We base our conclusions upon higher ground — upon the ground of absolute
right which we ought not to ignore— that, when a Grand Lodge has established its
jurisdictional limits, and has, for a series of years, claimed and exercised jurisdic-
tion within those limits, its subordinate Lodges cannot, without its consent, throw
oft their allegiance and set up for themselves. That is the right of revolution, and
we cannot acknowledge it."
The minority of the Committee, Past Grand Master Marsh and Bro. Estee,
compress into a single paragraph arguments which as against the claims of Canada
are complete. They say :
" The question as to whether Quebec is a sufficiently independent political sover-
eignty to admit of the formation of a Grand Lodge is most positively answered in
the fact of the formation of the independent Grand Lodges of Nova Scotia and
New Brunswick, adjoining provinces, having exactly the same political status in re-
gard to government as the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario. The Grand Lodge of
Canada claimed and exercised the same right, in its organization in 1855, in the
form common to American Grand Lodges, and by which form the Grand Lodge of
Quebec was regularly organized in 1869, only it has been customary, and a practice
so universally recognized, for the Grand Lodge holding the original jurisdiction to
relinquish the same, upon the successful maintenance of the new Grand Lodge, that
the action of the Grand Lodge of Canada in this matter is in the highest degree
uncharitable and unjust. It acquired its own prerogatives and powers by the same
mode of procedure, but has ungenerously treated the Grand Lodge of Quebec as a
rebel, and endeavored by petty annoyances to bring discredit upon its organizatio
and prevent it irom occupying the political boundaries which it is by right entitled
to."
The minority was, as we intimated, concurred in.
Leonidas E. Pratt, of San Francisco, was elected Grand Master; Alex. G.
Abell, San Francisco, Grand Secretary.
The sum of $1,874.00 returned by the Masonic Relief Committee of Chicago,
was appropriated to the Masonic Boards of Relief of the cities of San Francisco,
Sacramento, Marysville, Stockton and Los Angelos.
Bro. Edward E. W. McKinstry delivered an excellent Oration. The follow-
ing indicates .that he has become emancipated from the influence of the brood of
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so-called Masonic historians who were want to draw so heavily on their imagination
for their facts :
"Without underestimating the studies which have sought an obscure origin for
Masonry in musty tomes and mythical legends, we may be permitted respectfully to
doubt the historical accuracy of the assertion — confidently made by the learned
Doctor Oliver — that our "arts and parts" were taught in the Garder of Eden. The
apron of our first parents, according to the account generally received, was not an
emblem of innocence ; and we may reasonably suspect that the theory of the learned
Doctor, in this particular, had little better foundation than that of the native histo-
rian who supposed that the Paradise must have been located in the Emerald Isle —
because Adam and Eve first began "the wearing of the green."
It was ordered that hereafter the address of the Grand Master and the reports of
the Committees on Jurisprudence and Grievances be printed before the meeting of
the Grand Lodge, an excellent plan which our own Grand Lodge should adopt as
far as practicable. We have devoted considerable space to California, but we could
have doubled it with pleasure to ourselves and profit to the Craft.
CANADA.
The volume before us embraces the record of seven Special Communications for
the laying of corner stones, and of the Annual Communication, held at Hamilton,
July io, 1872.
Grand Master SEYMOUR reported twenty-one dispensations for the formation of
new Lodges, (two of which were located in the Province of Quebec), issued during
the year ; one Lodge resucitated after having lain dormant for several years, and
that two Lodges heretofore working under the Grand Lodge of England, and one
under the Grand Lodge of Ireland, had surrendered their original warrants and
affiliated with the Grand Lodge of Canada.
He had taken the liberty of forwarding an address to the Queen on the occasion
of the illness of the Prince of Wales, which the Grand Lodge approved, and sup-
plemented by another congratulating her on his recovery. He refers very briefly to
the Quebec difficulty, regretting that the efforts made to bring about a favorable so-
lution thereof had proved unsuccessful.
He reports the death of Wm. Combyn Stephens, Past Grand Representative of
the Grand Lodge of England near the Grand Lodge of Canada, a firm friend of the
latter from its formation, and Silas B. Fairbanks, Past Grand Registrar. Memo-
rial tablets are inscribed to them.
On receipt of the news of our calamity at Chicago, the Grand Master took the
responsibility, at the suggestion and with the concurrence of Deputy Grand Master
White, to issue an order on the Treasury for $2,000 for our relief, and telegraphed
Grand Master Cregier to draw immediately, rightly concluding that the value of
this noble charity would be enhanced by being made available in the hour of our
sorest need. His action was unanimously approved by the Board of General Pur-
poses at its next meeting, and by the Grand Lodge at this Communication.
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He recommended further action on the subject of dual membership, reporting
that though the resolution forbidding it, passed at the last Grand Lodge, had been
generally acted upon, yet there were a few exceptions where brethren questioning
the constitutionality of the resolution in the form and manner of its passing, had
not complied.
We find in reference to this matter that attempts to so amend the Constitution as
to prohibit dual membership; to prohibit it in places where there is concurrent ju-
risdiction, and to prohibit it "hereafter," severally failed, and the resolution passed
last year was rescinded.
The Grand Master spoke very encouragingly of the condition of Masonry, and
in closing, exhorted the brethren to "fear God, honor the Queen, and conform to
the relations of good neighbors and citizens."
With the Grand Master's address was submitted the protocols of the conference
whose conclusions, and the action of the Grand Lodge of Quebec thereon, we gave
last year under the head of Quebec. -
Upon informally learning the action of the Grand Lodge of Quebec, in rejecting
the conclusions of the conference, the Deputy Grand Master of Canada issued a
circular convening the representatives of the Lodges in Quebec still holding allegi-
ance to the Grand Lodge of Canada. At this meeting resolutions were unanimously
adopted setting forth that the resolutions passed by the Grand Lodge of Quebec,
[see III. Proc. 1872, p. cxiii, Appendix), were insulting to the Grand Lodge of
Canada, and could not be accepted as a basis of union without sacrificing its self
respect and that of its constituent Lodges ; that the formation of the Grand Lodge
of Quebec within the boundaries which it claims, was a violation of the territorial
jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Canada, and of the obligations of the members
working thereunder; that the "loyal Lodges" renew their expressions of allegi-
giance to the Grand Lodge of Canada, and their desire to remain affiliated there-
with; that as the efforts for the restoration of harmony have been, in spite of the
extraordinary concessions offered, insultingly rejected by the Grand Lodge of
Quebec, the Grand Lodge of Canada should at once take such steps as may be
necessary to maintain her supremacy over the territory universally recognized as
belonging to her until the causeless rebellion of 1869; and that an appeal should at
once be made to all sister Grand Lodges in communication with the Grand Lodge
of Canada, to unite with her for that purpose.
That this paper reflected the feelings of the Grand Lodge of Canada we judge
from the proceedings. The Board of General Purposes, in their report on the
Grand Master's address, sympathize with the regrets expressed by him at the failure
of the attempt at a settlement of the Quebec difficulty, and are pained to find that the
liberal concessions made have been insultingly rejected by their dissenting brethren
of Quebec. At a later stage of the proceedings a resolution was introduced setting
forth that the existing differences regarding jurisdiction are highly detrimental to
the interests of the Craft ;■ that a continuance of them must ultimately become very
injurious aud discreditable, that it is the duty of every sincere Mason to exert all the
influence in his power to secure the pacific adjustment, and that to this end a Com-
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mittee be appointed, to consist of Past Grand Masters Wilson and Simpson, and
Deputy Grand Master White, and invested with full powers to meet a similar Com-
mittee from the Grand Lodge of Quebec, select an umpire, and make a final settle-
ment of all differences.
The resolution fared ill — after a short discussion its seconder withdrew his
second, but another brother took his place ; after further discussion the mover with-
drew his name, followed by the second seconder, and left it apparently without a
friend. The Grand Lodge immediately afterward voted by a large majority to
hold its next Annual Communication at Montreal, where the Grand East of the
Grand Lodge of Quebec is located, thus indicating its purpose to carry the war into
Africa.
We sincerely regret this determination of the Grand Lodge of Canada. Although
its denial of the right of the Lodges in the Province of Quebec to form a Grand
Lodge, was based on grounds which would be untenable by any Grand Lodge, they
were doubly so in the case of the Grand. Lodge of Canada, in whose formation the
Quebec brethren could find ample precedent and complete justification for their
own course. Still other Grand Lodges were disposed to make all possible allow-
ance for acts done under the excitement of the moment, and while according that
recognition to Quebec which principle demanded and precedent justified, they re-
frained from visiting upon the acts of the Grand Lodge of Canada that censure
which justice untempered by brotherly regard would have demanded. Though a
great preponderance of Masonic opinion was adverse to the claims of the Grand
Lodge of Canada, there was no ill-will against that body. On the contrary the
adverse judgment of Grand Lodges was generally accompanied by unmistakeable
expressions of personal good feeling. If this state of things, so favorable to an
early adjustment of the existing difficulties, has not already passed away it is
seriously endangered by the issue of duplicate warrants on the part of the Grand
Lodge of Canada; more seriously still by its establishment of new Warranted
Lodges within the territory which a large number of Grand Lodges have recognized
as the exclusive jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Quebec.
The Grand Lodge concurred in the opinion of the Board of General Purposes,
in a case coming up on appeal, that the complaint of non-payment of money on a
business transaction between the accused and the accuser, was a charge of such
nature that it could not be entertained, with which we agree, unless the transaction
involved fraud.
Twenty-five warrants were granted, including three for Lodges that had not pre-
viously worked under dispensation ; including, also, the two Lodges within the
Province of Quebec, for which dispensations had been granted by the Grand Master.
The Grand Lodge of British Columbia was recognized. In reference to Utah,
the Board of General Purposes reported as follows :
"With reference to the circular received from the Grand Lodge of Utah, which
appears to have been formed by only three Subordinate Lodges, the Board recom-
mends that in the absence of information as to the circumstances attending its
erection into an independent Grand Lodge, and as to whether these Lodges compose
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the whole or a majority of the Lodges in that Territory, Grand Lodge for the pres-
ent defer taking any action in the matter."
There is nothing in the record to indicate that the Board was not unanimous in
this. We confess to some surprise at not finding a minority report from Deputy
Grand Master White, the President of the Board, in consonance with his recorded
views as expressed in his review of Massachusetts in 1868. He then said:
"Recognition of the new Grand Lodge of Nova Scotia was refused, notwith-
standing the right to establish such a body is admitted, but on the ground that the
action in the formation of it, had not been unanimous with the Lodges. Seeing that
but three Subordinate Lodges are required to form a Grand Lodge, and that Nova
Scotia was confessedly 'unoccupied Masonic territory,' we are at a loss to see the
force of the argument urged by the committee against recognition."
Of the Louisiana circular, the Board says, with the concurrence of the Grand
Lodge :
" While concurring with that Grand Lodge in the opinion that the establishment
by the Grand Lodge of Hamburg and the Grand Orient of Fiance, of Subordinate
Lodges within the jurisdiction of other independent Grand Lodges is .both illegal
and un-Masonic, and should be resisted by all proper means, the Board cannot but
protest most earnestly against the assumption that there is any "American'1'' as dis-
tinguished from "Masonic'''' doctrine, which can be at all binding on this or any
other independent Grand Lodge, and the attempt on the part of the Grand Lodge
of Louisiana to coerce foreign Grand Lodges into a recognition of such "American
doctrines'''' under the threat of an interruption of friendly relations, and a breaking up
of Masonic intercourse with such foreign Grand Lodges, is, in the opinion of this
Board, a most unwarranted interference with the action of independent Grand
Lodges, and one which they feel assured will be disapproved of even by their sister
Grand Lodges in the United States."
The Grand Lodge of Canada seems to differ with most other Grand Lodges as to
what constitutes "proper means " of resistance to the "illegal and un-Masonic"
course of the Grand Orient of France, as it has, since the act so characterized was
committed, sought and obtained an interchange of representatives with that body.
We cannot but regard the tone in which reference is made to the "American doc-
trine''' as in bad taste, to say the least, seeing that the general doctrine regarding
the formation and jurisdiction of Grand Lodges, styled, for convenience, by the
Grand Lodge of Louisiana, the American doctrine, is the very doctrine to which
the Grand Lodge of Canada appealed at its formation, and in accordance with
which it received the recognition of other Grand Lodges.
William Mercer Wilson, of Simcoe, was elected Grand Master; Thomas
Bird Harris, Hamilton, Grand Secretary.
Bro. E. Mitchell again presents the Report Correspondence (pp. 112), an
exceedingly interesting, free, and sometimes slashing review of thirty-three Ameri-
can Grand Lodges, Illinois included. Liberal quotations are made from the ad-
dress of Grand Master Cregier, in reference to whose remarks on the subject of
" Dispensations to confer degrees." He says :
" The above quotation tempts us to ask : Whence comes this extraordinary
power of dispensing with a fixed law to be vested in the Grand Master? A ques-
tion to which we have never met with a satisfacsory answer. We do not mean per-
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mission for processions, laying corner stones, &c; these are emergencies that cannot
well be otherwise provided for, but when we have a constitution, by-laws, rules and
regulations, confirmed and sealed by Grand Lodge, with a declaration that none of
them can be rescinded or altered except by Grand Lodge, under certain rules and
by certain majorities, we think the Grand Master, being at the head of the Execu-
tive, should of all men be bound to see those laws vindicated; but instead thereof
he rides roughshod over them as his fancy directs. We are told that the Master
had such powers long ago, that by usage they have become inherent — have become
a landmark, &c. We think the "long ago" was when che craft had no law to guide
them other than the Master's order. If this is so, and if it would be a breach ol a
landmark to deprive the Master of these powers, our present Grand Lodge system
i^ also a breach of a landmark. Why hold on to a landmark that is inapplicable to
our present state of existence, or if we must, why the farce of legislating at all?
Even if the plea of inlterent right were correct as to the Grand Master, when or how
did the right become communicable to his deputies ? Grand Master Brown, of
Kansas, says: "The Grand Master may have the power and authority under our
regulations and usages to grant dispensations to set aside a positive law. I am
clearly of the opinion that the exercise of such power and authority would be fraught
with many evil consequences." Indeed, Grand Master Cregier, although he does
not question the Grand Master's right to set aside the forms of law, would gladly
have recalled some of his dispensations if possible, because he thinks it equivalent
to making "Masons at sight." We think so too, and equivalent to setting all laws
at defiance. We are happy to find that the right of making "Masons at sight" (al-
though perhaps as much a landwark as the other) is about to be consigned to its iast
resting-place, and we hope the other will follow in due course."
In view of the above quotation we are tempted to ask: If these powers ever did
inhere in the person and office of the Grand Master, how could they have become
alienated? By the act of the Grand Master for the time being? However much
he might refrain from their exercise, he could no more divest the office of its pre-
rogatives than he could create new ones. Was it by the act of the Grand Lodge ?
The Grand Lodge did not create the office of Grand Master, and can no more cur-
tail the prerogatives which belonged to it when that body came into existence, than
it can to abolish it altogether.
Of the Illinois decision that in the absence of any definite law no Brother or
Lodge can bind any other Brother or Lodge for the payment of any funeral, sick-
ness or other expenses, unless by express consent, he says: "We wonder when
men will cease to spend other people's money without their consent, and claim re-
payment as a right"
A reviewer having found in the fact that Masonic Temples are being erected and
dedicated on every hand, the assurance that the " Craft are at labor," Bro. Mitchell
v shrewdly thinks that if he would take time to read more carefully the fact would, in
some cases, bring the assurance that the Craft would have been better off had they
been at "rest." He talks thus vigorously on a suoject on which we have already
expressed similar opinions :
" We hold that an E. A. is a brother Mason, that he entered and was 'received
with the express intention of becoming a Master as soon as he acquired sufficient
knowledge of his business. If, therefore, he gives satisfactory evidence of his pro-
ficiency, he has an unquestionable right to be advanced, unless for cause shown and
with the privilege of answering— that he should be kept back by the caprice or ma-
lignity of a secret enemy is — in so far as we can see — tantamount to expelling a
brother M. M. by ballot without charge, trial, or hearing, a course which no Lodge or
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any other body sacred or civil has even tolerated, if we except perhaps the Spanish
inquisition."
Bro. Mitchell thinks "permission" a better word than "dispensation," as ap-
plied to an instrument from the Grand Moster's hand, where no fixed law is inter-
fered with ; would like to know, as would we, what use there is in appeals, if, when
the Grand Lodge reverses the action of a constituent Lodge in expelling a brother,
it does not leave him enjoying the rights he possessed before the action was had, in-
cluding, of course, membership in his Lodge ; holds that reviewers have no right
whatever to recognize anything that does not come into their hands under the seal
of a Grand Lodge, proposing to give the reasons for his faith whenever any one
shall be found denying the doctrine, which chip on our brother's shoulder we pro-
pose to jostle to the extent of saying that we regard it as perfectly proper for a re-
viewer to make use of facts and arguments from any source, including the periodical
press, if they help to elucidate any subject under discussion ; commends the Penn-
sylvania practice of omitting from the pnblished proceedings the names of offenders,
and holds stoutly to his previously expressed opinion that as an edict of non-inter-
course cannot make the body at which it is aimed clandestine, such edict cannot
disturb the relations of individual Masons, but only prevent mutual visiting in
Lodges and common participation in Masonic demonstrations.
He attacks Bro. Drummond's review of the Canada-Quebec question with great
vigor, and with all the warmth which could be expected of one around whose own
hearthstone the fight is raging. We do not think he succeeds in weakening Bro.
Drummond's demonstration of the right of the Quebec Lodges to form a Grand
Lodge, and of the regularity of their proceedings. He does, however, make one
fair point against him personally, and that is in his just complaint that Bro. Drum-
mond should have alluded to the political opinions of Bro. Mitchell's forefathers
in the days of the American Revolution. Bro. Mitchell is himself guilty of an
occasional slip, though not perhaps of the same kind. Such is his styling the views
of those who hold that the political status of a Province as independent as Quebec
warrants the formation of a Grand Lodge therein, as the "Maine doctrine." We
do not see that it would have been claiming too much for his own household to
have called it the Pre- 1869 Canada Doctrine.
COLORADO.
The Grand Lodge met at Central, Sept. 24, 1872.
The address of Grand Master Teller is brief, and his official acts have been
few. He had granted dispensations for two new Lodges, and refused a petition for
a third because its formation was likely to cripple, if not destroy, an existing Lodge.
If the Grand Lodge thought it desirable to grant the dispensation, he recommended
that the Lodges have concurrent jurisdiction. The Grand Lodge granted it on that
condition.
Argenta Lodge, No. 21, having participated in the formation of, and taken a
charter from, the Grand Lodge of Utah, asked to be allowed to retain thei>- charter
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as an evidence of the regularity of their organization. The Grand Master recom-
mended that the charter be properly endorsed and returned to the Lodge, which was
done.
He finds the cause of loss of interest in the work of the Lodge in the fact that
we have too much of it — too much labor and too little refreshment ; that we are
too much inclined to lose sight of the fact that Masonry is a social institution,
formed for the very purpose of bringing us together as a society of friends and
Brothers, and urges a reform in these particulars.
The Grand Lodges of British Columbia and Utah were recognized. Last year
the question of the recognition of the Grand Lodge of Quebec was referred to the
Committee on Jurisprudence, with instructions to report at this communication.
There is, however, no record of the subject having been before the Grand Lodge.
Henry M. Teller, of Central City, was elected Grand Master; Ed. C.
Parmelee, Georgetown, Grand Secretary.
Two Lodges were chartered.
Again the Committee on Appeals and Grievances found itself without business.
Happy jurisdiction !
The following was adopted.
" Resolved, That it is earnestly recommended by this Grand Lodge that all Mas-
ters of Lodges in this jurisdiction, require every Master Mason raised in his Lodge,
to stand an examination in open Lodge within three months from the date of his
taking the Degree; said examination1 to be upon the proficiency of said member."
The Report on Correspondence, (pp. 45), by Bro. E. C. Parmelee, briefly re-
views the proceedings of forty-four American Grand Lodges, Illinois included.
Bro. Parmelee thinks affiliation fees should be abolished; dissents, as do we,
from the California doctrine that an unfavorable report is a sufficient rejection with-
out a ballot ; thinks that while charges cannot be amended by inserting new charges
for new offences, they can be for the purpose of making the charges more specific;
properly criticizes North Carolina for permitting a call for the previous question ; and
thinks, as we do, that that Grand Master was the right man in the right place, who
decided, in the face of previous contrary practice in his jurisdiction, that "the grant-
ing of a charter does not make a Lodge, and until those representing new Lodges
have been duly elected as such and installed, they cannot become members of the
Grand Lodge."
Of Quebec, he says :
"We have included Quebec in our list, although that Grand Lodge has not been
recognized by this Grand Lodge. We know our own views on the subject do not
agree with those of some members of this Grand Lodge. It will be seen that a
majority of Grand Lodges have already recognized that Grand Lodge."
Bro. Parmelee appends to his report the valuable summary of Masonic Law
compiled by Bro. U. D. Taylor, of Iowa.
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CONNECTICUT.
This volume contains the records of a special communication held at New Haven,
June ist, 1872, for the burial of Past Grand Master William Storer; a special
communication held at New Haven, Oct. 16, 1872, when the new Masonic Temple
was dedicated, and on which occasion an excellent oration as full of the symbolism of
Masonry "as an egg is full of meat," was delivered by the Grand Master; and the
annual communication held at New Haven May 14, 1873.
Alluding to the fraternal dead, of the brothers Storer Grand Master LocKWOod
says :
"Since our last grand communication, our M. W. P. G. M. William Storer
has passed the dark river, and reached that silver shore to which he so feelingly and
well nigh prophetically, alluded in his last report, as Chairman of the Committee on
Foreign Correspondence. It is impossible to do justice to the memory of so dis-
tinguised a veteran in the Masonic World, in the brief space of a short para-
graph. The brothers in the flesh, Eliphalet G. Storer, Grand Secretary from
1836 to 1861, and William Storer, Chairman of the important Committee on
Correspondence from 1847 to 1857, and Grand Master of this Grand Lodge, were
two of the most distinguished Masons of Connecticut. The monument of their zeal,
fidelity and labor, is upon every page of the records of this Grand Lodge, since thei
appearance therein as members.
" Freemasonry here owes more than any of us are aware, to the learning, integ-
rity and sound judgment of these Brethren. Both were gathered in at a ripe old
age. Their memory is precious to us all — their example well worthy the careful
imitation all good and true Masons."
He reports the death of Past Grand Masters Ralph J. Ingersoll and John C.
Blackman. Official notice had also been received of the death of Ansel Hum-
phreys, Past Grand Master of Iowa, who was of Connecticut birth, and for many
years Master of a Lodge in his native State. He had granted two dispensations for
new Lodges, and to seven members of Hamilton Lodge No. 54, at Sharon, whose
charter was surrendered during the dark days of 1838, who with others petitioned for
the revival of the Lodge, he had granted a dispensation empowering them to work
until the sitting of the Grand Lodge. His opinion that this charter should be
restored was concurred in by the Grand Lodge, which also ordered the return of the
jewels and other property of the old Lodge.
The decisions of the Grand Master, of which twenty-five are reported, are remarka-
bly clear statements of correct law. We copy a portion of them, omitting some
that are evidently based on local regulations :
" 1. That each Lodge is the sole judge of the fitness of its own material, subject
to the landmarks as to qualifications, and the Grand Master will not interferfere
upon tbe application of other than a member of such Lodge.
"2. That apology for unmasonic conduct, and its acceptance by a Lodge, cannot
bar a formal trial for such conduct, and, if guilt be established, punishment therefor.
Acquittal or former conviction for the same offense, upon due trial, is the only
bar."
"5. That no installed officer can resign, and no dispensation can be granted
for an election in such case. Such office, other than that of Master, should be
filled by appointment and it it is recommended that the appointee be continued until
the next election."
" 7. The Grand Secretary cannot officially certify to anything not a matter of
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record in the Archives of the Grand Lodge. He cannot thus certify of his personal
or private knowledge. Hence he cannot give an official certificate that a woman is
the widow of a Mason.
" 8. That a Mason in good standing and clear of all dues, whose withdrawal will
not materially affect the Lodge, is entitled to a dimit, and can enforce his right
through the Grand Lodge. "
" 10. That before dispensation issue, authorizing the installation of a Master
elect, not a Past Warden, good cause must be shown.
"II. Color is not one of the qualifications of a candidate, and each member of a
Lodge has the right, and it is his duty, to vote upon every candidate ot whatever
color as in his conscience he may decide, to be for the interest of his Lodge and of
the fraternity.
" 12. In case a candidate make a willfully false statement in his application, or
for the purpose of gaining admission into a Lodge, charges should be preferred, and
he should be punished.
" 13. It is courteous to prefer charges in the Lodge of which the offender is a
member, but not necessary. Every Mason can be punished for offenses committed
within the territorial jurisdiction of a Lodge, whether he be a member of that Lodge
or not, provided he be served with the summons within such jurisdiction.
"14. A certificate of membership is evidence of the regularity of the Lodge
issuing it, (provided it bear also the certificate of the Grand Secretary, under seal.)
Also, that the person named in it was regularly made therein and was at its date in
good standing. The marginal signature furnishes evidence of identity. The
certificate is sufficient to warrant temporary relief, but not admission into a Lodge.
The applicant must produce the best evidence, to-wit : the possession of the univer-
sal language of Masonry.
" 15. That no dispensation can be given in aid of a candidate who has not the
necessary physical qualifications."
" 17. That a candidate should not be rejected because he is a Roman Catholic.
He should be informed that the policy of his church is hostile to Masonry, and that
he would not be permitted to divulge Masonic secrets in confessional, and if he
then promised allegiance to our Institution, there are no grounds for his rejection.
"18. That a candidate physically disqualified, who has received one degree, con-
trary to the landmark, should not be advanced.
" 19. It is improper to use Lodge funds for suppers, &c, except they are furnished
to the poor and needy, or other objects of Masonic charity.
" 20. That the prerogatives of the Master are personal, and cannot be delegated.
A brother filling an office pro tern., is clothed, for the time being, with the prerog-
atives of that office.
"21. That a rejected candidate making an application to another Lodge, in ig-
norance of the Masonic law in that respect, and not intentionally concealing such
fact, and thereupon receiving the degrees, is not guilty of a Masonic offense. The
offense is by the Lodge receiving him without due inquiry.
" 22. That every Mason and Lodge are bound to afford temporary relief to a sick
or distressed brother, and has no legal claim for remuneration. Permanent relief is,
however, the duty of the Lodge of which the beneficiary is a member. A Lodge
should relieve the temporary necessities of a strange brother, and at once notify the
Lodge of which he is a member, but cannot legally claim to recover moneys ex-
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pended for permanent relief, without notice to such Lodge. Masonic relief is re-
stricted to necessities, not luxuries.
" 23. That the limit of obedience to a summons is the power of the brother to com-
ply with it, without injury to himself, or to others to whom he owes a prior duty.
Prior not in point of time, but in the character of that duty."
The Grand Master regrets that the Grand Lodges of Canada and Quebec have
made no approach towards a settlement of their unhappy differences, and truly says
that the continuance of this sad spectacle of disorder and acrimony is unworthy
of them, and has a most injurious effect, not only on the Brethren of the Provinces,
but upon the fraternity at large. He thinks if civil governments can peacefully
adjust their embarrassing difficulties, Masons ought to be able to do as much; and
says Connecticut would cheerfully interpose its good offices, if desired, in the in-
terests of peace and harmony.
He reports that notwithstanding the repugnance and distrust with which sugges-
tion of the payment of annual dues was received by some of the Lodges and brethren,
it is now very generally adopted, and is received with increasing favor. Arguing
strongly for its equity, he says the earliest records of the Lodges in Connecticut
show the adoption of this system of annual dues, and are a ready refutation of the
charge sometimes made, that they are a modern innovation. He strongly urges im-
mediate preparation for organized charities, the establishment and support of a
Masonic Home for indigent and decayed Brethren and Widows, and an asylum for
the maintenance and education of the orphans of deceased Brethren. This idea the
Grand Lodge unanimously accepted ; made the money returned by the Grand Lodge
of Illinois, from the Masonic Relief Fund, the first offering to this new charity, and
provided for a committee from each county to solicit subscriptions for the Fund.
He has some sensible remarks on experimental legislation; believes we should
cling to the homely maxim, "let well enough alone," and truly says that empirical
schemes designed for the benefit of the craft, though prompted by the best of mo-
tives, too often prove delusive and result in discord and confusion.
A movement to appoint a Grand Lecturer who should devote his whole time to
the instruction of the craft and inspect each Lodge at least once a year, at a salary
of $1,800 per annum, failed.
The Grand Lodge did a sensible thing in the adoption of the following ;
"Resolved, That the M. W. Grand Master be requested :to furnish future Annual
Communications, at the expense of the Grand Lodge, a sufficient number of printed
copies of his annual address, for distribution among the members, as soon as prac-
ticable after its delivery."
So far as practicable, every paper that may become the groundwork of legislation,
ought to be laid before the Grand Lodge in print. It is not only necessary, in order
that the Grand Lodge may know what it is doing, but will in the long run be found
economical.
Luke A. Lockwood, of Greenwich, was re-elected Grand Master; Joseph K.
Wheeler, Hartford, Grand Secretary.
The only questions before the Committee on Grievances were two cases of dim-
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culty between Lodges, growing out of invasion of jurisdiction, and the petition of
an expelled Mason for restoration.
Elegant memorial tablets are inscribed to Past Grand Masters Storer, Inger-
soll and Blackman.
Bro. Wheeler again presents the Report on Correspondence (pp. 84), reviewing
in his usual fraternal and able manner the proceedings of thirty - nine American
Grand Lodges.
Illinois receives extended notice, seven pages of his review being devoted to our
Proceedings for 1872.
He makes lengthy extracts from the address of Grand Master Cregier, and allud-
ing to that portion of it referring to the Labors of the Masonic Board of Relief,
says :
"" A condensed statement of the receipts and disbursements for this laudible
object, is contained in his report, (but a full and detailed account has since been pub-
lished by the relief committee,) and the report shows a system so thorough in its
detail, and so determined on the part of the committee that the funds should be only
used for the purposes of charity, as they were intended by the doners, that too much
praise cannot be accorded to those who had the distribution in charge. The almost
instantaneous formation of this committee, whose duties from the commencement
were so thoroughly performed, and at a time when confusion must have reigned
almost supreme, is indeed creditable, and well worthy of imitation in many depart-
ments of public and private life; and we would not be afraid to wager a small sum,
that more real good was accomplished, in proportion to the amount of funds dis-
bursed by this committee, than any other, for the relief of suffering Chicago."
He quotes entire the remarks of Grand Master Cregier on the question of Grand
Lodge Sovereignty, with the following prefatory remarks :
"On the question of Grand Lodge Sovereignty, the Grand Master is quite full;
and, as it is at the present time a subject of peculiar interest in every jurisdiction,
we shall not refrain to quote his argument, which corresponds with the views advanced
by your committee last year under the head of New Jersey. The occasion of these
remarks is the violation of the jurisdictional rights of the Grand Lodge of Quebec
by the Grand Lodge of Canada, as well as New Jersey by the Grand Lodge of
Hamburgh.
Our report is approvingly noticed. He finds that we agree as to the necessity of
notice before striking from the roll, and we find by reference to his views under
"Indiana," that we agree as to the essential nature of the Grand Master's preroga-
tive of making Masons at sight.
Referring to the demand in some quarters that a visitor shall produce some written
evidence of membership, he sensibly concludes that such evidence should not be
depended upon to any great extent, as it is as likely to be tampered with as any that
may be produced.
Refusing to grant a dimit, he thinks is too much on the principle of coercion, and
does not believe a Mason whose membership is forced, against his will, is worth
retaining. In the course of a discussion with Bro. Reed, of Washington, he says :
" He gives no reason for his belief that all Lodges should first be established by
dispensation, but concurs in the opinion that they should possess equal powers and
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privileges with a chartered Lodge. If so, why not give them a charter ; and is not
the Grand Lodge as good a judge of the necessity of a new Lodge as the Grand
Master. Our Grand Lodge is one of the oldest in the country, and we have failed
to find anything in the proceedings that has the semblance of starting a Lodge U.
D. until quite a recent date ; but, on the contrary, every petition for a new Lodge
was presented direct to the Grand Lodge, and, before a charter was granted, a com-
mittee was appointed to examine and report at the next session, before it could be
obtained; but there was no dispensation in the meantime."
He embraces in his report a translation of the documents sent by the Grand
Orient of France to American Grand Lodges since their declaration of non-
intercourse, including the sophistical report of Bro. Caubet, to which we have be-
fore alluded and which distinctly denies the doctrine of the exclusive jurisdiction of
a Grand Lodge within the limits of the State wherein it exists. In answer to this
denial Bro. Wheeler reproduces the following from the Constitution of the Grand
Orient :
"Art. 41. The Grand Orient of France does not establish Masonic Bodies in
foreign countries, where there exists a regular Masonic power. It does not recognize
a Masonic Body constituted in France, and the French possessions, by a foreign Ma-
sonic authority.'1''
DELAWARE.
The Grand Lodge met at Wilmington, June 27, 1872.
The opening sentence of the address of Grand Master McCabe, illustrates how
little dilution is required to take all the grandeur out of Webster's dying words —
" f still live." He says :
" Another year, with its lights and shadows, has gone by since we last assembled
in Annual Grand Communication. This day marks upon the dial of time sixty-six
years since the establishment of legitimate Masonry in the 'Diamond State.' The
fortunes of the Order have, like those of Kingdoms, States and Empires, passed
through fluctuations and change, and yet Masonry in Delaware can say, in the lan-
guage of the dying sage and patriot of Marshfield, ' Nevertheless, I still survive.'"
He reports the condition of Masonry in Delaware as "progressively healthy,"
notwithstanding she may not have made the rapid progress that marks the seeming
prosperity of many of her sister jurisdictions. He announces in feeling words the
death of W. Bro. James Alfred Nowland, a young and gifted Mason.
We gather from the address that the brethren of Lodge No. 15, at Lewes, have
learned how to kill two birds with one stone. Building a new and beautiful hall,
when it was otherwise completed the Grand Lodge was called in, laid the Corner
Stone in a space left for that purpose, dedicated the hall and installed the officers of
the Lodge, all at one job. After such an amount of work we think the Grand
Master justified in presuming that to the handsome and substantial banquet, partaken
of at the U. S. Hotel, under the auspices of No. 15, "those who were present did
full justice in ample form."
"About this time look out for storms." The Grand Master continues :
"About this time and date I received a letter from Lafayette Lodge No. 14, Wil-
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mington, containing a protest against receiving the application of a gentleman in
that city for membership in any Lodge in this jurisdiction, in consequence of certain
rumors, and supposed facts in possession of members of the fraternity, bearing upon
his moral character. And, in the same connection, another letter, marked " Confi-
dential." As Grand Master, I could receive no charges of a CONFIDENTIAL
character, and of course refused to act upon the letter in any other than an official
manner.
" I therefore, herewith, put the matter in the hands of the Grand Lodge, with the
suggestion that a committee be appointed to take charge of the same, and summons
the attendance of Worshipful Brothers J. H. Cameron, Geo. K. Yates, and F. B.
Danby, and that the said committee report through the Grand Secretary, to your
Grand Master, whoever he may be, at an early day, that justice may be done to all
the parties concerned."
Just what the Grand Lodge, for it adopted the Grand Master's suggestion for a
committee, propose to do in this matter, after the Worshipful brothers have been
summoned, passes. our comprehension ; but perhaps we shall learn by waiting.
The Delaware Proceedings rarely fail to give us something of surpassing rich-
ness. This volume holds its own in that particular. We again quote from Grand
Master McCabe's address :
" In glancing over the proceedings of other Grand Bodies in the United States,
and in the reports of their committees, and the generally excellent addresses of
their Grand Masters, I have found in several instances the following term', "Rail
Road Masons" a term happily applied to those Lodges which put a man through
in one night — but I think it remains for this jurisdiction, so far as one of its Subor-
dinate Lodges is concerned, to beat "the whole world, and the rest of mankind,"
as the following telegram will show. Of course I omit the name of the Lodge and
its location, because I believe want of proper information, and not a desire to per-
petrate a wrong, caused the course pursued by the Worshipful Master of said Lodge :
" ' Please grant to Lodge, dispensation to pass and raise a brother of our
Lodge, a mariner. Answer by telegraph ! ! '
"As the twelfth regulation of the Grand Lodge, adopted in 1864, says, 'That in
all applications for any, or all the three degrees in Masonry, by dispensation, five
dollars shall accompany the application ; ' and ■ as that sum was not telegraphed to
the Grand Master, to be forwarded to the Grand Secretary, as provided for by Ma-
sonic law in this jurisdiction, I did not find it expedient to 'answer by telegraph.'
The worthy brother, presiding over Lodge, gave the Grand Master no name
of the applicant, nor any reason why he should be passed and raised. As the Dutch-
man said, ' Do you call this Masonerry ? If you do, I don't.' "
We cheerfully agree that not only " so far as one of its Subordinate Lodges is
concerned," but, in view of action which we shall hereafter notice, so far as the
Grand Lodge itself is concerned, Delaware can take the belt.
The Grand Master had granted one dispensation for a new Lodge. He had been
annoyed by letters from brethren in the constituent Lodges, calling his attention to
little matters of a local character, "which," as he justly observes, "whether settled
by themselves amicably or not, do not rise to the dignity of an interference on the
part of the Grand Master."
So far we have seen our Most Worshipful brother only in his gentler aspects, but
he can be "terrible as an army with banners." He proceeds :
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" A sterner duty now devolves upon me, as painful as it is imperative. That duty
is to rebuke ignorance, impudence, insolence, and arrogance, and I could do so in
one word, 'If that one word were lightning I would speak.'"
" You have in this City a body of men of African descent, claiming to be the M.
W. Hiram Grand Lodge of the most ancient and Honorable fraternity of Free and
Accepted Masons of the State of Delaware, and its Jurisdition. The impudence,
the insolence, and the arrogance, of this presumptious assumption might justly
awaken a smile upon the face of every intelligent and loyal member of the legiti-
mate Subordinate Lodges in Delaware, as the ignorance of those who set up such a
preposterous and ridiculous claim, must excite the pity, but at the same time the
reprehension of this Grand Lodge. I might commit this fragrant body, at this
season of the year, to their own tastes as well as smell, (two very important senses),
but for the fact that a seasonable rebuke to their prompters and advisers becomes,
with me as Gran,d Master of the only legitimate Grand Lodge of Delaware, a duty,
as well as a stern pleasure."
From the following it is evident that his dusky adversaries, had been pondering
the words of Job : " O that mine enemy had written a book." After remarking
that this clandestine body has doubtless been advised and set on by designing men
of the other race, he continues :
" Every effort has been used to provoke me into a correspondence with this ille-
gitimate organization : cajolery, trickery, and finally, abuse. None of these things
have moved me into an acknowledgement or recognition of their association."
Not even an attack on the Grand Lodge could divert him from his stern purpose
not to break the dignified silence which could alone protect legitimate Masonry
in Delaware from contamination :
"The so-called Grand Secretary of this clandestine organization, a venerable
Ethiopian, whose grammar and whose logic set at defiance all the laws of criticism,
in his report to his dusky brethren, takes particular pains to abuse the legitimate
Grand Master of this Jurisdiction, and to pronounce us as a Grand Lodge, and not
themselves as clandestines ! ! ! A hearty laugh at his fulminations, and the quiet
return of his pamphlet (unacknowledged in any other way) through the post office,
have placed, so far as your Grand Master is concerned, this ' American gentleman
of African descent? in 'status quo, ante det/um.'"
Bearing in mind the Grand Master's views as to what constitutes Masonic inter-
course with clandestines, we are somewhat horrified to learn that he gave the pam-
phlet a second reading. He thus concludes :
"The proceedings of this 'concern' were sent to me by a friend after I had
returned to the Mogul of spurious and clandestine Masonry, his pamphlet, and I
can only say, to dismiss this affair from my mind and yours, that of all bad grammar,
all infamous nonsense, all false logic, all almost incomprehensible sentences — all, in
fine, of 'sound and fury signifying nothing,' I have ever yet seen, and hope never
yet to see, is contained in this wonderfully funny pamphlet. The white man who
suggested it, should be tried for an attempt upon the purity of the language, and the
darkey hanged for murdering the Queen's English !"
On the whole, this first-class notice, as the final result of his efforts to avoid even
the appearance of recognizing its existence, reminds us of the lady who accepted
the wager of a wit that no woman could write a letter without adding a postscript,
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"My first letter shall refute you," she said. In clue time he received the letter, so
complete in itself as to refute his proposition, which, having signed, she added,
" P. S. Who is right, now, you or I ? "
Having placed this "American gentleman of African descent in status quo, ante
helium," the Grand Master, like another Alexander, sighed for other worlds to
conquer, and having learned from "proper sources" that certain rumors were cor-
rect, he determined to carry the victorious arms of Delaware into the neighoring
province of the Jerseys. The rumors referred to were to the effect that Alpha
Lodge No. 116, of Newark, New Jersey, had actually made Masons of persons the
color of whose skin, and the kink of whose hair were not orthodox as viewed from
the Delaware, not the Masonic, standpoint.
The Grand Master of Delaware avers that Alpha Lodge obtained its Warrant
by " deceit and misrepresentation," notwithstanding the Grand Lodge of New
Jersey (which, seeing that it granted the Warrant, ought to be well-informed on the
subject), says that it did not, and further, that all its acts were in conformity with
well-settled Masonic law and usage. (See New Jersey). After having given the
internal history of the Lodge, not found in the records of the Grand Lodge of New
Jersey, but as obtained from "proper sources," Grand Master McCabe says:
"With this full statement, while disclaiming any right to legislate for a sister ju-
risdiction, I do claim that every Grand Lodge has, and under its direction the Sub-
ordinate Lodges of such, have the right to say with whom they will, or will not
affiliate, ox whom they will recognize. As, therefore, Alpha Lodge, No. 116, of
Newark, New Jeriey, manifestly obtained a Warrant under false pretences, by mis-
representation and deceit, I recommend to this Grand Lodge to instruct its Subordi-
nate Lodges to hold no communication whatever, either by correspondence, or
personally, with any man or set of men, who may hail from that particular
Lodge ; assuring, at the same time, the Grand Master of New Jersey, that we hold
him and his Grand Officers in the highest regard and esteem "
The majority of the committee to whom the Grand Master's address was referred
concurred in this recommendation ; the minority, Bro. Watson, submitted the fol-
lowing, the correctness of whose positions is beyond question :
" I must further most respectfully dissent from the recommendation contained in
the Grand Master's address, that this Grand Lodge instruct its Subordinate Lodges
to hold no communication with Alpha Lodge, No. 116, of New Jersey, considering
that as that Lodge is in good standing with the Grand Lodge of New Jersey, with
whom we are in Masonic communication, we cannot refuse to any of its members,
who have been regularly made under its jurisdiction in accordance with Masonic
law, an admission into any of our Lodges, if they should in due manner demand
such admission and be found worthy."
The majority report was adopted, and the Grand Secretary ordered to notify the
constituent Lodges accordingly.
We forbear to more than mention the absurdity of declaring a Lodge clandestine
which holds a charter from a Grand Lodge which the declaring body in the same
breath recognizes as regular, and pass to assumptions underlying this action, where
we are reduced to the necessity of uttering what are simple truisms. Premising
that it is nowhere claimed by the Grand Master or Grand Lodge of Delaware that
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the persons made Masons in Alpha Lodge did not possess all the qualifications re-
quired by the landmarks, we hold it indisputable that the claim that every, or any,
Grand Lodge has the right to say whom its constituent Lodges shall or shall
not affiliate, is, so far as it relates to regularly made Masons, or to candidates prop-
erly qualified, utterly destitute of foundation in Masonic law.
This right belongs to the particular Lodge alone, and is to be exercised by it,
within the limits prescribed by the landmarks, without let or hindrance on the part
of any other Masonic body, whether Grand or subordinate. When a Mason be-
comes a member of the Grand Lodge he is no less bound to respect and maintain
the inherent rights of the particular Lodge than before ; and when the Grand
Lodge, which is but an aggregation of individual brothers, all bound by the same
covenants, attempts to abridge those rights of the Lodge that are older and no less
sacred than tbe light of the Grand Lodge to exist at all, it repudiates obligations to
whose faithful keeping it is bound by the most solemn sanctions of universally re-
cognized and immemorial law.
Other Grand Lodges than Delaware too often need to be reminded of this, and
we indulge in these strictures upon her action, with the humiliating reflection that
scarce three years have elapsed since our own Grand Lodge could plead not guilty
to a violation of the same law.
Bro. J. Thomas Budd submitted the Report on Correspondence, (pp. 21), briefly
noticing the proceedings of twenty-five Grand Lodges, all, he says, that had been
received by the Grand Secretary. Through what mishap the Illinois Proceedings
failed to reach him we know not ; our Grand Secretary never fails to send three
copies to each Grand Lodge with which we are in correspondence.
Bro. Budd makes a very readable and inceresting report, but could scarcely do
himself justice in the space to which he feels compelled to confine himself.
He dissents with great indignation from the Idaho decision that a member of a
Lodge may be stricken from the roll for non payment of dues without summons, and
thinks our young sister must have erected a Masonic Guillotine; protests against
the right of peremptory objection even as against a profane who has been duly
elected to receive the degrees ; thinks the array of conflicting decisions contained
in summaries of Masonic law as compiled by reviewers, injurious to the Craft rather
than beneficial ; and suggests the propriety of some action on the request of the
Grand Orient of Brazil for closer relations of amity.
The Grand Orient of Brazil was accordingly placed on the list of correspondents.
One Lodge was chartered,
J. Collins McCabe, of Middletown, was re-elected Grand Master ; J. P. All-
MOND, Wilmington, Grand Secretary.
The volume contains an account of the dedication of the Temple at Wilmington,
on the 8th of April, 1872 ; a brilliant oration delivered on that ocasion by Grand
Master McCabe, and the regular toasts and speeches of the banquet which followed.
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
The volume before us contains the records of no less than thirteen communica-
tions, under the several heads of Special, Resumed, Semi - Annual, Annual, Instal-
lation and Stated.
The Semi -Annual Communication was held May 8, 1872.
The Special Report of the Board of Masonic Relief, of Chicago, of date, Feb. 1,
1872, was received and is printed entire. The business was otherwise of local inter-
est.
The Annual Communication was held Nov. 13, 1872.
Grand Master Stansbury's address opens with an eloquent reference to the death
of Christopher Cammack, Grand Treasurer, then recently deceased. James King,
Past Deputy Grand Master, also died during the year. Both were buried by the
Grand Lodge.
The Grand Master fitly expressed his profound sense of the fraternal and delicate
attentions paid to him on the occasion of his own late personal bereavement (the
death of his wife). He reports that Masonry was never in a more prosperous or
healthy condition within their jurisdiction. He thus alludes to matters of special
interest to us :
" In my last annual address I took occasion to refer to the appalling calamity
which had befallen the city of Chicago, and of our efforts to contribute to the relief
of our distressed brethren in that stricken city. Unparalled in the history of the
world as was the calamity under which that fair city melted away, her restoration in
the short space of a single year far surpasses in wonder the extent and rapidity of
her ruin. As the bearer of your contributions, a committee, consisting of Bros.
Ball, Fugitt, Short, Franzoni, and myself, visited Chicago shortly after the fire,
and witnessed the full extent of its devastation.
" I have lately returned from another visit, during which I went over the same
ground which we had left covered with ruin and ashes, and there I found a new and
magnificent city, standing erect in all the pride of splendid architecture, and chal-
lenging the admiration of all beholders.
" The occasion of my visit was one which thrills me with pride in our glorious
fraternity. The wants of our suffering brethren called forth from the brotherhood
everywhere the most generous contributions of material and money. An amount
more than sufficient for all the needs arising out o( the fire, was poured in upon the
almoners of the Order. They were equal to the occasion ; and, in the midst of
confusion and calamity, went calmly to work to systematize relief, and perfected an
organization which, in its results, left nothing to be desired. There was efficiency,
promptness, and a total absence of the vexations and unnecessary delays and
restrictions known as 'red tape.' And yet there was a perfect system of accounta-
bility, and the greatest minuteness of record, so that the history of every case, and
of the smallest details of each case, is easily traced in the books of the Board of
Relief. Not satisfied with this achievement, the Board was anxious that every item
of their receipts and expenditures should be submitted to the rigid scrutiny of a
commission of disinterested gentlemen from beyond the jurisdiction, who should
submit to the Craft at large a report of the results of their investigation.
" Together with the Grand Master of Pennsylvania, Hon. Samuel C. Perkins and
the Grand Master of Iowa, Hon. O. P. Waters, I had the honor to be selected as
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one of the members of that commission, and on the 14th of September started for
Chicago. At Philadelphia I was joined by Grand Master Perkins, who was accom-
panied by C. H. Kingston, Esq., his private secretary, an eminent member of the
fraternity, whose ability as an expert accountant was of invaluable service to the
commission in the investigation with which they were charged. We arrived in
Chicago the evening of September 17, and were met by a committee of reception,
and conducted to the Masonic Temple, where the entire commission was formally
received by the Grand Lodge in special communication. Grand Master Dewit C.
Cregier delivered an address of welcome, to which we severally responded, and we
were then introduced personally to the members ,of the Grand Lodge, and other
brethren present. The next two days we devoted to the examination of the accounts
of the Masonic Board of Relief; and we have embodied the results of that investi-
gation in a report, which will be submited to the fraternity throughout the world by
the Grand Lodge of Illinois. I may state generally, however, that the total amount
received from the fraternity was $90,634.50. After relieving all the immediate per-
sonal suffering which arose among the brethren from the fire, and providing the
Lodges with a sum to meet future demands arising from the same cause, the sum of
nearly $22,000 was found to remain unexpended in the hands of the Board. With
a delicate sense of honor, which is as admirable as it is unfortunately rare, the Board
resolved to return that amount to the donors, dividing it among them pro rata, ac-
cording to their several contributions to the relief fund. In accordance with that
arrangement a check for $756 was handed to me as the proportion belonging to the
fraternity of this jurisdiction. That amount, with a small balance of $19 since
received from P.\ G.-. M.\ Donaldson, treasurer of the fund, in final settlement of his
account, I have placed in the custody of the grand Treasurer, subject to such dispo-
sition as the fraternity may think proper to make of it. My own suggestion is, that
it be set apart forever as a permanent charity fund, to be known as the 'Chicago
Fire Return Charity Fund," the interest only to be used under the direction of the
Grand Lodge. It would thus remain a permanent memento of an event of great
historic and Masonic interest, and a monument of the liberality, integrity, and honor
of the fraternity. I think this disposition of the fund could not but be agreeable to
our brethren of Chicago, who deserve so much honor for its return, and from whom
it may be regarded as, in some sense, a gift. In his letter announcing to me the
intention of returning the surplus fund, Grand Master Cregier says : ' We have a
surplus beyond our requirements, which I propose to return pro rata to the ' Charity
Fund ' of each Grand Lodge. Among them is that of the District of Columbia. I
trust this may meet the approval of yourself and others to whom we are so much
indebted.' Such a suggestion cannot fail to go far in determining the course we
shall pursue.
" I cannot close my reference to this matter without testifying to the courtesy, cor-
diality, and hospitality with which we were treated by our brethren of Chicago."
Having become satisfied that the Grand Orient of Brazil, Valley of Lavradio, is
the legitimate governing body of Symbolic Masons in that Empire, he had acceded
to a request for an exchange of representatives. But few questions of Masonic law
had been presented for decision during the year, and but few dispensations asked or
granted.
The following just and vigorous words are applicable not alone to the District of
Columbia :
" There is but one subject on which I feel called upon to speak of any habit of
the fraternity in our jurisdiction in terms of censure. I refer to the meagre attend-
ance upon Masonic funerals. The right of Masonic burial is a sacred right, which
belongs to every Master Mason who dies in good standing in the Order. It means,
if it means anything, the right to be buried with honor — not a title to be grudgingly
followed to the grave by a corporal's guard of unwilling and mortified brethren, who
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feel that their presence is suggestive rather of a slight than of an honorable manifest-
ation of respect for the dead and sympathy for the living. I have been pained, on
many occasions, when I hnve seen the evidence of a forgetfulness of our duty in
this particular regard, because I felt that those who had a right to expect the conso-
lation of respectful attention and sympathy were justly disappointed and grieved ;
and that a reproach might thus be brought upon the Order of not acting up to its
principles of fraternity. Especially have I felt so when I have noticed that the
attendance seemed to be graduated by a consideration of the Masonic and social
position of the deceased brother, in apparent forgetfulness of that fundamental maxim
of our Order, that in Masonry we meet upon the level of our common humanity, and
that death detects the fallacy of pride and does away with the artificial distinctions
of a heartless society."
Referring in terms of just reprehension to the use oi Masonic symbols as a means
of attracting business, he reports the attempt of a trader in another jurisdiction to
monopolize the most familiar of them — the square and compass combined — by ob-
taining a patent for it as a trade mark !
We quote from the adverse decision of the Commissioner of Patents, for the just-
ness and ability of which, the Grand Master truly says, the fraternity everywhere
owe a debt of gratitude to the author :
" Applicant is a manufacturer and vender of flour. * * * He has two estab-
lishments upon different streets, and he seeks to register, as trademarks, to be used
upon the barrels containing his flour, the words ' Cherry - Street Mills' in one case,
and ' Market- Street Mills ' in the other, combined respectively with a well known
Masonic emblem — the square and compasses.
" It has already been determined that the words alone do not possess the charac-
teristics of a legal trademark ; and, in order to make it appear that the addition of
the square and compass does confer these characteristics, it is also insisted that this
Masonic symbol is not used with its ordinary signification.
" If this emblem were something other than precisely what it is, either less known,
less significant, ox fully and universally understood, all this might readily be admit-
ted. But considering its peculiar character and relation to the public, an anomalous
question is presented. There can be no doubt that this device, so commonly worn and
employed by Masons, has an established mystic significance, universally recognized
as existing : whether comprehended by all or not, is not material to this issue. In
view of the magnitude and extent of the Masonic organization, it is impossible to
divest its symbols, or at least this particular symbol, perhaps the best known of all,
of its ordinary signification wherever displayed, either as an arbitrary character Or
otherwise. It will be universally understood or misunderstood as having a Masonic
influence, and therefore, as a trademark, must constantly work deception. Nothing
could be more mischievous than to create, as a monopoly and uphold by the power
of law, anything so calculated, as applied to purposes of trade, to be misinterpreted,
to mislead all classes, and to constantly foster suggestions of mystery in affairs of
business.
" I am clearly of opinion, therefore, that the proposed combinations cannot prop-
erly subserve the ends of a trademark. Among Masons, with whom this token has
a moral significance, its use in that capacity would undoubtedly be regarded as a base
prostitution of it to mercenary purposes, while with others its mystic force would
often dissipate its virtues as a trademark, and, perhaps, in some instances place the
article it appeared upon under a ban."
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An edict from the Grand Master of Canada, suspending fraternal relations with the
Grand Lodge of Vermont and interdicting Masonic intercourse with Masons in alle-
giance thereto, issued in consequence of the expressed determination of the Grand
Lodge of Vermont to suspend relations with Canada in case of the further refusal of
the latter body to recognize the Grand Lodge of Quebec, was received and referred
to the Committee on Jurisprudence.
An edict from the Grand Lodge of Quebec, declaring " irregular " a Lodge formed
within the Province of Quebec by the Grand Lodge of Canada; interdicting inter-
course with its officers and members ; calling on the Grand Lodge of Canada to annul
its action in forming the irregular Lodge and to withdraw from the exercise of all
pretended authority within the Province of Quebec before the 7th day of September,
1872, was received, and the Grand Secretaiy directed to send a copy thereof to each
subordinate Lodge.
Charles F. Stansrury was re-elected Grand Master ; William A. Yates,
Grand Secretary, both of Washington.
At the Installation Communication, held Dec. 27, 1872, the Grand Master deliv-
ered a brief address, in which he urged the advantages of a well established Ma-
sonic Library. At the stated Communication of Jan. 8, 1873, $5°° °f the
money received from the Chicago Masonic Board of Relief was ordered to be
permanently invested for the benefit of the Library, and the remaining $275, togeth-
er with the interest on the investment, ordered to be placed to the credit of the Libra-
ry Committee, for the purchase of books and the payment of current expenses. The
fund thus disposed of is to be known as the " Chicago Fire Return Library Fund."
The Grand Lodge instructed the constituent Lodges that unaffiliated Masons are
not entitled to the right of visitation more than three times, (this privilege to last for
three months,) nor to Masonic relief, nor to Masonic burial.
Bro. W. R. Singleton again presented the report on correspondence (pp. 93), a
fraternal and otherwise excellent review of the proceedings of forty-four American
Grand Lodges. The Illinois proceedings of 1871 are approvingly reviewed, and the
Final Report of the Proceedings of the Chicago Masonic Board of Relief receives
an appreciative notice of several pages.
Still holding fast to the old ways, he holds that the Deputy Grand Master should
be the appointee of the Grand Master ; that he can never preside in Grand Lodge,
that being the inalienable right, in the absence of the Grand Master, of the Senior
Grand Warden ; properly insists that no regular Lodge can do clandestine work ;
correctly holds that on general principles the Master has the power and may, in his
discretion, exercise it to postpone the ballot after a favorable report; agrees, as we
do, that the report of the Committee of Inquiry should be made as information, but
the character of it, whether favorable or not, should not be recorded, and suggests,
in view of the fact that when a report is unfavorable the members of the Com-
mittee making it are understood to cast black balls, that the committees
might be secretly appointed by the Master and report secretly to him, he simply an-
nouncing to the Lodge whether the result was favorable or otherwise.
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If our brother does not still long for the flesh pots of Egypt he still holds that the prac-
tiee, formerly obtaining in the District, of making Masons of sojourners from other jur-
isdictions was founded on correct principles, and throws down the gauntlet to any who
wish to "lay a lance in rest" on that score. Why he intimates thai his Grand Lodge ate
"humble pie" in amending its Constitution in regard to this matter, we do not know,
for that amendment yields nothing so far as principle is concerned, as we showed
last year. The amended Constitution leaves the Grand Lodge, so far as the princi-
ciple is concerned, just where it was when Grand Master Donaldson said it occu-
pied the anomalous position of ignoring what was "recognized as a settled point of
Masonic law by every other Grand Lodge in this country."
There seems, however, to be no sufficient provocation for re-opening the old dis-
cussion, so long as the practice of the Lodges of the District conform to the else-
where universally conceded principle.
The following contains food for thought on a subject about which there is likely
to be a vast deal of thinking within the next few years :
" It appears, from reading the documents which emanate from most of the Eu-
ropean Continental Lodges and Grand Orients, that they hold themselves quite above
their American brethren. They occupy a sort of celestial region like the heathen
Chinee, and are quite as exclusive. We say, let them alone ; declare non-intercourse
and live up to it ; and here, in the Grand Lodge jurisdiction, while we declare non-
intercourse with this Grand Orient of France, the officers and members of our Grand
Lodge are engaged in working Rites, professing to do so under the sanction of that
Grand Orient. How can this be tolerated, or can we expect such inconsistency to
work otherwise than against us in the final adjustment of our difficulties ? From this
very jurisdiction a brother visited Paris last year, and held very important Masonic
communication with the Grand Officers of the Grand Orient, and professes to have
obtained documents to enable him and others to work a Rite under the solemn sane,
tion of the Grand Orient."
FLORIDA.
The Grand Lodge met at Jacksonville, February n, 1873.
Grand Master Pasco opened his address with some reminiscenes of his first ap-
pearance in the Grand Lodge, eight years before, when the shadows of war still
hung over the land. At that time the Committee on returns reported but twenty-
four Lodges, and of these many had not paid their dues :
" A few of our venerable brethren, whose names are historic in our annals, still
lingered among us. P. G. M. Brown paid his last visit here, and in person pre-
sented, as chairman, the report of the Committee on Foreign Correspondence; his
mind still in its vigor, though his frame was bowed with age and infirmity. It was
the only time I ever saw him. I remember the deep impression made upon me as
he entered and was received with the honors due to his rank and character. Many
of the members were but recently from the camp, or prison, and were still clad in
the rough garb of gray, which association had made so dear to our eyes. And in
many cases side by side with the ex-soldier in gray was one who wore the blue ; no
longer a foeman, but a brother, who had learned the same sacred lessons of Faith,
Hope and Charity that we had been taught, who had united in the same vows that
we had made, and who was with us to prove that he remembered these lessons and
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vows, and to renew his obligations at the altar of Masonry. What a beautiful les-
son was thus presented to us; what a delightful exhibition of the Heaven-born in-
fluences of Freemasonry. How well adapted to all periods of the world's history,
to all circumstances of man's career. If those soldiers, then still in arms, could
grasp our hands as brothers, the thousands of Masons whom they represented still
acknowledged the tie that bound us ; and in spite of the terrible scenes the country
had passed through, a lasting peace and an entire reconciliation were possible."
One by one nearly all the old Lodges had been restored and new ones are con-
stantly springing up.
He had issued four dispensations for new Lodges. Applications for dispensa-
tions to confer degrees out of the regular course had all been declined on the ground
that there was no justifiable emergency.
Six decisions are reported, all of which will stand the test of law and common
sense.
We copy only the last, in which the question of physical eligibility was raised,
the candidate having lost the thumb of his right hand :
" I, of course, adhere to the ruling of this Grand Lodge on this subject of phys-
ical disqualification, and only Tefer to the matter to defend our former action in such
cases. The applicant must be capable of working in the three degrees conferred in
a Master Mason's Lodge. If the W. M. is satisfied that the applicant has enough
of his thumb left to give the proper proof that he is a Mason, and to impart the
regular work of the degrees, he will be justified in letting the case go to the ballot.
This, it seems to me, is all that is demanded by reason and justice ; but this much
is demanded by the spirit as well as the letter of the law ; and in spite of a differ-
ence of opinion expressed by committees of other Grand bodies, after careful
thought, I feel that our action is correct, and I have as little sympathy with the ex-
tremist, who demands that a worthy applicant with a slight deformity, which in no
way impairs his usefulness as a man or Mason, should be excluded in consequence
thereof, as I have with the other extremist who would throw open the outer door of
our Lodges to the lame, the dismembered and the misshapen, provided they can find
some artificial contrivance to enable them to grope or stumble through their Masonic
duties, bringing into our sacred temple sounds and discord which were scrupuously
excluded by our Ancient Grand Master in his first great work."
Referring to the circular of the Grand Lodge of Louisiana he reproduces the
resolutions embodying the conclusions of that body, and as we were last year with-
out the Louisiana Proceedings, we transfer them from this source to our pages ;
" I. Resolved, That the Grand Lodge of Louisiana recognizes the Grand Lodge
of Quebec as a just and legally constituted Grand Lodge, and as such entitled to
sole and exclusive Masonic jurisdiction in and over the Province of Quebec, and
hereby extends to her a cordial welcome into the family of Grand Lodges.
"2. Resolved, That the encroachment upon the jurisdictional rights of American
G.rand Lodges can no longer be submitted to, and, as edicts of non-intercourse ap-
pear to have no influence upon the Grand Lodge of Hamburg or the Grand Orient
of France, the Grand Lodge of Louisiana will co-operate with her sister Grand
Lodges in refusing to hold Masonic communication with all Masonic powers who,
on being requested, shall fail to recognize the American doctrine of exclusive and
absolute Grand Lodge jurisdiction, and decline to break off friendly relations with
those that violate it.
"3. Resolved, That the M. W. Grand Master be requested, officially, to notify all
Masonic powers with whom this Grand Lodge is in correspondence of its action,
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and to call upon those who have heretofore failed to recognize the American doc-
trine of exclusive and absolute Grand Lodge jurisdiction, by having intercourse with
those Masonic powers who have violated it, to take action in the matter, and decide
whether they are for or against us on this question.
"4. Resolved, That it is hereby made the duty of the Committee on Foreign Cor-
respondence to inquire into the character and status of all Foreign Grand bodies
with whom we are in correspondence, or who hereafter may apply for recognition,
and whether or not they will recognize and maintain the American doctrine of ex-
clusive and absolute Grand Lodge jurisdiction, and report specially thereon."
Of these the Grand Master says :
"This Grand Lodge can safely endorse and maintain the second, third and fourth
of these resolutions as a basis for a settlement of the troublesome questions that have
arisen between different Grand bodies upon the question of jurisdiction, and there
will be no future clashing of authority when the rights of each are clearly defined
and generally recognized, and it is not enough for us all to think alike — we must
act alike. Let the lines be drawn so that he that is not for us may range himself
against us. 'The Grand bodies that have wronged our sister Grand Lodges must be
put beyond the pale of Freemasonry, and all who recognize them must go out ivith
them. In regard to the subject matter of the first resoluiion, I offer the following
views: We have heretofore regarded the difficulties in the Grand jurisdiction of
Canada as a family matter that would be righted the sooner if there were no outside
interference. Many sister Grand Lodges have taken a different view, and we have
no word of condemnation for them because of the difference. Time will adjust these
troubles. If we are rightly informed, according to the doctrine laid down by our
Louisiana brethren, Quebec is not entitled to recognition, for it is not a political
state or nation, and has no separate government of its own. Courtesy to a sister
Grand Lodge, in a case like the present, certainly requires that she who formerly
held the territory in her jurisdiction should be the first to certify to the Masonic
world that a new sister is entitled to recognition. She has rights which must be
withdrawn before the new Grand Lodge can have sovereign sway over the territory,
and we should respect those rights. There may come a time when the peace of the
fraternity will render a settlement of this trouble necessary, and then we must resort
to arbitration, and, till the question is settled, it is far better for us all to remain
neutral. I suggest that a resolution be adopted at this Communication expressing
our regret that the troubles of the Grand Lodge of Canada still remain unsettled,
urging a pacific course and offering our mediation, if the Grand Lodge of Canada
is satisfied that she cannot restore Masonic harmony within her jurisdiction unaided."
As Florida is one of the few Grand Lodges that has definitely refused to recog-
nize the Grand Lodge of Quebec, but would make recognition hinge on precedent
similar action by the Grand Lodge of Canada, we hardly appreciate the Grand
Master's idea of neutrality.
The Grand Master strongly urges the constituent Lodges to buy land while it is
cheap and hold it for the possibility of a future rise in value.
He declined a re-election.
The resolution adopted the previous year forbidding Lodges to charge a fee for
affiliation, was recinded, on the ground, we judge, that it was a matter which the
constituent Lodges had a right to settle for themselves.
The Report on Correspondence, (pp. 78), is again by Bro. DeWitt C. Dawkins,
reviewing with ability and courtesy the Proceedings of thirty-seven American Grand
Lodges, Illinois included. Judging the address of Grand Master Cregier from its
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statistics and perfection in other respects, he thinks it required the fact to be reported
to indicate that the original was destroyed by the Great Fire. He alludes with evident
complacency to his suggestion that the fee for a dispensation for irregular work be
raised to such an amount as to cause the applicant to consider whether it would
not be better to wait the usual time, and concurs in his decision that rejection by a
Lodge not having jurisdiction is void. In view of his complimentary reference to
ourself, we forgive him for calling us "John."
Bro. Dawkins holds rational views on the subject of physical qualifications, and
is of the opinion that Lodges, "if not entrammeled with too much legislation, are
as a general rule competent to determine whether an applicant is physically qual-
ified to be intelligently passed through the ceremonies of the three degrees, and
that such discretion should be left with them, as it has been in all ages past.
He still adheres to the opinion that hearsay evidence is admissable in Masonic
trials, but the proposition meets with merited disfavor all round the circle.
Two Supreme Councils come in for a notice at the hands of Bro. Dawkins, as
does also "Androgynous Masonry," which he thinks has existed in the world for
centuries. He gives the age of the Order of the Eastern Star at ninety-one years,
which, if true, shows it to be well-stricken in years, and that no " Thirty-Third "
should permit his nose to become "tip-tilted" thereat, but should, on the contrary,
treat it with that deference which age, in either sex, is entitled to receive from
youth.
Bro. Dawkins denies the doctrine that every Grand Lodge has exclusive and
sovereign jurisdiction over all Masons and Lodges within its territorial limits, and
cites cases which he seems to think are exceptions to that rule, but as they all prove,
on examination, to be exceptions that exist by the sufference of the Grand Lodges,
it is not worth the while to cite them.
Albert J. Russell, of Jacksonville, was elected Grand Master ; DeWitt C.
Dawkins, Jacksonville, Grand Secretary.
Six Charters were granted. The time of holding the next Annual Communica-
tion was fixed for the second Tuesday in January ; place, Jacksonville.
GEORGIA.
The Grand Lodge met at Macon, Oct. 29, 1872. The address of Grand Master
Lawrence abounds in words of wisdom, the assured utterances of one who knows
the path of duty and is contented to walk therein with the same unfaltering step,
whether it be obscured by clouds or illumined by sunshine. He says :
" Every great meritorious institution has its seasons of prosperity and its seasons
of adversity — its days of security and its days of peril — its hours of festivity and its
hours of mourning. Feasting and fasting follow each other. It is the law of hu-
manity itself; and the Great Architect has impressed it on all things connected with
humanity. Unto all, 'animate or inanimate, physical, intellectual, moral and spiritual
xliv Proceedings of the
even, so far at least as the last is in bond with the temporal, in the words of the wise
Monarch of Israel, ' there is a time for all things.'
"Our Institution has enjoyed no immunity from the operation of this law — some-
times in favor with the so-called great of this world, Popes and Princes — sometimes
the object of their anathemas. Popular favor to-day, persecution to-morrow. But
through all ami over all these the truth and vitality of its benign principles have born
it in triumph, until now the sound of its gavel engirdles the globe."
While it is right to feel that its advance is the advance of humanity, that its march
is the march of the highest civilization of our race, he warns his brethren not to be-
guile themselves with a fancied security in its triumphs :
" The same vigilance and strict adherance to the landmarks and the practice of
its principles which have won for it its proud pre-eminence to-day, must be observed,
kept and practiced, if we would have it continue to advance, or even hold what it
has gained.
" But on the individual brother depends the continued prosperity of the Institu
tion. The respect the world entertains for Freemasonry is founded and must de-
pend on the life and conduct of its disciples. Boastful and proud claims for great
and good objects and sound principles, without an exhibition of these in the life of
those who prefer them must naturally provoke the distrust and contempt of the pro-
fane, who are not permitted to look into the arcana of the Temple, and can only
judge of the quality of the science by its fruits."
" We war not against material or political enemies, but against moral and spiritual
foes, and whenever the contagion of bad example is suffered to exist, and continue
unrebuked and unchecked in our midst each one of us is responsible for the conse-
quence. There is» no evading this. Every brother, in this sense, is the keeper of his
brother. And if we cannot inspire a failing brother with sufficient self-respect and
regard for the Institution to make him avoid evil and shun those things which are
calculated to bring dishonor and reproach on us, it is our duty to cut him off and
disown him altogether."
He learns with pleasure that many Masters have instituted a vigorous dealing with
the vice of intemperance, and truly says that excessive indulgence in the use of in-
toxicating drinks is a beastly habit, utterly inconsistent with the profession of a Free-
mason.
He thinks reports on Foreign Correspondence cannot be too highly prized by the
Fraternity, and pays a merited compliment to Bro. BLACKSHEAR in this connection.
The record of the Grand Master's acts show that he thoroughly performed a large
amount of labor during the year. He reports only two decisions. We copy both :
"I. I have been asked by one of the Deputies if the charter of a Lodge should
not be arrested for electing the keeper of a groggery Worshipful Master. To this
I replied, that I did not think the ancient inalienable right of the brethren to choose
their own Master could be so set aside. If the Master elect, in the course of his
business, or by his own personal habits or conduct, reflect dishonor on the Institu-
tion, the course would be to prefer charges and have him dealt with and suspended,
if found guilty, from the Mastership ; or, if necessary, expelled from the Order. But
the right of the brethren to choose their Master must remain intact, however much
that choice may reflect on their taste or their morals. There is a decision of force
in this Institution — one I had the credit, or misfortune, to render myself — which de-
clares, " It is un-Masonic to make a'man's calling or occupation in life an objection
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to his being made a Mason." I adhere to that ruling. To rule otherwise would be
to innovate on the landmark on which hinges one of the elements of the universality of
Masonry. And, although I am aware that some hold that a Grand Lodge may de-
fine of what classes or callings of men Masons may or may not be made, I cannot
agree with them, having always been taght, and always teaching, that there are no
favored classes or callings in the eye of Freemasonry ; the peasant, like Burns,
though an exciseman, standing on the same level before it with the Georges on their
throne.
" With this principle admitted, and if applying to the profane, much more so to
our own enlightened, we cannot deny to the brethren of a Lodge the right to select
for themselves their officers. They do so at their own risk — and if by an un-
worthy choice they bring discredit and shame on themselves they must bear
the shame, while the individual brother, officer or not, is responsible for his own
conduct."
" 2. The question has been asked, can a Lodge of three transact business ? I
decide that they cannot."
With the second decision we agree ; in what he says on the first there is, as it seems
to us, both truth and error. While a Lodge exists it has the right, which we would
defend against all comers, to choose its own Master; but we hold it quite possible
for it to demonstrate even in this way its unfitness to exist longer. If in such a case
the Grand Master should arrest its charter, it would be no denial of the right, but
only a declaration on the part of the Grand Master that a certain number of brethren
had been clothed with rights, by virtue of a charter, which they were unfit to ex-
ercise.
We doubt not that under the limited application which Grand Master Lawrence would
give it, we should agree to the decision that " it is un-Masonic to make a man's calling
or occupation in life an objection to his being made a Mason," but in an unrestricted
sense we should dissent. We agree that the Grand Lodge should not legislate on
the subject of qualifications, because the landmarks have fixed them, but we hold
that the individval brother, on whom the landmarks lay the responsibility of decid-
ing by his ballot who shall or shall not be made a Mason, is guilty of no un-Masonic
act if he rejects a candidate on the exclusive ground of a disreputable calling. While
we would not admit the right of the Grand Lodge to legislate on what is fixed by
the landmarks, we hold it to be its duty to see not only that its constituent Lodges do
not abuse the powers granted to them by their charters, but that they do not abuse
the rights which the granting of their charters evoked for their benefit from the gen-
eral law of Masonry. The Grand Lodge cannot gainsay these rights as long as the
constituent body remains a regular warranted Lodge, but it can revoke its charter,
when the conditions on which the constituent can alone exercise these general rights
at once cease ; and in our judgment the Grand Lodge is not only justified, but called
upon to take such action whenever a Lodge persists in admitting to Masonry those
who are not of good report, and of such are not those who live by pandering to the
appetites and passions of their fellow men — keepers of drinking houses, gambling
houses, bawdy houses, gamblers, procurers, et id omne genus.
In the afternoon of the first day of the session the Grand Master, assisted by the
Grand Lodge, laid the Corner-Stone of the Jewish Synagogue, on which occasion
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an excellent address was delivered by the Rabbi, Bro. Jacob Rosenfeld. The cer-
emonies were closed with a brief but very appropriate address by the Grand Master.
Samuel D. Irvin, of Macon, was elected Grand Master ; Samuel Lawrence,
Atlanta, Grand Secretary.
The Grand Lodge resolved that in future all applications for decisions on Masonic
jurisprudence be made to the Grand Master, and by him alone be decided, thus cut-
ting off the practice of obtaining decisions by the District Depulies.
A Special Committee paid an appreciative tribute to the memory of Oscar V.
Brown, for several years, and at the time of his death, Senior Grand Deacon.
The Committee on the Southern Female College, reported that Institution on a
better footing than at any time since the close of the war ; that it is doing an immense
amount of good, and is an honor to the Craft.
In a case before the Committee on Grievance, the Lodge of which the accused
was a member, dismissed charges of un- Masonic conduct of a flagrant character on
the ground that the brother preferring the charges was not a member of that Lodge.
The case was properly remanded for trial.
Two petitions for new Lodges were granted and five refused.
The Grand Lodges of British Columbia and Utah were recognized.
The following was adopted :
" Resolved, That at this session, and at all future sessions, the Grand Master shall
appoint one committee of three, who shall constitute the Committee on Finance,
Returns, Unfinished Business and Printing, who shall meet to perform their duties,
at Masonic Hall, in Macon, not exceeding ten days before the day of the Annual
Meeting of the Grand Lodge ; that said committee shall have five hundred copies of
their Report on Finance and Returns printed and laid before the Grand Lodge on
the first day of its session."
A wise movement in so far as it tends to get all the business possible, before the
Grand Lodge in print. We know of no other one thing so likely to prevent ill-con-
sidered legislation.
The Report on Correspondence, (pp. 86), by Bro. J. Emmet Blackshear, is a
concise review of the Proceedings of forty-one American Grand Lodges, and five
foreign Grand Bodies.
At usual Bro. Blackshear makes a good report. The Illinois Prodeedings
seem not to have been received, though three copies were certainly sent. A like
fatality seems to have attended the Georgia Proceedings. We learn from Bro.
Blackshear, to whom we are personally indebted for the copy before us, that they
were forwarded long since, yet our Grand Secretary has no': received them.
We lake the following from his notice of German Grand Lodges :
" I The eight Grand Lodges existing in Germany have, by a suitable number of
representatives, formed among themselves a kind of League, or Union, (or Associa-
tion), to be composed of the eight Grand Masters and two delegates from each Grand
Lodge, for the purpose of preserving and promoting Masonic co-operation in all the
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Lodges of Germany, and to unite upon one common representation at all the foreign
Grand Lodges with whom they are in friendly relation ; also, to adjust and settle
differences or disputes arising between the various German Grand Lodges. Their
meetings are to be held annually at Pentecost, alternating between the seats of the
eight Grand Lodges. It was found impracticable to introduce, as is the case in the
the Grand Lodge of England, uniformity, in regard to mode of instructing (work-
ing) and ritual, as there existed four different classes of them, nor uniformity of or-
ganization, as in the case in the Grand Orient of France. The eight Grand Lodges
spoken of represent three hundred and twenty Subordinate Lodges, with a total
membership of 34,863.
"2. Extracts from the Proceedings of the following Grand Lodges are given:
Five German Grand Lodges, the Grand Lodge of England, Supreme Council of
Belgium, Supreme Council of Luxemburg ; only four from the United States — New
York, Louisiana, Ohio, Nebraska. The Grand Lodge of Hamburg reaffirms the
resolution passed in February, 187 1, in regard to a complete rupture with the Grand
Orient of France ; concludes to wait for further information in regard to the request
for mutual representation, made by the German Lodges in the State of Illinois;
also, to postpone all nearer relation (or connection) with the " Colored Prince Hall
Grand Lodge," at Boston, until more definite and reliable news is obtained about
the organization and recognition of this negro Grand Lodge."
IDAHO.
The Grand Lodge met at Boise City December 9th, 1872.
The address of Grand Master Brown begins with a retrospect of the past year,
and proceeds with some excellent general considerations on what Masonry is, and
what it requires, for which the Grand Master gives credit to another.
He reports that a perceptible moral improvement has been made during the past
year.
He regrets that so many officers tail to attend the Grand Lodge, and is sometimes
inclined to believe that members of Lodges do not desire to elect Masters and War-
dens whom they know will be prompt and efficient officers, lest some may feel the
force of Masonic discipline.
He had decided that a Lodge rejecting a candidate had obtained complete juris-
diction over him, which it retained wherever he might move to ; that it is not proper
to appoint and install to office a Mason who is not a member of the Lodge ; that an
installed officer of a Lodge cannot dimit during his term of office ; that a person
blind in one eye cannot be made a Mason, and that saloon-keepers ought not to bex
admitted to the mysteries of Masonry, all of which were approved by the Grand
Lodge. Correct as this last decision unquestionably is, it requires some nerve to
make it in a new community like the jurisdiction of Idaho. The Grand Master
displayed still more of the same kind, and while earnestly recommending the Grand
Lodge to maintain the position it last year assumed against intemperance and gam-
bling, he went further, and recommended that a regulation be adopted prohibiting
Masons from keeping saloons, suggesting that those engaged in the business be given
a reasonable time to get out of it. He says :
" It seems to me there is but one question involved in the settlement of this sub-
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ject, to-wit : ' Is the keeping of a saloon an immoral business?' If it is, we ought
not to hesitate in our action to suppress it. If it is not, then we ought not to legis-
late upon it. I believe it an immoral, disreputable business, so intimately con-
nected with the vices of intemperanee, gambling, and playing whisky games in
saloons, that we cannot consistently forbed the indulgence in either of those vices,
while we permit our brethren ad libitum to keep saloons, thereby corrupting the
morals of the community and luring their own brethren to destruction by means of
the vices they are forbidden to indulge in."
He reports the Lodges in a prosperous condition, financially. Some have lost in
membership by removals, and but little work has been done. Mining communities
are so uncertain that he sees but little prospect of an increase of Lodges at present.
He recommends striking from the Constitution the provision that the Grand Master
may be elected from the body of the craft, doubting whether one so elected could
properly install the officers of a Lodge. The initial steps were taken to get rid of
the anomaly.
He suggests arbitration in the Canada Quebec difficulty, and thinks five or seven
intelligent Masons could hear and determine the whole matter in a few days, and
restore peace and harmony.
John Kennaly, of Idaho City, was elected Grand Master ; L. F. Cartee,
Boise City, Grand Secretary.
The Grand Lodge adopted as its rule the opinion of the Committee on Jurispru-
dence, that a brother charged with un-Masonic conduct can plead guilty, but that
he should make answer to the several specifications in writing, over his own signa-
ture ; that in case of a plea of guilty, the Lodge cannot proceed to ballot on the
punishment without a ballot as to his guilt or innocence, and should hear all the
testimony before balloting, as to his guilt or innocence.
The Grand Master communicated the following :
"On or about the 20th day of January, 1872, I directed the Worshipful Master
of Boise Lodge, No. 2, to strike the name of Bro. H. W. O. Margary from the roll
of members of said Lodge, and to exclude the said Margary from visiting the
Lodge. The reason for said decision was this : Bro. Margary was a member of
Washington Lodge, No. 4, under the jurisdiction of Washington Territory, came to
Idaho City, signed a petition for a dispensation to form a new Lodge without obtain-
ing his dimit from his Lodge in Washington Territory — took a dimit from Idaho
Lodge, and joined Boise Lodge. During the time Bro. Margary was stricken
from the roll by his Lodge in Washington Territory for non-payment of dues, and
still remains in that condition."
The Grand Lodge sustained his action.
If, as would seem from this brief record, Bro. Margary had no hearing, we
should take this as an indication that Masons from other jurisdictions, affiliating in
Idaho, hold their membership by a very uncertain tenure.
The Grand Master also communicated the following :
I feel it my duty to call the attention of this Grand Lodge to an act of insubordi-
nation on the part of Shoshone Lodge, No. 7, to this Grand Lodge, committed
last night, December II, 1872, in the election of Junior Warden. This Grand
Lodge, on yesterday, decided that saloon-keepers ought not to be made Masons, and
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the edict of the last session forbids gambling among Masons in this jurisdiction — and
yet Shoshone Lodge, No. 7, elected a professional gambler and saloon-keeper to the
office of Junior Warden. I ask this body set aside said election, and take such other
action in the premises as may be just and proper."
Whereupon the Committee on Jurisprudence reported as follows :
Whereas, This Grand Lodge, on October 5, 1871, did by resolution, declare in-
temperance, gambling, and playing whisky games in saloons, Masonic offences, and
authorized and made it the duty of the M. W. Grand Master to issue an edict accord-
ingly ; and, whereas, the M. W. Grand Master did issue such edict, making it the
duty of the Masters of the several subordinate Lodges to endeavor, by all the power
of moral suasion, to suppress such vices, and, should moral suasion fail to suppress
such vices in a reasonable time, to cause charges to be preferred against the persist-
ently offending Masons, and that they be punished even to expulsion :
And, Whereas, Shoshone Lodge, No. 7, did, on the nth day of December,
1872, elect a professional gambler for Junior Warden,
We, therefore, recommend that the action of Shoshone Lodge, in the election of
its Junior Warden, be set aside, and the Lodge be censured for said action, and the
Lodge be ordered to prefer charges against the brother so elected for persisting in
the vice of gambling. And we would further recommend that Shoshone Lodge, No.
7, be granted a dispensation to elect a Junior Warden on the 18th inst."
The offending Lodge escaped with no more of censure than is to be found in the
foregoing, which the Grand Lodge adopted, after an ineffectual attempt had been
made to strike out the words, " And the Lodge be ordered to prefer charges against
the brother so elected for persisting in the vice of gambling."
The Special Committee, to whom a portion of the Grand Master's address had
been referred, reported in strong terms against the evils of intemperance, and the
kindred vices of gambling, profane swearing, and playing whisky games in saloons;"
declaring that the keeping of saloons for the sale of intoxicating liquors, and for
playing gambling games, is in conflict with all Masonic teachings, contrary to the
good sense of all moral men, and a flagrant violation of the spirit of the institution.
They reported the following resolutions :
" Resolved, That the keeping of saloons for the sale of spirituous liquors or gam-
ing purposes is a Masonic offence, and such as are guilty of such un- Masonic con-
duct shall be subject to admonition, reprimand, suspension and expulsion, and Mas-
ters, at their peril, must see that this vice against Masonry no longer finds a hiding
place among Masons, and it is strictly forbidden hereafter for Masons in this juris-
diction to engage in the business.
" Resolved, That Masons now engaged in the business shall have until the first day
of October, 1873, to close out their business of saloon-keeping, and Masons neglect-
ing or refusing so to do shall be proceeded against by the subordinate Lodge under
whose jurisdiction they reside, and dealt with according to the spirit of the resolu-
tion preventing saloon-keeping. And the Worshipful Master and Wardens of each
subordinate Lodge within this jurisdiction shall, at the next Annual Communication
of this Grand Lodge, make a report of each case coming under these resolutions."
In which the Grand Lodge concurred by a vote of 23 to 12.
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All honor to the Grand Lodge of Idaho for thus laying the axe to the root of the
Proceedings of the
tree. It is an outrage upon justice to discipline Masons for the vice of intemperance
while permitting those who feed their unfortunate appetites to remain in good stand-
ing in the Fraternity.
INDIANA.
The Grand Lodge met at Indianapolis, May 27th, 1873.
Grand Master Fetta announced the death of Bro. H. C. Fullenwider, Master
of Alton Lodge, No. 202, who was an honor not only to the office he filled, but to
the Lodge before the world.
The Grand Master had granted twenty-four dispensations for new Lodges, and
reports a large amount of public work performed, either personally or by proxy.
He reports two cases of Masters disciplined by Lodges over which they presided
— one was found guilty of gross official misconduct, and suspended from office ; the
other convicted of immorality, and indefinitely suspended. In the latter case a Spe"
cial Deputy presided at the trial ; in the former it is not stated that any one did.
For our part, we would as soon assent to the proposition that a trial might be held
without a presiding officer as that a Lodge might try its Master.
The Grand Master very properly refused to permit a Lodge to rent its hall to an
Odd Fellows' Lodge. He thinks the Masonic Districts are too large, his experience
having convinced him that a closer supervision over the Lodges is absolutely neces-
sary. Personal visitation and examination of the records of many Lodges had dis-
closed a large per centage of irregularities, some of which, however, were only
apparent, being occasioned by omissions and mistakes in the records by the Secre-
tary. In many Lodges the Secretaries were either ignorant or indifferent as to their
duties, and in some instances (from long continuance in office) had become auto-
crats, ruling the Master and Wardens, making necessary the trite remark that the
Master should supervise and direct all business, and control and direct his subordi-
nate officers.
He acknowledges the receipt of two hundred and sixty-six dollars, the return sur-
plus of the Masonic Board of Relief of Chicago. He had suspended the functions
of two Lodges, one for having buried, with Masonic honors, an expelled Mason, and
the other for having irregularly initiated a candidate who had been rejected in an-
other Lodge.
Seven decisions are reported, all of general interest. He decided that charges
having become a matter of record were the property of the Lodge, and could not be
withdrawn without the unanimous consent. To this the Committee on Jurispru-
dence, the Grand Lodge concurring, excepted, in so far as the unanimous consent
was held to be requisite, holding that in the absence of some necessary rule to the
contrary, a majority should govern, and that there was no business or transaction of
a Lodge excepting the admission of members that should require such a rule.
For information, we ask if Indiana, in majority vote, may convict on trial ? The
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Grand Master decided that a Committee on Character was not necessary where an-
other Lodge had elected a Fellow Craft to receive the Master Mason's degree, and
requested the Lodge in question to do the work. Properly confirmed.
We quote a question and answer :
" If a brother persists in the sale or use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage, after
being admonished by the Lodge, is it the duty of the Lodge to suspend or expel him ?
Can a Brother be admonished by the Lodge without trial, and if so, by what method
should it be brought about ? "
I answered : " A Lodge may appoint some brother to wait upon the offender,
admonish him or notify him of the fact that the sale or use of intoxicating liquors as
a beverage is a Masonic offence, and a violation of the rules and regulations of our
Grand Lodge. Or, the Master and Wardens may counsel with him against the
wrong practice, admonish him to desist, or the law must be enforced. After having
been admonished, if he still continues, or does not reform, prefer charges against
him, and if found guilty inflict the penalty according to Section 108 G. L. Rules and
Regulations."
Held to be in strict accord with the Rule. Another :
Query. " Bro. D. D. N. was tried in our Lodge for un-Masonic conduct, on five
specifications. The fifth specification was ruled out by the W. M. as being vague
and indefinite. On the first and second he was acquitted ; on the third and fourth
he was found guilty and suspended for one month, from which he took an appeal to
the Grand Lodge.
" The Grand Lodge sustained the appeal, and remanded the case back to the
Lodge for a new trial. Now, can the Lodge try Bro. N. twice for the same offence ?
He has already been tried on the first four specifications ; on the first and second he
was acquitted, and on the third and foutth he was found guilty, and has suffered the
entire penalty long before the Grand Lodge met. Can the Lodge amend the fifth
specification and try him on that alone ?
I held, " You can notagain put him on trial on the first and second specifications.
" On the third and fourth specifications, it is your duty to try him again.
" On the fifth specification, if it was matter not embraced in either of the other
charges, that is, if it was a distinct transaction, a different offence, he can be pro-
ceeded against again, either in a new proceeding, or possibly together with the third
and fourth specifications. But charges can not be amended, either in substance or
form, after they have been read by the Secretary to the Lodge, except upon order of
the W. M. in open Lodge, upon cause shown."
On this the Grand Lodge concurred in the following, from the Committee on Ju-
risprudence :
" The Fourth ' Query,' as Presented in the Grand Master's Address,
unaccompanied by the proceedings of the last Convocation of the Grand Lodge, is
not without difficulties in arriving at a satisfactory conclusion. There seems to have
been five specifications. The fifth, for vagueness, so said, was ruled out by the Wor-
shipful Master; the exercise, in the opinion of the Committee, of a doubtful power,
to say the least of it. The accused was tried on the four first, acquitted on the two
first, but on the third and fourth was found guilty and punished. The case was
appealed to the Grand Lodge, and by it sent back for a new trial. The decision of
the Grand Master is that the Lodge could not try him on the two first specifications,
but could on the other two. If the Grand Lodge reversed the finding of the Subor-
dinate, and sent it back for a new trial ; the Committee are unable to see why the
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accused should not have been tried on all the specifications, if he was to be tried
again on any. Taking it for granted, as we do, that there was as much probability
of error on one point as another; indeed as he had been convicted and punished on
the third and fourth specifications, there would seem to have been less reason for
trying him again on them, than on the first and second."
We think with the Committee that the whole case was re-opened. In the next
case he held that where the Grand Lodge sustained an appeal and remanded a case
to the Lodge for new trial, with leave to amend the specifications, it was the privi-
lege of the Lodge to amend ; its duty to proceed to trial unless the accuser, the
accused and the Lodge unanimously assent to the withdrawal of the charges, (the
Grand Lodge held that a majority vote was sufficient) ; that the status of the accused
(with reference to the Lodge) was the same as after the^ charges had been originally
preferred before trial, and that depositions taken to be used at the last trial can be
used in the second trial ; and that if witnesses are dead who testified at the former
trial, it is competent to prove what they testified to.
He properly held that re-election requires re-installation. His last decision is as
follows :
Question. " A man is superintendent of a brewery where they manufacture ale,
has no interest in the concern ; is he eligible for the degrees, or would the action of
the Grand Lodge prevent him :
Held. " That his admission would be an infringement upon the spirit and mean-
ing of the law. Every Lodge is prohibited from conferring any of the degrees of
Masonry upon any one who makes it his business to manufacture or sell intoxicating
liquors to be used as a beverage. (Sections 108 and 109.) It needs no proof or
argument to show that ale is intoxicating, or the brewery a place where liquor is
manufactured, such as is contemplated by the law, and he who superintends is as
guilty of the Masonic offense as the owner of the establishment."
Of this the Committee on Jurisprudence, speaking for the Grand Lodge, says :
The Seventh Question. — " A man is superintendent of a brewery where they
manufacture ale, but has no interest in the concern; is he eligible for the degrees, or
would the action of the Grand Lodge prevent him ? " The answer is in the affirm-
ative ; a decision that the Committee would prefer not being called upon to defend,
nor do they wish to attack it. How far the laborer who is engaged at his daily toils,
or the husbandman who plants and raises hops, barley, corn, rye, etc., is a party to
the crime of manufacturing intoxicating drinks, is rather too metaphysical and fine
spun to be distinctly visible to the naked eye.
" Why should he not be made a Mason ? " is the question, says the Grand Master,
which is generally asked by the Committee of Inquiry. He gives abundant statisti-
cal and other reasons why the question should be, " Why should he be made a
Mason ? "
In conclusion, he says :
" The Constitution declares the Grand Lodge to be the highest source of authority
within the State of Indiana, and the office of Grand Master being established by the
Constitution, the incumbent possesses no legitimate authority but such as he derives
from that instrument which is the creative power."
We had occasion to dissent from a somewhat similar opinion given by his prede-
cessor. If it were true that the office of Grand Master is established by the Consti-
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tution alone, his conclusions would be correct, but it is not ; the Constitution did not
create, and cannot destroy, the office of Grand Master.
Twenty-one charters were granted, one refused for irregularities, and three dispen-
sations continued.
Six petitions for dispensations for new Lodges were referred to the Grand Master.
If this was done for the proper reason that to that officer alone belongs the power to
grant dispensations, we are not without hope that Indiana will finally give up the
idea that a constituent Lodge may try the Grand Master while in office.
The report of the Committee on Grievances crops out in two places, some twenty-
five pages apart. Their docket embraces twenty-two cases, which possess, mainly,
only local interest.
The Committee properly refuse to recognize it as an offence for one Mason to
collect just debts from another Mason by legal process, if he can do it in no other
way.
In our notice of Nebraska, we referred to a request preferred to the Grand Lodge
of Indiana that one of its constituents should pay the funeral expenses of one of its
members, buried by a Lodge in the former jurisdiction. Through its Committee, the
Grand Lodge of Indiana says :
" Your Committee have not the time to investigate or discuss the question of what
is " common usage," in such cases, but so far as we are at present informed, are of
the opinion that it is not in accordance with the position taken by the Grand Lodge
of Nebraska. We find, however, that a precedent has been established by this Grand
Lodge in a similar case presented at the Annual Communication of 1869, when it
was declared to be not in accordance with Masonic law or precedent to ask the
Lodge with which he was affiliated to pay the expenses of burying a brother who
had died under the jurisdiction of another Lodge.
Your Committee would further add, that a Master Mason in good standing is justly
entitled to all the rights and benefits of Masonry, not only while under the jurisdic-
tion of the Lodge which made him a Mason, or with which he may have subse-
quently affiliated, but he may claim them of any Lodge in the world under whose
jurisdiction he may happen to be. His Lodge extends from East to West, and from
North to South, and may he always find Masonic Charity equally extensive.
We are not disposed to say nay.
Christian Fetta, of Richmond, was re-elected Grand Master.
John M. Bramwell, Indianapolis, Grand Secretary.
A proposition for a " uniform code of By-Laws" for constituent Lodges were neg-
atived on the ground that "it is not only the immemorial, but the constitutional and
chartered right of every chartered Lodge to adopt such By-Laws for their govern-
ment as they may think proper, so that they are not in conflict with the ancient
landmarks, and Constitution and Laws of the Grand Lodge from which it derives its
existence." Correct.
The Report on Correspondence (60 pp.) reviews the proceedings of forty-four
American Grand Lodges. It is signed by Bro. Martin H. Rice, the Chairman of
the Committee, who credits a large portion of the work to Bro. Daniel McDonald.
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The review is concise, well written, and marked by strong common sense. Illinois
receives liberal notice. The Committee reproduce from Grand Master Cregier's
address the facts in reference to the Masonic Relief Fund. In this connection the
Committee say :
" The record of this ' Masonic Relief Fund' shows a charity never equaled and
never excelled in the history of any human institution in the world, and as the Grand
Master truly says, the good deeds and loving kindness of the illustrious brotherhood
excite admiration and gratitude, and the memory of them is indelibly engraven upon
the enduring tablets of Freemasonry, adding a new and lustrous page to the history
of its glorious career."
With reference to the proposition made in our Grand Lodge to create a " Mortu-
ary Fund," they say :
" We have always held to the opinion that any ' life insurance' or ' beneficial
scheme,' tacked on or made obligatory upon the members of the fraternity by Grand
Lodge edict, would fail in its object and work irreparable mischief. We think our
Illinois brethren acted wisely in declining to have anything to do with the propo-
sition.
The Committee fully concur in our strictures on the action of their Grand Lodge
in remanding a case for a new trial, with instructions to convict.
The Craft of Westminster, British Columbia, having held a ball, "by dispensation
of the M. W. Grand Master, the Committee says :
" We were not aware that granting a dispensation to hold a ball came within the
prerogatives of any Grand Master, and are surprised at this before unheard of pro-
ceeding. Next in order will be a dispensation to hold a prize fight or start a travel-
ing minstrel show.
They hold the Master has but one vote, even in case of a tie ; think it probable
that the present generation of Masons will pass away without witnessing the estab-
lishment of a General Grand Lodge in the United States ; properly condemn the
Maryland rule that Lodges may confer the degrees without fee upon clergymen ; are
stumped by a " W. Bro. Lieut.-Col. ," who crops out in the Proceedings of
Nova Scotia, it being the first time they ever heard of a Grand Officer with that title,
but we remember that Iowa ranks Nova Scotia, having had a " Colonel " for Grand
Orator last year ; think the Ohio brother who thought the District Lecturers could
prepare a uniform work and explain it to the Grand Lodge before the close of a
three days' session, ought to be bored for the simples; are forced to the conclusion,
unpleasant as it is, that all Grand Lodges that have recognized Quebec, to be con-
sistent, must follow the example of Vermont and suspend all Masonic intercourse
with the Grand Lodge of Canada while she claims any authority within the Prov-
ince of Quebec ; and properly believe that Chapter Past Masters can have no part
in a convocation of actual Past Masters. Of " Androgynous Masonry," they say :
" Several years ago we took considerable interest in introducing and conferring
the degreess of the ' Eastern Star;' and having carefully noticed the workings of the
order, we are fully convinced that the system is a failure, and we think the same
may be said of the whole system of ' Androgynous Masonry.' Our Odd Fellow
brethren are tied to the skirts of ' Rebeka,' but we have never heard of any great
amount of good being accomplished by the alliance. In fact the brethren are con-
tinually getting into trouble on account of it. In New York, not long ago, an Odd
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Fellow met. a lady in a butcher's shop, and mistaking some motion she made for a
sign used in the order of Rebeka, he went to her and offered his assistance if she
needed it. She didn't seem to need it, and told him to mind his own business ; yea,
more, for she put an avenging husband on his trail, and for a man who meant so
well, the poor Odd Fellow fared badly."
The ruling passion will show itself, as it did with the eminently practically-minded
Yankee when he first set eyes on Niagara. " Geewhillikins ! " said he, " what a
waste of water-power." Our Indiana confreres, on reading the grand peroration
of a Georgia District Deputy on the wearisome, changing, and uncertain journey of
life, who consoles himself that to each poor traveler, however desponding, "there
appear green spots as welcome as are the oases ol the desert to the panting caravan,
where the sparkling waters and cool herbage invite to refreshment and repose," are
moved to say :
" The very thought of ' sparkling waters " and ' cool herbage ' makes one pant for
' mint julips ' these hot days ! "
KANSAS.
The Grand Lodge met at Fort Scott, October 16th, 1872.
Grand Master Price reports twenty dispensations for new Lodges, issued during
the year, the largest number yet issued in that jurisdiction in any one year, and yet,
in the observance of great caution, he had refused several applications. Consider-
ing the rapid growth of the State the number is not large. Dispensations to confer
degrees out of time he had granted when he deemed the alleged emergency real.
Since 1867 the custodians of the work had, up to the past year, been exclusively
charged with its dissemination. This did not prove entirely satisfactory and the Grand
Lodge last year authorized the Grand Master to appoint one or more Assistant Lec-
turers in each District of the State made by the Board of Custodians, to assist those
officers. He had appointed twelve in all ; believed this method of diffusing the work
to be the best yet attempted, and recommended its continuance for another year.
Alluding to the donations of Kansas Masons to their Chicago brethren, which
were really munificent when we consider the circumstances of a new community, the
Grand Master says :
" When we consider that all of our Lodges are comparatively young, and that
most of them have incurred debts for new halls, rents, furniture, and for various
other purposes, it is hoped that we will not censure them too severely for acting upon
the principle that " Charity begins at home."
While we regret that we were not able to contribute more liberally to the relief of
our brethren in adversity, we rejoice to know that their cry of distress and their
prayer for relief were not unheeded. It affords me great pleasure to state that the
munificent contributions from all parts of the country, were not only ample and com-
plete, but, after making all necessary disbursements, the Board of Relief found a
large surplus unexpended. I have recently received a letter from Bro. D. C. Cre-
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gier, President of the Board of Relief, enclosing me a draft for $190, our pro rata
of this surplus."
" It has now been but a year since the fire-fiend swept over Chicago, producing
the most appalling calamity known in the history of conflagrations ; yet, within this
brief period, this " Queen City of the West " has arisen from her ashes and her des-
olation, and is to-day the wonder and admiration of the world."
The deserved testimonial ordered last year for Bro. CARR, on his retirement, after
a service of twelve years, from the office of Grand Secretary, took the shape of an
elegant silver tea service. May he live long to quaff from it the " cup that cheers but
not inebriates." The Grand Master had declined to sanction a lottery or gift enter-
prise under the auspices of Masons for the purpose of raising funds to erect a Mason's
hall, holding that however fairly conducted, they are essentially gambling enterprises.
Announcing the receipt of circulars from the Grand Masters of Louisiana and
New Jersey, containing information of foreign aggressions on their jurisdictional
rights, he says :
" It is our solemn and imperative duty to unite with the Grand Lodges of Louis-
iana and New Jersey, and all others with which we are in amicable intercourse, in
protecting ourselves from the aggressions of foreign Grand Bodies."
He thinks it a fact not to be disguised that the most fruitful source of discord in
Lodges is the " crime of Drttnkenness" which he refuses to palliate by the milder
appellation of " intemperance, or excess," and truly says that the remedy is for the
Lodges to purge themselves of the unworthy and use the black ball more freely.
The following, from his " conclusion," embraces truths that cannot be too often
repeated ;
" Brethren, I cannot conclude this Address without warning you against the too
common error of hasty legislation, and urging you to remain at this Grand Commu-
nication until all the important business to come before it has been carefully consid-
ered and fully transacted. It has too often been the custom to hurry through our
preliminary business until after the election and installation of Grand officers,
and then it is suddenly discovered that matters of pressing necessity demand imme-
diate attention at home. Allow me to remind you that, as members of this Crar>d
Lodge, grave responsibilities devolve upon you. Sacred trusts have been confided
to your charge, and it is your solemn and imperative duty to remain here until all
these matters have been fully and finally disposed of.
Twenty of his decisions he considered of sufficient importance to report. They
are well stated and evince a clear perception of the general principles of Masonic
law. We copy some that are general in their nature and application :
"1. If a Grand Lodge Committee embody in their report any voluntary state
ments or opinions, not germain to the subject before them, and not in accordance
with the By-Laws of the Grand Lodge, and such report is formally recieved and
adopted, and no further action is taken thereon by the Grand Lodge, I am of the
opinion that the mere adoption of such a report does not repeal the By-Laws, or in
anywise change the established jurisprudence of the Grand Lodge."
A decision to be especially commended, as is also the following :
" 4. A member has no right to interpose objections to the initiation of a candi-
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date, nor the advancement of a brother in behalf of and as proxy for some other
brother."
The following look a little queer in juxtaposition.
" 9. It is not proper to confer the degrees on one having a ' club-foot.' "
" 10. A candidate who has lost the first joint of his right thumb is not phys-
ically qualified to receive the degrees."
Just what degree of lack of symmetry, or deviation from the natural confirmation
is necessary to constitute a " club-foot" in the Kansas sense might prove an elusive
question. We judge, however, from the succeeding decision, which we think will
" pass muster," that a deformity from talipes not more than equivalent to the loss of
a great toe, would not be held to disqualify ; or, in other words, we hold that every
such case must be judged on its own merits, it being impossible to bring them all
under one general rule ; not even the rigid rule of some jurisdictions which aims at
absolute physical perfection, but of course rarely or never attains it.
The following decision was not confirmed by the Grand Lodge. It is not only in
conformity with the practice in Illinois, but we hold it to be correct in principle :
" 16. In obtaining the consent of one Lodge that another Lodge may receive
the petition and confer the degrees, it is sufficient that such consent be given by
a majority vote ; unless, however, the applicant had been rejected by the Lodge
giving the consent, in which event the vote must be unanimous. It is not neces-
sary to obtain the consent of any Lodge except the one having jurisdiction of the
applicant.
The majority of the Committee on Jurisprudence held that a Lodge might waive
jurisdiction over a rejected candidate by a majority vote at any regular meeting ;
the minority that unanimous consent was necessary, and that due notice should be
given of the application for permission, before action.
The Grand Lodge finally denied the principle that unanimity should be required,
and provided that the rejecting Lodge might consent to the conferring of the degrees
by another Lodge by a two-thirds vote, the application for permission having been
read at one communication and laid over until the next.
Decision No. 20 brings to light a curious blunder :
" 20. In 1855 or 1856, Andrew McDonald was initiated as an Entered Appren-
tice in Leavenworth Lodge, No. 2, Bro. R. R. Rees being Grand Master. In a
short time thereafter, Bro. McDonald moved to Lecompton. In January or Feb-
ruary, 1857, Bro. Rees, then M.\ W.-. Grand Master, was at Lecompton and visited
Geary Lodge, U. D., at that place. Bro. McDonald applied jto Geary Lodge to be
advanced. Bro. Rees, by mistake, vouched for him as a Fellow Craft, and in his
capacity as Grand Master, granted a dispensation to Geary Lodge to confer the
Third Degree on Bro. McDonald, a supposed Fellow Craft, and thereupon Bro.
Rees conferred the degree himself. After reflecting upon the subject during the
night, Bro. McDonald became satisfied that there had been some mistake, and so
informed Grand Master Rees next morning. It was then apparent to both of them
that Bro. McDonald had never been made a Fellow Craft. To rectify this anomoly
as far as possible, the two retired to a private room, and Bro. Rees as Grand Master,
then and there informally conferred the degree of Fellow Craft on Bro. McDonald.
This latter proceeding was not reported to Geary Lodge, and none of the proceed-
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ings were reported to Leavenworth Lodge., No. 2. Geary Lodge never obtained a
Charter. Its dispensation was surrendered — none of its records are in existenee.
In Leavenworth Lodge, No. 2, there are no records relating to the matter subsequent
to Bro. McDonald's initiation.
•• Bro. McDonald, now living in Alabama, having recently applied to Leaven-
worth Lodge, No. 2, to know his status and to obtain a dimit, I decided that Leaven-
worth Lodge had no jurisdiction over the brother; that the Grand Master, as such,
could take no official action, and that the case was one over which the (band Lodge
alone had jurisdiction."
The Grand Lodge adopted the following from the Committee on Jurisprudence :
" That, concerning No. 20, we report that the proper course to pursue is for
Past Grand Master R. R. Rees to make his certificate of the facts in the case, and
lei 1 hat certificate be authenticated by the Grand Secretary with the seal of the
Grand Lodge.
The Grand Lodges of British Columbia and Utah were recognized, and the
Grand Secretary ordered to furnish each, so far as it could be done, with a set of
the printed proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Kansas.
The following went to the Committee on Jurisprudence, who recommended its
rejection :
Resolved, That at the decease of a Brother, (a member in good standing) the
Secretary of such Lodge shall officially inform the Grand Secretary of such fact,
whereupon said Grand Secretary shall assess each Subordinate Lodge, at the rate
of twenty cents per member, the number of members to be taken from the pro-
ceedings of the Grand Lodge Report, and serve notice to each and every Lodge.
The amount so assessed shall be remitted to him, within thirty days after such
notice has been received, and as soon as practicable, the Grand Secretary shall
turn over the amount collected to the Widow and Orphans, and take their receipt
therefor.
We are glad to see that the Grand Lodge concurred. When Masonry shall have
instituted a system of stated benefits, as it has already a system of fixed dues, its
revolution from a charitable fraternity to a purely commercial association, will have
become well-nigh complete ; it will have been shorn of those grand features that
distinguish it from the ephemeral institutions that have sprung up around it, and
its chief glory will have departed. It is time to ask ourselves whither we are
drifting. Thicker and faster come these inconsiderate propositions to convert this
model commonwealth of the ages into a mutual insurance association. Surely
they have studied Masonry to little purpose who find not in it something nobler
than the spirit which would prompt to a scramble with a dozen " orders " to see
which can pay the largest per cent, on a given pecuniary investment.
Twenty-one charters were granted, and six dispensations continued.
An attempt to change the mode of disseminating the work by abolishing the
Board of Custodians and appointing a Grand Lecturer at a salary of $1,500 per
annum, failed.
The report of the Committee on Grievances and Appeals, embracing fourteen
cases, affords the reviewer no clue to the questions involved.
The following was adopted :
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" We therefore sever all Masonic connection with the Grand Lodge of Ham-
burg and the Grand Orient of France, and allow none to be held with either
of them, or with any other Grand Body which recognizes either or both of them,
or any one hailing from them or from any Lodge acting tinder their authority."
The italics are ours, and indicate that the Grand Lodge of Kansas has taken a
contract that will necessitate a lively brushing up of Masonic information among its
constituents.
John M. Price, of Atchison, was re-elected Grand Master; John H. Brown, of
Leavenworth, Grand Secretary.
The next Annual Communication will be held at Lawrence.
The following was adopted :
" All elections are to be decided by a majority of votes, each member having one
vote in his own right, and one vote for each proxy he may hold, and the Grand Mas-
ter to have two votes in case that an equal number require his decision."
Another voice against our opinion.
The Charter of a Lodge was properly arrested on account of dissensions growing
out of efforts of members to compel. a disclosure of the ballot.
The Report on Correspondence (pp. 106.) by Bro. E. T. Carr, is a concise and
interesting review of forty-three American Grand Lodges, Illinois included. He
copies, with commendation, the remarks of Grand Master Cregier on the subject
of New Lodges, and without dissent our remarks on the effect of reversing the
decision of a Lodge.
We think his " copy " must have got mixed in the hands of the printer, as he says
of our proceedings : " No statistical tables are published." Yet we find in his
own valuable statistical table of Grand Lodges, the figures for Illinois correspond-
ing with singular correctness, for a guess, with the recapitulation of the elaborate
table running from the fiftieth to the sixty-fifth page of the volume he was re-
viewing.
Bro. Carr believes that affiliation fees should be abolished ; protests against re-
quiring a visitor to exhibit a Grand Lodge Diploma or certificate, as an innovation ;
sustains the rigid rule regarding physical qualifications ; properly dissents from the
opinion that the refusal to receive a petition is equivalent to a rejection ; thinks the
"objection " of a member in good standing ought to be as good in another Lodge
as in his own, and would be in favor of giving the right of balloting on the peti-
tion for the degrees, to all Masons in good standing, wherever they might be ;
that personal jurisdiction once acquired holds good against all comers ; that as it
is a misfortune to be obliged to take the degrees in less than the fixed time, we
should not take advantage of that misfortune to enrich ourselves by charging a fee
for a dispensation ; fully answers the exceptions taken by Nevada to the chartering
of Mount Moriah Lodge at Salt Lake City, showing his magnanimity by proposing,
after having had his say, to " shake hands across the bloody chasm ; " and appeals
to Bro. Reynolds for light on the question whether " bogus Masonry " is a correct
term for the " Androgynous Degrees."
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Bro. Carr retires from the Committee on Correspondence and is succeded by
Past Grand Master Brown. He gracefully says :
" From you, our brethren of other Grand Lodge Committees, with whom we have
so many times "sat down to the feast," and the enjoyment of the kind and fraternal
criticisms of each other, we part reluctlantly. For the kind and approving manner
in which our Reports and the Proceedings of our Grand Lodge have been noticed,
we shall always hold you in grateful remembrance. We believe we retire in peace
with all our brother reporters ; and if in our criticisms we have ever written a word
which has left a wound in the heart of any, we sorrowfully ask that brother's forgive-
ness, and then — " good bye."
The Kansas Proceedings are elegantly printed on tinted paper, and are gotten up
in a style worthy of great praise.
KENTUCKY.
After missing them for two years, we again welcome to our table the Proceedings
of this Grand Lodge, a volume of over six hundred and eighty pages. The four
hundred and forty pages devoted to the names of members of constituent Lodges
contain "fat" enough to make a lean printer laugh all over his face.
The Grand Lodge met at Louisville, Oct. 22, 1872.
Grand Master Jones reports the condition of the Lodges as generally of the most
peaceful and prosperous character ; the increase of membership steady and health-
ful, and personal grievances few. He had granted eleven dispensations for new
Lodges and refused many applications, not thinking it good policy to establish more
new Lodges at present. He reports but few decisions, among them, that the ballot
must be taken upon a petition whether the report thereon is favorable or unfavor-
able ; that the By-Laws of a Lodge may disqualify a member thereof an elector
and yet omit to affect his eligibility to hold office ; that no Lodge has a right to re-
fuse a dimit in the exercise of its discretion, where the member is clear of the
books and his standing unquestioned, nor can the Master, in his discretion, defer
action on the application for one ; and that the Master has in no case two votes on
any question that may come before his Lodge.
The Grand Master thinks that all business pertaining particularly to the Entered
Apprentice should be transacted in that degree, and the same of the Fellow Craft's
Lodge, as fully as a Master Mason's Lodge regulates and controls its affairs. He
acknowledges the receipt of an invitation from Grand Master Cregier, to partici-
pate in the examination of the accounts and proceedings of the Masonic Board of
Relief, which he was obliged to decline. Alluding to the return of the surplus
funds of the Board, he says :
" Misfortunes are inevitable to States as well as to individuals, but whenever the
wail of distress from our brethren and their little ones ascend to Heaven in prayers
of supplication for relief, they are answered by the generous hand of Masonic
mercy in that spirit of heavenly charity which makes man a brother to the angels.
This generous, though we think entirely unnecessary, act of returning the four
hundred and ninety-six dollars to the Masonic Order of Kentucky, is full of spotless
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honor and integrity; and we submit the question, whether or not it would be well
for this Grand Lodge to donate the amount to the Widows' and Orphans' Home
and infirmary."
The Grand Lodge so disposed of the funds.
The Grand Master talks eloquently of the Widows' and Orphans' Home and In-
firmary, whose permanent success is now assured. In this connection he gives
great credit to the ladies for their co-operation, and reports two bequests to the
Home by women — one of three hundred dollars by Mrs. Catherine Read, and
another in property, worth some six thousand dollars, by Mrs. Emily T. Harris.
The "Kentucky Freemason" was strongly endorsed by him and by the Grand
Lodge. The Grand Master thinks that the fees for the degrees are, in most of the
Lodges, entirely too low, and recommended that the minimum be fixed at twenty-
five dollars, which would correspond with the law in Illinois. The Grand Lodge,
however, decided that it would be injudicious to make an advance at this time.
He favors the one term principle for Grand Officers, except in the case of the
Grand Secretary.
He reverts, at length, to the death of Past Grand Master Philip Swigert, who
became identified with Masonry in Kentucky about fifty years ago, and whose name
and work are so intimately associated with its history in that Commonwealth, that
it could not be written without a large account of his personal acts embraced therein.
He refers also to the death of Garrett Davis, who was Deputy Grand Master in
1833, and of the Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge, who had filled the positions of
Junior and Senior Grand Warden and Grand Orator. Surely these are shining
names for one year's harvest of Death.
An interesting and highly dramatic incident followed the close of the first day's
session. When the Grand Master had called from labor to refreshment, the drop
curtain of the stage was raised, exhibiting the Orphans' Home, composed of fifty-
eight children, clad in plain but neat attire, to the view of the Grand Lodge. A
brief introduction by Past Grand Master Fitch, was followed by songs and addresses
on the part of the pupils. The exercises and tableaux seem to have made a deep
impression on the members of the Grand Lodge, and to have still further stimlated
their zeal in behalf of this excellent charity.
Edward W. Turner, of Richmond, was elected Grand Master; John M.
S. McCorkle, Louisville, Grand Secretary.
Bro. McCorkle, from a Special Committee, appointed by the Grand Master du-
, ring the recess of the Grand Lodge, to whom was referred the communication of
the Grand Orient of France, (the same noticed by us under California and Con-
necticut,) presented an able report, reaffirming the position taken by Kentucky, in
common with all other American Grand Lodges, in reference to the invasion by the
Grand Orient of the jurisdictional rights of Louisiana, in which the Grand Lodge
concurred In this report Bro. McCorkle reproduces a portion of a report made
by him on this subject in 1869. As we did not see the Kentucky Proceedings for
1869, these remarks of our brother come under our notice for the first time.
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Having stated, as preliminary information, that there are in the United States,
and dividing its territory between them, two Supreme Councils of the Ancient and
Accepted Scottish Rite, one located at Boston and the other at Charleston, he says :
"These two Supreme Councils claim and have the right, through their various
subordinate bodies, to confer all the degrees of their Rite, including those of Entered
Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason, up to the highest degree conferred by
those bodies. Nevertheless, in order that no conflict of jurisdiction, in regard to
the three first degress of Masonry, should arise in the United States, between the
governing bodies of the Scottish Rite, and the Grand Lodges exercising jurisdiction
over the York Rite, as it is called, the two Supreme Councils have agreed, (not sur-
rending the right to confer the first three degrees, for that would have been to emas-
culate the Scottish Rite), that wherever, in the United States, there are, or shall be,
Grand Lodges exercising jurisdiction over Lodges working in the York Rite, and
conferring only the degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason,
they will not permit the Lodges of the Scottish Rite to confer those degrees on any
applicant for the Scottish Rite degrees, requiring all such applicants, however, to
have previously taken those degrees in the York Rite Lodges."
The italics are ours. We have been aware that these pseudo Masonic bodies
claim this right and have felt quite contented to let them claim it, if it amused
them, so long as the claim was confined to periodicals or other irresponsible publi-
cations ; but when it is put forth in an official report to a Grand Lodge, it comes
legitimately within our purview and we don't propose to let it pass unchallenged.
If there is one subject upon which all Grand Lodges in this country now entirely
agree, it is upon their absolute and exclusive right (not privilege) to plant Lodges,
within their respective jurisdictions, for the purpose of conferring the three degrees
of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason. To talk of enjoying an
exclusive right by sufference is a contradiction in terms, and for a Grand Lodge to
assent to such a proposition would be a definite surrender of its sovereignty. The
assumption on the part, or in behalf of, a Supreme Council, that in refraining from
the establishment of Symbolic Lodges it is making a waiver of something, invol-
untarily brings to one's mind the somewhat notorious personage who took another
up into a high mountain and proposed for a consideration — doubtless in his view of
the subject to prevent a conflict of jurisdiction — to give him all the kingdoms of
the earth, "when," in the terse language of the nameless commentator, "he didn't
own a foot of it." We suggest that the by-play of holding in abeyance a right
which, so far as the Supreme Council is concerned does not exist, is too broad a
farce for the atmosphere of a Grand Lodge, and can only be appropriately aired
among the subjects of the Holy Empire.
We have referred to this subject and spoken thus plainly upon it, not from an
irresistible impulse to tread on the tail of somebody's coat, but that the lesson of the
events transpiring around us might not be overlooked.
The early compromises of the Grand Lodge of Louisiana on this question, were
the seeds from which she is now reaping the whirlwind. Years ago she saw her
error and placed herself right, and though her misstep has brought evils in its train,
it has brought also the compensating good by fixing not only her, but every Ameri-
can Grand Lodge with her, so firmly upon the impregnable ground of the absolute
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and exclusive sovereignty of the Grand Lodge over all matters connected with sym-
bolic Masonry, that no force can drive and no sophistry can wheedle them from it.
The docket of the Committee on Grievances embraced only eleven appeal cases, a
creditable showing for so large a jurisdiction.
The Grand Master having suspended the Master of a Lodge from the functions of
his office, he refused to obey the order placing the Senior Warden in charge, and in
this was sustained by the Lodge. The Grand Lodge promptly arrested its charter.
Charters were granted to nineteen new Lodges, four dispensations continued, one
discontinued, and eight granted.
The following was adopted :
" Resolved, That this Grand Lodge recommends to the Subordinate Lodges under
its jurisdiction, to set apart the 24th day of June, annually, as a Masonic Jubilee,
dedicated to the interest of said Widows' and Orphans' Home, and the proceeds of
all such social Masonic entertainments of that day be sacredly appropriated to that
end."
A burial service, prepared by Past Grand Master Eginton, was warmly recom-
mended to the constituent Lodges.
We notice a proposition to amend the Rules of Order by striking out the words
" for the previous question or to adjourn," whence we infer that those motions are
permitted in the Grand Lodge of Kentucky.
Memorial Tablets are inscribed to the deceased brethren mentioned in the Grand
Master's address, to the two ladies who made bequests to the Widows' and Orphans'
Home, and to two veterans, Bros. Robert Samuel and Gen. Samuel Williams,
the latter of whom was an officer in the war of 1812, and was made a Mason in Lex-
ington Lodge, No. I, more than seventy years ago.
The Report on Correspondence, (pp. 67,) by Bro. McCorkle, reviews the pro-
ceedings of forty-four American and one foreign Grand Lodge. Illinois for 1871,
receives brief but commentary notice. Of the address of Grand Master Cregier, he
says :
" The Grand Master's opening address is a thorough business paper, giving a sum-
mary of all his actings and doings during the preceding year. This is done in a
kind and fraternal spirit, and is highly commendable."
Our report is approvingly noticed.
He characterizes the Alabama edict of 1869, repealed in 1871, making a dimit so
read that dimission should only be completed " when he affiliates with any other
Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and notice of such affiliation given
to this Lodge," as " a high-handed, arbitrary measure, and subversive of the idea
that Lodges are voluntary associations of Masons," with which language we are not
disposed to quarrel ; properly holds that Masons under suspension, from whatever
cause, are not chargeable with dues ; thinks a Deputy Grand Master much like the
figure-head of a ship, more ornamental than useful ; looks upon the new feature in
some Lodges of receiving a stated sum of money outright, in lieu of all future annual
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dues, as of very questionable policy, and alluding to a new spelling of his name,
found in Bro. Blackie's report, says he has gotten somewhat used to the changes,
it having been given in all the various ways ingenuity could invent, but does object
to one he had noticed where the prefix was Reverend.
LOUISIANA.
Last year Massachusetts gave us a volume which not only for its elegance, but for
the permanent value of its contents, surpassed the Proceedings of any other Grand
Lodge.
In the latter particular Louisiana, this year, holds the post of honor, issuing a vol-
ume of which four hundred and sixty of its five hundred and fifty- four pages are filled
with interesting matter.
The Grand Lodge met at New Orleans, February ioth, 1873.
The address of Grand Master Todd is a clear and able paper.
He refers to the promptness and unanimity with which the Fraternity of our own
country, and of many foreign jurisdictions join in proffering countenance and sup-
port to the Grand Lodge of Louisiana in its resistance to the aggressions of the Grand
Orient of France, and demanding reparation for the injury, as showing that above
all the petty quarrels and strifes of men, above all questions of policy or State gov-
ernment, Masonry unites its votaries in a union complete and indissoluble.
One effect of this strong support was to be seen in the altered tone of the Grand
Orient which had heretofore been highly belligerent and aggressive, quite in con-
trast with its latest utterance, in September, 1S72, when it adopted the following
resolution :
" The Grand Orient desires to respect the rights of every country and of each Rite,
as she desires that her own should be respected, and if Scottish Masonry, represented
by all the Supreme Councils of the globe, declare the irregularity of the Supreme
Council of Louisiana, the Grand Orient, itself Supreme Council for France and the
French possessions, will conform to the decision of the majority of the powers of the
Scottish Rite.
Of this the Grand Master says :
" This action, although not satisfactory as an amende to our Grand Lodge for the
wrong done, is yet an evidence that the Grand Orient is desirous of retracing its
steps ; let us hope that it will soon abandon its alliance with spurious and clandes-
tine Masonry, reconsider its action changing its form of government, and by con-
forming with the fundamental and recognized laws and usages of our institution,
retake its proper position among the Masonic powers of the globe."
The Grand Master announces the death during the year, of Worshipful Master C.
C. Meredith and Past Masters Isaac Wall, John W. Pearce, Geo. M. Beaman
W. H. Lewis, Wilson G. Myers and Liberty K. Thomas; also, of Past Grand
Masters Swigert, of Kentucky, Herndon, of Alabama, and Bostwick, of Con-
necticut ; and of Grand Masters Dunawey, of Tennessee, and the King Charles
XV. of Sweden and Norway.
Grand Lodge of Illnois. lxv
He refers, with regret, to the action of the Grand Lodge of Canada in establishing
official relations with the Grand Orient of France, but submits the matter without
recommendation.
The Committee on Jurisprudence, to whom the subject was referred, " consider
that the action of the Grand Lodge of Canada, in the matter of its singularly precip-
itate exchange of representatives with the Grand Orient of France; its total disregard
of the Louisiana resolutions of 1872, and refusal to adopt them, and its unfraternal des-
ignation of those resolutions as a " threat," fully justify the Grand Lodge in with-
drawing its Grand Representative from that body. He was accordingly withdrawn.
The Grand Master acknowledges the receipt of the surplus return fund from the
Chicago Masonic Board of Relief, and reported that he had given it to Louisiana
Relief Lodge, No. 1.
He had continued two dispensations previously granted to new Lodges, as re-
quested by the Grand Lodge, and granted five. Dispensations for re-balloting on
the petitions of rejected candidates had been invariably refused. In one instance a
brother, who had been for several years a member of the Lodge, made the strange
acknowledgement that in his ignorance he supposed the black-ball was a favorable
ballot, and had twice cast it under that supposition. The Grand Master held, how-
ever, that even this explanation did not warrant the setting aside of the law of the
Grand Lodge.
He recommended an act of post mortem justice in the case of Bro. Perez Snell
who died in California several years ago, and who, at one time, accupied a promi -
nent position among the brethren in Louisiana. Adhering to the Supreme Council
of the A. and A. Scottish Rite of Charleston, S. C, of which body he was a mem-
ber, and refusing to acknowledge the authority of the Supreme Council which, at
that time, held sway in New Orleans, he was first expelled by the Grand Consistory
and then, at its dictation, by the Grand Lodge, in 1841. During his life Bro. Snell
vainly tried to have this stigma removed from his name, claiming that he had never
been tried in accordance with Masonic usage, and that the matters involved were
those of which the Grand Lodge could not properly have taken cognizance. Since
he had failed in this, one of his last wishes, before his death, was that his memory
might be vindicated.
The Committee on Jurisprudence, having investigated the case, reported that he
was charged with no offence against the Grand Lodge ; that it had no jurisdiction
over the matters urged against him : that the action against him was urged, directed
and dictated by members of other bodies calling themselves Masonic, using their
influence in Grand Lodge in order to support the pretensions of those bodies. The
Committee reported the following :
"Resolved, That the action of this Grand Lodge in 1841, in expelling Bro. Perez
Snell, is now declared to have been improperly taken, and is hereby rescinded,
and Bro. Perez Snell declared to have been in good standing at the time of his
death."
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In adopting this the Grand Lodge did all that could be done to undo the outrage
which it was made the instrument of inflicting over thirty years ago.
The Grand Master submitted seventeen decisions, some of which we quote :
"Three Master Masons, members of a Lodge, can legally transact any business at
a stated meeting, with the exception of balloting for candidates, there being one of
the three principal officers of the Lodge present, and presiding."
We doubt.
" That an installation by proxy is no installation at all. No brother can properly
be installed unless present and agreeing to the same."
" That E. A. and F. C. Masons may be admitted in all public processions, with
the exception of funerals, and assigned to positions as laid down in the Monitors and
Trestle Boards."
We agree.
" That the Seventeenth Regulation adopted by the Grand Lodge of England, in
the year 1721, has not the force of law in this jurisdiction, the Grand Lodge never
having adopted its provisions. There are several instances on record, where the
Grand Master and other officers of this Grand Lodge have been elected to and held
office in the constituent Lodges of this jurisdiction."
It is evident from the Grand Master's language that he does not take the same
view of the meaning ol this Regulation as that held by Grand Master Lawrence, of
Georgia, who, as we noted last year, holds that it applies only to the Grand Lodge
while in session. We strongly incline to the opinion that Bro. Lawrence is correct.
" In the case of a F. C. who had been elected to receive the Master's degree but
who had been estopped by the written protest of a member of a Lodge alleging that
the candidate was unworthy, I held that the W. M. was bound to respect the pro-
test, and that the objecting member could not be required to make known the partic-
ular reasons which influenced his action."
This is the law in Illinois, but for reasons heretofore given, and for others which
we shall give before concluding our review of Louisiana, we do not think it just.
The following agrees with our frequently expressed opinion :
" That a Mason dying in good Masonic standing in his Lodge, having requested
Masonic burial, or his family desiring it for him, this honor should be paid to his
remains, although his death may have been caused by too free indulgence in intoxi-
cating drinks."
In conclusion, the Grand Master announced his inability to continue longer in
the office which he had held for the last four years, his private affairs demanding the
whole of his attention. May his successor fill the place as ably.
Deputy Grand Master Horner submitted a report embodying several decisions,
one of which we quote :
" In answer to a communication from a brother in San Francisco, a member of a
Lodge in this jurisdiction, stating that upon visiting a regular Lodge in that city he
had there met a man of color, said to have been regularly made in a Lodge under
the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of England, and who was received as such by
the Lodge in San Francisco, and asking whether he was right in leaving the Lodge
Grand Lodge of Illinois. LxVii
and refusing to sit with such brother, and asking whether our Grand Lodge recog-
nized Lodges receiving such visitors. I replied that our Grand Lodge did recognize
all regular Lodges holding in San Francisco under charters from the Grand Lodge of
California, and that all regular Lodges were the proper judges of whom they should
admit as visiting brethren, and that when such brethren were so received by such a
Lodge they must be presumed to be regularly made Masons, and no visitor had the
right to object to sitting with any brother whom the Lodge choose to admit."
The reports of the District Deputies are generally encouraging, one only report-
ing the moral tone of the Fraternity as not sufficiently high.
The report of the Master of Louisiana Relief Lodge complains, and justly, too,
for such neglect is inexcusable — that though their rule is always to notify Lodges
whose members they relieve of the fact, their communications generally remain un-
answered.
In the list of disbursements we find that applicants from Illinois received aid to
the amount of $52, and in the list of amounts refunded, Sycamore Lodge No. 131,
of this jurisdiction, is credited with #15. The total amount of aid granted to ap
plicants from Illinois during the past eighteen years is $766.
Five charters were granted and one dispensation continued.
Only four cases came before the Committee on Appeals and Grievances.
On its report the Grand Lodge held that a brother has a right to apply for a dimit
when he desires to do so, unless he is an officer of the Lodge ; that a brother can-
not be compelled to accept office, and that the installation of officers by proxy is
irregular and not binding on the brother elected, but fraught with pernicious conse-
quences.
The following, which explains itself, is well stated. It is from the Committee on
Jurisprudence :
" In relation to the communication from the Grand Lodge of Georgia, requesting
the refunding to Solomon Lodge No. 1 of the amount of $251, expended by that
Lodge for the funeral expenses of the late Bro. Jno. T. Monroe, a member of Or-
leans Lodge 78, of Louisiana, and for money furnished to his family; we consider
that the bill of Solomon Lodge constitutes no legitimate demand upon the treasury
of this Grand Lodge. 1st. Because Bro. Monroe was not a member of this Grand
Lodge. 2d. That no Lodge has any claim upon any other Lodge for the refunding
of money spent by it in charity, though it is highly proper that such money should
be refunded by the Lodge to which the recipient of the charity belonged. 3. Be-
cause this is a matter belonging exclusively to the private business of Solomon
Lodge No. 1, and Orleans Lodge No. 78, and that the Grand Lodges of Georgia
and Louisiana have no right to interfere therewith, and in this connection we think
that the action of Orleans Lodge No. 78, as expressed by its W. M., in his commu-
nication to Solomon Lodge No. 1, wherein, while expressing his desire to refund
the money expended as soon as his Lodge is able to do so, he protests against the
extravagance of the bill and the right to charge money so expended against his
Lodge was highly proper, and all that could be required or expected by our
brethren of Georgia ; and we deem any action by this Grand Lodge in the premises
unnecessary. This Committee further desire to here express the opinion that the
practice of one Lodge constituting itself the agent of another in the distribution of
the charity of that other Lodge, is wholly at variance with the spirit and principles
of Masonry."
The same Committee having had submitted to them two amendments to the By-
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Laws of a constituent Lodge, one declaring any member ineligible to office who is
over twelve months in arrears for dues, and the other debarring from voting on any
subject, save petitions for the degrees, any member in arrears for dues over eighteen
months, say thereon :
" We are obliged to disapprove these amendments as being contrary to the princi-
ples of Masonry and the provisions of the Constitution and By-Laws of the Grand
Lodge, inasmuch as they constitute certain actions as Masonic offenses, a power ex-
clusively in the Grand Lodge, and provide for the punishment of Masons without
charges being preferred or trial had, or any of the formalities required by the Grand
Lodge for trials and sentences being complied with."
It appearing that the By-Laws of several of the constituent Lodges contained
similar provisions, a resolution was passed annulling them.
The Committee submitted the following resolutions of general interest :
" 1st. Resolved, That Sec. 2, Art. 1, of Chap. II of the By-Laws, be amended by
adding at the end thereof:
" And no business of a character affecting the financial affairs of the Lodge, the
disposal of its property, the standing of any of its members, or the election of its
officers, shall be transacted unless there be present seven members of the Lodge,
one of them being its Master or a Warden.
" 2d. Resolved, That Sec. 2 of Art. 2 of Chap. II of the By-Laws be amended by
striking out the words "in writing" in the last line, and by adding at the end of the
section, " and no record shall be made of the nature of the report."
" 3d. Resolved, That the District Deputy Grand Masters be authorized to grant
dispensations for the elections and installations of officers of such Constituent Lodges
as may have failed to elect and install within the time prescribed by the Grand Lodge
By-Laws.
" 4th. Resolved, That the Grand Master and Deputy Grand Master shall not be
eligible to hold any office in a subordinate Lodge."
The first and third resolutions were adopted ; the second (which we presume to
refer to the report of the Committee of Inquiry,) and fourth rejected — the latter after
a general discussion. We agree with the Committee that no record should be made
of the nature of the report of the Committee of Inquiry, though such is not the
practice in this jurisdiction. We do not believe that the Grand Lodge can lodge the
dispensing power in other hands than the Grand Master's.
The Grand Lodge of Utah was recognized.
The following resolution, after considerable discussion and being amended by
striking out all after the word " Louisiana" where it last occurs, was adopted by a
vote of 163 to 57.
" Resolved, That the Grand Secretary be instructed to send his regular monthly
reports of rejections, expulsions, etc., and the annual reports of the proceedings of
this body to the Grand Secretary of the Grand Chapter of Louisiana, to the Grand
Recorder of the Grand Council of Louisiana, to the Grand Recorder of the Grand
Commandery of Louisiana, to the Grand Registrar of the Grand Consistory of Lou-
isiana; and that this Grand Body officially recognizes the existence and Masonic
standing of the other Grand Bodies above named."
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We think the past experience of the Grand Lodge of Louisiana must have been
in a great measure lost on its members.
Grand Secretary Batchelor, as the Representative of the Grand Lodge of Can-
ada, submitted a communication stating that deeming, after the action of the Grand
Lodge in withdrawing its Representative from the Grand Lodge of Canada, that due
courtesy to, and the dignity of the Grand Body from whom he had the honor of his
appointment required it, he had forwarded his resignation to the Grand Lodge of
Canada, and requested to be allowed to withdraw his commission as such Represen-
tative from the archives of the Grand Lodge.
The request was granted.
The Star in the East Lodge, in the Island of St. Thomas, having petitioned for a
charter, and it appearing that said Lodge was a regularly chartered body, holding
under a warrant from the Grand Lodge of Colon, in the Island of Cuba, which
Grand Body is compelled, by the present condition of affairs in that Island, to an
existence in secret, and cannot therefore afford to " The Star in the East Lodge " that
protection which is necessary for it to maintain its legal existence ; and it appearing
also that the request for a charter was made to the Grand Lodge of Louisiana, with
the approval of the Grand Lodge of Colon, the charter was ordered to issue.
This Lodge had, in March, 1872, petitioned the Grand Master of South Carolina
for a dispensation to enable them to continue their labors, which he declined. He
reported, however, to his Grand Lodge, in December, 1872, that the difficulties of
the Lodge were happily settled. In this it seems he was mistaken.
Michel Eloi Girard, of Vermillionville, was elected Grand Master; James C.
Batchelor, M. D., New Orleans, Grand Secretary.
As a mark of appreciation of the services of Bro. James B. Scot, as Chairman of
t he Committee on Foreign Correspondence for many years past, and in the prepara-
tion of his historical report during the last year, the Grand Master was instructed to
present him with a Past Master's Jewel, in the name of the Grand Lodge, with carte
blanche as to price. Never was a decoration more worthily won.
A memorial page is inscribed with the names of the Past Masters, and a broken
column with the names of the Past Grand Masters, deceased, mentioned in the
Grand Master's address.
The Report on Correspondence (176 pp.), supplemented by an "Outline of the
Rise and Progress of Freemasonry in Louisiana," (96 pp.,) is from the pen of Bro.
James B. Scot. The report reviews in the most thorough manner the proceedings
of forty-three American Grand Lodges, and in addition contairis notices of Masonry
in France, Germany, Chile and Brazil, besides "Subjects of Special Interest." Illi-
nois, for 1871, receives liberal and fraternal notice. He quotes, with others, the
decision of Grand Master Cregier, that " the Master of a Lodge is entitled to vote
as a member. In the event of a tie it would be proper for him to cast an additional
or deciding vote as Master," and dissents thus :
" We cannot concur, even if it should be claimed that this decision is in accord-
ance with parliamentary usage, of which, by the way, we have already too much in
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Masonry. The Master has no more right to two votes than any other member of
the Lodge, and if he votes and there is a tie the question is lost, for a tie decides
nothing. But so far as we have seen, when the W. M. submits the question to the
Lodge he does not vote himself, but simply announces the result; should there be a
tie, he may decide. This, in our opinion, is the true rule ; whereas to permit a W.
M. to vote, and, in event of a tie, to decide, is more in accordance with political
tactics than the teachings of Masonry."
Alluding to the adoption of the resolution to pay the Grand Master a stated sum
for his services during the preceding year, he says:
" That the Grand Mastership is no sinecure we freely admit, and the record
proves M. W. Bro. Cregier to have been a zealous and efficient officer. But pay-
ing a salary to the Grand Master is a recent innovation, and one we cannot look
upon with any degree of favor. It is repugnant to our ideas of Masonic propriety,
and, even granting that it may work well for a short time, we believe that in this
money-loving age it will result in evil, and evil only. As we remarked on a former
occasion, 'we are afraid it would detract from the honor and dignity of the office,
reduce the standard of its influence, and throw it as a prey to be scrambled for by
broken-down professional charlatans and Masonic politicians — from both of whom,
good Lord deliver us!' "
He again discusses the question ol one ballot or three for the degrees. Quoting
from our remarks on this subject, and giving a fair statement of our position, he says •
" We have given the gist of Bro. Robbins' reply. A reference to page 41 of our
report for 1 871 will show that our remarks were not based on the Fourth of the An-
cient Charges, of which we quoted the first line — not the opening sentence — to show
that the right of preferment, or advancement, was not inherent but subject to qualifi-
cation. With this explanation we pass on to the real question at issue.
" The Grand Lodge of Louisiana, like that of Illinois, requires a separate ballot
for each degree. Bro. Robbins " doubted if a better reason could be given for the
existence of this rule than that it is established," and we cited the fact that originally
the great body of the craft were Entered Apprentices, that the second and third
degrees were only conferred in Grand Lodge " with the unanimous consent of all
the brethren in communication assembled," and hence it was evident " the right of
advancement" did not then exist. Subsequently when the Grand Lodge permitted
the particular Lodges to confer the second and third degrees, the Entered Appren-
tices soon ceased to be the great body of the craft and their rights gradually became
circumscribed — but the old rule requiring unanimous consent for advancement
remained unchanged. Bro. Robbins does not even allude to this reason for the ex-
istence of the rule requiring a separate ballot for each degree, but assuming that
initiation confers the right of advancement, he argues the question from that stand-
point and uses it as a plea for the exceptional rule of having only one ballot for
the three degrees.
" But we have shown that originally initiation did not confer the right of advance-
ment, and we hold that (he law remains unchanged to the present day. The rule
requiring a separate ballot for each degree conforms with the old practice. Under
it the candidate is elected to receive the first degree only ; after initiation he pos-
sesses the right to apply for the second degree, but here his right ceases, and the
Lodge mav grant or refuse his application as it thinks proper. Hence, "an Apgren-
tice, like a profane, possesses only the right of petition." We are asked, " ought it
to be so ? " and told that after one has been made a Mason he may reasonably hope
for advancement. Unquestionably, but may not the prolane who sends his petition
into the Lodge reasonably hope to be elected? Both may be greatly disappointed if
their expectations are not fulfilled, but does it follow that a right has been denied in
the one case, or an injustice done in the other ?
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" Bro. ROBBINS, however, claims that if one " is fit to remain an E. A., he is fit to
be advanced; " that an E. A. possesses " the right of trial," and as he cannot be
expelled without the opportunity of being heard in his own defence, he cannot justly
be debarred from advancement without as fair a hearing. In our opinion, this plea
simply begs the question, but let us examine it on the merits. The general current
of Masonic law is that the rejection of a petition for advancement does not neces-
sarily imply Masonic censure, and deprives the brother of none of his rights. It is
not incumbent upon the objector to prefer charges. Even if it were, what would it
advantage the E. A. to be tried and acquitted, unless he gained unanimous consent.
Then there are cases which no charges could be framed to meet : a man may sustain
an excellent reputation in the community, but after initiation a closer acquaintance
may disclose traits of character which render him unfit for advancement. In the
words of Bro. Albert Pike : ' If I believe that a man will not, in good faith and
with all his heart comply with all his obligations to me, through penuriousness, sel-
fishness, indolence, personal antipathy, or any other like defect of character, I not
only may, but I ought to refuse to assume those obligations towards him; and none
have a right to ask my reasons.'
" We have lived under both systems of the ballot, but greatly prefer a separate
ballot for each degree ; it is the old original rule, as well as the safest and best."
Bro. Scot correctly says that we quoted the first line and not the opening sentence.
We presume we said opening sentence without thought, as we know we had no inten-
tion of misrepresenting him. He intimates that we dodged the real issue by pro-
ceeding to discuss the Fourth Charge instead of referring to another reason given for
the present existence of the rule, We had no disposition to dodge the minor point
raised, but preferred, since he had appealed to the ancient charges, to discuss the
question by the light of the fundamental law, as to the text of which we all agree.
We shall find that we do not agree when we come to consider his statements and
deductions as to the right of advancement at the time that the degrees of Fellow
Craft and Master Mason became general in the fraternity. The General Regula-
tions of 1721 only have this allusion to these degrees, or honorary distinctions, what-
ever they may have been at that period : " Apprentices must be admitted Masters
and Fellow Craft only here (in Grand Lodge) unless by Dispensation." Bro. Scot
says, " with the unanimous consent of all the brethren in communication assembled."
Where this language comes from we do not know, nor is it material : both expres-
sions show that these honorary distinctions, or degrees, were not within the bestowal
of Lodges at that time, and leaves it clear that all the general rights of Masonry
■were acquired without passing the ordeal of th? ballot but once, and this rule remained
unchanged when these degrees became a part of the Masonic system as wrought in
the particular Lodges ; it remains unchanged to-day in the original Grand Lodge.
There has not been a day since the formation of the Grand Lodge of England, more
than one hundred and fifty years ago, that its Constitutions have required more than
one ballot for. three degrees. Bro. Wm. James Hughan, perhaps the most pains-
taking and careful Masonic student in Great Britain, has carefully examined the
Constitutions of the Grand Lodge from its formation down to the present year, with
reference to this very question, and finds that no more than one ballot has ever been
required. Nor is he aware that anywhere in England is a ballot taken for the second
and third degrees, although frequently fees are charged additional to the initiation
sum. So it will be seen that the rule requiring a separate ballot for each degree does
not conform with the old practice, but is an innovation. Massachusetts and Penn-
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sylvania, among the oldest of our Grand Lodges, still adhere to the old rule, and we
are not aware that there has ever been a deviation from the practice of one ballot for
the three degrees since Masonry was planted in those colonies, less than two decades
after the formation of the first Grand Lodge. Several other Grand Jurisdictions in
the United States have the one ballot system, but as in them Masonry was planted
later, their practice does not illustrate the antiquity of the rule. Bro. Scot asks if
the profane who sends his petition into the Lodge may not reasonably hope to be
elected. As this is simply reiterating in another form the idea that " an entered
apprentice has no more right to the Second Degree than a profane has to the First,"
a proposition to which we directed our attention in 1871, we pass on to the question
" what would it advantage the E. A. to be tried and acquitted, unless he gained
unanimous consent ? " Simply this, that the objections having been proved unfounded
he would be advanced. Bro. Scot very truly says that there are cases which no
charges could be framed to meet ; that a man may sustain an excellent reputation in
the community, but after initiation a closer acquaintance may disclose traits of char-
acter which render him unfit for advancement.
It is equally true that these traits may not be disclosed until after he has been
made a Master Mason, when it may become apparent that he is unfit to remain in the
fraternity ; still the difficulty of framing charges to meet his case is the same as though
he were but an Apprentice. Yet his acquired rights protect him unless charges can
be so framed and sustained, and this is the very point on which we insist in regard
to the Entered Apprentice. We have already assumed those obligations towards him
that make him stand in a relation to us altogether different from a profane, and in-
vested him with rights both actual and potential, of which he ought not to be deprived
without due process of law.
Like Bro. Scot, we have lived under both systems of the ballot. Living now
under the system of a separate ballot for each degree, we not only do not see wherein
it is safer or better, but we think we do see clearly wherein it is less safe. It is in
the very nature of things that where a step once taken is irretrievable, we shall be
more cautious in taking it. Let it be understood that the first ballot is the final one
and we shall weigh more cautiously the qualifications of an applicant before we per-
mit him to enter. The feeling that we have two more chances left to stop him
begets looseness on the first ballot, and there is an undeniable probability that when
we have let a doubtful applicant take the first step, association with him may — either
by lowering our own moral tone, or by causing us to forget his bad qualities or habits
in the illy-compensating good which we have found to admire — render us less able to
do our duty to the Fraternity on the second ballot than on the first ; on the third than
on the second. Hence we believe the one ballot system is the safest and best, as it
is the most just. Of our explanation that when in speaking of the Pennsylvania work
we used the figure of the " Masonic Sun," we meant the Ancient Craft luminary,
and our remark that possibly the Scotch. planet, which in Louisiana was permitted to
divide the honors with it, might smile upon something akin to the work in the Key-
stone State, Bro. Scot says :
" We read in the Book of Kings that ' a certain man drew his bow at a venture,'
and hit his mark : we rather think our good brother has unwittingly followed the
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example. Of the five Lodges that formed the Grand Lodge of Louisiana in 1812,
four received their charters from the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, and worked its
ritual : shortly after its organization, our Grand Lodge adopted the Pennsylvania
work as its standard, and one of the original Lodges still retains and works it."
So that our brother does not accuse us of " drawing the long-bow," we will not
quarrel on this subject.
He thinks, as we do, that where cases come up on appeal in which Lodges have
convicted but refused to inflict punishment, the Grand Lodge should fix the punish-
ment instead of delegating that duty to its subordinate, and holding a rod in terro-
rem over its shoulders when performing it ; sensibly scouts the idea that ritualistic
quorums of seven, five and three were ever intended for the practical working of
Masonic Lodges ; dissents from the doctrine that an unfavorable report is a rejecton ;
holds it improper for a Masonic Lodge to hold its meetings in a hall occupied con-
jointly with other secret associations; remarks of Bro. Gouley's monument to
Grand Lodge sovereignty — then recently buried again — that " the questionable
veracity of tombstones is proverbial, and the present instance forms no exception to
the general character of grave literature "; questions the propriety of a resolution
declaring the sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage a violation of Masonic obli-
gation demanding discipline, unless such sale is prohibited by State law; thinks an
appeal should lie from the Grand Master's decisions in Grand Lodge on points of
law, but not on points of order; holds, in accordance with our law, that Wardens
may be tried by their Lodges for any offence other than official misconduct when act-
ing as W. M.; concurs in the strictures of Bro. Hough, of New Jersey, on the
action of Grand Master Reynolds in setting aside a ballot; says the reviewers
whose "special wonder" is excited on learning that in Louisiana the Grand Master
appoints his own Deputy, were, in their Masonic infancy, " inoculated with the virus
of the Baltimore Convention "; is surprised and grieved to see, for the first time in
his reading, in the Proceedings of North Carolina, a call for the " previous ques-
tion " ruled in order — " a parliamentary ruse which enables a majority to ride rough-
shod over the rights of a minority"; and holds, as we do, that the loss of an eye
does not disqualify for the degrees, as it does not prevent a candidate from conform-
ing literally to what they respectively require of him.
Of the question whether a Mason can be tried for a wrong act committed before
initiation, he says :
"The question was very fully discussed a few years ago, and the following con-
clusions, in which we fully concur, arrived at : For anything done before his initia-
tion, a Mason cannot be tried or dealt with, provided it was or might have been
known on due inquiry ; but if the petition contains any false statement, or if the
candidate, on being interrogated wilfully deceives, or fraudulently conceals facts
affecting his character, then he may be tried and expelled — " not for un-Masonic
conduct, but because the Fraternity choose to rescind the compact they were induced
to enter into by his fraud."
Bro. Dawkins, of Florida, having expressed the hope, in regard to the Quebec
question, " that our brethren every where, who have assumed or been led into the
error of recognition, will re-examine and reconsider their action, and thus drive the
Quebec disorganizers into proper lines of Masonic propriety and regularity, whereby
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true fraternal harmony may once more be restored among all the craftsmen in North
America," Bro. Scot aptly says that, as at that date about three-fourths of the
American Grand Lodges had recognized Quebec, he is at a loss to determine
whether the naivete of the compliment to their intelligence, or the bonhomie of the
request is most to be admired, and continues :
" The bitterness of feeling which has marked the controversy, and which he so
much deplores, is due, in a great measure, to the creation of duplicate Lodges by
Canada, in violation of every principle of Masonic law. In this aggressive policy,
Canada has received aid and comfort from the Grand Bodies sympathizing with her,
and, before preferring his request, it would have been well for our brother to have
inquired what influence their action exercised in perpetuating the strife and prevent-
ing an amicable settlement of the question."
He considers the position assumed by the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts in char-
tering Lodges in Chile as untenable, and though the Grand Lodge of Chile has
" acquiesced," he can only view such acquiescence in the light of a small and weak
body submitting to the dictum of a rich, prosperous and powerful one, after having
appealed in vain to its sense of honor and justice. The Grand Lodge of Massa-
chusetts having been the first to recognize the Grand Lodge of Chile, in 1862, now
sets up the plea that its recognition was a "qualified and limited" one, and con
strues it to restrict the Grand Lodge of Chile to exercise authority only over the
Scotch Rite, and invokes, as we mentioned last year, in support of this construction,
the declaration of the Paris Congress of 1834. On this point Bro. Scot says :
" No better evidence can be adduced of the weakness of her case, than that Mas-
sachusetts is compelled to rely upon such authority to support her pretensions. The
Declaration referred to is a dangerous doctrine for an American Grand Lodge to
adopt, and this is the first time we have known it appealed to. It strikes at the very
root of sole and exclusive Grand Lodge sovereignty, and paves the way for a divided
jurisdiction. If adopted by Massachusetts for the purpose of invading the jurisdic-
tion of foreign Grand Bodies, she cannot complain if they in their turn invoke the
same rule against herself — for it is written : ' Ye shall have one manner of law, as
well for the stranger as for one of your own country ;' ' and with what measure ye
mete, it shall be measured to you again.' It is claimed, however, that there is no
danger, as our country is Masonically occupied by the York and Scotch Rites. But
there is the Modern Rite, the Rite of Schroeder, and various other Rites, and if the
Paris Declaration can be invoked in favor of one Rite, it can with equal propriety
be invoked in favor of all. Besides, the arguments advanced by the Committee to
sustain Massachusetts in its invasion of the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Chile,
apply with equal force and might be aptly used by Hamburg, in defence of its pirat-
ical aggressions upon the jurisdictional rights of the' Grand Lodges of New York
and New Jersey."
We are glad to find so careful a writer as Bro. Scot agreeing with us on what we
have said regarding the action of the Grand Lodge of Nebraska in declaring the de-
nial of the divine authority and authenticity of the Bible a Masonic offence. He
says :
" This conflicts with the universality of our Institution. Masonry requires her
initiates to profess a belief in Deity, but does not dictate to what faith or creed they
shall belong, or the sacred writings on which they shall be obligated. The Christian
believes that the New Testament is an integral part of the Holy Bible ; the Israelite
does not, neither does he believe in the doctrine of the Trinity; the Mahommedan,
the Hindoo, and the ' heathen Chinee ' — numbers of whom are Masons — believe
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in Deity, but do not acknowledge ' the divine authority and authenticity of the
Holy Bible.'" In our opinion, a Grand Lodge ought to legislate only on such mat-
ters as are entrusted to its special supervision, and, as it has no warrant to coerce the
religious faith or political creed of members of the Craft, remember the adage, ne
sutor ultra crepidam."
Under the head of " Special Subjects," Bro. Scot treats at some length of " Ma-
sonic Rites — Their Relation to each other, and Questions arising therefrom." We
regret that we cannot copy his remarks on this subject entire. We can only quote a
single sentence, which will, however, show the drift of his argument :
"These variations in the " work," however, led to designating Lodges as York,
Scotch, or French Rite Lodges, and this nomenclature has tended to complicate a
very simple question. As generally understood the term " Rite," used in connec-
tion with a Symbolic Lodge, denotes the source of its origin and the " work " it fol-
lows : York Rite being applied to Lodges claiming descent from the first Grand
Lodge of England, held at York ; Scotch Rite to those emanating from Supreme
Councils of the Thirty-third and last Degree ; and French Rite to those tracing their
origin to the Grand Orient of France. But this is incorrect; the term " Rite " has
no connection whatever with Symbolic Masonry. The Lodges, or rather organiza-
tions, having control over and working the three degrees of Ancient Craft Masonry
should be known and designated as Lodges of " Free and Accepted Masons," and
the term " Rite" omitted. And this would be a return to the ancient practice."
Every reviewer who appreciates ability and true fraternal courtesy will regret the
announcement at the beginning of the following sentence, but to the brethren of his
own Grand Lodge the regret will be softened by the statement of his purpose to still
pursue the historical investigations for which he has shown himself so well fitted :
" And now we lay down our pen as Chairman of this Committee. We make the
announcement sorrowfully and reluctantly, for we have loved the work for its own
sake. Business engagements will prevent us giving that time to the preparation of
a report that would prove satisfactory to the Grand Lodge or to ourselves, and for
this reason we decline a re-appointment to the position we have held for six years.
The favor with which our reports has been received, and the uniform kindness
shown us by the Grand Lodge and the brethren of Louisiana, will be ever gratefully
remembered ; and although we cannot, in justice to them, serve longer on this Com-
mittee, yet, as it is " belter to wear out than to rust out," what little leisure we may
hereafter have will be given to the elucidation of the history of the early Lodges."
We heartily reciprocate the kindly sentiments of the following :
" We part with our brethren of the Correspondence Committees with regret. Very
pleasant has been our communion with them during the past six years, and although
we only know two or three of them personally, yet we feel as if they were all old
friends. We wish them a bon voyage through life, and when we shall one by one
have crossed over the river, may we all meet in the Grand Lodge above."
Bro. Scot's Outline of the Rise and Progress of Freemaionry in Louisiana, which
he appends to his report, is a paper of very great interest. We cannot attempt to
review it. for we have already devoted a good deal of space to Louisiana. We have
read it with great pleasure and profit, and to the correction of some of our impres-
sions regarding the history of the Grand Lodge of Louisiana. We do not, however,
find in it anything to induce us to re-write or modify what we have elsewhere said of
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the mischievous influence of the governing powers of the Scottish Rite in that juris-
diction.
In taking leave of Bro. Scot, we acknowledge ourselves chiefly indebted to his re-
port for the information which will form the substance of our remarks on Germany.
MAINE.
The Grand Lodge met at Portland, May 6, 1873.
Grand Master Cargill begins his address with the announcement of the death of
David C. Magoun, Past Grand Master, who died at the ripe old age of eighty-one
years.
The past year had been marked by no startling events to the Grand Lodge. There
had been a healthy growth in most of the Lodges. In some localities the very best
citizens have sought and gained admittance, while apparently in other localities the
fraternity, for reasons too obvious, is shunned by the better part of the community.
This is the straightforward way in which he tells the experience of Grand Mas-
ters under all degrees of longitude :
" There are persons who have very indifferent views of Masonry, until they de-
sire to go to California or some other distant place ; when all at once they form a
very favorable opinion of the Institution, and are so much in earnest about the mat-
ter that they are not willing to wait the short space of a month. They get some
friend to present a petition for them with the understanding that a dispensation must
be procured, as theirs is. a case of emergency, and if not procured, why, the Lodge
will lose so much money, and consequently there must be a great stir made, and if
the Grand Master does not see the matter in the same light the man and his friends do,
and at once comply with the pressing demand, he must look carefully about himself
to see that he is not in danger of being called an " old fogy," or some other of the
pet names which the young American spirit, that we too often find in our Lodges,
can bestow."
He had granted but one dispensation for conferring the degrees in less than the
required time, and that seemed to him so truly a case of emergency as to wean him
from the wish that if the Grand Lodge could do it, it would take away the power
to grant such dispensation altogether.
One of the few decisions reported is the sensible one that persons becoming mem-
bers of a Lodge after an assessment is made, are not liable for any part of it.
He reported the receipt of the surplus fund returned by the Chicago Masonic
Board of Relief, and the Grand Lodge directed it to be distributed pro rata among
the contributing Lodges.
He submitted the appeal (of Feb. 4, 1873,) of the Grand Lodge of Quebec,
which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Correspondence, who reported
thereon as follows :
" This Grand Lodge has already recognized the exclusive jurisdiction of the
Grand Lodge of Quebec in that Province. No Lodge, not hailing under its au-
thority, can be recognized by us as a regular Lodge : no Mason hailing from any
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such Lodge can be recognized by us. We support the Grand Lodge of Quebec in
her exercise of sovereignty in that Province, as against any and all who practically
deny it.
" But we are not prepared to advise the Grand Lodge to cut oft" Masonic inter-
course with the Grand Lodge of Canada, at this time. We cannot but believe that
she will heed the decision of her peers, to whom she submitted the matters in con-
troversy between her and the Grand Lodge of Quebec. We cannot but hope that
some arrangement may be made between her and the Grand Lodge of Quebec, con-
sistent with the honor of each, in respect to the duplicate Lodges. This we under-
stand to be the real rock on which former negotiations have split. The cutting off
of Masonic intercourse is the last resort ; and we are unwilling to adopt it as long
as there is any ground for hope that it may be avoided."
The Committee reported the following resolution and it was adopted:
'• Resolved, That this Grand Lodge, having recognized the exclusive jurisdiction
of the Grand Lodge of Quebec in that Province, cannot recognize any Lodge there-
in holding under any authority other than that Grand Lodge : and the subordinate
Lodges in this jurisdiction, and their members, are hereby forbidden to hold any
Masonic intercourse whatever with any Lodge in the Province of Quebec not in
allegiance to the Grand Lodge of that Province, or with any member of such a
Lodge.
The Committee on Returns think the large increase in the number of those ad-
mitted over those raised, as compared with two former years, shows a beneficial
result arising from the action of the Grand Lodge last year relative to non-affiliates.
A reference to our reports for the two past years will show what this action was.
The Committee on Foreign Correspondence submitted a special report on a sub-
ject to which we have before alluded. The Committee say:
"At the last Annual Communication, the 'Grand Orient of Brazil, Valley of
Lavradio," was recognized as the supreme Masonic authority in that Empire.
" There was then existing another Body claiming to be the regular Grand Body
in that country, but whose claims had been almost universally decided to be without
foundation.
" But on May 29, 1872, these two Bodies formed a union under the name of the
United Grand Orient of Brazil. From that date to the fourth day of September
following, all was apparently harmonious, and all former feuds buried.
"On that day, however, in consequence of a dispute in relation to the election of
Grand Master, a portion of the Body seceded and set itself up as the regular Grand
Orient, taking the name of " The Grand Orient of Brazil, Valley of Lavradio," the
same name which was borne by the Body we recognized last year.
" We have received a large number of documents from both bodies, and after a
full examination we find that the Lavradio Body has no pretence of regularity.
"We should either withdraw our recognition entirely or confine it to the ' United
Grand Orient,' as the assumption by the present irregular Body of the name of the
former regular Body has already misled many Grand Lodges."
The Grand Lodge concurred and adopted the following ;
" Resolved, That this Grand Lodge cannot recognize the so-called ' Grand Orient
of Brazil, Valley of Lavradio,' as existing since the fourth of September last, but
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holds that the ' United Grand Orient,' of which Bro. Marinho is Grand Mas-
ter, and Bro. Amarai. Grand Secretary, is the regular Masonic authority in the
Empire of Brazil."
A reference to our review of Maine last year, will give the points in the case of
Oriental Star Lodge which went over until this Communication. The Special
Committee reported thereon that the action in question was invalid for two reasons :
" I. Because members voted upon the question who had no right to vote, on ac-
count of pecuniary interest in the question.
" 2. The proposed appropriation is beyond the power of the Lodge to make,
without the consent of the Grand Lodge."
The Grand Lodge concurred, repealed the resolution of last year, and directed
that the question of donating a part of the fund to the new Lodge be submitted to
Oriental Star Lodge, and consents to the transfer of such part as the Lodge may
see fit to grant, to be held for the same uses as it is now held.
We last year remarked that the Grand Master's decision " that the vote was legal
and not sufficiently unjust to require action at my (his) hands," seemed to us to be
in accord with the law. As we still think the Grand Mrster was right we quote
the argument of the Committee :
" We are of the opinion, that the vote of Oriental Star Lodge could not be bind-
ing, as there are express provisions in the Constitution, which if acted upon might
defeat the paying over the money thus donated. If Oriental Star Lodge had
through inadvertance or otherwise, not protested against the vote, but had voted to
surrender its charter to the Grand Lodge, the funds and all other property would be
returned to the Grand Lodge, and the majority vote of the Lodge to donate woul d
be constitutionally and effectively defeated. This view of the case leads us to infer
that the true interpretation of that instrument in all its parts does authorize us to an-
nounce, that the power of a warrant includes the funds and all other property of the
Lodge under which it was acquired. We consider that both are equally protected ,
and as a Lodge is a constituent part of the Grand Lodge under whose segis it acts ,
both charter and funds are inseparably connected.
" If this view of the power of a warrant is correct, a Subordinate Lodge can-
not vote to divide, donate or distribute its funds for the benefit of its own mem-
bers any more than to revoke its charter, except in the manner prescribed by the
Constitution."
" We will now consider what effect our views may have in promoting the gener _
al welfare of the fraternity at large. It may be contended by the members of Whitj
ney Lodge, that they had contributed to the funds of Oriental Star Lodge, an
therefore are equitably entitled to take a part of the funds donated. When mad
Masons they could not have set up such claim, for their own voluntary declaratio
precluded it. The simple contract with the Lodge for granting them the degree1'
was for the benefit conferred thereby. Such has been the practice from time immem-
orial, and in no instance have we known, among regularly made Masons, any prac-
tice that sanctions the right of a withdrawing member to demand any part of the fees
he has thus paid.
" One question more : should members of a Lodge having a pecuniary interest
in a pending question, other than their interest as members of the Lodge, be per-
mitted to vote on such question ? The temptation may be strong, but its utility must
be considered doubtful. It wrests from the rightful owners a part of its material aid
as a Lodge ; and although it acknowledges the absolute right of Oriental Star Lodge
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to the funds, still it takes away the power to appropriate those funds for the purposes
intended by its charter. We conceive this to be the power of might, and not the
power of right, and that the practices should not be allowed."
As the majority vote necessary to the donation was strong enough to prevent ad-
vantage being taken of the Constitutional provision to defeat the paying over the
money donated, it seems to us that the hypothetical surrender of the charter is not
admissible as a basis of argument.
If admitted, it is of no value for that purpose, as it would not be retroactive and
could not annul previous lawfully accomplished action ; and whether the action pre-
viously had in this case was such, is the very point under discussion. We don't
understand that one hand can be made to wash the other in this way until it is settled
that there are two hands to wash.
It is true that the power of the warrant includes the funds of the Lodge, but this
is not incompatible with the right of the Lodge to divert funds from its own treasury
so long as they are appropriated to strictly Masonic uses.
We do not see why a Lodge might not cripple itself, financially, while still keep-
ing so strictly within the sphere of its own rights that the Grand Lodge could not
justly interfere. If, however, it oversteps the line, as it certainly would should it
vote to divide, donate, or distribute its funds for the benefit of its own members, except
in answer to the bo7tafi.de demands of charity, the Grand Lodge might properly in-
terfere. If we had had any doubts as to whether the proposed transfer of the funds in
this case was for a legitimate Masonic use, they would be removed by the formal consent
given by the Grand Lodge that Oriental Star Lodge might now donate a portion of its
funds to the Whitney Lodge as the Grand Lodge would not consent to an act not
legitimately Masonic, so the action of the Grand Lodge in giving ifs consent, at once
placed the act in the category of those for which no consent was needed.
The remaining question is : did the members who were mentioned in the dispen-
sation for Whitney Lodge, have such a pecuniary interest in the question as to dis-
qualify them from voting thereon? The Committee has shown that the members
(to be) of Whitney Lodge could make no personal claim to any portion of the
funds on the score of having contributed it. The same is equally true of those who
proposed to remain members of the Oriental Star Lodge. The contract was the
same with both. The right of either in the funds was simply to hold them in trust
and disburse them for certain defined purposes, the same conditions governing their
disbursement whether they were lying in the treasury of one Lodge or the other. As
neither were to be made richer or poorer, personally, we fail to see that degree of
pecuniary interest that should disqualify the future members of Whitney Lodge from
voting.
David Cargill, of Augusta, was re-elected Grand Master ; Ira Berry, Port-
land, Grand Secretary.
The Report on Correspondence (pp. 129.), by Bro. Josiah H. Drummond, re-
views the Proceedings of nearly all the American Grand Lodges.
Bro. Drummond's reports show him to be an unremitting student, and grow bet-
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ter and fresher, if possible, year by year. He devotes ten pages to Illinois. lie
quotes largely from the address of Grand Master Cregier, which he says is " a
document of universal interest, and shows that he had administered affairs with
great fidelity and ability."
He copies entire the Report of the Commission of Grand Masters on the operations
of the Board of Masonic Relief.
Referring to some matters before our Grand Lodge, he says ;
" We regret to perceive that a rejected candidate, who removed into another Grand
Lodge jurisdiction, was there accepted without consent or inquiry of the rejecting
Lodge. We understand that the rule in Illinois is the same as in Maine, and we
hope it will soon be held universal, that a rejected candidate can be received no-
where without the consent of the rejecting Lodge.
" We are surprised to perceive that a distinction is made between a rejection by
ballot, and a rejection by objection after ballot. In Maine the effect is precisely
the same ; but in Illinois, it is held that in the latter case the rejection continues till
withdrawn or the death of the objector, and the candidate cannot meanwhile be
proposed again. As the Grand Master says, this should be remedied."
The following coincides with our views already expressed :
" An amendment to the Constitution was proposed, changing the Institution into
a Mutual Life Insurance Company for the benefit of the widows and orphans oi
deceased members, but we are happy to say was rejected, not even receiving the
twenty votes necessary for causing it to be entertained. We trust this scheme will
meet with no more favor hereafter, or anywhere else. It would be a death blow to
the Institution. We have difficulties growing out of financial matters, enough now,
without adding further cause for them. But the decisive objection is that charity is
the very foundation stone of Masonry, and when we adopt a system of pecuniary
claim and obligation, we take away the foundation upon which we build, and
degrade one of the noblest of human institutions into a mere insurance company,
whose members will be united by no stronger ties than mere pecuniary interest."
The decision of our Grand Lodge that a Lodge has the right, subject to appeal,
to pass upon the sufficiency and validity of the charges, and if they are decided to
be invalid, to refuse to try them, he holds to be correct.
Last year we gave it as our opinion in a case where a Grand Master had refused
to entertain a motion to reconsider, on the ground that a less number were present
than at the passage of the resolution, that while this may have been a good reason
why the vote should not have been reconsidered, yet of this the Grand Lodge and
not the Grand Master was the proper judge. Of this he says :
"But if the rules of the Grand Lodge provide (as ours do with a modification) that
no vote shall be reconsidered when a less number are present than were when it
was adopted, the decision is within the exclusive province of the Grand Master ;
and we suspect the one in question was based upon such a rule."
If his suspicion is correct our criticism was misplaced. Alluding to remarks made
by us in our review of the District of Columbia, last year, he says :
" He seems to have got a little muddled in relation to the provision in some Con-
stitutions (including ours) that the charter must be present when the Lodge is opened.
He argues that the same necessity exists for its presence during the whole session as
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at the opening. With us it would be a sufficient answer to say that the law requires
the one and not the other. But the reason for the law is, that the charter is the con-
clusive evidence of the right of the Master to open his Lodge ; and if it is not pres-
ent the members cannot know that it has not been revoked since the last meeting.
A commissioner reads his commission when he enters upon the duty for the perform-
ance of which it was granted. The Grand Lodge is satisfied to require that the
Master have present evidence of his authority, when he opens his Lodge, as any re-
vocation of it during the session must lie made known to all present. But we hold,
and our Grand Lodge has so decided, that taking the charter into an ante-room under
the Master's direction is not removing it from the Lodge. He says he never has
seen the charter carried to the grave, at a Masonic funeral; nor did we; nor did we
ever see a Lodge opened at the grave, or on the way."
If our brother will again notice the remarks of Bro. Singleton, of which wc
were speaking, he will perhaps conclude that the muddling occurred on the Kenne-
bec and not on the Mississippi.
Bro. Simons having wished that some one would give him a valid reason for the
general law that no Lodge can be opened without the actual presence of the war-
rant, we expressed some doubts of his getting it. Bro. Singleton asked : "What
constitutes a Lodge?" and said: "Let the answer settle the question. If the
charter be not with the other elements, there can be no legitimate results." We
sought to show that this could not be the " valid reason " for which our genial
Knickerbocker brother was searching, but did not intimate that a better reason might
not exist. Bro. Drummond has given a much better reason, yet, in the absence of
a Constitutional requirement we do not think it a valid reason for the general law.
For, the Grand Master might suspend the functions of the warrant while it was still
in the possession of the Master ; in which case it would cease to be conclusive evi-
dence of his right to open the Lodge. It seems to us that the question turns on this :
whether the source of the authority under which the Lodge is opened, lies in the
action of the Grand Lodge or in the parchment on which a portion of the Grand
Lodge record is transcribed ? The written instrument is evidence that the Grand
Lodge has acted. It is read when the Grand Master, or his proxy, constitutes the
Lodge, as a warrant for such constitution. The Lodge is then a regularly chartered
and duly constituted Body ; can be proved to be such by the records of the
Grand Lodge, and while it remains so, its acts are valid ; and we apprehend that if
the brethren are satisfied of the authority of the Master without recurring to the
warrant — and how many meetings occur when the brethren do not know whether it
is present or not, but if they think of it at all, presume it to be in the Secretary's
desk — then the business of the Lodge can go on, in conformity with its By-Laws
and the usages of Masonry, and, so long as it remains a fact that the charter has not
been revoked or suspended, its acts will, in the absence of a local regulation requir-
ing its presence, be clearly within the law whether the warrant is present or not.
He says of our remarks on another subject :
" He holds that a Grand Lodge has no right to forbid its subordinate from recog-
nizing a Mason who has gone abroad and obtained the degrees, even after rejection
at home, on the ground that such a Mason is not clandestine. That is true ;
but such prohibition does not declare him clandestine; there is a distinction
perhaps, however — a narrow one. The Grand Lodge refuses such a Mason his
privileges within its jurisdiction : but does not require that he should be so
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treated in the jurisdiction where he was made ; an unaffiliated Mason is
placed in the same category, in some jurisdictions, while at home he may have all
his privileges except those of voting and acting in a Lodge. For instance, in Mas-
sachusetts an unaffiliated Mason stands in the same relation to all the Lodges, in
which a member does to all Lodges except his own ; but if he goes to some juris-
dictions, he can have none of the privileges of a Mason, except of applying for
membership."
There may be a distinction, perhaps, but we have noticed a case in our reviews of
Massachusetts, where the same rule prevails, in which the Grand Lodge concurred
in the Report of the Committee on Healing, distinctly declaring the brother so made,
clandestine. It is immaterial in our view of the subject, whether the word clandes-
tine is used or not, the fact remains that the Grand Lodge assumes to forbid its con-
stituents to recognize Masons made in Lodges which the Grand Lodge itself recog-
nizes as regular by recognizing the authority which planted them. If it may properly
do this, it may well be doubted if we have a right to laugh at the Grand Lodge of
Delaware for declaring non-intercourse with a constituent of the Grand Lodge
of New Jersey. The climax of absurdity is not reached until the Grand Lodge of
Massachusetts declares non-intercourse with an individual member of a constituent
of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina or New Hampshire.
So long as the authority under which he is made is held to be regular, the right
of a Mason to visit can be abridged only by the Lodge he intends to visit. The at-
tempt of the Grand Lodge to do so, is, therefore, an unwarrantable interference with
the rights both of the Lodge and the individual.
He thus speaks of our remarks of last year in our notice of Michigan, relative to
the burial of suicides.
" We must take issue with him upon one question. He holds that a sui-
cide, whether insane or not, is entitled to Masonic burial. In fact he holds
that a member of a Lodge, not under charges or discipline, is entitled to Masonic
burial if he desires it, whatever may be his character. If a man has not been dealt
with, he holds that we must accept the consequences, no matter how unpleasant they
may be. We hold that the phrase " in good standing " has no such narrow mean-
ing, and that the Lodge has the right to determine that question, when-
ever it arises. Whenever a member applies for a dimit, the question
arises whether he is in good standing, and the granting of a dimit is
submitted to vote, to determine that very question, and we have known
of more than one instance in which a dimit has been refused because the
Lodge was not willing to certify that the applicant was " in good standing." " Then
why not discipline him ? " asks the objector. There are many cases in which a
man's character is bad, and yet in which it is impossible to prove specific charges.
Again, suppose a member in good standing, under a sudden provocation, commits
murder, but receives injuries of which he dies immediately, would any Lodge bury
him with Masonic honors ? Yet a suicide (if not insane), is a murderer."
It is true that the refusal to grant a dimit may be prompted by the unwillingness
of the Lodge to certify to the good standing of the petitioner therefor. It is
also true that the refusal to grant it leaves him with all his rights intact. If Mason-
ic burial is a right at all, it must be held that every Mason is entitled to it who has
not been divested of his rights by the only process known to Masonry, that of tri-
al by his fellows.
It is true, again, that there are many cases where a man's character is bad, and
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yet it is impossible to prove specific charges. To endure him until we can prove
something is the price we must pay for having admitted him. The only alterna-
tive is the violation of a principle of such importance that the other becomes the
lesser evil. Indeed, so important do we consider this principle that even under the
last extreme test supposed by Bro. Drummond, we should hesitate long before
consenting to sacrifice it. This suppositious case does not, however, touch the
argument in relation to the burial of suicides, until it is admitted that a man may,
while still of sound mind, take his own life.
The decision of our Grand Lodge may, perhaps, be held to imply the possibility of
this, but the conclusion was long since forced upon us, and has been strengthened
by observation and study in a profession requiring constant attention to psycological
questions, that suicide is prima facie evidence of insanity.
Bro. Drummond is compelled, by lack of time and opportunity, to postpone an
examination of the main question involved in our review of Massachusetts, that of
the genuineness of Henry Price's deputation. However, he says :
" There is one point, however, to which we will refer briefly. The records of the
Grand Lodge of Massachusetts are in the handwriting of Charles Pelham from
1733 to 1750 and afterwards, and he was not Grand Secretary till about 1750.
(We say " about," for we have a sermon delived Dec. 27, 1747, and Pelham was
then Grand Secretary.] From this the conclusisn is jumped at that the record for
the first eighteen [sixteen] years was made up from " information derived from the
old members, and possibly some scattering memoranda." From this conclusion we
emphatically dissent. It was invariably the custom in those days, to enter the min-
utesfirst in a " minute book," and afterwards copy them into the record, and fre-
quently they were not copied for years afterwards. Nor was it customary for the
Secretary to sign the records, and the fact, that those of the Grand Lodge of Massa-
chusetts are not signed till some two years after Pelham became Secretary, has no
significance.
" We have the records of Portland Lodge, commencing in 1769. They are in
the same handwriting for six years, though there were several Secretaries during
that time. The record for the next five years is in one handwriting, and was
probably written up in 1780, in accordance with a vote of the Lodge in the latter
part of 1779. There are none signed by the Secretary till 1795, nearly thirty
years after the founding of the Lodge. Beyond question they were copied from the
original minutes ; and we see no reason to doubt that the early records of the Grand
Lodge of Massachusetts were also, and are, therefore, entitled to full faith and credit.
There may have been omissions arising from the loss of the minutes before they
were copied, as certainly was the case in some instances with Portland Lodge : but
this does not impeach the truth of what was not lost.
" Considering that these records have stood unquestioned for more than a century,
and the custom of entering the proceedings upon minutes and copying them
afterwards, the objection must be held to be of the weakest and most flimsy
character."
Considering that the records are manifestly incorrect, the most charitable conclu-
sion is that they were made up in the manner we indicated ; but whether this is the
fact, or whether they were falsified for a purpose, they cannot be relied on as evi-
dence, except in so far as collateral facts may tend to establish the reliability of por-
tians of them.
Bro. Drummond correctly understands that the making of a Mason forecloses all
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question as to his eligibility so far as the candidate is concerned ; thinks, as we do,
that to decide that a man who has lost one of his eyes cannot legally be made a Ma-
son, is giving too much attention to the " external qualifications of a man in these
days of speculative Masonry, when the reason for the old rule has wholly ceased;"
maintains, as we have frequently had occasion to do, that by the ancient landmarks,
certain prerogatives are inherent in the Grand Mastership, and that these no Consti-
tution can control : denies, like a Mason, that the exercise of Masonic charity gives
a claim to reimbursement; is yet undecided whether or not to assent to Bro. Hough's
idea that as the Past Master's degree is merely part of che ceremonies of installing
a Master, one Past Master can confer it as well as twenty; and demolishes the "log-
ical one-hoss shay," which Bro. Wellford, of Virginia, had constructed on the fol-
lowing plan :
'•I. A Grand Lodge can only be formed by the action of Subordinate Lodges.
" 2. A Subordinate Lodge can do no Masonic act, except by virtue of a charter.
•' 3. That charter is granted on the condition, and accepted on the pledge of im-
plicit obedience to the Grand Lodge which granted it, and no man can become a
member of the Lodge without a solemn engagement of submission to the Grand
Lodge under which it is holden.
" 4. It follows necessarily that no Grand Lodge can be legally formed by Subor-
dinate Lodges acting in defiance of the orders of the Grand Lodge under which they
are working."
Of this Bro. DRUMMOND says :
" The second proposition is true only in the sense in which the following is : 'A
man can do no act except by virtue of being born.' A Lodge must be chartered
before it can act, but to say that it can do no act except by authority of its charter,
is to say that every act of a man is caused by the fact that he exists. A Lodge is
created by its charter, and exists by virtue of its charter, but while it exists it has
certain rights, powers and privileges under the general Masonic law.
" The third proposition is not correct. The charter is granted and accepted on
the condition of obedience " to the landmarks and all other ancient Masonic usages,"
equally with obedience to the Grand Lodge. The latter has in most cases, it is true,
the poiver to decide that any landmark is not such, and force the subordinate to
comply or be destroyed. But such a decision is without right, and rests only in
power ; but when a Grand Lodge makes such a deeision and does not have the
power to enforce it, the subordinate preserves its rights. The Quebec Lodges had
the right to form a Grand Lodge, and Canada had no power to prevent it, because
that was a matter in which other Grand Lodges have as much power as she, and she
was unable to enforce her will against the rights of Lodges as fixed by the land-
marks and ancient Masonic usages."
The Grand Lodge concurred in the following, from the Committee on Jurispru-
dence :
" We recommend that this Grand Lodge endorse the resolutions of the Grand
Lodge of Louisiana, and declare that absolute necessity requires her to refuse Ma-
sonic intercourse with all Grand Bodies which violate the law of exclusive jurisdic-
tion, and all which, after due notice, continue to maintain Masonic relations with
the Grand Bodies thus offending."
The verdict of acquittal in the Spencer case, mentioned by us last year, was con-
tinued.
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MARYLAND.
Besides the record of the regular Communications of the Grand Lodge, these Pro-
ceedings contain the records of several meetings of the Grand Steward's Lodge, at
one of which a report was adopted, going to show that that body was equal in pow-
ers and privileges to the Grand Lodge, and having the same duties and rights, ex-
cepting the alteration of the Constitution and By-Laws.
The Semi-annual Communication of the Grand Lodge was held at Baltimore, May
13th, 1872.
Grand Master Latrobe begins his address with the remark : " It will be some
years, under the most favorable circumstances, before the pecuniary affairs of the
Grand Lodge cease to be the paramount subject of interest in the address of the
Grand Master.
We are glad to learn that the revenue from the Temple has been more than suffi-
cient to meet all current expenses, leaving a handsome surplus for the sinking fund,
accumulating for the payment ot mortgages.
Past Grand Master Benjamin C. Howard, had died during the recess, and was
buried by the Grand Lodge, and a page set apart to his memory.
The decisions submitted were upon points elsewhere well settled.
One Lodge was chartered to work in the German language.
The following was adopted :
" Resolved, That this Grand Lodge hereby extends a cordial and fraternal greet-
ing to the Grand Lodge of A. F. & A. Masons of British Columbia, and congratu-
lates that Grand Lodge upon the harmonious union of the subordinate Lodges of
different Registers under one Grand Jurisdiction.
" Resolved, That this Grand Lodge earnestly reciprocate the wishes of the Grand
Lodge of British Columbia for the establishment of fraternal relations between the
two Grand Lodges, and that the Grand Secretary is requested to transmit to that
Grand Lodge a copy of these resolutions."
Diplomatic relations were also established with the Grand Orient of Spain.
The report of the Grand Inspectors of Baltimore City, after referring to the clan-
destine Hamburg Lodges in New York and New Jersey, says :
" In this connection we would add, that, there is an equally dangerous organiza-
tion in our midst, preferring to work under a dispensation from the "Grand Orient
of France," which Grand Body has already been declared clandestine by this Grand
Lodge.
This spurious Lodge is called , and several of its members have already
made application to visit some of our Lodges, and of course been refused ; their
boldness in thus attempting admission among us fully demonstrates that the Lodges
should appoint the most competent Committees, and the said Committees must con-
duct the examination in the most thorough manner."
The Annual Communication was held November iSth, 1S72.
Grand Master Latrobe speaks hopefully of the financial future of the Grand
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Lodge ; advises that the Grand Treasurer's bond be incTeased to double the amount
of the money that may be expected to be in his hands at any one time, sensibly
arguing that while Masons remain men, and but men, there is no reason for exempt-
ing them in money matters, from the application of rules found proper in all other
business relations of the same description.
The Grand Lodge of Utah and the Grand Orient of Brazil, " Valley of Lavradio,"
were recognized.
The Grand Lodge re-affirmed its position on the question of Grand Lodge Sov-
ereignty, and declared its readiness to co-operate with the Grand Lodge of Louisiana
in all proper measures for relief against the evils threatening that body.
A resolution looking to the establishment of a General Grand Lodge in this country,
" was temporarily laid on the table." The Craft in fhis country long since decided
that this question should be laid on the table permanently.
John H. B. Latrobe, of Baltimore, was re-elected Grand Master; Jacob H.
Medairy, Baltimore, (No. 6 N. Howard St.), Grand Secretary.
The Grand Inspectors for Baltimore call attention to the fact that the offense of
soliciting persons to join the Fraternity is becoming prevalent. A few judiciously
applied expulsions would probably correct the evil.
A new Constitution, reported at the Semi-annual Communication, came up for
action, and, after amendment, was adopted.
1 We find no reference in it to the Grand Steward's Lodge ; hence we conclude that
that puzzle to outsiders has ceased to exist, and that its place is taken by a Board of
Managers, specially charged with the financial affairs of the Grand Lodge and the
maintenance of its pecuniary credit.
The Report on Correspondence, by Bro. John S. Tyson, contains no abstract of
the proceedings of other Grand Lodges, but is devoted entirely to matters referred
touching the relations of Maryland with other Grand Lodges. He suggests that the
Grand Lodge of Louisiana, smarting under the outrage which has been committed
on its rights, has, perhaps, gone a little too far in refusing to hold Masonic Commu-
nication with all Masonic powers, who, on being requested, shall fail to recognize
" the American Doctrine" of exclusive jurisdiction. He says :
" It would seem sufficient that we should condemn those who violate the doctrine,
and those who by positive act, give aid and comfort to the violators, and that we
would hardly be justified in condemning those who neither violate the law them-
selves, nor aid the violators by recognition and encouragement, and whose only
offence is silence. Even those who approve a sentiment are not always willing to
declare it under threats or expulsion, and we would therefore suggest to the Grand
Lodge of Louisiana, whether its resolutions would not be more effective if amended
in this particular. It is an open question, also, whether a resolution of non inter-
course should ever extend to the individual members of the Order, except where
they are clandestine. The resolutions passed by the Grand Lodge of Maryland,
apply only to the Grand Bodies, and not to the individual Masons under their juris-
diction, and your Committee are glad to see that the resolutions of the Grand Lodge
of Louisiana go no further. The subject of these resolutions is certainly one of vital
importance, and the Grand Lodge of Maryland will, without doubt, co-operate in the
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future as in the past, with the Grand Lodge of Louisiana, and other Grand Lodges'
in any legitimate effort that may be made to cure the evil of which these resolutions
complain."
The proceedings of the Semi-annual Communication of May 12th, 1873, were en-
tirely of local interest.
MASSACHUSETTS.
This Grand Lodge, holding Quarterly Communications, has adopted the plan of
publishing its proceedings in parts instead of waiting till the end of the year. Ac-
cordingly we have before us five pamphlets for the year 1S72, and have also received
two, the March and June numbers, for the present year.
The parts are consecutively paged through the year, and when bound together
will make a volume uniform in style and printing with the magnificent volume of
1871.
The volume for 1872 is adorned with elegant steel portraits of John Warren,
Grand Master of the " Massachusetts Grand Lodge" in 1782, '83 and 1787 ; Paul
Revere, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts from 1794 to 1796,
inclusive, the immediate successor of John Cutler, who was first elected in 1792,
when the Grand Lodge was formed by the union of the " Massachusetts " and "St.
John's " Grand Lodges; and Charles W. Moore, so long the Recording and now
the Corresponding Grand Secretary. The fifth pamphlet contains the Proceedings
of a Special Communication held for the purpose of attending a Communication of
St. Andrew's Lodge, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of his membership
therein. The speech of Bro. Moore, made on this occasion, is full of interesting
reminiscences.
This pamphlet also contains the Proceedings of two other Special Communica-
tions, one held for laying the corner-stone of a chnrch at North Attleborough, the
other for laying the corner-stone of the Myles Standish monument at Duxbury.
The Regular Communications were as follows :
Quarterly Communication, March 13, 1872.
Grand Master Nickerson announced the decease of Brethren William North
and Richard S. Spokford, Past Senor Grand Wardens.
He reports a great deal of trouble arising from the admission of rejected candi
dates by Lodges other than the one to which application was first made :
" It is becoming a common practice, as soon as a candidate is rejected, for his
friends to quietly procure the recommendation of six members as required by the
Constitutions, studiously concealing their doings from the members known, or sup-
posed, to be unfavorable to the candidate, take the petition to a Lodge in another
town where he is but little known, and by their personal influence force it through.
It is not uncommon for Brethren knowing a candidate to be unworthy, and consci-
entiously acting upon that knowledge, to receive the first intimation that their efforts
to preserve the purity of the Institution have been frustrated, upon the application of
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the candidate whom they have opposed to visit their Lodge in which lie was rejected
only a few weeks before."
It is not strange that with a regulation permitting a candidate to apply elsewhere
on the recommendation of half a dozen members, that the demoralization on this
question pictured by the Grand Master should follow, and that "so eagerly are such
cases sometimes pushed that the constitutional provisions are utterly disregarded and
even grossly and wilfully violated." The only remedy the Grand Master has to
suggest is that it he required that the recommendation in such cases be countersigned
by the District Deputy Grand Master of the District where the candidate was re-
jected.
We venture to suggest to our Brethren of Massachusetts that if they will require
every petition to state whether the applicant has ever been rejected in any other
Lodge, forbid the reception of a petition of a rejected candidate save with the unan-
mous consent, expressed by secret ballot, of the rejected Lodge, and enforce the
rule for ten years — it will take so long at least to recover from the demoralizing
effects of the present rule — they will find themselves so convinced of its wisdom
that they will never depart from it.
The Constitution was so amended as to require a two-thirds vote for the election
of Grand Treasurer and Recording Grand Secretary.
A petition was received from several Lodges setting forth that the "Order" has
no regular or definite system of charities for the benefit of families of deceased
members, and continuing thus :
" Your memorialists, therefore, pray that some action may be taken by this Most
Worshipful Grand Lodge for the purpose of establishing some system by which the
family of a deceased Brother belonging within the jurisdiction of this Grand Lodge,
shall receive either a fixed sum of money, or an equal sum from every member of
the Order within the jurisdiction of this Grand Lodge, or within certain districts to
be defined by the Grand Lodge ; said money to be assessed upon members of the
Fraternity upon the death of a Brother and paid to his family or to those dependent
upon him."
We judge that the ear-marks of the paternity of this banting are to be found in
the word " Order." It was referred to a Committee, who reported at the June Com-
munication, and adversely, though none of its members seem to have had any mis-
givings about converting the Grand Lodge into a mutual life insurance bureau, ex-
cept such as were born of difficulties of detail. They say :
" We have carefully considered the said petitions, and have had an interview with
several of the petitioners of Doric Lodge, none of whom were prepared to submit
any plan of action ; nor has any feasible plan suggested itself to either of your
Committee. But from the great inequalities existing in the moneyed condition of
the several Lodges, and the labor and difficulty to be anticipated iu the collection of
so frequent assessments as must unavoidably be made, we are unanimous in our
opinion that it is inexpedient for the M. W. Grand Lodge to legislate on this sub-
ject."
We have elsewhere in this report indicated the reasons why Masonic bodies should
not meddle with this business.
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The Grand Lodges of Utah and British Columbia, and the Grand Orient of Bra-
zil, Valley of Lavradio, were recognized as duly organized.
The Committee to whom the subject was referred evidently desired to impress the
Grand Lodge of Utah with a due sense of obligation toward the Grand Lodge of
Massachusetts for according recognition. They say :
" On general principles your Committee doubt the wisdom in all cases, of three
Lodges only, and those small and inexperienced, uniting to form perhaps a weak
Grand Lodge, and whether it tends to the best interests of the Craft. There seems
to be, however, no discretion in the premises; in fact, we have very many prece-
dents in the formation of our sister Grand Lodges. The contrast, however, between
many of them appears singular and striking. Colorado, for example, with three
Lodges and an aggregate of sixty members all told, is received on an equality and
acknowledged as a peer of Ohio, or New York, or Pennsylvania, with their hun-
dreds of Lodges each and tens of thousands of members. But it may with propri-
ety be urged in behalf of our extreme western and southwestern Grand Lodges that
they are composed of vigorous and progressive material, and situated in enterprising
and rapidly developing communities."
We presume when the Committee indulged in this patronizing language they had
forgotten the circumstances attending the formation of the " Massachusetts Grand
Lodge," or they would hardly have thrown this boomerang; for we see that the
pretty fiction of its identity with the present Grand Lodge of Massachusetts is still
kept up in this year's Proceedings, as the list of Grand Masters is headed with
Joseph Webb, who was Grand Master of the former in 1777.
Quarterly Communication, September nth, 1872.
The Committee to whom was referred the Annual Report of Grand Master
Gardner, made the previous December, suggest that the right of the Grand Lodge,
as a charitable corporation, to hold that portion of its real estate which it occupies
for its own purposes exempt from taxation should be asserted. For two years past
an average of $5,600 has been assessed on the Temple and paid to the city, whereas
only the lower story should have been taxed, which would have saved half the sum
named :
Of Grand Master Gardner's administration the Committee say :
" While the dignity of the Grand Master's office has never been lowered, that of
the subordinate offices has been elevated by being entrusted with greater powers.
Masonry has thriven and has grown stronger by the increased confidence and honor
bestowed upon local officers. The Grand Lodge has been fully informed of every-
thing done in its name; the old landmarks have been carefully ascertained and ad-
hered to ; and when new precedents have been established, the reasons therefor have
been clearly expounded."
The Annual Communication was held December nth, 1872.
The Annual Report of Grand Master Nickerson shows a large amount of Ma-
sonic work performed by him in person.
He had granted five dispensations for new Lodges. By gift and exchange he had
added to the library over three hundred volumes of Grand Lodge Proceedings, be-
fore lacking. In the list of Grand Lodges whose Proceedings they now have com-
xc Proceedings of the
plete, seventeen, Illinois does not appear. He recommended that the surplus
returned by the Masonic Board of Relief of Chicago be placed in the hands of the
Grand Treasurer, to be disbursed by the Committee on Charity. He refers at length
to the prompt efforts of assistance following the Boston fire, and gives the proceed-
i ngs of the Fraternity in Chicago entire.
Sereno Dwight Nickerson, of Boston, was re-elected Grand Master ; Charles
II. Titus, of Boston, Grand Secretary.
The Stated Communication was held December 27th, 1872, when the Grand offi-
cers were installed. Illinois appears in the list of Grand Lodges, from which Pro-
ceedings have been received.
Five charters were granted during the year.
Quarterly Communication, March 12, 1873.
Three charters were granted.
The following amendment to the Constitution was adopted. It grew out of juris-
dictional questions raised in consequence of the division of old and the creation of
new towns :
" Hereafter, no changes by the Legislature of the Commonwealth of municipal
corporations, or boundaries of the territories thereof, shall be held to affect in any
way the jurisdiction of Lodges. Lodges located by their charters in particular sec-
tions of municipalities shall have the same jurisdiction therein as if said sections
were entire municipalities, and where the boundaries of such sections are uncertain,
they may be determined by the Grand Master for the time being."
The Committee to whom was referred the Annual Report of Grand Master Nick-
erson, thus allude to events connected with the great fire :
" The report gives, as matters of touching interest, and as of far greater value
than dollars, a large number of letters from Masonic Brethren and Bodies in distant
sections of the country, tendering their sympathy and assistance in the relief of the
sufferers by the late calamitous fire in this city. In reply to all these generous and
fraternal offerings the Most Worshipful Grand Master very wisely and properly ans-
wered that we should not be obliged to draw upon the Masonic funds of other juris-
dictions, and confidently expressed the hope that the Fraternity here would be able
to provide for any Masonic sufferers without foreign aid. This hope has been hap-
pily realized. The letters, however, are not less honorable to the benevolent teach-
ings of our Institution than to the generous impulses which prompted them. They
will be referred to by the future historian of Masonry in this country as a priceless
legacy."
As usual, the reports of the Committee on Trials are elaborate and remarkably
clear papers.
Scattered through the Proceedings we find several reports from the Committee on
Healing, relating to cases where, after having been rejected in a Lodge in Massa-
chusetts, men received the degrees in some other jurisdiction. By a constitutional
provision Masons in Massachusetts are interdicted from holding Masonic intercourse
with such until they shall have been formally healed by the Grand Lodge unless the
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consent of the rejecting Lodge and of the Grand Master of Massachusetts was had
to their making.
From one case reported by the Committee we quote ;
" In the year 1863, the petitioner, then a resident of Lowell, made application for
the Degrees in Masonry to Ancient York Lodge, of that city, and was rejected. In
1869 he removed from Lowell to North Carolina, having accepted a position in the
employment of the United States Government, and with the full intent then to
change his domicile to North Carolina. Having thus removed he applied for the
Degrees to Tabasco Lodge, in that State, was accepted and received the Three De-
grees. In his application to Tabasco Lodge, he stated that he had been previously
rejected in Ancient York Lodge, and in his petition for healing he affirms his belief
that Tabasco Lodge had no knowledge of the provisions of our Constitutions relat-
ing to rejected candidates, and supposed that from his residence in North Carolina
they had the right to admit him and confer upon him the Degrees. He also avers
that he was entirely ignorant of those provisions, and received the Degrees at the
hands of Tabasco Lodge in perfect good faith, and without the slightest intent to
violate our regulations. In 1871, his health having suffered from the climate of
North Carolina, he removed his residence again to Lowell, and on his arrival there
learned for the first time that the Degrees had been wrongfully conferred upon him
by Tabasco Lodge, and that his status as a Mason was clandestine and illegal."
So here is a Brother declared irregular and clandestine who was made in a regu-
lar Lodge, working under a Grand Lodge with which the Grand Lodge of Massa-
chusetts is in fraternal correspondence ; and, though guiltless of any Masonsic of-
fence, suspended, without trial, from all the rights and privileges of Masonry for a
period of over one year, though had it been but for one day the outrage on the just
principle that a Mason can only be deprived of his rights as a Brother after notice
and trial, would have been the same. While we fully agree with the Massachusetts
doctrine that personal jurisdiction once obtained should hold good without regard
to territorial lines, we also hold that a statute which presumes that a regular Lodge
can make clandestine Masons is indefensible. The Grand Lodge of Massachusetts
had just cause for complaint against Tabasco Lodge, notwithstanding the Lodge may
have acted honestly, but even though the Brother had obtained the degrees through
fraud, such as would justify this expulsion, instead of innocently, as shown by the
report of the Committee, it could not justly abridge his rights as a Mason until, after
a fair trial, the offence had been proven.
Quarterly Communication, June 11, 1873.
A serious misunderstanding between the Grand Lodges of Massachusetts and New
Hampshire, caused by the conferring of the Degrees by a Constituent Lodge in
New Hampshire upon a man who had been rejected in Massachusetts, was decided
to be definitely adjusted at the June Communication of 1872. During the discus-
sion between the two Grand Lodges a Committee of the Grand Lodge of New
Hampshire said in a report to that Body :
" We have authentic information that that Grand Lodge" [meaning the Grand
Lodge of Massachusetts] " have voted to heal the individual thus irregularly made
a Mason (and with whom the deception if any rests) with full knowledge of the cir
cumstances."
This coming to the knowledge of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, which had
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taken no such action, an investigation was ordered, and at this Communication the
Committee made its final report, fixing the offence of unwarranted assertion on Bro.
Solon Thornton, and concluding :
" In view of all the evidence taken before them, the Committee find that it goes
to strengthen and confirm their former report; that even if Bro. Thornton had
been, at the time, Recording Grand Secretary, his going to Concord with Winslow,
with a view of influencing the action of the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire,
would have been an act unauthorized, and one which would have subjected him to
the penalty proposed in his case; but going, as he did, when no longer Recording
Grand Secretary, but allowing himself to be introduced as such, and permitting the
Chairman of the Committee of the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire so to consider
him, when pretending to give to him " authentic information " upon a delicate mat-
ter affecting the relations of the two Grand Lodges, as to jurisdiction, was an act for
which the Committee can find no palliation or excuse."
He was accordingly expelled from membership in the Grand Lodge.
MICHIGAN.
This volume, which in style, printing and paper surpasses previous ones from the
same source, opens with a record of the dedication of the Soldiers' and Sailors'
Monument, at the Campus Martius, Detroit, as performed by the Grand Lodge, April
9th, 1872.
On arriving at the monument Grand Master Chamberlain delivered a brief ad-
dress, closing with a reference to the brethren who had died in the field, which was
followed by the Funeral Honors, by the Craft, prayer by the Chaplain, and the fol-
lowing Ritual, prepared by the Grand Master :
The Grand Master then said :
" Right Worshipful Deputy Grand Master, what is the proper jewel of your office ?
" Deputy Grand Master — The square.
" G. M. — What are its moral and Masonic uses ?
" D. G. M. — To square our actions and prove our work.
" G. M. — Have you applied the implements of your office to the work, and did
you observe if it was designed in wisdom ?
" D. G. M. — Most Worshipful, I found the foundation square, and see great wis-
dom in the design.
" G. M. — Brother Deputy, it is well. Right Worshipful Senior Grand Warden,
what is the jewel of your office ?
" S. G. W.— The level.
" G. M. — What is its Masonic use ?
" S. G. IV. — Morally it reminds of equality. Its use is to lay horizontals.
" G. M. — Have you applied the implement of your office to the work ? If so,
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make report to us whether the monument is level, and if in all its parts it has the
elements of strength.
" S. G. W. — I found the work level, and there is strength in each part to support
each other part.
" G. M. — Right Worshipful Junior Grand Warden, what is the proper jewel of
your office ?
" J. G. W.— The plumb.
" G. M. — What is its Masonic use ?
" y. G. W. — Morally it teaches rectitude, and we use it to prove perpendiculars.
" G. M. — Have you applied the implement of your office to the work ? Is it
plumb, and has it such proportions, and is it fitted together with such exact nicety as
to fill all beholders with admiration of its beauty ?
" y. G. W. — Most Worshipful, I found it plumb. The work is perfect, and of
great beauty.
" G. M. — The structure has been tested by the proper implements of Masonry.
My officers report that the architects and craftsmen have done their work skillfully
and faithfully, and that the monument has been designed in wisdom, constructed with
strength, and is adorned with beauty.''''
Then followed the Public Grand Honors, a brief invocation by the Grand Master,
who then concluded the ceremony thus :
" And in the name of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted
Masons of the State of Michigan, I do solemnly dedicate this monument to the mem-
ory of the gallant living and the honored dead — the soldiers and sailors of Michigan."
The Annual Communication was held at Detroit, January 14th, 1873.
The address of Grand Master Chamberlain is a remarkably clear and excellent
paper. In his brief exordium he includes all of Masonry in one word — Brother.
He says :
" This word is the epitome of Masonry ; it contains in itself all that we know of
the ritual, the obligations, the work, the degrees and the history of our ancient craft;
it expresses the essence of all that we can give or receive in Masonry ; it is above
lineage, race or rank ; among a strange people and in foreign climes, it is language,
passport and letter of credit ; it is food, clothing and shelter; in peace it is an orna-
ment, in danger a coat-of-mail ; and enveloped in it are all the philosophy, ethics
and objects of our institution."
He had made upwards of thirty official visits, and in addition had inspected the
records of over two hundred and forty Lodges. Of the manner in which the records
should be kept, he makes some excellent suggestions. He had granted five dispen-
sations for new Lodges, and now thinks that of these, two, perhaps three, should
have been refused. In this connection he justly remarks :
" The Grand Lodge should never forget, that while the power of the Grand Mas-
ter to grant dispensations is a prerogative of which he cannot be deprived, it has (in
its power to refuse charters) a corrective which should be unsparingly applied when-
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ever the interests of Masonry demand it. All intelligent Masons deplore the too
rapid increase of Lodges — an increase which it is the fashion to charge to the Grand
Master."
So far as he can learn, no Grand Master in that Jurisdiction has ever granted a
dispensation for a new Lodge without the required recommendations and evidences,
but his own experience has taught him to be wary in this business ; that recommen-
dations are given when asked, to avoid un-neighborly feeling, but in many cases
followed by private notes and protesting against the granting of the dispensation, the
practical effect of which is to throw the responsibility of all mistakes in granting
dispensations, as well as the odium of all refusals, upon the Grand Master. Having
in Michigan one Lodge for every eight hundred adult males, he is satisfied that
thirty per cent, of them are not required, nor conducive to the best interests of the
Fraternity. The officers of a Lodge having been installed by a brother who had
never been a Master of a Lodge, he ordered the Lodge to cease work until the offi-
cers were properly installed.
He recommended the publication of the names of all the members of the constit-
uent Lodges with the Proceedings of 1874, and the annual publication of changes
only thereafter, but the Grand Lodge decided that the benefits resulting from such a
registration would not be commensurate with the additional expense of publication.
On the subject of Grand Lodge Jurisdiction, he took the ground embodied in the
following resolution, with which the Grand Lodge responded :
"Resolved, That the encroachment upon the jurisdictional rights of American
Grand Lodges can no longer be submitted to, and, as edicts of non-intercourse appear
to have no influence upon the Grand Lodge of Hamburg or the Grand Orient of
France, the Grand Lodge of Michigan will co-operate with her sister Grand Lodges
in refusing to hold Masonic communication with all Masonic powers who, on being
requested, shall fail to recognize the American doctrine of exclusive and absolute
Grand Lodge jurisdiction on this continent."
He announced the death of Truman Hawley Lyon, Past Deputy Grand Master,
and John A. Barnes, Junior Grand Warden. Corresponding memorial tablets ap-
pear in the Proceedings.
Alluding to the Masonic Board of Relief, of Chicago, the Grand Master says :
" After all proper relief had been rendered they returned to the donors, pro rata,
$20,000 of the funds received, saying they had no further use for it ; that having
received it in trust for a specified purpose, and having executed that trust, they
returned what remained in excess of their needs. This, it is true, was but honorable
and right ; but men of our day and generation will not be harmed by the contempla-
tion of such an example. Brethren; all honest men will rejoice in such an exhibi-
tion of honorable rectitude. Masons may be proud that it emanates from a Masonic
source ; and all men may profitably ponder upon its rarity. It is pleasant in these
days of peculation and fraud to be able to point to such a deed that shines like
a beacon to shame a naughty world."
He reported but few decisions, those only which involved points not heretofore
decided. We agree with nearly all, but copy only in part :
A Lodge has not the right to donate its funds for any other than a strictly
Masonic purpose, even by a unanimous vote. Money received for degrees
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is not the sole propeity of the particular Lodge; it belongs to the Masonic Frater-
nity. The Lodge holds it in trust for the benefit of the whole Brotherhood, and has
the right to dispose of it for Masonic purposes only.
" Question — Is it competent for a Lodge to vote an assessment on its members for
the purpose of hiring nurses or watchers over a sick brother ?
" Answer — A Lodge has not the right to make an assessment on its members in
any other manner than is provided by its By-Laws. The By-Laws of a Lodge may
be amended in the manner therein provided, and the annual or quarterly dues may
be thereby increased.
" The money of the Lodge may be appropriated to relieve any poor, distressed
brother, his widow or orphans. But the funds of a Lodge should not be used to pay
for services which can be procured for money, if the brother, needing such services,
is able to pay for them.
" His necessity and our ability control ; and every brother is the sole judge of his
own ability to pay for the relief of another.
" Question — Has the Master or the Lodge the right to require its members to ren-
der services as nurses or watchers of a sick brother ?
" Answer — Neither the Master nor the Lodge has any such right. Services of
this character ought to be voluntary, and every Mason is bound by his obligation to
render (hem (when needed), and he (not the Master nor the Lodge) is to be the
judge of his duty under that obligation. It is a practice common in many Lodges to
ask brethren to volunteer for such services, and from these the Master may make a
detail. This is Masonic, convenient and commendable.
" Question — Is it right for a Lodge to bury a brother Masonically who died by his
own hands?
" Answer — I have no doubt that a Lodge may bury a brother who has committed
suicide ; and as Master of a Lodge I should do so without hesitation, if the suicide
resulted from insanity, not produced by immoral conduct.
" Question — Has the Lodge the right to give Masonic burial to a non-affiliated
brother ?
" Answer — It has ; but neither he nor his friends can claim it as a right; and as
a rule I would not give it; but in some cases a refusal might not be just to the brother
who asks it.
" Question — What is the duty of a committee appointed to inquire into the char-
acter and competency of a petitioner for initiation ?
" Answer — By due inquiry to ascertain his character ; and one of the committee,
at least, should see the candidate, and, by personal inquiry, learn whether he is phy-
sically competent. The committee should report facts, not opinions."
The Committee on Masonic Law reported that the second of these decisions was
in conflict with a Standing Order of the Grand Lodge, but believed it to be correct
in principle. The Standing Order was accordingly repealed.
Urging the adoption of the District Deputy system, he says :
" The duties of the Grand Master, under our present system, are so great that very
few of the members of our Fraternity can afford to assume and perform them. I
have given my entire time for seven months of the year, and fully one-half of the
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remaining five months to the duties of this office. I have traveled nearly seven
thousand miles in the discharge of my official duties; I have written more than four
thousand letter-sheet pages ; and with all this done, I know that the interests of the
Craft have not been sufficiently cared for.
'• Brethren, this state of things should not be allowed to continue. Relieve your
Grand Master of the excessive labor and care now devolved on him ; and relieve
him, too, of all suspicion of being actuated by mercenary motives in his high office.
If he works for honor, be sure you do not make his labors so numerous that none
but the rich can afford to wear the honors of the Craft."
We do not wonder that the Grand Master declined a re-election.
Grand Master Chamberlain presented his commission as Representative from
the Grand Lodge of Illinois, and was acknowledged, and was received with the Pri-
vate Grand Honors.
The Grand Lodge decided that it was inexpedient for it to erect, or in any way
aid, by pecuniary means, the erection of a Masonic Temple.
The Grand Lodge was largely occupied in the consideration of the new Constitu-
tion, By-Laws and Rules of Order, which were adopted ; the Penal Code, also
reported, was laid over until next year.
The Committee on Revision are entitled to great praise for the manner in which
their work has been performed.
The Report of the Committee on Grievances embraces nine cases of appeals.
A Lodge acquitted a brother charged with attempt to seduce a brother's wife, and
with the attempt to poison her mind by inducing her to believe that her husband
was untrue to his marriage vow. The first was not proven, but the Committee found
ample evidence of the truth of the latter, and, disagreeing with the Lodge, which did
not consider the attempt to alienate the wife from her husband a Masonic crime,
recommended expulsion, in which the Grand Lodge concurred, j
The Grand Lodge confirmed the action of a Lodge in expelling a memberTor drunk-
enness and rowdyism, of which case the Committee forcibly says :
" In the course of this case the attention of your Committee has been called to the
fact that not only are three brethren of this Lodge shown to be drunkards and street
rowdies, but at least one other brother is mentioned as the keeper of a whisky shop
(saloon ?). Your Committee can not forbear to add that as drunkenness is a Masonic
crime, the business of making drunkards ought to be declared equally criminal, and
ought to subject the offender to summary expulsion from our Order.
" Your Committee have no time to enlarge upon the subject, and it is not within
their province to do so, but the above remark is the least that we can find it consis-
tent, as good Masons and law-abiding citizens, to say in condemnation of this abom-
inable traffic."
Five charters were granted, one dispensation continued, and six granted by the
Grand Lodge.
Hugh McCurdy, of Corunna, was elected Grand Master ; Foster Pratt, of
Kalamazoo, Grand Secretary.
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The Grand Lodge appropriated $150 to procure a testimonial for Past Grand Sec-
retary Fenton, who retires from the office after a service of twenty-five years.
The Report on Correspondence (p. 36), from the pen of Grand Secretary Fenton,
gives the pith of the Proceedings of forty-live American Grand Lodges. Illinois is
kindly noticed. Bro. Fenton was unfortunate in finding no statistical tables in our
Proceedings for 187 1. We refer him to the tabular statement beginning on page 50
and ending, with recapitulation, on page 65.
MINNESOTA.
The Grand Lodge met at St. Paul, January 14, 1873.
Grand Master Cooley congratulated the Grand Lodge that death had not entered
it during the year. The northern and western portions of the State are becoming
rapidly developed in consequence of the extension of the railroad system rendering
an increase of Lodges necessary, for nine of which he had issued dispensations.
He thinks uniformity of work cannot be maintained without some more effective sys-
tem of instruction. Eight decisions he considers of sufficient importance to report.
He holds to the right of peremptory objection as against the advancement of a
Brother, and the Grand Lodge agreed to it without division, though at the preceding
Annual Communication it disagreed to the same decision by a vote of 144 to 64 ;
that a Brother has a right to appeal from a sentence of reprimand ; that where a
candidate has received the first and second degrees and it is then ascertained that he
can neither read nor write, and a Brother objects to his advancement for the avowed
reason of his illiteracy, the Master should entertain the objection — that however
"worthy" such a candidate may be, he cannot be said to be " well qualified"; and
that a Brother elected Master who has lost his left arm is not thereby disqualified,
and if otherwise eligible should be installed, as he may, should he find himself phys-
ically incompetent to perform any duty devolving upon him as Master, call any
Brother to his assistance.
Correct.
Referring to the Grand Orient of Brazil, Valley of Lavradio, from which a circu-
lar asking recognition had been received, he says :
" We are aware that there is more or less of political propogandism prevailing in
nearly all of the Bodies styling themselves Grand Orients in South America, and
we should not be too free in acknowledging them. ' Go slow ' is a safe maxim to
follow in Masonry."
Sensible.
The Committee on Correspondence, to whom the circular was referred, together
with similar documents from the Grand Lodges of British Columbia and Utah, re-
ported a resolution recognizing the two latter, but from its meagre information
as to the status of Masomy in Brazil were not prepared to recommend any action at
this session. We presume the report was adopted, though the record does not show
the fact.
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The Grand Master had, wisely we think, refused all petitions for dispensations to
receive and act on the petitions of applicants for the degrees who had not resided
the required time within the jurisdiction of the subordinate Lodges.
In conclusion, he cautions the brethren to remember that black halls are for use as
well as white.
For two years past we have noticed in our review of Min.i larp struggle
growing out of an attempt to oust Hennepin Lodge of penal jurisdiction inthecaseof
Bro. Hodson, on the ground that being a permanent membei of the Grand Lodge
— Past Senor Garnd Warden — the Grand, and not the Con tituenl Lodge, h id orig-
inal and exclusive jurisdiction. The right of Hennepin Lodge I" exercise jurisdic-
tion in the case was decisively sustained by the Gran Twice at the laU
Annual Communication the Grand Lodge instructed the Committee on Jurispru-
dence to report an amendment to the Constitution affirming the right of a Constit-
uent Lodge to try any of its own members except its Master and the (band Master
while in office. It was finally agreed to leave the matter to the Committee raised to
revise the Constitution. At this Communication that Committee reported, among
other amendments, the following relating to that subject :
" Section 12. The judicial powers of a Grand Lodge are of two kinds:
" 1st, Original — embracing all matters of controversy which may a "ise between any
of the Subordinate Lodges under its jurisdiction, <>r the members of different
Lodges, and the enforcement of discipline upon its own members, and the Lodges
under its jurisdiction, and upon individual Masons. Provided, That this clause
shall not be so construed as to deprive a Subordinate Lodge o( the right to enforce
discipline upon any of its members except the Master or Grand Master while in
office."
"2d, Appellate — embracing all matters of controversy and discipline, proper for
Masonic investigation, arising in any subordinate Lodge, and over which it has not
exercised original jurisdiction."
Which was adopted unanimously.
Also the following relative to the powers of a Constituent Lodge :
"3d, Judicial — embracing the exercise of discipline, and settlement of controver-
sies between and over all its members (except the Master or Grand Master while in
office), and over all nonaffiliated brethren within its jurisdiction, subject to an appeal
to the Grand Lodge."
Which was adopted by a vote of 63 to 8.
Thus the rank and file of the Grand Lodge, who for two years had waged this
contest against the opposition of their Grand Master ami their two strongest Com-
mittees— Jurisprudence and Appeals — have at last succeeded in settling it on a sound
and just basis.
The Hodson case came up once again on appeal taken by him from a sentence of
expulsion by Hennepin Lodge, to which the case had been remanded for re-hearing.
Majority and minority reports were made thereon, the formei affirming and the lat-
ter declaring void the action of Hennepin Lodge. Tin ipted.
Grand Lodge of Illinois. xoX
The minority made an able argument, first on the constitutional question of the
jurisdiction of Hennepin Lodge, which they denied, incorrectly, we think, and
finally on the merits of the case. If they are correct in the statement, of which the
record shows no denial, that the only matter introduced as evidence in support of
the charge (fornication) was the certified copy of the verdict of a jury and the
judgment of the court thereon, from the records of the District Court in the case,
we think they show sufficient ground for reversing the decision of the Lodge on
the merits of the case.
The office of the Grand Treasurer is a sinecure in Minnesota. That officer re-
ported that he had neither received nor paid out any moneys belonging to the Grand
Lodge since the last session thereof.
The following clear and correct statement of law, from the Committee on Ancient
Landmarks, we commend to our Mississippi brethren :
" There is nothing more clear to your Committee than if, on appeal, the Grand
Lodge reverses the decision of the subordinate on the ground of error in the pro-
ceedings, or of innocence, that reversal annuls the judgment, and it is as if never
pronounced ; consequently it has no effect whatever ; and, in Masonic law, the mat-
ter stands as if no judgment had ever been rendered. The effect of a reversal is that
the accused was never suspended or expelled at all, in law, and there is no power in
the Grand Lodge, either by judgment or otherwise, to give such reversal any other
or less effect.
I
" This does not preclude the Grand Lodge, under Subdivision 18 of Section 8 of
Title 2 (page 6415 compilation) in the exercise of its perogative of clemency or
mercy, to restore an expelled Mason, on a proper petition, to the rights and benefits
of Masonry, but not to his membership in any Lodge. The reason of this is clear
— too clear to require argument.
" The sentence never having been questioned or revoked, nor its justice denied,
an eminent Masonic writer says, ' the petitioner stands totally deprived of his Ma-
sonic rights and membership lie comes not in the character of an appellant, but
of a stranger ; not as a litigant within the Order, but as a stranger from without.
The Grand Lodge has power to invest him with the rights and benefits of Masonry,
I nit not to membership in any Lodge. Only by consent of the Lodge itself can new
members be admitted into its own body.' "
The Grand Lodge of Minnesota proposes to establish a "Rogues' Gallery":
" Resolved, That in order more fully to protect the Craft from impostors, every
Lodge within the jurisdiction of this Grand Lodge be required to send a description
of brethren expelled, and impostors detected by said Lodge, with photographs of
said expelled Masons and, impostors, to the Secretary of this Grand Lodge; and it
shall be the duty of the Grand Secretary to notify the Worshipful Master of every
Subordinate Lodge of the same, and if the case shall be considered of sufficient im-
portance to warrant it, the M. W. Grand Master shall cause to be printed copies of
said descriptions, with photographs of the parties (where they can be procured), to
be sent to all Lodges within the jurisdiction of this Grand Lodge; the same to be
posted in conspicuous places in the halls of said Lodges."
Charlks Griswolo, Red Wing, was elected Grand Master; E. D. B.Por-
ter, of St. Paul, Grand Secretary, in place of Bro. William S. Combs, who was
re-elected but declined.
Proceedings of the
We think it would puzzle the Committee on Jurisprudence to tell why they re-
ported adversely on the following resolution:
" Resolved by the M. W. Grand Lodge of Minnesota, That this Grand Lodge
recognizes all Master Masons made during the war in army Lodges, working under
dispensation granted from Grand Lodges recognized by this Grand Lodge, and that
such Master Masons are allowed to join Lodges in the usual manner of a dimited
Mason."
The resolution was rejected.
Nine charters were granted, one conditionally, and two dispensations continued.
The following was adopted :
" Your Committee on Masonic Jurisprudence, to whom was referred the resolu-
tion of Bro. Porter at our last Annual Communication, asking that this Grand
Lodge recognize the organization of the Grand Lodge of Quebec (so-called), as just
and regular, beg leave to report that this Grand Lodge has not received information
that said so called Grand Lodge of Quebec has received the recognition of the M.
W., the Grand Lodge of Canada, as required and expressed by the resolution of this
Grand Lodge at its Grand Annual Communication in 1 87 1, and until such recogni-
tion this Grand Lodge decline fraternal intercourse with said so-called Grand Lodge
of Quebec."
The Report ou Correspondence ( 1 1 3 pp.) is again by. Past Grand Master PlERSON,
and reviews the Proceedings of forty-two American Grand Lodges. He says there
are forty-seven recognized Grand Lodges in North America; we make the number
forty-eight.
Illinois receives courteous notice. He copies largely from Grand Master Cre-
gier's decisions; approves the Illinois decision that no clergyman can claim exemp-
tion from the payment of dues unless by authority of express law, and quotes, with
commendation, the remarks of our Finance Committee relative to refunding Grand
Lodge dues to Lodges that have suffered losses by tire.
Of our rule that when the charter of a Lodge is annulled, the Grand Secretary may,
on being satisfied that any member of such Lodge is free of charges, in good stand-
ing, and has paid all dues against him, issue to him a dimit, under the seal of the
Grand Lodge, he says :
" But suppose the dues had not been paid when the Lodge ceased to exist ?
" A brother in arrears for dues, leaves the jurisdiction ; returns on a visit after an
absence of ten years, finds his Lodge has been dead eight or nine years, and that his
name was on the roll in good standing when the Lodge ceased to exist ; — he has
become settled in another State and wishes to become affiliated, but the Lodge re-
quires a dimit, how is he to obtain one ? Has a Grand Secretary a right to fix upon
a certain sum of money, and when paid issue a dimit?
" We have known of such cases."
We think the Grand Secretary would not have a right to fix upon any other sum
of money than that shown by the books of the Lodge, which are in the Grand Sec
retary's hands, to have been due at the time the charter was annulled. That amount
he should certainly collect for the Grand Lodge.
Referring to our report of 187 1, Bro. Pierson says :
Grand Lodge of Illi?iois. CI
" We believe that there are other than the Blue Lodge degrees that constitute a
part of " legitimate Masonry ; " we all know that matters which were included in
the first and third degrees, are not even alluded to in them at this date."
Bro. PlERSON asked us to say what was " legitimate Masonry." We couldn't
write a volume, so we contented ourselves with saying, in a sentence, what was not
legitimate Masonry. He seems to have misapprehended us, we therefore re-pro-
duce what we then said :
" Masonry is distinguished by its polity as well as by its principles, both of which
are unalterably fixed by the landmarks. And when any system or organization seeks
anywhere to combine these principles with a different polity ; or in territory already
Masonically occupied to erect itself on the same principles and polity, it cannot in
either case claim to be ' legitimate Masonry.' "
We think if Bro. Pierson will again examine this carefully, he will see that we
did not deny that other than Blue Lodge degrees might constitute a part of legitimate
Masonry ; and he will also see that even the Blue Lodge degrees, combined with a
form of government having an irresponsible head, a head holding its office by a life-
tenure, cannot, in our opinion, be such We hold that the representative feature is
as much a part of legitimate Masonry as its ritualistic features.
Bro. Pierson thinks Committees on Foreign Correspondence are a necessity, and
but for them Grand Lodges would very often assume very awkward positions ; prop-
erly scouts the idea of dues accruing against a brother who is under suspension ;
holds, as he always has, to one ballot for the three degrees, believing it to have been
the original law, as it was the practice, until a comparatively recent date ; says the
idea of perpetual jurisdiction (acquired by conferring the first and second degrees
on a candidate,) is a new-fangled notion, and exclusively American, with which we
do not agree ; agrees with Bro. McCorkle, of Kentucky, that Masonic Sepulture is
the inherent right of every Master Mason, but strangely enough thinks the Grand
Lodge may abridge it ; thinks a dimit is nothing more than a receipt for moneys
paid, and that no vote is required on an application therefor ; holds that a brother
casting a black ballot may so state, and give his reasons for so doing; that it is the
duty of a Lodge to advance a brother desiring it, unless charges are preferred against
him ; enters a vigorous protest against suspension for non-payment of dues ; and
thinks those who oppose the recognition of Quebec have the best of the argument,
which reminds us of the fellow who said it was " a mighty good day for hunting,
but a mighty poor day to find game."
Under the head of Louisiana, we find the following :
" The Grand Master takes strong ground on the American idea of Exclusive Ju-
risdiction. We think he carries it most too far ; we go with him so far as to declare
non-intercourse with those who invade any jurisdiction in the United States, but do
not believe in an attempt to force the rest of the world to abjure their old notions
and adopt ours. England, for instance, does not recognize the dogma, yet she does
not attempt to invade any jurisdiction in this country. Then why should we pro-
scribe English Masons because she will not forget her old traditions and declare
non-intercourse with Hamburg ? "
And this under New Jersey :
" Whatever may have been the complaint with reference to Alpha Lodge, the
en Proceedings of the
Grand Lodge of New Jersey — a Sovereign and Independent l'ower — gave the whole
subject a thorough investigation and restored the charter. Delaware has no right
to say to New Jersey you shall, or shall not, do thus and so, and if we were a mem-
ber of the Grand Lodge of New Jersey, we would favor non-intercourse until Dela-
ware repealed its resolution relative to Alpha Lodge."
Under North Carolina, he says :
"There must be many cadidates for Legislative honors in that jurisdiction or else-
many of the members " had been there," judging from the proceedings, the ''pre-
vious question " was admitted and ordered, in two or three instances; " reconsider-
ation moved " and that " motion laid on the table," &c, &c, neither of which have
any place in a Masonic Lodge, and we doubt whether there are two other Grand
Lodges that would permit the cerms to appear on their records."
Our By-Laws forbid the use of the Previous Question, and we hope the same will
soon be true of the motion to lay on the table.
MJSSISSIPPI.
The Grand Lodge met at Canton, Feb. 3, 1873.
Grand Master Hardy announced the death of Charles T. Bund, Past Deputy
Grand Master, and who attained to the highest official positions in Capitular,Cryptic and
Templar Masonry ; Almon Robbins, Past Grand Tyler, and Joseph O. Lusher,
Past Junior Grand Warden.
He reports a marked improvement in the moral status of Masonry during the
past year, attributable to the rapid recovery from the demoralization produced by
the war, and the rigid enforcement of the salutary regulations adopted by the Grand
Lodge for the suppresion of intemperance, profanity and gambling. He adverted
severely to another common evil, that of carrying concealed weapons, of which,
among other things, he says :
" To say that a Mason may go into a place representing the Sanctum Sanctorum
of King Solomon's Temple, and there, clad in the badge of innocence and purity,
teach, by the most sublimely beautiful and impressive ritual ever devised by human
wisdom, the practice of these virtues, as also those of Benevolence and Charity,
and impress the mind with the importance and necessity of circumscribing the
passions, and keeping them within due bounds with all mankind, while he has
concealed on his person a pair of derringers or repeaters with which he may take
the life of the first man who, in a fit of anger should insult him, is so paradoxical in
moral ethics as to tax to its uttermost the credulity of the wildest latitudinarian."
The Grand Lodge saw it in the same light, and adopted the following Regu-
lation :
"The carrying of concealed weapons, not in necessary self-defence, is hereby
declared to be un Masonic conduct, for which a brother may be subjected to trial,
and reprimanded, suspended or expelled, as the Lodge trying the case may de-
termine.
Of the many decisions made by him, the Grand Master reports five. The first
was rendered in one of the causes celebre of that Jurisdiction, and is argued by
him at considerable length. The case is thus staled :
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" It will be remembered that Bro. S. R. Speight was tried on charges and speci-
fications in Ripley Lodge, No. 47, and suspended. He appealed to the Grand Lodge,
and the judgment of Ripley Lodge was set aside, and a new trial awarded in a
' neighboring Lodge,' which was had in Baldwyn Lodge, and he was acquitted.
From this judgment, Ripley Lodge appealed to the Grand Lodge, but the Grand
Lodge affirmed the judgment of acquittal, saying ' that the trial was in all things
conducted strictly in accordance with the rules prescribed by this Grand Lodge, and
that the action of Baldwyn Lodge. No. 108, was fully justified by the evidence.'
Thereupon a resolution was passed by the Grand Lodge, instructing Ripley Lodge
to place the name of Bro. S. R. SPEIGHT on the roll of members.
" The Worshipful Master of Ripley Lodge, shortly after, addressed me a letter
stating, in substance, that it was claimed by a number of the Brethren that the above
resolution was unconstitutional and void, and subversive of the harmony of the Lodge,
and that Bro. Speight could only regain his membership by petition and election,
and asking an official decision and instructions.
"I decided that the resolution wan strictly constitutional and valid, and instructed
him to have it promptly executed?'
The case having given rise to much controversy, the Grand Master gives the rea-
sons for his decision.
The decision is, on general principles, so manifestly correct, that we are only jus-
tified in devoting to it the space we propose to, on account of the ambiguity, or
worse, of the Constitution of the Grand Lodge of Mississippi. The Grand Master
says:
" There are two sections, namely : 3 and 5 of Art. I. of the Constitution bearing
upon this question. The two sections, upon a casual examination, would seem to
be incompatible, but a careful examination of them will show them to be in perfect
harmony.
" In order to properly construe these two sections, that they may harmonize, it is
necessary to notice the peculiar organism of this Grand Body, which is almost sui
generis, and is very imperfectly understood by the great mass of Masons. It has
within itself all the powers of a Sovereign Legislature, at the same time it may and
does perform the functions of a Court of Judicature, having both original and appel-
late jurisdiction. Exclusive original jurisdiction to arraign and try its own members;
and exclusive appellate jurisdiction to hear and determine all causes brought before
it by appeal from the Subordinate Lodges.
" Now there are two kinds or classes of cases which come before the Grand Lodge
for its action. 1st. Those that come up by appeal horn the judgment of a Subordi-
nate Lodge. 2nd. Those that come before it by memorial or petition.
" These two classes of cases are totally different in their natures, and require dif-
ferent powers of the Grand Lodge to fully meet them, and afford relief or redress.
The one complains of the Judgment of the Subordinate Lodge, on account of its
error, and appeals to the Judicial Authority of the Grand Lodge, sitting as an Ap-
pellate Court to review the same and correct the error. The other makes no com-
plaint against the correctness of the Judgment of the Subordinate Lodge, but simply
assigns some present subsisting reason why it should not longer deprive the individ-
ual of the privileges and benefits of Masonry, and invokes an exercise of its Su-
preme, Sovereign Legislative power to " reverse or abrogate " the Judgment of the
Subordinate Lodge, and restore the petitioner (not the appellant) to the " privileges
and benefits of Masonry." Or more briefly stated, one appeals to the Judicial Au-
thority of the Grand Lodge; the other supplicates an interposition of its Sovereign
Legislative power. In the one case the Grand Lodge sits as a Judicial Tribunal, by
civ Proceedings of the
virtue of the authority acquired under Sect. 3 of Art. 1 ; in the other it sits as a
Legislative Body, with a wise limitation imposed upon its sovereignty by Sect.
5 of Art. 1, to the effect that while it might "reverse or abrogate" the decision
of a Subordinate Lodge, it should not legislate members into a Subordinate
Lodge.
" Any other construction would make these two sections incompatible, would
stulify the Grand Lodge, and the right of appeal becomes a Judicial farce.
" I hold that this construction is not only warranted by the intention of the framers
of that instrument and by its spirit, but also by the words. Sec. 3 says : ' The Grand
Lodge shall have authority to hear appeals, redress grievances, and remove complaints
from subordinate Lodges.'
" This authority is full, clear, and unmistakable. If suspension or expulsion is
the griej>ance (and such is the case nine times in ten), the Grand Lodge has authority
to redress it upon appeal. On the other hand, Sec. 5 says : ' Whenever this Grand
Lodge shall reverse or abrogate the decision of a Subordinate Lodge suspending or
expelling a brother, and shall restore said brother to the benefits and privileges of
Masonry, he shall not thereby be restored to membership,' etc., etc., — a judgment
which the Grand Lodge could not enter in the case of an appeal, because it is im-
possible to restore a man to something he has never lost. Sec. 74, Rules and Regu-
lations says : ' Sentences of suspension take effect from the date of infliction ; '
and Sec. 75 says : ' Sentences of expulsion only become operative as such at the
next Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge, and under the authority and with
the confirmation of that Body.' According to the opposite view of this question,
suspension becomes a higher grade of punishment than expulsion, because the
Subordinate Lodge can suspend, and no power upon earth can restore while it can-
not expel a member without the authority and confirmation of the Grand Lodge.
" There is a great difference between pronouncing a sentence of punishment and
inflicting it. And a Lodge cannot inflict the sentence of suspension, when an ap-
peal has been taken. The appeal operates as a supercedeas, and holds the sentence
in abeyance until the cause is reviewed by the Grand Lodge. And hence a sus-
pended or expelled Mason, who has appealed to the Grand Lodge, is in the attitude
simply of a Mason under charges ; he has never lost his membership, and hence
could not be restored to it.
" This view of the question is not only sustained by the simplest rules of com-
mon sense and justice, but also by the highest Masonic Authority. In the " Old
Charges" the 6th is in these words : ' If any complaint be brought, the brother
found guilty shall stand to the award and determination of the Lodge, who are the
proper and competent judges of all such controversies, unless you carry it by appeal
to the Grand Lodge.'' But I need not go back to the " Old Charges" nor to any
other source than to the printed proceedings of this Grand Lodge for abundant au-
thority to support this view of the question."
He then cites several cases wherein the Grand Lodge had sustained his interpret-
ation of the Constitution, and continues :
" But suppose, for the sake of argument, that the opposite view is correct, and
that section 5 is applicable to all causes that come before the Grand Lodge, by ap-
peal or otherwise, then, in that event, I hold that it is absolutely null and void as
being in direct conflict with an Ancient Landmark in Masonry, viz : the 6th of the
Old Charges before quoted, and Landmark Thirteenth. Mackey, in his Masonic
Jurisprudence, says : ' The right of every Mason to appeal from the decision of his
brethren in Lodge convened to the Grand Lodge or General Assembly of Masons,
is a landmark highly essential to the preservation of justice, and the prevention of
oppression. A few Modern Grand Lodges, in adopting a regulation that the decis-
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ion of Subordinate Lodges in cases of expulsion, cannot wholly be set aside upon
appeal, have violated this unquestioned landmark as well as the principles of just
government.'
" The landmarks of Masonry are irrepealable. ' Like the laws of the Medes and
Persians they can suffer no change. What they were centuries ago they still remain,
and must so continue in force until Masonry itself shall cease to exist."
" I, therefore, consider the question settled, wisely and properly settled, but I
trust this Grand Lodge will pass upon it so as to place it beyond the possibility of
ever disturbing its harmony or that of the Subordinate Lodges again."
The Committee on Masonic Law and Jurisprudence, reporting on this case, says ;
" Having given an opinion before, and now having an opportunity to review that
opinion, your committee has availed itself of the authorities within reach, and the
lights and experience of several of the most enlightened exponents of Masonic
Law and Jurisprudence in the United States, and the result is that the conviction
has been more deeply riveted in the minds of your committee than before, that when
a brother has been indefinitely suspended by his Lodge for un-Masonic conduct, and,
although he may get the judgment set aside, annulled, abridged or reversed, and get
a new trial and finally be acquitted, and even restored to the benefits and privileges
of Masonry by the proper authority, nevertheless he shall not thereby be restored to
membership within the body from which he has been suspeuded, without the con-
sent of the Subordinate Lodge.
" No power on earth can force him back, as a member, on that Lodge. The Grand
Lodge cannot do it. The honored M. W. Grand Master cannot do it, because
the law forbids it ! "
This report coming up for action, Past Grand Master Fearn raised the point of
order : that the Grand Lodge had settled the case at the last Annual Communication
by ordering the brother's name to be enrolled as a member of Ripley Lodge, and it
being now borne on the roll of that Lodge, as a member in good standing, the case
is already settled — -is res adjudicata. The Grand Master presiding (Past Grand Mas-
ter Cothran,) decided the point well taken.
Several resolntions were offered, designed to test the abstract question involved,
but were postponed until next year.
We have so frequently expressed our views on this question that it is now hardly
necessary to say that they accord fully with the law in this Jurisdiction. The stress
laid by the Mississippi Committee on the rights of the particular Lodge, as though
they were somehow involved, impels us to say that we yield to no one in
our jealous regard for the rights of the Lodge as against the tendency of Grand
Lodges to encroach thereon. We would maintain them without the abatement of
one jot or tittle, but among them we do not include the right to do wrong. More
sacred than the independence of the particular Lodge, even, are the rights of the
individual brother, and to see that he is not improperly deprived of those rights, as
well as to see that he is permitted no improper license, is the function and duty of
the Grand Lodge when a case comes up on appeal. If the Grand Lodge cannot do
full justice in such cases, then indeed the formal adjudication of them is a "judicial
farce."
We again quote from the Grand Master :
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" 5. Decided that a Warden cannot accept a retainer to defend a brother under
charges. The two positions, Warden of Lodge and counsel for the accused, are in-
compatible."
We agree with this if he means that he cannot accept a retaining fee, not other-
wise. We know of nothing in the relations of a Warden that should place him on
a different footing in this case than the rest of his brethren, and we not think the
position of counsel either for or against the accused is incompatible with the faithful
discharge of all the duties that devolve upon a member.
Having noticed in a Philadelphia newspaper that hereafter in New Jersey negroes
would be admitted to Lodges on the same footing with white men, the Grand Mas-
ter directed the Grand Secretary to address a letter of inquiry to the Grand Secreta-
ry of New Jersey on the subject. Grand Master Pine, of that jurisdiction replied
that " the Grand Lodge of New Jersey has not specially authorized its Subordinate
Lodges to make Masons of negroes. Any Subordinate Lodge in New Jersey is au-
thorized, in virtue of its power as a Masonic Lodge, to make Masons in accordance
with the Landmarks of the Fraternity." Subsequent correspondence followed, and
the results of his investigations warranted him in saying that there is now in New Jersey
a Subordinate Lodge,working under a charter from the Grand Lodge of that State, which
had made and was continuing to make Masons of negroes. Seeing and admitting that
they cannot be called clandestine while the Grand Lodge under whose charter they
were admitted is recognized as lawful, he finds himself placed in a dilemma by his con-
viction that to recognize them as lawfully made is to admit the dogma of the equality of
the races. Just how this comes about we can't quite make out, as we have not
noticed in the Lodges of our acquaintance, that the widely differing individuals
who constitute their membership are, by the simple fact of being made Masons,
brought to a dead level of mental capacity. But that it does follow seems plain to
our good brother, and he prepares to meet the issue with Roman firmness. He
says :
" This question should be firmly and deliberately met ; and whatever the action
of this Grand Lodge may be, one thing is morally certain, that I shall ever claim
the privilege of selecting my "brothers" and "companions" from amongst the
white race ; and whenever this privilege is abridged or endangered in the least by
any action of this Grand Body, either directly or by implication, I shall quietly
wrap my Masonic working tools in my apron, and throw them amongst the rubbish
of the crumbling Temple, and sternly deny that I am a Free Mason."
Seeing that with the black ball in one hand and the right of peremptory objection
in the other he is amply protected in his privilege of selecting his Masonic associ-
ates, we trust it may be long before the apron he has worn so worthily, and the
working-tools he has used so skilfully, are thrown among the rubbish.
The Grand Lodge thus sensibly disposed of the subject :
" Resolved, That the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Masons in New Jersey
has been found adequate to deal with the question of admitting negroes into mem-
bership with its Subordinates, and that it is the confident expectation of this Grand
Lodge that she will be found adequate to meet the emergency presented by the ac-
tion of Alpha Lodge, No. 1 16, of Newark, New Jersey."
Grand Master Hardy looks upon the Grand Representative system with disfavor
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as tending to establish a kind of Masonic Consular system between Grand Bodies,
repugnant to the freedom and simplicity of the Fraternity.
From the very elaborate report of the Grand Secretary we learn that nine Dispen-
sations for new Lodges were granted during the year, five by order of the Grand
Lodge and four by authority of the Grand Master. Nine charters were granted at this
Communication, and one Dispensation ordered by the Grand Lodge.
On the question of " how far the Grand Master may go in setting aside the final
decision of a Subordinate Lodge," (in case of a trial), the Committee on Masonic
Law and Jurisprudence reported, denying the right, but the Grand Lodge laid the
report on the table by a vote of 151 to 49.
The same Committee reported back a resolution suspending Masonic intercourse
with the Grand Lodge of Canada and its Subordinates, and recommended its adop-
tion : it was re-referred with instructions to report next year.
The Grand Orient of Brazil, Valley of Lavradio, was recognized.
R. P. Bowen, of Chulahoma, was elected Grand Master; J. L. Power, Jackson,
Grand Secretary.
The following was adopted :
" Resolved, That the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Correspondence be
requested hereafter to limit his report within the shortest space consistent with the
interest of the Order."
And one hundred and thirty-one pages are devoted to the publication of the re-
turns of the Constituent Lodges.
The Report on Correspondence (pp. 76) is again from the pen of Bro. A. H.
Barkley. He reviews the Proceedings of forty-three American Grand Lodges,
Chili, and the Grand Orient of Brazil. He quotes with commendation the remarks
of Grand Master Cregier on the subject of dispensations for doing work out of time,
and says of his decision that under certain circumstances the Master has two votes
that it is a subject on which he had never before heard an opinion expressed.
We forgive him for calling us " Rollins." Another reviewer had already robbed
our name of one " b " and we were prepared to see the other follow — as they belong
together. He says of us :
" Bro. Joseph Rollins presented a very interesting report on Foreign Correspond-
ence, covering eighty-eight pages of closely printed matter. In his review of Missis-
sippi he expresses very great surprise at finding the name of Bro. Geo. H. Gray, Sr. ,
voting with the majority on the Amendment Art. V., Sec. I. All we have to say in
response to this is, that Bro. Gray showed his wisdom in the vote which he cast.
It was one of the last acts of his life, and we give it as our opinion that it was oue of
the best.
The majority here alluded to was against the declaration that when the Grand
Lodge abrogates or reverses the decision of a Constituent Lodge, expelling or sus-
pending a brother, he shall thereby be restored to membership within the Body from
which he had been expelled or suspended, without further action on the part of the
Lodge. We then understood this adverse vote to be a denial of the right of the Grand
evil I Proceedings of the
Lodge to say, in an appeal case, that a brother had not been deprived of his mem-
bership, in case the facts before it justified that judgment. If we were mistaken we
shall be happy to make the amende ; if we were not, and the Grand Lodge is pow-
erless, in the face of a decision manifestly wrong, to restore the victim of that wrong
to his status before the decision was made, then we give it as our opinion that how-
ever ornamental may be a Grand Lodge, sitting as an Appelate Court, its utility is
by no means apparent.
Bro. Barkley 's review is, as usual, able, interesting and fraternal. If the vote
which we noticed above, has the effect to restrict him to smaller limits, so much the
worse for our brethren in Mississippi.
MISSOURI.
The Grand Lodge met at St. Louis, October 15th, 1872.
The address of Grand Master Garrett covers over thirty-two pages of closely
printed nonpariel type, but is by no means attenuated in quality on account of its
length. It is a very able paper.
Announcing the death of Past Grand Master, George Whitcomb, he speaks with
well-deserved praise of his character. At his own request, he was buried by the
Grand Lodge, in its lot, in Bellefontaine Cemetery. A memorial page is given him
in the Proceedings.
We would like to re-produce all that the Grand Master says so well under the
head of " Business and Masonry," but must content ourselves with a small part of it :
" As a matter of business, one Mason accommodates another, and without taking
legitimate precaution to protect himself, expects to hold his brother to his word and
bond of faith by private means well known to both. The contract to pay is not ful-
filled, and the money-lender insists on the bond. There is no way of execnting it
but by riding the poor brother to death with the whip of charges and specifications,
and the spur of Masonic obligations. There is neither business nor Masonry in this
usage, yet it is often applied and pursued to the extreme penalty — Masonic death.
Who is more to blame, the prosecuting witness or the victim ? The former has
nothing to substantiate his claim in the courts, and under the laws made and provi-
ded for the adjustment of such business, and he therefore appeals to the Lodge as a
sort of collecting engine, or a private, patent money-press, which he uses to correct
his own mistakes, and possibly to enrich himself. If the flesh-and-blood bond be
satisfied by the payment of a certain amount of money, all is well ; the debtor is a
good Mason ; If not, the helpless bankrupt is cast beyond the pale of the Brotherhood.
The case represented may be an extreme one. It is, nevertheless, given as an illus-
tration of what too often happens in Lodges, and for the purpose of warning Masons
against such gross inconsistencies. Money is the hinge upon which such a trial
turns, and the money consideration decides it. A trial in a Lodge of Masons should
be founded in and conducted upon Masonic principles, and the only case in which
a money consideration can legitimately appear in a Masonic trial is in debts and
dues, taking the attitude of wronging and defrauding the Lodge itself. This has
nothing to da with business. Refusing to pay dues is a violation of a compact which
the Lodge makes with every member, upon which rests many of his privileges as a
Mason, and the very existence of the Lodge itself as an instrument for the accom-
plishment of good. Such cases are especially provided for by our Masonic laws."
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With equal wisdom he speaks of the abuses of the ballot. For the disappointed
office-seeker ; the annoyed by the rejection of a personal friend, or by the acquittal
of an accused brother, who thereupon declare that no more work shall be done in
the Lodge, there is justice, as well as speedy redress for the Lodge in charges of gross
un-Masonic conduct, and his expulsion from the Sanctuary he has so wantonly pro-
faned. But it is from the covert foe that the Lodge suffers most — a serpent in a
dove's nest, he enjoys his revenge in secrecy. To him the Grand Master says :
" Let him keep the secret, and let him resolve henceforth to be a man and a Ma-
son. Let him realize, if he never did before, the essential purity of the thing he has
soiled, and the solemnity of the privileges with which he has been trifling, and he
will not have read these words in vain. He will thereafter use the secret ballot
as contemplated in the design and structure of Freemasonry — the guard of purity,
the key-note of harmony, and the soul of honor. He will feel himself free from the
tyrant of petty spite, and once more a reasonable, responsible, independent man. He
will realize with a keen sensibility the truth in these words :
" "lis pleasant to have a giant's strength,
But tyrannous to use it like a giant. V
Twenty-seven decisions and eight special rulings were reported.. In most cases
the argument, as well as the question and the decision, is given.
We copy a portion of them, concurring with those on which we make no com-
ment ;
" An objection cannot be entertained by the Master after a petition is referred
to a committee and before a ballot is taken. It is also incompetent for the
Master to declare any applicant " rejected " who has been elected by the members
present, on the ground that an absent brother has objections to his admission, but
the objection must be entertained by the Worshipful Master to prevent the confering
of the degree.
" After a petition for initiation and membership is read, and before a committee is
appointed, it is the right of a member to object to the application being entertained.
The petition is not yet the property of the Lodge, and it is useless to encumber its
proceeedings with business which comprises no part of its duty and which cannot
result to its advantage. In such a case it is fair to presume that the candidate would
be rejected, then why not reject the petition while it is in the Lodge's power to do
so ? At this stage of the proceedings the Master should refuse to receive the peti-
tion and order it to be returned to the applicant without any action whatever."
On the subject of the latter of these the Grand Lodge concurred in the following,
from the Committee on Jurisprudence :
" We think the second decision is right, except the latter clause, where the Grand
Master says, ' the Master should refuse to receive the petition and order it to be re-
turned to the applicant, without any action whatever.' We regard this direction as
being in conflict with the rule adopted by the Grand Lodge at its last session, in
reference to such proceedings. The Grand Lodge adopted the rule, that unless the
objector should declare his objection temporary for the purpose of obtaining infor-
mation, the Master should declare the candidate rejected, and at the end of twelve
months he could petition again. Otherwise he would be in a much worse condition
than he would be had he been black-balled. We think every act of the Lodge should
be recorded, and the presentation of the petition and the objection to its reception
are acts as valid as any other acts of the Lodge, and inasmuch as the Grand Lodge
has adopted a rule on that subject, we think it is unwise to change that rule."
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We do not think the rule of the Grand Lodge is correct, as we do not regard the
refusal to receive a petition a rejection any more than we so regard an unfavorable
report of the Committee of Inquiry. For other reasons, however, we disagree with
the Grand Master. The petition having been offered to the Lodge, we think it
should be received or refused by a majority vote. The Lodge might desire to re-
ceive the petition for the express purpose of rejecting the applicant and thus acquir-
ing a jurisdiction over him whose tenure would not be severed by his removal from
its immediate neighborhood ; and as lie has placed himself in its hands it ought to
be allowed to fix his status. This it could not do if the Grand Master permitted no
action on the petition.
We again quote :
" An objection to the advancement of a candidate is removed by the dismission,
expulsion, or suspension of the objector, from the Lodge.
" By the terms of our law every applicant for the mysteries of Masonry is required
to sign his name to his petition. His attested mark which is made competent in
common law, does not answer the Masonic purpose of a signature, and cannot be
recognized as valid on a petition for our mysteries.
" Charges brought regularly and in due form before a Lodge cannot be with-
drawn without a trial, except some palpable error has been committed in regard to
the identity of the accused or the fact of the offense, of which error the Master shall
be the judge, and in such a case the charges may be dismissed by a two-thirds vote.
If the offense be non-payment of dues, only payment of dues disposes of the charges.
" That a Lodge U. D. is competent to try non-affiliates who reside within its juris-
diction, as well as its own members."
This last decision is based on the fact that in Missouri, Lodges U. D. are author-
ized to try their own members, and as these have more Masonic rights at stake than
any non-affiliated Mason can have, the way to his decision seemed plain.
The logical outcome of this kind of argument is finally to clothe a Lodge U. D.
with all the powers of a chartered Lodge, in which case the charter-granting power
which Grand Lodges reserve to themselves alone might as well be dispensed with.
Our own view of the matter is, that under a dispensation the dispensated body
may do just what the written instrument authorizes, and no more ; that a dispensa-
tion does not, as does a charter, call into existence within the Lodge those general
powers and rights which flow from the common law of Masomy, are not named in
the charter, and cannot be lawfully abridged by the Grand Lodge while its charter
remains in force.
We quote :
" A non- affiliated Mason, when he petitions a Lodge for membership becomes
subject to the penal jurisdiction of the Lodge which he has petitioned, without refer-
ence to a removal of his residence. The ballot on his petition may be delayed if
charges intervene ; the trial proceedings and a verdict of suspension or expulsion
finally dispose of the petition, and virtually stand in the place of a ballot for election
or rejection, as provided by law.
" A Master Mason in good standing is entitled to a dimit, upon proper application,
for the purpose of joining another Lodge, either in the State or out of it, the place of
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his residence having nothing to do with his Masonic rights or privileges, or the loca-
tion of his Masonic home."
A needed and much to be commended decision, as is also the following :
" The" minutes of a Lodge are not "adopted; " they are "approved," as a true
record of the proceedings. If they do not furnish a correct statement of the business
of the Lodge, they ought to be revised and made to conform to the facts. Objec-
tions to minutes can only be entertained when they point out errors or omissions in
the record, and the Master should give opportunity for such correction; if none is
suggested, he should announce the minutes approved and order the fact noted. The
minutes must state what the Lodge did, so far as necessary or practicable. If it did
wrong, objecting to the minutes being approved, will not correct the error. The
remedy must be applied in another way."
The following is a right of the limit beyond we may not go in avouchment:
" A., B. and C. meet. A. has sat in Lodge with C, and C. has sat in Lodge with
B. It is competent for C. to introduce Brother A. to Brother B., stating that he
vouches for him as a Master Mason, or a Mason of either of the other grades, in
which he may know him. After such introduction, A. can vouch for B. lor the pur-
pose of visiting, as though he had sat with him in open Lodge. Such a voucher is
equivalent to sitting in Lodge, as required by our law."
During the war many Lodges were compelled to suspend work, and finally for-
feited or surrendered their charters, which, on the return of peace, were, on peti-
tion, restored. Some took the ground that only those who petitioned for the restor-
ation of the charter were members of the Lodge after its revival. The Grand Mas-
ter correctly decided :
" That the restoration of a surrendered charter revives the Lodge in its full mem-
bership ; in other words, its membership consists of all its former members in good
standing not dimitted by the Grand Lodge during the suspension. Under the re-
storation of an arrested charter, all the members are restored save such as may be
excepted by the Grand Lodge."
The following holds the balance justly, " it being presumed, and it ought to be the
fact," as the Grand Master observes, " that no sound or syllable of the business of
the Lodge can be heard by him," in his place, outside of the closed and locked
door:
" The Tyler shall be by his presence in his place, assist in forming a quorum. He
has the privilege of voting on petitions for the degrees or membership, and also at
trials, but upon any of these deliberative or judicial acts, at his request, he shall be
excused by the Master from voting, on the ground that he is not present " during
ing the proceedings,' and his failure to vote on any question shall not vitiate the
RESULT."
The Grand Master having found that the phrase, " Restoration to Masonic rights
and privileges," too indefinite under their various conditions of restoration, made
the following clear decisions, which, it will be observed, accord nearly with the
law in our own jurisdiction :
" First, — When a member is expelled, and appeals to the Grand Lodge lor a new
trial, and the Grand Lodge orders such trial, the member is ipso facto ' restored to
membership' under charges, as he was before the trial took place.
" Second. — When an expelled member appeals to the Grand Lodge on account of
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irregularity in the trial, or that there was no such trial as contemplated by the law,
and the Grand Lodge upon investigation, finds the ground of appeal correct, and
thereupon decides the trial null and void, the Mason is ' restored to membership,'
as though no trial had ever taken place.
" Third. — When an expelled member appeals to the Grand Lodge for a mitigation
of sentence, on the ground of reformation, or too great severity of sentence, or any
other form of appeal for mercy, the Grand Lodge may restore him to " good Masonic
standing,' and a certificate to that effect is issued to him by the Grand Secretary,
upon which he may apply to his old Lodge, or to any other Lodge, for membership,
as in case of non-affiliates.
" Under the plain terms of the law, I have also decided that all reversals by Grand
Lodge of verdicts of suspension restore to rnembership, without such restoration be-
ing actually expressed."
In the following the Grand Master's personal opinion accords with our views on
the same subject as expressed in our review of Maine :
" A Senior Warden, in the absence of the Master and the charter, went through
the forms of opening the Lodge, doing the business and conferring a degree. Was
the work legal ?
" My own personal opinion is that it was. The Lodge was opened by the proper
officer, and did its work by the authority of a charter which did not cease because of
the absence of the instrument itself from the Lodge. It was a chartered Lodge, and
a chartered Lodge can not do illegal work.
" But I found my own opinion had been forestalled in the matter, and reversed.
A Grand Master has decided, and the Grand Lodge has approved the decision, that
the charter must be present in the Lodge to legalize its work. This is safe ground,
there is no doubt about that ; and being safe, is probably the best. I rendered my
decision accordingly.
" Ruled — The acts of the meeting of Masons, without their charter present, null
and void, and ordered the business and work done over again in due form."
Our Missouri brethren have trouble in their trial cases arising from blank ballots
being cast on the question of guilt or innocence, their law requiring a written ticket.
If the practice obtained, as with us, of using the black or white ball, no perplexing
question could arise in determining whether two-thirds had voted for conviction.
The Grand Master strongly recommends the celebration of the solstitial feast
days as in every way beneficial to the Craft. He had granted thirty-two dispensa-
tions for new Lodges, making in all fifty-three Lodges U. D.
Referring to the return of the surplus fund by the Chicago Board of Masonic Re-
lief, he says :
" The incident of the return of such a sum from the Chicago Board of Relief was
a pleasant one, even in Masonic dealings. It passed the bounds of justice into its
own peculiar realm of right. It is an example of rectitude which strengthens man's
confidence in man, and it especially shows the admirable material of which Chicago
Masons are made."
In closing he says ;
" Freemasonry cannot stand still, with its living means of movement, its capacity
to lighten the burdens of life, brighten the dark places of the journey, and help the
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struggling world along. Truth is a beautiful and radient angel, speeding between
the two Eternities, and its works can never stand still."
The Committee on Chartered Lodges say that the Lodges have done a fair amount
of work, and all seem to be in a healthy condition.
Thirty-nine charters were granted, twelve dispensations renewed, two recalled,
three granted, three referred to the Grand Master, and one refused.
The docket of the Committee on Grievance embraces twenty-seven cases, of which
nineteen were appeals.
The Committee thus humorously dispose of a scamp of the first water •
" G. W. Kemp appeals from the verdict of Williamsburg Lodge No. 8, expelling
him, for two reasons, viz : 1st. "He is not guilty." 2d. " The testimony was not
sufficient." The charges were : "Pretending he was drowned"; "deserting his
family," and "trying to defraud a life insurance company out of the insurance upon
his life by pretending to be drowned;" The evidence shows he left his clothes upon
the bank, at the usual place of bathing, and was not seen for four months after. He
had the perfect right to live this amphibious life for four months, and the Lodge had
no business questioning this inalienable right, and probably would not if he had car-
ried it out in good faith ; but that insurance company would not pay — and playing
fish was played out."
" We recommend that the action of the Lodge be confirmed."
In two cases, where it was apparent that money transactions without fraud were
the basis of the charges, convictions were properly set aside. In one of these cases
the Committee say :
" In reviewing this case one of the Committee has for years known the " under
tow" of prejudice existing in this Lodge, and the result is as it always will be when
Masons forget the use of the compasses and mammon usurps the place of charity.
The ' mighty dollar ' is the foundation in this case. If Ceres had eontinued to
smile on Cartwrk;ht these charges would never have been made, but misfortune
darkened his path and sunshine friends, ' like angels' visits,' were ' few and far be-
tween.' "
In a case where a Lodge appealed to the Grand Lodge to sustain its demand
against another Lodge to be reimbursed for expenses attending the burial of a mem-
ber thereof, the Committee give it as their opinion that reimbursement should be
made.
Samuel H. Owens, of California, was elected Grand Master ; Geo. Frank Gou-
LEY, of St. Louis, Grand Secretary.
A proposition that the Grand Lodge assume the payment of two hundred thousand
dollars in bonds, issued by the Masonic Hall Association, was carried, but was after-
ward reconsidered and the whole question referred to the Constituent Lodges.
The Grand Lodges of British Columbia and Utah were recognized.
The Report on Correspondence (pp. 168), by Bro. Geo. Frank Gouley, reviews
the Proceedings of forty-five American Grand Lodges, and epitomizes the New
York Committee's report on sixteen European and South American Grand Bodies.
Illinois receives liberal notice. The address of Grand Master Cregier is char-
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acterized as a clear business document. He quotes approvingly that portion of it
referring to dispensations for new Lodges, and that detailing the Grand Master's
action in the case of Ashton Lodge. His decisions are quoted entire, without com-
ment.
Referring to the report of our Committee on Chartered Lodges, which attributed
some irregularities of younger Lodges to the fact that their Communications were
timed by the moon's changes, and to its recommendation that the Lodges so amend
their By-Laws that their Regular Communications should fall on a day certain, he
says :
" This edict, which rules out the full moon from Masonic By-Laws, is certainly a
very sure way of remedying the evil complained of, yet we doubt the justice of such
a summary way of doing it, for no doubt the great majority of Lodges act faithfully
on this question by holding over the petition for two meetings instead of one, when
the moon fails to come to time. The By-Laws should have been amended by
deciding that all petitions should lie over for thirty days, whether the moon fulls or
not."
Our By-Laws already forbid Lodges from acting on a petition that has not laid
over four weeks.
Quoting our remarks of last year, made under the head of Mississippi, on the
power of the Grand Lodge to do full justice in cases of appeal, Bro. Gouley says :
" This is all very well in the abstract, but he fails to draw the distinction between
suspension and expulsion, and also between reversal of verdict on account of infor-
mal or illegal action by the Lodge, or insufficient testimony to convict. We agree
that the Grand Lodge can restore a suspended Mason to membership — also that it
can set aside the verdict of expulsion and order a new trial, which leaves the party
again a member ; but we do not agree that the Grand Lodge can without cause put
an expelled member back into his Lodge over the unanimous voice of the members.
It may restore him to good Masonic standing only."
We not only agree with our Brother that the Grand Lodge cannot without cause
put an expelled member back into his Lodge over the unanimous voice of the mem-
bers, but that he can't be got back over the voice of one of its members ; and the
practice in this jurisdiction corresponds with this idea. When, with the recom-
mendation of the Lodge that expelled him, the Grand Lodge restores an expelled
Mason to his rights in the Fraternity, it never assumes to restore him to membership
in his Lodge. But when, within the time allowed by the By-Laws, a Mason ap-
peals from a sentence of expulsion, it is the duty of the Grand Lodge to review the
merits of the case as well as the forms of trial. If material informalities are found,
the Grand Lodge will remand the case for a new trial, leaving the party, as Bro.
Gouley says, again a member. But if all the proper forms have been observed,
and the Grand Lodge finds that the sentence of expulsion is disproportionate to the
offence, it may properly reduce it to definite suspension, which would leave the
party again a member after a specified time ; or if the verdict of guilty is, in its
judgment, an unjust one, it can reverse the judgment and restore him to the/w// en-
joyment of the rights, the deprivation of which he was obliged to sutler until his
appeal could be heard. The right of the Grand Lodge to review a case on its merits
is conceded when it is admitted that it may, even though the forms of trial were
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correct, restore to " good Masonic standing." To say that it may do partial and not
complete justice, is a proposition utterly indefensible.
Referring to our remarks last year, under the head of New York, relative to the
recognition of all sorts of so-called Masonic Bodies, he says :
" We had the pleasure in our last report (1871) to commend the address of Grand
Master Anthon, of New York, on this subject, and are right glad now to welcome
Bro. ROBBINS as a fellow laborer in the interest of pure Ancient Craft Masonry. If
there is any institution on the face of God's earth that should shun all " entangling
alliances," it is pure Freemasonry. Here is our JH^°, dear Bro. Robbins, and God
grant that the Grand Lodge of Illinois may never depart from the sound doctrine
you have expressed."
Bro. GOULEY very properly scouts the idea of dues accruing against a Mason
while under suspension; thinks the "prerogative" of threatening a Lodge with
arrest of charter in advance unless it either acquits or condemns a member by trial,
is not given to any Grand Master, and in the discussion of this question " evolves
from his inner consciousness " ideas similar to those we have expressed in our no-
tice of Georgia ; felicitously characterizes as a base fraud the practice of " permit-
ting " newly raised candidates to provide supper for the boys, for which he doubt-
less has better reasons than that he had once lent one money to go to market with
after he had spent $80 for a supper, "for fear the members might think he was a
mean cuss"; is astonished* that in this age of inquiry and intelligence any Grand
Master should so lay himself open to become the laughing-stock of the world as to
claim the prerogative of making Masons at sight, but as we are not Grand Master
we hope to be permitted to cherish the delusion that such a prerogative does inhere
in that functionary without provoking universal cachination; pitches into Grand Sec-
retaries who do not pnt SUB-HEADINGS in their Proceedings with a vigor that would
delight our Deputy Grand Secretary — -who is getting up the statistics for this report
— to see expended on those who do not give numbers and footings ; thinks, as we
do, that there is but one side to the question of admitting the future officers of un-
constituted Lodges to membership in Grand Lodge, simply because charters have
been ordered to issue, and that is the adverse side ; is stumped by the Idaho provis-
ion, that of all the elective officers the Grand Master alone may be elected from the
body of the Craft, the rest being required to be Past Masters, a conundrum which
we also pass ; knows of no ancient law, usage or precedent, which sheds around a
Past Master such a halo of glory as to exempt him from any of the liabilities of a
member of the Lodge unless we introduce a new doctrine, viz : that the birth of a
Past Master is equivalent to immaculate conception ; thinks permission by one Lodge
for another to complete its work does not permit the person on whom the degrees
are conferred to become a member of the Lodge conferring them unless there is a
distinct " waiver of jurisdiction," which, notwithstanding the distinction he would
make, is just what we conceive " permission " to be, while " request " would leave
the candidate a member of the requesting Lodge; calls Alpha Lodge No. 1 16, of
New Jersey, a " Class Lodge," the applicability of which term we think we shall fail
to see until good white men, who possess the qualifications required by the land-
marks are, as a rule, rejected therein ; thinks, as we do, that legislation on the subject
of color is unwise, inexpedient and in violation of the landmarks, and says lots of
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good things that we had marked for quotation or comment, but the space already
devoted to Missouri forbids. Not to allude, however, to his efforts on the Quebec
question, would be like a critique on Hamlet and no mention of the Prince of Den-
mark.
Last year we left him weeping over the prostrate form of Grand Lodge Sover-
eignty, " murdered by the rebellious Masons of the Province of Quebec." Now,
like another Knight of the Rueful Visage, he has mounted his good Rosinante and
rages round the field in search of anybody who has aught to say against the position
occupied by the Grand Lodge of Canada, very much as we may suppose Cervante's
hero would have gone for any one who had dared to step on the trail of the Lady
Dulcinea del Toboso. Evidently feeling most earnestly that the cause of the Grand
Lodge of Canada is the cause of Grand Lodge Sovereignty, he makes a very plucky
contest, probably in the hope that the tide which has set so strongly toward the recog-
nition of Quebec will take a turn the other way. If he cherishes this idea, the fact
that one after another of the Grand Lodges who postponed action on this question
are, after the most searching discussion that any Masonic question has ever received,
wheeling into the line of recognition should undeceive him.
MONTANA.
This elegantly printed pamphlet comes to us adorned with a fine steel engraving
of the Grand Master J. R. Weston. We don't know whether our Montana breth-
ren select their best-looking men for Grand Masters, but the frontispieces of the Pro-
ceedings for the past three years give color to the idea.
The Grand Lodge met at Helena, Oct. 7, 1872.
The address of Grand Master Weston is a brief but excellent paper. During the
year Masonry in Montana had been progressive and prosperous.
Little dissensions had been adjusted, and the Fraternity are united and laboring
zealously to one end. That every Mason should feel and act as if the reputation of
the Fraternity rested on his own head he enforced by this apt illustration:
" Sages of old contended that no sin was ever committed whose consequences
rested on the head of the sinner alone; that no man could do ill and his fellows not suffer.
They illustrate this principle thus : • A vessel sailing from Joppa, carried a passen-
ger, who cut a hole through the side of the ship. When the man on watch expostu-
lated with him, What doest thou, Oh ! miserable man ? the offender calmly replied :
What matters it to you ; is not the hole I have made under my own berth ?' This
parable is worthy of the serious consideration of every Mason. No man suffers alone for
his own folly ; no Mason can compute the injury to the Order resulting from his
immorality and misconduct."
He had granted one Dispensation for a new Lodge.
Having received information that the officers of a Lodge had been installed by a
Virtual Past Master, he very properly declared the installation void and forbade the
officers to enter upon their respective duties until they had been legally installed.
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He had decided that though the Junior Warden should prefer charges against a
brother in his official capacity, he must retire from the Lodge while the vote is tak-
en on the question of guilt or innocence ; also that the Master, if present in the
Lodge-room, has the power to permit brethren to retire from the room, notwithstand-
ing the Craft is at refreshment and under the supervision of the Junior Warden.
The Grand Secretary, Bro. Hosmer, having removed from the Jurisdiction, the
Grand Master designated Past Grand Master Hedges to fill the place until a succes-
sor should be elected.
One charter was granted.
A motion to install the Master of the newly-chartered Lodge and admit him to a
seat and vote in Grand Lodge, was laid on the table.
James R. BoYCE,Sen.,of Helena, was elected Grand Master ; Cornelius Hedges,
Helena, Grand Secretary.
The next place of meeting of the Grand Lodge was finally fixed at Helena. Dur-
ing the long parliamentary struggle over this question, we notice with surprise,
that a motion to adjourn was entertained, and a call for the previous question admit-
ted and sustained.
The following was adopted :
" Resolved, That it is the sense of this Grand Lodge, that if an Entered Appren-
tice or Fellow Craft Mason shall, before being raised to the M. M. degree, leave this
jurisdiction, and, with a view to advancement and affiliation elsewhere, shall apply
to the Lodge iu which he was entered or passed for a certificate of that fact, it shall
be the duty of such Lodge to grant such a certificate, under the seal of the Lodge,
in the nature of a Dimit, attesting the fact that the recipient is an E. A. or F. C, he
being free from all dues, charges and assessments."
The Committee on Jurisprudence while admitting that the decision of the Grand
Master that the accuser in a Masonic trial must retire, even if it be the Junior Warden,
was correct under their law, were convinced that the rule ought not to extend to
the exclusion of that officer when acting the part of an accuser simply as an official
duty, and recommended that the law be so modified as to accord with this view.
The Grand Lodge unanimously concurred, as it did also in the following :
" As to the further decision, that the W. M., if present in Lodge, has the power to
permit brethren to retire, notwithstanding the Craft is at refreshment, and under su-
pervision of the J. W., your Committee conceives that as an abstract proposition
on the powers of the W. M. when present in Lodge ; yet your Committee also feel
compelled to say that it is a power that a wise Master ought rarely, if ever to exer-
cise, as it would tend to disturb unity and harmony of action, and introduce confus-
ion as well as take it out of the power of the J. W. to call the Craft from refresh-
ment to labor, as required by the charge committed to him."
We think the Committee rather unduly magnified the question.
The Report on Correspondence (pp. 53.), by Bro, Hez. L. Hosmer, is a well-
digested review of the Proceedings of 39 American Grand Lodges. Illinois receives
brief complimentary notice.
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Bro. HOSMER has no patience with the romancers who claim antedeluvian an-
tiquity for Masonry, and misses no opportunity to call them to account. He thus
goes for a Grand Orator on the Pacific Slope :
" The Grand Orator commences his oration in the following words :
' Our theme is Masonry, its origin, object and effect.'
" Under the first head he enumerates more absurditities than we ever saw before
condensed in the same compass — even quoting, with apparent approval, the opinion
of Dr. Oliver, that the Great Architect of the Universe was the founder of Masonry,
before his creation of the globe ; that Adam was taught Masonry, and it con-
stituted his chief happiness in Eden, and "became his only consolation, when,
yielding to the seductive sophistry of the Mother of all Masons, he unhappily fell ; "
that Cain and Tubal Cain, Seth, Enoch and Noah were all antediluvian Masons,
and that since the deluge it has been brought down to our time, through the Pagan
mysteries, through Pythagoras, Odin, Numa Pompilius, Theodosius, Prince Edwin,
etc., etc., etc.
" It is time that all this nonsense concerning the origin of our institution should
be abandoned. No sensible man credits it for a moment, and here, in the full blaze of
the nineteenth century, with its arts, inventions, learning and general progress, it is
the extreme of folly to claim for Masonry an origin which, if true, would be dis-
creditable, and if not true, a useless and disgraceful falsehood. What honor can
Masonry derive from a supposed association with the Egyptian mythology, which
inculcated the worship of animals and the doctrine of revenge ; from the myste-
ries of Eleusis, whose history was written in the blood of victims ; from the
religion of Odin, which was the grossest idol worship ? "
The Grand Historian, Cornelius Hedges, delivered an address on the early his-
tory of Masonry in the Territory. Without seeming to know it, Bro. Hedges has a
realistic style peculiarly adapted to the relation of personal reminiscences, and the
story of his early experiences among the rough characters of the frontier, is intense-
ly interesting. The address confirms what a former Grand Historian of Montana,
who was at the same time U. S. District Judge in the Territory, once told us :
That society in Montana would never know the debt it owed to Masonay ; that
at a time when each man distrusted his neighbor, the confidence of Masons in
each other made a union of good men against the criminal classes possible.
NEBRASKA.
The Grand Lodge met at Lincoln, June 18, 1872.
The well prepared address of Grand Master Hill shows that he had not been
idle. The past Masonic year, he says, has been a prosperous one, the Lodges
working in peace and harmony, and generally rapidly increasing in numbers and
strength. One or two Lodges, located in once prosperous but now declining towns,
he thinks might better surrender their charters.
He had granted six dispensations for new Lodges, and renewed one. Several pe-
titions had been refused, the Grand Master not being satisfied that Lodges were
actually needed in the localities asking them, and being convinced that Masonry is
impaired by the establishment of Lodges in sections of the country thinly settled.
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He had refused many and granted few dispensations for conferring degrees out of
the usual time. We are only surprised that he should have granted any, as he holds
it is bad in principle and worse in practice. He thinks if a tee of ten dollars were
exacted for such dispensations, the applications would be confined to cases of actual
necessity. The Grand Lodge adopted the ten dollar rule.
Twelve decisions were considered of sufficient importance to be reported. No. i
is as follows :
" There being no By-Laws to the contrary, an objection to advancement, made
manifest by the ballot, is only good until the next regular communication, but an ob-
jection made to the W. M., or to the Lodge, holds good until removed."
To which the Committee on Jurisprudence, the Grand Lodge concurring, added:
" Which shall be considered as being removed at the expiration of six months after
date of objection, at which time the applicant may renew his application if he de-
sires, and the W. M. shall order a ballot upon the same."
He decided that no one can preside as Master of a chartered Lodge without hav-
ing first received the Past Master's degree, conferred in a convocation of actual Past
Masters, consisting of not less than three, and that one who is only a Chapter Past
Master cannot be present at such convocation.
In response to the Michigan circular relative to clandestines in that jurisdiction,
the following was adopted :
" Resolved, That the Grand Master of this Grand Jurisdiction be requested to no-
tify all lodges working under this jurisdiction, to refuse examination and admission
to all persons claiming to be Masons and hailing from Lodges within the Grand
Jurisdiction of Michigan, unless they are provided with a certificate from the Grand
Secretary of that Grand Jurisdiction, James Fenton, dated since March 15th, A. L.
5872."
Bro. R. W. Furnas, Chairman of the Committee on Correspondence, submitted
a brief report, acknowledging the receipt of the Proceedings of thirty Grand
Lodges, among them Illinois. The report seems to indicate that a detailed review
had been prepared, but it does not appear in the Proceedings. The report closes
thus :
" The Committee, or rather the Chairman, owes at least an explanation for the
non-appearance of the report of last year, with the printed proceedings, as has been
the custom. After its preparation, and the execution of seemingly more needed
printing, the Grand Lodge finances were so nearly consumed as to warrant the sus-
pension of their publication in print. This is a matter for consideration even this
year. The detailed report of the Committee on Foreign Correspondence, and its
publication with the Proceedings, has become a "fixed institution," as it were, with
the Order, and is really the only means by which the various jurisdictions are kept
officially posted. It is important, therefore, that the custom be continued in this
jurisdiction."
The Grand Lodge of Utah was recognized.
Four charters were granted, two dispensations continued, one withdrawn, and one
petition for dispensation referred to the Grand Master.
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William E. Hill, of Nebraska City, was re-elected Grand Master; William
R. Bowen, Omaha, Grand Secretary.
At the public installation of the Grand officers, Bro. N. K. GRIGGS, Grand Orator,
delivered an elegant oration, containing much that is excellent, and some specula-
tions as to the origin of Masonry that our Bro. Hosmer, of Montana, would be jus-
tified in calling " buncombe."
The Grand Lodge severely reprehended any attempt on the part of Lodges or
members of Lodges to give the aid of Masonry in organized or individual form to
any lottery or gift enterprise, and declared the purchase, sale or drawing of lottery
tickets un-Masonic and deserving of reproof and discipline ; also, that the sale of in-
toxicating liquors as a beverage, is a gross violation of Masonic obligation, and
should in all cases subject the offender to reprimand, and if persisted in, to expulsion
from the Fraternity.
A member of Noblesville Lodge, Indiana, died in Nebraska and was buried by
Lincoln Lodge, of that State.
Lincoln Lodge asked Noblesville Lodge to reimburse it for the expense of burial,
which the latter declined to do, saying that it was the custom in that Grand Jurisdic-
tion to pay all expenses that may arise in looking after transient Brethren. The cor-
respondence was submitted to the Committee on Jurisprudence of the Grand Lodge
of Nebraska, who reported that in their opinion Noblesville Lodge ought to pay the
bill ; that though it might be the custom in Indiana to pay the expenses of transient
brethren under such circumstances, yet said Lodge cannot, in equity, avoid the lia-
bility and duty of paying these expenses, and ought not to attempt to avoid it by
parading their liberality on such occasions, giving as one reason for this opinion, that
the deceased was a member of Noblesville Lodge, in good standing, and paid dues
thereto.
They recommended the following, in which the Grand Lodge concurred :
" Resolved, That the Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Nebraska be and he
is hereby instructed to ask, through the Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of In-
diana, that Noblesville Lodge No. 57 pay Lincoln Lodge No. 19 the amount ex-
pended by said Lincoln Lodge in the funeral expenses of deceased Bro. J. Great-
house."
We cannot but look with concern upon the growing tendency of which the above
is an illustration, to convert a great charitable Fraternity into a mere mutual benefit
association, with a regular system of debit and credit between its local branches.
The Grand Lodge concurred in the following :
" The Committee on Masonic Jurisprudence, to whom was referred the following
questions, viz :
" First. Is the God of the Mason the God of the Bible ? and is the denying of the
God of the Bible a Masonic offence ?
" Second. Is the denying the authenticity of the Bible a Masonic offence ?
" In answer to the first query, they are of the opinion that the denial of the exist-
ence of God, as set forth in the Holy Bible, is a Masonic offence ; and in answer to
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the second query they are also of the opinion that the denial of the divine authority
and authenticity of the Holy Bible is a Masonic offence."
This is treading on dangerous ground. There is no safety when we begin to
meddle with purely speculative questions. The first of the ancient charges is not
only broad enough for all to stand on who believe in God, but it properly fixes the
bounds beyond which no Masonic body has a right to go. Whether an individual
brother finds the Hebrew conception of God an adequate one for him, or whether
he accepts the Bible as plenarily inspired or otherwise, are interrogations not war-
ranted by the fundamental law of Masonry.
The Grand Lodge provided for two schools of instruction in different portions of
the State, requiring each Lodge to send, at irs own expense, one representative to
acquire the standard work.
The gratifying announcement was made that the Orphan School Fund had reached
the maximum originally contemplated, and the fifty cent tax for that purpose was
abolished.
Nebraska City was fixed upon as the next place of meeting.
We would suggest to the Grand Secretary — and we make the suggestion with fear
and trembling lest they appear somewhere in the volume and have been overlooked
by us — that the postoffice address of the Grand Master and Grand Secretary should
be given. We were obliged to hunt them up in the returns of their Lodges.
NEVADA.
The Grand Lodge met at Virginia, September 17, 1872.
The address of Grand Master Robinson is mainly devoted to matters of general
interest, the record of his official acts being brief. One conclusion from his outlook
is that Masons are everywhere learning that they must be good men and true, and
conform their lives to the moral standard which Masonry demands, or else be held
accountable to the offended law.
He recommended action against the Grand Lodge of Hamburg for its invasion of
New Jersey, but it appeared that Nevada had declared non-intercourse with that
body in 1865.
Turning his attention to some questions of Masonic polity which are just now be-
ing widely discussed, he says of the so-called " side degrees : "
" They have not the sanction of any Masonic authority, and yet their very name
imports that they claim a connection with our Fraternity. By those who are using
them, it is urged that they do no harm, and that therefore the governing Masonic
bodies should not interfere to prevent their use and dissemination. The trouble is
that they put on the garb of Masonry, and are therefore calculated to deceive the
unwary into the belief that they are a part of Masonry. They are practiced in Lod^e
rooms, by Masons, and in so far as they are thus made to assume the guise of Ma-
sonry, they do harm. Particularly is this the case with what are denominated an-
drogynous degrees. Instances have occurred where ladies who had received those
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degrees, and who were thereby led to believe that they had attained to some part of
the mysteries of Masonry, have been placed in very unpleasant predicaments when
applying for relief to persons known to be Masons, but who, not being in possession
of these androgynous rites, have deemed their possessors as impostors, when they
were every way worthy of aid, and when, if they had simply presented themselves
and shown the relation existing between themselves and Masons, their wants and
necessities would have been promptly attended to. To them, then, the supposed
possession of Masonic secrets which, in their opinion, ought to prove as passports to
Masonic sympathy, was indeed a delusion and a snare. Masonry, sublime in its
character and teachings, needs no such adventurous aids. To attempt its improve-
ment in such a direction is as useless as ' to gild refined gold, or paint the lily.' "
With which we fully agree.
He thinks it worthy of inquiry whether the provision of their Constitution, that "a
member of a Lodge in good standing, and whose dues are paid, may withdraw there-
from at any time by giving notice of his intention to do so at a stated communica-
tion," is not an innovation upon the old law, quoting Anderson, Mackey and
Mitchell in support of his view. He doubts whether we can consistently consider
non-affiliation the offense we claim it to be, if we permit a member to dimit at will
without requiring from him any assurance that he does not do so with the intention
of remaining unaffiliated.
We are sometimes led to question, and never more so than when we find some
new Peter the Hermit preaching a crusade against non-affiliates, whether a hurricane
of adversity, such as Masonry encountered forty years ago, would not be a blessing
in disguise.
When Masonry was under the ban of public opinion, non-affiliation was not a
Masonic crime.
In 1830, when Stephen Van Rensallear, Grand Master of Ne.w York, so far
succumbed to the pressure of the anti Masonic excitement as to decline a re-elec-
tion, the Grand Lodge selected as his successor, in that perilous emergency, Mor-
gan Lewis, late a Major-General in the armies of the United States, ex-Governor
and Chief Justice, President of the societies of Cincinnati and St.. David, as his suc-
cessor. When the Committee of the Grand Lodge visited the venerable patriot —
then nearly seventy-five years of age — in his retirement, and informed him of his
election, he cheerfully accepted the responsibility, and threw the weight of his -name
and influence in favor of the fraternity. A grateful Craft re-elected him again and
again, and he continued to fill the office until his death, in 1844, when five thousand
Masons threw the evergreen sprigs into his grave. Yet Morgan Lewis was an
unaffiliated Mason, and remained so until 1842, when, in the eighty-seventh year of
his age he affiliated with St. John's Lodge, No. 1, New York City. Thus, in those
dark days which tried the souls of Masons, a non -affiliated Mason could be Grand
Master.
But the halcyon days of prosperity came again ; the Fraternity became popular
and waxed strong ; and the spirit of intolerance of non-affiliation waxed with it.
This spirit has received a great impetus from the reflected influence of other socie-
ties ; societies having a regular system of fixed benefits, many of whose members,
attracted by its popularity, have come into the Fraternity, and brought with them
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notions and methods totally at variance with the fundamental ideas on which it is
based.
The result is, that to-day we find Grand Masters thundering their anathemas
against all whose choice leads them non-affiliation, and invoking, as in the case of
one whose address we noticed last year, the penalty of " Masonic death " upon all
so offending. We are satisfied that Grand Lodges might profitably do a good deal
of quiet, serious thinking before they proceed further in this direction.
Grand Master Robinson refers to the mooted "right of visitation," and holds
that it may be abridged by the unexplained objection of a sitting member. He holds
that a Master elect can only be qualified for the chair in and by a convocation of
Past Masters, numbering not less than three, and that only actual Past Masters can
be present ; and announced that he should not feel it to be an interference with any
prerogative of the Grand Master to have the Grand Lodge adopt a rule declaring the
right of appeal from the Grand Master's decision, made while presiding at Grand
Lodge. The Grand Lodge took him at his word. In Illinois it is considered well
settled that no appeal lies from the decision of the Grand Master presiding.
The Grand Master reports that general harmony and prosperity characterize the
progress of the Craft throughout the jurisdiction.
He had issued three dispensations for new Lodges, and one to re-ballot on the
petition of a rejected candidate, an act to which he was opposed on principle, but
the case appealed very strongly to his sympathy.
He had not been called upon during the year to decide any important questions
of law or usage, and he looks hopefully for the time in the near future when very
few will need to be reported. We fear the hope will prove delusive.
The Report on Correspondence (117 pp.) is, as usual, from the hand of Bro.
Robt. H. Taylor, reviewing the Proceedings of forty-three American Grand Lodges.
No more interesting reports come to our table than Bro. Taylor's, and this has all
the ability and freshness of its predecessors. Illinois is included in his review. He
figures up the total number of Grand Officers and Representatives present at our
Communication of 187 1, as 723, " or a few more than we are accustomed to meet in
Grand Lodge.
He favors one ballot for the three degrees, and copies our remarks on that sub-
ject. Of the claim of non-affiliates to Masonic burial, disagreeing with Bro. Knott,
of Alabama, he says :
" As to the mere sepulture of a deceased non-affiliated Mason, who wilfully re-
mained non-affiliated, we think that in case his family or relatives are unable to give
him decent burial by reason of poverty, individual Masons (but not Lodges) are in
duty bound to give him respectable interment ; but that no obligation rests upon any
Lodge to perform the funeral ceremonies of the ( raft over one who, while he lived,
disregarded his obligation in respect to Lodge membership."
We are not prepared to assent to this. It may not be " nominated in the bond "
that a Lodge shall bury an unaffiliated Mason, But Bro. Taylor has, unwittingly,
perhaps, hit upon a distinction which should not be lost sight of, when he speaks of
the funeral " ceremonies of Craft." They are the ceremonies of the Craft, and not
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simply the ceremonies of the Lodge ; and if, as the universal usage of the Craft
would indicate, the obligation somewhere rests to give a brother requesting it Ma-
sonic burial, no brother is released from it by the simple fact of joining a Lodge.
If Masonic burial is a right at all, it is one that is general in its nature. As no
brother, be he a member of a Lodge or not, can lift from his conscience the obliga-
tions which he owes to the Fraternity, so neither can the Fraternity, save by judicial
process, release itself from those correlative duties and obligations towards him ;
duties and obligations which would not be affected in the least if every permanent
Lodge were to-day swept out of existence. We suggest to our brethren who hold
that non-affiliates have no rights that we are bound to respect, to reflect whether the
convenient and almost indispensable practice of dispensing charity through the in-
strumentality of the Lodge, has not led us into a one sided view of all these charita-
ble questions, and tended to make us forget that the obligations of charity rest on us,
and not a corporate, but incorporeal something which we call a Lodge.
Bro. Taylor hopes to see the time when the Report on Correspondence shall, in
every jurisdiction, appear " in the body of the Proceedings," where it belongs, and
not in an appendix, but we don't see how it can be managed if the report is printed
in advance, as it should be, and an edition is struck off sufficient to bind up with the
proceedings, as economy requires.
He thinks that to interdict the sale, by Masons, of intoxicating liquors as a bev-
erage in jurisdictions where the law of the land permits such sale, would be going
too far, but that a Mason who keeps a " doggery," or one who knowingly sells to
those who drink in excess, should be admonished, and, if necessary, expelled, which
leads us to inquire if in case the " social evil " were licensed in Virginia City as in
St. Louis, he would think it going too far for the Grand Lodge of Nevada to declare
it a Masonic offense to keep a house of ill-fame ?
We quote the following from his notice of California :
" Under Nova Scotia, Bro. Hill says :
" We notice that a certain brother, Thomas Webster living in ' Pugwash,' received
a diploma from the Grand Lodge. We should suppose that brothers living in a place
of that euphonious name ought to receive something as compensation !
" Look at home ! What do you give your brothers that live in such places as
Jackass Gulch, Old Hat Hollow, Poker Flat, Whisky Diggings, Hog Canon, You
Bet, Hell's Half Acre, and Yuba Dam? "
Alluding to the general character of Grand Secretaries for ability, he tells the fol-
lowing :
" While the genial Hopkins was Grand Master here, he made a business trip to a
mountain town in California, and there visited a Lodge. Being, of course, a Past
Master, seated by the side of the Master of the Lodge, the latter, during a lull in the
business of the Lodge, fell into conversation, and asked Bro. Hopkins if he knew
Bro. Abell [Grand Secretary of California]. Bro. H. said he did, and thereupon
proceeded to pay some well-deserved compliment to the ability of Bro. Abell as a
Grand Secretary. ' Yes, indeed,' said the ^.-.Master, 'I tell you it takes a mighty
smart man to be a good Grand Secretary, but any d d fool can be a Grand Mas-
ter ! ' Brother Hopkins heartily responded, ' that's so ! ' but he did not disclose his
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official capacity to that Worshipful Master, who never knew what a ' palpable hit '
he might have made, if Bro. Hopkins had only been ' that kind of a man.' "
Bro. Taylor thinks the loss of an eye, the other being good, should debar a can-
didate from initiation, wherein we differ ; copies, with approval, the strictures of
Bro. Hough, of New Jersey, on the action of Grand Master Reynolds, in setting
aside a ballot, and in conclusion sends to his confreres in this department of Masonic
labor, and to all true Craftsmen, a greeting and a benison, which we heartily recip-
rocate.
The valuable Digest of Decisions appended to his report, covers nearly nineteen
closely printed pages.
Action was had on the Report on Landmarks, [see p. Ixiii., App. III. Proc., 1872) :
" Whereupon, Nos. I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XV, XVII,
XVIII, XIX, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI, XXVIII, XXIX, XXX, XXXI,
XXXII, XXXIV, XXXV, XXXVII, XXXIX, XL, XLI, XLII, XLIII, XLIV,
and LI, were approved as reported.
" The following numbers were amended so as to read as follows :
" XIII. No one can be made a Mason except in a lawful Lodge, duly convened,
after petition, and acceptance by unanimous ballot.
" XXIII. The Master and Wardens of every warranted Lodge must be chosen
annually by its members.
" XXXVIII. All Masons, as such, are peers.
"Numbers XIV, XVI, XX, XXI, XXII, XXVII, XXXVI, XLV, XLVI,
XLVII, XLVIII, XLIX, and L were rejected.
We are glad to see that among other amendments to the Constitution, adopted by
unanimous consent, is one striking out the word " Order " wherever it occurs, and
inserting in lieu thereof the word " Fraternity."
A resolution recognizing the Grand Lodge of British Columbia was adopted ; a
similar one referring to the Grand Lodge of Utah, was referred to a Committee to
report at the next Annual Communication.
One charter was granted, one dispensation continued and one arrested.
In 1871 a case of alleged violation of jurisdiction came before the Grand Lodge
of Nevada, on which the Committee on Jurisprudence reported as follows :
" That as it is a well established Masonic principle, and one always maintained
by this Grand Lodge, that each Grand Lodge has sole and exclusive Masonic juris-
diction within its own Masonic territory, and it appearing from the evidence before
the committee that said Craig was made a Mason within the jurisdiction of the
Grand Lodge of Canada, in utter disregard of said principle, we therefore recom-
mend the passage of the following resolution :
" Resolved, That the action of the Grand Secretary, in communicating with the
Grand Lodge of Canada in relation to this matter, be approved, and that the petition
of James R. Craig for membership be not entertained by any subordinate Lodge in
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this jurisdiction until a satisfactory explanation and apology by the Grand Lodge of
Canada for said infraction of the jurisdictional rights of this Grand Lodge is made."
The resolution was adopted.
Shortly before the Annual Communication, whose proceedings are now under re-
view, the Grand Secretary received a letter from Grand Secretary Harris, of Canada,
closing as follows :
" Before concluding I may be pardoned if I direct your attention to the fact that
at page 331 of your own proceedings for 1871, appears a resolution having reference
to Canada so utterly uncalled for, and at the same time at variance with the princi-
ples of Freemasonry and that Masonic comity which should exist between Supreme
Governing Bodies, and moreover is considered so offensive by Grand Lodge as to
preclude further interchange of courtesies until such time as the same shall have
been repealed."
This was referred to the Committee on Jurisprudence, who say that whatever may
be thought of the propriety of passing the resolution, which they admit was stronger
than the occasion required, self respect forbids its repeal or modification until the
letter of Grand Secretary Harris be withdrawn. They reported, and the Grand
Lodge adopted the following :
"Resolved, That until such time as the letter of R.-. W.-. Bro. Harris, Grand
Secretary of Grand Lodge of Canada, be withdrawn, or if the Grand Lodge of Can-
ada has taken such action as warrants such letter on the part of its Grand Secretary,
such action shall be rescinded, that all friendly intercourse between the two juris-
dictions shall cease.
" Resolved, That the Grand Master recall the commission issued to Bro. Thomas
White, as Grand Representative of this Grand Lodge near the Grand Lodge of
Canada.
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" Resolved, That the Grand Secretary forward a certified copy of this report and
resolutions to the Grand Lodge of Canada, with the request that the subject matter
be amicably discussed, with a view to a speedy settlement of the difficulty."
William A. M. Van Bokkelen, of Virginia, was elected Grand Master; Robert
H. Taylor, of Virginia City, Grand Secretary.
Bro. Daniel Mason Goodwin, Grand Orator, compressed the matter of a really
excellent oration into two pages.
A memorial page is set apart for Samuel S. Eaton, Grand Bible Bearer, who
died during the year.
NEW BRUNSWICK.
A Special Communication of the Grand Lodge was held at St. John, Feb. 27,
1872, when an Address of Congratulation to the Prince of Wales on his recov-
ery from his serious illness, was adopted.
The Annual Communication was held at St. John, Sept. 25, 1872.
Surely the Grand Lodge of New Brunswick should find abundant cause for
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congratulation in the following, from the opening of Grand Master Wedderhurn's
address :
" Erected in peace and according to the honored landmarks of our Ancient Insti-
tution,— recognized and warmly welcomed into the communion and fellowship of
all Grand Lodges throughout the World, — -rightly impelled by the beneficent pur-
poses of our great Brotherhood, and by the generous ' emulation of who shall
best work and best agree,' this Grand Lodge has achieved the affectionate allegi-
ance of all Masons in New Brunswick, and stands firmly based upon the found-
ation of Masonic perpetuity. Throughout the entire year from the Altar of eve-
ry Lodge, have proceeded only the sounds of harmony ; not a discord appears
to have disturbed the gentle current of our fellowship, and many have sought
the acquisition of our Mysteries. While moral and numerical strength has been
added, the Grand Lodge and its dependant Bodies have, with probably but few
exceptions, attained a sound financial foundation, and are seeking in the erection
of Public Buildings, the adornment of their Halls and Lodge Rooms, and by
other proper means, to enhance the comfort and prosperity of the Craft. All
the while, moreover, the Craft has practically remembered that peculiar and es-
sential element of true Masonry, Charity ; and, realizing and appreciating the
blessedness of giving, has remembered the widow and the orphan : not with
ostentation, not grudgingly, but with Masonic sincerity and simplicity."
The Grand Master submitted an appreciative response from the Prince of Wales,
to the congratulatory address adopted at the Special Communication.
He also submitted the letter of the Earl of- Rosslyn, Grand Master of Scot-
land, apprising him of the recognition by his Grand Lodge of the Grand Lodge of
New Brunswick.
Applications for authority to confer the degress "at short intervals" had been
refused except where the candidates were mariners about to sail on long voyages,
or persons about to leave the jurisdiction for permanent residence elsewhere.
Complaint to the Grand Master of Nova Scotia of violation of jurisdiction by a
Lodge in that Province, which had made Masons of citizens of New Brunswick,
was met by a hearty expression of regret and assurances that the practice should
cease.
Saint Andrews Lodge formerly hailing from the Grand Lodge of Scotland had, as
before intimated, surrendered its charter to that Body and received one from the
Grand Lodge of New Brunswick.
He submitted letters from the Grand Lodges of British Columbia and Utah, and
the Grand Orient of Brazil, Valley of Lavradio, asking recognition, which were re-
ferred to a Committee. The Committee did not report.
He had decided that a dispensation would not issue for the burial of an unaffili-
ated Mason, and notwithstanding his decision of the previous year, had been obliged
again to decide that a candidate who had lost a foot was ineligible.
The following remarks apply as well to our own jurisdiction as to New Brunswick :
" It has been quite customary fo>- Lodges to insert in their By-Laws, sections
disqualifying brethren from the enjoyment of certain Masonic rights for non-pay-
ment of dues. Pending the opinion of Grand Lodge I have disallowed such By-
Laws, mainly for two reasons : First, hecause I hold that so long as a member
is allowed to enjoy his membership and is retained on the roll as in good stand-
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ing in the Craft, and is under no charge for neglect to pay his dues, he cannot be
suddenly deprived of the rights attaching to such standing in the Lodge; and sec-
ondly, a member who is alleged to be in arrear to his Lodge for his dues,
is entitled to the same notice, trial and adjudication of his brethren as a mem-
ber who has in any other respect failed to perform his duty to the Craft, whether the de-
linquency be created by the provision of the Constitution or under the operation of a
By-Law of the Lodge ; — and has, over this, a right of appeal to Grand Lodge. But
the proposed By-Law would sweep away these inalienable Masonic rights, or per-
mit him to pursue them after the disability or punishment has been endured, and
when errors in fact or form have become irremediable."
He had issued one dispensation for a new Lodge.
The Board of General Purposes reported the purchase of ground in St. John for
a Masonic Temple, and our New Brunswick brethren will soon be in the enjoyment of
all the vexations incident to such enterprises.
Bro. Robert Gowan, Past Provincial Grand Master under the Grand Lodge of
Scotland, was constituted a permanent member of the Grand Lodge and endowed
with the rank of Past Grand Master.
One charter was granted.
John V. Ellis, of Carleton, was elected Grand Master ; Wm. F. Bunting, St.
John, appointed Grand Secretary.
A resolution recognizing the Grand Lodge of Quebec was postponed for the
session.
The invasion of the territory of New Jersey by the Grand Lodge of Hamburg,
was condemned as a gross and unwarranted breach of universally recognized Mason-
ic law, and the brethren cautioned against visiting Lodge " Beton Zum Licht No.
3," of Hoboken, N. J., and warned against receiving as visitors any members from
that Lodge.
No report on Correspondence.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
At the Semi- Annual Communication held at Manchester, Dec. 27, 1871, the
Committee on Work and Lectures reported what they unanimously believed to be
the old work restored, and it was adopted.
The Annual Communication was held at Concord, May 15, 1872.
The address of Grand Master Holbrook is a very brief and plain statement of
his official acts.
Among the Grand Representatives whose appointment he reported, was one near
the Grand Orient of Brazil, Valley of Lavradio.
He had granted seven dispensations for conferring the degrees without the con-
stitutional delay.
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The reports of the District Deputies are full and indicate a generally healthy con-
dition of the constituent Lodges.
Nathaniel W. Cumner, of Manchester, was elected Grand Master; Abel
Hutchins, Concord, Grand Secretary.
The number of Masonic Districts was, on the recommendation of the Grand Mas-
ter, reduced from ten to five.
The Committee on Trials and Appeals review the proceedings of ten trials with
the ability, but not in the exhaustive style of the Cromwell Kimball case which
we noticed last year.
In one case where the accused was expelled for drunkenness, the specification
charging him with being intoxicated on a certain day, the Committee say :
" The inference is very strong that the defence really was, that although the ac-
cused had been often intoxicated, he was not so on the particular day named in the
specifications, or at the particular hour stated by some of the witnesses.
" To avoid misapprehension in other trials, we hold that Freemasonry cannot be
subjected to a reproach to which even the courts of law, hampered with refined dis-
tinctions-— the growth of a thousand years — are free.1 (.Time, except when special
circumstances make it so, is never the essence of an offense, nor required to be proved
precisely as alleged. Neither has the rule been changed by the introduction of "spec-
ifications " into Masonry. It is immaterial whether the offence took place on the
morning or evening of the day, or upon the particular day specified."
Of the right of appeal the Committee say :
" Few things are clearer than that every Mason has a right to appeal to the Grand
Lodge, for any gievance which he alleges himself to have suffered at the hands of the
Blue Lodge. No Grand Lodge has the power to destroy this right. Our present
Grand Constitution recognizes it in explicit terms, and only provides that the party
who feels aggrieved shall make his appeal within reasonable time, and give due no-
tice to the other party."
The Committee on Foreign Correspondence, to whom was referred the Louisiana
circular, reported, and the Grand Lodge adopted the following :
" Resolved, That all Masonic intercourse between this Grand Lodge, and Lodges
and Masons under her allegiance, and the Grand Orient of France and Lodges
under her allegiance, be strictly prohibited until such time as that Grand Orient
shall recognize and respect the exclusive jurisdiction of the Grand Lodges of this
country.
We regret very much to miss the usual report of Bro. Bell, on Correspondence.
We infer from the proceedings that he had prepared it, but it is not published. His
reports are always such as we cannot afford to lose.
NEW JERSEY.
The Grand Lodge met at Trenton, January 22, 1873.
In the list of those present we find the name of our Grand Representative, Bro.
Thomas J. Corson.
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The address of Grand Master Pine is a model of clearness. He thus alludes to
the fraternal dead :
•• The changeful seasons in quick succession have come and gone since our last
annual gathering, and the Reaper's scythe has not Left the ranks of our Brotherhood
unbroken. M. W. Bro. William S. Bowen, P. G. M., and W. Bros. James Nick-
LiN and ROBERT F. Rich, have been called to their eternal home —
"Beyond the sowing and the reaping."
A memorial page is inscribed to Bro. Bowen.
But little had transpired of such interest to the Craft as to require the attention of
the Grand Lodge.
The Grand Master regrets to report an increased number of applications for dis-
pensations to confer the degress in less than the constitutional time. Nine such had
been granted. One dispensation for a new Lodge had been issued and two re-
fused.
Fourteen of his decisions he had referred to the Committee on Jurisprudence for
consideration. We copy the first eight, which we presume to have been called out
by questions in connection with Alpha Lodge :
" I. Every regularly warranted Lodge is a regular Lodge until its Warrant is annul-
led by the Grand Lodge. The Grand Master has no power to destroy a Lodge.
He can only suspend its oporations until the meeting of the Grand Lodge.
" 2. A Lodge which has received its Warrant from the Grand Lodge must be
considered a regular Lodge until the Grand Lodge has annulled its Warrant. The
officers of a subordinate Lodge whose Warrant has been withdrawn by the Grand
Master, are entitled to voice and vote until such action is taken by the Grand Lodge.
The confirmation of the act of withdrawal by the Grand Master does not affect the
status of the officers of a subordinate Lodge in the Grand Lodge.
" 3. Every resolution of the Grand Lodge which appears upon its Journal to have
been regularly passed, is binding upon its members until it has been revoked by that
body.
" 4. If the Warrant of a Lodge is withdrawn by the Grand Master, and returned
by the Grand Lodge, the officers of the Lodge at the time of the withdrawal of the
Warrant will continue to act as such until their successors are elected and installed,
as provided by the General Regulations of the Grand Lodge, unless they are author-
ized by dispensation from the G. M. to hold an election.
" 5. All persons made Masons under the authority of a Warrant issued by the
Grand Lodge of New Jersey, are legally made Masons.
" 6. The Warrant of a Lodge, if arrested by the G. M., can be restored by him,
or by the Grand Lodge at the first Annual Communication succeeding the arrest :
and the Warrant can only be returned to the brethren from whom it was taken : it
being a well settled principle that no Grand Lodge has the power to change the offi-
cers of a duly constituted Lodge who have been regularly installed.
" 7. The W. M. and P. M.'s of a Lodge whose Warrant has been suspended by
the Grand Master, are not deprived of their membership in the Grand Lodge. Their
membership can only be forfeited by ceasing to be members of a regular Lodge in
this jurisdiction.
" 8. The W. M. of a Lodge has the power to admit or refuse admission to a visit-
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ing brother. Should a member of a Lodge object to the admission of a visiting
brother, it is the duty of the W. M. to exclude such applicant."
These were all confirmed by the Grand Lodge, the eighth included, notwithstand-
ing the following from the Committee on Jurisprudence and Charity ;
"With the eighth decision, which discusses the duty of the Master, when object-
ion is made to the admission of a visitor, your Committee cannot concur to the ex-
tent claimed by the Grand Master. The Master is and ought to be, as his title
implies, Master. He is the judge of what would tend to the best interests of his
Lodge, and of what would eventuate in its discord. He is presumed by this Grand
Lodge to act with a view to promote the harmony of the brethren. To say, that if a
single member objects to a visitor, the W. M. mttst exclude him, is in effect to trench
upon the authority of the Master, and to make him the creature of the ohjecting
brother, and subject to his order. It is impossible to lay down an inflexible rule, by
which all cases of this character are to be governed. Many cases may arise where
the exclusion of a visitor, objected to, would create a greater discord than his ad-
mission. Your Committee believe that the best rule upon this vexed subject is, that
the admission or rejection of a visiting brother should be left to the discretion of the
W. M."
We copy, also, the two following, the first to express our concurrence, and the
second because it differs from the law in this jurisdiction, where the Grand Lodge
alone can restore an expelled Mason :
" 10. A member of a Lodge proved guilty of charges, and by a two third vote ex-
pelled, is Masonically dead. The ballot cannot be reconsidered for the purpose of
modifying the sentence or otherwise.
"II. The Grand Lodge neither confirms or subverts the action of its subordinates
in matters of charges, except in cases of appeal. The power to restore an expelled
member has been conceded in this jurisdiction to the subordinate Lodge."
The differences between the Grand Lodges of Canada and Vermont being simply
one of opinion and judgment, as to the regularity of the organization of the Grand
Lodge of Quebec, the Grand Master thinks the course of Vermont in suspending
fraternal relations entirely contrary to the ordinary rules of Masonic comity. He
further says :
" If the action of the Grand Lodge of Vermont towards that of Canada be cor-
rect, I see no reason why the same course may not be pursued toward this and every
other Grand Lodge which declines to recognize Quebec. The course which the
Grand Lodge of Vermont has seen fit to pursue, is only to be regretted as tending to
postpone an amicable settlement of the vexed question involved. Recent advices
from Canada have given reason to hope that the difficulty might be settled upon Ma-
sonic principles. Nothing is better calculated to prevent a consummation so de-
voutly to be wished, than the threat and action of Vermont. If concessions were
" as plenty as blackberries," the Grand Lodge of Canada could not be expected to
make them upon compulsion."
He acknowledges the receipt of $1,080 as the pro rata amount of New Jersey of
the surplus returned by the Masonic Board of Relief of Chicago, and says :
" The members of the Masonic Board of Relief of Chicago, of which M. W.
Bro. Dewitt C. Cregier was President, are entitled to our thanks, and the un-
qualified approval of the Masonic Fraternity, for the faithful manner in which, as
our almoner, they discharged the onerous duty committed to their care. By a review
of their report, to which I have briefly alluded, some adequate idea may be formed
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of the amount of labor required to make proper distribution of the fund with which
they were intrusted. We congratulate our brethren of Illinois in having " the right
man in the right place " in their hour of peril."
The Grand Lodge concurred in the following, from the Committee on Jurispru-
dence and Charity, on the request of the Grand Orient of Brazil for an interchange
of Representatives :
" That they have ascertained that the Grand Orient of Brazil is organized under
what is known as the " Ancient and Accepted " or " Scotch " Rite, the Ritual of
which is composed of a large number of degrees which are not recognized by this
Grand Lodge, and with the secrets of which only a meagre minority of this Society
is familiar. If an exchange of Grand Representatives with the Grand Orient of
Brazil were agreed to, the selection of the Grand Representative from New Jersey
would necessarily be restricted to the very few members of this Grand Lodge who
are familiar with the " Scotch" Rite, and who could gain admission to the Grand
Orient of Brazil when in session.
" Your Committee are of opinion that it would be derogatory to the dignity of this
Grand Lodge to exchange Representatives with any organization claiming to be Ma-
sonic from whose communications any member of this Grand Lodge would be ex-
cluded.
" Your Committee therefore report that it is not expedient for this Grand Lodge
to comply with the request of the Grand Orient of Brazil."
From the Grand Secretary's table were presented charges filed on the 27th of the
preceding May, against Alpha Lodge No. 116, which were referred to the Commit-
tee on Jurisprudence, whose report, concurred in by the Grand Lodge, places beyond
cavil the regularity not only of the formation but of the subsequent acts of Alpha
Lodge. The Committee says :
" The first specification includes two charges : 1st. Obtaining the Warrant by
fraud and deception. Your Committee are of opinion that this charge was finally
adjudicated by the Grand Lodge at its last Annual Communication. 2d. This
charge has been settled in favor of the regularity of the action of Alpha Lodge
complained of, by decisions Nos. 1, 2, 4 and 6.
" The second specification includes acts done by Alpha Lodge since the restora-
tion of its Warrant at the Annual Communication in 1872, and the acts complained
of are justified by decisions above referred to.
" Specifications 3 and 4 are, in effect, repetitions of specification 2d, and are gov-
erned by the same rules.
" Specification 5th alleges that Alpha Lodge had lain dormant for some time, and
had resumed work without being formally resuscitated by the Grand Lodge. The
2d, 4th, and 6th decisions of the Grand Master adopted by this Grand Lodge sus-
tain the action of Alpha Lodge in this particular, the Lodge never having lain dor-
mant for any period of time since its institution.
" The 6th specification is covered, and the action of Alpha Lodge is justified, by
the 2d and 7th decisions. If the representatives of Alpha Lodge, upon the occasion
referred to, voted upon questions upon which they were personally interested, objec-
tion should have been made at the time.
" Except just at the conclusion of specification 7, no question involving the de-
cisions of Grand Master Pine is stated, and this question has been settled by the
Grand Lodge in favor of the course adopted by Alpha Lodge. With reference to
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the remainder of this specification, your Committee are of the opinion that it involves
no charge over which this Grand Lodge has jurisdiction. If the brethren are guilty
as charged, they are amenable only to Alpha Lodge.
" And your Committee further report that they find no charges whatever contained
in the charges and specifications against Alpha Lodge, as a Lodge ; and no charges
against individuals over which this Grand Lodge has original jurisdiction.
" And your committee further report that, in their opinion, the course of action
taken by Alpha Lodge since the restoration of their warrant, which is complained
of in the charges, has been, in every particular, strictly in accordance with well-
settled Masonic law and usage, aud has been sustained and justified by the Grand
Master in his decisions, which have been adopted by the Grand Lodge."
Three charters were granted and two refused.
The commission of Bro. Leonard Sargent, Representative from the Grand
Lodge of Vermont, having been referred to the Committee on Jurisprudence, the
Committee say :
"The only peculiarity in this matter lies in the fact that Bro. Sargent is not a
member of this body. Your committee, however, are of the opinion that there is
nothing in this variation from ordinary custom which should prevent the reception
of the communication and the recognition of Bro. Sargent as the Representative
of Vermont in this body. It should be understood that Bro. Sargent does not by
such recognition become a permanent member of this Grand Lodge, and that he is
not entitled to vote or voice therein, except it should be necessary for him to pre-
sent some matter immediately affecting the Grand Lodge from which he is accred-
ited. Your committee are also of opinion that if Bro. Sargent desires to continue
this relation to this Grand Lodge, his authority should be annually renewed."
The committee were also of the opinion that the plan of the Grand Lodge of
Vermont in this matter is the correct one, and that the present system of an exchange
of Grand Lodge Representatives is little better than a farce.
Under the lead of the same committee the Grand Lodge decided that the loss of
the second finger of the left hand would not debar a candidate from initiation, as the
defect was not one which would prevent him from " doing the work of a Mason,"
which, they say, and we agree, is the true test by which all these cases are to be
tried.
William E. Pine, of Newark, was re-elected Grand Master; Joseph H. Hough,
Trenton, Grand Secretary.
To say that the Report on Correspondence (130 pp.) is from the pen of Bro.
Hough is a sufficient voucher for its excellence. It reviews the proceedings of
forty American Grand Lodges, including Illinois. Our Proceedings receive full
notice.
He cites with approval twenty-three of Grand Master Cregier's decisions (1871),
and dissents from the other ten, being Nos. 12, 14, 15, 22, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31,32.
Reference will show that he agrees to the right of the Master of a Lodge to cast a
vote as a member and in case of a tie an additional vote as Master. Flattering ref-
erence is made to the Report on Correspondence.
He thinks if the American doctrine of exclusive Grand Lodge jurisdiction is to
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be preserved in this country, other action than that which has heretofore proved
abortive must be had, and reluctantly proposes that a National Convention, composed
of delegates from each Grand Lodge, should be held, authorized to pronounce the
views of the American Craft upon this subject " and no other.'''' Bro. Hough holds
with his Grand Lodge that a Lodge cannot try either its Master or Wardens ; doubts
the correctness of the Arkansas decision that a Lodge may open and work in the
Master Mason's degree with but three members present; thinks that a motion t<> re-
consider should not be ruled out on the ground that there is a less number present
than when the original motion was carried, because those who disregard their duty
and absent themselves, know that a motion to reconsider by one voting on the pre-
vailing side, is always in order until the Communication is closed, and that to
assure absentees that what has been done in their presence cannot be undone in their
absence, is to place a premium on straggling; dissents from the California decision
that an unfavorable report is a rejection; says comment on the action of the Grand
Lodge of Delaware, relative to Alpha Lodge, is unnecessary, a point which Dela-
ware may appreciate a quarter of a century hence, but not now ; is glad to see a
recognition by the venerable Grand Lodge of Massachusetts of the Grand Master's
prerogative to make Masons at sight, which has been questioned by ambitious Grand
Lodges of comparatively recent date; concurs in the Michigan decision that a man
totally blind in one eye, the other being good, is disqualified for initiation, and as
we dissent we are glad to see that when he reached South Carolina in his review,
he had modified his views so far as to regard that as the true rule which holds a
candidate physically qualified who possesses no defect that will prevent him from
learning and communicating all the mysteries of the art; thinks if the Landmarks
reported by the Nevada committee are the Simon Pure articles, New Jersey, who
has plumed herself on being conservative as to the Landmarks, is sadly in need of
regeneration ; regrets that public processions of societies, nominally Masonic, with
the accompaniaments of brass bands and banners, are almost as common as the pa-
rades of target companies, and deprecates the habit in which some brethren indulge
of exercising their ingenuity In presenting posers to the Grand Master and the
Grand Lodge Committee on Jurisprudence. In this connection he tells the follow-
ing :
"One of our Past Grand Masters relates, that soon after his installation he received
a communication from a Master Mason, propounding a regular poser. Being some-
what green in the duties of his office, and deeming it to be his duty to answer all
questions, he took off his coat and went at that question. After examining as many
Masonic authorities as were within his reach, and after having given the subject
much reflection and study, he prepared an elaborate answer, giving his opinion and
his reason for the faith that was in him. What was his chagrin, when he 9oon af-
terwards ascertained that all his study and labor had been given, not to meet any
emergency which had arisen in a subordinate Lodge, or for the good of the Craft
while at labor, but merely to decide a bar-room bet ! Since that disclosure, the
Grand Master of whom we speak answered no law letters which did not come under
the seal of a subordinate."
Bro. Breed, of New York, having noted the fact that Bro. Hough had failed to
inform the Craft of New Jersey that a majority of Grand Lodges had recognized
Quebec, Bro. Hough says he has " too much respect for the Grand Lodge of New
Jersey to address them such an argument, or to believe that their judgment would be
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influenced by any considerations of the character alluded to." He says, however,
when noticing with approval the Virginia arguments against Quebec, that the Grand
Lodge of New Jersey cannot be far wrong when standing by the side of the ancient
and conservative Grand Lodge of Virginia; which is why we remark that the Grand
Lodge of Illinois, which takes the opposite view of the Quebec question, cannot be
far wrong in standing by the side of some thirty Grand Lodges not less conservative
than Virginia, and who can have no possible motive for sustaining Quebec except
that her cause is the cause of justice and of well-settled Masonic law.
NEW YORK.
The Grand Lodge met at New York, June 3, 1873.
Considering the immense jurisdiction of which he is the head, Grand Master Fox
managed to condense his excellent address into a very brief space.
He congratulates the Grand Lodge on meeting, for the first time in its history, in
an edifice wholly the property of the brethren, with whom he looks forward to the
consummation of the Hall and Asylum enterprise projected generations since by the
Grand Lodge of New York, when she will rank first among her equals for benevo-
lence and charity.
The field of Masonic law had been so thoroughly cultivated by his predecessors
that he had found no occasion to propagate new theories or principles of law or prac-
tice. The Constitution and Regulations had been found to cover the answers to
the usual variety of questions of law and usage.
Dispensations for seventeen new Lodges had been granted, twelve by the Deputy
Grand Master, and five by himself.
He had refused dispensations for new Lodges in five cases, for good reasons.
Having had occasion to reverse the action of Lodges in several cases, on appeal,
he says it ought to be understood, by this time, that no Mason can be lawfully con-
victed on insufficient testimony, nor be tried by commissioners manifestly unfriendly
to him ; and that the infliction of the extreme penalty of Masonic law for compar-
atively trivial offenses, will be set aside.
He refers in appreciative terms to GustAvus Henry Warantz, Grand Master of
Saxony ; William Wagner, Representative of that Grand Lodge to the Grand
Lodge of New York ; Edward Barnett, Past Deputy Grand Master of the Grand
Lodge of Louisiana and the Representative of the Grand Lodge of New York in
that Body, and CHARLES B. Wade, Grand Steward, deceased during the year.
Memorial tablets are dedicated to Bros. Wagner and Wade, and also to Samuel
R. Kirkham, Past Grand Steward, and Henry C. Sharp, Junior Warden of New
York Lodge No. 330, an active promoter of the Hall and Asylum enterprise.
A large amount of public work had been done by himself and deputies, with
beneficial results to the Craft.
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Difficulties growing out of the violation of the jurisdictional rights of a Lodge in
Pennsylvania by a New York Lodge had been satisfactorily settled.
Complaints against Lodges in Indiana and Pennsylvania for having initiated per-
sons rejected in New York Lodges were undergoing investigation by the Grand Mas-
ters of those jurisdictions.
He refers to the return of #3,404.17 by Grand Master Cregier, President of the
the Board of Masonic Relief, of Chicago, and quotes from his letter stating that it
was for the benefit of the Hall and Asylum Fund or such other use as the Grand
Lodge might see fit to apply it. He continues :
" The expressed wish of the M. W. Brother was partly complied with in the pay-
ment of the money to the Treasurer of the Hall and Asylum Fund, subject to such
other disposition as the Grand Lodge may direct.
" The money contributed by the Masons of this State was given to the brethren of
Chicago in their hour of distress, with no wish or expectation that any portion of it
was to be returned, and with no desire to inquire as to its disposition. Under these
circumstances it seems proper, whether we regard the return of the money as a dona-
tion to the Hall and Asylum Fund, or as a contribution to the funds of the
Grand Lodge, that special action should be taken in recognition of this prac-
tical exemplification of an integrity inculcated by the teachings of Masonry,
and a suitable acknowledgment of the liberality of the Masons of the City of
Chicago."
The money went to increase the Hall and Asylum Fund.
The Grand Master devotes considerable space to this Fund, and reports that at the
Fair held at New York City in aid of it, in March last, netted nearly forty thousand
dollars.
The Report on Correspondence (127 pp.) reviews the Proceedings of forty-three
Grand Lodges in the United States, five in the Dominion of Canada and four in
Europe.
The report on the German Grand Lodges is the work of Bro. Charles Sackreu-
ter, and the remainder is from the hand of Bro. James Gibson, a fraternal, schol-
arly and able production.
Illinois receives liberal attention. He quotes Grand Master Cregier's eloquent
words on the universal response to our cry of distress, and, summing up the opera-
tions of the Board of Relief, says : " Who will say that Masonry is an institution
of words, and not acts."
He refers with approval to the rulings of Grand Master Cregier in connection
with the charges preferred against a member of Oriental Lodge. Both are in ac-
cord with the decisions of the Grand Lodge of New York under the same condi-
tions. He regards our present regulation relative to dimits as the only safe rule :
Of the " Mortuary Fund " proposition, he says :
" Amendments to the Constitution were offered, creating a system of benefits to
members, and to be applied in the Subordinate Lodges, and thus turning the insti-
tution of Masonry into a general Life, and Accident, and Health Insurance Society,
and totally subverting the true work of the Fraternity. We trust no such disor
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ganizing scheme will ever be adopted in the Jurisdiction of Illinois, or any other.
We can conceive of nothing more destructive to our wellfare. Not that we have
any objections to the objects sought to be accomplished; but such objects are not
Masonry, and have no part or lot with the Institution. If brethren desire these
things, there are plenty of companies, corporations, and individuals who will fur-
nish them as a matter of business. And if they wish them in connection with a
secret or social organization, or brotherhood, there is at least one already organ-
ized for that express purpose, an active and worthy organization, and aide, ready,
and willing to execute its mission, and accept all found worthy, who choose to
join."
He dissents from the Alabama decision " that a Master of a Lodge has no right
to call the Lodge from labor to refreshment for several days, while a motion which
has been recorded is pending," and says :
" This is contrary to all the teachings we have heard, and is so productive of evil
that we must protest against its general adoption, The W. Master is to rule and
govern his Lodge ; he is to direct its work ; not only the manner of working, but
the time when labor shall commence and when cease. The Craft are called from
labor by his direction, and the gavel at his installation is placed in his hand with
specific direction as to his power, plainly implying the right to do what is denied to
him by the decision above made. Let us state a case of actual occurrence in this
jurisdiction, and it will illustrate the error of the decision. A Lodge had been regu-
larly opened, a resolution offered and seconded, which caused an angry and exciting
discussion, and produced a tumult which the W. Master was wholly unable to re-
press, and being unable to procure Masonic order and decornm by the ordinary use
of the gavel, he finally, having exhausted all other means, called the Lodge from
labor for one week ; and his action was fully sustained on appeal."
In Illinois a Lodge may not be called off from one day to another whether a mo-
tion is pending or not. The illustration cited does not seem to furnish any conclu-
sive argument, because had the Master chosen the alternative of as summarily clos-
ing the Lodge, his action would have been as readily sustained.
Bro. Gibson holds that after the death of a Mason suspended for the non-pay-
ment of dues, the Lodge may rescind the act of suspension for the benefit of his
family, and we presume also for the purpose of giving him Masonic burial, and cites
in support of this view the action of the Grand Lodge of New York, in 1861, in
restoring the name of Henry C. Atwood to its roll of Past Grand Masters, though
he had died under the ban of expulsion ; that the power to make Masons at sight is
inherent in the station of the Grand Master and an undoubted prerogative of his
office ; sees no reason in the Idaho decision that evidence should be heard before
proceeding to ballot on the guilt or innocence of an accused brother who pleads
guilty, and thinks no ballot should be had, wherein we differ, for we think it might
easily happen, especially where charges are preferred growing out of business trans-
actions that a brother might plead guilty to the acts alleged in the specifications, and
yet the Lodge might properly decide that the acts specified did not constitute un-
Masonic conduct; expresses the opinion as we did last year, that the Grand Lodge
of Indiana erred in dismissing an appeal because the appellant was dead ; gives
excellent^reasons for dropping the Grand Orients from recognition and correspond-
ence; and goes straight through the sophistries by which the Grand Lodge of Mas.
sachusetts seeks to justify its action in planting Lodges in Chili, thus:
" The question really to be decided is, whether Massachusetts is prepared to yield
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to the Grand Lodge of Chili, in the territory of the Commonwealth of Massachu-
setts, the same Masonic rights that it demands for itself in the territory of the Re-
public of Chili ? Will the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts allow, without an effort
to prevent it, any other Grand Body, no matter where located, or in what mere Rite
it works, to establish Lodges within its acknowledged territory, with authority to
confer the symbolic degrees of Masonry? That is the question, and it is one of
great magnitude in its consequences."
After paying a high compliment to the ability and research displayed in the ad-
dress of Grand Master Gardner on the early history of Masonry in Massachusetts,
he says :
" In regard to the elaborate effort in this address, to prove that Henry Price, in
1733, was deputed Provincial Grand Master of New England, by Viscount Mon-
tague, Grand Master of Masons in England, we suspend forming an opinion till
the evidence on that question is all presented. Like most ancient matters, there
are, it seems, two sides to this one. The other side is presented very ably and suc-
cinctly in the report of Bro. Robbins, from the Committee of Foreign Correspond-
ence, of Illinois, and published in the Transactions for 1872 (App., ch. x., v. 1).
" From careful reading of the case and the answer, we think there is more evi-
dence to be obtained, and historic accuracy requires the exercise of the virtue of pa-
tient waiting in this matter.
" We therefore adopt the motto on the Douglass shield, and " Bide our Time."
Alluding to the Canada-Quebec difficulty, he concludes :
" In this emergency, the path of prudence and conciliation by the Grand Lodge
of New York, toward both Grand Lodges, is the path of Masonic duty. Let us
walk therein faithfullly, and let us fraternally seek, by all lawful and Masonic means,
to quench the fires of bitterness between them — they are both in our vicinity — both
adjoin us — both are our neighbors — let us act as such toward both, and pour oil into
the wounds of each — and above all not promote and increase the strife by taking part
exclusively for one and against the other."
He shows at some length the evils that may grow out of the incorporation of
Lodges whereby their proceedings may become examinable by the courts.
From the Report of the Masonic Board of Relief, of the City of New York, we
notice that applicants from Illinois received aid from the Board to the amount of
$28.10.
Seventeen charters were granted.
Christopher G. Fox, of Buffalo, was re-elected Grand Master; James M. Aus-
tin, New York, Grand Secretary.
Only three appeals came up from the disciplinary action of constituent Lodges.
That such should be the case in a jurisdiction as large as New York is exceeding-
ly creditable.
In offering the following resolution the Special Committee on the Contributions
from the Chicago Masonic Board of Relief, say :
" Your Committee also venture to point to this, the first instance of the kind on our
records, as an exemplification of the wisdom of our traditional first Most Excellent
G. M. Solomon, King of Israel, who said, long ago, " Cast thy bread upon the
waters, and thou shalt find it after many days," and as an encouragement to well-
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doing they would present it as a tangible proof of the truth that charity, which is
but another phrase for mercy, is " twice blest " in that it showers its favors upon
both the giver and the receiver."
" Resolved, That the fraternal and grateful acknowledgments of this Grand Lodge
are cordially tendered to said Board of Relief, through their Chairman, M. W. De-
Witt C. Cregier, for their fidelity as almoners of our gifts, and for their thought-
fulness in their disposition of the above-named surplus."
The Revised Constitution was adopted.
Under it the Grand Lodge has the power to restore an expelled Mason to the rights
of Masonry after the expiration of one year from the date of the sentence. A Lodge
having expelled a member, may restore such expelled Mason to the rights of Ma-
sonry at any time and by a majority vote, notice of a motion to do so having been
made at a preceding Stated Communication. Such restoration cannot be made, how-
ever, when the Grand Lodge has affirmed the decision on appeal.
NORTH CAROLINA.
The Grand Lodge met at Raleigh, December 2, 1872.
Grand Master Clark says to the members of the Grand Lodge that their cheerful
faces and elastic steps tell him that they have been dwelling in a land of peace and
plenty. He rejoices to know that the remarks made by him last year touching the
prevalent Masonic crimes — profanity and drunkenness — have reached the ear of
the Fraternity throughout the entire country. On this subject he indulges in some
tolerable lurid composition :
" The sentiments which I so earnestly, yet feebly, enunciated, and your prior ac-
tion in declaring to the world that these vicious and destructive practices were among
the highest Masonic crimes, have met with the profoundest sympathy, gushing forth
from every Mason, whose intellect has been quickened, whose heart has been ani-
mated, and whose soul has been inspired by the sublime moral teachings of our ven-
erable Institution. It is true, brethren, that, occasionally, the voice of the raven,
whose feathers are made glossy only by their sooty blackness, utters forth the vain
croakings of its sombre race ; yet it is equally true, that the voice is only ominous,
because it comes to us from the wizard stillness and inky darkness of a terrible moral
night."
While we honor the Grand Master for the earnestness with which he strives for
the abatement of these evils, we still retain the conviction which we have before ex-
pressed, that to class them among the highest of Masonic crimes tends to confuse our
perceptions of the different degrees of moral delinquency. The vice of drunkenness
but too often leads to crime, but that in itself it lacks the essence of criminality which
attaches to fraud, treachery, and other cold-blooded transgressions, the moral sense
of all communities testify ; while profanity is an indecency rather than a vice. We
will say amen to every effort to rid the Fraternity of both, but let us not forget the
weightier matters of the law.
The religious dogmatizing of the Grand Master we will not copy. We allude to
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them only to say that whether we agree with them or not as abstract propositions,
they should find no place in an address to a Masonic body.
The Grand Master read an account of a public Masonic baptism of children at
Washington, under the auspices of a consistory of the Scottish Rite, and asks :
" What means this imitative assemblage of illustrious dignitaries? What mean
these children — these sponsors — these god-mothers — this basin — this perfumed water
— this dipping — aye, this Masonic baptism ? Brethren, what means all this tom-
foolery ? "
We think he struck the right word at last.
The Grand Master abates none of the zeal with which he last year proposed to make
the campaign against non-affiliates "short, sharp and decisive," and urges the Grand
Lodge to take no step backward, speaking with some severity of Bro. GOULEY, who
had, properly, we think, characterized their action as " extraordinary"' and " palpa-
bly unjust.'' The situation did not, however, seem to be satisfactory to a very
respectable minority, and several ineffectual attempts were made to rescind or amend
the action of last year. Finally Grand Master Clark, after the installation of his
successor, offered the following and it was adopted :
"Resolved, That willful non-affiliation is a violation of Masonic law, and should
be placed on the same footing with every other Masonic offence.
" Resolved, That subordinate Lodges should punish every violation of Masonic
law where the offender is duly convicted.
"Resolved, That resolution No. 2, on page 30 of the last Grand Lodge Proceed-
ings be, and the same is hereby rescinded."
A reference to the resolution rescinded [see page xcvi, App. III. Proc, 1872,) will
show that a " step backward " was taken, one which leaves the Grand Lodge in a
more defensible position, inasmuch as the former resolution declares that constituent
Lodges shall expel these who fail to affiliate after three months' notice.
We totally dissent, however, from the first resolution as it now stands.
The Grand Master decided that, unwittingly or otherwise, the Grand Lodge had
so constructed their rules as to make the Previous Question admissible, and gives
reasons why he thinks it should be so. We are glad to see that the Lodge took a
backward step in this matter, and excluded it from the rules.
The Grand Master is satisfied that nothing but compulsion will secure a proper
dissemination of the work, and regrets that the Grand Lodge had disarmed him at a
time when he was successfully compelling Lodges to make themselves proficient on
pain of forfeiture of their charters.
During his official terms he had been called upon to decide but one question upon
which there was conflict of authority, and that was, " what vote is necessary to re-
instate an indefinitely suspended Mason ? " His conclusion was that a majority vote
is sufficient, as a majority could inflict the punishment. The Grand Lodge con-
curred.
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The Report of the Grand Secretary shows that the Grand Master had granted dis-
pensations for fourteen new Lodges.
The Board of Directors of St. John's College reported that they had failed to make
any arrangements whereby a school could be established in that institution. It was
finally determined to convert it into an asylum for the protection, training and edu-
cation of indigent orphan children, the Grand Lodge appropriating annually five
hundred dollars towards its support, and electing a Superintendent to control the
institution and solicit contributions from all classes of people.
Charters were granted to sixteen Lodges U. D., and the representatives of these
unconstituted bodies admitted to seats and votes in the Grand Lodge.
Seven cases were before the Committee on Appeals — in one only was the judg-
ment of the Lodge affirmed.
The Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Correspondence, Bro. J. P. Batche-
LOR, was granted leave to complete the report of the Committee and have it pub-
lished with the Proceedings, but it does not appear.
John Nichols, of Raleigh, was elected Grand Master; Donald W. Bain, Ra-
leigh, Grand Secretary.
NOVA SCOTIA.
The Semi-annual Communication was held at Halifax, December 6th, 187 1, at
which we are glad to note Grand Master Keith was again able to be present and
preside.
One petition for a charter was refused.
The following was adopted in amendment ol the Constitution :
" Resolved, That no brother not a member of this Grand Lodge shall be eligible
for office therein."
Also :
" Resolved, That canvassing for office in Grand Lodge is at all times to be dis-
countenanced ; and that the brother who disregards this expression of opinion, by so
doing renders himself liable to be severely reprimanded."
The Grand Master reported two dispensations granted for new Lodges. The
Grand Lodge approved them, and continued their authority until the Annual Com-
munication.
The Annual Communication was held at Halifax, June 5th, 1872.-
In the absence of Grand Master Keith, whose medical attendant advised against
the risk of venturing out after long confinement, the Deputy Grand Master, Bro.
Allan H. Crowe, presided. The Grand Master's address was read by the Grand
Secretary. We quote its opening words :
" It is with feelings of unfeigned gratitude to Almighty God, that I am permitted
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the pleasure of meeting you once more in Grand Lodge, a pleasure which was denied
me at your last Annual Communication, in consequence of my absence in New York,
undergoing a severe and trying operation on my eyes, which, under the blessing of a
Merciful Providence, has, I am happy to say, proved very successful, considering my
advanced age.
" Fifty-six years have now rolled round since I was first " brought to light " in a
Masonic Lodge, during fifty-four of which I have uninterruptedly been a subscrib-
ing member of Virgin Lodge, in this city. For upwards of thirty years I had
the honor and pleasure of presiding over the Craft as Provincial Grand Master, while
under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodges of England and Scotland, and though
now some seven years beyond the ' threescore and ten,' my zeal for the welfare and
prosperity of our ancient and honorable institution, has not in the least degree abated
— my chief regret being that my advanced age and consequent infirmities prevent
my meeting you oftener at your stated assemblies ; but though absent in body I need
not assure you my heart is always with you."
Two additional dispensations for new Lodges had been granted. He had refused
in many instances, to grant dispensations to confer degrees at short intervals. A
few, however, had been granted in extreme cases, for the third degree only. Sub-
mitting the circular letter of the Grand Master of Louisiana, in reference to the en-
croachments of the Grand Orient of France, he expresses his deep regret at the diffi-
culty, and the hope that the latter body may see its way clear to a speedy and hon-
orable restoration of amicable relations with Louisiana. He thus closes :
" Finally, beloved brethren, having, as already stated, through the kind Provi-
dence of our Grand Master above, arrived at the advanced age of seventy-seven
years, it is not probable, according to the ordinary course of nature, that my connec-
tion with you as Grand Master can be of much longer duration ; and the present may
not improbably be the last occasion of the kind on which I shall address you in that
capacity ; nevertheless, whatever may be the decrees of an All-wise Providence in
respect to our future, or whatever changes may occur in our present relations with
each other, you may rest assured that during the rest of my days, be they few or
many, you shall have my warmest sympathy and hearty co-operation in all matters
affecting the welfare and prosperity of our beloved and time-honored institution."
May he long be spared to grace the station he has filled with such distinguished
honor.
Five charters were granted, and a petition for a sixth refused.
The Deputy Grand Master submitted an excellent report.
Alexander Keith, of Halifax, was re-elected Grand Master ; Benjamin Cur-
ren, Halifax, Grand Secretary.
The Grand Lodges of British Columbia and Utah were recognized.
The request of the Grand Orient of Brazil, Valley of Larvadio, for " an interchange
of relations of amity," was referred to the Committee on Foreign Correspondence, to
report at the next Annual Communication.
Obituary resolutions and memorial pages are devoted to Bro Samuel F. Ray-
mond, Junior Grand Warden, and Bro. Isaac Melvin, Past Senior Grand Warden.
The Report on Correspondence (81 pp.), an excellent review of the Proceedings
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of forty-one American Grand Lodges, is signed by the whole Committee, Bros. Geo.
T. Smithers, F. W. Dakin and H. B. Sellon.
Illinois is fraternally noticed. The remarks of Grand Master Cregier, in refer-
ence to dispensations for new Lodges, and the conferring of degrees out of time,
are quoted at length, as expressing right views on these important subjects. The
Committee judge the general conduct of business in our Grand Lodge to be excel-
lent, and in this connection refer in complimentary terms of the Grand Master, the
various Standing Committees, and Grand Secretary Miner. The Report on Cor-
respondence also receives flattering mention.
On the Quebec question, in reply to Bro. Mitchell, of Canada, Bro. Smithers
writes with great directness and force. We should be glad to copy it entire, but
must content ourselves with a pretty long extract. Bro. Mitchell having said that
the action of the brethren of Nova Scotia, in recognizing Quebec, " shows that they
have not been at pains to realize their position. Bro. Smithers rejoins :
" We may as well say that they did not realize their position when they organized
the Grand Lodge of Canada by secession from England, or, when they with frater-
nal alacrity recognized our Grand Lodge, and sent their then Grand Master to install
our first Grand officers ; they were then quite willing to apply the " American" doc-
trine to our case, as well as when they claimed the application of that doctrine to
their own, and they must certainly pardon us if we apply to Quebec that legality of
proceedings that obtained in the case of our own formation as well as in theirs, and
that in the face of our suspension by the parent Grand Lodge.
" Bro. Mitchell then categorically questions us, ' Do they think that their being
admitted into the Confederation was in any way to interfere with their position as a
Grand Lodge ? ' No, nor did we ever intend that it should ; at the same time objecting
to the idea that our Province was admitted into the Confederation, as we have a
slight recollection that we came into the Union on eqtial terms, as a constituent part
of the Dominion with our sister Provinces. This remark should be placed with our
Brother's hallucination that the Grand Lodges of the Dominion are holding the
equivalent position of something like Municipal or County Lodges, and not Sover-
eign Grand Bodies. We have an impression at the same time upon our mind, that
a Grand Master of Canada in referring to the probable effects of the political changes
to be made in the Dominion by the Act of Confederation, made a remark that the
Grand Lodge of Nova Scotia would be as much the Grand Lodge of Canada as the
body possessing that title. Then again we are asked, ' Do they not know that the
Union of the three Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland into the one united
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, did not affect the Grand Lodge of either ? '
Yes we do, and we know more — that the United Kingdom composed of England,
Scotland and Ireland, three in one, has each its Grand Lodge, and intends to keep
it in the same manner that the Grand Lodges of the four Provinces composing the
Dominion intend to keep theirs, being as equolly entitled to their separate Grand
Lodges as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland are to theirs. We might
as well presume from the Canadian point of view, that if Home Rule is applied to
the political condition of Ireland and Scotland, that therefore, they are to be reduced
from Sovereign Bodies to some kind of Provincial or County Lodges, and we can
only add, that it is just as likely for the Grand Lodges of England, Ireland and Scot-
land to unite in one Grand Lodge for the United Kingdom, as it is for the Grand
Lodges of the Dominion to form a General Grand Lodge. In closing his remarks
Bro. Mitchell says : ' As coming into Confederation cannot injure them, all are at
a loss to see how a disruption in the Grand Lodge of Canada can benefit them.' Nor
have we any desire that it should benefit us, except in the true manner of Masons
who are all benefitted by good example, and by the influence of the principles of our
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Fraternity, by exercising the practice of the cardinal virtues on the final considera-
tion of the subject, by having TEMPERANCE in their discussions, PRUDENCE in their
dealings, Fortitude enough to accept the inevitable, and by displaying that justice
to Quebec, expected of the Grand Lodge of Canada, by the Craft all over the world,
who meted out the same measure of justice to them at their own formation. We
have been through the fire ourselves, and would sacrifice more, than many of us
have, for the sake of our order, for the sake of I leaven-born peace."
In reviewing Quebec he refers to Canada's greatest mistake, the establishment of
"duplicate" Warranted Lodges within the Province of Quebec. Of the failure of
the peace negotiations, he says:
" The question appears to us in a worse position than it was before the Commit-
tees met. It has, however, brought the matter down to the point that " QuEKKr has
been forced to claim her Sovereignty, and to shew that she will not acknowledge in
any way the ' duplicated ' Warranted Lodges ; and with our own past action in
view, we cannot blame her in so doing, as it will be remembered that after the for-
mation of the Grand Lodge of Nova Scotia in 1866, and her assertion of .Supremacy,
the M. W. Grand Lodge of England refused (although applied to) to grant a War-
rant to a Lodge working under Dispensation from the Grand Master, knowing, that
as she always supports Chartered Lodges holding under her, as being consistent with
her dignity, it would be at any time easy to withdraw the dispensation of any Sub-
ordinate without compromising her own peculiar notions in this respect — the one
being a constituent of Grand Lodge, the other the creation of the Grand Master.
When the union came, no Warrant had to be withdrawn, and the dispensation was
not renewed."
Quoting, with approbation, the Washington Regulation of one ballot for the three
degrees, he advances the same ideas for which we have heretofore contended. He
says ;
"This practice has uniformly obtained with us in Nova Scotia since our formation
in 1866, and to our knowledge no fault has been found with it, the initiatory ballot
being understood with us to confer the right to receive the third degree as proficiency
is attained. If, ad interim, any legitimate cause arises to warrant the prevention of
further advancement of the initiate, and such we contend can only be of such a na-
ture as to demand charges to be preferred, the Lodge has the remedy in its own
hands, and must then do, that which had better been done when the candidate was
proposed for initiation, and not possibly put this power into the hands of some vin-
dictive brother, who might be tempted to annoy by the use of the ballot for advance-
ment of each degree, one, whom he might have debarred by his own one ballot from
ever entering our degrees."
OHIO.
The Grand Lodge met at Columbus, Oct. 15, 1872.
Grand Master Newcomb indulged in a brief retrospective view, alluding to the
organization of the Grand Lodge in 1808, when five Lodges were represented by
eleven delegates, and coming down to the present when over four hundred and thirty
working Lodges are on its rolls He represents the Fraternity within their borders
as in a good and healthy condition.
Six dispensations for new Lodges had been granted.
He gives an account of his disbursements of the Fund placed in his hands by the
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Grand Lodge for the relief of the sufferers by the fires in Chicago, Wisconsin and
Michigan, and acknowledges the receipt of the returned surplus from the Masonic
Board of Relief of Chicago.
Of decisions he says :
" All the decisions on Masonic law that have been presented to me during the
year for my action have been so often decided by my predecessors and your Com-
mittee on Jurisprudence, and affirmed by this Grand Lodge, it would be egotism for
me to report them as my decisions. I would suggest that the Masters of Lodges in
our jurisdiction comply with that part of their obligation at installation, where they
promise to read, or cause to be frequently read in their Lodges the Code, rules and
regulations of our Order, that none may plead ignorance of the same. This part
of their duty is neglected in most of our Lodges, hence so few of the brethren
have any knowledge of their duty as Masons, or the rules of the Order for their
government.
The Special Committee to whom this was referred, say with the concurreuce of
the Grand Lodge :
" It is a grave mistake to suppose, as seems often to be supposed, that the chief
work of our Lodges is the conferring of degrees. After Masons are made they
need to be taught, and that Lodge or that Master which shall initiate a large number
of candidates, and leave them without careful instruction, not only in regard to the
ritual, but also the constitutions, laws, and various rules of the Order, is negligent of
a duty voluntarily assumed and solemnly imposed.
" It would undoubtedly further the welfare of any Lodge if the readiug and ex-
planation of some part of the Masonic law should be made a part of the regular
proceedings of every communication.
" Your committee therefore recommend that the attention of all Masters of Lodg-
es be called to their promise to read, or cause to be read, frequently in their Lodges,
the Code, rules, and regulations, and that they be enjoined faithfully to discharge this
duty.
He had deposed from the office of Master an intimate friend, for disseminating the
ritual contrary to the regulations of the Grand Lodge.
The Deputy Grand Master reports one dispensation granted by him for a new
Lodge.
A brother, a delegate to the Grand Lodge, being intoxicated during the session
was expelled from the Grand Lodge, and his Lodge directed to try him for un- Ma-
sonic conduct.
The Committee on Grievances " report that they recognize as good Masonic law
the decisions of the Grand Lodge, heretofore made, that a brother cannot appeal
from the action of his Lodge in the punishment it inflicts on another brother tried
therein for an offense; that if he have any complaint, it should be made directly to
the Grand Lodge against his Lodge."
Notwithstaading the repeated concurrence of the Grand Lodge in this dictum, we
do not think it is good law. It is the duty of the Grand Lodge to see that justice is
done to the Fraternity, not less than to the accused. If a brother believes that the
Fraternity has been outraged by a verdict of acquittal, it is a real grievance which
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he has a right to bring before the Grand Lodge on appeal, and the Grand Lodge has
full power to do justice in the premises.
We are surprised to find the Grand Lodge concurring in the following from anoth-
er report of the same committee :
" Your committee do not claim to have read and weighed every word of these
heavy papers with the nicety of lexicographers, as they are clearly of the opin-
ion that it is not necessary to eat a whole beef to ascertain whether it is tainted or
not."
It looks too much like "damning a man at a venture."
Ten Lodges were chartered and one contined under dispensation.
Two dispensations for new Lodges were granted, and two refused for informal-
ities.
A Lodge having attempted to reconsider a ballot, a Select Committee reported the
following facts.
" A worthy brother resided for a series of years within the Masonic jurisdiction of
the Lodge, and was a frequent visitor, participating in its active labors, but, for rea-
sons of his own, remaining unaffiliated. That brother was stricken with lingering
illness, and his disease becoming imminent, a member of the Lodge, acting upon the
mistaken idea that affiliation was an indispensable prerequisite to authorize his inter-
ment with the rites of Masonry, took upon himself to file an application in his behalf
for Lodge membership, and, by clear vote of the Lodge the sick brother was accept-
ed. He died, and by his request was interred with Masonic honors. It subsequent-
ly occured to some members of the Lodge that they had erred, in acting upon a pe-
tition not made by the applicant in his own proper person ; and to remedy that error,
the Lodge resorted to the still graver one of rescinding, by a viva voce vote, its de-
liberate action, expressed by a unanimous ballot, thus summarily disposing of a
membership after the subject thereof had passed from the boundaries of Masonic
jurisprudence."
The Grand Lodge ordered the Lodge to rescind its action purporting to reconsider
the ballot.
Asa H. Battin, of Steubenville, was elected Grand Master; John D. Caldwell,
Cincinnati, Grand Secretary.
The Grand Lodge having elected as Senior Grand Warden, a brother who had
never been elected and installed as Master of a Lodge of Master Masons, it was ruled
that there was no election.
Columbus was fixed upon as the next place of meeting.
Upon a careful examination of all the facts in the case, the Grand Lodge did not
deem it advisable to take further action towards the establishment of a Widows' and
Orphans' Home. Previous action was rescinded, the Trustees discharged, and con-
tributions ordered to be returned to the donors.
We observe by a decision from the Committee on Jurisprudence that Lodges iu
Ohio are not permitted to affiliate a brother residing in another Grand Jurisdiction
without the consent of the Constituent Lodge within whose territorial jurisdiction he
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resides. We should like to hear some good reason for the rule : we can think
of none.
The Grand Lodge also decided, correctly we think, that when a Lodge, by special
permit of the Grand Master, holds its meeting at a place other than that named in its
charter, jurisdiction should be determined from the place named in the charter.
The following, signed by eight persons, whom we presume to be colored, was
indefinitely postponed :
" Believing that the Grand Lodge of Masons for the State of Ohio is aware of the
existence, in this State, of organized bodies of colored citizens, who claim to be in
possession of the signs and secrets of Free and Accepted Ancient Free Masonry,
the undersigned regard it as the paramount duty of the Grand Lodge of white Ma-
sons to appoint a committee, whose duty it shall be to inquire into the legitimacy of
said claim ; and if, upon examination, it shall appear well founded, then we respect-
fully urge that the necessary steps be taken to utilize this timber, rather than con-
demn it as being rotten and unfit for use, without having subjected it to &/air, can-
did and impartial test.'1''
We regret to see that the proposition of Past Grand Master Bierce to adopt the
system of one ballot for the three degrees, was lost.
The Report on Correspondence (82 pp.), by Bro. Allen Brinsmade, is an epi-
tome of the doings of forty-four American Grand Lodges.
The printer would have made it much more attractive for the reader and easier
for the reviewer, if he had leaded the original matter and left the extracts solid.
Illinois is reviewed. He dissents from the ruling of Grand Master Cregier that
a suspended Mason is not liable for Lodge or Grand Lodge dues during term of
suspension, and says it is the reverse of what is held in Ohio and many other
States.
OREGON.
The Grand Lodge met at Salem, June 24, 1872.
Grand Master Hare maintains that a Lodge of Masons should not only be a ben-
efit to its members, but to the community in which it is situated, by compelling, if
needs be, by proper Masonic discipline, all of its members to square their lives by
the square of virtue. He had striven to see that Masonry should assume high
ground, and to this end had issued a circular letter calling attention of Lodges, and
particularly of Masters and Wardens, to the prevalent vices of profane swearing and
intemperance. He had reason to believe that it had been productive of good
results.
He had issued four dispensations for new Lodges.
He had decided that a change of venue in Masonic trials does not obtain, one of
the fundamental rights of a Constituent Lodge being the right of penal jurisdiction
over all Masons residing within its territorial jurisdiction.
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He had denied numerous applications to allow Brethren who had been rejected
for membership, to renew their application in less time than required by the existing
regulations, for the reason that his predecessor had promulgated an edict requiring
them to wait one year.
He very properly recommended that the Grand Lodge so provide, by resolution,
that any Brother rejected by a Lodge should have a right to renew his application or
apply to any Lodge in the jurisdiction for membership as soon after rejection as he
might deem proper.
He reports the death of Lemuel Lyon, Past Grand Lecturer. A page in the
Proceedings is devoted to his memory.
He submitted the Louisiana Circular, and the Grand Lodge made the contained
resolutions its own by substituting " Oregon " for " Louisiana " wherever the word
occurs.
He recommended decisive action in reference to Quebec, but the Grand Lodge
decided to defer action in the hope of an amicable agreement between Quebec and
Canada.
The Committee on Credentials recommended " that Bro. Thomas Ellington, of
St. Helens Lodge, who holds the proxies of the S. W. and J. W., be not allowed a
seat in this Grand Lodge, for the reason that an appeal has been taken from the action
of that Lodge in refusing to sustain charges preferred against him for un- Masonic
conduct in acting as a retail vender of spirits."
The Committee on Jurisprudence very properly decided that he was entitled to a
seat.
By constitutional amendment the Grand Lodge was permanently located at
Portland.
Four charters and one dispensation were granted.
The Report on Correspondence (146 pp.) is again the work of Bro. S. F. Chad-
wick, a guaranty of its excellence.
He reviews the Proceedings of Forty-four American Grand Lodges, and transfers
to his pages the Louisiana Committee's review of Foreign Grand Bodies and our
review of Massachusetts Proceedings for 1870, they not having reached him.
We thank him for the marked compliment.
Illinois of is the number reviewed. He says of Bro. Crec-ier's address, that
it shows that he had performed a great deal of labor during his term of office.
Yes, Bro. Chadwick, a great deal less would have broken down a man of ordi-
nary metal.
Of the Alabama decision that it is not un-Masonic for a Mason to plead the Stat-
ute of Limitations in any case in which it is allowed to be pleaded by the law of the
State, he says :
" Masons should not plead the statute of limitations, it strikes us, in any case.
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Statutes of this class are never looked upon with favor by the courts : then why
should Masons avail themselves of them. Statutes of limitations give the priv-
ilege to do that which of moral right ought not to be done. We think noth-
ing should be offered to excuse a Mason from paying his just debts, except
poverty.
In conclusion he talks eloquently through several pages in defense of Androgynous
Masonry.
T. McF. Patton, of Salem, was elected Grand Master ; R. P. Earhart, Salem,
Grand Secretary.
A Committee was appointed to procure a testimonial for the retiring Grand Secre-
tary, Bro. J. E. Hurford.
We are glad to note the adoption of the following :
" Resolved, That one ballot upon the petition of an applicant for the degrees of
Masonry, if clear, shall entitle such applicant to the three degrees.
We learn from the Committee on Per Diem and Mileage that Bro. Thomas R.
Willard, W. M. of Blanco Lodge, an old man, in order to attend the Grand Lodge,
had to travel seventy-five miles on foot to reach a line of public communication.
The Grand Lodge, when called off on the afternoon of the second day, was con-
veyed by special train to Portland and in the evening was called to labor in the new
Masonic Temple.
The Committee on Jurisprudence reported the following, which was adopted :
" Resolved, That the Grand Lodge of Oregon welcomes the young and flourishing
Grand Lodge of British Columbia as a legally constituted Grand Lodge of Masons,
and extends to her that Masonic recognition which has been granted to all Masonic
Grand Lodges on the globe.
The application of Utah for recognition was referred to the same committee, but
no further mention is made of it.
The Grand Lodge decided that a Lodge had no just claim to be reimbursed for
assistance rendered to the widow of a Master Mason, by the Lodge of which the
deceased was a member.
The Grand officers were publicly installed, and an oration was delivered by Grand
Orator T. F. Campbell. The oration is not published.
On the last day of the session the Masonic Temple at Portland was dedicated " by
the Grand Lodge."
Past Grand Master Hare delivered an address the opening of which we quote :
" Standing in this presence, upon this hallowed ground, I am called upon to fill
no ordinary or unimportant position among my Brethren, and since I have been
called to deliver our address at the dedicatory service, I have been made to think of
those whose province and delight it was, long years ago upon this spot, to gather
around our altars, perform our rites, and teach the lesson of Masonry.
" In dedicating this Temple to-day, our minds naturally run back to the scenes of
the past, and names of those whose wont it was to meet on this hallowed ground
pass in review. Twenty-two years ago Willamette Lodge, then under dispensation,
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commenced its labors; and on the loth day of September, 1850, in a building
erected on this spot W. W. Chapman, W. S. Cai. dwell and John II. Couch first saw
Masonic light. How these memories rush upon our minds ! Brethren, we cannot
consecrate or hallow this ground. That was done twenty two years ago. What
those who then met and labored here have done time shall never efface. They con-
secrated and hallowed the ground upon which this beautiful Temple stands. How I
should like to pause here and glean from the past what I know would be of thrill-
interest to you, but time will not permit. Only this morning being placed in pos-
session of these reminiscences, I can only give a passing glance. How the names
of the old worthies who met here rush upon our memories : there were Elliott,
Lonsdale, Holmes, Wilcox, Chapman, Flanders, Crosby, Caldwell, Thomp-
son, and that blunt, kind-hearted, generous Mason, the late Captain John H.
Couch.
" And here we are to-day, Brethren, standing in the presence of these memories,
as if to finish the work by them begun, to re-baptize, consecrate and dedicate anew
this ground forever to the holy purposes of Masonry."
The Oregon Proceedings are well printed, and gotten up in good style ; they have
but one fault — they lack an index.
PENNSYLVANIA.
We have in this volume an abstract of the proceedings of the Annual and four
Quarterly Communications, all held at Philadelphia.
Quarterly Communication, March 6, 1872.
The following well put remarks are from a report of the Committee on Appeals :
" Masonry has nothing to do with the business world, and any one coming into
her sacred temple with a view to use her mysteries and the power of her pledges to
any such end mistakes her purpose and design, and should repent him of the
error of his way. A certain appeal is only to be made in the last extremity, and it
is an appeal which no Master Mason can see, or hear, without promptly responding
to it whatever the danger may be. Outside of this the too free use of any of its
signs or symbols, or reference to its obligations in the ordinary transactions of life,
which are to be governed and regulated by business usages and the laws of the land,
is to be avoided and regarded as unnecessary and hurtful to the Order. There may
be, and no doubt are, many cases in which a Master Mason may with great pro-
priety consult with a brother and repose a secret in his keeping, but it must be borne
in mind that this must be done with the full consent of the depositary, obtained be-
fore hand, for no brother has a right to impose such a trust upon another against his
consent, or bind him by ex parte action."
Three petitions for Warrants for new Lodges were referred to the Grand Officers
with power to act.
Quarterly Communication, June 5, 1872.
One thousand dollars was appropriated for the relief of the Brethren who suffered
by the destructive fire at Somerset, and a committee appointed to solicit further aid
from the constituent Lodges.
Six petitions for Warrants for new Lodges were received and referred to the
Grand Officers.
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The report of the Trustees of the Girard Bequest shows the total investments of
that Fund to amount, at par value, to $54,420.
Grand Master Perkins communicated to the Grand Lodge the following decision:
" That there is no authority in the Regulations of the Grand Lodge for one Lodge
to confer degrees on members of another Lodge. An E. A. must receive the de-
grees of F. C. and M. M. in the Lodge in which he was entered, unless he first
resign his membership in that Lodge, and regularly apply for and be elected to
membership in another Lodge, which can then confer upon him the remaining de-
grees. The same rule must govern a F. C. Mason. A Lodge does not obtain au-
thority to confer degrees on a member of another Lodge by the request of that
Lodge."
It will be observed in this that the Pennsylvania practice in this respect differs
from that which elsewhere almost universally obtains.
Three petitions for Warrants for new Lodges were referred to the Grand Officers.
Quarterly Communication, December 4, 1872.
Samuel C. Perkins, of Philadelphia, was re-elected Grand Master ; John
Thomson, Philadelphia, Grand Secretary.
The Library Committee report very encouraging success. In reply to their cir-
cular addressed to various Grand Lodges in the United States, they have received
most liberal responses from all quarters, and now have nearly perfect sets of Pro-
ceedings of all the Grand Bodies in the United States.
The appeal to the constituent Lodges for aid for the Somerset sufferers, yielded
nearly five thousand dollars.
The communication of Grand? Master Cregier, accompanying the return surplus
of $2,150.40, was submitted by the Grand Master, and the money was ordered to be
paid into the Grand Lodge Charity Fund.
The sum of $300,000 was appropriated to complete and furnish the new Temple,
which when finished will have cost $1,500,000. A view of the Temple forms the
frontispiece of the volume under review.
Annual Communication, December 27, 1872.
The following resolution from a Special Committee on an appeal case, was adopted :
"Resolved, That the pendency of suits in Courts of Justice, arising out of the same
facts as are made the subjects of a Masonic complaint, are a sufficient reason in this
case for refusing to investigate the charges preferred."
This being the antipodes of the Maine decision involving the same principle, to
which we referred last year, we give the reasons which led the committee to the
above conclusion :
" Waivng all consideration of the character of the charges as made, the commit-
tee are unanimously of opinion, that it would not be proper to proceed to an inves-
tigation of the charges preferred by Brother H . Both subjects are cognizable
before a Court of Justice, and each one of the parties (prosecutor and accused) has
invoked the aid of such a tribunal — these proceedings remain undetermined and it
would be unwise to anticipate the decisions of the Courts to which the parties have
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referred the matter. In some Masonic jurisdictions the resort to a Court of Law or
Equity is in itself an answer to a Masonic complaint, and it seems to the committee
that the possibility of a decision being made by a Masonic Lodge, different from
that made in a Court of Justice upon the same state of facts,- has a tendency to les-
sen the respect entertained by the outside world for the justice of Masonic acts and
decisions."
The Grand Lodges of British Columbia and Utah were recognized.
The address of Grand Master PERKINS, delivered after the installation, has much
of the traditional eloquence and dignity that dwells around the Grand East of
Pennsylvania, and the incisiveness of true executive ability.
He announced the death of Bro. D. Webster Davis, District Deputy Grand
Master.
The Grand Master had been able to fulfill to the letter that provision of the
Ahiman Rezon which renders it incumbent on that officer to visit the Lodges in the
City of Philadelphia, at least once during his term of office. There are sixty
Lodges meeting in the city. To visit all of these, exemplifying the work in some
and in nearly all delivering informal addresses of counsel, admonition and instruc-
tion must have been no light labor, while much other private and public work is
reported. Not the least, and not the least appreciated of his labors, was his visit to
Chicago to examine and report on the accounts of the Masonic Board of Relief,
reference to which is made in the address, and the Report of the Commission is
appended thereto. The reception and welcome of the Commission by the occa-
sional Grand Lodge convened by Grand Master Cregier for that purpose, is alluded
to in appreciative terms.
He again refers in terms of severest reprehension to the evil of electioneering for
office, and in this connection reports a case where he was compelled to declare the
election of a Junior Warden null and void. The facts amply justified his action.
He closes thus :
" My Brethren, let us not neglect the ' weightier matters of the law.' Let us
enter upon the new year resolved that we will thoughtfully, carefully, earnestly and
conscientiously — in dependence upon the aid of that divine Being whose blessing
we solemnly invoke at the opening and closing of every meeting of our Lodges —
labor and live and act, for the best and highest interests of our fraternity. In the
language of the Ancient Charges, ' Let the genius of Freemasonry preside over our
conduct, and under her sovereign sway, let us preserve a nobleness and justness of
understanding, politeness of manners and evenness of temper. Let our recreations
be innocent, and pursued with moderation ; and never let us suffer irregular indul-
gence to expose our character to derision and contempt.' Let us so discharge our
duties, and so ' act in conformity to our precepts,' that ' the world will observe how
Freemasons love one another in obedience to the will of God.' "
We quote the following points from the Circular Letter of Instruction from the
Grand Master to the District Deputies :
" I. A Dispensation to Enter, Pass and Raise, is not to be granted without first
sending to this office the name, residence, age and occupation of the applicant, and
the reasons presented for the privilege, with your views on the subject. If satisfac-
tory, you will be directed to grant it. The fee is thirty dollars.
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"2. Dispensations to Pass and Raise, or to Raise, may be granted, if you are sat-
isfied as to the propriety and necessity thereof. The fee is ten dollars for each
degree."
The Report on Correspondence (148 pp.) by Bro. Henry M. Dechert, is a well
prepared notice of the Proceedings of forty-one American Grand Lodges, Illinois of
the number, and eight Foreign Grand Bodies.
We are sorry to see that Bro. Dechert adheres to the traditional policy of his
Grand Lodge in regard to these reports. He says :
" Guided by the rule adopted by previous committees, and for the excellent rea-
sons hitherto assigned, we have abstained from every appearance of hostile criticism
of local decisions and modes of operation.
"The Grand Lodge would not recognize any outside interference with the Sub-
ordinate Lodges and members, within this jurisdiction. We concede similar rights to
all other Grand Lodges. Upon all in common, rests the mutual duty of defending
and maintaining our beloved institution, upon the Ancient Usages and Landmarks
of the Order."
It is because of this mutual duty, resting upon us all in common, that we think
Pennsylvania ought to let the weight of her ability be felt in the discussions out of
which is to come, if from any source, harmony of opinion as to what constitute
"the Ancient Usages and Landmarks of the Fraternity." We trust Bro. Dechert
will not regard our finishing that quotation with "Fraternity," instead of "Order,"
an act of hostility."
Bro. Drchert comments sparingly, but always courteously and with ability. He
permits himself to speak of the action of Delaware relative to Alpha Lodge, and so
much to the point that we copy his remarks :
"We regard this action as unfortunate and opposed to the spirit of harmony
pervading the Craft throughout 'the United States. Each Grand Lodge is supreme
within its own jurisdiction, in the granting and revocation of warrants to its Subor-
dinate Lodges. If a Grand Lodge should grievously violate, or should openly and
knowingly permit its Subordinate Lodges to violate Masonic Landmarks, the sister
Grand Lodges would deal with it as an equal. Brother McCabe admits that the
Grand Lodge of New Jersey has declared 'sound doctrine' in deciding that the
' doors of the Masonic Lodge are open to all men, free born, and of lawful age, of
every clime, of every color, and of every creed, who declare their trust in God —
have passed the scrutiny of the committee ot a lawful Lodge, and have been ap-
proved by the secret ballot.' Every Grand Lodge in the United States recognizes
that Ancient Landmark, and the perfect harmony existing everywhere within the
Order, upon this subject, affords no ground for an agitation of either side of the
question. The Grand Lodge of New Jersey has full jurisdiction over Alpha Lodge,
and has not found its approval and initiation of twelve colored men to have been
done in violation of any Masonic Usage or Landmark."
Alluding to the North Carolina campaign against non-affiliates, he says ;
" We trust that the enforcing sword will be tempered with the spirit of Charity,
and that it may smite only the malcontents, passing by the many good and worthy
men, whose necessities compel them for the present simply to be Masons in good
standing, but will not allow them to become members of any particular Lodge."
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QUEBEC.
The Grand Lodge met at Montreal, September 25th, 1872.
Grand Master Graham reports than nine Grand Bodies had, during the year, recog-
nized the Grand Lodge as the enly sovereign Masonic authority in and for the Pro-
vince of Quebec, making thirty-one in all.
lie had granted dispensations for three new Lodges, and announced that two
Lodges heretofore holding under the Grand Lodge of Canada had declared their
allegiance to Quebec.
He gives the brethren the excellent advice that, as a rule, their Lodges should be
closed at an early hour, and strongly urges the Lodges to keep up the goodly custom
of having a fund of benevolence kept separate from the ordinary funds of the Lodge.
He speaks in very appreciative terms of Reports on Correspondence received from
other Grand Lodges, as being freighted with rich and varied learning, and laborious
research, and acknowledges the indebtedness of the Grand Lodge of Quebec to
many of their authors, who have made known and defended its claims as a regularly
constituted Grand Body.
He alludes, with profound satisfaction, to negetiations in progress, promising a
speedy settlement of all difficulties with the Grand Lodge of Canada, but it seems
his expectations were disappointed.
He thus alludes to correspondence had with the Grand Lodge of England :
" In the month of June last, I directed the Grand Secretary to forward to M. W.
the Grand Master of England, a copy of the resolutions passed by the Grand Lodge
at its last Annual Communication, relating, among other things, to the existence,
within our jurisdiction of private Lodges holding allegiance to that Grand Body. On
the 29th of August, a communication in reply thereto was received from R. W.
Brother, the Honorable W. Badgeley, of Montreal, containing a lengthy extract from
a letter received by him from His Lordship, the Marquis of Ripon, the M. W. the
G. M., of England. These documents are herewith submitted for your considera-
tion. You will observe that this Grand Lodge is therein reminded by the Grand
Master of England, ' that when the Grand Lodge of Canada was formally recognized
by this Grand Lodge (England), it was agreed that all such Lodges as desired to
remain under the English Constitution were to be at liberty to do so, and that all their
rights and privileges were to be retained, but no other warrants would be issued by
the Grand Lodge of England to Lodges in Canada," &c, &c.
"The R. W., the acting D. G. M. (England) for Montreal, in the same commu-
nication inter alia, says : ' Believing that the agreement referred to, escaped the
attention and consideration of the Grand Lodge of Quebec, and was not present to
the mind of the Grand Master of Quebec, when he directed your letter with its en-
closures to be forwarded to His Lordship, I take the liberty of recalling it to the no-
tice of the Grand Master and Grand Lodge of Quebec," &c.
" In reply thereto, the following extract will show that this important subject has
not ' escaped the consideration of this Grand Lodge, or its Grand Master.' In our
address in the year 1869, to the Grand Lodges of the World, asking recognition,
occurs the following ; ' And not only was the continued existence in the Province
of Quebec of Private Lodges under the jurisdiction of three Grand Lodges, namely,
England, Scotland and Canada, and the consequent joint occupation, directly and
indirectly of the same Province by these three separate Grand Lodges, deemed and
held to be contrary to the laws, usages and customs of our ancient and honorable
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Fraternity respecting the establishment and jurisdiction of Grand Lodges, but also
much painful experience had shown and convinced the majority of the brothers in
the Providence of Quebec, that such a state of Masonic affairs was wholly incompat-
ible with the peace and welfare of our beloved Fraternity.' "
He makes extracts from his previous annual addresses, showing that the Quebec
brethren fully appreciated the evils of divided jurisdiction, and says :
" I have directed the Grand Secretary to reply to His Lordship, the Grand Master
of England, the more fully to acquaint him with the position of this Grand Lodge
and its claims to undivided jurisdiction within the Province of Quebec, believing
that of all others the Grand Lodge of England should be the foremost to recognize
and uphold the principle of exclusive Grand Lodge jurisdiction. It is, therefore,
confidently anticipated that at an early day these important matters between this
Grand Lodge and the Grand Lodge of England and Scotland and their subordinates
in this Province will be constitutionally settled."
In conclusion, he indicated a wish to be relieved from the duties of Grand Mas-
tership, regarding nearly all the great constitutional questions involved in their
organization as substantially settled. We observe, however, that the Craft wisely
concluded that he could not yet be spared from the station whose duties he had dis-
charged with such dignity, prudence and ability.
Bro. C. Clarke presented the Report on Correspondence, which was ordered to
be printed in the Proceedings, but it does not appear.
According to custom, the Grand Lodge attended religious service at St. Andrews
Church, where Grand Chaplain Clarke preached a brief and pithy sermon from
the following text :
" As free and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the ser-
vants of God. Honor all men, Love the Brotherhood, Fear God, Honor the King."
— i Peter ii, 16, 17.
Bro. Clarke somewhat changed the Apostle's arrangement of these injunctions,
placing them in the order of their, to him, relative importance, thus : I. Fear God.
II. Honor the King. III. Esteem all Men. IV. Love the Brotherhood."
On resumption of labor, notice was given of a motion to be made next year look-
ing to the abolition of the Board of General Purposes.
Warrants of Constitution were granted to the three Lodges under dispensation.
After a long discussion on several propositions relative to differences existing with
the Grand Lodge of Canada, the following was adopted :
"Whereas, The Grand Lodge of Quebec earnestly desires the peace and harmony
of Masonry over the whole habitable Globe, and is solicitous that the tenets of the
Order be preserved in all their ancient purity ; and be perpetuated under those wise
regulations which the Royal Craft from time to time has enacted for its guidance in
all matters of general government and interest.
" And Whereas, This Grand Lodge is profoundly of opinion, that in order to
carry out this benificent and laudable object, every Grand Lodge should possess,
hold and exercise supreme and undivided Masonic authority and jurisdiction over
all Masons within their legitimately recognized territory, such territory being always
conterminous with the political boundaries of the State, Province or Territory, as the
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case may be, whose name such Grand Lodge may elect to assume and may claim to
be designated by.
" And Whereas, This Grand Lodge more immediately and intimately desires
the peace and harmony of their beloved brethren in the Dominion of Canada, and
with that view desire to heal the present unhappy differences which exist between
this Grand Lodge and our well beloved sister, the Grand Lodge of Canada.
" And Whereas, It has come to the knowledge of this Grand Lodge that the M.
W., the Grand Master of Canada has expressed an earnest desire to adjust the differ-
ences which exist between this Grand Lodge and the Grand Lodge of Canada ; be
it therefore
" Resolved, That a committee of seven be named by the M. W., the Grand Mas-
ter, to meet a like committee, to be appointed by the Grand Master of Canada, and
effect, if possible, an adjustment of the said differences, in accordance with the reso-
lutions passed by this Grand Lodge, at its last Annual Communication.
" Resolved, That the Grand Secretary, under the jurisdiction of the Grand Master
of this Grand Lodge, shall forthwith, or as soon as practicable, enter into a corres-
pondence with the M. W. Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Canada, with the
view to inaugurate at once negotiations, so that definite action in the premises may
be had within six weeks from this date ; if an adjustment of difficulties be effected,
an Emergent Communication of this Grand Lodge be called in the City of Montreal,
to ratify and confirm the same, but should no adjustment take place within the time
specified, then the Grand Master shall proceed as directed by the resolutions adopted
at the last Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge.
" The Grand Secretary is ordered to transmit a copy of the foregoing resolutions
to the M. W. Grand Master of Canada for his information."
John Hamilton Graham, of Richmond, was re-elected Grand Master; John H.
Isaacson, Montreal, Grand Secretary.
In an appendix to the Proceedings is published the Proclamation of the Grand
Master, interdicting all Masonic intercourse with all Masons in obedience to the
Grand Lodge of Canada.
From the Preamble it seems that Grand Master Wilson, of Canada, was disposed
to do everything in his power to further an amicable issue of the negotiations pro-
jected by the resolutions copied above, have expressed his intention, if necessary, of
remodeling his committee so as to remove certain obstacles. The obstacles seem to
have been such as could not be overcome, as he finally, January 30, 1873, wrote,
that " under present circumstances he did not consider it expedient to take further
action in the matter."
Thereupon, on February 4th, 1873, Grand Master Graham issued the proclama-
tion of non-intercourse, it having been delayed in hope of an amicable settlement
some four months longer than was contemplated in the resolutions of the Grand
Lodge.
The Grand Master, with great propriety, says that they had exercised forbearance
until it would seem that no fair-minded brother, at home or abroad, can justly feel
that precipitate action on their part has not been taken.
For ourselves, while sincerely regretting the necessity of such action on the part of
the Grand Lodge of Quebec, we are free to say that had it determined upon this course
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at any earlier time after the establishment within its territory of new Warranted
Lodges by the Grand Lodge of Canada, or even after the issue by that body of du-
plicate warrants to the minorities of those Lodges that had joined in forming the new
Grand Lodge, the ultimate verdict of the Masonic world would have justified the act.
Even if we felt that as a matter of policy it were better for the Grand Lodge of Que-
bec to wait still longer before asserting her full rights, we should still admit that in
the exercise of her powers as a sovereign and lawfully constituted Grand Lodge, it
was her province to judge as to the fittest time for so doing.
We value peace, but we value still more highly the present upholding of princi-
ples upon the universal recognition of which future peace must depend. Tried by
principle and by precedent, and especially by the- precedents established in the for-
mation of the other Grand Lodges in the Dominion of Canada, including that which
bears the name of Canada, the proceedings which led to, and the formation of the
Grand Lodge of Quebec were so indisputably correct that there can be no doubt of
the ultimate position of all American Grand Lodges on this question. The logical
necessities of their position will compel them to give their moral support to the
Grand Lodge of Quebec.
RHODE ISLAND.
This neat pamphlet contains the records of three Communications.
The Festival of St. John the Baptist was observed by the Grand Lodge, June 26,
1 87 1, by informally assembling with their families and friends at Rocky Point.
" The Festival Communication was opened in ample form," says the record. Ad-
dresses were made by the Grand Master and others, and for the rest, " the brethren
and friends refreshed themselves."
The Semi-Annual Communication was held at Providence, Nov. 20, 1871.
The Custodians, appointed for that purpose, presented the work and lectures of
the three degress in manuscript and were discharged. The work was declared to be
the only authorized Jacob Townsend in the jurisdiction, and the following were
passed :
"Resolved, That all the work of the symbolic degrees, written out by authority of
this Grand Lodge, or by any person assuming tu act for the Grand Lodge, be returned
to the office of the W. Grand Secretary within sixty days after the passage of this
resolution and that the same be destroyed in presence of W. Benjamin Tallman,
R. W. Lloyd Morton, and W. Thomas Vincent.
" Resolved, That hereafter no manuscript or printed, work, except the Monitors
authorized by this Grand Lodge, shall be used by any officer, in opening or
closing the Lodges, or in conferring the three degress in any Lodge under this jur-
isdiction."
We don't think a cooler thing than that can be found on the records of any jur-
isdiction.
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We observe in the Proceedings of the Annual Communication that the above
named Committee asked to be continued in order to see the thing done. Whereupon
it was :
" Ordered, That the committee be, and the same are hereby continued, and that
the time for the destruction of the work in accordance with the resolution of the
M. W. Grand Lodge, be, and the same is hereby continued to June 15th, A. L. 5872,
at II o'clock, A. M."
There is nothing like being exact to the minute if we would impress the world
with our earnestness.
The Annual Communication was held at Providence, May 20, 1872.
Grand Master Doyle did not depart from his usual custom of confining his An-
nual Address mainly to a report of his official acts.
He thinks the history, jurisprudence, landmarks and general condition of Masonry
can be referred to with more effect by the Grand Master, as he meets the Craft in
various portions of the jurisdiction, than in Grand Lodge.
He reports the Lodges prosperous, and harmony prevailing.
He reports six decisions. We copy the first to concur :
" 1st. That a dwarf in statue was eligible to Masonic membership if he was a
man possessing proper internal qualification. That there was no required standard
as to the height or weight of candidates."
From the second we learn that Masonic dues are not recognized in Rhode
Island.
We copy the fifth as indicating that Grand Master Doyle is getting conservative
on the subject of maims :
" 5th. That a Lodge having made a Mason of a man without a thumb
upon his right hand, must not proceed further in bestowing Masonic light upon
him.
He strongly recommends the Freemasons' Repository, a Masonic newspaper pub-
lished in Providence.
Immediately after the great fire at Chicago the Grand Master issued an appeal to
the constituent Lodges, for contributions. The collections were made slowly, and
he did not hasten matters for the reason that he was led to believe that as spring
approached there would be greater need of help, and that their contributions would
then be most acceptable. Before the contributions had been sent Grand Master
Cregier issued his circular saying that no more aid was needed. Whereupon he
ordered the fund to be deposited in a savings bank for future disposal.
The sum deposited amounted to $2,370, a most liberal response from a jurisdiction
having but twenty-five working Lodges, and we assure our Rhode Island Brethren
that their generosity is as much appreciated by the Craft of Illinois as though the
money had come into their hands.
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Lloyd Morton, of Pawtucket, was elected Grand Master ; Edwin Baker, Prov-
idence, Grand Secretary.
The Grand Lodge of Utah was recognized.
No report on Correspondence.
A memorial page is inscribed to Past Masters Anan Evans, Isbone Sherman and
John Flavel Carr. Bro. Evans had attained the ripe age of ninety-five years.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The Grand Lodge met at Charleston, December loth, 1872.
Grand Master Bruns congratulates the brethren on meeting together with brighter
auguries than have been vouchsafed for many a year, and on the signal prosperity of
the Craft.
Alluding to the Grand Orient of France, he says : " We cannot allow our sover-
eignty to be questioned, and we cannot, even for the sake of peace, abandon princi-
ples which we believe to be vital." He alludes, with pardonable pride, to the com-
pletion of the new Temple, and with regret to those who were not permitted to live
to see it dedicated.
He annouced the death of Grand Marshal Peter K. Coburn, who, during his
seventeen years of service had led to the altar for installation no less than nine Grand
Masters ; Isaac T. Martin, Past Grand Master of Kentucky, and the Representa-
tive near that Grand East of the Grand Lodge of South Carolina ; Past Grand Mas-
ter Charles M. Furman, and Past Senior Grand Warden William T. Walker.
The Grand Master had granted ten dispensations for new Lodges.
Having satisfied himself that the Grand Orient of Brazil, Valley of Lavradio, is
the only regular Masonic body in that Empire, he had accredited a Representative
thereto, and received in return his credentials for a like position near his own Grand
Lodge.
The Report of the Committee on Construction of the Temple report that the cost
over contract price (#35,000), amounts to only #1,346 60, which, we think, one of
the most remarkable escapes on the records of Masonic bodies.
From the report of one of the District Deputies, we take the following :
" The first case was, as to whether a Master of a Lodge had a right to exclude a
member whilst in a state of intoxication. My ruling sustained the Master, as I ruled
that the Master had a right to exclude any one that might impede the harmony of
the Lodge.
" The second case occurred in the same Lodge. When the Worshipful Master
ordered the assessment for building a Lodge room, to be added to the arrears of
members, and those who did not pay the assessment were stricken from the roll as
if in arrears.
" I reversed the Master's decision, and ordered the members not actually in arrears
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for Lodge dues, to be at once reinstated, which was done. These are the only rul-
ings I have been called upon to make."
The rulings were confirmed.
Ten charters were granted.
The Grand Master was requested annually to assemble the District Deputy Grand
Masters and instruct them in the work, it being agreed that uniformity could thus
he best attained.
The Louisiana circular was referred to the Committee on Jurisprudence, who asked
and received leave to report one year hence.
R. S. Bruns, of Charleston, was re-elected Grand Master; B. Rush CAMPBELL,
Charleston, Grand Secretary.
The Report on Correspondence (69 pp.), by Grand Secretary Campbell, review-
ing the Proceedings of thirty-eight American Grand Lodges, is a concise and well-
digested paper. Illinois receives liberal notice.
He says of the address of Grand Master Cregier, from which he quotes at length
on " Dispensations to Confer Degrees," that it will compare favorably both in zeal
for the welfare of the Fraternity and in intellectual grasp with the best of those
which it has been his good fortune to read. The Report on Correspondence also
receives kind mention.
In his conclusion he says :
" It is a source of congratulation to the Craft throughout the country that the intel-
lectual standard of Masonry on this continent is of the highest order, as will be seen
by the examination of the reports and proceedings of the various jurisdictions.
Questions of the greatest importance are therein treated in a manner which would
reflect credit on the brightest intellects, and no man can read these proceedings
without feeling that an institution which brings to its aid so much talent, must con-
tinue to prosper."
The new Masonic Temple was dedicated during the session of the Grand Lodge,
in the presence of large numbers of the Craft from all portions of the State.
The oration delivered on the occasion, by Past Grand Master Henry Buist, is an
elegant and scholarly exposition of the power of association and of Masonry as an
exponent of that principle. He says :
" It is eminently true that whatever in the world's history has been the object to
be gained, whatever the design men meant to carry out, if the mission on which
they have set forth ever was accomplished, it was simply because the men arriving
at this object, or moved by this design, or laboring in this mission, have labored to-
gether; uniting in societies civil, religious or political, working with one mind and
with one accord, and thus invigorating with the strength of the many the weakness
of the one, and enlightening with the combined wisdom and experience of all the
ignorance and darkness of each ; mutually encouraging and reciprocally aiding in
the one combined effort for good or for evil, for weal or for woe.
" And so governed by this great principle of our nature, a principle so unvaried
and so unexceptionable in all the history of human action, that one might almost
suppose it to be an inspiration of instinct, and not a deduction of reason or experi-
ence we find in the world's great history of empires and dynasties of religions and
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policies, episodes of humbler events, springing up at every era, and showing us men
engaged in associations for particular objects not necessarily connected with the
great career of national progress.
" And thus it is to this great instinct that we must attribute, among other associa-
tions, the birth of the institution of Freemasonry. Freemasonry is one of the most
marked, as well as one of the splendid exponents of that great principle of which I
have spoken. It is simply the development, noble in intention, still nobler in its
results, of the instinct spirit of association. And when we speak of it legitimately,
we must speak of it only as an association of good men united for the accomplish-
ment of a common object."
TENNESSEE.
The Grand Lodge met at Nashville, Nov. n, 1872.
Deputy Grand Master D. R. GRAFTON,as Grand Master, announced the death of
Grand Master DuNAWAY, which occurred on the 22d of the preceding August.
Four dispensations for new Lodges had been issued during the year.
The address covers but two pages of the Proceedings, but a single sentence like
the following may well entitle the Grand Master to areceipt in full of all obligations
in the matter of talk :
" One of the dangerous tendencies of the times is a disposition to legislate too
much, and our Fraternity may, unless great caution is exercised, fall into this error.
I have no legislation to recommend."
Ten charters were granted ; two dispensations continued, five granted and four
refused.
Reports were received from the Boards of Relief at Memphis and Nashville. The
former extended aid to six applicants from Illinois, amounting in all to fifty
dollars.
The Grand Lodge adopted the Report of the Committee on Jurisprudence, on
questions submitted. We quote some portions of general interest, of which is the
following rule in reference to the majorities necessary in all voting in Constituent
Lodges :
" For Degrees, membership, restoration after expulsion, and excusing from ballot-
ing, a unanimous vote.
" For conviction on Masonic trials, expulsion, indefinite suspension, and restora-
tion after indefinite suspension, a two thirds vote is necessary.
" For definite suspension, granting dimits, waiving jurisdiction, and on all other
questions that may come before the Lodge in transacting the general business thereof,
a majority vote is sufficient."
We suspect that somebody was asleep when it was decided that a majority vote is
sufficient to waive jurisdiction acquired by rejecting a petition for the degrees.
Otherwise the rule accords with that obtaining in this jurisdiction, except that
ours requires a two-thirds vote to fix any degree of punishment.
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In answer to the question : " Are funeral honors a matter of right, or courtesy
merely? If a matter of right, what constitutes 'good standing,' entitling a mem-
ber to funeral honors ?" the Committee say :
" Strictly speaking, no Mason is entitled to it as a matter of right, growing out of
his relation to the Fraternity. It is a matter of courtesy — a free-will offering to
the memory of a deceased worthy brother, whose loss we deplore, whose life we are
not ashamed of, and whose virtues we commend to the world.
" ' Good standing,' in reference to visitation and dimits, technically means free
from Masonic censure, and not under charges ; when used in reference to burial
honors, it means a worthy member, free from censure.
" The old charges and regulations make no reference to Masonic burials, and
there is no ancient law on the subject binding upon Masons of the present day,
so that the whole subject is within the control of the Grand Lodge, with one
ancient example and modern usage for its guide. .
" Funeral rites, in honor of distinguished persons, and those whose virtues have
commended them to the esteem and affection of the living, have been practiced
in all ages, and in all civilized countries, differing in forms according to the
rank of the individual and the prevailing customs of those offering the tribute.
It is the verdict of the living upon the character and merits of the dead.
" In conformity to this usage, as well as to the legend of our Order, distinguished
Masons, and those of great skill and merit, were doubtless interred with Masonic
ceremonies at a very early period in the history of the Order, but such honors were
not common until modern times, and have never been indiscriminately bestowed,
except in the United States.
The Committee go on to say that in Continental Europe it is still practiced in con-
formity to the symbol of our ancient legend, and only in honor of prominent officers
and distinguished persons ; that in Germany it is rarely observed, but that the practice
has been more general in England, and in countries in which England planted Ma-
sonry.
If we search for precedent, the Masonry planted by England is all that is worth
talking about as our guide. The Masonry of Continental Europe is not that which
regards no man for his worldly wealth or honors.
In all English-speaking countries the custom of burying, at his request or that of
his family, a deceased brother with Masonic honors, is, and has been for a long time,
so general that if usage may establish a right this may properly be considered as
established.
The committee in their attempt to establish a definable difference between
" good standing," in reference to visitation on the one hand, and to burial honors
on the other, have not been very happily successful. The definition, " a worthy
member, free from censure," is an elusive one, because such is the imperfection of
humanity that all men are more or less unworthy and censurable. Whether a mem-
ber is so unworthy as to have forfeited the right to Masonic burial, is a question to
be settled not by a definition, but by a judgment, and this judgment, it will be seen,
the committee hold may be rendered after his death :
" The committee believe it would be an outrage on public sentiment, and a pros-
titution of Masonic rights, to pay Masonic. respect to the memory of those whose
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lives have been an open violation of the cardinal virtues of our Order. Such a prac-
tice tends to cheapen virtue with our own members, and degrades Masonry in the
eyes of the world.
*' We desire the Grand Lodge to take such action in the premises as that every
Mason who is not living in the discharge of his Masonic duties may look forward to
the certainty that, however he may escape the discipline of the Craft whilst living,
his merits and demerits will be passed on by the Lodge when he dies.
" To the worthy Mason, such a discrimination will be an incentive to press on to
higher excellencies, knowing that when he dies the honors and respect paid to the
ancient artificer of the Temple will be awarded to him.
" We therefore recommend the iollowing rule :
" It shall be the duty of each Subordinate Lodge to bury a deceased worthy mem-
ber thereof (if deemed worthy by the Lodge) with Masonic rites, if requested by
the decedent, or by his near relatives after his death, in all other cases, such Mason-
ic honors may be granted, or withheld, as the Lodge may deem best."
If it be a prostitution of Masonic rights to pay respect to the memory of those
whose lives have been an open violation of the cardinal virtues of our Fraternity,
how shall we fitly characterize our own action in according full Masonic standing to
the living violators of these virtues ? Which tends most to cheapen virtue with our
own members : to require them to follow to the grave, in the light of day, the wreck
of him whose association they permitted while living, or to permit the hand that
was neither stretched forth to support him ere he fell, nor to strike at his evil practi-
ces, to buffet the defenceless dead ?
We admit that the subject has its difficulties, but deplorable as it may be to be
obliged to give Masonic burial to an unworthy brother, it is preferable to that other
alternative, against which all our instincts cry out, of putting the voiceless dead on
trial.
We adhere to the Illinois rule as being just to the dead brother with whose er-
rors we have neglected to deal, and as tending to make us do our duty toward the
living.
Resolutions were adopted that for a persistent habit of profane swearing, or for
engaging in the disreputable occupation of keeping a tippling saloon and refusing
to abandon the same when admonished by the Lodge, suspension or expulsion should
follow.
The docket of the Committee on Appeals embraced twenty-eight cases.
On an appeal from a sentence of indefinite suspension, the committee report that
the Lodge sought to penetrate the privacy of the family circle and disturb maritial
relations. This they thought grossly wrong, and recommended reinstatement, and
that as it was impossible for the Lodge to blot out the stain it would have put on the
brother's family, that the Grand Master inquire whether it is not best to deal with
the Lodge for its unheard-of action. The Grand Lodge concurred.
D. R. Grafton, of Chattanooga, was elected Grand Master; John Frizzell,
Nashville, Grand Secretary.
The Grand Lodge attended a Lodge of Sorrow, held in memory of the late Grand
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Master William M. Dunaway. A brief but exceedingly appropriate eulogy was
delivered by I3ro. A. W. CAMPBELL. Of his personal and Masonic character he
says :
" His personal character was affluent in all those qualities which contribute to the
formation of a perfect man. To wisdom, to love of right, and devotion to prin-
ciple he added a temper respectful and courteous to others ; a courage unquestioned,
and honor intact. No stain blurred the ermine of his good name. Conceding to
all men the full measure of what was their due, he was punctilious in the exaction of
what was due to himself. Exempt, in an unusual degree, from that acrimony
which the collision of debate too often engenders, and always tolerant of the
opinions of others, he was inilexible and unswerving in the maintenance of his
own.
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He was slow to anger and easy to forgive. He supported his falling brother
by gentle admonition, and warned him with kindness of approaching danger. He
opened not his ear to his slanderers, and closed his lips against all reproach.
His faults and his follies were locked in his breast, and his prayers for mercy ascend-
ed to Jehovah for his brother's sins. Nor were these sentiments of benevolence
confined to those who were bound to him by the ties of kindred or worldly friend-
ship alone, but, extending them throughout the globe, he loved and cherished all
who sit beneath the broad canopy of our universal Lodge."
The Proceedings contain a tablet inscribed to his memory.
Bro. Geo. S. Blackie presented the Report on Correspondence (67 pp.), review-
ing the Proceedings of forty-four American Grand Lodges and fourteen Foreign
Grand Bodies. It is, like all his papers, excellent.
Illinois finds a place in his review. He says of Grand Master Cregier's address,
that it is " an able business paper, and well displays the extraordinary energy of the
elected head of this mighty jurisdiction."
Referring to the action of Massachusetts in chartering Lodges in Chili, he says ;
" For the life of us, we can see very little difference between the action of Massa-
chusetts and that of France. France has recognized a Scottish Rite body, working
in the Scottish Rite and giving all the symbolic Degrees, in a territory all already
occupied by the York Grand Lodge; in consequence, we all condemned France.
Chili has her own Grand Lodge, conferring the three symbolic Degrees in the Scot-
tish Rite, and Massachusetts steps in and says she has the right to have Lodges
working the Degrees in the York Rite there, too, Pray, wherein is the differ-
ence ? Has Massachusetts more right in South America than France in Louisi-
ana ? Or, do Grand Master Gardner and the other 33rds of Massachusetts not
recognize the " Scottish Rite " at all ? "
Every reviewer will appreciate the following :
" We have presented our abstract in as brief form as we could without injustice
to the labor. It is not possible in these days, to make the brief reports on corres-
pondence that our fathers were contented with. Then, there were few Grand
Bodies, and very little published by them. Now, there are forty-eight Grand Lodges
in the English-speaking countries of North America alone. Then, there were
not more than three hundred pages in all the Grand Lodge reports of the world ;
now, we have had to learn the contents of no fewer than thirteen thousand three
hundred and sixteen pages, some of them of folio size, and many of the finest type,
and written in seven of the languages of Europe. To do justice to all would re-
quire a volume such as that issued this year by the Grand Lodge of Massachu-
setts."
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TEXAS.
The Grand Lodge met at Houston, Tune io, 1872, with Deputy Grand Master
Bramlette as Grand Master.
Of the ten dispensations for new Lodges ordered at the preceding Annual Com-
munication, he had issued three and presumed the other seven had been issued by
the Grand Master previous to his death. Upon his own authority he had issued
eight more, while fifteen petitions had been rejected.
There had been fewer questions than usual, involving Masonic law, presented for
his decision, which he attributes to the codification and publication of the Edicts
and Decisions of the Grand Lodge. He however submitted sixteen decisions, each
involving some point not heretofore definitely adjudicated.
He decided, in a case where a brother suspended had appealed, and the action of
the Lodge was sustained, that when at a subsequent Annual Communication the
Grand Lodge had authorized the Lodge, at its own request, to re-try the case, its
action did not affect the status of the accused as a suspended Mason. He decided
that the Grand Lodge, by recognizing and passively approving the action of a Con-
stituent Lodge in suspending a Past Grand Master, had conceded the right of
Constituent Lodges to deal with members of the Grand Lodge, but seemed to have
some doubt as to their power to deal with a Grand Officer.
He thinks it improper that Constituent Lodges should be incorporated.
He submitted the Louisiana Circular, and thus alludes to its contents :
" The committee delicately hint at the cause of all the troubles referred to, which
seems to result from the various systems of spurious Masonry, gotten up by selfish
and designing men during the last century, engrafted upon Masonry, and called
Masonic Rites. These spurious and so-called Masonic Rites, are numerous, and in
some countries have become the prevailing element, and have usurped the entire
control of Masonry. They have filched our rites, donned the name and livery of
Princes and Rulers, and strut proudly in stolen costume. Shall such pretension be
recognized as Masonry i and can our Institution sustain the pressure and preserve
her holy principles under the weight of this pseudo Masonry, with all its gewgaws
and political contaminations?"
The Grand Master devotes considerable space to the subject of making Masons
of negroes. After alluding to the repeal by the Grand Lodge of Illinois of its in-
defensible prohibitory edict, and to the initiation of colored men in New Jersey, he
says ;
" An eminent brother, and P. G. M., of New York, R. W. John W. Simons, in
report on F. C, alluding to the action of the Grand Lodge of Delaware on this
subject, talks thus ■
"'An attempt to rescind the unwise resolution of 1S67, in regard to the initiation
of colored persons, was tabled.
§ ^"'It appears strange to us that our Delaware brethren will persist in overlooking
the fact that this is not a subject for legislation. The right to admit or reject any
profane, white or black, resides in the individual members oi the Craft. The right
to decide who shall, or who shall not, be members of a particular Lodge, resides in
that Lodge, through the individual act of its members. When a Grand Lodge
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grants a warrant and establishes a subordinate, it gives its consent to the subordinate
to enjoy a full exercise of the right of selecting and making up its own membership.
The Grand Lodge cannot legislate a member into a Lodge, neither can it keep one
out lawfully, if the Lodge unanimously decides to admit him. The resolution of
1867 is therefore an attempt to exercise a power not resident in the Grand Lodge,
and should never have been adopted.'
" We take issue with the distinguished brother. We assume that this is a subject
of legitimate legislation by Grand Lodges; and that the Delaware Resolution of
1867 was legitimate and a wise resolution; and the repealing of such is fraught with
the most dangerous consequences to the future of Masonry in America.
"That 'the Grand Lodge cannot legislate a member into a Lodge, nor keep one
nut lawfully, if the Lodge unanimously decides to admit him,' is true, as a general
rule, so far as membership is concerned ; and it is also true that Grand Lodges have
always exercised the power of controlling and designating the proper material Sox
the Masonic temple. Some regulations of this character are of such ancient origin
that they are universally admitted as Landmarks in Masonry ; such, for instance, as
the prohibitions in regard to atheists, irreligious libertines, women, bondmen, those
physically unsound, &c., &c."
The Grand Master was certainly nodding when he affirmed that Grand Lodges
had always exercised the power of controlling and designating the proper material
for Lodges. So tar from its being true that the Landmark fixing the qualifications
of candidates has grown out of a Grand Lodge regulation, the Grand Lodge did
not come into existence until long after the Landmark was firmly fixed.
The Committee on Jurisprudence, to whom this subject was referred, submitted a
special report thereon, which goes straight to the core of the subject, and treats it
on purely Masonic grounds. The Committee say :
"The resolution of January, 1852, (168th Reg.) was adopted during the existence
of slavery, when negroes were almost universally slaves, or born in slavery. They
were then obnoxious to the ban of our ancient Landmarks, which prohibit the ad-
mission of any who are not free born. Certainly neither a white man or a negro,
who was born a slave, is admissable. Of this there can be no question ; and any
Lodge that has or may admit such bondmen born, violates the ancient Landmarks.
But can the Grand Lodge adopt and enforce new restrictions or prohibitions upon its
subordinates, not recognized by the Landmarks ? If it can, where is the line of
demarcation to be drawn ? and what standard of race, occupation, or condition in
life, shall we adopt? Masonry knows no distinction of religion, nationality, politics
or race, or occupation. It is universal in these particulars ; and it is equally true
that it recognizes no right in any race, religion or nationality, to demand admission
into its portals. None have any claim of right to demand admission. All without
are among the profane. They cannot be admitted among the children of Light,
without the free and unanimous consent of all, given according to the rules gener-
ally established for the government of the Craft, and each branch of it. The guar-
dianship of the portals of our Order has, by general usage and consent, been com-
mitted to the Subordinate Lodges. It is for them to decide and act upon the fitness
of the material presented for use. They must act within the limits prescribed by
the Landmarks, and in case they wilfully err, or are grossly negligent in perform-
ance of their duty, it is in the power of the Grand Lodge to revoke their Charters.
If we assume the ground that the Grand Lodge may impose restrictions or limita-
tions, not imposed by the Landmarks, then the converse of the proposition may be
insisted upon, that the Subordinates shall admit such classes and persons as the
Grand Lodge may decide to be fit material, and not prohibited by the Landmarks.
This is precisely the ground of the Grand Orient of France, which assumed that the
Grand Lodge of Louisiana had been derelict in its duty, because it did not affirma-
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tively declare that negroes should be admitted into its Lodges, and authorized the
establishment of Lodges in Louisiana for that purpose. Against this action of the
Grand Orient, our sister Grand Lodge of Louisiana protested before the Masonic
world, and we have joined in that protest along with most Other of our sister Grand
Lodges. We cannot now consistently assume any other ground, if we would ; but
it was the right, true and Masonic ground, and therefore we^ should adhere to it."
The Grand Lodge concurred.
The Grand Master argues ably that the retailing of spirituous liquors is not a le-
gitimate business for a Mason, and forcibly says :
" He who, for petty lucre, presents the tempting bowl to a weak and erring brother's
lips, and thereby aids his fall and disgrace — entailing untold evils upon his family —
is surely more culpable in the sight of God than is the victim he is aiding to perdi-
tion. .
" We punish our brother, who has been thus tempted ; but as yet, we have not defined
the status of the tempter. Shall we continue to fraternize with those who are aiding
the destruction of, and frustrating all our efforts to redeem, our unfortunate and weak
brother; who are robbing his family of their necessary support and sustenance, and
who are scattering, broadcast, the seeds of evil among the youth of our land ?"
He alludes in eloquent terms to the death of the Grand Master, Bro. Thos. J. H.
Anderson, which occurred on the 29th of the preceding August, and that of Past
Grand Master William M. Taylor, which occurred less than one month later.
Appropriate notice of their decease was taken by the Grand Lodge, and memorial
pages are inscribed to them. Bro. Taylor had attained to the highest positions in
the Grand Chapter and Grand Commandery as well as in the Grand Lodge.
The Grand Lodge decided that no elective officer of Grand or Constituent Lodge
could be elected by proxy ; adopted the District Deputy system ; recognized the
Grand Lodges of British Columbia and Utah; assisted the Grand Master to dedi-
cate Glenwood Cemetery; recommended the "Texas Mirror" to the Craft; wit-
nessed an exemplification of the work in the three degrees ; chartered twenty-two
Lodges, twenty of which had previously worked under dispensation ; continued
one dispensation and discontinued one; restored two charters; referred "several"
petitions for dispensations for new Lodges to the Grand Master; made Committee
on Grievances and Appeals a Standing Committee, and provided for like Com-
mittee No. 2, to sit five days before the Annual Communication — a wise proceeding,
judging from the amount of labor performed by this Committee, reporting as it did,
at considerable length on twenty-six cases.
Under the lead of the Committee, the Grand Lodge reversed a verdict of expul-
sion and ordered a new trial because only five members voted on the trial, six only
being present and the Junior Warden precluded by law from voting ; inflicted the
penalty of expulsion in a case where the Lodge had acquitted the accused in the
face of conclusive evidence of guilt ; concurred in the opinion that the certainty
ratber than the severity of punishment yields the best fruits of discipline, and also
that the indictment and judgment of a civil court should be taken as prima facie
evidence of guilt.
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William Brami.ktte, of Paris, was elected Grand Master; George H. Bring-
HURST, Houston, Grand Secretary.
Tlie following from the Committee on Jurisprudence was adopted ; .
^Resolved, That membership in the Grand Lodge does not exclude the jurisdiction
of a Subordinate Lodge to try and punish a Mason, who is otherwise subject to it,
for Masonic offences; except that officers of the Grand Lodge, during their term of
office, are not subject to discipline by a Subordinate Lodge."
The Report on Correspondence (71 pp.) we presume to be substantially the work
of the Chairman of the Committee, Bro. Marcus F. Mott. He acknowledges
material assistance received from the other members of the Committee, but as he
holds himself responsible for all its imperfections, he is equally entitled to the great
credit which attaches to the work. The report reviews the Proceedings of forty-two
American Grand Lodges, Illinois of the number, and three Foreign Grand Bodies.
Bro. Mott dissents (in common, we think, with all reviewers who have noticed
the subject,) from Bro. Dawkins' proposition to accept hearsay testimony in Masonic
trials ; forcibly argues the right of the Grand Lodge to do complete justice in cases
of appeal; inclines to the opinion, repeatedly expressed by us, that insanity enters
into every case of suicide ; is not prepared to concur in the decision that an installed
officer removing beyond the jurisdiction of his Lodge can dimit before the expira-
tion of his term of office; holds, as we do not, to the system of a ballot for each
degree; believes, as we do, that the presumption of innocence, until the contrary
appears by legal proof, and a legal trial, is a sound rule, founded on the highest
principles of justice ; thinks, and we agree with him, that the Texas rule in regard
to non-affiliates, which is substantially the same as the present law in Illinois, is all
that can properly be done in the matter, and looks for no good results from the se-
vere measures inaugurated in North Carolina.
On the question whether a Mason can be tried in any other Lodge than that in
which he holds membership, Bro. Mott says :
" Without entering into any discussion on this subject, we will just state that our
Grand Lodge has resolved that an offender may be tried either by the Lodge where
the offender holds his membership, or by the Lodge where the offence was com-
mitted, both Lodges having concurrent jurisdiction, the jurisdiction to attach to that
Lodge which first prefers charges, provided that if the charges are preferred in an-
other Lodge, his own Lodge shall be officially notified of the fact. Our Grand
Lodge, however, denies the right of a Lodge in another jurisdiction to try any
Mason residing in Texas."
Illinois claims for her Constituent Lodges the right, and makes it their duty, to
exercise penal jurisdiction over all Masons residing within their territorial jurisdic-
tions, without regard to where such Masons hold their membership. She concedes
the same right to her sister jurisdictions.
UTAH.
The Grand Lodge met at Salt Lake City, October 7th, 1872.
The address of Grand Master STRICKLAND opens thus :
" Situated as we are, in the valleys and foothills of the mountains, near the river
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Jordan and the Dead Sea, surrounded by mountain heights covered with perpetual
snow, " The Beautiful Snow," that in shrinking, moist-eyed modesty at the face of
the sun, makes verdant twenty thousand cottage homes, shaded by the morning sha-
dows of the Wasatch ; homes of a people who believe in prophets and prophecies,
that they came up into these mountain valleys at the instance and direction of the
Almighty; a people engaged in building a temple as a future dwelling-place of the
Lord ; a people who believe in and practice many dogmas of the Israelites in their
palmy days. It is not unlike the topography of the country or the belief and prac-
tice of the people in ancient days, when Masonry, like a ' silver lining ' to the great
black cloud of religious superstition and licentiousness then enveloping the earth,
came forth and formed the first living nucleus of cosmopolitan ideas, around which
new thoughts could rally with an assurance of protection, until strong enough to go
forth among the nations commanding and demanding respect."
He reports peace, harmony and prosperity among the Craft since the formation of
the Grand Lodge, and that no death had occurred.
His duties had been light. He had granted a dispensation for a new Lodge at
Provo City, and had refused a petition for one at Salt Lake City, believing that there
was not room and material to warrant the establishment of a fourth Lodge, an opin-
ion in which the Grand Lodge concurred.
Deputy Grand Master Cohn, who had charge of the Craft during a brief absence
of the Grand Master, reported that he had declined to grant a dispensation to ad-
vance an Entered Apprentice who was so deficient in memory as to be unable to
learn the lectures.
Reuben H. Robertson, of Salt Lake City, was elected Grand Master ; Christo-
pher Diehl, Salt Lake City, Grand Secretary.
One Lodge was chartered.
The Grand Lodges of British Columbia and Quebec were recognized.
The following rather loose rule was adopted :
" Resolved, That where there are two or more Lodges holding concurrent juris-
diction, the jurisdiction over non-affiliated and non-resident Masons shall be concur-
rent, and shall be exercised by individual Lodges, turn about. Provided, That when
a particular Lodge may desire to exercise jurisdiction out of turn, it may do so with
the consent of two-thirds of the Lodges interested."
A revision of the Constitution and By-Laws having been ordered, and the Com-
mittee not being prepared to report, the Grand Lodge suspended labor until Novem-
ber 1 2th, 1872, when the revised Constitution, By-Laws, Rules of Order, Code of
Jurisprudence and Standard Lodge By-Laws were adopted.
Past Grand Master, Obed F. Strickland was presented with a fine and heavily
encased gold watch and chain, suitably inscribed, and a public oration was delivered
by the Grand Chaplain and Past Grand Orator, Norman McLeod.
We are glad to note that the revised By-Laws provide for the system of one ballot
for the three degrees.
Representatives from Lodges U. D. are admitted to seats in Grand Lodge, but
properly excluded from voting and holding office.
A distorted version of the " Charges of a Freemason," is published with the Pro-
ceedings.
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VERMONT.
The Grand Lodge met at Burlington, June 12th, 1872.
The Grand Lodge, at its preceding Annual Communication, passed a resolution
making it the duty of the Grand Master to inspect the By-Laws of the several Lodges
and take " such action as he should deem necessary." We do not wonder that
Grand Master Davis, who had some experience in this line and found it considera-
ble labor to revise those of a single Lodge, shrank from the accumulated labor of
the ordinary duties of his office and the personal revision of the By-Laws of ninety-
six Lodges ! He therefore called the District Deputies to his aid, deciding the
questions that came up from them, and also those which came up on appeal from
their corrections, inspecting those of twenty-four Lodges himself. Evidently the
Craft in Vermont think it is better that the Grand Master should " wear out than
rust out."
He had granted three dispensations for new Lodges.
While admitting that the emergency might arise which should call for the exercise
of the dispensing power to enable the ballot to be taken without waiting the pre-
scribed time, he had found no such cases, and had refused all such petitions. Among
other reasons, equally well stated, why great care should be exercised in dispensing
with this regulation, he gives the following :
" Another and more important objnction is found in the looseness with which
members oftentimes perform their duty with the ballot on such occasions. There is
always more or less feeling excited in behalf of a petitioner who is about to remove,
and his objectionable characteristics, if he have any, are too apt to be overlooked in
sympathy for one who is about to depart. To some it would seem too harsh to black-
ball a man just as he was going away. And again, if he is not just the man to make
a good Mason, his objectionable qualities will go with him, and those who cast the
ballot will not have to encounter them. All this, together with the advantage of the
initiation fee to replenish the Lodge treasury, and which a black-ball would prevent,
are quite likely to influence the minds of more or less members of the Lodge seek-
ing to do the work."
He reports the following :
" About the first of April, I received a very serious complaint from Mad River
Lodge, No. 77, at Moretown, relating to the action of the Master and Senior Warden
of that Lodge. I immediately directed R. W. Brother J. L. Mack, the District
Deputy Grand Master for that Masonic District, to investigate the facts and make
report. He made a very thorough investigation, and reported, in substance, that on
the 30th day of last January a petition was received in the Lodge, an Investigating
Committee appointed upon the same, who immediately made report, and the ballots
were thereupon taken, in which one black-ball appeared against the candidate, not-
withstanding which he was declared elected and one degree conferred upon him.
All this occurred upon the same evening. It also appeared that the Master had ar-
ranged beforehand with the acting Junior Warden that if one black-ball appeared
against the candidate it should be disregarded and he declared elected. The reg-
gular Junior Warden of the Lodge was absent, and his station rilled by a pro tem-
pore appointment. This was a flagrant disregard of regulations and defiance of Ma-
sonic authority, such as I had never before heard of. Immediately upon receiving
the report I issued an order suspending the Master from the functions of his office
during my pleasure, or until the present communication of the Grand Lodge. I also
issued a similar order against the Senior Warden for announcing the ballots clear
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when in fact they were not clear, he knowing at the time that a black-ball appeared
against the candidate."
The Special Committee to whom the case was referred, recommended the indefi-
nite suspensiou of the Master, Senior Warden and Acting Junior Warden, and the
forfeiture of the Lodge charter. An animated and general discussion followed, evi-
dently turning on two points, the forfeiture of a charter without giving the Lodge a
hearing, and the question of original jurisdiction in reference to the Senior Warden
and Acting Junior Warden. The matter went over until the next day when Past
Grand Master Hall offered a substitute for the report of the committee, instructing
the Grand Master to summon the Master to appear at the next Annual Communica-
tion for trial, on charge of "gross violation of the By-Laws of the Grand Lodge,
and other conduct unbecoming the Master of a Lodge," and directing the Grand
Master to order Mad River Lodge to put the Senior Warden and Acting Junior War-
den on trial " for gross unMasonic conduct in violation of the By-Laws of the Grand
Lodge, and conduct unbecoming their official position."
The Grand Master offered an amendment to this, instructing the Grand Master to
summon all three of the persons referred to for trial, at the next Annual Communi-
cation, and it was adopted.
Whatever may have been rightfully within the power of the Grand Lodge to do
with reference to the Senior Warden, we are entirely at loss to know by what right
the Grand Lodge assumed original jurisdiction over the Acting Junior Warden who
was not a member of that body. Certainly not by virtue of any power found in its
Constitution, which in the only place where the subject is mentioned, concedes to the
constituent Lodge original jurisdiction even over the officers of the Grand Lodge.
On the subject of dimits the Grand Master says :
" My own opinion is that it is the right of any member of a Lodge, in good stand-
ing, to request a dimit without giving any reason therefor, and simply for the pur-
pose of severing his connection with the Lodge and remaining unaffiliated. And
when such request is made, it is the duty of the Lodge to grant it. A majority vote,
however, in the affirmative upon the request is required. This, of course, implies
the powei-, by a failure of such vote, to deny the dimit. It being a duty, the per-
formance of it is with the consciences of the members.
" Our Institution is a voluntary one. All its members come to it of " their own
free will and accord." They assume its duties and obligations voluntarily, and, so
far as its active duties are concerned, the performance of them continues to be sub-
ject to their own volition. Its obligations, however, are binding for life; such as
the duty of secrecy, the necessity of obeying the moral law, and living uprightly and
acting honorably, so as not to bring discredit upon our Institution. A dimit does
not, to any degree, absolve them from these obligations. Membership is an active
duty ; for its performance a Mason is rewarded by the benefits and privileges of the
Lodge organization. He becomes a member voluntarily, and assumes the duties
consequent upon membership for the purpose of its advantages. His continued per-
formance of these duties should be as much at his own choice as the original assump-
tion of them was. To attempt to compel him to continue his membership and to
thrust upon him its benefits, against his will, could be of no advantage, either to the
Lodge or the member. Such an attempt is repugnant to the voluntary nature of our
Institution."
These views being in conflict with the decisions of his predecessors, the Grand
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Master asked the Grand Lodge to decide what should be the regulation in the future.
Under the lead of the Committee on Address, it disagreed with him by a vote of 51
to 45.
Of the Quebec brethren he says :
" Their unfortunate troubles with the Grand Lodge of Canada, however, were still
unsettled. Some attempts were made for an adjustment through a committee from
each body, but without avail. After much deliberation they placed themselves, by a
series of resolutions, squarely upon the ground of exclusive Masonic control of all
the Lodges within their territorial limits. ,
" This is the ground that the Grand Lodge of Vermont has always stood upon,
and in order to be consistent, in view of action of recognition, we must countenance,
and, if need be, defend the Grand Lodge of Quebec in the honorable position it has
taken."
He announced the death of Barzillai Davenport, for many years Deputy Grand
Master, and William P. Russell, Past Junior Grand Warden, both of whose names
were intimately connected with the history of the Grand Lodge at the time of, and after
its re-organization ; also, of Bro. Julian H. Dewey, cut off in the prime of life, a man
of rare attainments and great ability. Memorial pages are dedicated to these breth-
ren, and also to Bro. Harry Hill, one of the oldest and most respected Masons in
the jurisdiction, intelligence of whose death was received during the sessiou of the
Grand Lodge, and Uzal Pierson, Grand Tyler, who died some weeks after the
close of the Grand Lodge, and who, duriag the session, was presented with a Past
Grand Tyler's Jewel, on the obverse of which was inscribed the fact that he had
been for sixty years a Mason !
The Grand Master submitted thirty decisions, many of which, we presume, were
evoked by questions growing out of the revision of the By-Laws of constituent
Lodges.
We note some that are not dependent on local regulation, and concur : That in
any case when it is found that the petitioner is ineligible, the petition should be re-
turned without a ballot ; that a petitioner who has lost one eye, but is otherwise per-
fect in his physical qualifications, is not thereby disqualified for the degrees ; that a
Mason is not liable to charges and trial for anything done before he became a Ma-
son, except for fraudulent statements in his petition, or some other improper act con-
nected with his admission ; and that by initiation a candidate acquires a right to
advancement, upon suitable proficiency, and this right cannot be taken from him
( justly) without sufficient cause. We doubt, hesitatingly, his decision that a mem-
ber can not be excused from balloting on a petition for the degrees, or affiliation, by
unanimous consent, and dissent from the decision that an unaffiliated Mason can not
prefer charges.
Past Grand Master Englesby, as the Representative of the Grand Lodge of Que-
bec, presented the preamble and resolutions adopted by that body in September,
1871 (see III. Proc., 1872,/. cxiii, App.), and affered the following:
"Whereas, The Grand Lodge of Canada still refuses recognition of the Grand
Lodge of Quebec, and is asserting jurisdiction over Lodges located in the Province
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of Quebec; and whereas such assertion of jurisdiction violates the well settled prin-
ciples of Masonic law applicable to such cases ; therefore,
" Resolved, That the Grand Master is hereby instructed (unless the Grand Lodge
of Canada, at its next session, withdraws from and ceases to assert any jurisdiction
over any Lodge of Masons in the Province of Quebec) to issue circulars to the dif-
ferent Grand Lodges, as well as the subordinate Lodges of this State, that the Grand
Lodge of Vermont and its subordinate Lodges have suspended all Masonic inter-
course with the Grand Lodge of Canada, and Masons under its jurisdiction, until
the wrong is made right."
This went to a Special Committee, the majority of whom asked one year's further
time for consideration, while the minority urged its immediate adoption. The mi-
nority report prevailed.
The question of the recognition of the Grand Orient of Brazil, Valley of Lavra-
dio, was referred to the Grand Master to be disposed of as he should think best.
Past Grand Master Hall was presented with a service of silver. We should be
glad to copy the presentation address of Grand Secretary Clark, but the manner
in which Vermont is growing on our hands admonishes us to forbear.
Three Lodges were chartered.
PARK Davis, of St. Albans, was re-elected Grand Master ; Henry Clark, Rut-
land, Grand Secretary.
The following, we are glad to say, " was ordered to lie : "
"Resolved, That a nonaffiliated Mason shall be deprived of all Masonic privileges
within this jurisdiction after this date."
The Grand Lodge condemned the action of the Grand Lodge of Hamburg in in-
vading the jurisdiction of New Jersey, but as it had already interdicted all Masonic
intercourse with that body, it could only renew its protest against its un-Masonic
action.
The Report on Correspondence (70 pp.), by Bro. Henry Clark, is an able and
judicious review of the Proceedings of forty-six American Grand Lodges and six
European Grand Bodies.
Illinois is thoroughly reviewed. In answer to his suggestion we reply that in this
jurisdiction the right of peremptory objection, as against a visitor, is fully recognized.
Bro. Clark fails to see the right or appreciate the doctrine that the Grand Lodge
has the right to re-instate a member in a constituent Lodge. So do we, and so does
our Grand Lodge, as he will see by referring to page 112, of the volume he was re-
viewing, whereon appears the record of the striking out of "and reinstated in said
Lodge."
Under "Massachusetts" we find the following:
" A Quarterly Communication of the Grand Lodge was held on the 9th of March,
and the Grand Master, in his address delivered at that time, takes up the subject of
the Prince Hall, or Negro Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, and proves conclusively
that it was illegitimate, because the Prince Hall African Lodge in Boston was not
organized under a charter from the Grand Lodge of England until 1787, ten years
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after the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts was organized. And it is from this Prince
Hall Lodge, of Boston, that all other African Lodges in the United Stales have
descended. Of course, after the organization of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts,
no other Masonic power whatever had any right to grant charters for the formation
of Lodges within her jurisdiction, and the charter of Prince Hall and his associates
was, therefore, null and void, and they were clandestine."
We think we showed conclusively, in our report for l87l,that as the Grand Lodge
of Massachusetts was not formed until 1792, eight years after the charter of African
Lodge was granted, and five years after its arrival in Boston, the illegitimacy of that
Lodge must he proved on other grounds than this, if proved at all. Until the facts
we there adduced have been invalidated, or the deductions we drew from them have
been controverted — neither of which has been done — we submit that it is not in
order for any one to assume that there was in Massachusetts, at the time the charter
was granted to African Lodge, any Masonic body exercising or even claiming to ex-
ercise exclusive jurisdiction.
VIRGINIA.
The Grand Lodge met at Richmond, Dec. 9, 1872.
Grand Master Withers reports having granted eleven dispensations for new
Lodges ; that he had visited Lodges in almost every section of the jurisdiction, and
feels authorized to say that the Fraternity is in a healthy and prosperous condition.
He thinks it both necessary and proper for the various Masonic Bodies who re-
pudiate the usurpations of the Grand Orient of France and the Grand Lodge of
Hamburg, to unite in the course recommended by the Grand Lodge of Louisiana,
and to declare their purpose not only to interdict Masonic intercourse between their
subordinates and those Grand Bodies who thus disregard Masonic law and comity,
but at the same time to proclaim their purpose of extending this interdict to all Ma-
sonic Bodies, whether Orients or Lodges, which refuse to give in their adhesion to
this great principle of non-intervention.
In reference to this matter, the Grand Lodge, under the lead of the Committee
on the Grand Master's Address, adopted(resolutions providing for a Committee to
prepare a memorial to be presented to the Grand Orient of France and the Grand
Lodge of Hamburg, respectfully and earnestly remonstrating with them for their
invasion of the rights of the Grand Lodges of Louisiana, New York and New Jer-
sey ; and with equal earnestness most fraternally asking them to withdraw the char-
ters of all the Lodges which they have established in this country, and that they
unite with us in the full maintenance of the doctrine of Grand Lodge Sovereignty,
and the punishment, by an act of non-intercourse, of all who violate the principle
of non-intervention ; this memorial to be sent, as a circular, to all Grand Lodges of
Masons in the world, requesting them to unite in the appeal to the Grand Orient
of France and the Grand Lodge of Hamburg ; and requesting them, also, to unite
in the full and firm recognition and maintenance of the doctrine of Grand Lodge
Supremacy.
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The Committee recommended this course in the hope that by it a complete practi-
cal recognition of the principle of exclusive Grand Lodge Sovereignty may be se-
cured, believing the united request of all, or even a majority of the Grand Lodges of
America, will, if preferred in this conciliatory manner, induce those foreign invad-
ers to cease from further acts of aggression and withdraw the charters heretofore
granted. Should they, however, refuse to recede, the committee say we shall have
lost nothing by our work in the ways of peace.
We do not share the hope of the committe that such a" course would be of any
avail. On the contrary we seriously doubt whether it might not aggravate the evil.
For twenty years the Grand Lodge of Hamburg has persisted in its invasion of New
York, quite long enough to have eliminated all heat of passion from the considera-
tions prompting such persistence ; while the ingenuity with which the managers of
the Grand Orient of France hide from the mass of the brethren composing that body
the true issues in the Louisiana case, and set up whole rows of men in buckram to be
knocked down for the gratification of the national pride, shows that they are too
intent on mischief to be influenced by any truly fraternal considerations. Whether
the spectacle of all, or a majority of the Grand Lodges of the United States asking,
as of a superior, what each one has a right to demand as an equal, would not be too
expensive a sop to the self-sufficiency of the Grand Orient, is a question worthy of
serious consideration. For our own part, though we most sincerely desire the re-
establishment of fraternal relations among all Masonic bodies worthy of the name,
we do not desire, on any terms, a renewal of such relations with the Grand Orient
of France as at present constituted. When that body has restored the Grand Mas-
tership which it has abolished and thus rehabilitated itself in the semblance of a
Masonic body and then proposes to respect our rights, we shall be prepared to give
a proposition for the establishment of fraternal relations a respectful consideration.
Twenty-three decisions were reported by the Grand Master.
The Grand Lodge properly disagreed to one of them, the following : " That a
Lodge can elect as its Master, a Mason not at the time a member thereof."
We note two more for the purpose of commenting on them :
" 8. That Lodges U. D. cannot lay the corner stones of public buildings."
"II. That when "on appeal," the Grand Lodge shall substitute " reprimand in
open Lodge," for the severer penalty of suspension or expulsion prouounced by the
Subordinate Lodge, such decision does not restore the accused to membership in the
Lodge, but only " to the rights and benefits " of Masonry in general."
The decision that Lodges U. D. cannot lay the corner-stones of public buildings
would seem to imply that warranted Lodges may. As we understand it such work
belongs exclusively to the Grand Master, to be performed either in person or by his
special proxy.
The use of the word " substitute " in the eleventh decision sufficiently indicates
its incorrectness. We don't understand how there can be substitution if the original
penalty still remains in force. The penalty for which the Grand Lodge substitutes
another is as if it had never been.
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The Grand Master recommended a reprint of the proceedings of the Grand Lodge
from the dale of its organization, and the Grand Lodge so ordered. A part of the
edition will be for sale, when completed, and can be obtained by addressing the
Grand Secretary.
Robert E. Withers, of Richmond, was re-elected Grand Master; John Dove,
Richmond, Grand Secretary.
It was decided to be inexpedient to make the office of Grand Lecturer a salaried
one.
Ten charters were granted, one conditionally, the surrender of one accepted, and
one dispensation continued.
The Grand Lodge concurred in the following from the Committee on Jurispru-
dence :
" Your Committee also report adversely upon the proposal to treat a Mason who
continues non-affiliated for a longer period than six months as a suspended Mason.
As no one can be united to a particular Lodge except of his own free will and ac-
cord, so no Mason, against his will, should be forced, by harsh penalties, to continue
a member thereof. We must be careful not to over-step the bounds fixed by the
Constitutions of Masonry ; and your committee are of opinion that the existing
laws in restraint of non-affiliation, if faithfully executed, may prove adequate to ar-
rest the evil."
Also in the following from the Committee on Correspondence :
" This Grand Lodge recognizing the Grand Lodge of Canada as the Supreme
Masonic authority over the territory originally assigned to her, cannot reconcile it
with a proper sense of obligation to the Landmarks of Masonry, to countenance or
hold intercourse with any rival power within her limits. She has hitherto forborne
to take formal action in response to the application of the Grand Lodge of Quebec
for fraternal recognition, deeming silence sufficiently significant ; but in view of the
action of many of her Sister Grand Bodies, and especially of that of the Grand Lodge
of Vermont at its recent Communication, it is proper for her to give definite expres-
sion of her views ; therefore, it is
" Resolved, That this Grand Lodge tenders to the Grand Lodge of Canada as-
surances of fraternal sympathy in the painful experiences of the past two years,
and of the steadfast determination of this Grand Body to withhold recognition of
the Grand Lodge of Quebec, until the consent of the Grand Lodge of Canada is
yielded."
The Grand Lodge of Utah was recognized.
Bro. Beverly R. Wellkord, Jr., again presented an able Report on Correspon-
dence (142 pp.), reviewing the proceedings of forty-three American Grand Lodges,
Illinois of the number. Of the repeated loss of our archives by fire, and our efforts
to restore them, he says :
" Our Illinois brethren may be assured of the deep sympathy of the Virginia Fra-
ternity. For their sake, no less than that of all the Craft, we trust that some means
may be available to rescue from loss the sacred memories and traditions of their less
prosperous days. The lost records afford a striking contrast in the earlier journals
of the feeble and struggling infant, to the mammoth proportions with which she
now stands before the Masonic world, the beloved and loving mother of six hundred
and twenty-six daughter Lodges."
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In 1871 we commented on some remarks of Bro. Wellford regarding the Cana-
ada-Quebec question, as follows :
" The situation itself is a demand for judgment that cannot be evaded. Non in-
tervention in the true sense of the term is not possible ; the so-called policy is inter-
vention. A large number of brethren are placed under the ban by the edicts of the
Grand Lodge of Canada. The subordinates in every jurisdiction are entitled to
know whether these brethren may be fellowshipped or not, and their Grand Lodges
can alone give them an authoritative answer. No Grand Lodge has a right to per-
mit its subordinates to fellowship clandestine or suspended Masons, and thus the
duty of examining into the facts is forced upon it. Nor is it the intervention of stran-
gers in the " household." We are of the household, and cannot escape from our re-
lationship. We are not voluntary arbiters officiously intermeddling in domestic diffi-
culties what forced arbiters in difficulties which in the very nature of the family rela-
tion are brought home to every Masonic hearthstone."
Of this Bro. Wellford says :
" This is the precise plea upon which the Grand Orient of France justifies her
invasion of Louisiana, and fraternizes with those whom the Grand Lodge of Louisi-
ana pronounces as clandestine Masons. America accepts the judgment of Louisi-
ana as conclusive, and condemns the action of France as the interposition of a stran-
ger in the household. All of us on this side of the great water unite in holding that
a Grand Lodge has supreme and exclusive control of the Craft, and the interests of the
Craft within its jurisdiction. We hold the Grand Lodge responsible for the duties it as-
sumes, and if a Brother of our jurisdiction complains of Masonic wrong in Illinois,
we remit him for redress to the Grand Lodge of Illinois. We are not of her house-
hold— we only claim to be entitled to be recognized by her as a brother, and to be
welcomed as such in her household to all the privileges of an honored guest ; but if
we claimed more, and dared to consort with rebels against her edicts, as good and
worthy brothers, we should as certainly expect, as we should certainly receive, no
recognition at her hands."
The action of the Grand Lodge of Virginia in rendering judgment on this ques-
tion abundantly proves the truth of our proposition that the situation itself is a de-
mand for judgment that cannot be evaded. Seeing that the same con-
siderations are sufficient to compel Grand Lodges to act whether they
take one view or the other of the merits of the question, it is hardly worth the
while to discuss the question whether they constitute the plea of the Grand Orient
in justification of her invasion of Louisiana.
For the rest of Bro. Wellford's remarks which we have quoted, we agree with
them as being wholly in consonance with our remark that every Grand Lodge is of
the household and cannot escape the consequence of its position as a member of the
great family of Lodges. It is from no desire to officiously intermeddle that Virgin-
ia and Illinois deliver their judgment as to whose is the heritage over which two
neighboring Grand Lodges are contending.
Bro. Wellford thinks that inasmuch as we hold that a Lodge has full jurisdiction
over Past Masters, members thereof, for any alleged offense except official miscon-
duct as Master, we may not consistently complain of the Indiana doctrine (which
he condemns) that the Lodge of which the Grand Master is a member may subject
him to discipline. Had we affirmed the right of a Lodge to try its Master, or
denied its right to try a Past Grand Master, there might be some question of our con-
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sistency in denying its right to try the Grand Master, but as we did neither there
can lie none.
While reviewing Mississippi Bro. WELLFORD further discusses this subject at some
length, and thus concludes :
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" Outside of Indiana, Masonry universally recognizes this necessity, in assuring
to the Master immunity from censure or punishment from those over whom he has
to employ the gavel. But is this protection anything more than a mockery, if it
continue only while in actual occupancy of the East ? May not duty demand on
the 23d June official action which the Master well knows must elicit a storm of ill-
will and malice, which will long survive the ballot of the next day deposing him
from office and exposing him upon any frivolous charge, disconnected from his offi-
cial conduct, to the merciful judgment of the subjects of his own discipline or
censure ?
" Masonry never contemplated any such exposure. It is neither a democracy nor
a republic. It delegates despotic authority, but despotic anthority regulated by law
and amenable to review, and subjects the unfaithful recipient of that authority to
punishment for malfeasance, misfeasance, or nonfeasance. It does all this ; but it
asserts its own dignity, and assures the independence of its officials, by demanding
the judgment of their peers as the basis of censure or punishment. A private mem-
ber of the Lodge is not the peer of his Master, either while the Master wields the
gavel or at any time afterwards, until he himself is elevated to that position. A Mas-
ter Mason, as such, cannot preside in the East. He must take the Degree of Past
Master, and when he descends from the Chair he may not lay aside its obligations or
be denied its rights and privileges. He may, if he chooses, waive them, but no Ma-
sonic power can coerce his free choice."
Such a contingency as that supposed by our brother might be possible, but if a Past
Master be unjustly dealt with by his Lodge an appeal to the Grand Lodge lies open
to him, as to any brother, and will insure him full justice and protection against any
malicious prosecution. Past service in the Chair confers no immunities. A private
member of a Lodge is not the peer of the Master for the sole reason that that func-
tionary is clothed with authority. When that authority is transferred to another, the
immunities which pertain to it go with it, and except in the matter of eligibility and
honorary rank, the Past Master stands before the law on a perfect equality with all
the members of the Lodge save his successor in office.
We deny the power of a Lodge to try its Master, because according to the im-
memorial laws of Masonry he is clothed with authority to rule and govern his Lodge
and cannot lawfully permit that authority to be set at naught. We affirm the power
of a Lodge to try a Past Master thereof, because he has been divested of that au-
thority which placed him beyond the power of his Lodge.
Bro. Wellford again discusses the Quebec question at considerable length and
with a thorough mastery of his weapons.
We thank him for compressing within such limits as to make it possible to quote,
the following synopsis of his position :
"1. A Grand Lodge can only be formed by the action of Subordinate
Lodges.
" 2. A Subordinate Lodge can do no Masonic act, except by virtue of a Charter.
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" 3. That Charter is granted on the condition, and accepted on the pledge, of im-
plicit obedience to the Grand Lodge which granted it, and no man can become a
member of the Lodge without a solemn engagement of submission to the Grand
Lodge under which it is holden.
"4. It follows, necessarily, that no Grand Lodge can be legally formed by Subor-
dinate Lodges acting in defiance of the orders of the Grand Lodge under which they
are working.
The common law of Masonry has established as one of the rights of a chartered
Lodge, the right to participate with a sufficient number of Lodges in the formation of
a new and independent Grand Lodge, whenever the State, Territory or Province in
which it is situated shall become sufficiently independent to warrant it. The con-
siderations offered by Bro. Wellford, and quoted above, hiay have been good rea-
sons why the common law of Masonry should not have been established but they
come three-quarters of a century too late. It is established, and we think correctly.
To it the Grand Lodge of Canada appealed for the regularity of its formation. In
accordance therewith the Grand Lodge of Canada was recognized by the Grand
Lodges of this country, and she is certainly estopped from asking them to repudiate
the law which gave her a legal existence and which was fixed more firmly by its ap-
plication in her case.
Bro. Wellford holds to the right of peremptory objection as against either initia-
tion or advancement ; forbears to recommend the recognition of the Grand Lodge
of British Columbia because recent events admonish us to be careful of precedents,
they being something of which he has a wholesome horror since so many of them
come to the surface to prove the regularity of Quebec ; questions the correctness of
the decision that the loss of one eye disqualifies for the degrees ; gives up, as we
do, the Mississippi conundrum involved in a proposition relative to a brother under
suspension from the Lodge, but in good standing in the chapter ; can recognize no
just principle on which negroes should now be excluded from testifying other than
that which would exclude all profanes ; emphatically dissents from the idea that an
appeal from the Grand Master can, under any circumstances, be entertained by the
Grand Lodge ; is disposed to sympathize with Bro. Chadwick in his defense of
Androgynous Masonry ; indicates rather than says he is opposed to the single ballot
system, and concurs in the main in the report of the Texas Committee on Jurispru-
dence against legislating on the question of color.
WASHINGTON.
The Grand Lodge met at Olympia, September 19th, 1872.
Grand Master Haller announced the death of Past Grand Master Benjamin E.
Lombard, which occurred at Auburn, Maine, of which State he was a native.
He relates two instances of generous and tender charity extended by a constituent
Lodge ta non -affiliates during life, and their families at the time of, and after their
death, and in the face of opinion, so fashionable now-a-days, that non-affiliates have
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no rights which Masons are bound to respect, speaks of these acts in terms that indi-
cate his approval of them.
He had granted one dispensation for a new Lodge.
He asked that the matter ol dropping brother Masons for non-payment of dues,
and of not recognizing non-affiliate Masons if they do not connect themselves with
the Lodges within whose jurisdiction they reside within one year, be reconsidered,
but we do not find that the Grand Lodge acted thereon.
In this connection he says :
" It is doubtful in my mind whether it is Masonic to adopt any measure tnjurious
to the standing of a brother Mason, until he had been or has had a chance to be put
upon his trial, and the evidence spread before the Lodge, before it pronounces the
sentence of Masonic death. Let us not excommunicate until after due trial."
He had been reluctantly compelled, on account of a prior engagement, to decline
an invitation to be present at the inauguration of the Grand Lodge of British Colum-
bia, but had assured the Grand Master elect that that body would be most cordially
welcomed into the circle of Grand Lodges by the Grand Lodge of Washington, an
assurance which the Grand Lodge made good by formal recognition. It also recog-
nized the Grand Lodge of Utah.
Relative to the circular of the Grand Lodge of Louisiana, setting forth the inva-
sion of its jurisdiction by the Grand Orient of France, he says :
" I would propose now, as the best answer to this communication, that we add an
article to our Constitution, which shall prescribe our limits of jurisdiction, our rights,
and mode of protecting ourselves in case of invasion, in order that all Grand Bodies
may be forewarned, and accept the consequences before invading our jurisdiction. I
would go further, and assert this doctrine in behalf of other similarly situated Grand
Bodies, and regard the invasion of any one as the assertion of right to invade out-
own jurisdiction, therefore declare non-intercourse."
The Grand Lodge deferred expression on the proposed addition to the Constitu-
tion, but passed resolutions suspending Masonic intercourse with the Grand Orient.
The Grand Master suggests that the time has, perhaps, arrived when the Grand
Lodge should determine the status of the brethren within the jurisdiction who main-
tain Indian women, and are raising families of mixed blood.
The Grand Lodge, with great good sense, determined as follows :
" That inasmuch as the laws of the land permit the intermarriage of the Anglo
Saxon and Indian, it would be presumptious for this Grand Lodge to forbid Masons
availing themselves of this liberty whatever our individual opinion may be of their
taste in doing so. But where Masons are living in adultery with either white or In-
dian women, thus breaking both the civil and the moral law, your Committee are of
the opinion that all such are guilty of gross un-Masonic conduct, and should be ex-
pelled from the Order upon due trial and conviction."
The Grand Master submitted six decisions, three of which pertain to the relations
of the members of a Lodge U. D. to the chartered Lodges of which they, are also
members. We dissent from the third, that the granting of a charter to a Lodge U.
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D. does not dimit the members thereof from the Lodge to which they formerly be-
longed.
While discussing the general relations of a Lodge U. D., he correctly says that the
granting of a charter thereto, and at the same time admitting it to representation, is
irregular. The Grand Lodge, it seems, was far from concurring in this, for we find
that the delegate from the Lodge to which a charter was granted was immediately
admitted to a seat as the accredited representative thereof, by a unanimous vote.
He discusses, at some length, the question, " Can Virtual or Chapter Past Masters
sit in a Convocation of Actual Past Masters when vouched for by an Actual Past
Master ? " and suggests in view of a difference of opinion on the subject, that a rule
should be established for the government of Convocations in the future.
The following, from the Committee on Jurisprudence, shows how the question
was raised, and gives a correct answer :
" Our M. W. Grand Master inquires, ' Can Chapter Past Masters sit in a Convoca-
tion of Actual Past Masters, when vouched for by an Actual Past Master ? ' In
other words, is the recipient of the degree of Past Master, in the series of steps in
exaltation to the R. A. degree, entitled to confer upon a W. M. elect the so-called
degrees of Past Master, which enables that officer to preside in a M. M.'s Lodge ?
Our Grand Master, in authorizing the admission of capitular P. M.'s to such a Con-
vocation held at Port Gamble to confer the P. M. degree upon the W. M. elect of
Franklin Lodge, clearly recognizes the distinction between Actual and Virtual P.
M.'s. While denying claim or right of the latter to be present at the ceremonial of
preparing a W. M. elect for installation, he thus excuses their presence : ' There was
no claim made for them as a right to sit, they were admitted as guests, and on the
distinct ground of Masonic courtesy.'' He freely states his conviction that Chapter
P. M.'s could not urge a right to be present in such Convocation, could assert no
claim by virtue of their having received the P. M.'s degree in a Chapter. We can-
not consent that Masonic courtesy can convert into ' guests,' those who may not law-
fully claim the right to be present.
" If the degree be the same, whether conferred by Chapter or Convocation, muta-
tis mutandis the recipients would be upon the same level. The door of the Chapter
of Past Masters would open to the Actual Past Masters. The Convocation
be alike open to the Virtual Past Master. But this is not the case. The W. M.
elect receives the P. M. degree, but this gives him no privilege to visit a Chapter
of Past Masters. No courtesy admits him, nor dare he even assert a claim to
admission. We are well aware that capitular P. M.'s have heretofore, in this Ter-
ritory, given assistance to qualify a W. M. elect for service. The writer of this re-
port has availed himself of such assistance. Precedents here arid elsewhere are
abundant to make such an act permissible until absolutely prohibited by the Grand
Lodge. The doubts expressed by the M. W. Grand Master himself, as to its pro-
priety is a severer criticism on his act, than this Committee would be willing to
make, and with him your Committee are unanimously of the opinion that such ad-
mission of a Virtual P. M. to a Convocation of Past Masters, to prepare the Master
elect of a Lodge for installation, is an error which should be discountenanced in the
future."
The Grand Lodge concurred, and adopted the following :
" Resolved, That the practice of Chapter Past Masters being present at Convoca-
tions of Actual Past Masters, wherein the Master elect of a Lodge is receiving the
Past Master's degree preparatory to installation, is hereafter forbidden within the ju-
risdiction of this Grand Lodge."
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The question being raised in the Grand Lodge, the Grand Master ruled, and the
Grand Lodge agreed with him, that any non-affiliate may be admitted to member-
ship in any Lodge within the jurisdiction, without regard to his place of residence.
Granville O. IIaller, of Coupeville, was re-elected Grand Master; Thomas
M. Reed, Olympia, Grand Secretary.
The Representative Fund was abolished, and a proposition " to put the Grand
Lodge on wheels," was lost.
A Special Committee submitted an appreciative tribute to the character of the late
Past Grand Master Lombard, and a mourning tablet was inscribed to his memory.
The Report on Correspondence (66 pp.), again by Bro. Thomas M. Reed, is a
concise review of the Proceedings of forty-four American Grand lodges, and is
written in a style that is our special envy.
Our Proceedings for 1871 are reviewed. Grand Master Cregier's address is spo-
ken of in terms of high praise, and the large amount of work performed by him gives
occasion for the remark that in the larger jurisdictions the position of Grand Master
involves increasing labor and attention, and ought to be a salaried office.
The Illinois Report on Correspondence also receives complimentary notice. Bro.
Reed, like some of his confreres, is led to the expression of regret that no report in
our proceedings gives the numbers initiated, passed and raised, from the fact, we
presume, that the report is in the body of the Proceedings, and not among the ap-
pendices. If the matter had not by this time lost its interest, we would refer him
to the elaborate table beginning on page 50, and the complete recapitulation at the
close, on page 65 of the Proceedings of 1871.
Bro. Reed regards the Alabama decision that it is not un-Masonic for a Mason to
plead the statute of limitations in any case in which it is allowed to be pleaded by
the law of the State, as too sweeping, and among other things says :
" It is not impossible for a man to act the rascal and yet violate no statutory pro-
vision. Indeed, under the cover of the lex scripta, he may oftentimes, with impu-
nity, cheat, wrong, and defraud his neighbor, without affording any legal opportu-
nity of redress to the injured party. No true-hearted Mason will ever stoop so low,
nor will he abuse the high trust reposed in him on his first admission to the Lodge,
as to resort by legal measures or otherwise to perpetrate a wrong against any one, be
he Mason or profane. In perhaps a majority of cases when persens seek to pay their
' just debts' by pleading the ' statute of limitations,' they have gained, or attained to,
that legal right by the charitable indulgence of the very person or persons whom
they endeavor to wrong. This is doubly iniquitous, and hence distasteful to every
pure minded man. If it be un-Masonic for a Mason to refuse to pay his just debts
when he has the ability to do so, is it not likewise equally un-Masonic for him to
take legal advantage of, and plead the operations of a law which will forever release
him from his obligation to pay, whether he has the ability to do so or not ? Upon
general principles we are unable to discover the difference. The moral terpitude in
either case is equally great."
He thinks Canada had a perfect right to establish new lodges in the Province of
Quebec, but regrets that she exercised it under the circumstances ; cannot see, if it
be absolutely necessary for the officers of a chartered Lodge to be installed, wherein
the necessity abates in relation to a Lodge U. D. ; reports that so far from promoting
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quarrels and bickerings, the one ballot system has worked well in that jurisdiction ;
and sort o' takes away our breath by the announcement that " the county and city of
New York is as much an independent political division as the Province of Quebec."
He should have rounded up the sentence and given it point by adding, " or the
Provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick."
WEST VIRGINIA.
The Grand Lodge met at Wheeling, November 12th, e&72.
Grand Master Logan says :
" In the olden time, the tribes of the children of Israel were accustomed to go up
once a year to Jerusalem to keep the feast in sight of the temple, and to worship in
its courts. With something of the same feeling do we come up to our Annual Com-
munications, seeking to renew and extend our fraternal intercourse, and to inquire if
anything can be added to the strength and beauty of that temple', which it is our wish
to build ; whose foundations are to be laid in their faithful hearts, and whose super-
structure is to be erected in the pure life of the true Mason."
He had issued five dispensations for new Lodges.
He reported that communications had been received from several Lodges in Jef-
ferson county, heretofore reporting to the Grand Lodge of Virginia, on the subject of
transferring their allegiance.
We find from a note appended by the Grand Secretary to the Report on Corres-
pondence, that several of the Lodges in Berkeley and Jefferson counties gave in
their adherence to the Grand Lodge of West Virginia at the Communication of 1872,
and that since the close of the Grand Lodge, the remainder of these Lodges have
come in, leaving only four in West Virginia, still reporting to the Grand Lodge of
Virginia, located in Greenbrier and Monroe counties. We hope soon to learn that
these four have transferred their allegiance, and that the jurisdiction of the Grand
Lodge of West Virginia is unvexed by the presence of a Lodge not owning alle-
giance thereto.
The Grand Master submitted such of his decisions as he considered of sufficient
importance, some of which we quote :
" A brother who had lost his right leg (after he was made a Master Mason), was
elected Master of his Lodge. The question of his eligibility having been referred to
me, was decided in the negative."
Of this the Committee on Jurisprudence says :
" Your Committee think the decision was correct in the particular instance, but
are of opinion that the loss of a leg by a Master Mason does not necessarily render
him ineligible to the office of Master, as it certainly would not, in their opinion, if
the loss had been s© supplied by mechanical aids as to enable him to conform in all
respects to our Ritual."
The Grand Lodge sustained the doctrine announced by the Grand Master.
We cannot admit the power of the Grand Master to set aside an election for such
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a reason. The Master has power to call any brother to his assistance, and can thus
perform by proxy any ritualistic ceremony for which he is physically incapacitated.
In the following we concur :
" It does not require an unanimous vote to receiver petition. A majority vote is
sufficient."
In regard to the following we think jurisdiction vests in No. I until formally
waived :
" A candidate receives the E. A. degree, and before further advancement, removes
to the jurisdiction' of another Lodge. After the lapse of several years he makes ap-
plication to the Lodge within whose jurisdiction he resides for the remaining degrees.
" Can Lodge No. 2 consider the application without consent of Lodge No. i.
" If not, can Lodge No. I demand the fees for the degrees if conferred by Lodge
No. 2.
" Answer. — Lodge No. 2, we think, has jurisdiction of the candidate, who must
furnish evidence that he has taken the E. A. Degree, and deposit the same with his
petition to be disposed of as in the case previously considered."
The Grand Master referred to the trials of peculiar peril and the questions of great
delicacy which had to be encountered and adjusted in the early history of the Grand
Lodge, and in this connection paid a well-merited compliment to Past Grand Master
Bates, who guided affairs at that period.
In conclusion he says :
" In conclusion, brethren, let me exhort you ' not to weary in well doing.' Study
to make your Lodge meetings attractive. Cultivate in them a social spirit; good
fellowship, properly guarded against intemperance or excess, promotes unity, and
stimulates benevolent feeling. If a brother show signs of dullness or disaffection,
surround him with kind influences, and thus win him back to full fellowship. If a
first or second attempt fails, try again. A true Mason is not easily provoked or dis-
couraged. There will come petty jealousies and strifes. You will encounter trials
by those who have unworthily sought the mysteries of Masonry, and who, unable to
reach its elevating aims, would fain debase it to their lower level. You will be tried
by the indolence and indifference of those whose tastes and habits repel anything
savoring of self-culture or self-denial. Such trials are part of the discipline of life ;
and we who endure them patiently, and while enduring, continue to labor earnestly
in behalf of truth and purity, will, in due time, receive an abundant reward."
The Reports of the District Deputies are generally of an encouraging character.
Thomas H". Logan was re-elected Grand Master; Odell S. Long, Grand Sec-
retary, both of Wheeling.
The Grand Lodge unanimously concurred in a special report from the Committee
on Foreign Correspondence, whose conclusions were summed up in resolutions re-
cognizing the Grand Lodges or British Columbia and Utah as being legally and reg-
ularly constituted, and holding exclusive jurisdiction within their respective terri-
torial limits ; interdicting intercourse with any person owing allegiance to the Grand
Orient of France or the Grand Lodge of Hamburg and pledging the co-operation of
the Grand Lodge of West Virginia in refusing, with her sister Grand Lodges, to hold
Masonic Communication with all Masonic powers who, on being requested, shall
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fail to recognize the doctrine of exclusive and absolute Grand Lodge jurisdiction ;
and decline to break off friendly relations with those who violate it.
Eight Lodges were chartered.
The work of the Committee on Grievances and Appeals was creditably light.
Bro. O. S. Long again presented an excellent Report on Correspondence (70 pp.),
reviewing the Proceedings of forty-five American Grand Lodges, of which Illinois is
one. He copies largely from the decisions of Grand Master Cregier, to whom he
thus refers :
"Brother Cregier recites, in a business like manner, his official acts during the year
then closed. The government of so large a body of Masons as is under the jurisdic-
tion of the Grand Lodge of Illinois is a task requiring unusual executive ability as
well as the most accurate Masonic skill. These high qualities seem to have been
combined in a veiy happy degree in Grand Master Cregier, and his administration
of the affairs of the Grand Lodge has been indeed masterly. And, although occur-
ring subsequent to the communication whose proceedings are under review, it may
not be amiss to remark here that the energy and devotion displayed by him amid the
trying scenes that succeeded the great fire, won for him deserved praise and confi-
dence from members of the Masonic fraternity wheresoever dispersed."
Of our remark that the address of Grand Master Bates (1870) was " an excel-
cent one, notwithstanding it was marred by unnecessary sectarian allusions," he says :
" Assuredly Bro. Robbins must have ' optics sharp ' to see in that address what
no one else has seen. Since reading his comment we have examined the address
again, but are still unable to perceive in it any ' sectarian allusion,' however remote."
The West Virginia Proceedings for 1870 have passed out of our hands, and we now
have no means of determining what particular remarks we referred to. We regret
this, for if we have been hypercritical we should be glad to acknowledge it, and if
we have done Grand Master Bates injustice we should feel bound to make the
amende.
Bro. Long is rather sparing of his comments on the Proceedings which he re-
views, more so than we could wish, for such as he does make are pointed, judicious
and fraternal.
WISCONSIN.
The Grand Lodge met at Milwaukee, June 10, 1873.
The address of Grand Master Palmer is brief, clear and direct. He reports
peace and harmony both abroad and at home. He had continued one dispensation
on which no return was made last year, and granted five more for new Lodges.
Several petitions for dispensations, received near the Annual Communication, he
had held over for the action of his successor. He had issued a limited number of
dispensations to confer degrees out of time, and had refused many like petitions,
thinking that the constitutional provisions designed to prevent the too hasty advance-
ment of initiates eminently wise and not lightly to be dispensed with. The follow-
ing remarks an another subject will apply elsewhere as well as in Wisconsin :
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"And I here desire to say another 'thing for the benefit of those who succeed me
in official position. The correspondence of the Grand Master's office is infinitely
larger than it ought to be. It has reached such an extent in this jurisdiction that a
private secretary would now be exceedingly desirable, and if it continues to increase
in the ratio of the past, five years hence such an office will be a necessity. And yet,
seventy per cent, of all the letters written to the Grand Master relate to subjects
which are plainly and distinctly provided for in the written Constitution of this
Grand Lodge, or have been adjudicated by this Grand Lodge. It should be re-
membered that the Constitutions of Masonry are required 'to be read frequently in
the Lodge, that none may pretend ignorance thereof;' and the proceedings of the
Grand Lodge should be studied with equal assiduity, for the same reason."
Four charters were granted, and two dispensations continued.
The report of the Committee on Appeals, embracing nine appeal cases, is a paper
of more than usual ability and clearness, and closes with some remarks which ou
brethren may read with profit. We quote :
" The Committee feel constrained, through the medium of this report, to call the
attention of the Subordinate Lodges to the provisions of the Consittution regulating
discipline. These provisions are so clear, so plain and so explicit, that the 'way-
faring man, though a fool need not err therein,' much less should a Mason, and very
much less, if that is possible, the brethren who are called to office in the subordi-
nates, either blunder or stumble in Masonic trials. This year, and last year, and
most of the former years of this Grand Body, proceedings have been remanded
simply because the officers of the subordinates have failed to read, or if they have
read, have failed to comprehend the plain English of the Constitution. The Com-
mittee hope that improvement in this particular may be shown in the future ; and
that the labors of the Grand Lodge and of its Committee on Appeals may not be
unnecessarily increased hereafter in the particular suggested."
R. Delos Pulford, of Mineral Point, was elected Grand Master ; George E.
Hoskinson, Green Bay, Grand Secretary.
The Rules were so amended as to provide that no ex parte affidavit should be
used in Masonic trials.
Past Grand Master Parvin, of Iowa, was present and addressed the Grand
Lodge.
The Report on Correspondence (102 pp.), reviewing the proceedings of forty
American Grand Lodges, is the work of Bro. Geo. E. Hoskinson, who writes
freely and well, but whose comments sometimes show him to have read carelessly.
Illinois is very pleasantly noticed, and our strictures on the denial, by the Grand
Lodge of Wisconsin, of the right of the accuser to appeal, concurred in.
He holds to the right of a member of a Lodge to dimit without question, on the
payment of all arrearages ; that " when an Entered Apprentice obligates himself as
a Mason, the affair is not all one sided; he becomes possessed of certain Masonic
rights of which he ought not to be deprived without due cause and without due
process," and that "the greatest of these rights is his just demand for more lighc in
Masonry." Singularly enough, however, he holds to a ballot for each degree, by
which an Entered Apprentice can be stopped by a "procsss" much simpler than that
which he evidently had in mind when he wrote the above, and falls into the error
of calling this system of balloting "the old rule." He sees that the regulations
Grand Lodge of Illinois. clxxxvii
which have grown up with Lodges partake very frequently, more of the commercial
cast of the age, than the benign character of Ancient Masonry, which he properly re-
fuses to regard as an insurance institution, where, if the premium is not paid by
the tick of the clock the polioy is forfeited ; thinks a single objection to the recep-
tion of a petition for initiation or membership is sufficient to return it without action,
whereas we think it may be received by a majority vote ; and thinks a virtual Past
Master has no more right to be present at the conferring of the Past Master's de-
gree on a Master elect than a " ' Knight of Malta ' or any other unknown dignitary."
We don't know whether the elevator or depressor muscles at the angles of Bro.
Gouley's mouth, will get the advantage when he comes to read our brother's re-
commendation that the Grand Lodge of Wisconsin, in the interests of peace and
harmony, adopt "a resolution setting forth its views of the equities of the (Canada-
Quebec) case, and urging upon the Grand Lodge of Canada the recognition of the
principle of exclusive territorial jurisdiction."
ENGLAND.
We have received the Proceedings of two Quarterly Communications.
Quarterly Communication, September 4, 1872.
Lieut. Col. Francis Burdett, Provincial Grand Master for Middlesex, as Grand
Master.
A letter was received from the Representative of the Grand Lodge of England
at the Grand Lodge Royal York of Friendship, at Berlin, announcing that that
Grand Lodge had resolved to initiate Jews and men of all religions. An attempt
to get the concurrence of the other two Prussian Grand Lodges failed.
Quarterly Communication, December 4, 1872.
Grand Master the Marquess of Ripon proposed, and the Grand Lodge adopted
an address to the Grand Lodge of Sweden on the death of the Grand Master, King
Charles XV, in which appreciative allusion is made to the initiation into the Fra-
ternity, by the deceased, of the Prince of Wales.
The Grand Master also offered in person a resolution of thanks to Bro. John
Llewellyn Evans on retiring from ten years' service as President of the Board of
General Purposes.
A most extraordinary motion was brought forward by Bro. Stebising, enacting
"that it shall be competent for any Lodge to declare that any one of its members
has ceased to be a subscribing member" after certain preliminaries have been ob-
served, none of which have reference to any charge or trial. The reason given by
the Brother for the proposed action was that it would give a more facile mode of
dealing with objectionable brethren. If they had to adhere to the Book of Consti-
tutions, it was extremely difficult to get rid of a brother. Nowhere in his some-
what extended remarks do we find any allusion to the fact that the disagreeable
brother had any rights in the matter.
clxxxviii Proceedings of the
The discussion which followed abounded in plain talk. Bro. James Mason, P.
G. S. B., had never heard, in Grand Lodge anything so monstrous and unconstitu-
tional; the Earl of Shrewsbury, Prov. G. M. for Staffordshire, held it to be both
un-Masonic and un-English to exclude a brother without being able to make a spe-
cific charge against him, and Bro. Horace Lloyd, President of the Board of Gen-
eral Purposes, said Bro. Stebbing talked of Lodges as if they were clubs — places
in which they would black-ball a man for the way he tied his cravat, or for the cut
of his coat. Singularly enough the proposition developed strength enough to escape
flat rejection, and was referred to the Board of General Purposes to examine and
report.
The Marquess of Ripon is Grand Master ; John Hervey, Freemasons' Hall,
London, W. C, Grand Secretary.
GERMANY
In our reports for two previous years we have refrained from noticing the pro-
ceedings of the Grand Bodies of Continental Europe, because the so-called Masonry
of those countries is semi-political in its character, and its polity is so changed by its
subserviency to the civil government as to make it doubtful whether it is not a mis-
nomer to call it Masonry. The recent formation, however, of the Deutscher Gross-
Logen Bund, or Union of German Grand Lodges, is a matter of such importance, in
view of its possible effect on our own relations with these bodies, that we deem it
our duty to lay the facts before the Grand Lodge.
The Deutscher Gross- Logen Bttnd has grown out of the annual conferences of the
Grand Masters of the German Grand Lodges which have been held for several years.
On May 28, 1S71, the annual meeting of the Grand Masters was held at Frank-
fort-on-the-Main. The eight German Grand Lodges were represented by their
principal officers, and Grand Master Warnatz, of Saxony, submitted a projet for
the formation of the Deutscher Gross-Logen Bund, a sort of National Grand Lodge
with restricted powers, under the Protectorate of the German Emperor, which was
adopted.
The confederated bodies are the three Prussian Grand Lodges; the Grand Lodge
of the Eclectic Union, at Frankfort-on-the-Main ; the Grand Lodge of Hamburg,
at Hamburg ; the Grand Lodge of Saxony, at Dresden ; the Grand Lodge " Zur
Eintracht," at Darmstadt ; and the Grand Lodge "Zur Sonne," at Bayreuth.
The autonomy of the several Grand Lodges composing the Bund is recognized,
(subject to certain minor restrictions,) as are the existing systems, or Rites, as prac-
ticed by them — but no other. The administrative powers of the Deutscher Gross-
Logen Bund are vested in a Diet of the Grand Lodges, {Gross Logentag,) to be
composed of the Grand Master, Deputy Grand Master, and a delegate of each ;
meeting annually at the seat of one of the Grand Lodges, and changing from one
to another in regular succession ; the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge at whose
East it is sitting, being the presiding officer of the assembly. On all propositions
Grand Lodge of Illinois. clxxxix
affecting the general welfare of Masonry which may be laid before it, the Diet has
only deliberative powers, the results of its deliberations being communicated to the
different Grand Lodges for their action. Differences occurring between any of
the German Grand Lodges are to be adjudicated by the Diet, its judgment being
final. It will probably have no difficulty in enforctng its decrees in such cases, as
the "Most Illustrious Protector" of the Bund, the Emperor, would doubtless
"protect" a recusant Grand Lodge out of existence. To the Diet, also, is entrusted
the entire control of the foreign relations of the Bund, including the recognition of
new Grand Lodges, the formation of new alliances and the dissolving of those al-
ready existing. Thus it will be seen that several Grand Lodges with which we
have established fraternal relations are so confederated with the Grand Lodge of
Hamburg, with which we have declared non-intercourse, as to have it in their power
to compel that body to withdraw from its unwarrantable intrusion upon the jurisdic-
tions of New York and New Jersey. If upon proper representation being made to
the Diet it shall fail to enforce this act of simple justice, then all its constituents
should be held equally guilty, and all fraternal relations with them should cease.
The Grand Lodges composing the Bund have so far recognized the doctrine of
exclusive jurisdiction as to unite in a request to the "Most Illustrious Protector,"
Kaiser William, that Lodges on German soil holding charters from foreign Grand
Lodges, be imperatively ordered to either dissolve or affiliate with a German Grand
Lodge; and they should be taught by the unanimous action of all American
Grand Lodges that our territory must be equally respected. The Grand Lodge of
the Eclectic Union, at Frankfort-on-the-Main, has already recognized the clandes-
tine body established by Hamburg in New Jersey, "as a daughter Lodge of the
Grand Lodge of Hamburg." Whether any other of the confederated Grand Lodges
have done so is not yet apparent. Should it become apparent that the rest of the
German Grand Lodges give their countenance and support to this body, established
in defiance of the jurisdictional rights of New Jersey, the time for action will have
come.
cxc Proceedings of the
ADDENDA.
IOWA.
And now at the eleventh hour comes No. 5 of Vol. V., "Annals of Iowa Mason-
ry," bearing throughout the marks of the tasteful editorial hand of Grand Secretary
Parvin, and having for its frontispiece the finely-cut face of Grand Master Chap-
man, a line and stipple steel engraving from the burin of H. W. Smith, the best of
American portrait engravers.
The Grand Lodge met at Davenport, June 3, 187 1.
Few men are Masters of a better style than Grand Master Waters, as the fol-
lowing will attest :
" That country is said to be the happiest which furnishes the least material for
history, and best governed which feels least the restraints of government. If these
aphorisms are true, this jurisdiction, during the past year, has been most fortunate.
As I reported last year, so again I am happy to repeat, that great quiet and peace
have marked the Masonic year now just closing. Of course there has been the usual
amount of correspondence — the same questions asked and answered, the same desire
to have the law relaxed here and there to suit individual ends ; but beyond these,
nothing of great moment ; and I am glad to come to the end of this second term
so fortunately, with so good hopes that if I have achieved little of a name for bril-
liancy, I have the fewer faults to lament, and you the fewer evils to repair."
He had frequently regretted that he could not decide according to the wishes of
his correspondents, and forcibly reminds his brethren that to one in private station,
with only his immediate wish to regard, many things appear easy, which, to the
same man, burdened with official trust, look quite otherwise.
Generally he had strictly governed himself by the laws ot the Grand Lodge,
or, if no law appeared, then by the recorded precedents of his predecessors, or
by the decisions of the Grand Lodge as recorded by its committees and adopted
by it. He had thought thus, if persistently followed up, a body of Masonic law
might be built up in the jurisdiction, which, becoming well known and not being
lightly or unnecessarily changed, would finally crystallize into a system, thus greatly
simplifying the duties of the Grand Master, and bringing the study of Masonic law
readily within the reach of every intelligent brother.
In only one instance had he departed from this rule, and that was in reversing a
decision made by Grand Master Peck, in 1867, that a brother receiving the degrees
in a Lodge and failing to sign the By-Laws was not a member of the Lodge.
He had issued twelve dispensations for new Lodges, and had granted a few dispen-
Grand Lodge of Illinois. cxci
sations to Lodges to complete their work out of time where it 'had been begun in
good faith and the emergency had subsequently arisen. He thinks a sufficient tax
levied on such dispensations would serve the double purpose of diminishing the
number of emergent cases and of increasing the charity fund. The Grand Lodge
took the same view, fixing the fee at two dollars for the second degree and three for
the third.
The Grand Master made an eloquent appeal for action on the subject of an Or-
phans' Home, a plan for which was reported last year and sent to the Lodges to
enable them to instruct their representatives thereon. A large proportion of the
Lodges failed to act thereon, and when the subject came before the Grand Lodge, it
was laid on the table.
The Grand Master considered the dignity of the Grand Lodge closely touched
by the persistent neglect of Lodges to act on matters submitted to them, it being, in
many instances a willful neglect of known obligation.
The Grand Lodge adopted a regulation that such matters shall be addressed to
the Master of each Lodge, and, if after waiting a reasonable time, the required an-
swers, reports or returns are not received by the Grand Secretary, that officer shall
again address the Master, requiring an immediate report, in default of receiving
which within such time as should seem to him reasonable he is to report the delin-
quent Master to the Grand Master who " shall immediately arrest his jewel," and
receive explanations afterwards.
The evil at which this regulation is aimed is felt to a greater or less degree in all
jurisdictions, and to such an extent in Iowa that the Grand Master was compelled to
recommend a convention in order to secure a revision of the Constitution of which
there was pressing need. The Grand Lodge, however, contented itself with order-
ing a Committee on revision, to report amendments next year, a plan that may suc-
ceed under the new regulation.
The Grand Master recommended legislation making the possession of an unre-
voked Grand Lodge certificate, in addition to the usual tests a prerequisite to visita-
tion or the reception of any portion of the Grand Lodge charity funds. In this he
was seconded by the Committee on Jurisprudence, who reported a regulation ac-
cordingly, but the Grand Lodge did not concur.
The Grand Master referred to Lodges once prosperous, but now declining through
changes taking place in the relative importance of towns, and prefigured the follow-
ing regulation, reported by the Committee on Chartered Lodges :
"That the Grand Master be empowered, subject to the right of reversal by the
Grand Lodge, whenever it may be by him deemed best for the interest of Masonry
in general, and any Lodge or Lodges in particular, to remove the location of any
Lodge, either at the request of such Lodge, or on his own motion, and to merge or
consolidate Lodges, designating which of the officers of the former shall continue
to act as such in the new Lodge until the election and installation of new officers in
accordance with the regulations of this Grand Lodge."
This strikes us as developing rather a questionable phase of the Grand Master's
CXCil Proceedings of the
power to arrest charters, and the Committee seem to have offered it rather doubting-
ly, but the Grand Lodge adopted it.
Grand Master WATERS regrets the death of the " Evergreen," and speaks a good
word for the " Freemason," which promises to supply its place with an Iowa depart-
ment under the supervision of Bro. PARVIN.
lie refers at length to his visit to Chicago, to assist in auditing the accounts
of the Masonic Board of Relief. Of the manner in which the accounts were kept
and the contributions of the brotherhood distributed, he speaks in the highest terms.
Of the surplus returned, he says :
" As a testimonial of our appreciation of the honor done this Grand Lodge in invit-
itg its chief officer to audit its transactions, and in accordance with their suggestion
that the amount be placed in the charity fund of the Grand Lodge, I would recom-
mend, as the most appropriate way of disposing of it, that this amount be made the
foundation of a Grand Lodge charity fund, to be placed in the keeping of trustees,
and that steps be taken to increase it, so that it may become large enough to be use-
ful. In the old law, anything once consecrated could never after be redeemed or
degraded to common or daily use. It was kodesh, or holy, and whether man, beast,
or goods, must ever remain set apart to the sacred purpose for wdiich it was given.
This money is thus holy, and I submit that it should not be thrown back into the
general fund of the Grand Lodge, but be placed where it may stand in its history as
a monument to the honor of ourselves and to the fame of our Chicago brethren. No
other such instance is of record, and we will not again have an opportunity of com-
memorating it in so appropriate a manner."
The Grand Lodge took the same view.
The obituary roll is a long one. He announced the death of Past Grand Masters
Ansel Humphreys and George W. McCleary, Past Grand Junior Warden J. B.
Atherton, Past Grand Treasurer William Francis Kidder, Past Grand Chaplain
J. G. Dimmett and Past Grand Orator D. S. Watson.
Unique and elegant memorial pages were inscribed to the first four.
The Grand Master reported such of his decisions as he thought could not be too
often repeated, -and some in which old ideas were presented in somewhat new form.
We find nothing in them from which to dissent. One question we have not be-
fore seen put : " If a Past Master is called by the Junior Warden of a Lodge to
preside in the absence of the first two officers of the Lodge, can he overrule the
wishes of the Junior Warden?" The Grand Master replies :
" The Junior Warden, in the absence of the Master and Senior Warden, is
for the time Master, and he should have exercised his prerogatives. A room full of
Past Masters could not deprive him of his right of succession in the absence of his
superior officers, and consequently, even if he called a Past Master to preside, the
latter would ouly do so under his supervision, and could not properly act contrary to
his wishes. The Junior Warden must, in the absence of his superior officers, take
the responsibility and enjoy the prerogatives of the chief officers of the Lodge, and
no one can take them from him."
The Grand Secretary's Report abounds in practical information and suggestions,
and so forcibly touches upon matters wherein the labors of his office are multi-
Grand Lodge of Illinois. cxcm
plied by the carelessness and forgetfulness of Masters and Secretaries that it would
make a model missionary tract in any jurisdiction.
The report of the commission appointed by the Grand Master to examine the
Grand Lodge Library is very flattering, and its full details warrant them in
saying :
" In conclusion, it is a source of just pride and pleasure on the part of this com-
mittee, to bear public testimony to the liberality of the Grand Lodge in behalf of its
Library — a liberality equalled by but one (California) and excelled by none of the
Grand Lodges in this respect."
On the report of Committee on Lodges U. D., eleven charters were granted and
one dispensation continued. In addition to these, two charters were granted at the
very close of the session to petitioners who had not been organized under dis-
pensations.
The Grand Secretary, after showing that this action violated the law in six differ-
ent particulars, with a grim and almost savage humor, says :
" The charters ordered under these circumstances, at the moment before closing
the session, have been filled out, sent about the country for the signatures of the
grand officers, and named, in the absence of any authority (rather than thwart the
expressed will of the Grand Lodge by letting its order remain a dead letter upon the
records), by the Grand Secretary " Alpha," and " Omega," — being the first, and, it
is to be hoped, the last cases of the kind furnished in the history of the Grand
Lodge."
One charter was revoked.
We look in vain for the usual record of the admission of the representatives of
the newly-chartered but unconstituted Lodges, and trust that the practice has been
quietly but definitely discontinued.
The Committee on Grievances reviewed nineteen cases of expulsion, five of sus-
pension and two of reprimand. In four cases only were appeals taken. In several
cases where no appeal was taken, either the action of the Lodge was reversed or
the cases continued with an order for more perfect transcripts.
The appeal of a Lodge from its own action was properly decided to be improperly
taken.
Joseph Chapman, of Dubuque, was elected Grand Master; Theodore S. Parvn,
Iowa City, Grand Secretary.
DesMoines was chosen as the next place of meeting.
Grand Secretary Parvin has prepared and published in this volume biographical
sketehes of the Grand Masters of the first decade of the history of the Grand Lodge,
Brethren Oliver Cock, George Washington McCleary, Ansel Humphreys
and William Donal McCord, all deceased. Their services, with the Grand Mas-
tership of Bro. Parvin himself, rounded the first decade. The autobiographical
sketch of Bro. Parvin appears as the biography of the Grand Secretary, a title
which, when applied to him, should be written " The Grand Secretary." Similar
sketches appear of the Grand Masters of the last half decade, Reuben Mickel
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cxciv Proceedings of the
|oii\ SroTi , O/.ias I'iieli's Waters and Joseph Chapman. These sketches are
something more than biography — they are history, abounding in the most interest-
ing reminiscences, and by their preparation Bro. PARVIN has made the whole Fra-
ternity again his debtor.
The Report on Correspondence (117 pp.) is by a new candidate for reportorial
honors, who wins his spurs in his first venture, Bro. Thomas R. ^RC AN BRACK, for-
merly of this jurisdiction. He reviews the Proceedings of forty-six American
Grand Lodges in a racy and attractive style, our own among the number.
He quotes at length from the address of Grand Master Cregier relative to the
operations of the Board of Masonic Relief, and also his remarks relative to defective
laws, considering the matter thereof as being in the nature of an international ques-
tion. His entire notice of our proceedings is complimentary and fraternal.
From a careful examination of all the authorities he could find on the question of
admitting the representatives of unconstituted Lodges to membership in Grand
Lodge, and also relative to the admission of Chapter Past Masters to convocations
opened for the purpose of conferring the Past Master's degree on Worshipful
Masters elect, and from his acquaintance with the customs of other Grand Lodges,
he is satisfied that Iowa has been in error in these practices, and should mend her
ways.
Iowa has, we are glad to note, mended her ways in another particular, and the
eyes of the reader of the "Annals" are no longer vexed with the parallelogramic
substitute for the word " Lodge."
When we commenced printing, the Proceedings of several Grand Lodges had not
reached us. The missing volumes have been received, and we have the rare pleasure
of including in our report a notice of all the American Grand Lodges with which
we are in fraternal correspondence, forty-seven in number.
For the elaborate statistical table given herewith, credit is due to the Deputy
Grand Secretary, W. John F. Burrill, whose proposition to relieve us of the labor
of its preparation we had at least three good reasons for accepting most gratefully :
We knew it would be correct ; we were glad to escape the labor; and we doubted
if our equanimity would stand the severe test imposed by those Grand Secretaries
who fail to give statistics and footings. They have proved too much even for the
imperturable good nature of Bro. Burrii.l, and were we to hunt round for the most
pointed words in the vernacular to throw at these offenders, we imagine he would
feel much as did the lady, vainly attempting to catch a train as it was leaving the
station, who gave an approving "Thank you, sir," to a gentleman just ahead of her,
who, on giving "up the chase, saluted the departing train with a few expletives
more emphatic than eloquent.
To our confreres in this department of Masonic labor, who have spoken so kindly
of our previous reports, we tender our grateful acknowledgements.
Jl »SEPH ROBBINS,
Quincy, Iu.., Sept. 27, 1873. • For the Committee.
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APPENDIX.
CONSTITUTION
MOST WORSHIPFUL GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS.
Whereas, Every Grand Lodge is sovereign within its prescribed jurisdiction, and
possesses the inherent power to form a Constitution, as the law of its Masonic
action ; to amend or alter the same ; to enact By-Laws from time to time, and to
make such rules and prescribe such regulations for the administration of its Subor-
dinate Lodges as will insure the prosperity thereof, and promote the general good
of Masonry ; and,
Whereas, Every Grand Lodge is the representative of all the Fraternity in
communication therewith, and in that behalf is an absolute independent body, with
supreme legislative, executive, and judicial authority : Provided, alviays, that the
Ancient Landmarks of the Institution be held inviolate. Therefore, upon these
principles, which are indisputable, the Grand Lodge of Illinois does hereby ordain,
establish and promulgate the following Constitution for its future government :
ARTICLE I.
This Grand Lodge shall hereafter be known by the name and style of the Most
Worshipful Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons of the
State of Illinois.
ARTICLE II.
of whom it consists.
The Grand Lodge shall consist of a Grand Master, Deputy Grand Master, Senior
Grand Warden, Junior Grand Warden, Grand Treasurer, Grand Secretary, Grand
Chaplain, Grand Orator, Deputy Grand Secretary, Grand Pursuivant, Grand Marshal,
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cxcvi Proceedings of the
Grand Standard Bearer, Grand Sword Bearer, Senior Grand Deacon, Junior Grand
Deacon, four Grand Stewards, Grand Tyler, thirty District Deputy Grand Masters,
together with the Worshipful Masters aDd Wardens of the Chartered Lodge? duly
constituted, underits jurisdiction ; and such Past Grand Masters, Past Deputy Grand
Masters, Past Grand Wardens, and Past Masters, as shall be present and are members
of subordinate Lodges in Illinois.
No Grand Officer 6hall officiate in the station to which he may be elected until he
has been legally installed.
ARTICLE III.
MEETINGS.
The Grand Lodge 6hall hold a stated Communication once every year, at such
time and in such place as may be designated in its By-Laws.
ARTICLE IV.
QUORUM.
The Grand Lodge shall not be opened unless there be present the Representatives
from at least twenty of the Chartered Lodges; nor shall any business be done until
there be present the Representatives from at least fifty of the Chartered Lodges;
less than a quorum may assemble until noon of the second day, when, if less than
fifty Chartered Lodges are represented, the Grand Master shall declare the Grand
Lodge closed until the next Grand Annual Communication in course, in which
case the Grand Officers will hold over for another term.
ARTICLE V.
STYLE AND RANK OF GRAND OFFICERS.
The Officers of the Grand Lodge shall be styled and take rank as follows: Most
Worshipful Grand Master, Right Worshipful Deputy Grand Master, Right Worship-
ful Senior Grand Warden, Right Worshipful Junior Grand Warden, Right Wor-
shipful Grand Treasurer, Right Worshipful Grand Secretary, Right Worshipful
Grand Chaplain, Right Worshipful Grand Orator, Right Worshipful District Deputy
Grand Master, Worshipful Deputy Grand Secretary, Worshipful Grand Pursuivant,
Worshipful Grand Marshal, Worshipful Grand Standard Bearer, Worshipful Grand
Sword Bearer, Worshipful Grand Senior Deacon, WTorshipful Grand Junior'Deacon,
Worshipful Grand Steward, Brother Grand Tyler.
ARTICLE VI.
STTLE AND RANK OF MEMBERS, REPRESENTATIVES, MASTERS, AND OTHER OFFICERS.
Past Grand Masters shall be styled Most Worshipful ; Past Deputy Grand Masters
and Past Grand Wardens shall be styled Right Worshipful ; Representatives of For-
eign Grand Lodges shall be styled Right Worshipful ; Past Masters and Representa-
tives of Lodges shall be styled Worshipful ; Grand Lecturers shall be styled Right
Worshipful ; and Masters of Lodges shall be styled Worshipful.
Style and rank may be assigned to other Brethren by law.
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ARTICLE VII.
ELIGIBILITY.
No brother shall be eligible to hold office in this Grand Lodge who is not, at the
time of election or appointment, a member in regular standing of a Chartered
Lodge subordinate to this Grand Lodge; and no Brother shall be eligible to the
office of Grand Master, Deputy Grand Muster, Grand Warden, or District Deputy
Grand Muster, who has not been duly elected and installed, and has presided over
a Subordinate Lodge.
ARTICLE VIII.
VOTE3, ELECTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Section 1. At each regular Annual Communication there shall be elected, on or
before the second day, by ballot, a Grand Master, a Deputy Grand Master, a Grand
Senior Warden, a Grand Junior Warden, a Grand Treasurer, and a Grand Secretary.
All other Grand Officers shall be appointed by the Grand Master elect.
Sec. 2. In all elections, and in all questions before the Grand Lodge, each Lodge
shall be entitled to three votes, the Grand Master to one vote, the Deputy Grand
Master to one vote, each Grand Warden to one vote, the Grand Treasurer to one
vote, the Grand Secretary to one vote, each Past Grand Master to one vote, th©
Past Deputy Grand Masters to one vote collectively, the Past Grand Wardens to
one vote collectively, and the Past Masters to one vote collectively. No represen-
tative of a Lodge shall vote as a Grand Officer.
Sec. 3. In case a Lodge has but one representative present, he shall cast three
votes ; if two representatives be preseut, the highest in rank shall cast two votes
and the lowest one ; if three representatives be present, they shall cast but one
vote each.
Sec. 4. The yeas and nays shall be ordered upon the demand of twenty repre-
sentatives. In taking the yeas and nays the Lodges in their order shall be called
first, the members secondly, and the Grand Officers last. In all votes and elections
a majority shall govern, unless otherwise provided by law.
ARTICLE IX.
VACANCIES.
Section 1. In case of the death, absence or disability of the Grand Master, the
Deputy Grand Master shall fill his place ; in case of the death, absence or disability
of the Grand Master and the Deputy Grand Master, the Senior Grand Warden shall
fill the place of the Grand Master ; in case of the absence or disability of all three,
the Junior Grand Warden shall fill the place of the Grand Master ; and in case of
the death, absence or disability of all the above named Grand Officers, the Master
of the oldest Lodge shall be Grand Master.
Sec. 2. All vacancies shall be filled by the Grand Master. The office of Grand
Master is never vacant.
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ARTICLE X.
SOVEREIGNTY AND JURISDICTION.
Section 1. This Grand Lodge is the only source of authority, and exercises
exclusive jurisdiction in all matters pertaining to Ancient Craft Masonry in the
State of Illinois.
Sec. 2. Any organizations, associations, parties or persons, professing to have
any authority, powers or privileges in Ancient Craft Masonry, not derived from
this Grand Lodge, within the State of Illinois, are declared to be clandestine, and
all intercourse with, or recognition of them, or any of them, is prohibited.
ARTICLE XL
POWERS OF THE GRAND LODGE.
Section 1. This Grand Lodge may —
First— Grant Dispensations and Charters for holding regular Lodges of Free and
Accepted Masons, with the right to confer therein the several degrees of Entered
Apprentice, Fellow Craft, and Master Mason, and when deemed expedient and for
good cause, may annul, revoke or amend such Dispensation or Charter, or any
pre-existing Dispensation or Charter.
This Grand Lodge has —
Second — Original and exclusive jurisdiction over all subjects of Masonic legisla-
tion and administration ; appellate judicial aud administrative jurisdiction from the
decisions of Worshipful Masters, and from the decisions and acts of Lodges, and,
when expedient, has original judicial jurisdiction over its officers, members and
Worshipful Masters ; and its enactments and decisions upon all questions shall be
the supreme Masonic law of the State.
This Grand Lodge may—
Third— Assign the limits and fix the location of each Lodge under its jurisdiction,
and settle all controversies that may arise between them, and has the final decision
and determination of all matters of controversies or grievances which may be
brought up by appeal or otherwise.
Fourth— It may make and adopt general laws and regulations for the government
of the several Lodges under its jurisdiction, and at pleasure may alter, amend or
repeal the same.
Fifth — It may assess and collect from the several Lodges under its jurisdiction
such sums of money annually as may be provided for by law and found necessary
for the support and maintenance of the Grand Lodge.
Sixth — It may supervise the state aud condition of its own finances, and adopt
such measures in relation thereto as may be deemed necessary.
Seventh — It may reprimaud, suspend or expel any member from its own body for a
violation of the Constitution, By Laws and Regulations of the Grand Lodge, or for
any other uumasouic conduct, and may suspend or expel any accused person upon
trial by appeal.
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This Grand Lodge shall—
Eighth — At each Annual Communication consider and review the reports and
doings of its Grand Officers for the past year, as well as those of its several Lodges
under its jurisdiction.
This Grand Lodge may —
Ninth — Establish a Mileage and Per Diem rate for its officers, the representative
highest in rank from each Lodge, and its standing committees, not exceeding five
cents per mile each way, and two dollars per day.
Tenth— And finally may do whatsoever may be considered necessary to the well
being and perpetuity of Ancient Craft Masonry.
ARTICLE XII.
POWERS OF THE GRAND MASTER.
The Grand Master has the power —
First — To convene the Grand Lodge in special Communication in case of
emergency.
/Second — To preside at all special and regular Communications.
Third — To exercise the executive functions of the Grand Lodge when not in
session.
Fourth— -To decide all questions of usage, order and Masonic law.
Fifth — To require the attendance of, and information from, any Grand Officer
respecting his office.
Sixth — To convene any Lodge within the jurisdiction, and in person or by deputy,
to preside therein with the Master on his left hand, inspect their proceedings and
require their conformity to Masonic rules.
Seventh — To issue his Dispensation to any regular Lodge to make a Mason, or
confer any degree at sight.
Eighth — To suspend the functions of any Lodge for good reasons.
Ninth — To command every Grand Officer, and to call on any of them for advice
and assistance on business relative to the Craft.
Tenth — In person or by deputy, to constitute Lodges, dedicate Masonic Halls, lay
corner stones of Masonic Halls, public buildings and structures.
Eleventh — To appoint representatives, by warrant, in any other recognized Grand
Lodge, and receive and accredit such representatives from other Grand Lodges.
Txoelfth—To command the Wardens or any member of a Lodge which he may
visit to act as Wardens for the time being.
Thirteenth — To see that the Ancient Landmarks and charges are observed, and to
do and perform the duties of Ancient Grand Master agreeably to the requirements
of Masonry aud this Grand Lodge.
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ARTICLE XIII.
NEW LODGES.
Section 1. DuriDg the recess of the Grand Lodge the Grand Master may grant
Dispensations for new Lodges.
Sec. 2. No dispensation shall be issued by order of the Grand Lodge or by the
Grand Master, in any city or town having three or more Chartered Lodges (except
the city of Chicago), without the recommendation of the three oldest Lodges, nor
in any other place without the recommendation of the three nearest Lodges.
Sec. 3. No petition for a new Lodge shall be considered by any Lodge until it
has laid over four weeks for consultation and consideration.
Sec. 4. No dispensation for a new Lodge shall be issued until the sum of one
hundred dollars shall be paid to the Grand Secretary, which shall be in full for
Dispensation and Charter Fees.
Sec. 5. Every petition for a new Lodge shall be signed by eight Master Masons,
accompanied by a certificate from a Grand Lecturer that the proposed Master is
able to open and close a Lodge, and to confer the degrees of Entered Apprentice,
Fellow Craft and Master Mason correctly and in full, with a plat and description of
the halls and ante-rooms to be occupied, and statement, in regard to the ownership
and use of the same.
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Sec. 6. No new Lodge shall be established in towns and cities as follows: —
Where the population is less than 3,000, and there is one Lodge ; less than 0,000
and two Lodges ; less than 10,000, with three Lodges ; after which no new Lodge
shall be formed without an addition of 5,000 population for each one.
Sec. 7. No Dispensation or Charter for constituting a new Lodge shall be
granted to any person or persons whomsoever, residing out of the State of Illinois
if within the jurisdiction of any other constitutional Grand Lodge.
ARTICLE XIV.
districts and district deputies.
Section 1. Immediately upon the adoption of this Constitution the Grand
Master shall divide the State into thirty districts having regard to population,
Lodges and convenience. Said districts shall remain so until the year A. L. 5SS0,
when the Grand Master shall divide the State into districts again, and so on once in
every ten years.
Sec. 2. One District Deputy Grand Master shall be appointed and commissioned
annually by the Grand Master, in each district. Each deputy shall be a resident of
his respective district, and a member of some Lodge therein.
Sec. 3. The duties of said District Deputies shall be such as the Grand Master
may generally or especially assign them, and may be defined by law.
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ARTICLE XV.
INSTRUCTION.
The Grand Master shall provide for thorough instruction in the work and lectures
already established by this Grand Dodge.
ARTICLE XVI.
AMENDMENTS.
Section 1. This Constitution may be amended in the following manner only :
The proposed alteration, addition or amendment must be submitted in writing at
some regular communication ; if seconded by the Grand Lodge, it shall be entered
upon the proceedings, and in some convenient form duly certified, shall be immedi-
ately submitted to the several Subordinate Lodges for their approval or rejection ;
if approved by two-thirds of the Lodges, such amendment or alteration shall
thenceforth be a part of the Constitution, whereof the Grand Master 6hall cause
due proclamation to be made.
Sec. 2. The By-Laws of this Grand Lodge may be amended in the following
manner: Every alteration, addition or amendment shall be proposed in writing, at
a regular Communication of the Grand Lodge ; if seconded by twenty representa-
tives, the amendment shall lie over one year, be printed in the minutes, and if
adopted by a two-thirds vote, it shall become a part of the By-Laws.
Sec. 3. Regulations, Rules of Order, Code of Jurisprudence and Standing Reso-
lutions may be repealed, altered or amended at any regular Communication, hy a
vote of three-fifths of the legal vote present.
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MOST WORSHIPFUL GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS.
Section 1 The Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge shall be held in the
city of Chicago on the first Tuesday of October, when the Grand Lodge shall have
power to charter new Lodges, by letters patent, under its seal.
VISITORS.
Sec. 2. No Brother, admitted as a visitor during the sitting of the Grand Lodge,
shall be permitted to speak od any matter before the Grand Lodge without leave of
the M. W. Grand Master.
ELIGIBILITY.
Sec. 3. No Brother shall be eligible to either of the offices of Grand or Deputy
Grand Master, Senior or Junior Grand Warden unless he shall have passed the chair
in some regular Lodge.
Sec. 4. No member shall be eligible to any office in this Grand Lodge who is not
a member of a subordinate Lodge in this jurisdiction.
8ec. 5. Whenever the Master or Wardens of a Lodge cannot attend in person, he
or they may depute any Master Mason to act for him or them : Provided, Tlfat such
members so deputed shall be members of the Lodge from which the proxy is given.
ANNUAL RETURNS.
' Sec. 6. Every Lodge under the jurisdiction of this Grand Lodge shall, on or
before the first day of September, annually, transmit by mail, express, or some
more expeditious mode, to the Grand Secretary, the annual returns of such Lodge,
which shall embrace a list of officers and members ; of all known non-affiliated
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Master Masons within the jurisdiction of such Lodge ; of all initiations, passings
and raisings ; of all admissions, rejections, suspensions, expulsions, restorations,
dimits and deaths, with their respective dates, signed by the Master, and attested
under the seal of the Lodge and the hand of the Secretary.
ANNUAL DUES.
Sec. 7. Every Lodge subordinate to this Grand Lodge shall, on or before the
fifteenth day of September, annually, pay to the Grand Secretary, for the use of the
Grand Lodge, the sum of seventy-five cents for each Master Mason belonging to
their Lodge at the time of making the annual return ; but every Lodge shall pay at
least ten dollars annual dues; and no representative of any Lodge shall be entitled
to a seat in the Grand Lodge until the dues of his Lodge are paid, and the Grand
Secretary's receipt therefor produced ; and in case of the neglect or refusal of any
Lodge to pay its annual dues at the time herein specified, or on or before the next
Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge, such Lodge may be stricken from the
books of the Grand Lodge, and their warrant or charter considered null and void.
But on proper application to the Grand Lodge, making full returns and paying all
dues, such Lodge may be restored to its former rank and privileges. Any Lodge
failing to comply with the requirements of this section shall forfeit its claim for
mileage and per diem for its representative to the Grand Lodge.
Sec. 8. No Lodge shall be required to pay dues for members who shall have
permanently removed without the jurisdiction of this Grand Lodge, nor for
members over sixty years of age.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE.
Sec. 9. No Brother, after having taken his seat as a member, shall be permitted
to leave without obtaining permission of the Grand Master.
COMMITTEES — THEIR DUTIES.
Sec. 10. The Grand Master, Deputy Grand Master, Senior and Junior Grand
Wardens, Grand Treasurer and Grand Secretary, for the time being, or a majority of
them, shall be a Standing Committee on Charity, under whose direction charities
shall be distributed.
Sec. 11. At each Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge, as soon as
practicable after its organization, the Grand Master shall appoint the following
committees:
First— & Committee on Credentials, to consist of three members, whose duty it
shall be to examine the credentials of all Masons claiming the right of membership,
and report their names and Masonic connection to the Grand Lodge.
Second— A Committee to Examine Visiting Brethren, to consist of seven
members, whose duty it shall be to examine all Visitors not properly vouched
for, and report their respective names, address, and Masonic connection to the
Grand Lodge.
Third — A Committee on Finance, consisting of three members, whose duty it
6hall be to examine and report on all accounts and financial matters to them
referred. To destroy all paid Grand Lodge orders surrendered to them by the
Grand Treasurer, after being satisfied that the same have been paid, cancelled and
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listed, and their report on the same has been approved by the Grand Lodge, and to
make a full report, before the close of each Annual Grand Communication, of the
financial condition of the Grand Lodge.
Fourth— A Committee on Petitions, consisting of five members, who 6hall exam-
ine and report all petitions for New Lodges U. D., for changes of location, or for
change of name, and upon all petitions and matters pertaining to the education of
the children of deceased and indigent Master Masons.
Fifth— A General Committee, consisting of three members, whoso duty it shall
be to report upon all unfinished business, and upon such other matters as shall be
referred to them.
Sixth — A Committee on Obituaries, to consist of three members, who shall make
report upon such subjects as shall be referred to them.
No proposition contemplating the appropriation or the expenditure of money
shall be put on its final passage until it shall have been referred to and reported
upon by some Committee of the Grand Lodge. This provision shall not apply to
propositions emanating from Committees.
8ec. 12. Before the close of each Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge,
the Grand Master shall appoint seven standing committees for the ensuing Masonic
year, as follows, viz : —
First— On Masonic Correspondence, to consist of three members, whose duty it
shall be to examine the correspondence and documents from other Grand Lodges in
correspondence with this Grand Lodge, and report at each Annual Communication
whatever may 6eem of sufficient importance and interest, to demand its attention
or action.
Second — On Masonic Jurisprudence, to consist of seven members, whose duty it
shall be to examine and report upon all questions, documents and papers reqviiring
investigation and decision upon points of Masonic law ; and to make report upon
the same.
Third — On the Library, to consist of three members, of which the Librarian shall
be one, to examine, select and purchase books, charts, magazines, and such other
documents and articles as may seem proper; to procure the binding of such
proceedings, works and documents as they may judge expedient ; to draw orders
for the payment of the same, in amount not to exceed in the aggregate the sum
of one hundred dollars in any one year, unless by the special order of the Grand
Lodge ; and to report all their doings and the condition of the Library aunually to
the Grand Lodge.
Fourth— A Committee on Returns and Work of Lodges U.D., consisting of five
members, whose duty it shall be to examine the By-Laws, records of work, and the
returns of Lodges under dispensation, and to make report to the Grand Lodge
if (or not) in their opinion, charters should be granted to such Lodges.
Fifth— A Committee on Returns and Work of Chartered Lodges, consisting of
seven members, whose duty it shall be to examine the returns of proceedings and
work of Chartered Lodges, and report the same to the Grand Lodge.
Sixth— A Committee on Appeals and Grievances, consisting of five members,
whose duty it shall be to examine and report upon all appeals, memorials and
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petitions, in relation to any matter of complaint or grievance within this juris-
diction, which shall come before the Grand Lodge.
Seventh — A Committee on Mileage and Per Diem, consisting of three members,
whose duty it shall be to ascertain the distance necesssrily traveled by each officer
and representative entitled to mileage and per diem, and report the same to the
Grand Lodge. The Grand Officers, members of the Committees on Masonic Cor-
respondence and Masonic Jurisprudence, and the representative highest in rank
from each Lodge under this jurisdiction, shall be allowed five cents per mile, going
and returning, for every mile traveled from his place of residence, computed by
the necessarily traveled route, and two dollars per day for each day's actual
attendance at the Grand Lodge. No one shall draw mileage both as a grand officer
and representative. Said Committee shall make up the orders for mileage and per
diem, and issue ihe same, and may employ such assistance as may be necessary.
Eighth — On Auditing, to consist of three members, whose duty it shall be to
convene at such place as they may determine, on the 15th day of December, March,
June, and September respectively, of each Masonic year, for the purpose of exam-
ining and auditing all bills or other demands against the Grand Lodge of Illinois,
which may at such times be presented to them ; and if for any cause the Committee
fail to meet at the times herein specified, the Chairman is hereby authorized to call
a meeting at another day.
Said Committee shall not entertain or audit any bill or other demand not fully
authorized by the Grand Lodge, nor unless properly signed by the Grand Master and
the Grand Secretary. The Grand Secretary shall notify all persons 10 whom the
Grand Lodge may become indebted for supplies or other service of whatsoever kind
of the day of payment, and shall present his order to said Auditing Committee on
or before the dates herein specified. The Grand Treasurer will pay no moneys
during vacation from the Treasury of the Grand Lodge upon any orders unless
signed by said Auditing Committee or a majority of them, as herein provided.
The duties of said Auditing Committee shall commence immediately after the
closing of the Grand Lodge each year, and cease on and after the 20th day
of September each year. Said Committee shall make a full- and detailed report of
their labors during the year, specifying for what and to whom moneys have been
paid.
All of which Committees shall assemble at the call of the Grand Master.
LODGES UNDER DISPENSATION.
Sec. 13. No Dispensation shall be granted by the Grand Master, or by the Grand
Lodge, for the formation of a new Lodge, but upon the petition of seven [Sec. 5
of Article 13, Constitution of the Grand Lodge, requires eight petitioner^ known
and approved Master Masons, in which their first Master and Wardens shall be
nominated. Said petition shall set forth the name of the county and place, and
the time of holding meetings ; also, that the petitioners have procured a suitable
room, with convenient ante-rooms for the practice of Masonic rites, and that the
material in their town and neighborhood is sufficient to sustain a healthy and
reputable Lodge, which shall be accompanied by a recommendation from two [Sec.
2 of Article 13, Constitution of the Grand Lodge, requires the recommendation of
three Lodges] Lodges nearest the place in which the new Lodge is to be holden,
certifying to the truth of the statements contained in said petition; and that the
Brother named for Master is qualified to open and close a Lodge, and to confer the
three degrees.
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Sec. 14. There shall be paid for every Dispensation for a new Lodge the sura of
fifty dollars ; for every Charter the sum of seven dollars ; and the further sum, iu
addition, of two dollars, to be paid to the Grand Secretary ; which said sums,
respectively, shall be paid before the delivery of the Dispensation or Charter [Sec.
4 of Article 13, Constitution, requires One Hundred Dollars to be paid to the Grand
Secretary, which sum is to be in full for Dispensation and Charter.] The Seal of
the Grand Lodge shall be affixed to every Charter without additional charge :
Provided, That when a Dispensation shall be granted for a new Lodge in any town
or city of less than three thousand inhabitants, having one Lodge, or in any town
or city of less than seven thousand inhabitants, having two Lodges, or in any city
of less than thirteen thousand inhabitants, having three Lodges, the Dispensation
fee shall be one hundred dollars.
Sec. 15. No Dispensation for a new Lodge shall be granted in any city or place
where three or more Lodges may be situate, except upon the recommendation of
three Lodges.
_Sec. 1(5. All Dispensations for new Lodges granted after the first of July in any
year, may be made returnable to the Grand Lodge to convene iu one year from the
first Tuesday in October thereafter : Provided, That such Lodges shall make regular
returns at the next Grand Communication.
Sec. 17. No Charter shall issue to a Lodge under Dispensation until it shall have
conferred the Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason, in
manner and form as prescribed by the rules and regulations of the Grand Lodge.
Sec. 18. Lodges under Dispensation shall be governed by the code of By-Laws
adopted for the government of Lodges under Dispensation by this Grand Lodge,
A. L. 5850 ; and the Secretaries of such Lodges shall record at length, with the
proceedings, the Dispensation under which the Lodge is convened ; and when
chartered, the Secretary shall likewise record at length the Charter.
Sec. 19. No Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons can legally assemble in this
State unless authorized to do so by this Grand Lodge.
SPECIAL DISPENSATIONS.
Sec. 20. There shall be paid into the hands of the Grand Master the sum of five
dollars for every Dispensation granted to confer any Degree or Degress in less than
the usual time specified in the By-Laws or Regulations of this Grand Lodge, to be
paid in all cases before the Dispensation is issued ; also, the sum of two dollars for
every special Dispensation, for any other purpose.
NON-AFFILIATED MASONS.
Sec. 21. All Misons within this jurisdiction, not members of any Lodge, shall
be subject to discipline, so far as may relate to their conduct and behavior as
Masons, by the Lodge in whose jurisdiction they may reside.
Sec. 22. Jurisdiction and discipline shall be exercised over non-affiliated Masons
by the oldest Lodge only, in cities and places where two or more Lodges may be
situated.
EXPULSIONS, SUSPENSIONS, RESTORATIONS AND REJECTIONS.
Sec. 23. Notice of expulsions, suspensions and rejections shall be given in the
following manner : When any Brother shall be suspended or expelled, or any can-
didate for initiation shall be rejected by any Lodge, immediate notice thereof shall
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be sent to the Graud Secretary and to all the Lodges within twenty-tive miles of
such Lodge. On the first days of December, March, June and September, in each
year, the Grand Secretary shall send notice of all expulsions, suspensions and
rejections, reported to him for the three months previous, to all the Lodges in this
State, and to the Grand Secretary of every Grand Lodge in correspondence with
this Grand Lodge. All expulsions and suspensions shall be also published with the
proceedings of the Grand Lodge. No member shall be permitted to make any
expulsion or suspension public, or to communicate the same to any person not a
Mason, except by a resolution to make public by the Lodge from which the Brother
has been suspended or expelled, and which shall also be reported to the Grand
Secretary.
Sec. 24. All appeals from any subordinate Lodge shall be in writing, and left
with the Grand Secretary ; and the appellant shall give the other party at least one
month's notice thereof; and all appeals must be brought before the Grand Lodge at
the next Annual Communication held after the judgment appealed from, provided
one month intervenes, for notice, as aforesaid ; if not, the appeal may be brought up
and tried at the next succeeding Regular Communication of the Grand Lodge, notice
being regularly given as aforesaid, after which appeals will be considered out of
date, unless brought by consent of the Lodgein which the trial occurred, given at a
regular meeting of the Lodge, by a majority vote of the members present thereat.
And in case the decision of any Lodge suspending or expelling a Brother shall be
reversed by the Grand Lodge, such Brother shall be restored to all his rights and
privileges as a member of the Order.
Sec. 25. In all cases of the suspension or expulsion of a member, a vote of two-
thirds of the members present shall be required ; and in all cases of the restoration
of a Mason, suspended or expelled by any Lodge under the jurisdiction of this
Grand Lodge, the same majority shall be required. No expelled Mason shall be
restored to the privileges of Masonry except by a vote of the Grand Lodge, and
such restoration shall not reinstate him in membership in the Lodge from which he
was expelled, without the unanimous consent of the members thereof. No definite
suspensions shall be ordered for a longer time than twelve months, and a majority
of two-thirds of all votes cast shall be necessary to fix the duration of the suspension.
Sec. 26. No Lodge acting under the jurisdiction of this Grand Lodge shall
knowingly receive any candidate in any of the degrees in Masonry, who has been
rejected by any other Lodge, without first receiving the unanimous consent of the
Lodge that rejected him.
GRAND TREASURER — HIS DUTIES.
Sec. 27. The Grand Treasurer shall have charge of all the funds, property,
securities and vouchers of the Grand Lodge ; and it shall be his duty to attend at
all Grand Communications, and, if required by the Grand Master, to meet grand
officers and grand committees, with the books and all necessary documents relating
to his office ; to make a full report at the Annual Grand Communication ; to give
bonds, with security, for the faithful performance of his duty, such as shall be
approved by the Grand Master; and finally to pay or deliver over to his successor
in office, or such other person or persons as the Grand Lodge may appoint, all the
funds, property, securities, vouchers, records and books belonging to the Grand
Lodge. He shall invest whatever moneys are in his hands as Grand Treasurer, in
excess of amounts required for immediate disbursements, in United States
securities, the same to be done within thirty days after the close of each Annual
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Grand Communication, the interest upon which he shall credit to this Grand Lodge,
and he shall receive for his services one per cent, of such sums as are legally
disbursed by him. which 6kall be in full compensation for his services.
GRAND SECRETARY — HIS DUTIES.
Sec. 28. The Grand Secretary 6hall attend at all regular and special communica-
tions of the Grand Lodge, and duly record its proceedings, and shalf'receive and
accurately account for, and promptly pay or deliver over to the Grand Treasurer,
all the funds and property of the Grand Lodge from whatever source, taking his
receipt for the same. He shall keep a record of the returns made by Subordinate
Lodges ; receive and preserve all petitions, applications, appeals and other docu-
ments ; sign, certify to, and duly seal all instruments of writing emanating from
the Grand Lodge ; conduct the correspondence of the Grand Lodge, under the direc-
tion of the Grand Master ; and report annually to the several Grand Lodges in
correspondence with this Grand Lodge, the names of Grand Officers elected.
He shall, at each annual grand communication, make a report to the Grand Lodge
of moneys received and paid over to the Grand Treasurer ; of failure or want of
punctuality on the part of Subordinate Lodges in paying dues and making proper
returns ; and of such other matters as in his judgment may require the action of
the Grand Lodge.
He shall, in due time, previous to each annual grand communication, furnish each
Subordinate Lodge with blank returns, and with such instructions in regard to them
as the rules and regulations of the Grand Lodge may require.
He shall he the Librarian of the Grand Lodge, and shall take charge of the Library,
and have it present at every session of the Grand Lodge, for the use of the same,
and may appoint a Deputy Librarian to serve during the communications of the
Grand Lodge. Every officer or member of the Grand Lodge drawing books from
the Library for use during the session of the Grand Lodge shall return the same to
the Library before the close thereof. Whenever any officer or member shall fail to
return any book or other thing drawn from the Library, as herein required, the
value of said book or thing shall be charged in double the amount thereof, by the
Grand Secretary, to the Lodge to which said officer or member shall belong, and be
collected with the dues of the succeeding year.
The Grand Secretary shall also give bonds, with security such as shall be approved
by the Grand Master, for the faithful performance of his official duties, and for
the prompt delivery to his successor in office of all the books, papers and other
property of the Grand Lodge.
He shall pay the postage on all letters, proceedings and documents sent from his
office.
He shall cause the Constitution, By-Laws, Regulations and binding Resolutions
of this Grand Lodge to be published annually, with the proceedings of the Grand
Lodge.
For the due performance of the duties hereinbefore described, and for all neces-
sary clerk hire and office rent, and in full compensation therefor, the Grand Secre-
tary shall receive the sum of Twenty-five Hundred dollars ($2,500) per annum,
payable monthly. For the repayment of sums actually expended for Postage,
Stationery, Express Charges and other incidental expenses, the Grand Lodge may
make appropriations upon presentation of itemized bills approved by the Auditing
or Fiuance Committee.
Sec. 29. The Grand Chaplain shall attend the Communication of the Grand
Lodge, and perform religious service*.
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The Grand Marshal 6hall proclaim the Grand Officers at their installation, intro-
duce the representatives of foreign Grand Lodges, and distinguished visiting
Brethren, and conduct processions of the Grand Lodge.
The Grand Standard Bearer shall take charge of the Grand Standard of the Order
in processions and public ceremonies.
The Grand Sword Bearer 6hall carry the sword in procession, and perform such
other duties as by ancient usage pertain to his office.
The Grand Stewards shall have the immediate superintendence, under the
direction of the Junior Grand Warden, in the provisions to be made on all festive
occasions.
The Grand Pursuivant shall communicate with the Grand Tyler, announce all
applicants for admission, by their Masonic address, names and connections, and
take charge of the jewels and clothing.
The Grand Deacons shall perform the duties incident to their respective offices.
The Grand Tyler shall guard the door of the Grand Lodge on the outside, report
all persons claiming admission, and see that none enter but such as are duly
authorized and properly clothed.
The Grand Tyler shall have the rights and be entitled to all the honors of the
other grand officers, except the right to vote.
UNLAWFUL LECTURES.
Sec. 30. The delivery or teaching of any Masonic Lectures not authorized, or
•which have not received the sanction of the Grand Lodge or of its lawful authority,
is forbidden ; nor shall any person be permitted to give lectures to the several
Lodges in this State, but such as may be duly appointed by the Grand Master.
MASONIC MENDICANTS.
Sec. 31. No Lodge, or officer or member thereof, shall, under any circumstances,
give a certificate or recommendation to enable a Mason to proceed from Lodge to
Lodge as a pauper, or in an itinerant manner to apply to Lodges for relief.
INDIVIDUAL LODGES— THEIR DUTIES.
Sec. 32. All Lodges subordinate to this Grand Lodge shall, immediately after
each annual election by such Lodge, report to the Grand Secretary the names of the
Master, Wardens and Secretary elect.
Sec. 33. Upon the demise of any Lodge within the jurisdiction of this Grand
Lodge, the last Secretary and Treasurer of the Lodge shall, within three months
thereafter, transmit to the Grand Secretary all the books, papers, jewels, furniture,
funds and other property, or evidences thereof, of the Lodge so demised.
When two or more Lodges desire to consolidate their membership into one Lodge,
they may do so by taking one of the names and one of the numbers of said Lodges,
and officially informing the Grand Master of such action ; that upon such consolida-
tion being perfected, the title to the property of the two Lodges shall be vested in
said consolidated Lodge, and a new special charter shall be issued by the Grand
Master to said Lodge by its new name and number, without fee;
Provided, That no proposition looking to such consolidation shall be acted upon
by any Lodge until the same shall have been presented at a regular meeting and
laid on the table for one month ; and,
Provided, further, That such consolidation shall only be effected by the unanimous
consent of all members present when such proposition shall be acted upon.
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Sec. 34. No elections for officers shall take place in a Lodge U. D., but all
vacancies shall be filled by appointment by the W. Master.
PETITIONS FOR INITIATION OR MEMBERSHIP.
Sec. 35. Subordinate Lodges are instructed not to receive any petition for the
degrees unless the petitioner shall in such case set forth whether he has or hfs not
made application to any other Lodge for initiation, nor to act upon any petition,
either for initiation or membership, unless the same shall have laid over four weeks.
When the petition of a non-affiliated Mason for membership in any Lodge in whose
jurisdiction he may reside shall be rejected, he may again petition the same or any
other Lodge for membership without regard to time. In towns or cities in this
jurisdiction where two or more Lodges exist, upon the presentation of any petition
to any Lodge in such town or city, either for membership or the degrees, notice
shall at once be given to each Lodge in such town or city of the presentation of
such petition, and of the time when the same shall be acted upon.
Sec. 36. Subordinate Lodges shall not receive a petition for initiation from an
applicant who lives nearer to another Lodge than the one he petitions, without
first obtaining the unanimous consent of the other Lodge, at a regular meeting.
Nor shall any petition for membership or the degress be received unless the
petitioner shall have signed the same with his full name ; and all Lodges are
required to preserve in their records the full name of each person hereafter
becoming members thereof.
Sec. 37. No Subordinate Lodge shall be permitted to return a petition which
has been presented and referred for membership or initiation, without first
balloting for the candidate.
Sec. 38. The Subordinate Lodges under the jurisdiction of this Grand Lodge are
instructed not to initiate any candidate who has not resided in the State of Illinois
twelve calendar months before such application be made. No Subordinate Lodge
shall entertain a petition from a candidate who may have been rejected by any
Lodge in this jurisdiction until after the lapse of one year from such rejection.
Sec. 39. Repealed.
CONFERRING DEGREES.
Sec. 40. No Subordinate Lodge in this jurisdiction shall confer the degrees upon
any candidate unless he be a perfect man, having no maim or defect in his body
that may render him incapable of learning the art and becoming perfect in the
degrees ; and all Lodges are expressly forbidden to confer any of the degrees, or to
transact any other business save such as pertains to a Lodge of Sorrow, on the
Sabbath day.
Sec. 41. No Subordinate Lodge in this jurisdiction shall confer any of the
degrees ou non-resident citizens without the consent of the proper jurisdiction first
had and obtained.
Sec. 42. When any candidate for the privileges of Masonry shall be rejected by
a Subordinate Lodge by mistake or misapprehension, the person or persons making
such mistake, or voting under such misapprehension, may at any future meeting
have the opportunity to correct their votes : Provided, All the members of the said
Lodge have notice that said application will be made at said meeting.
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Sec. 43. No Lodge working under the jurisdiction of this Grand Lodge shall be
allowed to do any work irregularly, unless it be by dispensation from the Grand
Master ; and any Lodge working under such dispensation shall return the same to
the Grand Master.
Sec. 44. A petition from a Lodge to the M. W. Grand Master, praying for a
special dispensation to confer degrees, shall set forth fully and clearly the
emergency.
Sec. 45. Advancement to the degrees may be staid at any time, for good reasons,
by the Lodge or the Master.
Sec. 4G. No candidate shall receive more than one degree on the same day
without a dispensation from the Grand Master, and no candidate for the second and
third degrees shall be advanced to such degrees unless, upon examination in open
Lodge, he shall show a satisfactory knowledge of the lectures of the degrees upon
which he stands, except upon like dispensation ; nor shall any Lodge confer any
degree upon more than oue candidate at the same time.
BALLOTING.
Sec. 47. No ballot shall be spread except at a regular Communication, unless by
special dispensation.
Sec. 4S. In balloting for candidates, all members of the Lodge present shall
vote; for, according to an old regulation, "No man can be entered a Brother in
any particular Lodge, or admitted to be a member thereof, without the unanimous
consent of all the members of that Lodge then present when the candidate is
proposed ;" nor shall a member be excused from the performance of this important
duty except by the unanimous consent of all the members present. No Mason
shall be required by the Master or Lodge to give his reasons for the vote which
he has deposited, for the very secrecy of the ballot is intended to secure the
independence and irresponsibility to the Lodge of the voter.
Sec. 49. The ballot shall be spread for each degree, and shall be unanimous. A
"unanimous ballot for each of the three degrees" should be understood literally,
and should be the same in each, and unanimous in all, upon the moral, intellectual
and Masonic qualifications of the applicant. No Lodge may interfere with the
right of private ballot ; and if a member of a Lodge expresses to the Worshipful
Master an objection to conferring a degree upon a petitioner, even after such
petitioner shall have been elected to such degree, such candidate shall stand as
rejected, and shall be so entered of record, and shall so stand, until such objection
is withdrawn ; nor can the reason for such objection be demanded. Where a
candidate for the second and third degrees has been rejected by the Lodge, such
rejection shall not debar him from applying for such degree at the next or any
subsequent meeting.
Sec. 50. After the ballot has been taken and duly examined, first by the Wardens,
and fiually by the Master, the result shall be declared by the Master, unless only
one negative vote appears, in which case the Master may order the second trial of
the ballot, which shall in all cases be final, nor can it be set aside by the Lodge,
Master, Grand Master, or even the Grand Lodge.
tees.
Sec. 51. No Lodge can confer the three degrees for a less sum than twenty-five
dollars, to be paid in advance.
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RIGHTS OF WARDENS.
Sec. 52. Lodges shall not open or call to labor unless the Master or one of the
Wardens be present.
Sko. 53. Wardens may preside and confer degrees in the absence of the Master.
Sec. 51 It is contrary to, and inconsistent with, the ancient usages and precepts
of our Order to withdraw from a Subordinate Lodce, or to reside in the neighborhood
of a Subordinate Lodge without becoming a member thereof.
Sec. 55. A Masonic dimit dates from the Lodge record when the same was
granted, and membership ceases with said date.
Sec. 56. No Lodge shall grant a dimit unless the applicant shall apply for the
same in writing, over his own signature, and shall have paid his dues and produce a
receipt therefor, or prove such payment by the records of the Lodge ; which said
application shall lie over until the next regular Communication of the Lodge before
being acted upon.
charters.
Sec. 57. It is not in the power of a majority of the members of a Subordinate
Lodge to surrender the Charter of said Lodge, so long as seven Master Masons,
members thereof, continue to work under said Charter, and according to the ancient
landmarks of Masonry.
Sec. 58. Whenever the Charter of a Lodge shall be destroyed by fire, or in any
other manner, or shall be stolen and surreptitiously taken and detained, without the
fault of the Lodge or Master, it shall be lawful for the Grand Master to order
another Charter to be issued to said Lodge ; which Charter shall set forth the names
of the members and officers named in the Charter so lost, detained or destroyed, the
Grand Communication at which it was granted, the names of the Grand Officers
attached thereto, and the circumstances of its loss, destruction, or detention, and
shall be signed by the Grand Master, and attested by the Grand Secretary, under
his hand and the seal of the Grand Lodge, without fee.
Sec. 59. Whenever the Charter of any Lodge shall become so defaced or illegible
as to be unfit for use, it shall be lawful for the Grand Master to grant them another
Charter, bearing the same name and number, setting forth the names of the
members and officers named in the first Charter, the date thereof, the names of the
Grand Officers attached thereto, and the reasons for granting another Charter, which
shall be signed by the Grand Master, and attested by the Grand Secretary, under his
hand and the seal of the Grand Lodge, and who shall be entitled to the usual fee
therefor.
MORALS — CRIMES — MISDEMEANORS.
Sec. 60. All Chartered Lodges, under the jurisdiction of this Grand Lodge, shall
have full power and authority to perform that duty which requires them to exercise
penal jurisdiction over all Masons, unaffiliated as well as affiliated, within their
geographical jurisdiction, for violations of moral and Masonic law.
Sec. 61. This Grand Lodge will sustain the action of any Subordinate Lodge
under its jurisdiction, in punishment by reprimand, suspension, or expulsion, of
any member who shall be found guilty of the inordinate use of intoxicating drinks,
profanity, gambling, quarreling with or abusing a brother Mason. And will
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likewise sustain any Lodge in administering any reasonable punishment upon any
member who shall attempt to give the aid of Masonry in organized or individual
form to any lottery or gift enterprise.
Sec. 62. All trials for Masonic offenses in Lodges under the jurisdiction of this
Grand Lodge shall be as follows :
A regular charge, in writing, specifying the nature of the offense, and signed by
the accuser, shall be delivered to the Secretary, who shall read it at the next regular
Communication, at which time the Master shall appoint the time and place for trial,
of which it shall be the duty of the Secretary to give due and timely notice to the
accused, who shall be entitled to a copy of the charges, and to ample time and
opportunity to prepare his defense.
Sec. 63. All Masonic trials shall be in thd Lodge of the highest degree to which
tbe accused has attained, in which the examination of witnesses shall take place in
the presence of both the accused and the accuser, who shall have the right to be
present at all examinations of witnesses, in or out of the Lodge, and to propose
such relevent questions as they may desire.
Sec. 64. After the trial is concluded, the accused and the accuser shall be
requested to retire, and incase the trial has been in a Lodge of Entered Apprentices
or Fellow Crafts, the Lodge shall then be opened on the third degree ; for no
decision shall be made for or against a brother, after regular trial, except in a
Master Mason's Lodge, in which the question of " Guilty " or " Not Guilty," shall
be put by the Master, in which all the members present shall be required to vote,
and of which two-thirds shall be in the affirmative, or the accused shall be declared
"Not Guilty."
Sec. 65. If the verdict is " Guilty," the Master or presiding officer shall put the
question as to the amount of punishment, beginning with the highest. and ending
with the lowest Masonic punishment herein provided. The vote on the nature of
the punishment may be taken by a show of hands, and decided by a two-thirds vote
of the members present.
Sec. 66. If the residence of the accused is not known, or if, upon due summons,
he refuses or neglects to attend, a Lodge may proceed to trial without his presence.
Sec. 67. The witnesses in all Masonic trials, whether Masons or not, shall be
persons who have the use of their reason, and such religious belief as to feel the
obligations of an oath, and who have not been convicted of any infamous crime.
Sec. 68. The testimony of Masons shall be taken in Lodge or in committee •
that of competent persons, not Masons, by committee on oath, administered by a
competent legal officer, and may be by affidavit.
Sec. 69. A subordinate Lodge shall not suspend a member for non-payment of
dues without written notice and a fair trial.
PUNISHMENTS.
Sec. 70. The Masonic punishment which may and shall be inflicted by the
Grand Lodge and its subordinates for unmasonic conduct, shall be either reprimand,
definite or indefiite suspension, or expulsion from all the rights and privileges of
Masonry.
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Sec. 71. A reprimand shall be given in open Lodge, upon a majority vote of the
members present.
Sec. 72. When a Mason is expelled from a Lodge, he is thereby expelled from
all the rights and privileges of Masonry.
ArPEALS — RESTORATIONS.
Sec. 73. All Masons have the right to appeal from the decisions of Subordinate
Lodges to the Grand Lodge, in which case the Lodge shall furnish the Grand Lodge
and the appellant with an attested copy of its proceedings on the trial, and such
testimony in its possession as he may require for his defense.
Sec. 74. An application to reinstate an expelled Mason must in all cases be
accompanied by a recommendation from the Lodge by which the Brother was
expelled : Provided, Such Lodge be still in existence.
Sec. 75. Restorations, after a definite suspension by a Lodge, shall take place at
the expiration of the time specified in the sentence.
Sec. 76. Restorations, after an indefinite suspension by a Lodire, shall be by the
action of such Lodge at a regular meetiug, after due notice, and by a two-thirds
vote of the members present.
SUMMONS.
Sec. 77. A summons issued by a Subordinate Lodge, or the Worshipful Master
thereof, must be written or printed, and under the Seal of the Lodge.
Sec. 78. Any summons issued as aforesaid need not contain any other matter
except the requisition to attend the Lodge issuing the same, or the Master thereof
when required.
Sec. 79. Every Master Mason is bound to attend before the Lodge, at the meeting
of the Lodge so requiring him, on being summoned or notified.
Sec. 80. Any member of a Subordinate Lodge is subject to the discipline thereof,
excepting only the Worshipful Master.
Sec. 81. Repealed.
Sec. 82. Repealed.
miscellaneous.
Sec. 83. Subordinate Lodges are required to do all their business in a Lodge of
Master Masons, except conferring the first and second degrees, and the trial of
Entered Apprentices and Fellow Crafts.
Sec. 84. The return of each and every Subordinate Lodge shall contain the
number of miles necessarily traveled by the representatives to attend the
Communication of the Grand Lodge, and be made a part of said return.
amendments.
Sec. S5. The Grand Secretary shall append to the printed proceedings all
propositions for the amendment of the Constitution and By-Laws, or any other
matter upon which it shall be necessary for Subordinate Lodges to act. He shall
notify the Lodges by circular, embodying such propositions as it shall be necessary
for them to act upon, in season for their action ; and such Lodges shall make report
of their proceedings in such cases to the Grand Secretary, on or before the first day
of September thereafter.
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Sec. 86. Superseded by Sec. 2, Art. 16, Grand Lodge Constitution, adopted 1871.
Sec. 87. The previous question is unmasonic, and all proceedings had by means
of it, in Grand or Subordinate Lodges, are irregular and unlawful.
Sec. 88. When any Lodge in this jurisdiction shall cease to work for a period of
six months or more, citizens within its jurisdiction shall be permitted to petition
the next nearest Lodge for the degrees, without regard to the claims of the dormant
Lodge.
Sec. 89. Kepealed.
Sec. 90. When for any reason the Charter of any Lodge shall be annulled, the
Grand Secretary may, upon being satisfied that any member of such Lodge, free of
charges and in good standing, has paid all dues against him, issue to such member
a dimit under the seal of this Grand Lodge ; and the Grand Secretary may in like
manner issue dimits to Masons made in Lodges under Dispensation, when, for
any reason, such Dispensations have been returned, and no Charter granted to such
Lodge.
Sec. 91. The territorial jurisdiction of a Lodge U. D. shall be the same as in the
case of a chartered Lodge.
Sec. 92. The salary of the M. W. Grand Master shall he at the rate of Fifteen
Hundred dollars per annum, payable in monthly installments, and this sum shall
be in full compensation for the performance of the duties of his offiee, including
clerk hire.
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GENERAL REGULATIONS.
LODGES U. D.
Regulation 1. No dispensation shall be granted for a new Lodge, the location
of which shall be within ten miles of any other Lodge, unless the said Lodge shall
consist of at least forty members, or the Lodge prayed for is to be located in a city
or town containing a population of five thousand inhabitants.
REPEAL.
Reg. 2. The resolutions in force, as published with the proceedings of A. D.
1857, together with all so published at any time prior thereto, of a binding character,
are hereby repealed, and the By-Laws and General Regulations are adopted in lieu
of them.
AMENDMENTS.
Reg. 3. These Regulations may be amended, revised or repealed, in whole or in
part, at any regular Grand Communication, two-thirds of the members present
agreeing thereto.
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PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO BY-LAWS.
No. 1. -Resolved, That Section One, (1), of the Grand Lodge By-Laws, be amended
as follows : Strike out " Chicago " and insert Decatur. — J. R. Gorin, P. G.
M., (8.)
No. 2. Resolved, That Section Eight, (8), of the By-Laws of this M. W. Grand
Lodge be and is hereby repealed. — /. 0. Smith, (273.)
No. 3. Resolved, That Section One, (1), of the By-Laws of this Grand Lodge be so
amended as to read :
"The Communications of the Grand Lodge shall be held in the city of
Decatur, on the first Tuesday of October, 1874, and every two years
thereafter, when the Grand Lodge shall have power to charter new Lodges
by letters patent under its seal." — /. R. Gorin, P. G. M., (8.)
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IF.
PROPOSED NEW CODE OF BY-LAWS,
AS AMENDED BY THE GRAND LODGE.
PUBLISHED FOR THE INFORMATION OF THE SUBORDINATE
LODGES.
Action will be taken on these By-Laws at the next Communication of the Grand Lodge,
October, 1874.
PART FIRST.
RELATIVE TO ITS GOVERNMENT.
ARTICLE I.
CONVENING AND COMMITTEES.
Section 1. An annual communication of the Grand Lodge shall be held in the city
of Chicago, on the first Tuesday in October, in each year, commencing at 10 o'clock
a. m., when, if the requirements of Article IV, and of Sec. 1, Article IX, of the
Constitution are complied with, the Grand Lodge may proceed to exercise the
powers defined in Article IX. of the Constitution, and transact such business, and
perform such duties, conformable to these By-Laws, as may properly come before it ;
Provided, That the reading of the report of the Committee on Credentials shall
precede any legislative action.
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Sec. 2. At each annual communication of the Grand Lodge, as soon as
practicable after it shall be convened, the M. W. Grand Master shall announce the
names of the brethren appointed to serve, during the session, on the following
committees, viz :
1. A Committee on Credentials.
2. A Committee on Finance.
3. A Committee on Petitions.
4. A Committee on Obituaries.
5. A Committee on the Grand Master's Annual Report.
Each of which shall consist of three members.
Sec. 3. Before the close of each Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge, the
Grand Master shall appoint the following Standing Committees, to serve for the
ensuing Masonic year, viz. :
1. A Committee on Masonic Jurisprudence.
2. A Committee on Appeals and Grievances.
3. A Committee on Returns and Work of Chartered Lodges.
4. A Committee on the Work and Doings of Lodges under dispensation.
Each of which shall consist of five members.
5. A Committee on Mileage and Per Diem.
6. A Committee on Auditing.
Each of which shall consist of three members.
7. A Committee on Masonic Correspondence, to consist of one member.
7. A Committee on Printing, to consist of three members, of whom the Grand
Secretary shall be one.
Sec. 4. The Grand Master, Deputy Grand Master, Senior and Junior Grand
Wardens, Grand Treasurer and Grand Secretary shall be ex-officio a Committee on
Charity ; and
The Grand Secretary shall be ex-officio Grand Librarian.
ARTICLE II.
ELECTION OF GRAND OFFICERS.
Section 1. The Annual Election shall be held at the time, and in the manner,
prescribed by Art. VIII of the Constitution of the Grand Lodge.
Sec. 2. In case of the death, or other permanent disability of any of the Grand
Officers during recess of the Grand Lodge, the Grand Master shall appoint some
qualified and competent brother to fill the vacancy until the next regular election
and installation of officers.
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ARTICLE III.
GRAND MASTER.
Section 1. The Grand Master shall present, at each Annual Communication of
the Grand Lodge, a writteu report, setting forth such of his official acts and
decisions during the year, as he may deem proper ; also, reporting the general
condition of Masonry within the jurisdiction, and recommending such legislation
as he may deem necessary or expedient for the welfare of the fraternity.
Sec. 2. He may establish such rules of order during each session of the Grand
Lodge (not otherwise provided for), as in his judgment may facilitate the dispatch
of business, and may abrogate or suspend the same as occasion may require.
Sec. 3. The Grand Master may appoint such number as he may deem expedient,
of competent brethren, as Grand Lecturers, and constitute them a board of exa-
miners, for the purposes referred to in Art. XV of the Constitution, to perform the
duties prescribed in Sec. 20, Art. IX, part first, of these By-Laws.
Sec. 4. The Salary of the Grand Master shall be fifteen hundred dollars per
annum, payable in monthly installments, which sum shall be in full compensation
for the performance of the duties of his office, including clerk hire ; Provided, that
for such sums as he may expend for postage and stationery, and incidental official
expenses, the Grand Lodge may make appropriations, upon presentation of itemized
bills, approved by the Committee on Finance or the Auditing Committee.
ARTICLE IV.
DEPUTY GRAND MASTER AND GRAND WARDENS.
Section 1. It shall be the duty of the Deputy Grand Master and the Grand
Wardens to assist the Grand Master in the discharge of his duties, as he may
direct, and to exercise the powers incident to the contingencies provided for in
Sec. 1, Art. IX of the Constitution.
ARTICLE V.
GRAND TREASURER.
Sec. 1. It shall be the duty of the Grand Treasurer :
1. To be present at the Grand Lodge at all its communications, and attend upon
the Grand Master when required, with the books and necessary papers appertaining
to his office ; and also, if required by the Grand Lodge or Grand Master, to attend,
with such books and papers, upon any committee which may be appointed to act
in relation to the fiscal concerns of the Grand Lodge.
2. To receive alt moneys belonging to the Grand Lodge from the Grand Secretary,
to give him receipts therefor, and to keep, in suitable books, a just, and accurate
record thereof.
8. To have in charge all securities, bonds, vouchers, and other fiscal property
belonging to the Grand Lodge.
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4. To keep separate accounts in detail, with a General fund, a Contingent fund,
and a Charity fund, as provided for in Art. XII, part first of these By-Laws.
5. To invest all moneys in his hands, belonging to the General and Charity Funds,
in United States securities, in the name of the Grand Lodge of A. F. and A. Masons
of the State of Illinois; such investment to be made within thirty days after the
funds shall have been received, and remain so invested until otherwise ordered by
the Grand Lodge ; the interest accruing upon such moneys he shall credit to the
two funds respectively.
6. To pay all orders from the several funds of the Grand Lodge, only when signed
by the Grand Master and Grand Secretary.
7. To report at each annual communication a detailed account of his official
receipts and disbursements, with proper vouchers for the latter, and to present a
statement of the existing condition of the several funds, and of the finances
generally of the Grand Lodge.
Sec. 2. The Grand Treasurer shall execute and file with the Grand Master, before
his installation, an official bond, in such penal sum as may be prescribed by the
Grand Lodge, and with such sureties as shall be approved by the Grand Master,
conditioned that he will faithfully discharge the duties of his office as prescribed in
these By-Laws, and at the end of his term, or sooner, if lawfully required so to do,
pay over and transfer to his successor in office all funds, securities, books, records,
vouchers or property belonging to the Grand Lodge, which shall have eome into
his keeping.
Sec. 3. The salary of the Grand Treasurer shall be four hundred dollars per
annum, which shall be in full compensation for all his official services.
ARTICLE VI.
GRAND SECRETARY.
Section 1. It shall be the duty of the Grand Secretary:
1. To attend the Grand Lodge at all its communications, and the Grand Master,
or any committee of the Grand Lodge when required by the Grand Master, with the
books and necessary papers appertaining to his office, and place in the hands of
appropriate committees, all papers relative to matters of which they shall have
jurisdiction.
2. To keep a record of the returns made by all Lodges in this jurisdiction ; to
receive and preserve all petitions, applications, appeals, and other documents,
addressed or belonging to the Grand Lodge ; to record all transactions of the Grand
Lodge which it is proper to have written, and to present such unfinished or other
business, as may require its action, at each communication thereof.
3. To receive all moneys due to the Grand Lodge, keep a correct detailed account
thereof in suitable books, and pay such moneys monthly to the Grand Treasurer.
4. To notify all persons to whom the Grand Lodge may be justly indebted for
supplies, or for any service whatsoever, to present their respective claims on or
before the day of meeting of the Auditing Committee, if during vacation, or the
Finance Committee, if during the session of the Grand Lodge.
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5. To report to the Grand Lodge, at each Annual Communication, a detailed
account of all moneys received by him during the preceding Masonic year, with a
specified statement of the sources whence they were derived, and to present there-
with the receipts of the Treasurer therefor.
6. To keep the seal of the Grand Lodge, and affix the same with his attestation
to all instruments emanating from that body, and to all official documents and
writings of the Grand Master, as he may direct ; also to affix said seal to, and
officially attest, any Masonic certificate, diploma or other proper document for the
use of an individual brother, when requested by a Lodge in this jurisdiction of
which said brother may be a member, for which official service he shall collect a fee
of one dollar — which fee, and all other fees appertaining to his office, shall be paid
to the Grand Treasurer, for the benefit of the Charily Fund.
7. To conduct the correspondence of the Grand Lodge, under the direction of
the Grand Master, and if required, submit copies thereof at each Annual Com-
munication for inspection.
8. To issue notices of any Special Communication, ordered by the Grand Master,
to each Grand Officer and Lodge within the jurisdiction.
9. To furnish, at least sixty days previous to each Annual Communication, each
Lodge in this jurisdiction with duplicate blank forms upon which to make returns
of work, etc., and furnish such instructions in regard to them as the laws and
regulations of the Grand Lodge may require.
10. To examine during the recess of the Grand Lodge, the proceedings and work
of all the Chartered Lodges, as shown in the returns made to the Grand Lodge at
its last Annual Communication, and to compare the same with those of the
preceding year, recording all errors discovered, and report the same at the next
session of the Grand Lodge; also to report all Lodges in arrears for dues, or which
have neglected or refused to comply with any requirements of the laws and
regulations of the Grand Lodge.
11. To transmit to each Lodge in this jurisdiction, once in each quarter, a list of
all rejections, suspensions, expulsions, restorations and reinstatements, of which
he shall have been notified by the several Lodges : Provided, That no notice of
rejection shall be so transmitted until after the expiration of thirty days from the
date thereof; nor shall any publicity be given, by circular or otherwise, to any
suspension or expulsion pending an appeal, nor until the time for such appeal has
expired ; nor shall the names of brethren who have been rejected for membership
or advancement be published at any time or in any manner.
12. To embody in a circular all propositions to amend the Constitution of the
Grand Lodge, or any other matter upon which it is necessary for the several Lodges
to act, and transmit the same, with necessary instructions, to each Lodge, in time
for its action.
L3. To cause the journal of the proceedings of each Annual Communication to
be printed (unless otherwise ordered by the Grand Lodge), with all convenient
dispatch ; together with the Constitution, By-Laws and Regulations of the Grand
Lodge ; the names, title and places of address of the Grand Officers ; the names of
such past Grand Officers as are ex-officio permanent members* ; and such tabulated
Masonic statistics as may be deemed proper.
* See Section 0, Article 1.
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14. To furnish every Grand Officer, elected, or appointed, with a certificate, under
seal, of his election or appointment.
15. To forward three copies of the proceedings to each Lodge in this juris-
diction * ; ten copies to the Grand Master ; two copies to each Past Grand Master,
who shall be a member of some Lodge in this jurisdiction ; and one copy to each
Grand Officer enumerated in Article V. of the Constitution ; one copy to each
Representative of this Grand Lodge near other Grand Lodges ; one copy to each
Grand Master, and two copies to each Grand Lodge in the United /S'tates, and
elsewhere, which may be in fraternal communication with this Grand Lodge.
16. To carefully compare and correct with the original manuscript, five bound
copies of the proceedings, approved by the Grand Lodge, of each Annual Comsuu-
nication ; certify the same, under the seal of the Grand Lodge, as true and correct
copies, and file them among the archives thereof, with said manuscript copy.
17. To furnish to the Committee on Masonic Correspondence, the proceedings
of other Grand Lodges, and all documents relating thereto received during recess,
and which, when returned to him, shall be filed with the archives of the Grand
Lodge.
18. To record the substance of every charter issued by the Grand Lodge ; the
names of the Grand Officers signed thereto, and the names of the charter members
of the Lodge.
19. To issue specifications, and invite, by circular or public advertisement, at
least thirty days before each Annual Communication, sealed proposals for the
printing of the Grand Lodge for the ensuing Masonic year ; and, upon an award, to
represent the Grand Lodge in executing a contract for said work.
20. To act as Grand Librarian, under such regulations as may be prescribed by
the Grand Lodge.
Sec. 2. He may recommend to the Grand Master, for appointment, a Deputy
Grand Secretary, for whose official acts he shall be responsible.
Sec. 3. He shall execute and file with the Grand Master, before his installation,
an official bond, in such penal sum as may be prescribed by the Grand Lodge, and
with such sureties as shall be approved by the Grand Master, conditioned that he
will faithfully discharge the duties of his office, as prescribed by these laws.
Sec. 4. For the due performance of the duties hereinbefore prescribed, and for
his deputy, and all necessary clerk hire and office rent, the Grand Secretary shall
receive, as full compensation, the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars per annum,
payable monthly : Provided, that for payment of sums actually expended for postage,
express charges, and incidental official expenses, the Grand Lodge may make
appropriations, upon presentation of itemized bills, approved by the Auditing or
Finance Committee.
* One copy of the Proceedings sent to each Lodge is intended for the Master, one for the
Senior Warden, and one to be in charge of the Secretary, during his term of office, and be
retained in the Lodge loom for the use of members— said copy to be and remain the property
of the Lodge.
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ARTICLE VII.
THE APPOINTED ORAKD OFFICERS.
Section 1. It shall be the duty of the Grand Chaplain, Grand Orator, Deputy
Grand Secretary, Grand Pursuivant, Grand Marshall, Grand Standard Bearer, Senior
Grand Deacon, Junior Grand Deacon, and the Grand Stewards, to perforin such
service incident to their respective stations as the traditions and usages of the
Craft prescribe, and such as the Grand Lodge or the Grand Master may direct.
Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the Grand Tyler :—
1. To guard the entrance of the Grand Lodge ; report all applicants for admission
to the Grand Pursuivant ; announce their names and Masonic address, and see that
all who enter are duly qualified and properly clothed.
2. To make suitable preparation for the accommodation of the Grand Lodge at
all its Communications, and see that its hall and rooms are kept in a proper
condition during the session.
3. To take charge of and safely keep the jewels, furniture, clothing and
paraphernalia, of the Grand Lodge during its communications and during recess,
unless otherwise ordered by the Grand Lodge or Grand Master.
4. To carry all notices and summonses, and perform such other duties as may be
required of him by the Grand Lodge or Grand Master.
Sec. 3 The Grand Tyler shall receive for his services such compensation as the
Grand Lodge may direct.
Sec. 4. The foregoing officers shall be appointed as provided in Sec. 1 of Art.
VIII. of the Constitution.
Sec. 5. No person shall hold more than one office in this Grand Lodge at the
same time.
ARTICLE VIII.
DISTRICT deputy grand masters.
Section. 1. Each District Deputy Grand Master, when duly commissioned as
such, shall, during his ofiicial term, succeed to all the rights and privileges provided
in Articles II. and V. of the Constitution : Provided, however, that nothing therein
shall be construed to exempt any District Deputy Grand Master from the discip-
linary jurisdiction of the Lodge of which he is a member.
Sec. 2. Each District Deputy Grand Master shall exercise such powers and
perform such duties as are required by law, or which may, from time to time,
be delegated to him by the Grand Master.
Sec. 3. Each District Deputy Grand Master shall make an annual report to the
Grand Master, thirty days prior to the meeting of the Grand Lodge, setting forth
his official acts during the year ; the state of Masonry within his jurisdiction ; the
condition of the Lodges in his district, and suggesting such measures as to him
may appear conducive to the general good of the fraternity ; which report shall be
laid before the Grand Lodge and published with the proceedings.
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ARTICLE IX.
COMMITTEES
ON CREDENTIALS.
Section 1. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Credentials, at each Annual
Communication —
1. To carefully examine the credentials of all Masons claiming the right of
membership in the Grand Lodge.
2. To properly list the names of all Grand Officers and members ; also the name
of every Representative, with the name and number of his Lodge, and his official
position therein ; and furnish each brother so recorded with a certificate of the same.
3. To require from Representatives, before entering their names upon the list, a
certificate from the Grand Secretary, that the dues of the Lodge represented are
paid for the current year, and that returns of the work thereof have been duly
filed.
4. To require, in addition to the foregoing, from each brother presenting himself
as a proxy, a written commission signed by the Master or Warden whom he
represents.
5. To have a report prepared upon the matters herein prescribed, and present
the same to the Grand Lodge, immedately after its opening.
finance.
Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Finance —
1. To examine and compare the books, papers, vouchers and accounts of the
Grand Master, Grand Treasurer and Grand Secretary, and make separate detailed
reports thereon, and submit the same to the Grand Lodge before the close of each
annual session.
2. To examine and report upon all accounts and financial matters to them
referred, during each session, and also to report the financial condition of the
Grand Lodge.
3. To present, before the close of each Annual Communication, an estimate of
the probable expenses of the ensuing year, (giving each class of expenditures under
its proper head), and recommend such amount as they may deem necessary for the
Contingent Fund.
4. To destroy all Grand Lodge orders surrendered to them by the Grand Treasurer,
after being satisfied that the same have been paid, canceled, and properly listed, and
a report on the same has been approved by the Grand Lodge.
petitions.
Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Petitions, at each Annual
Communication —
1. To report upon all petitions for dispensations for new Lodges ; for changes of
location, or change of name, of any chartered Lodge.
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2. To report upon all petitions to the Grand Lodge for the restoration of
expelled Masons ; Provided, that such petitions shall be made as required by law ;
and, provided farther, that no such petition shall contain anything that can be
construed as an appeal from the action of any Lodge or the Master thereof.
3. To report upon all other matters which may be referred to them by the Grand
Lodge.
OBITUARIES.
Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Obituaries, to report upon such
matters relative to deceased brethren, as may be referred to them.
GRAND MASTER'S ANNUAL REPORT.
Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the Committee on the Grand Master's Annual
Report to subdivide the same and refer the several matters therein contained to the
appropriate committees ; and to consider and report upon all special matters
therein, not otherwise referable.
MASONIC JURISPRUDENCE.
Sec. 0. It shall be the duty of the Committee en Masonic Jurisprudence, to con-
sider and report to the Grand Lodge concerning such questions, documents, papers,
and decisions of Masonic law and usage, as may be referred to them.
APPEALS AND GRIEVANCES.
Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Appeals and Grievances to
report, with such recommendations as they may deem proper, upon all appeals from
the proceedings or decision of any Lodge, or the Master thereof, and upon all
papers and documents relating to any matters of complaint or grievance, apper-
taining to Masonic discipline, which may be referred to them.
RETURNS AND WORK OP CHARTERED LODGES.
Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Returns and Work of Chartered
Lodges —
1. To examine the returns of the proceedings and work of all Chartered Lodges
for the preceding year.
2. To make a tabulated report showing the number of resident and non- resident
members ; the number admitted, initiated, passed, raised, dimitted, deceased,
rejected, reinstated, suspended and expelled; also, showing the net increase and
decrease of the membership of each Lodge for the year ; also, the proper amount
of dues due the Grand Lodge.
3. To give such additional information as may be deemed necessary ; Provided,
that an examination and comparison of the returns shall not be made with those of
Lodges made in any previous year ; the same being provided for in Clause 10, Sec. 1,
Art. VI, Part First of these By-Laws.
RETURNS AND WORK OF LODGES UNDER DISPENSATION.
Sec. 0. It shall be the duty of the Committee on theReturnsand Work "! Lodges
under dispensation —
1. To examine the returns of work, the records of proceedings, and the By-Laws
of Lodges under dispensation.
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2. To make a tabulated report showing the regularity of the work and pro-
ceedings ; the correctness of the records and By-Laws ; the number admitted,
initiated, passed, raised, rejected and deceased ; the number of brethren acting as
members, together with the name and number of Lodges, and the locality in which
they may be established.
3. To report such other information, and make such recommendation to the
Grand Lodge as may be deemed necessary.
MILEAGE AND PER DIEM.
Sec. 10. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Mileage and Per Diem —
1. To ascertain the distance necessarily traveled by each officer, member of, or
representative to, the Grand Lodge, who may be entitled to mileage and per diem.
2. To record the same in tabular form, showing the name and title of the officer,
member, or representative ; the name and number of their respective Lodges ; the
actual number of miles necessarily traveled by each, respectively ; the actual
number of days' service ; the amounts due therefor respectively, (as provided in
Sec. 6, Art. XIII, Part First, of these By-Laws), and enter the same upon the
certificate of enrollment issued by the Committee on Credentials.
3. To require from each officer, member or representative, satisfactory evidence
that he is entitled to mileage and per diem.
4. To record the number of days' service actually performed by all committees,
and report the same to the Grand Lodge.
AUDITING.
Sec. 11. It shall be the duty of the Auditing Committee —
1. To convene, at such place as the chairman thereof may determine, on the 15th
day of December, March, June and September, respectively, of each year, and
investigate all bills or other demands against the Grand Lodge which may be
presented to them. If, for any reason, said committee shall fail to meet at the time
herein specified, the chairman thereof may call a meeting at such time and place as
the interests of the Grand Lodge may require.
2. To audit no bill or other demand not fully authorized by the Grand Lodge or
provided for in these By-Laws ; and when any valid claim shall be found correct, it
shall be approved by the committee, or a majority of them, and returned to the
Grand Secretary, who shall draw a warrant on the Grand Treasurer for the amount.
Sec. 12. The duties of the Auditing Committee shall commence immediately
after the close of the Grand Lodge in each year, and cease on and after the twentieth
day of September following.
Sec. 13. The Auditing Committee shall make a full detailed report of their
doings during the year, and submit the same to the Grand Lodge for approval.
MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE.
Sec. 14. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Masonic Correspondence —
1. To examine all the printed or written proceedings or other documents
emanating from other Grand Lodges in correspondence with this Grand Lodge, and
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report, at each Annual Communication, whatever may seem of sufficient importance
and interest to the Craft.
2. To prepare and report in time to have the same printed under the regulations
prescribed in section 15 of this article, for the use of the members at the next
annual session of the Grand Lodge.
3. To return to the Grand Secretary, after such report is completed, all the
proceedings and other documents received from other jurisdictions, and belonging
to this Grand Lodge.
PRINTING.
Sec. 15. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Printing to receive and open
all bids for printing for the ensuing year, during the meeting of the Grand Lodge,
and compute the proposals in accordance with the specifications, aud report to the
Grand Lodge before the close of its session, with such suggestions and recom-
mendations as may be deemed necessary to enable the Grand Lodge to make the
award.
Sec. 16. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Charity to investigate all
applications for assistance from the charity fund of this Grand Lodge, and to draw
upon the. same, throngh the Grand Treasurer, for such amounts as, in their
judgment, are necessary : Provided, that not more than one hundred dollars shall
be donated upon any one application, unless by special order of the Grand Lodge ;
and, Provided, also, that all donations shall be concurred in by vote of the Grand
Lodge when in session.
LIBRARIAN.
Sec. 17. It shall be the duty of the Librarian —
1. To take charge of the Library, and have such volumes present, at any session
of the Grand Lodge, as may be required for the use of the Grand Officers, committees
or members.
2. To take a receipt for every volume delivered, and in case of a failure to duly
return the same, to require of the Lodge of which the delinquent is a member,
payment in double the amount of the value of such volume, to be collected with
the annual dues of such Lodge.
3. To select, and with the consent and approval of the Grand Master, Deputy
Grand Master, Grand Wardens and Grand Treasurer, purchase such books, charts,
magazines, and other documents as may be deemed necessary and proper ; and
procure the binding of such volumes and documents as may be deemed expedient :
Provided, the expense of such purchase and binding shall not exceed the sum of
one hundred dollars in any one year, unless special appropriation shall be made
therefor by the Grand Lodge.
4. To appoint, when necessary, a Deputy Librarian, to serve during the annual
session only.
Sec. 18. The foregoing named committees shall assemble at such time and place
as the Grand Master may direct, and shall submit their respective reports at such
time as the Grand Lodge or the Grand Master may order.
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Sec. 19. The committeesherein provided for, except those on Charity and Library,
shall be considered standing committees, within the meaning of clause 9, Article
XI, of the Constitution.
Sec. 20. It shall be the duty of the Grand Lecturers or Examiners who may be
appointed by the Grand Master, to examine all applicants for commissions to act as
Deputy Grand Lecturers, and report to the Grand Master upon the qualifications of
such applicants ; and said Grand Lecturers or Examiners may hold schools of
instruction, at such time and place as the Grand Master may order, and perform
such other duties, incident to their position, as he may direct.
Sec. 21. The commissions of the Grand Lecturers or Examiners, and of the.
Deputy Grand Lecturers, shall expire at the close of the annual communication of
the Grand Lodge, unless sooner revoked by the Grand Master.
Sec. 22. The Grand Lecturers or Examiners, upon an order from the Grand
Master, shall attend the annual meetings of the Grand Lodge ; and when so
ordered, shall act as a committee to examine visiting brethren ; and shall be entitled
to the mileage and per diem provided for representatives. (See Sec. 6, Art. XIII,
Part first of these By-Laws.)
ARTICLE X.
ELIGIBILITY.
Section 1. No brother shall be eligible to hold office in, or serve upon any
committee of, this Grand Lodge, unless qualified as provided in Article VII of the
Constitution ; but nothing herein shall be construed to interfere with the right of
the Grand Master to commission any brother, in writing, for any other special
service.
Sec. 2. Any brother Master Mason, subject to the restrictions of Sections 1 and 2,
Article XXVI, Part Second of these By-Laws, shall be eligible to represent his
Lodge in Grand Lodge, during the annual session thereof, in the manner provided
in Sec. 3, of Article VIII of the Constitution.
Sec. 3. No brother, after taking his seat as a member, shall be allowed to retire
without permission of the Grand Lodge or Grand Master.
Sec. 4. No brother not a member of, or representative to, the Grand Lodge, shall
be admitted to the floor thereof, nor permitted to speak on any matter before the
body, without leave of the Grand Lodge or Grand Master. Provided, however,
that any Master Mason in good standing, upon being properly vouched for, may
occupy a seat provided for visitors.
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REVENUE.
Section 1. The revenue of this Grand Lodge shall be derived from the following
sources, to-wit :
1. For every dispensation to form a new Lodge, one hundred dollars, which
amount shall include the fee for a charter, in case the Grand Lodge shall
subsequently issue the same.
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2. For every dispensatiou issued to ballot 'upon a petition for, or to authorize
conferring the degree of Entered Apprentice in lees than lawful time, twenty
dollars.
3. For every dispensation to ballot upon an application for advancement, or to
authorize conferring the degree of Fellow Craft or Master Mason, in less than
lawful time, five dollars.
4. For every dispensation issued for any other purpose, two dollars.
5. For affixing the seal of the Grand Lodge, with an attestation of the Grand
Secretary, to any diploma, certificate or other document, for the use of any Lodge
or Mason, one dollar, all of which sums shall be paid in advance.
6. For each member of every Chartered Lodge under this jurisdiction, seventy-
fire cents annually.
7. For every Master Mason, acting as a member, or whose name may be upon
the roll of any Lodge under dispensation, and who is not a member of some
Chartered Lodge in this jurisdiction, seventy-five cents annually, the same to be
paid by such Lodge under dispensation.
Sec. 2. The foregoing fees and dues shall be paid into the treasury of the Grand
Lodge within thirty days after the same are received.
ARTICLE XII.
Section 1. The Masonic fiscal year shall commence on the first day of October,
and end on the thirtieth day of September, in each year.
Sec. 2. There shall be three funds, viz. : the General Fund, the Contingent
Fund, and the Charity Fund.
Sec. 3. The General fund shall consist of all moneys paid into the Grand Lodge,
except those belonging to, or especially intended for, the Charity fund.
Sec. 4. The Contingent fund shall be taken annually from the General fund, and
shall be of such amount as may be necessary to meet the current expenses during
the recess of the Grand Lodge ; such appropriations to be determined as provided
in Clause 3, of Section 2, Article IX, Part First, of these By-Laws, and be approved
by a vote of the Grand Lodge.
Sec. 5. The Charity fund shall consist of all moneys especially donated or set
apart therefor, and such as may accrue by virtue of the provisions of Section 5, of
Article XXVII, part second, of these By-Laws.
Sec. 6. All moneys in the Contingent fund unexpended at the commencement of
each Annual Communication, shall be transferred by the Grand Treasurer to the
General fund.
ARTICLE XIII.
EXPENDITURES.
Section 1. No proposition, contemplating the appropriation or expenditure of
any money from the General fund, shall be put upon its final passage, until it shall
have been considered and reported upon by some committee of the Grand Lodge.
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Sec. 2. No money shall be paid from the Contingent fund, except in the manner
provided in Clause 2, of Section 11, Article IX, Part First, of these By-Laws.
Sec. 3. No money shall be paid from the Charity fund, except as prescribed in
Sec. 16, Article IX, Part First, of these By-Laws.
Sec. 4. No money shall be paid to Grand Officers, members, or representatives,
for mileage or per diem, until the close of each annual communication, unless
otherwise ordered by the Grand Lodge.
Sec. 5. Every account against the Grand Lodge shall be in detail, and show upon
its face each item composing the whole claim.
Sec. 6. The Grand Officers designated in Article V, of the Constitution, each
member of a standing committee and one representative (the highest in rank) from
each Lodge under this jurisdiction, shall be allowed five cents per mile, going and
returning, for every mile traveled from the location of his Lodge, to be computed
by the necessarily traveled route, and (except the Grand Master, Grand Treasurer
and Grand Secretary) two dollars per day for each day's actual attendance on the
Grand Lodges or its committees ; Provided, that no one shall receive mileage and
per diem both as a Grand Officer and Representative ; nor shall any one receive
mileage and per diem in any two capacities.
Sec. 7. Every Grand Officer shall be entitled to be reimbursed for any moneys
actually expended in the necessary discharge of his official duties ; but, in all cases,
the claims for such reimbursement 6hall be subject to the requirements of section 1
of this article.
ARTICLE XIV.
MISCELLANEOUS matters.
Section 1. Special Communications of the Grand Lodge may be called as
provided in the first clause of Article XII of the Constitution , but no busine ss shall
be transacted except such as shall have been previously stated in the call for such
Special Communication.
Sec. 2. Occasional Grand Communications may be convened by the Grand
Master, or by a deputy specially appointed, for the purpose of constituting Lodges,
dedicating halls, laying corner stones, or other ceremonies requiring the aid of a
Grand Lodge.
Sec. 3. The " Previous Question" is unmasonic ; and the making or entertaining
such motion in this Grand Lodge, or in any Constituent Lodge in this jurisdiction,
is irregular and unlawful. The same rule shall apply to a motion to " lay upon the
table," except for a specified limited time, within the probable duration of the
current session of the Grand Lodge, or a Constituent Lodge.
Sec. 4. General Parliamentary usage shall be in order in the Grand Lodge, or
any Constituent Lodge in this jurisdiction, so far as it may be consistent with the
principles of Masonry, and in conformity with the laws, rules and regulations of this
Grand Lodge, and the By Laws and rules of the Constituent Lodge.
Sec. 5. Every member of the Grand Lodge making a motion, or speaking to a
question, shall announce his name, and the number of the Lodge he represents.
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Sec. G. Every member entitled to vote, shall, unless excused by the Grand
Lodge or the Grand Master, vote on all questions coming before the Grand Lodge.
Sec. 7. Any Grand Officer, Representative or member of a Committee who shall
be absent during two successive sittings of the Grand Lodge, except for sickness or
other good cause (of the sufficiency of which the Grand Lodge shall be the jndgi ),
or by the authority of the Grand Lodge or Grand Master, shall forfeit all claim to
mileage and per diem.
PART SECOND.
GOVERNMENT OF CONSTITUENT LODGES.
ARTICLE I.
THE COMPOSITION AND ORGANIZATION OF A LODGE.
Section 1. Every Lodge shall consist of a Worshipful Master, Senior Warden,
Junior Warden, Treasurer, Secretary, Senior Deacon, Junior Deacon, Tyler, and
such other officers as its By-Laws may provide for, and of as many members as it
may find convenient.
Sec. 2. No Lodge of Eree and Accepted Masons can legally assemble in this
State, unless authorized so to do by a Dispensation from the Grand Master or a
Charter from the Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free and accepted Masons of the State
of Illinois.
ARTICLE II.
THE INHERENT AND CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS OF A CONSTITUENT LODGE.
Section 1. The powers of a Lodge are such as are prescribed in its Charter, or
letter of Dispensation ; by the Constitution, By-Laws and Regulations of this Grand
Lodge ; the landmarks and general regulations of Masonry ; and, when not in
conilict therewith, its own By-Laws ; and are defined as follows :
1. The Executive, which relates to the direction and performance of its work,
under the control of the Master, who is the superior executive officer of the Lodge.
•I. The Legislative, which embrace all matters of legislation relative to the internal
concerns of the Lodge which are not in violation of its own By-Laws, the general
regulations of Masonry, the Constitution and By-Laws of the Grand Lodge, and the
orders and edicts of the Grand Master.
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3. The Judicial, which embrace the exercise of discipline over, and the settlement
of difficulties between, all its own members, (except the Master) and all Masons and
non-affiliated brethren within its jurisdiction, subject always to a review by the
Grand Lodge upon appeal.
ARTICLE III.
DUTIES OF A LODGE.
Sec. 1. It shall be the duty of a Lodge —
1. To hold at least one stated Communication 'in each mouth, and, to annually
elect and install its officers.
2. To provide for its meetings a safe and suitable room.
3. To keep a full and proper record of its transactions.
4. To make report thereof annually to the Grand Lodge.
5. To punctually pay its annual dues to the Grand Lodge.
6. To have a code of By-Laws which shall conform to the Constitution, laws
and regulations of the Grand Lodge, and not violate the ancient landmarks.
7. To have a suitable Seal, and file an impression thereof with the Grand
Secretary.
Sec. 2. No Lodge shall remove its place of meeting from the city, town or
village named in its Charter or Dispensation, except by special authority of the
Grand Lodge or the Grand Master, granted upon a written petition, concurred in by
a vote of three-fourths of the members of the Lodge present at a stated meeting ;
of which meeting, and the proposition for such removal, all the resident members
of the Lodge shall have previous notice ; and such removal shall be consented to by
the Lodge or Lodges whose jurisdiction may be affected thereby.
Sec. 3. No Lodge shall levy a special tax or assessment upon its members, other
than the dues or other tax prescribed by its by-laws.
Sec. 4. The discussion of political, sectarian or other subjects not of a strictly
Masonic character, is prohibited in every Lodge in this jurisdiction.
Sec. 5. No Lodge, officer or member thereof, shall grant a certificate or
recommendation, whereby any Mason may in an itinerant manner apply to Lodges
for relief.
Sec. 6. Every Lodge shall have all official communications from the Grand
Master or Grand Secretary read in open Lodge, at the stated meeting next following
their receipt.
ARTICLE IV.
MEETINGS op a lodge.
Section 1. The meetings of a Lodge are stated and special.
Sec. 2. Stated meetings are those held at the time prescribed by the By-Laws ;
and at 6uch meetings all general business, such as balloting for candidates for the
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degrees, or for membership, election of officers, and the discussion of questions
relative to the interests of the fraternity, shall be transacted in a Lodge of Master
Masons.
Sec. 3. Special meetings may be called, in the discretion of the Master, by
giving due notice to the resideut members ; but no business except trials, conferring
degrees, or ceremonial observances, shall be transacted ; nor shall any Lodge be
convened on Sunday, except for funeral purposes.
Sec. 4. Nothing shall be done in any Lodge while open on the first or second
degree, except what appertains to the work and lectures of those degrees, or the
taking of testimony upon charges preferred against an Entered Apprentice or
Fellow-Craft.
Sec. 5. No Lodge shall remain closed beyond the time prescribed in its By-Laws
for holding stated meetings, except by dispensation of the Grand Master.
Sec. 6. The Master cannot authorize any one to open the Lodge in his absence,
to the exclusion of a Warden present; and in the absence of the Master and both
the Wardens, a Lodge cannot be opened for any purpose, except by the Grand
Master or his special deputy.
Sec. 7. No Lodge shall be opened on any degree unless there be present at least
seven Master Ifasom ; nor shall any balloting or other business be done (except
conferring degrees) unless there be present at least seven members of the Lodge.
Sec. 8. The records of the proceedings of a Lodge, after having been regularly
approved by the Lodge, shall not be altered or any part thereof expunged, at any
subsequent meeting, except by dispensation of the Grand Master.
Sec. 9. It shall be the duty of the Master of any Lodge, when notified of the
intended official visit of the Grand Master or District Deputy Grand Master, to
convene his Lodge, extend to him the appropriate courtesies, and, when called upon,
to submit for his inspection the By-Laws and records, and furnish such facilities as
may be necessary to a proper discharge of his duties.
ARTICLE V.
election, appointment and installation of officers.
Section 1. Every Lodge shall elect, appoint and install its officers annually, at
such times and in the manner prescribed in its By-Laws.
Sec. 2. Every Lodge shall, within thirty days after the annual installation,
transmit to the Grand Master and the Grand Secretary, a duly certified list of the
names of the newly installed officers, with the dates of their election and
installation, and the name and title of the installing officer.
Sec. 3. In case any Lodge shall fail to elect its officers at the time prescribed by
its By-Laws, it shall forthwith lay the matter before the Grand Master, who, for
good cause shown, may grant a dispensation to hold an election as soon thereafter
as may be practicable ; such dispensation shall be entered at length upon the
records of the Lodge.
Sec. 4. Neither the Master nor Wardens of a Chartered Lodge shall resign or
dimit during their official term ; but the resignation of any other elected officer may
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be accepted by the Lodge. The vacancy shall be filled by_special election, held
under authority of a dispensation from the Grand Master.
Sec. 5 Resignations of appointed officers may, for good reasons, be received,
and the vacancy filled by the Master.
ARTICLE VI.
ELIGIBILITY.
Section 1. No brother shall be eligible to the office of Master in any (.'bartered
Lodge unless he is an actual member thereof, nor unless he has been duly elected
and regularly installed as a Warden of some legally Chartered Lodge : Provided,
that in case of emergency the Lodge may elect any member not 60 qualified ; but no
brother so elected can be installed except by dispensation applied for by written
petition of the Lodge, signed by the present Master and Wardens, and the resident
Past Masters and Wardens : Provided, further, that this section shall not apply to
the Master of a Lodge under dispensation.
Sec. 2. No brother shall be installed Master of a Lodge until he shall have
received the degree of Past Master at the hands of at least three actual Past
Masters.
Sec. 3. Any member of a Lodge qualified to vote in the election for officers,
shall be eligible to any office in the Lodge, except that of Master : Provided, that
no member 6hall hold more than one office in the Lodge at the same time.
Sec. 4. Officers of a Chartered Lodge must be installed as often as re-elected or
appointed.
Sec . 5. No officer of a Lodge can be legally installed by proxy.
Sec. 6. No brother is Masonically qualified to install the officers of a Lodge,
except one who has been duly elected aud regularly installed as Master of a
Chartered Lodge, working under the jurisdiction of some recognized Grand Lodge,
and who is, at the time of exercising such official authority, an actual member,
in good standing, of some regular Lodge.
ARTICLE VII.
powers and duties ok the master.
Section I. The Master shall have power —
1. To convene his Lodge in special communication whenever he may deem
proper.
2. To preside at all meetings of his Lodge.
3. To cause to be issued all notices and summonses which may be required.
4. To appoint all committees.
5. To fill a vacancy in any office for the term of any meeting of the Lodge.
0. To discharge all the executive functions of his Lodge.
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7. To perform such other acts as by ancient usage pertain to his office, which
shall not contravene any of the provisions of the constitution, laws and regulations
of this Grand Lodge.
Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the Master—
1. To convene his Lodge in regular communication at the time prescribed in its
By-Laws.
2. To superintend the official acts of the officers of his Lodge, and see that their
respective duties are properly performed.
3. To carefully guard against any infraction of the By-Laws of his Lodge, the
written laws of the Grand Lodge, or the general regulations of Masonry, and suffer
no departure therefrom upon the plea of convenience or expediency, except in
cases of emergency, and then only by dispensation of the Grand Master.
4. To see that proper returns of work, etc., are annually transmitted to the
Grand Secretary, and that the Grand Lodge dues are promptly paid.
5. To cause summonses to issue only when the welfare of Masonry, the interests
of his Lodge, or the rights of a brother demand, and to take special care that
disobedience of a duly served summons be promptly followed by discipline, unless
the offender render excuse for the offense satisfactory to the Lodge.
6. To cause all necessary notices to be issued in the prescribed manner and form.
7. To permit no appeal from his decision to be made to the Lodge.
ARTICLE VIII.
Section 1. It shall be the duty of the Wardens to assist the Master in the
discharge of his duties, and to perform such other acts as Masonic usage has
assigned to their respective stations.
Sec. 2. In the absence of the Master, the duties of his office shall be fulfilled by
the Senior Warden, and if the Master and Senior Warden both be absent, the Junior
Warden shall fulfill the duties of the Master.
Sec, 3. No Warden can call a special meeting of the Lodge while his official
superior is within the territorial jurisdiction thereof and able to authorize a call.
ARTICLE IX.
OTE1ER OFFICERS.
Section 1. All other officers of a Lodge shall perform such duties therein as
may be directed by the Master and Wardens, not conflicting with the By-Laws of
the Lodge, the laws and regulations of the Grand Lodge, and the usages and
general regulations of Masonry.
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ARTICLE X.
MEMBERSHIP.
Section 1. Membership in a Lodge may be acquired —
1. By having regularly received the degree of Master Mason therein, and signing
the By-Laws thereof.
2. By a Master Mason petitioning a Lodge for affiliation, and upon due election
to membership, and signing the By-Laws of the Lodge.
3. By having been named in a charter issued to a Lodge under dispensation.
Sec. 2. No Mason shall be an actual member of more than one chartered Lodge
at the same time ; Provided, That any Lodge may confer the title of honorary
membership upon any Master Mason, who is a member of some other regular
Lodge ; but such honorary membership shall not confer any of the rights of regular
membership.
Sec. 3. Membership in a chartered Lodge can only be terminated —
1. By dissolution of the Lodge.
2. By voluntary, formal dimission therefrom.
3. By becoming a charter member of a new Lodge.
4. By death, suspension or expulsion.
Sec. 4. It is the duty of every Master Mason to be a member of some Lodge.
ARTICLE XL
LODGE JURISDICTION.
Sec. 1. Every Chartered Lodge shall have certain personal and territorial
jurisdiction.
Sec. 2. The personal jurisdiction of a Lodge shall extend over all its members,
(except its Master, or the Grand Master, if a member thereof) wherever they may
reside ; and over its unfinished work and rejected material, wherever they may be
dispersed.
Sec. 3. The territorial jurisdiction of a Lodge shall extend in all directions
half-way on straight lines between neighboring Lodges, without regard to county
or other geographical divisions, and includes the exclusive right, on the part of the
Lodge, to accept or reject all original petitions for the degrees from persons
residing within its territory ; and the exercise of penal power over all Masons,
unaffiliated as well as affiliated, residing permanently or temporarily within its
territorial jurisdiction, for any violation of moral or Masonic law ; Provided, that in
any town or city where two or more Lodges are located, territorial jurisdiction shall
be concurrent.
Sec. 4. By the Masonic residence of an applicant, is meant a permanent settled
domicile, or fixed abode, from choice ; and, as a rule, is identical with his legal
residence.
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ARTICLE XII.
THE QUALIFICATIONS OF CANDIDATES.
Section- 1. Every candidate applying lor the degrees in Masonry, must have the
senses of a man, especially those of hearing, seeing and feeling ; be a believer in
God; capahle of reading and writing, and possessing nomsiim or defect in his body
that may render him incapable of conforming literally to what the several degrees
respectively require of him.
No provision of this section shall be set aside, suspended or dispensed with by the
Grand Master or the Grand Lodge.
SBC. 2. No Lodge shall knowingly receive a petition from, or initiate, acandidate
who is les9 than twenty-one years old, or who ha3 not been an actual resident of
the State of Illinois at least twelve months, and of the jurisdiction of the Lodge at
least six months next preceding the date of such petition ; and if any such qualified
petitioner shall have been rejected by any regular Lodge in this jurisdiction, the
requirements of Sections 6 and 7, Article XIII, Part Second, of these By-Laws, shall
be complied with.
Sec. 3. In case any petition for the degrees shall have been rejected by a Lodge
in any other Grand jurisdiction, within convenient reach by correspondence, the
regulations specified in Section 6 of the succeeding Article (XIII) shall apply.
Provided, however, that if after due diligence to communicate with such Lodge has
been exercised, if no reply be received to the request for permission after the
period of ninety days from making such request, a Lodge may proceed to take
action upon such petition, without such permission.
ARTICLE XIII.
PETITIONS.
Section 1. All petitions for the degrees or for membership shall be made in
writing, and signed by the applicant with his full name ; shall state his age,
occupation, and place of residence, and, in case of a petitioner for the degrees,
whether he has made application to any other Lodge ; and shall be accompanied
with the fee prescribed by the By-Laws. Every petition shall be recommended in
writing by three members of the Lodge, and be presented at a stated meeting, and
entered in substance upon the records.
Sec. 2. Every petition for the degrees shall be referred to a committee, of three
members of the Lodge, who shall diligently inquire into the moral, mental and
physical qualifications of the applicant, and whether he has been a citizen of the
State as provided in Section 2, of Article XII, Part Second, of these By-Laws, and
make such report thereon as they may deem proper ; Provided, that the report shall
be verbal, and the nature thereof, whether favorable or unfavorable, shall not be
entered of record.
Sec. 3. No ballot shall be taken upon any petition for the degrees or for
membership, in less period than four week9 from the time the same is referred to
the committee, except by special dispensation of the Grand Master.
Sec. 4. All petitions for membership shall state the name, number and location
of the Lodge of which the applicant was last a member, and the name of the Lodge
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in which he was made a Master Mason, and the name of the Grand Lodge under
which such Lodge is or was working ; such petition shall be accompanied by a dimit
or other satisfactory evidence that the petitioner has lawfully withdrawn from the
Lodge of which he was last a member ; or, if such membership has been lost in any
other manner, he must submit proof of his standing in the fraternity ; if the
petitioner is elected, the documentary evidence shall be canceled and filed among
the records of the Lodge ; if rejected, the same shall be promptly returned to the
brother.
Sec. 5. Master Masons applying for membership shall not be required to state
whether they have or have not applied to any other Lodge ; nor shall the regulations
of these By-Laws concerning physical qualifications or jurisdictional residence apply
to such applicants ; nor shall any of the requirements of the preceding sections (1,
2 and 3) apply to Entered Apprentices or Fellow-Cratts seeking advancement in the
Lodge in which they were initiated or passed ; but the requirements of said sections
1, 2 and 3, and Section 2, of Article XV, shall apply to the petitions of Entered
Apprentices or Fellow-Crafts seeking advancement in any Lodge other than the one
in which they may have been initiated or passed.
Sec. 6. No Lodges shall knowingly receive a petition for the degrees from an
applicant who has been rejected by, or who resides nearer to, auother Lodge,
without first obtaining the consent of such other Lodge in writing, unanimously
granted at a stated meeting thereof and certified under seal ; the substance of which '
certificate shall be entered of record.
•Sec. 7. Whenever a Lodge shall grant permission to any other Lodge to receive
the petition of a person residing within its jurisdiction, or of a rejected candidate
or an Entered Apprentice or Fellow-Craft over whom it may have lawful jurisdic-
tion, it shall thereby be held to have permanently relinquished the same, and the
Lodge receiving such permission shall thereby acquire lawful jurisdiction ; Provided,
that all such petitions shall be subject to the laws governing original petitions for
the degrees, as defined in this and in the following article (XIV).
Sec. 8. No petition for the degrees shall be withdrawn or returned, after having
been received by a Lodge, unless the same shall be balloted upon and rejected, in
which case the fee accompanying the same shall be returned to the applicant ;
Provided, that where a Lodge has by mistake received and referred a petition of an
applicant who resides within the jurisdiction of any other Lodge, or from one
disqualified by lack of residence or otherwise, the petition with the fee shall be
returned without balloting, unless preceding Section 6, and other requirements of
these By-Laws, when applicable, shall be complied with.
Sec. 9. The petition and the fee of a brother Master Mason applying for member-
ship may be withdrawn or returned upon written application therefor, and the
concurrence of a majority of the members present at a stated meeting of the Lodge.
ARTICLE XIV.
BALLOTING.
Section 1. No ballot shall be taken upon a petition for any degree or for
membership at any other than a stated communication, except by dispensation from
the Grand Master ; nor unless there be present at such stated communication at
least seven members af the Lodge.
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Sec. 2. In balloting upon petitions for any degree or for membership, the same
shall be acted upon separately ; and every member of the Lodge present shall vote ;
nor shall any member be excused from this duty, except by unanimous consent of
the other members present.
Sec. 3. The ballot shall be had upon all petitions for initiation, whether the
report thereon is favorable or unfavorable, (unless it shall appear as provided in
Section 8 of the last preceding Article, that the Lodge has no jurisdiction), and
shall be upon the moral, mental and physical qualifications of the applicant. The
ballot upon petition for membership or for advancement, is taken upon the moral,
mental, and may include the Masonic qualifications of the candidate ; or the test
of his Masonic proficiency may be decided by the Master ; Provided, That the vote
to elect to any degree or to membership, shall be unanimous in each and all.
Sec. 4. The right of every member of a Lodge to the secret ballot for initiation,
advancement, or for membership, is inherent and absolute, and the lawful and
legitimate exercise of 6uch right shall not be questioned by the Master, the Lodge,
the Grand Master, or the Grand Lodge ; and if any member shall be proved to have
been actuated by unworthy motives in the exercise of this right, or shall wilfully
use the ballot to interrupt the legitimate labors, or mar the peace and harmony
of the Lodge, or shall expose the character of his own vote before, at the time of
or after casting it, or shall attempt to ascertain the character of the vote of any
other member, he shall be liable to Masonic discipline and punishment.
Sec. 5. When a ballot is in progress, it shall not be suspended or postponed, nor
shall any ballot be reconsidered under any pretense whatever, except for the
purposes and in the manner prescribed in Sec. 4 of Article XV, Part Second.
Sec. 6. No debate shall be permitted in open Lodge upon the merits or demerits
of any candidate, at or before the time of balloting. The secret vote of each member
is the only legal expression of his opinion.
Sec. 7. After the ballot has been taken, and duly examined first by the Wardens,
and finally by the Master, if only one negative vote appears, the Master may order a
second trial of the ballot, the result of which shall, in all cases, be final and
conclusive ; and shall be then and there so declared by the Master ; and such
declaration shall not be set aside by the Master, the Lodge, the Grand Master, or
the Grand Lodge, except as provided in Section 4 of the succeeding Article (XV);
the result only, viz.: "elected" or " rejected," 6hall be made known.
ARTICLE XV.
rejections.
Section 1. Any candidate for initiation who has been rejected in a Lodge having
jurisdiction, may renew his application after the expiration of one year from the
date of such rejection, to the same Lodge only, if it be in existence ; Pvovided, that
such Lodge may waive jurisdiction, as provided in Sections 6 and 7 of Article XIII,
Part Second.
Sec. 2. The rejection of a candidate for the second or third degree shall not
debar him from applying for advancement at the next, or any subsequent stated
meeting of the Lodge, at which time a ballot may be taken.
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Sec. 3. Any brother whose application for membership has been rejected, may
renew his application to the same or to any other Lodge, without regard to time
or place ; the rejection of the petition of a brother for membership shall not affect
his Masonic standing.
Sec. 4. When any candidate for initiation has been rejected by any Lodge
through mistake or misapprehension, such Lodge may correct such error at the
same or at any subsequent stated meeting, in the following manner only, viz. : the
member or members who have balloted in the negative by mistake, or under
misapprehension, shall announce the same in open Lodge, and the number of such
members, if more than one, shall correspond with the number of negative ballots
by which the candidate was rejected. All the members present at the time of the
first ballot, shall have due notice of the time such ballot will be renewed.
Sec. 5. When any candidate is declared rejected, notice thereof shall, if
practicable, be communicated to him in person.
Sec. 6. Any Mason who shall knowingly assist or recommend for initiation to
any Lodge, any candidate who has been rejected by a Lodge, without first having
lawful permission of said rejecting Lodge, shall be liable to Masonic discipline ;
and any candidate who may receive either of the degrees by false representation,
or through deception, shall be brought to trial and punished, as the Lodge may
determine.
ARTICLE XVI.
OBJECTIONS.
Section 1. Any Master Mason who is a member of a Lodge, may raise well
grounded objections to the initiation or advancement of candidates in such Lodge.
Sec. 2. If any member of a Lodge shall express to the Master an objection to
the initiation of a candidate, even after such candidate shall have been elected,
such objection shall be respected, nor shall the objector's reasons be demanded by
the Master or the Lodge ; but the objection shall be entered of record, and shall
stand as a bar against the candidate for the term of one year, unless sooner
withdrawn by the objector. The fee, if any, accompanying the petition, shall, in
such case, be immediately returned to the petitioner.
Sec. 3. Whenever objection is made by any member of a Lodge to the advance-
ment of a brother therein, to the second or third degree, the reasons therefor must
be made known, if required by the Lodge or the Master; or the matter may be referred
to a committee, with power to inquire into such reasons, who shall report thereon
to the Lodge as soon as practicable. Upon the reception of such report, if no
cause for objection bsa been assigned, or if the reasons assigned be, in the opinion of a
majority of the members present, insufficient, the Lodge may confer the degree in
the same manner as if no objection had been made, but if the reasons assigned
shall be deemed to be sufficient to stay the degree, the candidate shall be entitled,
upon application, to trial upon the alleged objections.
Sec. 4. Objections to either initiation or advancement, when made by a brother
not a member of the Lodge having jurisdiction, 6hall be subject to the provisions
of the last preceding section.
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Sec. 5. No candidate whose initiation or advancement is stayed by personal
objection, shall be recorded or published as rejected, and Lodges are not required
to report such stay to the Grand Secretary.
ARTICLE XVII.
Section 1. No Lodge under the jurisdiction of this Grand Lodge shall be
permitted to confer the three degrees upon any person for a less sum than twenty-
live dollars ; and the apportionment of such sum to the degrees, respectively, shall
be regulated by the By-Laws of each Lodge.
Sec. 2. No Lodge shall confer any degree or admit to membership until the
prescribed fee shall have been paid to the proper officer ; nor shall any written or
verbal promise to pay the same be received in lieu thereof, nor any portion of the
fee remitted, either directly or indirectly.
ARTICLE XVIII.
CONFERRING DEGREE*.
Section 1. No Lodge shall confer any degree upon any person who declines to
conform to any requirement of Masonry, or to the rules and regulations of this
Grand Lodge. No exceptions shall be made in the law and regulations in favor of
any particular person or candidate.
Sec. 2. No candidate shall be advanced to the second or third degree until he
shall have passed a satisfactory examination in open Lodge upon his Masonic pro-
ficiency, unless by dispensation of the Grand Master. A brother may be advanced
at any meeting of the Lodge, after being duly elected and examined as herein
required, if not contrary to Lodge By-Laws.
Sec. 3. No candidate shall receive more than one degree on the same day, except
by dispensation of the Grand Master ; nor shall any Lodge confer any portion of
the degree of Entered Apprentice, or the first section of the degree of Fellow-Craft,
or any part of the Master Mason's degree, on more than one candidate at the same
time.
ARTICLE XIX.'
Section 1. It is the privilege of every Master Mason, in good standing, to visit
a Lodge ; subject, however, to the right of the Lodge, or any member thereof, to
object to his admission as a visitor.
Sec. 2. No visitor shall be admitted to any Lodge under this jurisdiction unless
lawfully vouched for as a Master Mason in good standing. Documentary evidence
alone shall not be sufficient to justify avouchment. In addition to strict, trial and
due examination of his knowledge of Masonry, every Lodge or committee shall
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require a strange visitor to affirm that the Lodge of which he is or was formerly a
member, is working under and by virtue of a charter or dispensation issued by the
Grand Lodge or Grand Master recognized by this Grand Lodge as having jurisdiction
over the country, State, Province or Territory in which such Lodge may be situated.
ARTICLE XX.
Section 1. All applications for dimits shall be made in writing, signed by the
applicant, be presented to the Lodge at a stated communication, shall be read in
open Lodge, and lie over until the next or some subsequent stated meeting,
when, if the applicant's dues are paid, and there are no charges against him, a
dimit may be granted by the vote of a majority of the members present.
Sec. 2. A dimit shall date from the Lodge record when the same shall be granted,
and membership ceases from and after the vote ; the brother so dimitted shall be
entitled to a copy of such record ; but should the Secretary neglect to furnish such
copy, or the brother refuse to receive the same, such neglect or refusal shall not, in
any manner, invalidate the joint action of the applicant and the Lodge.
Sec. 3. If any brother shall lose the certificate of his dimission, the Secretary of
the Lodge shall, upon request and satisfactory proof of such loss, furnish him another
certificate, with the original date, and the fact of re-issuance, which shall be entered
upon the record.
Sec. 4. Entered Apprentices and Fellow-Crafts shall not receive dimits ; but a
Lodge may grant them a certificate setting forth their status in the Lodge.
ARTICLE XXI.
NON-AFFILIATED MASONS.
Section 1. It is contrary to the usages and precepts of the Masonic fraternity to
reside within the jurisdiction of a regular Lodge without making an effort to become
a member thereof.
Sec. 2. Voluntary non-affiliated Masons shall not be permitted to take part
in any of the ceremonies of the Lodge, nor shall they, of right, be entitled to any of
the privileges or benefits of Masonry, such as Masonic burial, uniting in Masonic
processions or celebrations ; nor shall they or their families have any claim upon
the fraternity for pecuniary aid in cases of misfortune or distress ; Provided, that
nothing herein shall be construed to deprive a Lodge, or any member thereof, of the
right to render to a non-affiliated Mason aid and assistance, Masonic burial, or
any fraternal courtesy (except the privileges of the Lodge) they may deem just and
proper. i
Sec. 3. Non-affiliated Masons shall be subject to the discipline of the Lodge in
whose jurisdiction they may reside, for auy violation of moral or Masonic law.
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ARTICLE XXII.
SPECIAL DISPENSATIONS.
Section 1. All applications to the Grand Master for dispensations to confer any
degree, shall emanate from a Lodge at a stated or special communication, and be
concurred in by the unanimous vote of the members present at such meeting ; and
such application shall 6et forth fully and clearly the emergency, under the seal of
the Lodge, and be signed by the Master and Secretary.
Sec. 2. All applications for special purposes, not otherwise provided for, may
emanate from the Master.
Sec. S. The fee for dispensations* shall accompany the petition therefore to the
Grand Master.
Sec. 4. Every dispensation shall be entered upon the records of the Lodge, and
prompt report made to the Grand Master of the doings by authority thereof.
ARTICLE XXIII.
LODGES UNDER DISPENSATION.
Section 1. The formation of new Lodges shall be subject to the provisions of
Article XIII of the Constitution.
Sec. 2. No petition to form a new Lodge shall be granted by the Grand Master,
or ordered by the Grand Lodge, unless the petition shall state the name, number
and location of the respective Lodges to which the petitioners belong, or if
unaffiliated, of which they last were members.
Sec. 3. No Dispensation shall be granted, unless the petitioners shall have procured
a suitable and safe room, with convenient ante-rooms, in which to conduct Masonic
ceremonies ; nor unless the material in the proposed jurisdiction shall be sufficient
to sustain a healthy and reputable Lodge.
Sec. 4. Every petition for a new Lodge shall set forth the proposed name thereof;
the names of the brethren nominated /or the first Master and Wardens ; the name
of the county and place of the proposed location ; the population of such place ;
the time of holding the meetings ; the number and location of the three nearest
Lodges, and the dietauceof each from the location of the proposed new Lodge.
Sec. 5. No Dispensation shall be granted for a new Lodge, if the proposed new
location is within ten miles of any other Lodge in this jurisdiction, unless such
other Lodge ha6 sixty or more members ; or unless the new Lodge is to be located
in a town or city having at least five thousand inhabitants.
Sec. 6. Every petition for a new Lodge shall be accompanied with the dimits
of all non-affiliated petitioners, and Lodge certificates that all dues have been paid
by all affiliated petitioners.
8ec. 7. Every recommendation for the formation of a new Lodge, emanating
from a Chartered Lodge, shall certify to the truth of the statements contained in
the petitions under consideration ; and no recommendation shall be granted by any
fSce clauses 2, 3 and 4. of Sec 1. Art. XI, Pari First, of these By-Laws.
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Lodge, without the concurrent vote of two-thirds of the members present at a
stated communication. Such recommendation shall set forth the date of the
meetings of the Lodge at which the request was received and acted upon ; the
number of votes cast for and against the same ; and the number of members
belonging to the Lodge so recommending.
Sec. 8. Whenever a Chartered Lodge shall recommend the formation of a new
Lodge it shall be held to thereby cede territorial jurisdiction to the new Lodge.
Sec. 9. No charter shall issue to a Lodge under dispensation, until it shall have
conferred the degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow-Craft and Master Mason, in
manner and form as prescribed by the laws and regulations of this Grand Lodge.
Sec. 10. Every Lodge while working under dispensation, shall strictly conform
to the requirements of Sec. 1, Article III, Part Second, of these By-Laws, except
those of Clause 7, and so much of Clause 1 of said Section as refer to election and
installation of officers.
Sec. 11. Every dispensation shall be copied at length upon the records of the
Lodge, and the charter, when issued, shall be recorded in like manner.
Sec. 12. Every Lodge under dispensation shall make its returns to the Grand
Lode,e at the time, and, when applicable, in manner and form as required in Sec. 1,
Art. XXIV, Part Second ; and shall transmit therewith its letter of dispensation, a
copy of its By-Laws, and the record of its proceedings. After making such return,
no Lodge meeting shall be held until the Grand Lodge shall grant a charter, and
the requirements of Section 14 of this article are complied with.
Sec. 13. All Lodges organized under dispensation after the first of July, shall be
exempt from so much of the requirements of the last preceding section as refer to
the time for making returns, but shall fully comply therewith at the Annual Grand
Communication to be held one year thereafter : Provided, That the continuance of
such dispensation shall be sanctioned by an endorsement thereon by the Grand
Master.
Sec. 14. Every newly chartered Lodge shall be duly constituted, and its officers
properly installed, by the Grand Master or his special representative, assisted by an
occasional Grand Lodge, before said new Lodge can work or do business under its
charter.
Sec. 15. Every Lodge nnder dispensation shall pay dues as prescribed in Clause
7. Sec. 15 Art. XI, Part First.
Sec. 16. A brother joining in a petition for a dispensation for a new Lodge shall
not thereby sever his membership from the chartered Lodge of which he may be a
member, but shall be liable for dues to the new Lodge from the date of the
dispensation, and to the chartered Lodge to the date of the charter issued to the
new Lodge, unless he shall be sooner dimitted.
Sec. 17. A brother on becoming a charter member of a new Lodge shall be
thereby dimitted from the elder Lodge, and the Master of the new Lodge shall
cause immediate notice to be sent to the elder Lodge of the name of such member.
Sec. 18. The Master of a Lodge under dispensation shall not be amenable to
discipline by any chartered Lodge during his official term ; but in case such
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dispensation be annulled, or a charter withheld, the Lodge of original jurisdiction
may take cognizance of the conduct of such Master, unless the same shall be of a
strictly official character.
Sec. 19. A Lodge under dispensation shall have a code of By-Laws conforming
to the laws and regulations of the Grand Lodge.
ARTICLE XXIV.
ANNUAL RETURNS.
Section 1. Every Lodge under the jurisdiction of this Grand Lodge, shall, on or
before the first day of September, annually, transmit by mail, express, or some
other reliable and expeditious mode, to the Grand Secretary, the returns of such
Lodge, which shall embrace a complete list of officers and members ; of all
initiations, passings and raisings ; of all admissions, rejections, suspensions,
expulsions, lestorations, dimits and deaths, with their respective dates; the
number of miles from its location to the place of meeting of the Grand Lodge, by
the usually traveled route ; and such other matters as may be required by the
blank form ; which returns shall be attested by the seal cf the Lodge, and signed
by the Master and Secretary.
ARTICLE XXV.
ANNUAL DUES.
Section 1. Every Lodge under this jurisdiction shall, on or before the twentieth
day of September, annually, pay into the Treasury of the Grand Lodge, through the
Grand Secretary, the sum of seventy-five cents for each Master Mason belonging to
such Lodge at the time of making the annual return.
Sec. 2. No Lodge shall be entitled to be represented in the Grand Lodge until it
has complied with the provisions of the last preceding section, nor unless the Grand
Secretary's receipt for the annual dues is produced by the Representative of such
Lodge.
Sec. 3. Any Lodge that shall neglect or refuse to pay its annual dues, shall forfeit
all claim for mileage and per diem ; and should such neglect or refusal continue for
two successive years, the warrant or charter shall be suspended, and the effects of
the Lodge be disposed of, as provided in Section 5, Article XXVII, Part Second, of
these By-Laws ; Provided, that for satisfactory reasons for a failure to comply with
the foregoing requirements, and upon making full returns, and paying all back dues,
the charter and other effects of such Lodge may be restored by the Grand Lodge
upon a vote of two-thirds the members present at a stated annual communication.
ARTICLE XXVI.
representation in grand lodge, AND PROXIES.
Section 1. Whenever the Master or Wardens of a Lodge shall be unable to attend
the communication of the Grand Lodge, the officer who cannot so attend may depute
any member of his own Lodge as his proxy to represent the Lodge in Grand Lodge,
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and the proxy so deputed shall be entitled to the same privileges, and subject to
the same penalties, as the officer deputing him ; such deputizing shall be in writing,
and signed by the officer appointing the proxy.
Sec. 2. No brother shall represent more than one Lodge at the same time, either
as an official representative or as a proxy ; and all commissions of proxies shall
expire with the closing of the Grand Lodge.
ARTICLE XXVII.
DISSOLUTION OF LODGES.
Section 1. A Lodge may be dissolved —
1. By the voluntary surrendering of its charter.
2. By a revocation of its charter by the Grand Lodge.
Sec. 2. The charter of a Lodge may be surrendered, if the proposition be presented
at a stated communication thereof, and the same be acted upon at a subsequent
stated communication, of which all the members whose residence is known shall
have due and timely notice ; but no charter can be surrendered as long as seven
Master Masons, members of the Lodge, desire to continue to work under it, in
accordance with the laws of Masonry, and the laws and regulations of this Grand
Lodge.
Sec. 3. The charter of a Lodge may be revoked or suspended —
1. For disobedience to any provision of the constitution, laws or regulations of
the Grand Lodge.
2. For violation or neglect of the generally recognized usages of the craft.
3. For disregard to the lawful authority of the Grand Master.
4. For a failure to meet during a period of six successive months.
5. For a failure to make returns or pay its dues to the Grand Lodge for two
successive years.
Sec. 4. No Charter shall be suspended or revoked except for cause, of which
the Lodge shall have due notice, and an opportunity to be heard.
Sec. 5. Upon the revocation or suspension of the Charter of any Lodge, or if
from any other cause a Lodge shall become dormant, it shall be the duty of the last
Master, Treasurer or Secretary thereof, to surrender to the District Deputy Grand
Master, (subject to the orders of the Grand Master), the warrant, books, papers,
jewels, furniture, moneys or other property belonging to said Lodge, within two
months from the time of such revocation, suspension or becoming dormant, and
every member of a Lodge who shall refuse to make such surrender, or who shall, by
vote or otherwise, make any other disposition of said effects than as herein
designated, shall be liable to Masonic discipline, for violating the laws and
regulations of the Grand Lodge. All moneys accruing from property as herein
prescribed, shall belong to, and be placed in, the charity fund of this Grand Lodge,
as provided in Sec. 5, Art. XII., Part First, of these By-Laws.
Sec. 6. If at any time it shall be found necessary to suspend or revoke the
warrant or Charter of any Lodge under this jurisdiction, for irregular or unmasonic
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conduct, the members of such Lodge implicated In such conduct shall be subject to
discipline by the Lodge acquiring jurisdiction.
Sec. 7. Upon the dissolution of a Lodge for any cause, its members who are not
subject to the provisions of the last preceding section, upon payment of any back
dues to the Grand Secretary, shall be entitled to a certificate from that officer
setting forth their Masonic standing, which certificate shall be recognized in this
jurisdiction in lieu of a regular dimit.
Sec. 8. 'Whenever any Lodge shall cease to work for six months, the next nearest
Lodge or Lodges may exercise jurisdiction over the territory, and act upon petitions
from citizens residing therein, unless cause for such cessation shall be presented to,
and be deemed satisfactory by, the Grand Master.
Sec. 9. When a Lodge has taken action in any matter, and has afterwards ceased
to exist, any further action required or authorized by law shall be performed by the
Lodge acquiring jurisdiction.
Sec. 10. Any Mason who shall be present at, or assist in, the work of a Lodge,
knowing its charter or warrant to have been suspended or revoked, shall be liable
to discipline.
Sec. 11. When any Charter shall be declared vacated by the Grand Lodge, it
shall be erased from the register, and its number shall not be again used upon a
Charter in this jurisdiction.
ARTICLE XXVIII.
CONSOLIDATION OF LODGES.
Section 1. Any two or more Lodges may consolidate their membership into one
Lodge : Provided, that the proposition for such consolidation shall be presented at
a stated communication of the Lodges interested, and shall not be acted upon until
a subsequent stated meeting, of which all the resident members shall have due
notice ; and such consolidation shall only be effected by the unanimous vote of the
members present when such proposition shall be acted upon.
Sec. 2. When any consolidation shall have been so effected, and the Grand Lodge
or Grand Master officially informed of the same, a new special Charter shall be
issued without fee, containing the names of the new officers, and bearing the
number of one of the said Lodges, and such name as may have been selected.
Sec. 3. The title to all property and effects of the Lodges so united shall be
vested in the Lodge named in the new Charter ; and such new Lodge shall be duly
constituted, and its officers installed by the Grand Master or his proxy before it
shall lawfully act under said Charter.
ARTICLE XXIX.
CHARTER.
Section 1. Whenever the charter of a Lodge shall be destroyed, stolen, or
surreptitiously taken and detained, without the fault of the Lodge or Master, it
shall be the duty of the Grand Lodge or Grand Master to cause a duplicate charter
to issue, without fee, bearing the original name and number, together with the
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names of the original Grand Officers and charter members, supplemented with the
cause of its issue, and signed by the Grand Master and Grand Secretary, and
attested by the Seal of the Grand Lodge.
Sec. 2. Whenever the charter of a Lodge shall become so defaced or illegible as
to be unfit for use, the Grand Lodge or Grand Master may, upon satisfactory proof
of such information, and the payment of five dollars into the Grand Lodge treasury,
cause a new charter to issue in the manner provided in the last preceding section.
ARTICLE XXX.
SUMMONS.
Section 1. Every summons issued by a Chartered Lodge shall be written or
printed, attested by the Seal of the Lodge, and signed by the Master or Secretary ;
no other matter than the requisition to attend a meeting of the Lodge need be
inserted.
Sec. 2. Every Mason shall faithfully obey a summons issued by a Lodge, aud
duly served upou him, if within his power ; and for a failure so to do shall be liable
to discipline in the manner provided by law, unless excused for reasons satisfactory
to a majority of the members present at a stated meeting of the Lodge.
Sec. 3. The Master of every Lodge shall require due return to be made upon a
summons of the service thereof.
Sec. 4. No general summons shall be issued except for purposes of importance to
the Lodge or Masonry.
ARTICLE XXXI.
Section 1. In a city or town where there is more than one Lodge, it shall be the
duty of the Secretary of each Lodge to give notice in writing to all other Lodges
situate in such city or town, of all petitions received or rejected, 6tating the name
in full, age, occupation and place of residence of the petitioner; Provided, that when
more than one Lodge shall hold its meetings in the same hall or room, a register
may be kept upon the Secretary's desk, or other appropriate place, in lieu of said
written notice, setting forth the aforesaid particulars for the information of the
Lodges meeting in such hall.
ARTICLE XXXII.
MISCELLANEOUS provisions.
Section 1. No brother shall act as a Grand or Deputy Grand Lecturer within
the State of Illinois, without a commission from the Grand Master ; nor unless he
shall be a present or actual Past Master.
Sec. 2. Every document or paper whatsoever, designed for Masonic use,
emanating from a Chartered Lodge, to be valid, shall have an impression of its seal
affixed, and be attested by the Secretary.
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Sec. 3. No Mason under this jurisdiction shall appear in any public procession,
nor in any private or public assembly, with Masonic clothing, unless under the
auspices of some regular Lodge ; nor shall any Lodge take part in any public
procession, except to perform or assist in some ceremony recognized as strictly
Masonic, unless by special dispensation of the Grand Master.
Sec. 4. The use of Masonic emblems and devices on business cards or signs, or by
way of advertisement, except for legitimate Masonic purposes, is strictly forbidden.
Sec. 5. No Lodge shall, on any pretence, introduce intoxicating liquors, or permit
their use as a beverage, in any room used by such Lodge.
Sec. 6. All Lodges, and the members thereof, are strictly forbidden to give, or
attempt to give, the aid or countenance of Masonry, in organized or individual form,
to any lottery or gift enterprise.
PART THIRD.
MASONIC OFFENSES, TRIALS AND I'UNISIIMENTS.
ARTICLE I.
PENAL POWERS OP A LODGE.
Section 1. Every Lodge shall have the right to exercise discipline over all its
members, wherever residing, and over all unaffiliated, as wTell as affiliated Masons
(except present Masters or the Grand Master), residing or sojourning within its
territorial jurisdiction, for any violation of moral or Masonic law.
Sec. 2. Any member of a Lodge may prefer charges against an offending brother ;
but to further the administration of justice it shall be the special duty of the Junior
Warden, in the absence of other accusers, to take steps to bring to trial all Masonic
offenders.
Sec. 3. In case of offending Masons who are members of any other Lodge, the
Lodge within whose jurisdiction the offender resides, or is sojourning, shall first
send up charges and specifications to the Lodge of which the offender may be a
member ; and should such Lodge waive jurisdiction, or refuse or neglect to take
action in the premises within sixty days thereafter, then the Lodge preferring the
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charges may proceed to try the same in the manner prescribed by the laws of this
Grand Lodge ; and the result thereof shall be communicated to the Lodge in which
the accused may be or shall have last been a member.
Sec. 4. A suspended Mason, charged with unmasonic conduct, which, if
established, would justify a greater punishment than he is undergoing, may be
arraign ed for trial ; Provided, That if an offender so tried be found guilty, the
penalty may be expulsion.
Sec. 5. No Lodge, or member thereof, shall publish in any newspaper, magazine,
pamphlet or circular, or otherwise make public, the details or result of any trial
therein.
Sec. 6. The presence of visitors in a Lodge during any of the proceedings of a
Masonic trial, shall be optional with the Lodge or the Master.
ARTICLE II.
MASONIC OFFENSES.
Section 1. The offenses of which a Lodge may take cognizancf , and to which
it shall give full, fair and lawful trial, and upon conviction, administer adequate
punishment, are immorality, and particularlv acts which tend to impair the good
name of Masonry, or which violate Masonic obligations, or the laws and regulations
of this Grand Lodge.
Sec 2. Lodges shall not take cognizance of difficulties of a legal character,
growing out of business transactions between brethren, nor entertain charges
against a brother for the purpose of adjusting mere legal rights, pecuniary or
otherwise, unless such charges shall clearly specify fraud on the part of the alleged
offender.
Sec 3. The Master of any Lodge shall not permit any charges or specifications,
or any other subject matter either written or oral, involving questions of a political
or sectarian character, to be read in, or in any manner presented to, the Lodge.
ARTICLE III.
PRESENTATION OF CHARGES AND SPECIFICATIONS.
Sec 1. All charges of unmasonic conduct shall be made in writing, specifying
with reasonable certainty the character of the offense alleged, and the time and
place of its commission, as near as may be practicable, and be signed by the
accuser, who must be an affiliated Master Mason, in good standing.
Sec 2. All charges and specifications shall be filed with the Seeretary of the
Lodge ; if received at a stated meeting, they shall be then and there read ; if
received during recess of the Lodge, said charges shall be read at the next stated
communication thereafter, of which meeting all the resident members shall have
due notice ; Provided, That in cases where the magnitude of an offense demands,
or where the Lodge or the Master shall deem it for the best interests of Masonry,
the matter may be laid before the Grand Master, and by authority of his dispensation,
said charges may be read and received at a special communication of the Lodge,
called for the purpose, of which due notice shall be given the resident members.
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Sec. 3. The trial of charges may proceed at any meeting appointed for the
purpose, and continue until completed.
ARTICLE IV.
RECEPTION OF CHARGES.
Section 1. When charges shall be presented and read as provided in Sec. 2 of
the last preceding article, the Lodge shall decide, by a majority vote, whether the
charges shall be accepted, and the accused brother be placed on trial ; when decided
in the affirmative, the charges cannot be withdrawn except for cause shown, and by
the vote of two thirds of the members present ; nor shall such charges be amended
except by a majority vote, of which proposed amendment the accused shall have
clue notice.
Sec. 2. Immediately upon the acceptance of charges by a Lodge, the Master
shall appoint the time and place for trial ; and it shall be the duty of the Master to
cause the accused to be served with a duly attested copy of the charges and
specifications, and a citation stating the time and place appointed for the trial
thereof; Provided, that the accused shall be entitled to reasonable time and
opportunity to prepare his defense.
Sec. 3. If the accused shall neglect or refuse to attend in person, after notice has
been duly served on him, or if notice cannot be served on him personally, by reason
of his residence being unknown, or beyond the limits of the county in which the
L^d-'e is located, then a copy of snch notice shall be sent to him by mail, addressed
to him at his last known place of residence, and, upon proof that the notice has
been sent to him as herein prescribed, the Lodge at the time in such notice
specified, may proceed without his presence, and conduct the proceedings to a final
issue : Provided, that at least one stated communication shall intervene between the
time of mailing such notice and any action by the Lodge in pursuance thereof. In
such cases the Lodge shall appoint a competent brother to act as attorney for the
accused.
Sec. 4. In every case where a flagrant offense shall be committed by any Mason
present while the Lodge is at labor, the foregoing rules requiring notice and delay
may be dispensed with, and the Master may order the offending brother to show
cause instanter why he should not be punished.
ARTICLE V.
WITNESSES and testimony.
Section 1. Witnesses in Masonic trials who are Masons shall be mentally
competent, and in good standing in the fraternity, and may be affiliated or non-
affiliated brethren.
Sec. 2. Every Mason shall give his testimony upon bis honor as a Mason.
Sec. 3. All witnesses in Masonic trials who are not Masons shall be any
persons of sound mind, of such religious belief as to feel the obligations of an oath,
which may be administered by any competent legal officer.
Sec. 4. The evidence of both the accuser and the accused, if offered, shall be
received in any Masonic trial. The 6tatus of a Mason under charges is not
affected until after conviction.
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Seo. 5. The testimony of witnesses who are Masons may be taken in open
Lodge, or by a special committee appointed by the Master. Witnesses who are not
Masons shall be examined by said committee. In either case the accused and
accuser, in person or by attorney, shall be entitled to be present and propound
such relevant questions as they may desire.
Sec. 6. The testimony of any witness unable to attend the Lodge or a committee,
may be taken by deposition before a properly authorized person or persons, due
notice of the time and place having first been given.
Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of the accused and accuser to secure the attendance
of their respective witnesses who are not Masons, and through the Master and
Secretary of the Lodge they may, when necessary, summon for such purpose any
resident Mason.
Sec. 8. When testimony is taken in open Lodge, the Lodge shall be opened on
the highest degree to which the accused has attained in Ancient Craft Masonry ;
but the decision as to guilt or innocence, and the question of punishment shall
be severally determined in and by a Lodge of Master Masons.
Sbc. 9. The Master shall decide all questions arising as to the relevancy of the
evidence and the regularity of the proceedings ; and the Secretary shall take down
in writing all the evidence submitted by both the prosecution and defense, and note
all objections made by either party, and the rulings of the Master ; and the record
thereof shall be filed among the archives of the Lodge ; and the main facts of the
case shall be entered upon the Lodge records.
Sec. 10. At the conclusion of the evidence, the accused and the accuser, in
person or through their attorneys, may, if they desire, address such relevant
remarks to the Lodge upon the merits of the case as may be deemed proper; after
which the accused and the accuser shall retire from the Lodge, and remain in an
ante-room until the final decisiou : (Provided, that if the Junior Warden shall be
the accuser, in his official capacity, he shall not be obliged to retire); after which,
any member entitled to vote may express his views of the case and of the law and
the facts involved ; and no member shall be permitted to withdraw from the Lodge
until after final action, except for urgent cause, and by consent of two-thirds of
the members present.
Sec. 11. When a committee is appointed, as provided in Section 5 of this
Article, it shall consist of not less than three members of the Lodge, either of
whom, if objected to by either of the parties for cause, may be removed by the
Master, and another appointed.
Sec. 12. Every such committee shall convene and select from their number a
Chairman and Secretary ; and when so organized shall have power, through the
Master and Secretary of the Lodge, to summon before them the accused and
accuser, with their respective witnesses.
Sec. 13. The proceedings of such committee shall be governed by the provisions
of Section 3 of Article IV, and Sections 1, 2, 3 and 6 of this Article. The duties of
the Master and Secretary prescribed in Section 9 of this Article shall apply to, and
be discharged by, the Chairman and Secretary of the committee.
Sec. 14. The committee may sit whenever and as often as it may deem best for
the interests of Masonry ; Provided, that every trial begun shall be prosecuted
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with as much dispatch as the law governing the same, and full justice to the
accused and accuser will permit.
Sec. 15. When the committee have concluded their labors, they shall report
their proceedings and all the evidence to the Lodge; and upon retirement of the
accused and accuser, any member of the Lodge present may express his views of
the case ; and any portion or the whole of the evidence shall be read, as he may
require, to enable him to come to a decision.
Sec. 16. A brother against whom charges have been preferred may deny or admit
any portion or the whole of the charges and specifications.
Sec. 17. In case an accused brother shall plead guilty, such plea may be accepted
as evidence, and shall render the taking of further proof unnecessary ; but such
plea shall not excuse the Lodge from voting upon the question of guilt or innocence.
ARTICLE VI.
THE VERDICT.
Section 1. Upon conclusion of the trial, the question of "guilty" orl "not
guilty," shall be immediately and distinctly put by the Master, upon each specifi-
cation under each charge in its order, which shall be voted upon separately ; and
every member present shall be required to vote by ballot ; and it shall require a
vote of two-thirds of said members to sustain any charge or specification.
Sec. 2. If any charge or specification shall be sustained, the accused shall be then
and there declared guilty, and the Master shall put the question as to the amount
of punishment, beginning with the greatest, and if not sustained, the next grade,
and so on, ending with the least Masonic penalty, in the order as hereinafter
provided ; the vote of two-thirds of the members present shall be necessary to decide
the degree of punishment.
Sec. 3. "When any Mason, after due trial, shall be found guilty of unmasonic
conduct, punishment shall follow, which shall be proportionate to the offense.
Sec. 4. When any Mason shall have been expelled or suspended by a Lodge, he
shall be notified of such action by the Secretary. When any brother shall have
been acquitted, he shall be notified of the same by the Master in open Lodge.
ARTICLE VII.
PUNISHMENT.
Section 1. The Masonic punishment which shall be inflicted by Chartered
Lodges for unmasonic conduct, after due trial and conviction, shall be, in the
discretion of the Lodge, either Expulsion, Indefinite Suspension, Definite
Suspension, or Reprimand.
Sec. 2. Expulsion involves an absolute deprivation of all the rights, privileges
and benefits of Masonry to the delinquent and his family ; the infliction of such
punishment shall require a vote of two-thirds of the members present at the close
of the trial.
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Sec. 3. No Lodge under the jurisdiction of this Grand Lodge shall expel a member
for non-payment of dues.
Sec. 4. Indefinite suspension, whether for non-payment of dues, or for any other
offense, subjects an offender, during such suspension, to the same penalties as are
prescribed in the preceding section (2) ; and the infliction of such punishment shall
require a vote of two-third of the members present at the close of the trial.
Sec. 5. Definite suspension shall require the same vote (two-thirds), and the
penalty and the period of suspension may be voted upon together or separately ;
Provided, that no definite suspension shall be voted for a longer time than one year,
nor for a less time than one month.
Sec. 6. Reprimand shall be the least Masonic punishment ; and shall only be
inflicted after due trial and conviction, and when voted by two-thirds of the members
present ; the reprimand shall be administered in open Lodge by the Master.
Sec. 7. Any brother violating the proprieties of Lodge etiquette may be censured
therefor upon a motion and vote of a majority of the members present.
ARTICLE VIII.
SUSPENSION FOR NON-PAYMENT OF DUES.
Section 1. The payment of annual dues is a duty incumbent upon every member
of a Lodge, and the neglect or refusal to fulfil this duty shall be (except for good
cause) an infraction of Masonic law, and a violation of a Masonic covenant, and shall
subject the delinquent to Lodge discipline ; Provided, however, that a Lodge, by a
majority vote, may remit the whole or any portion of the dues of any of its members.
Sec. 2. No Lodge shall suspend a member for non-payment of dues without due
notice and fair trial.
Sec. '6. The formalities of written charges hereinbefore prescribed for the trial of
offenses requiring proof, may be dispensed with, and proceedings as prescribed in
the following sections shall be deemed due notice and fair trial for the offeuse of
non-payment of dues.
Sec. 4. Any member who may be in arrears for dues to a Lodge, according to the
provisions of its By-Laws, shall be notified thereof in writing by the Secretary, with
a request for the payment of the same at, or before, some subsequent meeting of the
Lodge ; and if said member neglect or refuse to make answer to such notice at or
before the time designated therein, he shall be notified in person, if possible, or
summoned to appear at such subsequent stated meeting as may be deemed proper,
and show cause why he should not be suspended for non-payment of dues ; if his
whereabouts be unknown a written notice shall be addressed to him at his last known
place of residence. This shall be deemed due notice, and the Lodge may proceed
without his presence ; Provided, that if a member be summoned as herein prescribed,
and fail to answer, upon proof that such summons has been personally served, the
offense of non-payment of dues shall be held in abeyance until the delinquent shall
show cause for disobedience of said summons ; for which offense any Mason may be
expelled, after trial and conviction in the manuer and form prescribed in Articles I
to VII, inclusive, Part Third.
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Sec. 5. When any member shall refuse or neglect to answer the notices prescribed
in the last preceding section, his delinquency may be communicated to the Lodge at
a regular meeting thereof, which facts, together with the Lodge records showing
his indebtedness, shall be deemed ample proof of the delinquency ; if the brother be
present he shall be entitled to make such pleas as he may deem proper, after which
he shall retire ; and upon such evidence a vote may be taken upon a motion to
suspend the delinquent member, indefinitely. A vote of two-thirds of the members
present, at a stated communication of the Lodge, shall be necessary to fix such
penalty ; this shall be deemed fair trial.
Sec. 6. No Lodge or Grand Lodge dues shall accrue against a Mason during the
term of his suspension.
Sec. 7. No Lodge shall for any cause abridge the rights or privileges of
membership of any of its members, by striking a name from its roK,rjwithout due
notice and fair trial as prescribed in these By-Laws.'
ARTICLE IX.
Section 1. Any Mason who has been subjected to the disciplinary proceedings
of a Lodge, his accuser or any member of the Lodge has the right to appeal from
any verdict or sentence therein in his case rendered or adjudged.
Sec. 2. All appeals from any chartered Lodge, shall be made in writing, and
contain a statement of the case, the exceptions taken to the decision of the Lodge
appealed from, and the grounds upon which the same are based. The appeal
shall be filed with the Grand Secretary at least thirty days prior to the next
succeeding annual meeting of the Grand Lodge.
Sec. 3. The appellant shall give the Lodge appealed from notice of his intention,
within ninety days after receiving notice of its action, or decision; and the
Secretary of such Lodge, under the direction of the Master, shall, at least thirty
days before the meeting of the Grand Lodge, transmit to the Grand Secretary an
attested copy of all the charges, specifications, papers, proceedings and evidence in
the case, and, if requested, furnish the appellant with a like attested copy ;
Provided, the times herein specified shall intervene between such decisions and
the annual meeting aforesaid, if not then, such time shall apply to the next
succeeding annual meeting of the Grand Lodge, or may be disposed of by the
Grand Master during recess of the Grand Lodge.
Sec. 4. Whenever an appeal shall be taken from any constituent Lodge, as
provided iu the foregoing sections, the Grand Lodge shall have sovereign jurisdiction
over the whole case, and may, upon investigation —
1. Dismiss the appeal, approve the proceedings, or affirm the decision appealed
from.
2. Modify or change a decision or sentence, or inflict a penalty where the
constituent Lodge has failed to do so.
3. Set aside the proceedings of the Lodge for informality, and remand the case
for further proceedings.
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Sec. 5. Whenever the Grand Lodge shall modify or change a decision or sentence
adjudged by a constituent Lodge, the same shall be final ; and upon notice thereof,
6uch constituent Lodge shall cause the same to be entered upon its records.
Sec. 6. Whenever the Grand Lodge, on a review of the trial or other proceedings
of a Lodge, resulting in the expulsion or suspension of a Mason, shall reverse or
annul the judgment of said proceedings, or 6hall order a new trial, the accused
shall be thereby restored to all his rights, privileges and membership. When a
case is remanded for new trial, no amendment shall be made to the original charges
and specifications, unless the accused have due and timely notice thereof.
Sec. 7. Every Lodge shall communicate to the Grand Secretary all suspensions
and expulsions, as they may severally occur.
ARTICLE X.
RESTORATIONS AND REINSTATEMENTS.
Sec. 1. No Lodge shall have the power to restore an expelled Mason to
membership, nor to his former rights and privileges in Masonry.
Sec. 2. The Grand Lodge reserves to itself the right, by a majority vote, at any
Anuual Communication, upon a recommendation as provided in succeeding Section
4, of this Article, to restore an expelled Mason to good standing in the fraternity,
as a non-affiliated Mason only, but not to membership in any Lodge. Any brother
restored by the Grand Lodge 6hall be entitled to a certificate of the fact from the
Grand Secretary, which shall serve in lieu of a regular dimit, in case of application
for membership to any Lodge in this jurisdiction.
Sec. 3. The resumption of membership in any Lodge by a brother restored as
defined in the last preceding section must be acquired in the manner provided in
Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4, of Article XIII, and Section 3, Article XV, Part Second, of
these By-Laws.
Sec. 4. An expelled Mason seeking restoration, shall petition the Lodge from
which he was expelled, for its recommendation to the Grand Lodge for his
restoration ; if such petition be concurred in by a vote of two-thirds of the
members present at a stated communication of the Lodge, the same shall be so
indorsed, under seal, and be transmitted to the Grand Secretary at least ten days
before the annual meetiug of the Grand Lodge ; Provided, that in case such Lodge
has become extinct, said petition may be made direct to the Grand Lodge, with a
statement of the fact ; aud upon favorable action thereon, the brother shall be
entitled to resume the status of a non-affiliated Mason.
Sec. 5. Any Mason indefinitely suspended for non-payment of dues or other
cause, seeking reinstatement, shall petition in writing to the Lodge having
jurisdiction ; and on payment or remission of dues, if any, and upon a favorable
vote of two-thirds of the members present at a stated communication, the
petitioner may be restored to membership, or to good standing in the fraternity
only, leaving him non-affiliated ; Provided, that if the Lodge from which a Mason
shall have been suspended, has ceased to exist, the petition for reinstatement may
be made to the Lodge in whose jurisdiction the petitioner resides, or to the Grand
Lodge, which may reinstate the petitioner to good standing in the fraternity.
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Sec. 6. Definite suspension shall expire by limitation, and any Mason so
suspended shall be entitled to resume membership, and all the rights and privileges
thereof, at the expiration of the time defined in his 6enteuce, without vote or other
action on the part of the Lodge.
Sec. 7. The reinstatement of a suspended Mason by a Chartered Lodge shall be
determined by secret ballot.
ARTICLE XI.
MASTERS AND LODGES.
Section 1. A Worshipful Master may be disciplined by his Lodge after the
expiration of his official term, for any unmasonic conduct, except for official mis-
conduct, or a violation of his official obligations. All complaints for official
misconduct shall be made to the proper authority during the official term of the
offender, otherwise he shall not be disciplined therefor.
Sec. 2. When a controversy shall arise between Lodges, or between a Lodge
and its Master, or charges be preferred, or an informal complaint be made, the same
may be filed with the Grand Lodge, if in session, or during recess be lodged with
the Grand Master ; if the matter be deemed by him of a sufficiently grave character
to warrant investigation, he may proceed in person, or appoint a Commission of
not more than seven, nor less than three Masters, or Past Masters, with, if
consistent, the District Deputy Grand Master as Chairman, to investigate such
charges or complaint ; such commission shall have authority to summon witnesses,
and shall have such other powers as may be specially delegated to them by the
Grand Master ; and said Commission shall make such report, aud give such opinion
to the Grand Master as will enable him to make a final decision.
Sec. 3. When a Master or other officer of a Lodge shall be deposed from office
only, he shall not thereby be deprived of any of the rights or privileges of
membership.
Sec. 4. When any trouble shall arise between brethren or between Lodges,
which shall require the presence of the Grand Master or other Grand Officers, or a
Commission, such brethren or Lodges shall be required to pay pro rata, the
reasonable expense incurred by such Commission or officers in the discharge or
their official duty.
ARTICLE XII.
AMENDMENTS.
Section 1. The Grand Lodge shall have full power and authority to make amend-
ments, alterations and additions to any portion of these By-Laws, in manner and
form only as prescribed in Section 2, of Article XVI, of the Constitution.
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ARTICLE XIII.
Section 1. All By-Laws, Regulations, Code of Jurisprudence and Resolutions of
this Grand Lodge, which are contrary to or inconsistent with this Code, are
hereby declared repealed, and the foregoing Parts First, Seeond and Third are
adopted in their stead as the By-Laws of this Grand Lodge ; Provided, that such
repeal shall not affect any rights or proceedings heretofore acquired or had.
All of which is fraternally submitted.
DEWITT C. CREGIER, ]
JOHN M. PEARSON, |
A. \V. ADAMS, \ Committee.
GEORGE O. IDE,
EDWARD COOK, J
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Or.
PERMANENT MEMBERS.
M. W. Bro. Levi Lusk, P. G. M., Rushville, No. 9.
M. W. Bro. William Lavely, P. G. M., Springfield, No. 4.
M. W. Bro. Harrison Dills, (G. T.) P. G. M., Bodley, No. 1.
M. W. Bro. Ira A. \V. Buck, P. G. M., Jerusalem Temple, No. 90.
M. W. Bro. Thomas J. Turner, P. G. M., Excelsior, No. 97.
M. W. Bro. H. P. H. Bromwell, P. G. M., Charleston, No. 35.
M. W. Bro. Jerome R. Gorin, P. G. M., Macou, No. S.
M. W. Bro. Harman G. Reynolds, P. G. M., Tyrian, No. 333.
M. W. Bro. DeWitt C. Cregier, P. G. M., Blanev, No. 371.
M. W. Bro. James A. Hawley, G. M. Friendship, No. 7.
R. W. Bro. Edward R. Roe, P. D. G. M., Wade Barney, No. 51:2.
R. W. Bro. Ben. L. Wiley, P. D. G. M., Makanda, No. 434.
R. W. Bro. James V. Z. Blaney, P. D. G. M, Oriental, No. 33.
R. W. Bro. James H. Matheny, P. D. G. M.„ Springfield, No. 4.
R. W. Bro. John C. Baker, P. D. G. M.,Waukegan, No. 78.
R. W. Bro. Nathan W. Huntley, P. D. G. M. Hesperia, No. 411.
R. W. Bro. Charles Fisher, P. D. G. M., Central, No. 721.
R. W. Bro. Isaac R. Diller, P. S. G. W., Central, No. 71.
R. W. Bro. Andrew J. Kuykendall, P. S. G. W., Vienna, No. 150.
R. W. Bro. Asa W. Blakesley, P. 8. G. W., Bodley, No. 1.
R. W. Bro. Edwin F. Babcock, P. S. G. W., Summei field, No. No. 342.
R. W. Bro. George E. Lounsbury, D. G. M., Cache, No. 290.
R. W. Bro. Adam Brewer, P. J. G. W., Pacific, No. 400.
R. W. Bro. Carlton Drake, P. J. G. W., Landmark, No. 422.
R. W. Bro. William H. Turner, P. J. G. W., Oriental, No. 33.
R. W. Bro. Elijah M. Haines, P. J. G. W., Waukegan, No. 78.
R. W. Bro. Horace Hayward, P. J. G. W., Olney, No. 140.
R. W. Bro. James C. Luckey, P. J. G. W., Mystic Tie, No. 187.
R. W. Bro. Joseph Robbins, S. G. W., Quincy, No. 296.
R. W. Bro. W. J. A. DeLancy, J. G. W. Centralia, No. 201.
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JBi.
FORMS
NUMBER I.
PROXY OF THE MASTER, OR EITHER OF THE WARDENS.
I, of Lodge, No , do hereby appoint Bro my
representative to act and vote in my name in the Grand Lodge of Illinois, A. F. and
A. Masons, at the Annual Communication to be holden at Chicago, on the first
Tuesday in October next.
Given under my hand and seal at , this day of A. L. 58
[seal.]
NUMBER II.
PROXY OF MASTER AND WARDENS, OR ANY TWO OF THEM.
We, the undersigned, Master and Wardens of Lodge, No , do
hereby appoint Bro. our representative, to act and vote in our names in
the Grand Lodge of Illinois, A. F. and Accepted Masons, at the Annual Communica-
tion to be holden at Chicago, on the first Tuesday in October next.
Given under our hands and seals at , this day of , A. L. 58
.W. M. [SEAL.]
S. W. [seal.]
.J. W. [SEAL.]
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NUMBER III.
FORM OF PETITION FOR A NEW LODGE.
To the M. W. Grand Master of Masons of the State of Illinois :
We, the undersigned, Master Masons in good standing, having the prosperity of
the Craft at heart, are anxious to exert our best endeavors to promote and diffuse
the genuine principles of Freemasonry ; and that fuller opportunity for the same
may be afforded us, are desh out, of forming a new Lodge at in the
County of and State of Illinois, to be named
The Brother named herein for Master is competent to open and close a Lodge in
the degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow-Craft, and Master Mason, and to confer
each of said degrees according to the forms required by the Grand Lodge of Illinois,
correctly and in full, a certificate of which from R. W. Brother
Grand Lecturer, accompanies this petition. Said Brother is otherwise
well qualified to discharge the duties of his station. We have also procured a suitable
and safe room wherein to practice Masonic Rites, with convenient ante-rooms
connected therewith, a plat and discription of which, together with a statement of
the ownership, use and occupancy of the building in which the same is situated,
accompanies this petition.
The material in the town (or city) where the said Lodge is proposed to be located,
is amply sufficient to build up and sustain a healthy and reputable Lodge, respectable
both in character and in numbers, and no other Lodge will be materially injured by
the contemplated new Lodge. The population of said town (or city) of
i8 as shown by the latest official enumeration, and the number of Lodges
now established in said town (or city) is
We, therefore, with the approbation and recommendation of Lodge,
No Lodge, No , and Lodge,
No ■ which are the three nearest Lodges to our proposed location (or, the three
oldest Lodges in said city), respectfully pray for a dispensation empowering us to
meet as a regular Lodge at aforesaid, on the day of every
month, there to practice the Rites of Freemasonry in a Constitutional manner,
agreeably to the original forms of the Fraternity and the laws of the Grand Lodge.
We do nominate and recommend Bro to be the first Master, Bro.
to be the first Senior Warden, and Bro to
be the first Junior Warden of said Lodge.
The prayer of this petition being granted, we promise a strict obedience to the
commands of the Grand Master, and to the Laws and Regulations of the Grand
Lodge A.D. IS.... A. L. 58....
NOTE.— This petition must be signed by at least eight Master Masons, and must have the separate
recommendation of the three nearest Lodges, or il in a town or city where three or more Lodges have
been established, of the three oldest Lodges in such town or city. The proposition to recommend
must be laid over four weeks before final action, and must receive the vote of at least two-thirds of the
members present at a regular communication. The sum of One Hundred Dollars, which is to be in full
of dispensation and charter lee, must be paid to the Uraud Secretary before a dispensation can be
issued.
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number IV.
FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF A LODGE CONSENTING TO THE FORMATION OF A NEW LODGE
AND RECOMMENDING THE PETITIONERS.
To the M. W. Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Illinois : —
This is to certify that the petition of Brethren (here name all the petitioners) to
form a new Lodge at the same being miles from the location
of this Lodge, having been submitted to Lodge No on
the day of A. D. 18 , A. L. 58 , and laid over
until the day of next ensuing, for consultation and
consideration, was, on the latter named day (the same being at a regular meeting of
said Lodge) voted upon, and said petition recommended by a vote of ayes
to noes, the whole membership of said Lodge being Therefore,
the Master, Wardens and Brethren of said Lodge cheerfully recommend said
petitioners to the Grand Master as well known and approved Master Masons in
good standing, and certify to the truth of all the matters and things 6et forth in
their petition. Not doubting that they will be more useful in a new Lodge, their
petition is approved, and it is recommended that its prayer be granted.
A. B., Master.
Attest.
C. D., Secretary.
[seal.]
NUMBER V.
FORM OF PETITION FOR MEMBERSHIP IN A LODGE.
To the Worshipful Master, Wardens and Brethren of Lodge Ab A . F. and A. M. :
The petition of the subscriber respectfully represents that he is a Master Mason
in good standing, and was formerly a member of. Lodge No , in the
town of. and State of , from which he has regularly withdrawn,
a certificate of which, from the Secretary of said Lodge, accompanies this, his
petition ; and he now prays admission as a member of your Lodge, if found worthy.
His place of residence is at ; his occupation is that of a
(Signed] A. B.
18
Recommended by Breth.
g y | Master Masons.
NUMBER VI.
FORM OF PETITION TO BE MADE A MASON.
To the Worshipful Master, Wardens and Brethren of.. ...Lodge, No ,A. F. and
A. Masons: —
The petition of the subscriber respectfully represents that havitg long entertained
a favorable opinion of your ancient Institution, he is desirous, if found worthy, of
being admitted a member thereof; and if admitted, he promises a cheerful
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compliance with all the ancient usages and customs of the Fraternity. He has
never petitioned any other Lodge for initiation. [la case of having previously
petitioned for initiation, the certificate must so state; giving the name, number
and location of the Lodge, and the date of the same as near as recollected. See
Sees. 26 and 35, Grand Lodge By-Laws.] His place of residence is
his age is years ; occupation (or profession) is that of
(Signed) A. B.
Recommended by
C T) )
™" ij," > Master Masons.
NUMBER VII.
FoKM OF INTERROGATORIES TO BE PROPOUNDED TO A CANDIDATE FOR INITIATION.
1. Do you seriously declare, upon your honor, before these gentlemen, that
unbiased by friends, and uninfluenced by mercenary motives, you freely and
voluntarily otter yourself a candidate for the mysteries of Masonry?
2. Do you seriously declare, upon your honor, before these gentlemen, that you
are prompted to solicit the privileges of Masonry by a favorable opinion conceived
of the Institution, a desire of knowledge, and a sincere wish of being serviceable to
your fellow-creatures ?
3. Do you seriously declare, upon your honor, before these gentlemen, that you
will cheerfully conform to all the ancient established usages and customs of the
Fraternity ?
4. Do you believe in a Supreme Being, the Creator and Governor of the Universe ?
5. Have you at any time applied to any Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons for
initiation ?
6. Has your petition for initiation been rejected by any Lodge of Free and
Accepted Masons?*
NUMBER VIII.
FORM OF DIMIT.
To all Free and Accepted ^Masons to whom]this may come, the Worshipful Master,
Wardens and Brethren of Lodge, No , send Fraternal Greeting :
Know Ye, that Bro , a member of said Lodge, in good standing and
clear of the Lodge books, being desirous of joining Lodge, No ,
the same being nearer his residence, at his request, is duly dimitted from said
membership.
As witness my hand, and seal of said Lodge, this day of , A. D. IS
Sec.
[seal.]
•NOTE.— If the fifth interrogatory Is answered in the negative, the sixth should be omitted. If
the sixth interrogatory be answered In the affirmative, it will be proper then to ascertain where and
when he was rejected.
It is not sufficient to Inform the .Master and Lodge that the interrogatories have been "sa isfactorily
answered," but the examiner should specify what interrogatories are answered in the affirmative,
and what in the negative. Iu most cases the first four would be answered affirmatively, and the last
two negatively.
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NUMBER IX.
SUMMONS.
Hall of Lodge No . . . . , A. L. 58 . . . .
Brother
You are hereby summoned to attend a Communication of this Lodge on
day evening, being the day of , A. L. 58 , at o'clock,
at the usual place of meeting. Object of the meeting
By order of the
Given under my hand and seal of said Lodge, this day of
A. L. 58....
SERVICE OF SUMMONS.
I have served the within summons by , on the day
of A. L. 58....
Witness my hand, this day of A. L. 58... .
(Signed.)
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I.
REPORTS OF DEPUTY GRAND MASTERS.
FIHST DISTRICT.
" South Chicago," and all that part of Cook county lying south of the Chicago
Hirer and east of the Illinois and Michigan Canal.
Office of D. D. G. M. First Masonic District, >
Chicago, III., September 10, 1873, A. L. 5873. j
James A. Haw ley, 31. W. Grand Master of Masons :
Bear Sir and Brother : — I herewith submit the report required of me as D. D. G. M.
of this district. I have, in my official capacity, visited nearly all the Lodges in my
district, and hope to see the balance before the meeting of the Grand Lodge hi
October.
I found most of the Lodges in a prosperous condition, and doing good work, in
peace and harmony. There has been a decided improvement in uniformity of work
since my last report as D. D. G. M. in 1870. The want of a more perfect code of
by-laws for the Grand Lodge is felt severely by all, and leads to much confusion,
especially in matters of Masonic discipline. This want, however, I trust will be
tilled at the next communication of the Grand Lodge. Another great source of
confusion among the craft is the conflict which exists (in many Lodges) between
their by-laws and the established laws of this Masonic jurisdiction. In the numerous
cases in which I have been called upon to act, officially, as you are aware, I have
reported from time to time in full, and am pleased to be able to report that nearly
all the matters have been satisfactorily arranged. Thanking you for the confidence
reposed in me,
I remain, with respect, fraternally yours,
GIL. W. BARNARD, I). D. 6. M. First District.
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SECOND DISTRICT.
All that part of West Chicago and the county of Cook lying south of the Fulton
Branch of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, and west of the Illinois and
Michigan Canal.
Edwin Powell, District Deputy Grand Master. Notreport.
THIRD DISTRICT.
All that part of the city of Chicago and the county of Cook lying north of the
Fulton Branch of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad.
D. A. Cashman, District Deputy Grand Master. No report
FOURTH DISTRICT.
The counties of Kane, McHenry and Lake.
Office of D. D. G. M. Fourth Masonic District, |
Marengo, lLL.,"October 4, 1873. )
J. A. Hawlet, M. W. Grand Master of Masons :
Dear Sir and Brother : — I have the honor to make the following report :
Immediately after receiving notice of my appointment as D. D. G. M. for this
district, I sent notices to the various Lodges in my district informing them of my
appointment, and also of my readiness to visit them in my official capacity whenever
desired.
I have not received a request to visit any Lodge officially, nor have I heard of
any trouble in any of the Lodges in my jurisdiction that could not be settled by
the usual mode. So far as I know or have been able to ascertain by careful inquiry,
harmony, brotherly love and prosperity prevail among the Craft.
During the year a number of questions have been'submitted to me for my decision ,
which I have answered to the best of my ability, and according to my understanding
of Masonic law and usage.
I congratulate you, M. W. G. M., on the general prosperity and harmony existing
among the Craft throughout your Grand jurisdiction.
Thanking you for the honor conferred in my appointment, and also for the kind
and fraternal advice and counsel given from time to time, and wishing yoti the
continued confidence and esteem of the Craft,
I remain, respectfully and fraternally, yours,
J. B. BABCOCK, l>. I). G. M. Fourth District.
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FIFTH DISTRICT.
The counties of Boone, Winnebago and Stephenson.
L. L. Munn, District Deputy Grand Master. No report.
sixth DivriucT.
The counties of Jo Daviess, Carroll and Whiteside.
Office D. D. G. M. Sixth Masonic District, )
Galena, III., October 1, 1873. f
James A. Hawley, M. W. Or and Master of Masons :
Dear Sir and Brother :— I have the honor to report to you the condition of the
Craft in this, the Sixth District :
On receipt of your commission honoring me with the official position of D. D. G.
M., the several Lodges in the district were duly notified of my readiness to visit
them whenever I could be of any service. I take pleasure in saying that but few
Lodges needed an official visitation, while all would have been pleased to have
received a brotherly call.
It is with pleasure that I report the Lodges under my care in the best working
condition, weeding out useless timber, exercising; the greatest care in keeping the
outer door duly guarded by a proper use of that greatest of all guards, the ballot
box — no discord or contention being known, save that noble contention as to "who
can best work and best agree."
Thanking you for the uniform fraternal courtesies so often received at your hands,
sincerely hoping you may speedily recover from the illness you have so long
suffered from, and that we may meet again in the Grand Annual Communication in
Chicago, and there unite in hastening to completion the many designs now upon
the " Trestle Board" for the advancement of the best interests of the Craft in
Illinois,
I am, fraternally yours,
J. C. SMITH. D. D. O. M. Sixth District.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
The counties of ogle, Lee and DeKalb.
John D. Crabtree, District Deputy Grand Master. No report.
EIGHTH DISTRICT.
The counties of Kendall, DuPage, Will and Grundy.
S. C Stearns, District Deputy Grand Master. No report.
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NINTH DISTRICT.
The counties of LaSalle and Livingston.
James A. Hawlet, M. W. Grand Master for Illinois:
Dear Sir and M. W. Bio. .-—Immediately on receipt of your favor enclosing
commission as D. D. G. M., I notified the Lodges assigned to my charge of my
appointment, and it affords me great pleasure to be able to report that the Lodges
are working in peace and harmony.
Fraternally yours,
WILLIAM S. EASTON, D. D. O. M. Ninth District.
TENTH DISTRICT.
The counties of Bureau, Putnam, Marshall and Stark.
Princeton, III., September 22, 1873.
James A. Hawlet, Grand Master of Masons, Illinois :
Dear Sir and Brother:— Since my appointment as D. D. G. M. for the Tenth District,
I have had no official call to visit any Lodge in my district.
A few of the members of Social Lodge No. 70 having let their appetites for
artificial stimulants get rather the better of them, and not being able to see
themselves as others see them, at the request of some good brethren of that Lodge,
I paid them a visit, which, I am informed, has resulted in good, and hope and
believe a general reformation will be the final result.
Fraternally and respectfully yours,
GEORGE CROS8LEY, D. D. G. M. Tenth District.
ELEVENTH DISTRICT.
The counties of Henry, Rock Island and Mercer.
To the M. W. Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Illinois :
Dear Sir and Brother : — In accordance with the regulations governing District
Deputy Grand Masters, I submit my annual report. My first duty was to notify
all the Lodges comprising this, the Eleventh District, of my readiness to visit them
officially when called upon.
Upon the reception of my commission, I received from you the charges preferred
by several of the brethren of Steward Lodge No. 92 against their W. M. I
immediately communicated with the brethren, and the case was settled satisfactorily
without an official visit from me. All of which was reported to you at the time.
I am happy to report to you that no other official call has been made.
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I have been called upon in several cases for decision on Masonic law. They being
of minor importance, I decided them satisfactory to all parties.
On the 10th of January, I installed the officers of No. 113 in public, closing with a
banquet, which was a very pleasant, and, I believe, a profitable meeting to the
Craft,
On the 8th of February I visited No. 59, assisted in conferring the P. M. degree on
their W. M. elect, and installed their officers, closing ia harmony, followed with a
fine supper.
I have been in communication and conversation with many of the brethren of thi s
district during the past Masonic year, and hear of no discord or strife in any of the
Lodges. I am of the opinion that the Craft are pursuing their labors harmoniously.
Congratulating you upon our prosperity in this Grand Jurisdiction, and hoping
that you may always be held in the same high esteem,
I am fraternally your obedient servant,
H. G. CALHOUN, D. D. G. M. Eleventh District.
Keithsburu, September 5, 1873.
TWELFTH DISTRICT.
The counties of McDonough, Fulton and Schuyler.
M. W. James A. Hawley, Grand Master of Masons for the State of Illinois :
Bear Sir: — I have nothing of interest to report in my district that would be
worth your attention. All the Lodges in my district were advised of my
appointment, but there has been no demand for my services in any case. There was
at one time a question of jurisdiction between two of the Lodges, but the brethren
vindicated their reputation for good sense by settling it amicably.
Respectfully and fraternally yours,
JOHN C. BAGBY, I). D. G. M. Twelfth District.
THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.
The counties of Knox, Warren and Henderson.
J. C. MoMurtry, District Deputy Grand Master. No report.
FOURTEENTH DISTRICT.
The counties of Peoria, Woodford and Tazewell.
To James A. Hawley, Grand Master of Masons in the State of Illinois:
Most Worshipful Sir : Masonry in the district over which you were pleased to
appoint me continues in a prosperous condition. Its course is not marked by any
excitement, but its onward progress is secured by a conviction of its utility, and it
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prosperity is therefore on a firm foundation. Rather retiring from than courting
the attention of the world, it creates no wave of outward excitement. There have
been few public demonstrations in my district, and no official visitations, no
invitations to that effect having been extended. Whether good might not have
been done by such visits, is a question which the Lodges themselves should answer.
The expense attending them is the argument most frequently urged against them.
Peace reigus in our borders ; prosperity dwells in our Lodges.
Very fraternally,
\VM. ROUNSEVILLE, I). D O. M.
FIFTEENTH DISTRICT.
The counties of McLean, DeWitt and Ford.
Paxton, 111., September 19, 1878.
Hon. James A. Hawlet, Dixon, 111.:
Will you accept this, an apology for report, due you as M. W. G. M. from me as
D. D., of the Fifteenth Masonic District?
I have been much out of health since August 1st, and sick since 26th ult. Now
only able to say, that so far as known to me, all is well in Masonry in this district,
except only the one unpleasantness of discipline, of which you have been fully
informed.
I have enjoyed the pleasure of a visit to several Lodges, but only of fraternal
character. I have also assisted brothers of other Lodges in the melancholy duty of
burying their dead.
Since sickness above alluded to, I have been obliged to disappoint brothers who
desired my aid in laying one corner stone and two Masonic burials.
Please accept my earnest fraternal congratulations upon the success which attended
our beloved fraternity during the year of your administration as its chief officer, and
excuse me from making the formal report due you and the Masonic Fraternity of
Illinois. •
Shall attend another session of the Grand Lodge if at all able.
Truly and Fraternally yours,
WILSON HOAG.
SIXTEENTH DISTRICT.
The counties of Kankakee, Iroquois and Vermilion.
James A. Hawley, Esq., Dixon, III. :
Dear Sir and M. W. G. Master:— Owing to an unusual and unexpected pressure of
private business for the past few weeks, I must crave your indulgence for having
neglected to report upon the condition of Masonry in the Sixteenth District until
so late a date.
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Immediately after having signified to yon my acceptance of the commission of D.
D. G. M. of this district, with which you were so kind as to honor me, I duly gave
notice to the several Lodges in this district of my appointment and readiness to
make them official visits and assist them to the exteBt of my ability in conducting
the affairs of our noble order with " credit to ourselves and honor to the fraternity."
Since the installation of officers in the several Lodges for the present year, at
which ceremony I had the honor of assisting at several of the Lodges, I have not
been called upon to make any official visits. The best of harmony and concord
seem to have prevailed throughout the year, with the exception of a few cases of
which I was notified by letter, and which, having called to your attention at the
time, with your advice have been happily settled without publicity.
At one time our Grand Secretary sent me the names of six Lodges in this District
which had failed to make the proper returns to him. Upon my notification, the
secretaries of all these Lodges, I believe, forwarded the proper returns.
Trusting that my attention to the subordinate duties of this district may be as
satisfactory to you as your administration for the past six years cannot fail to be
satisfactory to the fraternity of this State, I remain,
Yours respectfully and fraternally,
H. C. CLARKE, D. D. G. M., Sixteenth District.
SEVENTEENTH DISTRICT.
The counties of Champaign. Douglas, Edgar and Coles.
Office of the D. D. G. M., Seventeenth District, |
Kansas, 111., September 15, 1873. f
James A. Hawlet, Esq., G. M., Dixon, III.:
Dear Sir and M. W. Bro. : — Immediately after the receipt of my commission as D.
D. G. M. for the Seventeenth District, I notified the several Lodges in the district,
and of my readiaess to visit them officially when requested.
I received a call from Pera Lodge No. 579, but owing to circumstances over which
I had no control, I was unable to attend, but as you acted upon my suggestion, and
invested R. W. Bro. Wilson Hoag with full power to preside in the case on hand, I
have no doubt but that strict Masonic justice was accorded all parties. I have
been in correspondence with nearly all the Lodges in this district, and also visited
quite a number, and I believe I can report the Craft in a flourishing condition.
Peace and harmony prevails.
Respectfully and fraternally yours.
W. H. BROWN, D. D. G. M. Seventeenth District.
EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT.
The counties of Piatt, Moultrie, Macon and Logan.
Office of D. D. G. M. Eighteenth District, )
Decatur, III. , September 30, 1873. f
James A. Hawley, M. W. Grand Master of Illinois :
Dear Sir and If. W. Brother:— In accordance with the usual custom, immediately
upon receipt of my commission as District Deputy of the Eighteenth Masonic
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District, I issued notice to all Lodges in my jurisdiction of the fact of my appoint-
ment, stating to them that I would visit them officially when desired. I have
received many cordial invitations, to most of which I responded in person.
Many questions have been propounded., and so far as I can learn, answers given
that were satisfactory, and I am of the opinion that the questions were not of
sufficient importance to burden you with them.
With very few exceptions, there has been perfect harmony among the brethren
and Lodges throughout this district, and those exceptions you have been made
acquainted with by correspondence.
In conclusion, allow me to congratulate you upon the prosperity of our Order
throughout this Grand Jurisdiction, and hoping that your future labors in our
noble cause may be as pleasaut as your past have been successful,
I am, truly and fraternally yours,
A. A. MURRAY, D. D. G. M. Eighteenth District.
NINETEENTH DISTRICT.
The counties of Mason, Menard, Sangamon and Cass.
To M. W. James A. Hawlet, Grand Master of Masons of Illinois :
Bear Sir : — I herewith submit my report as D. D. G. M. for the Nineteenth
Masonic District of Illinois :
Upon receiving from you the appointment as District Deputy of the Nineteenth
Masonic District, I immediately issued notices thereof to the several Lodges com-
posing said district, and I am pleased to inform you that I have had but one official
visit to make during the year, nothing of importance having occurred to disturb the
peace and harmony of the Craft, except in one instance, that of Manito Lodge No.
476, which, in obedience to your suggestion I visited, February 6th, where, after a
careful investigation of the facts in the case, and a little good counsel and advice,
the trouble ceased, and I believe peace and harmony prevails throughout the
district.
Fraternally yours,
CHAS. FISHER, D. D. G. M. Nineteenth Masonic District.
TWENTIETH DISTRICT.
The counties of Brown, Morgan, Scott and Pike.
Mt. Sterling, 111., September 1, 1873.
M. W. James A. Hawley, G. M. of G. L. of Illinois :
Dear Sir and Brother : — I have the honor to submit my report as District Deputy
Grand Master of this, the Twentieth District :
In the earjy part of last December I had referred to me a case in Gill Lodge No.
383 for adjustment. I visited the Lodge and succeeded in settling the difficulty, and
not having heard anything to the contrary, presume the brethren are dwelling
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together in unity. I have had no special calls to visit any of the Lodges in my
district, bnt have had many general invitations to do so, of which I have availed
myself so far as I could do so.
I am happy to be able to report that peace and harmony amongst the Craft
prevails throughout the Twentieth Masonic District, and that the Lodges generally
are in a prosperous condition.
I cannot close my report without referring briefly to the loss my own Lodge
has met with since my last report, in the death of two of its members — Bro.
Walter Witty and Bro.. Jerome Ross — the former of whom departed this life on
the'29th of April, and the latter on the 3d of May. Bro. Witty was one of our
oldest and most prominent physicians here, and was highly esteemed for his
qualities of head and heart. Bro. Ross was a young man, in the prime of life ; was
several years Secretary of Hardin Lodge, and also had served as its Senior Deacon
and Junior Warden, and was an active member of our Chapter and Council. He
was greatly beloved by all who knew him, and his death has left a void in our Masonic
circle and in our community that cannot soon be filled. Sweet and previous is the
memory of the good when they die, and fragrant as spicy gales from "Araby the
blest" is the recollection of their virtues.
W"ith assurances of deep regard,
I am, fraternally yours,
A. A. GLENN, D. D. Q. M. Twentieth District.
TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT.
The counties of Adams and Hancock.
Quincy, Ills., September 1st, 1873.
To the M. W. James A. Hawley, Grand Master of Masons in Illinois:
Agreeable to instructions, I have the honor to submit my annual report as
District Deputy Grand Master for the Twenty-first Masonic District.
On receipt of my commission, I issued a circular letter to all the Lodges in the
District, notifying them of my appointment, and signifying my readiness to visit
them when desired. I subjoined thereto sufficient of your instructions to Deputies
to apprise all of what you desired, and requested from such Lodges as did not
desire official visitation, information in writing of their condition and progress.
I regret to say, that none of the Lodges I did not visit, responded to my request
(except Kingston No. 266). I attribute this, not so much to the lack of interest
that Masons have in Masonry, but rather to the lack generally of a full appreciation
of the value of such information. But few, comparatively, have been in positions
to see and know the value of it from actual experience. In this, as in all else, the
"Yankee" of it is, to we its utility to be convinced. May they get more light
quickly !
I have visited officially the following Lodges, viz.: Bodley No. 1, Herman No.
30, Reclamation No. 54, Marcelline No. 114, Quincy No. 296, Benjamin No. 297, Luce
No. 439, and Lambert No. 6o9, and received the honors due as your representative.
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My business prevented me from visiting all I had intended to, but such as I did
visit, except Reclamation No. 54, I found doing good work, and cautious in the
selection of material, a good indication of the health of Lodges. From such
information as I could gather unofficially, I think I may safely say, Masonry in the
Twenty-first District is generally healthy and prosperous.
Of my visit to Reclamation Lodge No. 54, and my correspondence with its W.
M., you have been duly apprised, and I do not deem it essential to review the
same in this report. Not, I fear, until their substance is wasted, will they realize
that in their Father's house is enough and to spare, and that they are no longer
worthy to be called " thy son."
But few questions have been propounded, and those had previously been
answered and settled by clearly defined law and usage, and I did not deem it
necessary to trouble you with them.
• June 24th, in company with Beausant Commandery No. 11, K. T., and Bodley
Lodge No. 1, I visited Carthage, and joined the Masons of Hancock and adjoining
counties in celebrating the Anniversary of St. John. Although the day was
excessively warm, the heat was ignored in the enjoyment of true Carthagenian
hospitality, and the day will long be remembered by those whose good fortune it
was to participate.
R. W. Bro. Sanford was the orator of the day, and if Masonry needed a champion,
it could find none better than he.
Before closing my report, I desire to tender to R. W. Bro. Robbins, S. G. W., and
W. Bro. Hamilton and Bro. Manier, of Hancock Lodge No. 20, my sincere thanks
for valuable assistance and information.
Congratulating you on the success that has attended your efforts in the
supervision of the Craft, and thanking you for the honor you conferred on me,
I remain, fraternally, your obedient servant,
E. C. SELLECK,
D. D. 0. M. Twenty -first Masonic District.
TWENTY-SECOND DISTRICT.
the counties of Calhoun, Greene, Jersey and Macoupin.
Geo. W. Davis, District Deputy Grand Master. No report.
TWENTY-THIRD DISTRICT.
The counties of Montgomery, Christian and Shelby.
M. W. James A. Hawley, Grand Master of Illinois:
In accordance with your instructions, I submit herewith my report as D. D. G.
M. of the Twenty-third District. On the 17th of October last, I constituted
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Raymond Lodge No. 692, and installed its officers. I have not visited them since,
but from information received, believe them to be prosperous and working
harmoniously. On the 27th of December, by request, I visited Nokomis Lodge
No. 456, and installed the officers. The installation was public, and after the
ceremonies, followed by a bountiful supper, music and mirth. Altogether it was a
very enjoyable occasion. I have been requested to be present and preside at a few
trials during the year, but owing to a press of private business I was unable to do
60. For the same reason, I have visited but very few Lodges in my District, and
consequently cannot make as full report of their condition as I would be glad to
do. I believe, however, that the Craft in this District are pursuing the even tenor
of their way, and while not doing quite so much work as formerly, are doubtless
exercising greater care in the selection of material.
Truly and fraternally yours,
GEO. M. RAYMOND,
D. D. G. M. Twenty-third District.
TWENTY-FOURTH DISTRICT.
The counties of Cumberland, Clark, Crawford, Jasper, Richland and Lawrence.
M. W. Jas. A. Hawlbt, Grand Master of Masons:
Upon acceptance of commission as D. D. G. M. of the Twenty-fourth District, I
issued the proper notices to the several Lodges in the District of my appointment,
and readiness to attend to any duties required. I have made but one official visit
during the year (and that upon your suggestion) to New Hope Lodge No. 620, in
Clark county, of which report was made at the time, and nothing has occurred
since requiring a further report. The several Lodges in this District are in a
peaceful and prosperous condition.
The trouble in Oblong City Lodge No. 644 I have endeavored to settle. This
matter was placed in my hands as Special Deputy by M. W. G. M. Cregier, in
May, 1872. July 4th, 1872, the W. M. of No. 644, informed me his business was such
that he could not attend to the duties of the office, and had placed the Lodge in
the charge of the S. W. August 31st, 1872, the labors of 644 were suspended by
order of the G. M. No action was taken by the S. W., or any of the officers, until
Angust 28th, 1873, at which time the offensive notice was retracted in the local
paper of Crawford county. During the suspension of the labors of this Lodge, the
J. W. died, and the S. W. was compelled to leave for parts unknown, being charged
with the instigation of a terrible murder, by which a brother lost his life, and
another awaits his trial in jail. This murder was not caused by any previous
trouble in the Lodge. The W. M. informs me that if their charter is returned, there
will be no further trouble in the Lodge, as the troublesome members are out of the
way. I have recommended the return of the charter of No. 644.
All of which is respectfully referred.
J. L. McCULLOUGH,
D. D. 67. M. Twenty -fourth District.
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TWENTY-FIFTH DISTRICT.
The counties of Clay, Effingham, Fayette and Marion.
Centralia, September 15th, 1873.
M. W. Jas. A. Hawley, Grand Master of Masons :
It becomes my duty as D. D. G. M. of the Twenty-fifth Masonic District, to submit
to you my annual report.
Upon the receipt of my commission, I immediately notified all the Lodges in the
Twenty-fifth District of my appointment and readiness to visit them, should
occasion require, or necessity compel. But the peace and tranquility which has
prevailed among us has rendered it unnecessary to enforce discipline, exeept in
such cases as have already been reported to you.
On the 4th of January, 1873, 1 visited Patoka Lodge No. 613, and installed their
officers. This is aniong the younger Lodges of our jurisdiction, yet lam able to
report that they work admirably, conforming closely to that adopted and recognized
by our Grand Lodge. They are a model tor many of our older Lodges to imitate.
On the 21st of January, at the request of the officers and members of Washington
Lodge No. 55, located at Nashville, Washington county, I visited them, and by
authority of a special dispensation from you, assisted by themselves and their
visitors, we solemnly dedicated their hall, in the name of the Great Jehovah and
the Holy Sts. John, to Free Masonry, Virtue and Universal Benevolence. Great
credit is due Bro. Louis Kroughoff, who officiated as Grand Marshal on that
occasion, conducting the procession in such a manner through the densely packed
hall, so that not a single error or mistake occurred. I should do injustice to the wives
and daughters of our brethren at Nashville, should I fail to mention that their
fair hands prepared a banquet on that occasion which would do credit to the
princes and rulers of olden times.
February 12th, at your suggestion, I visited Mason Lodge No. 217, and presided at
the trial of one of its members, a full report of which has already been submitted.
On the 22d of July, also, at your request, I visited Oconee Lodge No. 393, in R.
Worshipful Bro. G. M. Raymond's District. I found the members of that Lodge in
an unfortunate condition, serious difficulties having grown out of two trials, which
had taken place in their Lodge during the past year. After advising with them, it
was thought all their difficulties could be adjusted at their next regular
communication ; but unfortunately such was not the case. On the 11th of August
I visited them again, and presided at the trial of one of their members, the result
of which has already been reported to you. I trust the experience of that trial
will have a lasting effect on the members of that Lodge, and that they will now
dwell together in unity.
It has been my fortune during the year to visit many of the Lodges in the
District, and, with the exceptions named, all are in peace and harmony.
Thanking you for the confidence you have reposed in me, I am
Fraternally yours,
H. W. HUBBARD,
D. D. G. M. Twenty-fifth District.
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TWENTY-SIXTH DISTRICT.
The counties of Bond, Clinton and Madison.
John M. Pearson, D. D. G. M. No report.
TWENTY-SEVENTH DISTRICT.
The counties of St. Clair, Monroe and Randolph.
O'Fallon, September 13th, 1873.
M. W. James A. Hawley, Grand 3/axter of Masons :
Dear Sir and M. W. Brother : — The time has passed when, according to my
instructions, I should have made this report. This has been caused by circumstances
over which us poor, frail, weak mortals have no control. I have been prostrated
upon a sick bed, and am, at this time, almost too feeble to attempt making this
report. Soon after you were pleased to honor me with the commission of D. D.,
I placed myself in communication with all the Lodges in my District ; have visited
as many as I could conveniently, and have heard from nearly all, and I am happy
to say, that from all sources, (with but one exception), comes the glad tidings that
all was well with the household of the faithful. This discordant tone arose from
Monroe No. 28, Waterloo. This Lodge, as you are aware, has been in a dormant
state for some three years, holding no meetings, doing no work, nor making any
returns to the Grand Lodge. I wrote to the Lodge, but leceived no reply. I wrote
to the last Secretary and W. M., that I could find in the Reports — no reply. I then
addressed a letter to Bro. Geo. L. Detch, an old resident and substantial Mason.
From him I received an answer, the tone of which was not cheering in the least.
This letter I enclosed to you, together with a letter from Bro. M. G. Nixon, W. M.
of Columbia Lodge No. 474, to whom I had written for information in regard to
No. 28. These letters, together with my own views, I laid before you, that you
might be in possession of such information as would do to base such instructions as
circumstances would seem to indicate. Your reply I received in due time,
instructing me to visit the brethren of Waterloo, get as many together as possible,
and see what could be done, and to save old No. 28, if possible. I at once notified the
brethren, through Bro. Detch, that I would meet them on Wednesday, 11th June.
Went there according to appointment, could get but few together, held an
informal meeting, heard a sorry tale of their troubles, and soon comprehended the
situation. There appeared but one or two present but what expressed themselves
in favor of giving up their charter upon the grounds that harmony never could be
restored ; that there did not exist the proper brotherly feeling, to ever warrant an
effort to resuscitate the Lodge. We talked over matters earnestly for some time,
when the brethren finally concluded as there being but few there, that it would be
well to hold another meeting at a future time, when we could secure more of an
expression. So, (by consent of the brethren), I fixed the 19th day of July for that
meeting, and issued summonses in blank, over my own signature, for as many of
the brethren as could conveniently be reached, and placed them in the hands of
Bro. Geo. L. Detch, to serve. On the 19th of July, I visited the brethren according
to appointment, and found that but few summonses had been served, but after
some exertion, we secured the requisite number to open a Lodge, and judging from
the tone, I expected to close it for the last time ; but things took a happy change,
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and strange to say, before leaving that evening, an election was held, officers elected
and installed, and old Monroe No. 28 aroused from her Rip Van Winkle sleep and
again receiving the congratulations of her friends. The record of our proceedings
was then carefully revised, Bro. Tolbert, the W. M. elect, acting as Secretary, who
made me out a certified copy and a pledge of his honor over his own signature, that
all back dues owing to the Grand Lodge would be paid at its annual communication
in October next, all of which I enclosed to you soon after my return home. Thus
has this matter terminated so pleasing to us all.
I am proud to say that there are some solid men in old Monroe No. 28, and my
association with them was of the most pleasant character.
The next event was the laying of the corner stone of the Home Literary
Institute, at East St. Louis, August the 7th. This brought out the fraternity in
very large d umbers, and also all the curious. Everything appeared favorable; the
day was clear and pleasant ; the railways brought the brethren in on half fare for
the round trip, and when the procession was formed, stretching out its long line,
composed as it was of quite a variety of orders, societies and associations, all
decorated with appropriate regalia and insignia, the gay colors of which, and the
flying of banners, gave to the whole a gala appearance. When moving, it was like
the assembling of the hosts of old Israel. Indeed it would require but a slight
stretch of the imagination to feel that we realized the presence of that ever present
Being, who manifested in so many instances his love for the Ancient Craft,
near us on this occasion, overlooking and directing the work of the modern
Craftsman. "It was a proud day in Egypt." The corner stone was laid as near
high twelve as was possible, and I am happy to state all passed off without
accident, or even a jar. The whole thing, I am pleased to say was a grand success.
Our distinguished Bro. Hiram W. Hubbard was with us, acting the part of
Deputy Grand Master, and was my counsel and adviser. I found his advice good
and timely, and both practical and reliable. I feel myself under great obligations
to the brother.
East St. Louis Lodge No. 504. — The brethren of this Lodge, and upon whom so
much depended, acted well their part. Their every movement, from the time the
matter was laid before them to the finale, was characterized by an earnestness and
enthusiasm seldom equalled, if ever excelled. Indeed it requires just such a
combination of mental elements to actuate a community and produce the proper
momentum.
Thus closes my second term as D. D. G. M. of the Twenty-seventh District ; and
believe me, Most Worshipful Sir, that I shall ever feel grateful to you for the
honors conferred, and the confidence reposed in me, and will often have occasion to
recur with pleasure to the scenes and incidents of this term, and to the good
understanding that has existed between us during our intercourse. With the
highest regard, I am,
Very truly and fraternally your obedient servant,
B. J. VANCOURT,
D. L>. O. M. Twenty -seventh District.
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TWENTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT.
The counties of Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Perry, Jackson and Williamson.
Mt. Vernon, III., September 19th, 1873.
James A. Hawley, Grand Master :
Dear Sir and M. W. Bro. .-—My report as D. D. G. M. of the Twenty-eighth
District, for the past year, for want of any important events or circumstances to
narrate may be very brief. Upon receipt of your commission, I immediately gave
the required notice to the Lodges in my jurisdiction, but beyond the usual amount
of decisions of questions of Masonic law, I have not been called upon to exercise
the duties of my office in any instance, except as your proxy, to convene a special
Grand Lodge, for the purpose of constituting Belle Rive Lodge No. 696, in Jefferson
county, on the 7th day of November, 1873, of which I made special report to you
at that time, and need not again allude to the same, further than to say that the
brethren of that young Lodge take a deep interest in the work, and promise
great usefulness. The ceremonies were of an interesting character, and were
supplemented by a rich and bountiful repast, provided by the liberal brethren of
Belle Rive Lodge, which all enjoyed, and making a day long to be remembered
with pleasure.
I confess that I have not visited even a majority of the Lodges in my District,
but 1 feel sure that if perfect peace and harmony did not prevail, I should have
been iniermed thereof, and I know of no disturbance whatever.
All my decisions have been cheerfully acquiesced in, so far as I know, and I think
I can safely report from my watch-tower, "all is well" in the Twenty-eighth.
With thanks for the honor you have conferred, and your many graceful courtesies
during my official term, I now surrender to you my authority, and shall ever
remain,
Your affectionate and fraternal friend,
C. H. PATTON,
D. D. 0. M. Twenty -eighth District.
twenty-ninth district.
The connties of Wayne, Edwards, Wabash, White, Hamilton, Saline and Gallatin.
Fairfield, III., September 25th, A. D., 1873, A. L., 5873.
James A. Hawley, Esq., Dixon, III. :
Dear Sir and M. W. Bro. : — As your Deputy for the Twenty-ninth District, I have
the pleasure of reporting Masonry in a very healthy condition, so far as I have been
informed. I have not been called upon to visit any Lodges officially the past
year, except Johnsonville, U. D. This Lodge I visited, by your suggestion to W.
Bro. Bunch, and assisted him and the Secretary in correcting their record. Their
record had been badly kept, and showed a great deal of irregular work, though I
am satisfied the work, in reality, was done regular, as their minutes now will show.
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I hope this error will not debar Johnsonville Lodge, U D., from obtaining a charter
at our next Grand Communication, as they have worked zealously, and have all
the facilities for building up a live, healthy Lodge.
Respectfully and fraternally yours,
L. D. BENNETT,
D. D. G. M., Twenty ninth District.
THIRTIETH DISTRICT.
The counties of Hardin, Pope, Massac, Johnson, Union, Pulaski and Alexander.
Cairo, III., September 20th, 1873.
M. W. James A. Hawlet, Grand Master of Masons:
The condition of our beloved order in the Thirtieth District, is, so far as I am
informed, satisfactory.
I have had no complaints or rumors of trouble among the Craft, until near the
close of the year, when charges were preferred against the Master of Cave-in-Rock
Lodge No. 444.
With the assistance of W. Bro. Jas. S. Reardon, and acting under your
commission, these charges were fully investigated, and proper report made.
I have not been called upon officially in any other instance, and presume that
peace and harmony prevail throughout the District.
Fraternally submitted.
P. W. BARCLAY,
D. D. G. M., Thirtieth District.
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DISTRICTS AND DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND MASTERS
FOR 1873-1874.
FIRST DISTRICT.
Edwin Powell, Chicago, Cook County.
"South Chicago" and all that part of Cook county lying south of the Chicago
river and east of the Illinois and Michigan canal.
SECOND DISTRICT.
T. T. Gurnet, Chicago, Cook County.
All that part of West Chicago and the county of Cook lying south of the "Fulton
Branch" of the Chicago and North Western R. R. and west of the Illinois and
Michigan canal.
THIRD DISTRICT.
D. A. Cashman, Chicago, Cook County.
All that part of the city of Chicago and the county of Cook lying north of the
Fulton Branch of the C. & N. W. R. R.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
J. B. Babcock, Marengo, McHenry County.
The counties of Kane, McHenry and Lake.
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FIFTH DISTRICT.
L. L. Munn, Freeport, Stephenson County.
The counties of Boone. Winnebago and Stephenson.
SIXTH DISTRICT.
J. C. Smith, Galena, Jo Daviess County.
The counties of Jo Daviess, Carroll and Wuiteside.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
John D. Crabtree, Dixon, Lee County.
The counties of Ogle, Lee and DeKalb.
EIGHTH DISTRICT.
Perry A. Armstrong, Morris, Grundy County.
The counties of Kendall, Dupage, Will and Grundy.
NINTH DISTRICT.
W. S. Easton, Ottawa, LaSalle County.
The counties of LaSalle and Livingston.
TENTH DISTRICT.
George Crossley, Princeton, Bureau County.
The counties of Bureau, Putnam, Marshall and Stark.
ELEVENTH DISTRICT.
H. G. Calhoun, Keithsburg, Mercer County.
The counties of Henry, Rock Island and Mercer.
TWELFTH DISTRICT.
John C. Bagby, Rushville, Schuyler County.
The counties of McDonough, Fulton and Schuyler.
THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.
J. C. McMurtry, Henderson, Knox County.
Tne counties of Knox, Warren and Henderson.
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FOURTEENTH DISTRICT.
Wm. Rounseville, Peoria, Peoria County.
The counties of Peoria, Woodford and Tazewell.
FIFTEENTH DISTRICT.
Wilson Hoag, Paxton, Ford County.
The counties of McLean, DeWitt and Ford.
SIXTEENTH DISTRICT.
Haswell C. Clark, Kankakee, Kankakee County.
The counties of Kankakee, Iroquois and Vermilion.
SEVENTEENTH DISTRICT.
W. H. Brown, Kansas, Edgar County.
The counties of Champaign, Douglas, Edgar and Coles.
EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT.
A. A. Murray, Decatur, Macon County.
The counties of Piatt, Moultrie, Macon and Logan.
NINETEENTH DISTRICT.
John Bennett, Petersburg, Menard County.
The counties of Mason, Menard, Sangamon and Cass.
TWENTIETH DISTRICT.
A. A. Glenn, Mt. Sterling, Brown County.
The counties of Brown, Morgan, Scott and Pike.
TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT.
E. C. Sellece, Quincy, Adams County.
The counties of Adams and Hancock.
TWENTY-SECOND DISTRICT.
Geo. W. Davis, Carrollton, Greene County.
The counties of Calhoun, Greene, Jersey and Macoupin.
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TWENTY-THIRD DISTRICT.
Geo. M. Raymond, Litchfield, Montgomery County.
The counties of Montgomery, Christian and Shelby.
TWENTY-FOURTH DISTRICT.
John L. McCullough, Olney, Richland County.
The counties of Cumberland, Clark, Crawford, .lasper, Richland and Lawrence.
TWENTY-FIFTH DISTRICT.
H. W. Hubbard, Centralia, Marion County.
The counties of Clay, Effingham, Fayette and Marion.
TWENTY-SIXTH DISTRICT.
Jno. M. Pearson, Godfrey, Madison County.
The counties of Bond, Clinton and Madison.
TWENTY-SEVENTH DISTRICT.
B. J. Van Court, O'Fallon, St. Clair County.
The counties of St. Clair, Monroe and Randolph.
TWENTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT.
C. H. Patton, Mt. Vernon, Jefferson County.
The counties of Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Perry, Jackson and Williamson .
TWENTY-NINTH DISTRICT.
L. D. Bennett, Fairfield, Wayne County.
The counties of Wayne, Edwards, Wabash, White, Hamilton, Saline and Gallatin
THIRTIETH DISTRICT.
P. W. Barclay, Cairo, Alexander County.
The counties of Hardin, Pope, Massac, Johnson, Union, Pulaski and Alexander.
cclxxxvi Proceedings of the
1SZ.
MASONIC CALENDAR.
Ancient Craft Masons commence their era with the creation of the Worid,
calling it Anno Lucis (A. L.) " in the year of Light."
Scotch Rite, same as Ancient Craft, except the Jewish chronology is used. Anno
Mtindi, (A. M.) "in the year of the World."
Royal Arch Masons date from the year the second temple was commenced by
Zerubbabel, Anno Inventionis (A. Inv.) " iu the year of the Discovery."
Rotal and Select Masters date from the year in which the temple of Solomon
was completed, Anno Beposilionia (A. Dep.) "in the year of the Deposit."
Knights Templar commence their era with the organization of their Order,
Anno Ordinis, (A. 0.) " in the year of the Order."
RULES FOR MASONIC DATES.
1. Ancient Craft— Add 4000 to the common time. Thus : 1873 and 4000—5873.
2. Scotch Rite.— Add 3760 to the common era. Thus : 1873 and 3760=5633.
a Royal Arch— Add 530 years to the vulgar year. Thus : 1873 and 530— "3403.
4. Royal and Select Masters. — Add 1000 to the common time. Thus : 1873 and
1000—2873.
5. Knights Templar. — From the Christian era take 1118. Thus : 1118 from
1873-735.
THE PRESENT.
Tear of the Lord, A.-. D.\ 1873— Christian Era.
Year of Light, A.-. L.\ 5873.— Ancient Craft.
Year of the World, A.-. M.\ 5633.— Scotch Rite.
Year of the Discovery, A.-. Inv.-. 2403.— Royal Arch.
Year of the Deposit, A". Dep.*. 2873.— Royal and Select Masters.
Year of the Order, A.-. 0.\ 755— Knights Templar.
Grand Lodge of Illinois,
CCLXXXVII
OUR FRATERNAL DEAD,
Alschuler, Simon.. ..
Admire, T. H
Allmon, A. W
Atchison, Henry H.
Angin, Abel
Anderson, James.. . .
Averill. Frederick W
Aird, William
Anderson, John
40 Feb. 13,
SONov. 15,
130Oct. 14,
181 July 1,
349 March 1,
385 Jan. 8,
417 Sept. 30,
503 July 10,
506 July 30,
1873
1872
1872
1873
1873
1873
18 r 2
1873
1S73
Babauf, Peter
Brackett, Charles W.
Browne. Edwin
Booth, Herman D. . . .
Bishop, John E
Brown, V. S
Brackett, A. A
Black, J. C
Barrows, Rush R
Benjamin, Henry
Burnett, John M
Bishop, Willis F
Bradley, Hudson
Bradshaw, Cyrus A.. .
Bottom, Lee
Brown, John J
Barr, John F
Beidelman, George...
Baker, James
Brown, John
Becker, C. G
Bradman, Francis M .
Brown, George
Blane, C. B
Baughman, Isaiah
Burns, Willis
Bowman, Charles H..
Breidt, Julius
Bigelow, Henry W...
4 Julv
15 Dec.
29 Feb.
33|Oct.
51 Jan.
61
71
76
97
124
128
June
May
Oct.
Feb.
Sept.
Mar.
151 1 Mar
152
162
102
163
28, 1873
7, 1872
24, 1873
4, 1872
11, 1873
20, 1873
10, 1873
18, 1872
21, 1873
5, 1872
10, 1873
25, 1873
Unknown.
Oct. 12, 1872
Dec. 4, 1872
Oct. 25, 1872
204iMay 10,1873
206 April 26, 1873
216|Sept. — , 1872
2s9Jan. 17, 1873
271 Dec. —,1872
279 Unknown.
280' Jan. 14, 1873
353 Jan. 6, 1873
356 Feb. — , 187"
365 Sept. 17, 1872
394 Jan. 6, 1873
410, Oct. 12, 1872
438 Feb. 8, 1873
Burner, E. P
Bryden, John
Brubeck, Edward S.. . ,
Baker, Enos
Boal, A.J .,
Blackburn, James H..
Benington, W. H. H..
Crain, Huram
Cooper, C. C
Cloud, Joseph B
Childs, George M
Curry, Davis H
Cunningham, Wm. J..
Crockett. Francis
Collins, James A
Callaway, Levi H
Cox, Jefferson R
Catcolt. George
Cantrell, Tilman B . . .
Cowan, N
Carmichael, John W..
Coulter, John R
Campbell, Joseph
Crawford, William
Carney, T. J
Cress, Charles
Calvert, Francis
Crandall, Talmadge A
Conkey, M. B
Clayton, Charles P
Curtis, Sidney
Campbell, James H. . .
Clonson, Huffo L
Cline, John D
Collins, J. W
Case, David B
Cuthbertson, James...
Charlton, R
cos
620
Jan. 29, 1873
April 19, 1873
Mar. 24, 1873
13, 1873
28. 1872
16, 1873
21, 1873
m
498
585
600' Feb
Nov.
Feb.
Jan.
Mar.
Jan.
Dec.
Sept.
May
April
33!Jan.
33! Jan.
20, 1873
— , 1873
31, 1872
26, 1872
17, 1873
2, 1873
6, 1873
15, 1873
34 1 April 19, 187:!
38 'Oct. 19, 1872
46 June
64 1 May
79|Oct.
91 July
112 May
114|Nov.
128 Mar.
28, 1873
13, 1873
12, 1872
16, 1873
20, 1873
3, 1872
24, 1873
134 Unknown.
134: Feb. —.1873
134i Sept. 4, 1872
1661 Feb. 22, 1873
199| Jan. 30, 1873
2LiOUune 24, 1873
209! Feb. 2, 1873
241 J Mar
2i5,Jan.
272 Jan.
280! Aug.
13, 1873
5, 1873
7, 1873
12, 1873
303[Unknown.
311 Feb. 1,1873
332' Unknown.
COLXXXVIII
Proceedings of the
OUR FRATERNAL DEAD — CONTINUED.
Cummins, Solon
Cole, Rairay
Carrithers, James T.
Crea, James Nelson.
Clumpha, William..
Closson, John
Carr, James W
Culbreth, F. M. ...
Culver, F. A
Curtis, Charles
Carter, Wm. S
Chase. Jacob
Clay, G. W
Curry, Josiah W
Demaree, Samuel...
Demaree, L. H
Doolittle, Harry J . .
Denjee, Joseph
Dennison, Amos
Daws, Edward
Davenport, J. V
Dunning. Warren C.
Dudley, Henry ,
Dodds, Benjamin A .
Dailey, J. B
Dudman, Robert. . ..
Delorme, Louis A. ..
Davis. George W.. ..
Day, W.R..
Dorsey, James M. .. ,
Denison, Amos ,
88s
4o:
421
j 422
438
I 448
441'
; 458
504
538
I 634
i 63'
650
j 681
1
9
60
101
122
128
130
201
293
354
481)
486
504
504
5i is
539
I i ; 5
Edwards, Henry C
Edgar, C. C
Edwards, George W. . .
Elliott, Arthur W
Egar, H. H
Evans, Rev. Robert B.
Eccles, James.
June
Dec.
Feb.
June
Feb.
3, 1873
22, 1872:
2, 1873
4, 1873
26, 1873
Sept, 17, 1872
, 1873
10, 1873
18. 1873
3, 1872
29, 1873
25, 1872
Unknown.
June 21, 1873
Feb.
Mar.
Jan.
Aug.
Aug.
Nov.
24. 1873
10, 1872
24, 1872
— , 1872
8. 1873
5, ls;2
«*, 1873
7, 1873
11, 1873
— , 1873
— , 1872
28, 1873
18, 1872
22, 1873
24, 1872
April 28, 1878
Unknown.
Aug.
Oct.
Dec.
Dec.
June
Nov.
April
Aug.
Aug.
Jan.
Dec.
Jan.
Sept.
June
Oct.
Gillam, John P
Green, George
Gillie, William
Garigues, I. L
Glover, John W
Gintz, Peter ,
Gray, John
(iannon, John ,
Goodsell, Ailing F
Gordon, Stewart
Griffith, H. G
Gage, Daniel At wood.
Gamble, James E
Graham, Wm. W
Grimes, Albert L
154! Feb. — , 1873
213 Unknown.
310 j Feb. — , 1873
342 Unknown.
344|Oct. 31, is;-.'
377 Jan. 5, 1873
392' Aug.
424 1 Sept.
445 'Feb.
497 Feb.
508 Mar.
6, 1873
23, 1872
24, 1873
— , 1873
— , 1873
59 Jan. 8, 1873'
[Unknown.
211 July 4, 1873
•24 9 Aug. 25, 1873
260 Ausr. 16, 1873
525 Sov. 15, 1872
526 April 24, 1873
Farntenkiller, John. .
Fisher, Archibald. . . .
Flavell, George W...
Fisher, Wm. I. N
Poster, John A
Foster, James
Fligor, James K
Fox, Aaron D
Flood, Martin
Forbes, Wm
Foster, Asa
Flannigan, Samuel E.
Gratton, David
Gohman, Daniel
Griswold, A. P
Griffith, Stephen
Good, Michael R
Grunendyke, Samuel.
25, Dec,
86!Feb.
141 Aug
14'.i -Tan.
22S April
28'.) May
241 May
255 June
•257 July
264 Jan.
444 Nov.
630 Unkn
2;, 1872
4, 1873
6, 1873
28, 1873
21, 1878
26, 1873
3, 1873
21, 1873
27, 1873
22, 1873
16, 1872
own.
April 21, 1873
May 13, 1873
June 1, 1873
Unknown.J
Oct. 13, 1872
Hickox, Adison
Huntington, Geo. L. . .
Handy, Thomas
Hazen, Theodore S.. . .
Hibbard, Elias
Horine, Mathias T
Haines, George F
Howe, Isaac G
Hollo way, John B
Haggard, D. B
Harbert, J. D
Hawks, J. T
Henly, Madison
Hove.y, M. L
Huffman, J. F
Howard, S. D
Henenger, Cyrus
Harland, Jehu
Hammond, W. W
Hudson, Bradley.. ..
J Harris, James L
Herrick, Carlos
JHanna, Wm. H
j Haskell, Frederick
Harris, Bushrod W . .
iHurd, Joseph C
I Herrick, O. Q
i Hewins, Levi T
Hawley, George W.. . .
Holland, John M
jHartwell, WinthropD.
JHamilton, Milton L...
Horstman, John H
; Harlan, N. W
I Houst, Jacob C
Hillis, Samuel
Hoover, David
I Hamrick, Wm
Irion. Silas
Irion, Christ J.
Irwin, John
611 June 29, 1873
611 Sept. —,1872
634 Dec. 13, 1872
696 Dec. 1, 1872
4 Jan. 10, 1873
4 Unknown.
8 May 30, 1873
14 Mar. 22, 1873
27 Jan. 8, 1^73
28 Dec. 14, 1872
83 April 10, 1873
8.4 Sept. 5, 1872
38 Unknown.
38 Dec. 9, 1875
43 ~
4.".
44
Sept. 28, 1872
Dec. 18, 1872
16, 1878
6, 1872
10, 1873
17, 1873
16, 1872
Jan.
49 Sept
58
78
ss
116
1301 April 2, 1873 Jones, James S.
July
Feb.
Oct.
Unknown.
134! Unknown.
152 Unknown.
161 Feb. 3,1873
187 June 28, 1873
196! Jan. 15, 1873
209 Aug. 13, 1873
:21c Sept, — , 1872
239! April 8, 1873
280 ! Aug. 19, 1873
i 316|July 26, 1873
318 April 18, 1873
342!Unknown.
409 1 May 30, 1873
422! Aug. 22, is;:;
494 Dee. 29,1872
508 j April — , 1*70
I 530 June 14, 1873
I 561 1 Feb. 21, 1873
596 Feb. 2, 1873
683 May 14, 1873
681 'Jan. 2, 1873
555 Jan. 19, 1873
602 Oct. 14, 1872
I 3S|Oct. 27, 1872
Grand Lodge of Illinois.
CCLXXXIX
OUR FRATERNAL DEAD — CONTINUED.
Johnson, Eliakim. .
Jones, Foster
Jackson, William.. .
Junzin L. A
Jones, Wm. A '.
Jenks, J. W
Jones, W. A
Jackson, James M .
Jacobs, Benj. F
Jennings, F. H ,
114 April
189 j Sept.
SSOfDec.
310 Aug.
817 'May
330 Nov.
1, 18T3|
8, 1872
6, 1872
14, 1873
8, 1873
15, 1872
King, Lyman
Killpatrick, Samuel .
Keslar. Andrew J
King. N. S
Ketchum, Eli M
Kormundy, Louis A.
Kentsinger, William.
Loefher, Charles
Locke, Thomas
Lingford, Robert
Lynde, Cornelius, Sr.
Lyons, John
Lane, David
Lee, Elisha
Lowden, Wm. D
Lawrence, Walter
Lamphier, George. . .
Lawrence, J. W
Laws, C. A
Lionberger, A. P
Lowman, John
Love, Samuel
Lakin, Noah
Laughlin, William...
Lounley. Peter
Leigh, E. H
Long, George
Laurance, Thomas...
49S Unknown.
503 July 10, 1873
565 Feb. 8, 1873
620 Dec. 27, 1872!
8iDec. 27, 18721
46 Nov. 26, 1872!
June 25, 1873
90 Unknown.
97 July 28, 1873
209 1 Dec. 15, 1872
485 Oct. 27, 1872
13 Sept
27 Aug,
30 ! May
57 i May
Dec.
May
Mahler, John C
Montgomery, Enoch.
Morrison, John
McKinney, Thomas..
Mires, John, Jr
Miller, James
McCaleb, S. M
McMillan, Jno. C. . .
Miller, Orville
McAtee, Morton S...
McReynolds, R
McClelland, Peter....
McElvain, John
Marsh, N. B
Miller, Vincent D. . . .
Miser, Henry
Mourer, Wm. J
McKachnie, Thomas.
Mannaugh, James H.
23, 1872
8, 1873
24, 1873
17, 1873
21, 1872
1, 1873
April 12, 1873
Jan. 19, 1873
Unknown.
Sept. 4, 1873
20, 1872
27, 1873
10, 1873
24, 1S72
17, 1873
28, 1S73
12, 1873
27, 1872
Sept. — , 1872
Nov. 6, 1872
Jan. 5, 1873
ro
90
117
119
203
213
241 Dec.
251 Feb.
235 Aug.
307 1 Dec.
347 j Jan.
359 1 Jan.
449| Feb.
451 1 Dec
559
596
678
'Mannaugh, Wm
(Montgomery, Chris..
IMonroe, Chris. L
Meek, Daniel
Murphy, Clarence H,
Morey," A. L ,
McKinney, Thos. (!.,
Moore, Charles E
McClay, E. W
Metcalf, Thomas
Mowry, Winsor A . . .
Morton, Thomas
McClure, J. W
McCauley, Joshua . . .
Merrilfl, Spaflbrd
McCord, Wm. M
McClelland, G. W. . . .
Mitchell, John
McElme, John E
McClary, John M
Mead, Elias
Miller, Alonzo
Mould, Thomas
Matteson, Orville B..
Meserve, Curtis C
McFarland, John
McHatton, James H.
Mayo, H. H
ir.4
168
L81
L85
1S5
189
! 221
240
! 247
257
| 271
308
I 320
334
346
375
-IMS
Aug. 20, 1873
Dec. 23, 1872
June 16, 1878
Mar. 16, 1873
Mar. 22, 1878
Feb. 8, 1873
April 28, 1873
Feb. 22, 1873
Mar. 9, 1873
April 17, 1873
June 1, 1873
17, 1873
2, 1873
16, 1873
5, 1873
Unknown.
Aus:. 12, 1873
25, 1873
3, 1S73
24, 1873
— , 1S73
16, 1873
17. 1873
Aug.
Mar.
Feb.
Mar.
Feb.
439 i Aug.
443 j May
515 j Feb.
5151 May
576'July
584: April 12, 1873
61l!Feb
G38July
(548; Oct.
658! Aug
8, 1873
8, 1873
21, 1872
16, 1873
Norton, Wm. E
Noble, George P
Newman, Spencer A.
Neftzgar, Michael
O'Kean, M
Owen, H. N....
Olinger, Samuel
Odell, Enos
lojAue. 31, 1873
16|Unknown.
28 Dec. 20, 1872!
29 Feb. 8, 1873 i
88 June 13, 1873
43 Sept. 23, 1872
68 Nov. 1, 1872
76, Feb.
70 Feb.
86 Jan.
88|Nov.
127 i Sept.
137lMar.
188 Dec.
11, 1873
22, 1S73
13, 1873
14, 1872
1, 1872
23, 1873
17, 1872
144Sept. 18, 1872
149 Nov. 3, 1872
155 Jan. 3, 1873
155 July 9, 1873
164 Feb. 27, 1873
Pace, John H
Parker, Henry
Paul, John
Patterson, Robert A.
Page, John J
Pratt, James A
Phelps, Albert
Pierce, Silas L
Prince, John
Patten, James R
Price, Samuel S
Preston, Avery R
Pettee, Geo. W
Parish, John L
Pershin, Jacob
Putnam, John
Putnam, W. D
Patterson, Nils
Park, John P
Power, James W
Parker, George
207 1 Aug. 31,1872
210i Feb. 3, 1873
2S6!Mar. 10, 1873
317 ! Nov. 3, 1872
140| April 30, 1873
158 Unknown.
208 July 11, 1873
222 Sept. 26, 1872
Aug.
Sept.
Feb.
53 i Feb.
58! April
Mar.
05
97
128
133
137
160
209
230
235
278
27S
302
313
398
457
15, 1873
— , 1867
25, 1872
3, 1878
28, is;;;
8, 1873
6, 1873
12, 1873
26, 1872
2, 1873
17, 1873
30, 1873
9, 1873
10, 1873
Unknown.
Dec. 23, 1873
17, 1873
8i), is;;;
18, 1872
19, 1872
23, 1872
Aug.
Oct.
Jan.
Jan.
Mar.
Aug.
May
Feb
May
Sept.
Nov.
Nov.
coxo
Proceedings of the
OUR FRATERNAL DEAD— CONTINUED.
Peurow, Levi i 457 May 23, 1873
Perryman,J.B ! 513, Oct. 18,1872
Pottieary, James 67lOct. 4, 1872
Roach, James G 8
Rouse, Rudolphus 15
Remann, Frederick... 16
Roberts, Wm. F j 29
Ruff, Caspar, Sr 39
Ross, Jerome B [ 44
Roberts, Perry j 86
Routzahn, John A j 96
Richardson, Harvey. . . 122
Riblet, Henry | 126
Russell. C. W ! 160
Ryan, John B I 201
Rodiffer, David I 216
Rosignal, Philip | 239
Ross, Thos. L 272
Rossman, John V. R.. 311
Rynerson, Isaac H | 332
Rundel, D.J 392
Robbins, Milton 394
Ransom, A. G 568
Robards. James H 574
Riford, IraB 596
Jan. 3, 1873
April 30, 1873
June 17, 1873
15, 1873
24, 1873
3, 1872
14, 1873
Unknown.
May 12, 1873
3, 1873
9, 1871
10, 1873
— , 1872
9, 1873
1, 1873
15, 1873
April 14, 1873
Jan. 31, 1873
Dec. 6, 1872
Unknown.
Sept. 5, 1872
July 15, 1873
Aug.
Jan.
May
Jan.
Jan.
Sept.
Mar.
Dec.
July
Jan.
jJuly
Smith, John W
Shartel, Geo. T j
Sanderson, Cyrus
Smith, Francis W ;
Spears, Henry C
Smith, Samuel C I
Stookey, Simon J ;
Spencer, Pcleg S
Sheldon, 0 j
Stilgebouer, Solomon.'
Sager, Winne J j
Smith, Ezra r '
Stewart, Francis A...
Stanger, John ;
Smith, Samuel, Sr
Sncad, Hamilton
Sneed, EzekiH I
Stephenson, W. J I
Shirts, Henry \
Saylor, Wm. F <
Saunders, Abram
Sampson, L. W !
Smith, Thomas M
Sisson, Gustavus S :
Surplus, Charles
Smith, Samuel
Stacher, Josiah
Smith, James P
Sehnitzler, Robert
Stultz. Leanhard
Seel, Peter
Stephenson, James j
Shreves, David ,. . >
4 1 Aug.
8 Oct.
18, 1873
26, 1875
June 29, 1873
15 July 12, 1873
19 Nov. 16, 1872
20 Feb. 3, 1873
24 Oct. — , 1872
38] Unknown.
43 Mar. 26, 1873
53 Feb. 27,1873
60[July 21, 1873
75 Sept. 26, 1872
76 1 May 8, 1873
96 Unknown.
100 Sept. 14, 1872
12SiJan. 25, 1873
Standring, Geo
Sinclair, Wm. B
Sheror, John
Short, W. H. H....
Shurlock, John C
Snyder, Isaac L
Shanks, M. V
Sharp, Joseph
Scott, Benjamin F
Smith, J. F
Stevenson, James..
Schlopp, Peter, Jr.
Shaw, Joseph C
Smith Wm. L
Todd, William
Titus, Daniel R
Taylor, J. R
Terry, P. G
Thompson, Edward...
Taylor, S W
Trimble, Silas C
Tread well, A. J
Taylor, Wm. R
Townsend, A.. K. P....
Taylor, Martin
Tenney, Horace M
Turner, Leonard
Trotty, Frank
Ungles, Wilford J 113
356
422
444
w i
157
4)14
467
498
499
510
562
643
tit;;-;
672
117
125
127
L40
14,->
150
222
293
368
440
538
584
592
654
Nov.
Oct.
Oct.
Jan.
Jan.
Feb.
Nov.
Nov.
Nov.
Nov.
Oct.
April
Feb.
Jan.
19, 1872
29, 1872
22, 1871
2, 1873
1, 1873
14, 1873
21, 1872
4, 1872
— , 1872
8, 1872
6, 1872
9, 1873
8, 1873
16, 1873
April 1, 1873
|Mar. — , 1873
|Jan. 25, 1873
Unknown.
May 20, 1873
4. 1873
23', 1873
14, 1873
2, 1873
14, 1873
6, 1873
6, 1873
7, 1873
24, 1873
Vanmatre, Amasa ! 107 Feb.
Van Meter, Henry | 203 May
Vallequett Thos. L. A., 393 Dec.
Feb.
July
Sept.
Aug.
Jan.
April
April
May
May
Mar. 15, 1873
Vannettar, Elijah j 396
Van Cleave, H. H (400
Sept. i; 1872
April 12, 1873
Unknown.
Mar. — , 1873
11, 1872
— , 1873
17, 1873
7, 1873
7, 1873
22, 1873
26, 1872
April 16, 1873
June 8, 1873
14, 1873
11, 1873
1, 1872
25, 1872
137
153
L58
175
L93
194
198
-.'til
209
210
220
254
277
315| Feb.
335 Jan.
337 Sept
350 Dec.
Sept.
April
July
Mar.
Feb.
Feb.
Dec.
Woolley, Jacob B. .
Williams, Levi
Weber, Wendeiin . . .
Witty, Walter W...
Ward, James
Wardell, Wm. T....
Walker, W. S. C
Wilshire, Wash
Wells, Luke
Wells, Mathew G...
Williams, John H...
Welch, Edwin
Wilcox, Alvin C
Weuthe. Charles
Walker, Frederick .
Webster, J. C
Wilson, John
Wood, Alfred I
Wood, Beader
Walker, W. S
Warmouth, E
Watson, Thomas B. .
15
31
39
44
45
71
89
91
92
L06
110
June
July
26, 1873
21, 1S73
27, 1872
2, 1873
6, 1873
Aug. 25, 1873
Nov. 20, 1872
Mar. 12, 1873
April 29, 1873
Feb. 23, 1873
12, 1873
11, 1873
13, 1872
18, 1873
1, 1873
22, 1873
May
Feb.
Dec.
Feb.
Feb.
May
158 Unknown.
175 May 11,1873
182JMay 7,1873
208 Unknown.
210: Mar. 6. 1873
211! July
236 [Oct.
319 Jan.
339 June
24, 1873
4, 1872
26, 1873
— , 1873
356 Unknown.
359 1 Aug. 23, 1873
Grand Lodge of Illinois.
ccxci
OUR FRATERNAL DEAD —CONTINUED.
AVeavcr, Josiah
Walton, James
Wilson, James L
Wilson, James M.. .
Wayne, Alexander C
Whittenburg, Henry
Wood, William
Wilson, William
3S*
:'AM\ Dec. 11, 1872
390 Feb. 24, 1873
404 Unknown.
40fi|Dec. S, 1872
439; Feb. 25, 1873
452
459
459
May 10, 1873
May 29, 1873
Unknown.
War ford, Hamilton
Weeks, Aaron
Waterman, John. . .
Wilson, R. M
Williams, James.. .
Young, Andrew
Young, George
468
Aug. 23, 1873
531
May 15, 1873
538
Aug. 23, 1873
610
Unknown.
613
May I, 1873
15
Feb. 22, 1873
403
Jan. 7, 1873
CCXCII
Proceedings of the
SUSPENSIONS.
INDEFINITE— For Non-Payment of Dues.
Alexander, Wm. H
Adams, Wm. H
Acram, John B
Allen, J. S
Alexander, Calvin C...
A bell, Lewis
Anno, P. S
Adams, Hall C
Allen, S. T
Alexander, Thoma9 W.
Alex, Christ
Allen, J. W
Arnold, I. M
Armstrong, David
Ayles, Elias
Amet, Charles L
Artz, F. Reynolds
Ayer, Howarth
Alia, Louis
Averill, A. W
Atwood, T. W
Aldrich, Orlando W...
Atkinson, James
Allen, Merrit
Babb, Henry R
Burkholder, John K...
Barnes, Enoch
Brown, A. M
Banker, E. W
Beatie, D. C
Bowen, J. E
Bunker, C. J
Butler, Henry
Barcoll, F. P
Beck, Jacob
Bruffett. G. M
Bates, W. A
Brock, John E
Bigelow. E. H
Burks, G. W
Byrnes, James T
Barnes, W. F \
3
33
33
33
4:2
as
88
90
mi
136
182
Oct.
June
June
June
Aug.
April
Feb.
July
July
Dec.
July
218 Dec.
246 Oct.
253 Aug.
334 Aug.
411 Nov.
420 Mar.
432 Jan.
438 Aug.
496 Sept.
591 Aug.
628 May
638 1 June
638! June
30ct.
15 Feb.
16 June
27 April
33 June
33 June
33 June
33 June
33 June
46 April
51 Nov.
58 Aug.
58 Aug.
76 Jan.
SS Feb.
88: Feb.
90 Sept.
90, Aug.
1872
1873
1873
1873
1873
1873
1873
1873
1S73
1872
1873
1872
1872
1873
1873
1872
1873
1873
1873
1872
1873
1873
1873
1873
1872
1873
1873
1S73
1873
1873
1878
1873
1873
1873
1872
1S73
1ST:;
1873
1873
1873
1872
1S73
Bomgarner, Oscar
Benn, John
Baldertson, Joseph . . .
Bourdette, G. L ,
Burch, Samuel E
Brown, George F. ...
Baiilett, Warren
Beaupree, Charles E. .
Burrill, Thomas J
Ball, John M
Best, Ambrose S
Brady, Michael ,
Berlin, C. F
Blandow, Wm
Breaton, David A
Burr, A. G
Bennett, C. C
Bliss, A
Bowman, J. C
Boyles, P
Bond, Wm. G
Blake, J. W
Baker, E. F
Bascom, Joseph
Berg, Samuel R
Bowen, H. S
Brooks, Wm. P
Barton, J. R. M
Bolt, G. W
Burroughs, John F
Bolt.Wm. M
Bridges, Wm. I
Bruner, John S
Barrett, D. F
Bently, W. H
Best, J. H
Bleler. B. F
Barr, Geo
Bowie, Wm
Brotherton, Wm
Beesley, J. M
Biggs, John
Buchecker, Thomas...
103 Aug.
103, Aug.
103 Aug.
103| Aug.
112 Dec.
124 Jan.
133 April
144 Jan.
157 Oct,
165
176
176
182
182
240
Dec.
Aug.
Aug.
July
uly
Mar.
240 Mar.
244 Sept,
244 Sept.
246 Oct,
246 Oct.
253 Aug.
I 254 Aug.
59
273
331
341'
354
364
405
415
433
April
Aug.
Mar.
Nov.
Jan.
Oct,
Sept.
Nov.
Jan.
446 ! Feb.
456 May
467 Jan.
467 Jan.
478 May
478 May
4781 May
478 May
ns May
494 April
494| April
505|july
16, 1873
16, is;:;
16, 1873
16, 1873
10, 1873
21, 1S73
9, 1873
15, 1873
5, 1872
16, 1872
26, 1873
26, 1873
3, 1873
3, 1873
10, 1873
10, 1873
3, 1872
3, 1872
10, 1872
id, 1872
16, 1873
27, 1873
12, 1873
15, 1873
1, 1873
14, 1872
10, 1873
26, 1872
2, 1S72
13, 1872
10, 1873
5, 1S73
7, 1873
7, 1873
7, 1S73
15, 1873
15. 1873
15, 1873
15, 1873
15, 1873
3, 1873
3, 1873
5, 1873
Grand Lodge of Illinois.
CCXCK'I
SUSPENSIONS —CONTINUED.
Banks, J. N
Butcher, Geo. W. . ,
Brewster, Wm. S..
Briscoe, J. W
Bristol, G. D
Borden, Daniel
Backley. Jos. T...
Brake, Paul
Collier, Thomas
Cassell, F
Cochran, S. W. P
Casey, John
Coleman, J. W
Corn, A. M
Clark, A. H
Cole, Granville M
Caise, William
Crnmly, R. C
Cooper, Charles W.. ..
Collins. John
Croll, Henry
Cornell, David D
Cunningham, Elisha L
Cagle, Issac R
Chestnut, E. P
Culbertson, James M..
Chase W.S
Clater, W
Cox, Geo. C
Clark, J. H
Cornell, B. F
Cassell, F
Cox, J. W
Carter, Robert L
Canfivid, N. H
Chambers, John G
Curtis, I. J
Chase, Oscar C
Carpenter, CD
Cumbellick, John
Culver, Stephen
Crews, William
Carter, B. F
Crames, I. W ,
Courtney, M. L
Castello, Calvin B
Compton, S. W
Chilcott, Elihu
Chesley, B. H
Catt, Wm
Clemence, Wm. E. ...
Curry, C. P
Church, E. P
Coy, Wiutield S
Clemens. H. J
Collins, F. J
Combs, Gideon M. . . .
Coler, Perris S
Chambers, A. W
•,os
513
534
551
558
591
662
667
Aug.
May
May
July
April
Au£.
April
April
Feb.
April
April
May
58 1 Aug.
58 Aug.
Aug.
May
Dec.
Mar.
Aug.
Jan.
April
Mar.
Nov.
April
Mar.
Mar.
Mar.
Sept,
Sept,
May
58
99
112
113
lis
124
188
1 II
149
L50
240
240
240
244
244
244
245
246 Oct.
246' Oct.
254, July
254; Aug.
264 June
29, 1873
8. 1873
19, 1873
5, 1873
2, 1873
22, 1873
5, 1873
26, 1873
10, 1873
30, 1873
30, 1873
28, 1873
2, 1873
2, 1873
2, 1873
1, 1873
10, 1S72
14, 1873
15, 1873
21, 1873
9, 1873
1, 1873
15, 1872
8, 1873
10, 1873
10, 1873
10, 1873
3, 1872
3, 1872
6, 1873
Daniels, Summers
Dexter, John H
Day, L. L
Donigan, Frank
Davis, J. B
Davis, R. M
Davis, Wm. H
Dulaney, Wm. L
Druly, John A
Doan, Wm. C
Dickson, James
Diet zseh, Emil
Daniels, A. L
Dehority, James
Deul, Wilber
Doolin, Benjamin F...
Daysman, George
Dart, Albert
Drennan, Benjamin F
Davis, Wm
Dowdy, Albert R
3
9
4i;
46
85
85
123
183
165
178
253
277
:;s4
375
398
:-:<)S
Oct.
Aug.
April
July
Oct.
Oct.
Aug
April
Dec.
Nov.
Aug.
May
Dec.
Aug.
Mar.
Mar.
432;Oct.
433
523
541
638
270
271
271
273
301
331
334
337
337
344
347
371
Sept.
May
June
Aug.
July
Mar.
Aug.
June
June
Jan.
Nov.
Oct.
398 Mar.
406 1 Sept.
406 1 Sept.
424 'Feb.
446 1 Feb.
471 Aug.
478 1 May
4781 May
5131 May
537 Mar.
610ljune
10, 1872
10, 1872;
9, 1873
27, 1873
28, 1873
11, 1872
28, 1873
25, 1873
15, 1873
5, 1873
1, 1873
16. 1873
6, 1873
6, 1873
7, 1873
14, 1872
7, 1872
10. 1873
14, 1872
14, 1872
6, 1873
5, 1873
28, 1873
15, 1873
15, 1S73
8, 1873
8, 1873
7, 1873
Eastman, G. W
Ebbett, P
Eaton, James W
Eversole, Joseph
Everingham, Geo. B.
Evans, Gordon
Eastham, Geo. A
Easla, B
Eaton, E. D
Epperson, Pedro W..
Ewing, James
Emge, John
Evans, William
Etheridge, Robert...
Fitch, Darius R
Fish, A. W
Fish, Joseph
Foster, C. A
Flowers, W. H
Flint, L.L
Few, Peter B
Foote, Wm. J
Friedrich, Anton
Farrell. T
Fullen, Wash. J
Fuller, E. O
Folz. L
Farmer, Henry
Fendley, John
Follett, Hiram
Ferris, Robert
Fisher, James
Fuson, J. S
Fletcher, Joseph W.
Feaks, William
Freeman, John P
French, Orvis
33
4(1
85
133
136
Jan.
Jan.
June
June
21, 1872
5, 1873
30, 1873
30, 1873
15, 1872
15, 1872
12. 1873
9; 1873
16, 1872
4, 1872
16, 1873
23, 1873
12, 1872
15, 1873
10, 1873
10, 1873
10, 1872
10, 1873
11, 1873
4, 1873
14, 1873
June 20,
April 30,
Oct. 15,
April
Nov.
16l|Dec.
171 1 April
253 J Aug.
347 1 Nov.
367 Jul v
415| Nov.
418jMay
438 1 Aug.
4381 Aug.
1873
1873
1872
1873
1872
1872
1873
1873
1872
1873
1872
1873
1873
1873
3 'Oct.
33June
33|Jnne
33 June
46 April
90 June
1 156 June
157|June
182 July
i 246 Oct.
j 273i Aug.
j 30l!July
I : 35 July
1 366 Dec.
380 July
420 Mar.
438 Aug.
478
494
494
505
514
524
May
April
April
July
Aug.
June
21, 1872
20, 1873
20, 1873
20, 1873
30, 1873
17, 1873
4, 1872
7, 1S73
3, 1873
10, 1872
15, 1S73
5, 1873
11, 1873
9, 1872
10, 1873
1873
1873
1873
1873
1873
1873
7, 1873
12, 1873
CCXOIV
Proceedings of the
SUSPENSIONS — CONTINUED.
N \ \i E6.
Gulick, Samuel C
Gregory, John
Gorham. Charles S
Garrett, J. H
Gleaaon, 8. E
Gilson, James M
Geumaley, Chas
Gillis, H. J
Green, George
Galligher, John
Greenfield, Geo
Greenleaf, Joseph
Goudy, Calvin
Gregory, Alexander S.
< ; all <>way, Edgar
Custiu, Sanford
Clover, Charles
Gillett, S. C
Graves, E. B
Gibson, John M
Cooch, Thomas
Crommes, H
Goodman, Ceo
Gilcrist, G. W
Grubb, F. D
Gibson, Henry II
Gochenour, Henry
Godries, Charles L
Gray, Thomas
Coodave, J. A
Gilpin, W
Gray, Thomas R
Green, K. A
Cray, A. W
Gilchrist, John ,
Hodge, Wilbur F....
I lanson, Geo. A
Barman, Isaac D.. . .
Hayes, Henry
Hertford, Joseph
II use, James I
Huff, H. J
Hosford, Wm.B
H.illiday, H. H
Hilliard, J.D
Holmes, Thoe
Honens, G. II
Heflin, Geo. W
Hayes, Royal W ,
Hickman, Matthew.
Hazard, H.B
1 1 uggins, M. J
Hill. R. H
Heninger, F
Harris, J. VV
Homeland, S
Hall, W. W
Hutchins, Jas. D
15 Feb. 10,
33 June 20,
42 Aug. 15,
40 April 30,
46 Aug. 27,
00 Juue
85 Oct,
85 Oct.
90 June
90 June
90 July
110 Jan.
122 Oct.
130 Nov.
178>Jan.
190 May
240 March 10,
254 July 9,
27l|june
271 June
273 Aug.
277 May
312 .Oct.
371 1 Oct.
13
13,
17,
17,
15,
11,
15,
9,
6,
L6,
11.
11,
15,
23,
1,
380
41 Hi
433
438
407
407
478
550
610
610
July
Sept.
Jan.
July
Ang.
Jan.
Jan.
May
Jan.
June
June
1873
1878
1873
1873
1873
1873
1872
1872
1873
1873
1873
1873
1873
1872
1673
1873
1873
1873
1873
1873
1873
1873
1872
1872
is;:;
1872
1873
1873
1873
1873
1S73
1873
1873
1873
1873
3 Oct.
27 Feb.
33 June
33 j June
33 June
33 June
46 j July
46 1, Jul v
46 'July
55 May
69 Aug.
69 Aug.
69 j Aug.
76 1 J an.
85 1 Oct.
85 Oct.
85 Oct.
85 Oct.
88 Feb.
88 Feb.
88: Feb.
89 Dec.
99 May
21, 1872
8, 1873
20, 1873
20, 1873
20, 1873
20, 1873
30, 1873
30, 1873
so, 187;;
28, L873
1, 1S73
1, 1873
1, 1873
25, 1873
13, 1872
13, 1872
13, 1872
13, 1872
17, 1873
17, 1873
17, 1873
13, 1872
15, 1873,
Holland, Edward C
Hurst, Nicholas
Hogg, James N
Hunt, Newell
Harris, John H
Huelscher, C
Hanson, Martin
Hoag, J. R
Hoadley, A. S
llanna, J. T
Hutchinson, Sylvanus.
Harbour, D. B
Hoult, A. L
Hine, William
Harrison, T. B
Hine, Charles
Haskell, C. A
Hendron, James
Heddleson, Jacob
Heron, S. J
Higgins, George
Hinckley, Siancy F
Helm, Meredith
Hise, G. W
Howard, Fred
Hadder, Wm
Hoffner, Chas
Hcwison, Thomas
Houghton, C. W
Hunly, Joseph
Harding, A. W
Hagner, Charles
Hamill, S. S
Hills, Isaac
Hobbs, John T
Hoffman, Adam
Ireton, Joseph..
Ireland, Carl S. ,
Inglish, Thos. J.
Ingill, Feather .
124 Feb.
133 June
150 April
Oct.
Aug.
July
157
176
18J
17, 1873
4, 1873
8, 1873
5, 1872
26, 1873
3, 187
240 March 10, 1873
244 1 Sept.
244 Sept.
244 1 Sept.
245
246! Oct.
246 Oct.
il May
271
271
273
375
42S
438
438
438
459
467
, 471
478
478
478
494
; 494
I 511
| 546
561
3, 1872
:;, 1872
3,1872
10, 1872
10, 1872
14, 1873
11, 1873
11, 1873
15, 1878
15, 1878
2, 1873
0, 187:;
6, 1873
6, 1873
March 14, 1873
Jan.
June
June
Aug.
Aug.
Aug.
Aug.
Aug.
Aujr.
1873
28, 1873
15, 1873
15, 1873
15, 1873
3, 1S73
3, 1873
16, 1873
April 12. 1873
Aug. 28, 1873
591 Aug. 22, 1873
590 July 15, 1873
667 April 26, 1873
Aug.
May
May
May
April
April
July
L5 March 10,
06iJuue 7,
354 Jan. 10,
380 July 10,
Jackson, A
Johnson, Cameron . .
Johnson, Swan J . . . .
Johnson, Alfred
Jacobus, Cornelius..
Jones, A. L
Jaynes, Jas
'Jacobs, Wesley
[Johnson, L. T. E....
Johnson, Robert
Jackson, McDonald.
Johnson, Wm. T. . ..
Jones, S. S
Johnston, W. W
Jones, Wm
Jamison, Charles
Joyce, W. T
46! July
46 j Aug.
09 i May
30,
27,
112
178
240
246
Dec
Nov. 4,
March 10,
Oct. 10,
Aug. 15,
March 1,
Nov. 14,
July
Aug.
Jan.
Jan.
June
561 1 Aug.
602 April
331
344
367
438
407
467
516
8,
6,
7,
7,
3,
28,
5,
1873
1873
is;;;
1873
1873
1873
187:;
1872
1S72
is;:;
1872
1873
1873
1872
1873
1873
1873
1873
1873
1873
1873
Grand Lodge of Illinois.
ccxcv
SUSPENSIONS — CONTINUED.
Kent, 0. P
Kingsinan, B. F
Kendall, Jas. M... .
Kimber, A. F
Kid well, Wm. E. . .
Knox, Irvine,'
Keith, John T
Kerchuer, Win. H..
Kountz, Francis S.
Kramer, M
Koenig, C. F
Keiser, Fred
Kester, John W
King, Philo R
Kistler, W. F
Kester, Josiah II.. .
Ketchner, S
Kelley John
Knowlton, Delos...
Knecht, J. M
Letton, Caleb
Lacey, John H
Levis, Ed
Lamothe, W. P
Lantz, Peter A
Leopold, M
Laudes, Samuel
Lloyd, T
Little II. A
Loughtou, E. B
Lemasters, E. B
Lawrence, Isaac
Leonard, Theodore.. .
Lonvey, Charles
Leonard, John J
Leitch, Duff L
Lohmann, W
Levers, William
Letts, David
Landis, J. P
Little, A. L
Ludington, Moses E.
Lyman, George \V
Lawley, E. B
Libby, C. P
Martin, Edward I). . .
Morrison, Richard
Me Reynolds, John . . .
McDonald, H. D
McNulty, Patrick....
Manchester, M. S
Marsh, Thomas E
Myrrick, Clysses F.. .
Mears, James
Marion, Joseph
Marshall, William 8..
Maynard, C
Mortimer, T
27! Feb.
33 June
99 May
118 Aug.
133 April
133, April
150 April
245 1 '
273 Aug.
335 July
335 July
433 Jan.
438 Aug.
438 Aug.
438 Aua\
459
<m
550
576
59]
Mar
Jan.
Jan.
Nov.
Aug.
Oct.
Oct.
Feb.
April
June
33 June
35 Oct.
40 April
40 1 April
88JFeb.
88! Feb.
157! Oct.
244 Sept.
244 1 Sept.
253 Aug.
208 Oct.
277 May
292, Feb.
359 Aug.
380, July
405 Sept.
438 Aug.
438: Aug.
407 Jan.
478 May
10 June
10!Juue
25lNov.
27 J Feb.
33 (June
33jJune
33 June
42| Aug.
42 1 Aug.
421 Aug.
45 J Jan.
40! April
40 1 April
8, 1873
20, 1873
15, 1873
15, 1873
9, 1873
9, 1873
5, 1873
15, 1873
11, 1873
11, 1873
10, 1873
6, 1873
0, 1873
0, 1873
18, 1873
7, 1873
2, 1873
13, 1872
22, 1873
21, 187S
21, 1872
8, 1873
12, 1873
20, 1873
20, 1873
15, 1872
30, 1873
30, 1873
17, 1873
18, 1873
5, 1872
3, 1872
3, 1872
10, 1873
10, 1872
23, 1873
12, 1873
20, 1873
10, 1873
2, 1872
6, 1873
0, 1873
7, 1873
15, 1873
9, 1873
9, 1873
10, 1872
8, 1873
2D, 1S73
20, 1873
20, 1873
15, 1873
15, 1873
15, 1873
7, 1873
30, 1873
30, 1873
Miller, Alexander F. . .
Mehan, J
Moffatt, H. H
Miller, Frank
Minium, F. J
McKinley, John
Moore, A. D
Manley, E. R
Miner, Elisha
McLain, Maro
McCullum, Alexander
Miller, John C
Musgrave, John T
McMackin, Eugene...
Miller, John II
Matthews, L. M
McClure, R. A
McDowell, C
Moore, W. E
Moore, 8. P
Myers, T L
McCullough, S
Meservay, W. N
McHerron, C. H
Moore, M. S
McAllister, Jesse
Miller, Charles
Mochell, Frederick
Mattice, Peter W
McCracken, C. F
McNeil, James
McNair, Harvey
Miller, Edwin
Miner, C. A
McComac, John M
Moody, William
McKnight, Henry
McKamy, John M
Morris, Wm. H
Mclntyre, Lewis
Marcus, Samuel
Marcus, Theodore
Mothersill, George
Mossier, E. M
McDonald, Charles...,
Moose, H. H
More, Gipson
McNutt, J. B
Mann, O. H
Miller, Abe ,
Miller, Andrew
McDonald, W
Meeks, James ,
46 1 May
46, July
46 July
40 Aug.
48 Aug.
90 June
103 Aug.
103 Aug.
118, Aug.
118 Aug.
122 Oct.
124 Jan.
136 Nov.
148 1 Mar.
149! Mar.
210, Aug.
240! Mar.
244 'Sept.
244; Sept.
245
246! Oct.
246 i Oct.
254! July
254 July
264
271
273
296
301
331
334
June
June
Aug.
Feb.
July
Mar.
Aug.
359 1 Aug.
3591 Aug.
363;june
363 June
390 May
405 Sept.
424 Feb.
433|jan.
435 Dec.
I:'h
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438
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Newman, W. W... ,
Nichols, Henry
Needlmiu, Daniel P.
Nichols, Fred. R...
Newlan, Thomas,. .
July
Aug.
Aug.
446 Feb.
407 Jan.
494 April
494 April
513 June
524 April
540 April
540 ; April
002 1 May
007 April
40 July
90 Julv
90 July
149 April
178 Nov.
254 A usr.
28, 1873
30, 1873
30, 1873
27, 1873
SO, 1873
17, 1873
10, 187;;
10, 1873
15, 1873
15, 1873
15, 1872
21, 1873
9, 1872
8, 1S73
7, 1873
5, 1S7:;
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3, 1872
3, 1872
10, 1S72
10, L872
9, 187:;
9, 187:;
28, 1ST:;
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5, 187;;
1, 187::
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20, 187:;
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10, 1873
10, L873
19, 1873
2, L872
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15, 1873
19, 1873
0, 1873
5, L873
7, L873
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Neth, John P.
Neintker, F...
Otis, John D
( Isgood, Geo. W
Olmsted, Joseph
Orcutt, John II
O'Neil, Phillip
Olmstead, R. H
Ogden, Win. J
Osbom, Mathew L....
Osborn, Juo. W
Otis, W. H
Pike, Horace G 33
Parks, G. D. A 42
Penn, A 46
Phelan, Wm 46
Piukham, C. H 46
Patterson, Milt 87
Parlemau. J. H 88
Potter. P. G 132
Pool, Win. C 133
Pearce, Peter C 133
Piersol, J. J 170
Powers, LeRoy 190
Pierce, R. A 244
Pierce, Garrett A 244
Parkhurst B. B 244
Fortertield, J. T 331
Peck, I. G 335
Parker, Wm 344
Phillips, Jefferson 344
Plain, Jesse 354
Puff, William J 359
Patton, John 3b4
Piatt, Mill burn 405
Prewitt, Isam 406
Powell, Thomas ! 415
Powers, Mvrou 435
Preshaw, John M ] 469
Parker, O. L 478
Poling, G. W 496
Parsons, Hiram | 539
Peters, Thomas L I 548
433 Jan. 10,
467 Jan. 7.
15
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66
90
156
270
49i
537
.Mil
591
15,
Feb.
Aug.
June
July
May 7,
8«pt. 11,
March 3,
March 8,
Aug. 22,
Aug. 22,
June 20.
Aug. 15,
April 30,
April 30
April 30.
Nov. 10,
Feb. 17
Feb. 10.
April 9.
April 9,
Aug. 4.
May 16.
Sept. 3,
May 6.
Sept. 3,
Mar. 1.
July 11,
Sept. 3,
Aug. 19,
Jan. 10,
Aug. 26.
Oct. 26,
Sept. 2,
Sept, 14
June 4,
Dec. 11,
Feb. 8,
May 15,
Sept. 14.
Nov. 1,
June 6,
Richart, J. A
Ricketts, Wm
Roberts, Dan
Riggins, Wm
Ringhouse, Louis.
Rippon, John
Roosa, Andrew I.,
Robinson, J
Ruddell, J. M
Reed, David
Reitzell, Cyrus J.
Roff, Curtis C
Ryan, Felix
Reynolds, C
33 June 20,
35 1 Oct. 15
88 Feb. 17,
88 Feb. 17,
88 Feb. 17,
90 June 17
100 April 12
112 Dec. 10
114 Jmie 7
141 March 1
170 Aug. 4
178 Nov. 4
210 Aug. 5
-44 Sept. 3
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Reid Wm. L
Robinson, Chas. 8
Raw, S. B
Rice, James W ,
Reynolds, Abel ,
Ridgley, Alfred
Richey, James
Rockwell, John W
Robinson, Wm. S. R,.
Richie, David
Reineman, Moses....
Reed, Horace L
Rodermel, R. H
Ruchmann, C
Remington, A.H
Remer, Lewis G
254
271
273
July 9,
May 14,
Aug. 15,
297 Oct. 17,
313 March 11,
334 Aug. 16,
Shaut, C. A
Shaner, A. F
Seymour. H. B
Sherwood, L. J
Schomacber, J. W
Sweet, M. II
Smith, Fred. S
Stafford, James B
Stout, W H
Switzer, Martin
Switzer, Samuel
Schotield, C.N
Sams, John R
Sams, Wiley E
Sanderson, Wm. B
Snooks, James
Swarthout, M. M
Smith, Joseph
Strawn, Eli
Stephenson, W. L
Sewell, J. A
Spires, John M
Steel, C. R
Stephens, Josiah
Swartwood, James
St. Clair, Wm. H
Shurts, Joseph N
Spear, Oliver
Shepard, D. C
Strickland, Simeon E.
Schmid, G. E
Spencer, N. A
Scarlette. John A
Smith, Pleasant
Scudder, William
Slaughter, H. B
Sexton, E. P
Stack, James
Simmons, T. D
Stewart, William
Spurgeon, Israel
Stephens, Almon
Sherer, Samuel B
364
371
406
424
437
438
490
494
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591
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Oct. 7
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Aug. 6
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April 3
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Feb.
June
June
June
Nov.
Aug.
Aug.
April 30,
Aug, 30,
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June
8,
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ST
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ITS Nov.
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182 July
195 Oct.
196 Aug.
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244 i May
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SUSPENSIONS — CONTINUED.
Sherman, Daniel
Stiee, David
Stewart, Jam<>s A
Smith, Geo. W
Spears, G. H
Sackett, Orville D ...
Swan, Peter
Smith. Alonzo
Smith, Orlando
8treet, G. W
Seacord, Wi'kins
Staples, S. G...
Starr, James E
Sperry, J. C
Stearnes, Win. E
Snooks, C. P
Sherrill, John
Sample, Ben
Schwartz, J. S
Sprouse, W. T
Stokes, T. F
Smith, Samuel
Seifert, Fritz
Slade, Frederick
Schrader, CM
Sherwood, Frank O...
Staab, Louis
Sargisson, John H
Spatford, John I..
Seigel, Henry
Stokes, Alfred
Stewart, A. M
Spillman, W. F
Sturgis, W
Smith, L
Sinclair, R. H
Sherwood, Geo
Sherwood, H. J
Stephens, W. G
SauDders, Wm
Strode, James
Smith, Elias
Stephens, John F
Stoute, Thompson VV.
254 Aug.
259 April
270 Sept.
271 June
273 Aug.
301 July
330 1 Aug.
334; Aug.
334 'Aug.
334
337
337
341
34
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Mar.
April
May
Nov.
359 1 Aug.
359; Aug.
371 J Oct.
375 j Aug.
380 July
398! Mar.
405 Sept.
406 Sept.
418
424
428
42S
437
May
Feb.
Aug.
Aug.
Aug.
438 Aug.
438! Aug.
438' Aug.
438 1 Aug.
456; May
467 Jan.
467 Jan.
467 Jan.
178
47S
478
478
478
478
488
596
May
May
May
May
May
May
July
July
596| July
Ten Eyck, Chas. H..
Ten Eyck, M. S
Tiilson, M. 8 j 33
Talbert, Joseph M.... 34
Thomas, E. J ! 48
Tucker, Josiah 66
Taffee, G. N ■■ 85
Tartt, Thos. M ' 99
Toler, William T j 100
Thornton, Arnold 103
Trimble, E. L. F : 114
Teimon, Wiiliam 1 36
Teft, George I 156
Tilton, W. F ,158
Turnbull, D. B | 254
June
June
June
Jan.
Aug.
June
Oct.
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May
Aug.
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Dec.
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Aug.
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Tomlinson, E. K. .
Treat, Edward W.
Taylor, Alexander
Treble, Otto
Taylor, John
Truax, James H...
Townsend, N. 8. ..
Thomas, W. S
Thedga, G. O
Tower, S.N
Thorpe, C.J
Torbitt, Wm
Trvon, Harvey S..
Titley, Wm
Van Brunt, Amos
Van Valkenburg, W.M,
Valley, Albert H
Van Ankee, C. E
Valentine, Edward 8...
Van Am berg, Edw'd D.
Vaughn, Wm. A
Vancil, Cornelius P. . .
Varney, Charles P
Wright, W. R
Williams, G. L
Wilmarth, H B
Woodward", Wm
Whited, Charles W.
Whiting, James H. ..
Wiley, Jno. A
Wilkinson, R. H
Wood, Wm. J
Winchester, R. B
Williams, R, H
Wemple, M
Ward, James G
White, J. G
Walcott, John
Woods, James J
Webber, J. R
Warwick, Wm. Geo.
Wood, Ira M
Wood, Lemuel 8
iWood, C. R
Wehrli, R
i Walker, L. W
Wright, Burdette....
Woods, J. M
!Wilkie, D. O
Whitemore, W. F. ..
Westover, E. A
Winslow, L. A
Wylie, David
Welch, Thos. C
Weston, Milton
Welles, Wm. D
Woodruff, J. G
Wuerker, Christian.
314
363
371
418
428
433
478
537
537
540
33
42
69
90
129
141
156
161
240
25
27
33
33
42
42
46
48
51
58
85
87
I 103
! 103
1()3
! 118
124
145
148
157
165
182
I 240
! 240
I 246
246
246
254
254
! 271
271
271
296
314
315
271 May
296 Feb.
SOllJuly
335 July
Aug.
June
Oct.
May
Aug.
Jan.
May
Jan.
Jan.
Aug.
June
Aug.
May
June
Oct.
Mar.
June
Dec.
Mar.
14, 1873
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5, 1873
11, 1873
19, 1873
10, 1873
7, 1872
10, 1873
2, 1873
10, 1873
15, 1873
11, 1873
11, 1873
12, 1873
20, 1873
15, 1873
3, 1873
17, 1873
11, 1872
1, 1873
4, 1873
11, 1872
10, 1873
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June
Aug.
Aug.
July
Aug.
Dec.
Aug.
Oct,
Nov.
Aug.
Aug.
Aug.
Aug.
Jan.
May
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Oct.
Feb.
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Oct.
July
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June
July
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Aug.
Dec.
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ccxcvni
I*roceedings of the
SUSPENSIONS — CONTINUED.
Williams, G. A 334
White, T. B 334
Wallace, Robert 341
Walker, Geo. B 359
Washburn, 8. H 368
Whitaker, Jesse F 366
Watson, Richard 371
Withers, Richard J 371
Williams, W. H 396
Wagner, Lewis 400
Wales, W. F ; 438
Watts, Henry K 4:;s
Weeden, C. F j 438
Weeden, R. C | 438
Whilt, I. 1 438
Wood, E. L 138
Washburn, L. L 4671
Wells, Charles 539,
Wales, Thomas 596
Wilkins, John H 596!
Yates, Silas W 42
Yerrington, C. E 48!
Zanoni M 4(5
Zimmerman, Sam'l 170
Zellenka, Ignatius 59fi
Zeipe, William 638
Aug.
Aug.
-Ian.
Dec.
July
July
Aug. 15,
Aug. 3D,
April 30,
Aug. 4,
July 15,
June 14,
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SUSPENDED FOR UNMASONIC CONDUCT.
Albee, V. W
Allsop, William.
Bacon, Aaron A 20
Buell, Norton 262
319
665
Dec.
June
Nov.
Mar.
5, 1872
6, 1873
11, 1872
4, 1873
Cochrane, J. L 17 April 18, 1873
Clutts, Alexander I 581 May 15, 1S73
Efner, C. W ; 262' Mar. 18, 187:1
Elliott, William H . . . . \ 340 1 Aug. 6, 1873
Fisher, E. B 208 J ul v 9, 1873
Farr, Samuel M 358 Jan. 12, 1873
Fellers, Joseph 456 Oct. 16, 1872
1 1 odges, P. F 319 Oct. 3, 1872
Holt, D. A 319! Oct. 3, 1872,
Johnson, A. J 319 Sept. 5, 1872
McCoy, L. L
Miller, Langdou
McDowell, Franklin C.
Powers, Samuel E.
Patton, Robert . . .
Parker, Jackson.. .
Lynch, Tilman 546 Nov.
Lee, William D 614 July
9, 1872
7, 187:1
319 Oct. 3, 1872
404 Dec. 5, 1872
493 Aug. 19, 1873
48 1 June 2, 1873
70 Aug. 27, 1873
246 Oct. 16, L872
64 Feb. 8, L87S
182 June 19, 1873
208 July 23, L873
260 Sept. IS, 1872
516 Jan. 28, is;:;
46 Aug. 13, L878
340 Aug. 6, 1873
681 Aug. 9, 1873
Thompson, L. H 456 Mar. 2, t878
Rodman, John A.. .
Reidel, Henry
Randall, A. T
Robertson, Beuj. F.
Roberts, Arthur P. .
Smith, Albert
Suddeth, Benjamin F.
Sternberg, Moses
Wilkinson. Lewis.
Wild, Frederick J.
Werner, John A.. .
347 Nov. 14, L872
438 May 14, 1873
498 June 9, L873
DEFINITE SUSPENSIONS
55 May 28, 1873
Jenkins, Lewis 20 years.
Lilley, Richard A 1 year. 665 Mar. 14, 1873
Morgau, John D 4 mouths. 40|Aug. 18. 1873
Smith, Jacob 1 month 58
Taylor, L. C 1 year. 651
Aug. 2, 1873
Sept. 16, 1872
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EXPULSIONS
ET I
Armstrong, Edward L.: 40;
A<pinwall, H : 170
Ackerman, Daniel 422
Allen, E.K 637
Buck, W
Bell, Thomas
Ballou, Nahum E
Bird, G. H
Brainard, Flesher S. . .
Brown, Perley G
Bronkruzer, H. C
Bondon, Ferdinand. . .
Berry, James A. Jr
Beal, Samuel T
Clark, Franklin
Chandler, Abraham R.
Church, George
Cook, William
Currv, Silas
Craw, B. R
Crawford, J. B
Crop, Julius C
Clark, Thomas J
Cornell, Daniel B
Cool, Hugh
Cover, John F
Cox, John
Dickinson, George
Drake, Samuel h
Ewing, William
Elden, George B. . .
Eagleson, Thomas.
L34
a to
383
297
309
362
387
42<i
March 17,
Aug. 4,
Oct. 22,
Dec. 5,
May 9,
Sept. 23,
Aug. 8,
Oct. 17,
March 17,
Aug. 7,
June 24,
Feb. 12,
455 j March 25,
621
Fisher, Isaac N..
Fisher, Abraham.
Follett, Hiram...
Gray, L. M
Glassford, Hugh
39*
77
180
239
301
322
331
334
385
392
404
448
498
511
170
239
170
359
509
193
253
420
! 334
508
Aug.
2,
Aug.
9,
Feb.
11,
July
5,
Oct.
29,
May
3,
Aug.
16,
April
10,
May
7,
Dec.
5,
March 27,
June
y,
Feb.
5,
Aug.
4,
Feb.
11,
Aug.
4,
May
13,
July
5,
May
10,
March 1,
May
31,
Aug.
16,
Jan.
3,
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Heinz, Henry
Harford, Edwin T
Haggerty, J
Hall, F. M
Hawley, John M
Hirsh, Joseph
Hill, Wm. E
Hubbard, E. Clarence.
Hodgson, Hume
Hutson, Joseph
Jacobs, Henry
Johnson, Garrett V.. ..
Kingsbury, Austin G..
Kelley, Alvin H
LaCroix, Odillon...
Lattin, Carlos
Lookins, 8. H. A...
Lebkicker, Samuel.
Leary, James D
Laney, Richard
55 j May 28, 1873
90, May 6, 1873
319 Sept. 5, 1872
322 ! Aug. 5, 1873
385, April 10, 1873
385! April 10, 1873
406 Feb. 8,1873
411 Aug. 27, 1873
430 June 7, 1873
597 March 8, 1873
McQuown, John H . . ,
Murphy, Wm
Murray, J. A
Malburn J. K ,
Massenberg, Wm
McClure, C. W ,
Marshall, D. C
McKelvy, Copelin
Montray, Sylvester . ,
Moore, John
Morris, John ,
Maker, Wm. C
Mackey, James
Mills, John
Nesmith, John.
Naylor, Parker.
O' Leary, Tim..
46
518
239
459
9
134
136
170
596
666
595
117
134
170
170
170
319
331
331
334
373
385
415
541
103
148
200
Nov.
Nov.
27, 1872
12, 1872
April 22, 1873
March 14, 1873
Jan. 7, 1873
April 11, 1873
Dec. 21, 1872
Aug. 4, 1873
Aug. 12, 1873
Nov. 30, 1872
July 9, 1873
Aug. 8, 1873
April 11, 1873
Aug. 4, 1873
Aug. 4, 1873
Aug. 4, 1873
Sept. 5, 1872
March 1, 1873
March 1, 1873
Aug. 16, 1873
Aug. 9, 1873
April 10, 1873
Nov. 13, 1872
June 4, 1873
March 1,1873
May 10, 1873
Oct. 14, 1872
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Proceedings of the
EXPULSIONS— CONTINUED.
Pari6h, John
Patrick, H
Plottner, C. G
Pierce, N. W
Ray, E. D
Robb, Charles W. .
Rives, H. E
Robinson, W. H...
Schweitzer, Henry
Smith, Peter
Shirley, J. A
Smith, Henry C...
126
134
•207
319
204
260
268
448
81
334
336
:;s5
Oct. 3,
May 9,
Oct. 17,
Sept. 5,
Aug. 6,
July 21,
Oct. 10,
June 15,
1872
1873
1872
1872
1873
1873
1872
1873
Short, Wm. A
Snelling, John W..
Taylor, Charles S.
Taggart, C. F
Titus, Joseph B. . .
Totten, W. H
Taylor, Robert
Tipton, J. W
May 10, 1873;
Aug. 16, 1873;
Aug. 2, 1873!
April 10, 18731
Watson, Joel P.
Woodworth, H .
Warne, Elisha..
Wilson, Wm. H.
405
541
61
170
181
331
385
617
153
319
359
366
Aug.
June
5, 1873
4, 1873
Dec. 9, 1872
Aug. 4, 1873
May 12, 1873
May 3, 1873
April 10, 1873
Aug. 5, 1873
SeDt. 16, 1872
Sept. 5, 1872
May 13, 1873
Aug. 19,1873
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o.
REINSTATEMENTS
Anno, P. S
Abel, M. B
Albin, Geo. W....
Apperson, J. W..
Andrews, John A.
Beckwith, H. W....
Bigelow, E. H
Beehtel, S. A
Blackburn, Jones J .
Barrall, Harvey
Bromdez, L. C
Berry Daniel
Barnard, John
Bullock, W.S
Beall, Frank
Barrett, D. F
Bowie, Win
Barr, Geo
Bennett, Samuel
Collins, John L
Coiner, George
Connelly, W. M
Crumpton, Samuel..
Caison, R. P
Craig, W.D
Cooley, A. B
Cramer, Irving W. . .
Clow, Lester H
Croswell, Thos
260
279
366
53]
88
159
162
17s
234
272
284
375
451
467
478
478
531
Cox, Wm. P 19
20
37
L63
194
220
252
254
337
596
607
June
Feb.
Feb.
Nov.
Jan.
2, 1873
17, 1873
6, 1873
12, 1872
10, 1873
Aug. 5,
Apr. 7,
March 18,
Feb. 8,
May 5,
April 10,
Jan. 7,
Dixon, Wm. H 59
Ditman, G. W ,103
Davis, Geo.P 280
Deul, Wilbur 398
Dick, J. W 437
Doran, Michael 474
Evving, H. J
Eckhart, Valentine..
Ellsworth, Allen
37
310
333
Oct.
Aug.
July
Mar.
May
July
May
Oct.
June
June
Dec.
Dec.
Jan.
Dec.
Sept.
Aug.
Jan.
Dec.
10,
15,
12,
11,
15,
3,
31,
1873
1873
1873
1873
1873
1873
1873
1872
1*73
1873
1873
1873
1873
1873
Ewing, Wm. R.
Fuller, Jerome B..
Fulton, W. H
Fanning, James M.
French, Or vis
Greenman, B. M..
Gillis, S. J
Griff, Alfred
Goodyear, Henry.
Grommes, H
Griswold, T.H...
Gray, Benj. W....
Gorham, Geo. R. ..
Gage, Harvey
Gibson, Henry H.
Gray, E.Riley....
Glassford, Hugh.
12, 1872
24, 1873
6, 1873
12, 1872
14, 1872
13, 1873
10, 1872
11, 1872
1, 1873
14, 1873
18, 1872
March 22, 1873
Mar. 15, 1873
16, 1872
5, 1873
9, 1873
5, 1873
Oct
Aug.
Jan.
July
Sept. 10, 1872
Jan. 24, 1873
July 21, 1873
Holmes, J. Stuart. . ,
Henkle, Benson N...
Hanson, Geo. A
Hudson, Wm. H
Hildrup, J. S
Hainan, John L
Hugglns, M. J
Hill.R.H ,.
Hogard, H. B
Hawkins, E. B
Heacox, Chas. E
Hoadley, A. S
Hart, James A
Hodder, Wm
Hoffner, Chas
Hanna, Wm. M
405
38
54
426
524
15
85
200
2( 15
277
293
294
333
351)
406
421
508
June 9, 1873
Nov. 19, 1872
May 10, 1873
Dec. 14, 1872
June 16, 1873
Sept.
Nov.
Jan.
May
June
Dec.
July
Dec,
Dec.
Nov.
July
Oct.
3 Mar.
8 July
27 [Mar.
50 Oct.
60 'July
77 Mar.
85 Nov.
85 Dec.
85 Mar.
Jacobus, Cornelius.
Jones, James A.. . .
Johnson, A. J
Kanan, M. F
Koehler, Albrtcht.
163
238
244
279
478
478
532
178
234
319
Mar
Nov.
Sept,
Aug.
May
July
Apr.
16, 1872
12, 1872
13, 1873
8, 1873
13, 1873
21, 1872
22. 1873
16, 1872
10, 1872
9, 1872
5, 1873
26, 1872
7, 18*73
5, 1873
8, 1873
7, 1872
21, 1873
8, 1873
12, 1872
10, 1872
11, 1873
13, 1873
9, 1872
17, 1872
7, 1873
15. 1873
3, 1873
19, 1873
Dec. 2, 1872
May 8, 1873
Nov. 7, 1872
8 July 5, 1873
13 [Mar. 16, 1873
OCOII
Proceedings of the
REINSTATEMENTS— CONTINUED.
Knowles, Geo. C.
Killgore, J. C
Kennedy, ('has
Kester, John W
Unkins, Jaines
Lowe, W. G
Levers, W. H
Laughlin, D. M
Lauly, E. B
Lynch, Tilnian
Leadbeater, F
Miller, John S
McCoy, Wm
Mobsman, Geo. W
Miller, John C
McMahan Wm
Martz, William A \ 284
Markham, Arcl
Mason, Parker R
Mock, Joseph B..
McKintr, J. W
Mittler, Wm. J....
McCully, David Jr
Mulloy, B
Smith, Alfred. ...
Spangler, John S..
Smith, Samuel W.
Scott, Sam'l
St. Clair, Wallace.
Slaughter, II. B....
Sale, Thoe. C. W...
Stevens, Wm. E.. .
Seacord, Wilkins. .
Sidwell, R. L
Scripps, H. H
Smith, W. N
Sims, David H
Saunders, Wm
2jJune
20 June
65 Feb.
113 Mar.
140 Apr.
244: Jan.
268
284
337
375
393
393
454
478
Talbert, Joseph M.
Turner, Giles II . . .
Treat, C. A
Taylor, I. N
Townes, R. R
Theilmann, Fritz..
Tyrrel, D
Mar.
Oct.
June
Jan.
Sept.
Jan.
Oct.
July
14, 1873
24, 1873
7, 1873
14, 1873
4, 1873
21, 1873
8, 1873
in. 1872
19. 1873
5, 1873
7, 1872
4, 1873
15, 1872
17, 1873
34 March 8
50 Dec. 16
60!Apr.
103 Mar
234
418
474
Oct.
May
Apr.
1873
1872
21, 1873
15, 1873
10, 187'2
10, 1873
19, 1873
Needham, Dan'l P
Ogden. Amos 393 Oct.
Over, Henry 393 Mar .
Palmer, E. H 84 Jan.
Pierce. Sam'l D 104 Ma v
Parkhurst, B. B 244 Sept.
Podell, Gustave 393 May
Preshaw, John M 469 Mar.
Voris, Francis M
Veara, Manuel N
Valquett, Thos. L. A .
Vogel, John
Vibert, J. G
76 Sept.
333 Dec.
393 Sept.
418 June
478 Dec.
Rohrback. Lee 15
Roberts. Dan
Nov.
Apr.
Riblet, Jacob 126!June
26, 18721
22, 1873
10, 1873'
9, 1873 i
17, 1872
3, 1873
8, 1873
11, 1872
7, 1873
5, 1873
Wheeler. David A i 15 Sept.
Waste, Chas 37 Feb.
Waite, Wm.C 381 Aug.
Willits, F. B &5i Nov.
Williams, R. II 85 Dec.
Wallace, Nelson I 149 Feb.
Wilkie. D. G ! 246 Sept.
Ward, Henry II \ 404' May
Wagner, Lewis i 406|Dec.
Weeden, C. F I 438 Aug.
Williams, E. E ! 607 Dec.
6, 1872
16, 1S72
21. 1872
7, 1873
19, 1872
16, 1872
10. 1873
5, 1873
19, 1872
10, 1872
21. 1873
5, 1872
15, 1873
14, 1872
13, 1873
18, 1S72
Young, Andrew 15 Oct . 14, 1872
REINcTATKD BY GRAND LODGE
Baxter, Emil I 54; Oct.
Barry, A j 424! Oct.
Gray, Abner S
Meaker, William C —
Pilcher, Amaaiah M..
613 Oct.
385! Oct.
i
130 Oct.
4, 1872 Sproul, Henry J 264|Oct.
7, 1873 Stephens, Charles C .. 404 Oct.
Small, A. H 411 Oct.
7,1 '3; Taylor, W. H 307 Oct.
7> 1873:;Van Doren, II. M 673;Oct.
7, 1873 Wilcox, E. B 112 Oct.
7, 1873
7. 1873
7, 1S73
7, 1873
7. 1873
7, 1873
Grand Lodge of Illinois.
CCOITl
IF.
LIST OF REPRESENTATIVES
TO AM) FROM OTHER GRAND LODOE8.
GRAND LODGE.
REPRESENTATIVE TO.
REPRESENTATIVE FROM
Alabama Daniel Sayre. James A. Hawley.
Arkansas E. H. English ! H. G. Reynolds.
California Alex. G. Abell jH. G. Reynolds.
Colorado Henry M. Teller i James A. Hawley.
Connecticut James S. Gould Dewitt C. Cregier.
Delaware \ Daniel God win
District of Columbia C. F. Stansbury Dewitt C. Creeper.
Florida D. C. Dawkins O. H. Miner.
Georeria Samuel Lawrence j W. J. A. DeLanoey.
Indiana S. D. Bayless ID. C. Cregier.
Iowa Joseph Chapman Joseph Robbins.
Kansas R. R. Rees [ Harrison Dills.
Kentucky T.J. Pickett JH. G. Reynolds.
Louisiana J. Q. A. Fellows lira A. W. Buck.
Maine Tohn H. Lynde j Daniel Wadswortb.
Maryland John ArBerry !D. A. Cashman.
Massachusetts Chas. W. Moore |
Michigan Henry Chamberlain ; D. C. Cregier.
Minnesota j A. T. C. Pierson jWm. Lavely.
Mississippi ; ID. C. Cregier.
Missouri Martin Collins IThomes J. Turner.
Nebraska Geo. H. Thurmmel Ijohn M. Palmer.
New Hampshire Horace Chase |
New Jersey Thos. J. Corson lira A. W. Buck.
New York John H. Anthon W. B. Allen.
North Carolina jD. W. Bain ! James C. Luckey .
Nova Scotia J. Schofield H. G. Reynolds.
Ohio Win. B. Thrall O. H. Miner.
Oregon B. Jennings |0. H. Miner.
Pennsylvania * Richard Vaux John M. Pearson.
Quebec G. H. Borlace ID. C. Cregier.
Rhode Island [Thomas A. Doyle [
South Carolina A. G. Mackey
Tennessee T. Frizzell !H. G. Reynolds.
Texas IPhilip C. Tucker H. G. Reynolds.
Vermont J. B. Hollenbeck Ira A. W. Buck.
Virginia \ John Dove
Washington I James Lowe.
West Virginia iThos. H. Logan
Wisconsin IL. M. Tracey Ira A. W. Buck.
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cccxxv
LIST OF LODGES.
Locations and Times of Holding Stated Meetings.
NAME OF LODGE.
Bodley
Equality
Harmony . . .
Syringfield. . .
Friendship. ..
Macon ,
Rusbville
St. Johns
Warren
Peoria
Temperance.,
Macomb
Clinton
Hancock
Cass
St. Clair
Franklin
Hiram
Piasa
Monroe
Pekin
Morning Star
Mt. Veruon. .
Oriental
Barry
Charleston. ..
Kavanaugh . ,
Monmouth. ..
Olive Branch.
Herman
Occidental . . .
Mt. Joliet....
Bloomington.
Hardin
Griggsville. ..
Temple
Caledonia
Unity
Cambridge. ..
1 Quincy
3 Equality
3 Jacksonville. .
4 Springfield
7 Dixon
8 Decatur
9 Rusbville
13 Peru
14 Shawneetown.
15 Peoria
16 Vandalia
17 Macomb
19 Petersburg
20 Carthage
23 Beard stown. . .
24 Belleville
25 Upper Alton..
26 Henderson
27 Alton
28, Waterloo
29 Pekin
30 Canton
Sl^Mt. Vernon...
33| Chicago
34 Barry
35 Charleston
36 Elizabeth
37 Monmouth... .
38jDanville
39 Quincy
40Ottawa
42 Joliet
43 Bloomington .
44 Mt. Sterling..
45 Griggsville....
40 Peoria
47 N'h Caledonia
48 St. Charles...
49 Cambridge
STATED MEETINGS.
Adams 1st and 3d Mondays.
Gallatin Sat. on or before full moon.
Morgan 1st and 3d Mondays.
Sangamon — 1st Monday.
Lee Thur. on or before full moon.
Macon Sat. on or before full moon.
Schuyler Tues. on or before full moon.
LaSalle 1st and 3d Thursdays.
Gallatin ....
Peoria
Fayette
McDonough
Menard
Hancock . . .
Cass
St. Clair
Tuesday after full moon.
Monday on or before F. M.
Monday on or before F. M.
1st Friday.
Saturday on or before F. M.
Monday on or before F. M.
1st and 3d Mondays.
1st Monday.
I Madison Sat. on or before full moon.
I Knox | Thur. on or before full moon.
i Madison Tues. on or before full moon.
Monroe.... ..
Tazewell J 1st and 3d Tuesdays.
Fulton .Tues. on or before full moon.
! Jefferson 1st Monday.
Cook 1st and 3d Fridays.
Pike Sat. on or before full moon.
Coles Tues. on or before full moou.
Jo Daviess . . 1st and 3d Fridays.
Warren 1st and 3d Saturdays.
Vermilion ... 1st and 3d Tuesdays.
Adams 2d and 4th Wednesdays.
LaSalle 1st and 3d Mondays.
Will 1st and 3d Fridays.
McLean 1st and 3d Thursdays.
Brown Sat. on or before full moon.
Pike Tues. on or before full moon.
Peoria i Last Saturday.
Pnlaski Thur. on or before full moon.
Kane 1st and 3d Mondays.
Henry ' Thursday before full moon.
CCCXXVI
Proceedings of the
LIST OF LODGES — CONTINUED.
NAME OF LODGE. NO
Carrollton.. .
Mt. Moriah..
Benevolent ..
Jackson
Reclamation
Washington.
Pittsfield....
Trio
Fraternal . . .
New Boston.
Belvidere
Lacon
St. Marks...
Benton
Euclid
Knoxville...
Acacia
Naples
Eureka
Social
Central
Chester
Rockton
Roscoe
Mt. Nebo
Prairie
Waukegan
Scott
Whitehall
Vitruvius
Metamora
Dewitt
Mitchell
Ka»kaskia
Mt. Pulaski
Havana
Fellowship
Jerusalem Temple
Metropolis
Stewart
Toulon
Perry
Samuel H. Davis.
Excelsior
Taylor
Edwardsville
Astoria
Ruckford
Magnolia
Lewistown
Winchester
Lancaster
Fayette
Versailles
Trenton
Lebanon
Jonesboro
Bureau
Robert Burns
STATED MEETINGS.
50 Carrollton Greene 1st and 3d Mondays.
51 Hillsboro I Montgomery. Thur. on or before lull moon.
52 Meredosia | Morgan Sat. on or before full moon.
53 Shelbyvitle |Shelby Wednesday before full moon.
54 Nauvoo Ha: cock Tues. on or before fuli moon.
55| Nashville Washington. . lid and 4th Wednesdays.
56 Pittstield \ Pike Sat. on or before full moon.
57j Rock Island. . .iRuck Island. 1st Thursday.
58 Monticello Piatt Sat. on or before full moon.
59, New Boston... [Mercer Sat. on or before full moon.
60 Belvidei e Boone 1st and 3d Mondays.
61 Lacon 'Marshall 2d and 4' h Mondays.
63 Woodstock ... [McHenry 1st and 3d Saturdays.
64 Benton Franklin Sat. on or before full moon.
65 Naperville IDnPage Tues. before and after F. M.
66 Knoxville Knox Saturday on or before and
J Saturday after full moon.
67 La3alle LaSalle Wed. on or before full moon.
68 Naples i Scott Sat. on or before full moon.
69 Milan i Rock Island.. Friday on or before full moon.
70 Hennepin ] Put nam 2d and 4t h Wednesdays.
71 Springfield Sangamon ... 2d Monday.
72 Chester ! Randolph 1st and 3d Saturdays.
1st and 3d Frida}8.
Tues. on or before full moon.
Sat. on or before full nu>on.
Sat. on or before full moon.
74 Rockton Winnebago
75 Roscoe , Winnebago
76 Carlinville ... Macoupin.,
77 Paris Edgar ,
78 j Waukegan Lake list and 3d Mondays.
79jCarlyle Clinton '1st Monday.
801 Whitehall.. . Greene Sat. on or before full moon.
81 Wheeling Cook Sat. on or before full moon.
Metamora. ... Woodford 1st Monday.
( Linton De Witt Friday on or before full moon.
Pinckneyville. Perry Tuesdav on or before F. M.
Kaskaskia Randolph 1st. and 3d Saturdays.
Mt. Pulaski... Logan Saturday before lull moon.
Havana Mason 1st Monday.
Marion Williamson . . Tuesday before full moon.
Aurora Kane 1st and 3d Tuesdays.
Metropolis Massac Monday on or alter full moon.
Geneseo Henry Friday on or before F. M.
Toulon Stark Sat. on or before full moon.
Perry Pike Sat. on or before full moon.
Mt. Morris Ogle 1st and 3d Mondays.
Kreeport Stephenson . . 1st and 2d Thursdays.
Washington... Tazewell Friday on or before full moon.
Edwardsville.. Madison 1st and 3d Thursdays.
Astoria Fulton Saturday before full moon.
Rockford Winnebago.. . 1st and 3d Thursday s.
Magnolia Putnam 1st and 3d Saturdays.
Lewistown.. . Fnlton Friday on or before full moon.
Winchester... Scott Saturday on or before F. M.
Peoria Friday on or before full moon.
Greene Saturday on or before F. M.
Brown Saturday on or before F. M.
Thursday on or before F M.
Tuesday on or before F. M.
Glasford . ,
Fayette...
Versailles.
109i Trenton Clinton
110 Lebanon St. Clair
111 Jonesboro Union..
1 12 Princeton Bureau.
ll^Keithsburg . . .Mercer..
Saturday on or before F. M.
2d and 4th Tuesdays.
Friday on or before full moon.
Grand Lodge of Illinois.
CCCXXVII
LIST OP LODGES — CONTINUED.
NAME OF LODGE.
Marcelline.,
Rising Sun.
LOCATION.
114 Marcelline.
115 Hainesville
Vermont 116 Vermont. . .
Elgin 117 Elgin
Waverly 1 118 Waverly . . .
Henry j 119 Henry
Mound 122 Taylorville
Oquawka 1213 Oquawka . .
Cedar 124 Morris
Greenup 125 Greenup .. .
Empire 126 Pekin
Anlioch 127,Mllburn
STATED MEETINGS.
Raleigh 128
Greenfield 129
Marion j 130'
Golconda 1131,
Mickinaw J 132
Marshall ]133
Sycamore ; 134
Lima 135
Hutsonville 13(3
Polk 137
Marengo 1 138
Gmeva ^139
Olney jl40'
Garden City 141 1
Ames 142
Richmond |143i
Raleigh
Greenfield
Salem
Golconda ....
Mackinaw ...
Marshall
Sycamore.. .
Lima
Hutsonville. .
McLeansboro
Marengo
GeDeva
Olney
Chicago
Sheffield
Richmond .. .
Fulton
Kane
Morgan
Marshall
Christian
Henderson
Grundy
Cumberland..
Tazewell
Lake
DeKal h '144 DeKalb
A W. Rawson 145 Peeatonica ..
Lee Centre 1 146 Lee Centre..
Clayton .147 Clayton
Bloomfield 148 Bloomfield .
Efliugnam 149 Effingham ..
Vienna 1 150 Vienna
Bunker Hill 151 Bunker Hill.
Fidelity 152 Fidelity
Clay 1 153, Ashley
Saline
Greene
Marion
Pope
Tazewell.
Clark
DeKalb ..
Adams
Crawford.
Hamilton
McHenry.
Kane
Richland..
Cook
Bureau
McHenry.
Russell 154 Georgetown.
Alpha 155 Galesburg. . .
Dela van 156 Delavan
DeKalb
Winnebago..
Lee
Adams
Edgar
Etfingham...
Johnson
Macoupin.. .
Jersey
Washington.
Vermilion...
Knox
Tazewell
Urbana 1 157 Urbana . . .
McHenry 158 McHenry
jChampaign.
j McHenry...
Wethersfield.. ... 159 Kewanee.
Waubansia 160 Chicago..
Virden 161 Virden . . .
Hope 162 Sparta . . .
Westfield 163, Westfield
Henry
Cook
Macoupin.
Randolph.
Clark
Edward Dobbins. 164 Lawrenceville.
Atlanta 165 Atlanta
Star in the East.. 166 Rockford
Milford 168 Milford
Nunda |l69,Nunda
Lawrence.. .
Logan
Winnebago..
Iroquois
McHenry....
Saturday on or before F. M.
Saturday on or before and 2d
Saturday after full moon.
Saturday after full moon.
2d and 4th Fridays.
1st and 3d Fridays.
2d and 4th Tuesdays.
1st Saturday and 3d Tuesday.
Tuesday on or before F. M.
1st, 3d and 5th Tuesdays.
Thursday on or before F. M.
Thursday on or before and two
weeks after full moon.
Saturday on or before F. M.
Friday on or before full moon.
1st and 3d Wednesdays.
Saturday on or after F. M.
Saturday on or before F. M.
Wednesday on or before F. M.
i Friday on or before F. M.
Wednesday on or before F. M.
ISat. onorbef. the new and F.M.
Saturday on or before F. M.
1st and 3d Wednesdays.
1st and 3d Wednesdays.
Saturday on or before F. M.
Every Wednesday evening.
1st Thursday.
Saturday on or before, and 2d
i Saturday after full moon.
1st and 3d Wednesdays.
2d and 4th Mondays.
Friday before full moon.
1st and 3d Mondays.
| Saturday on or before F. M.
1st and 3d Fridays.
Tuesday on or before F M.
Thursday on or before F. M.
'Wednesday on or before F. M.
Monday before and two weeks
after full moon.
1st and 3d Tuesdays.
1st and 3d Fridays.
Wednesday on or before, and
two weeks after F. M.
1st Saturday.
Saturday on or before, and 2d
Saturday after full moon.
[1st and 3d Tuesdays.
j Every Monday evening.
Wednesday on or before F. M.
Saturday on or before F. M.
Thursday on or before, and
two weeks after full moon.
2d and 4th Saturdays.
1st and 3d Mondays.
1st and 3d Fridays.
Thursday before full moon.
2d and 4th Saturdays.
OCCXXVIII
Proceedings of the
LIST OK LODGES — CONTINUED.
NAME OF LODGE.
NO
LOCATION.
COUNTIES.
STATED MEETINGS.
170
Stephenson...
Monday on or before F. M.
Girard
171
Monday on or before, and two
weeks after full moon.
Wayne
17°
Waynesville.. .
Cherry Valley.
DeWitt . . .
Saturday on or before F. M.
2d and 4th Fridays.
Cherry Valley
173
Stephenson.. .
174
Lena
Stephenson.. .
Wednesday on or before F. M.
Matteson
175
Joliet
Will
1st and 3d Tuesdays.
Meudota
176
177
Mendota
LaSalle
Macoupin
2d and 4th Tuesdays.
Tuesday on or before F. M.
Illinois Central.. .
178
Lee
1st and 3d Mondays.
Wabash
179
Coles
Friday on or before full moon
iso
Moweaqua
Shelby
Saturday on or before F. M.
Moultrie
181
182
Moultrie
Monday on or before F. M.
1st and 3d Thursdays.
Meridian
18?,
LaSalle
Wed. bef. and 2 weeks af. F. M.
185
Abingdon
Knox
Every alternate Tuesday.
Mystic Tie
187
Polo
Ogle
Every Thursday.
Tuesday on or before and 2d
Tuesday after full moon.
188
Mt. Carroll . . .
Carroll
Fulton City
189
Fulton City...
Whiteside . . .
Monday on or before full moon.
Dundee
190
192
Dundee
Farmington.. .
Kane
Fulton...
1st and 3d Fridays.
Friday on or before and 2d
Farmington
Friday after full moon.
Herrick
193
194
195
Pontoosuc
Freedom
Saturday on or before F. M.
Saturday on or before F. M.
Saturdav before F. M.
Freedom
196
Clay
1st and 3d Thursdays.
King Solomon's. .
197
Greene
Saturday on or before F. M.
Grand view
198
Tuesday on or before F. M.
Homer
199
Homer
Champaigu.. .
Tuesday on or before F. M.
•>oo
White
Mon. bef. and 2 weeks at. F. M.
Centralia
201
1st and 3d Fridays
203
Williamsville..
Sangamon . ..
Saturday after full moon.
204
Flora
Clay
Wednesday on or before F. M.
Corinthian
205
East Paw Paw
DeKalb. ......
Saturday on or before and two
weeks after full moon.
200
Fairfield
2d and 4th Saturdays.
207
Tamaroa
Friday on or before F. M.
20S
Wilmington.. .
Will
2d and 4th Wednesdays
Wm. B. Warren . .
209
Chicago
2d and 4th Saturdays.
Lincoln
210
211
Chicago
Cook
1st and second Tuesdays.
Cleveland
1st and 3d Thursdays.
21?!
Macoupin
Saturday on or before F. M.
214
Saturday on or before F. M.
(iillespie
Gillespie
Macoupin . . .
Friday on or before full moon.
210
Newton
Saturday on or before F. M.
217
Effingham
Wed. on or before full moon.
218
219
New Salem
Friday on or before full moon.
Mahomet
220
Champaign.. .
1st and 3d Mondays.
221
Srturday on or bef. full moon.
Geo. Washington.
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Chillicothe
Monday on or before full moon
and two weeks after.
223
Edgington
Hock Island..
Wednesday before full moon.
l'ana
220
Pana
Thursday on or beiore F. M.
and every subsequent 2w'ks.
Colmnhus
227
Coatsburg
Adams
Monday on or before full moon.
Lovington
228
Lovington
Moultrie
Satnrday on or before F. M.
Manchester
239
Manchester .. .
Scott
Tnesday on or before F. M.
Grand Lodge of Illinois.
cooxxix
LIST OF LODGES — CONTINUED.
NAME OF LODGE.
NO LOCATION.
COUNTIES.
Bureau
Massac i
McDonougli..
Montgomery..
Uexander.
Hancock. .
STATED MEETINGS.
Blandinsville
DuQuoin
230 New Haven...
231! Wyanet
232lPellonia
233 Blandinsville. .
235 Dallas City
236 Litchfield .
Saturday on or before F. M.
2d and 4th Saturdays.
Saturday on or before F. M.
1st and 3d Tuesdays.
Thursdav on or before F. M.
Dallas City
Saturday on or before F. M.
1st and 3d Wednesdays.
3d and 4th Mondays.
Saturday on or before F. M.
Black Hawk
238 Hamilton. . .
Mt. Carmel 339
Western Star 240 Champaign
Shekinah 241 Carbondule.
Champaign..
Jackson
Galva 243
Horicon 244
Greenville ,245,
El Paso ....
Rob Morris
Golden Gate
Hibbard
Robinson . . .
Heyworth
Galva
Rochelle ..
Greenville.
E! Paso...
Minonk ...
Aledo 252
Avon Harmony... 253
Aurora 254
Donnelson 255
Algoij quin 25(3
Warsaw 257
Chemung 258
New Berlin 359
Mattoon 260
Amon 261
Channahon 262
Illinois 263
Franklin Grove.. 264
Vermilion 265
Kingston 266
La Prairie 267
Paris 268
Wheaton 269
Levi Lusk 270
Blaney 271
Carmi 272
Prairie City. . .
Brighton
Robinson
Hey worth
Aledo
Avon
Aurora
Donnelson . . .
Algonquin
Warsaw
Chemung
New Berlin. .
Mattoon
Dewitt
Channahon . . .
Peoria
Franklin Gr've
Indianola
Fairweather . .
La Prairie
Paris
Wheaton
Arlington
Chicago
Carmi
274
216
Miners
Byron
Milton
Elizabeth .. .
Accordia
•loDaviess. . .
Neoga
Kansas
Brooklyn . . .
Meteor 2s:;
Alton 284
Catlin 285
Plymouth 286
DeSoto 287
•:;s
279
280
2s2
Galena
Byron
Milton
Elizabethtowu
Chicago
Warren
Neoga
Kansas
Malugin's G've
Sandwich
Alton
Catlin
Plymouth
DeSoto
Henry
Ogle
Bond
Woodford.. .
Woodford . . .
McDonough.
Macoupin.. .
Crawford
McLean
Mercer
Fulton
Kane
Montgomery
McHenry
Hancock
McHenry
Sangamon.. .
Coles
DeWitt
Will
Peoria
Lee
Vermilion . . .
Adams
Adams
Edgar
DuPage
Bureau
Cook
White
JoDaviess. . .
Ogle
Pike
Hardin
Cook
Jo Daviess. .
Cumberlaud.
Edgar
Lee
DcKalb
Madison
Vermillion. .
Hancock
Jackson
Tuesday on or before F. M.
and two weeks thereafter.
2d and 4th Mondays.
Friday on or before new and
i full moon.
1st and 3d Tuesdays.
1st and 3d Tuesdays.
Wednesday on or before F. M.
! Thursday on or before F. M.
Wednesday on or before lull
moon and two weeks alter.
1st and 3d Tuesdays.
Saturday before F. M.
Saturday on or before F. M .
Saturday on or before F. M.
Tuesday before full moon.
1st Monday.
2d and 4th Wednesdays.
Tuesday before full moon.
list and 3d Wednesdays.
Saturday on or before F. M.
1st and 3d Wednesdays.
Saturday on or before F. M.
1st and 3d Wednesdays.
Tuesday before full moon.
! 1st and 3d Tuesdays.
2d Tuesday.
!2d and 4th Saturdays.
list and 3d Saturdays.
Saturday on or beiore F. M.
Saturday on or before F. M.
Thursday on or before F. M.
1st and 3d Wednesdays.
Wednesday on or before F. M.
2d and 4th Wednesdays.
Tues. on or before F. M. anil
two weeks thereafter.
1st and 3d Fridays.
Thursday on or before F. M.
Friday on or before F. M.
Friday on or after full moon.
2d and 4th Fridays.
1st and 3d Saturdays.
Tuesday on or before F. M.
Wednesday on or before F. M.
Wednesday on or before F. M.
2d and 4th Fridays.
2d Tuesday.
2d and 4th Saturdays.
Saturday before F. M.
Saturday on or before F. M.
ccoxxx
Proceedings of the
LIST OF L0DG38 — CONTINUED.
NAME OF LODGE.
Genoa 288 Genoa
Cache 290 Mound City..
STATED MEETINGS.
Wataga
Chenoa
291 Wataga.
292 Chenoa
Prophetstown 293
Pontiac 294:
Dills 395
Quiney |296
Benjamin 297
Waconda 298
Mechanicsburg. . . 299
Hanover 300
Cortland 301
Durand 302
Raven 303
Cement 304
Onarga 305
W. C. Hobbs 306
T. J. Pickett 307
Ashlar 308
Harvard 309
Dearborn 310
Kilwinning 311
Ionic 312
York 313
Palatine 314
Prophetstown
Pontiac
Hickory Ridge
Quiney
Camp Point . .
Waconda
Mechanicsburg
Hanover
Cortland
Durand
Oswego
Utica
Onarga
Eureka
Bushnell
Chicago
Harvard
Chicago
Chicago
Decatur
York
Palatine
Erwin 315 Alton
Abraham Jonas. . 316 Oakalla ,
New Liberty. |317|New Liberty. .
J. L. Anderson. . . 318'Augusta
Doric 319'Moline
Malta 320 Malta
Dunlap 321 Morrison
Windsor 322 Windsor
Orient 323
Harrisburg 325
Industry 327
Grafton 328
Altona 330
Mt. Erie |331
Tuscola 332
Tyrian 333
Sumner 334
Schiller 385
New Columbia. . . 330
Oneida 337
Grand Detour 338
Saline 339
Kedron 340
Full Moon 341
Summertifcld 342
Wenona 344
Millt-dgeville 345
N. D. Morse 346
Sidney 347
Russellville 348
Lisbon
Harrisburg ... .
Industry
Huntley Grove
Altona
Mt. Erie.
Tuscola.
Springfield. ..
Sumner
Peoria
New Columbia
Oneida
Grand Detour.
Goreville
Mt. Auburn. ..
Grafton
Snmmerfield ..
Wenona
Milledgeville. .
Concord
Sidney
Russellville... .
DeKalb ...... Wednesday before F. M.
Pulaski Wednesday on or before F. M.
Knox 1st and 3d Wednesdays.
McLean Wed. on or before full moon,
and two weeks alter.
Whiteside 1st and 3d Saturdays.
Livingston ... 1st and 3d Tuesdays.
Hancock Saturday on or before F. M.
Adams 1st and 3d Fridays.
Adams Every Thursday.
Lake 1st and 3d Thursdays.
Sangamon Thursday on or before F. M.
JoDaviess 1st and 3d Fridays.
DeKalb 1st and 3d Saturdays.
Winnebago.. . 1st and 3d Thursdays.
Kendall 1st and 3d Saturdays.
LaSalle Tuesday on or before F. M.
Iroquois : 1st and 3d Saturdays.
Woodford Tuesday on or before F. M.
McDonough.. Saturday on or before F. M.
Cook Every Tuesday.
McHenry 1st and 3d Mondays.
Cook Every Friday.
Cook Every Thursday.
Macon Monday on or before F. M.
Clark Tuesday before full and N. M.
Cook .Saturday on or before F. M.
and two week6 thereafter.
Madison Wednesday on or before F. M.
Iroquois l6t and 3d Mondays.
Pope Saturday on or before F. M.
Hancock Saturday on or before F. M.
Rock Island. . 1st Thursdav.
DeKalb 2d and 4th Thursdays.
Whiteside Monday on or befoie F. M.and
two weeks thereafter.
Shelby Tuesday on or before F. M. and
two weeks thereafter.
Kendall Every alternate Aionday.
Saline Saturday after full moon.
McDonough.. Saturday on or before F. M.
McHenry 1st and 3d Tuesdays.
Knox 1st and 3d Mondays.
Wayne 1st and 3d Saturdays.
Douglas 2d and 4th Thursdays.
Sangamon 3d Monday.
Lawrence Wednesday after foil moon.
Peoria Friday on or before full moon.
Massac Saturday on or before F. M.
Knox 1st and 3d Fridays.
Ogle Saturday on or before F. M.
Johnson Saturday on or before F. M.
Christian Wednesday on or before F. M.
Jersey Saturday on or beft re F. M.
St. Clair Wednesday on or beiore F. M.
Marshall 1st and 3d Tuesdays.
Carroll 1st and 3d Tuesdays.
Morgan Monday on or before F. M.
Champaign... Thu'Sday on or before F. M.
Lawrence. . . . W eduesday on or before F. M.
Grand Lodge of Illinois.
cccxxxi
LIST OP LODGES — CONTINUED.
NAME OE LODGE.
Sublette
Fairview
Tarbolton
Groveland ,
Kinderbook
Ark and Anchor
Marine
Hermitage
Orion
Blackberry.
Princeville.
Douglas.
Noble...
Horeb . .
Tonica.. .
Bement..
Areola. . .
Oxford . .
Jefferson.
Newman.
Middleton
Livingston
Galesburg
Chambersburg.
Shabbona
LOCATION.
349 Sublette
350 Fairview . . . .
351'Fairbury.. ..
352 Groveland...
353 Kinderbook..
354 Auburn
355 Marine
356 Albion
COUNTIES.
STATED MEETINGS.
358 Union j
359 Blackb'v Sta'n
369 Princeville....
361iMascoutah ]
362 Noble ..!
363 Elmwood.. . .
364
365
366
367
368
369
Tonica
Bement
Areola ,
New Windsor.
Lynchburg.. .
Newman ,
Middleton.
Dwight
Galesburg
Chambersburg
374 ShabbonasGr'e
Isaac Underhill.
Ash Grove
Archimedes
Aroma
Payson
375
376
1 377
378
379 Payson.
Liberty
M. R. Thompson.
Gill
La Moille
Waltham
Mississippi
Bridgeport
Youngstown
ElDara
Kankakee
Ashmore
Secor
Ash Grove.
Belleville.. .
Aroma
Lee Tuesday on or before F. M.
FuJton Thursday on or before F. M.
Livingston. . . Thursday on or before F. M.
Tazewell Saturday on or before F. M.
Pike ! Wednesday on or before F. M.
'■ Sangamon (Friday on or before F. M.
! Madison Saturday on or before F. M.
Edwards Saturday on or before F. M.
' and two weeks thereafter.
[McHenry i Wednesday on or before F. M.
Kane 2d and 4th Tuesdays.
Peoria Tuesday on or before F. M.
and two weck6 thereafter.
St. Clair . . 1st Saturday.
Richland Thursday on or before F. M.
Peoiia Tuesday on or before F. M.,
and two weeks thereafter.
LaSalle. ... ,. 1st and 3d Satuidays.
Piatt Saturday on or before F. M.
Douglas Tuesday on or before F. M.
Mercer Tuesday on or before F. M.
Jefferson Wednesday on or before F. M.
Douglas Saturday on or before F. M.,
and two weeks thereafter.
Wayne Tuesday before full moon, and
two weeks thereafter.
Livingston. . . 1st and 3d Mondays.
Knox 1st and 3d Thursdays.
Pike Saturday on or after full moon .
DeKalb Tuesday on or before F. M.,
and two weeks thereafter.
1st and 3d Fridays.
Woodford .
Iroquois...
St. Clair...
Kankakee.
Adams
3S0 Liberty....
381Freeport. .
382|Lynnville.
383 La Moille..
384} Waltham..
385 1 Savanna. . .
386
387
388
3S9
390
Tolono
Oconee
Blair
Jerseyville
H. G.Reynolds.
Muddy Point..
Shiloh
Kinmundy
Buda
Pacific
Odell
43*
391
392
3<>o
394
395
396
397
39S
Bridgeport . . .
Youngstown.
El Dara
Kankakee
Ashmore.
Adams
Stephenson..
Morgan
Bureau
LaSalle
Carroll
Lawrence . . .
Warren
Pike
Kankakee ...
Coles
Tolono
Oconee
Chicago
Jerseyville..
Milo
Etna
Troy Grove.
Kinmundy. .
399 Buda
400! Knox ville ..
401 1 Odell
Champaign
Shelby ....
Cook
Jersey ,
Bureau
Coles
1st and 3d Thursdays.
Saturday on or before F. M.
Tuesday on or before full moon,
and two weeks thereafter.
Thursday on or before F. M.
Tuesday on or before F. M.
Tuesday on or before F. M.
Friday on or before full moon.
Monday on or after full moon.
Every Thursday.
1st and 3d Saturdays.
1st and 3d Saturdays.
Tuesday on or before F. M.
1st and 3d Tuesdays.
Monday on or before F. M.,
and two weeks thereafter.
1st and 3d Tuesdays.
Wednesday on or before F. M.
Every Thursday.
Monday on or before F. M.
Wednesday on or before F. M.
Tuesday on or before F. M.
LaSalle [Thursday on or before F. M.
Marion j 1st and 3d Tuesdavs.
Bureau 2d and 4th Tuesdays.
Knox 1st and 3d Thursdays.
Livingston ... 2d and 4th Saturdays.
CCCXXXII
Proceedings of the
LIST OP LODGES — CONTINUED.
NAME OF LODGE.
NO
'location.
COUNTY.
STATED MEETINGS.
402
Kingston ... .
DeKalb
Thursday on or before F. M.
Mason City
40:; .Mason City...
Mason
1st and 3d Tuesdays.
4iU Batavia ...
405 Ramsey
1st and 3d Thursdays.
Tuesday on or before full moon.
Fayette
406'Bethalto
St. Clair
Monday on or after full moon.
407 Blue Grass
Vermilion . ..
Saturday on or before F. M.
408! Vermilion
Edgar
Saturday on or before F. M.
Thos. J. Turner..
Cook
Every Thursday.
1st and 3d Tuesdays.
Every Wednesday.
Mithra
4101 Chicago
411 Chicago
Hesperia
Cook
Bollen
412 ' Spring Hill....
"Whiteside
Friday after full moon.
413,Forreston
Ogle
1st and 3d Fridays.
Evening Star
Stephenson . .
let and 3d Fridays.
Lawn Ridge
415
Lawn Ridge . .
Wednesday on or before F. M.
Paxton
416
Ford
2d and 4th Tuesdays.
Saturday on or after F. M. and
Marseilles
417
Marseilles ....
LaSalle
two weeks thereafter.
Freeburg
41S|Freeburg
419 Reynoldsburg.
St. Clair
Reynoldsburg
Wednesday on or before F. M.
420
421
Oregon
Washburn
Ogle . .
Wednesday on or before F. M.
Saturday on or before F. M.
Washburn
Woodford ....
Landmark
422
Chicago
Cook
Every Tuesday.
423
Carroll
1st and 3d Tuesdays.
Exeter
424 Exeter
425 Kaneville
Scott
Kane
Thursday on or before F. M.
1st and 3d Tuesdays.
Kaneville
Scott ville
426 Scottville
Macoupin
Saturday on or after F. M.
Red Bud
427 Red Bud
Randolph
No return.
Sunbeam
428 Piano
Kendall
1st and 3d Mondays.
Chebanse
429, Chebanse
Iroquois
Wednesday on or before F. M.,
and two week6 thereafter.
430 1 Mound Station
Brown
Saturday on or before F. M.
431 Harristown .
Saturday before full moon.
Murray ville
432, Murray ville . .
Thursday on or before F. M.
Annawan
433! Annawan
Friday on or before F. M.
434 Makanda
Thursday before full moon.
435 Neponset
2d and 4th Wednesdays.
Philo
436 Port Byron...
Rock Island. .
Thursday on or before F. M.
437 Chicago
438 'Chicago
Cook
1st and 3d Tuesdays.
H. W. Bigelow. . .
Cook
1st, 2d, 3d and 4th Wed's.
Luce ....
1st and 3d Thursdays.
Camargo
440 Camargo
Wed. on or before full moon.
441 Sparland .
Marshall
1st and 3d Wed's.
442 Casey
Clark
Sat. on or before F. M.
Hampshire
443 Hampshire . ..
Kane
1st and 3d Tuesdays.
Cave-in-Rock
444 Cave-in-Rock.
Hardin
Sat. on or before full moon.
445 Chesterfield . .
Macoupin
Monday on or before F. M.
Watseka
446 Watseka
Iroquois
1st and 3d Wed's.
447|Lawrenceville.
Lawrence . . .
Friday before full moon.
Yates City
448, Yates City....
Thursday before full moon and
two weeks thereafter.
449
450
Mendon
Loami
Sangamon . . .
Wed. on or before full moon.
Bromwell
451
Assumption . .
Christian i
Saturday on or after full moon.
452
Richview
Washington .
1st and 3d Mondays.
New Hartford
453
New Hartford.
Pike
Friday on or before full moon.
454
Maroa
Irving
Macon |
Montgomery.
Tues. on or before full moon.
Tues. on or before full moon.
Nokomis
456
Montgomery .
Wed. on or before full moon.
457
Wednesday on or before F. M.
Friday after full moon.
458
Crab Orchard.
Williamson . .
Grand Lodge of Illinois.
OCCXXXIII
LIST OP LODGES — CONTINUED.
NAME OF LODGE.
Butler
Jeffersonville
Plaiuview . ..
Tremont
Palmyra
Denver
Huntsville. . .
Cobden
LOCATION.
459 Butler .... . .
460|.Jeffersonville.
461 Plaiuview
462: Tremont
South Macon 467
Cheney's Grove... 468
McLean 469
Rantoul 470
Kendall 471
Amity 472
Gordon 473
Columbia 474
Walsh ville 475
Manito 476
New Rutland 477
Pleiades 478
Wyoming 479
Logan 480
Momence 481
Lexington 482
Palmyra..
Denver . .
Huntsvilk
Cobden ...
Montgomery,
Wayne
Macoupin
Tazewell
Macoupin
Haucock
Schuyler
Union
Belle City
Edgewood
Oskaloosa
Bowen
Andrew Jackson.
Clay City
Cooper
Shannon
Martin
Liberty ville
Tower Hill
Bath
Stone Fort
Tennessee
Alma
Murphysboro
Mt. Zion
Saint Paul
Stark
Woodhull
Odin
East St. Louis
Meridian Sun
O. H. Miner
Manteno
Home
Parkersburg
J. D. Moody
Clintonville
Wade Barney
Cold Spring
Bradford
Dement
Andalusia
Macon
Saybrook
McLean
Rantoul
Yorkville
Turner
Pocahontas . .
Columbia
Walsh ville
Manito
New Rutland,
Chicago
Wyoming
Lincoln ,
Momence
Lexington
Belle Prairie.
Edgewood
Oskaloosa
Bowensburg. .
Corinth
488 j Clay City
489| Willow Hill...
490, Shannon
491 Dunleith
492 Liberty ville...
4931 Tower Hill....
494 Bath
495 Stone Fort
496; Tennessee
497 Steele Mills...
498 Murphysboro.
499 Mt. Zion
500 ! Springfield...
501!LaFayette
502 1 Woodhull
503 Odin
504JEast St. Louis.
505 ; White Rock ..
506|Iroquois
5071 Manteno
508! Chicago
509J Parkersburg...
510 Iuka
Clintonville....
Bloomington..
Cold Spring...
Bradford
Creston
Andalusia
Macon
McLean
McLean
Champaign
Kendall
DuPage ,
Bond
Monroe
Montgomery ,
Mason
LaSalle
Cook
Stark
Logan
Kankakee
McLean
Hamilton . . .
Effingham . .
Clay
Hancock
Williamson .
Clay
Jasper
Carroll
JoDaviess . .
Lake
Shelby
Mason
Saline
McDonough
Randolph . .
Jackson
Macon
Sangamon . .
Stark
Henry ,
Marion ,
St. Clair....
Ogle
Iroquois
Kankakee ...
Cook ,
Richland
Marion
Kane
McLean
Shelby
Stark
Ogle
Rock Island.
STATED MEETINGS.
1st and 3d Tuesdays.
Wed. on or before full moon.
Tuesday before full moon.
Monday on or bef. full moon.
Sat. on or before full moon.
Sat. on or before full moon.
Mon. on or before full moon.
Friday on or before full moon
1 and two weeks thereafter.
Tues. on or before full moon.
Sat. on or before full moon.
2d and 4th Saturdays.
Saturday on after full moon.
2d and 4th Thursdays.
1st and 3d Saturdays.
Friday on or before full moon.
1st and 3d Saturdays.
Thur. on or before full moon.
1st and 3d Wednesdays.
2d and 4th Wednesdays.
1st and 3d Thursdays.
Wed. on or before full moon.
2d Tuesday.
1st and 3d Saturdays.
Thur. on or before full moon
and two weeks thereafter.
Saturday on or after full moon.
Sat. on or before full moon.
Tuesday before full moon.
Friday on or before full moon.
Saturday on or after full moon.
Tuesday on or before full moon.
Sat. on or before full moon.
1st and 3d Mondays.
1st and 3d Saturdays.
2d and 4th Saturdays.
Tues. on or before full moon.
1st Saturday.
Sat. on or belore full moon.
Sat. on or before full moon.
Sat. on or after full moon.
Monday on or before full moon.
Friday on or before full moon.
Second Tuesday.
Sat. on or before full moon.
Friday on or before full moon.
1st and 3d Tuesdays.
1st and 3d Thursdays.
Sat. on or before full moon.
1st and 3d Saturdays.
2d and 4th Thursdays.
Every Friday.
Sat. on or after full moon.
Friday on or before full moon.
1st and 3d Wednesdays.
2d and 4th Tuesdays."
Thur. on or before full moon.
Thur. on or before full moon.
1st Monday.
Tuesday before full moon.
OOOXXXIV
Proceedings of the
LIST OF LODGES — CONTINUED.
NAME OF LODGE. NG
Litchfield
Abraham Lincoln.
Koseville
Anna
Illiopolis
Monitor
Chatham
Evans
Delia
Covenant
llossville
Minooka
Adams
Maquon
Ashton
517Litchfield
518|Young Amer'a
519iRoseville
520 Anna
521 1 Illiopolis
522 Elgin
523 Chatham
524 Evanston
525 Elliotstown....
52ti Chicago
527jRo8svil)e
528 Minooka
529 Stone's Prairie
530 Maquon
531 Ashton
STATED MEETINGS.
Montgomery. 2d and 4th Thursdays.
Warren 2d and 4th Tuesdays.
Warren
Union
Sangomon .
Kane
Sangamon .
Cook
Effingham .
Cook
Vermilion .
Grundy
Adams
Knox
Lee
Seneca 532 Seneca
Freemanton 533 Altamont .
Cuba 534 Cuba.
Sherman
Plainfield . . .
J. R. Gorin...
Lockport ...
Chatsworth.
Harlem
Sigel
Towonda
Cordova
Virginia
Elkhart
Nilwood
Valley
Apple River.
Newark
Sharon
Darwin
Ancona
Kyle
Plum River.
Humboldt . .
Dawson
Lessing
Leland
Thomson
Madison
Trinity
Villa Ridge.
535 Swedona. ...
536 Plainfield ...
537 Sodorus
538 Lockport
539 1 Chatsworth.
540 .Harlem
541 Sigel
542 Towonda. .. .
543 Cordova
544 [Virginia
545'-
546
547
548
549
550
55 j
Elkhart
Nilwood
Coal Valley...
Apple River. . .
Newark
Tiskilwa
Darwin
552 Ancona
553; Macomb
554' Plum River. . .
555 Ottawa
556 i Dawson
557 1 Chicago
558 j Leland
559 Thomson
560 New Douglas.
561; Monmouth
562 Villa Ridge...
Hamilton 563 Otter Creek . . .
564 Winslow
565 Pleasant Hill.
566 Albany
567 Frankfort ....
568 Cairo
569 Time
570 Jacksonville . .
572|Bardolph ....
573 Gardner
574! Ludlow
Winslow
Pleasant Hill
Albany
Frankfort
Delta ,
Time
Jacksonville
Bardolph
Gardner
Pera ,
Capron 575 Capron .
O'Fallon '576 O'Fallon
LaSalle
Effiingham . .
Fulton
Mercer
Will
Champaign . .
Will
Livingston. . .
Cook
Shelby
McLean
Rock Island.
Cass
Logan
Macoupin
Rock Island.
JoDaviess
Kendall
Bureau
Clark
Livingston . . .
McDonough..
JoDaviess
LaSalle
Sangamon . . .
Cook
1st and 3d Fridays.
Wed. on or before full moon.
1st and 3d Saturdays.
1st and 3d Thursdays.
Sat. on or before full moon.
1st and 3d Mondays.
Sat. on or before full moon.
1st and 3d Fridays.
1st and 3d Saturdays.
Every alternate Wednesday.
Thursday on or before F. M.
l6t and 3d Fridays.
Saturday after full moon, and
every 2d Sat. following.
1st and 3d Saturdays.
Saturday on or after full moon.
Monday on or before full moon.
Wednesday before full moon.
1st and 3d Tuesdays.
Saturday before full moon.
1st and 3d Thursdays.
1st aud 3d Fridays.
2d and 4th Tuesdays.
Wednesday on or before F. M.
Friday on or before full moon.
Friday on or before full moon.
1st and 3d Saturdays.
Saturday on or before F. M.
Saturday on or before F. M.
Friday on or before full moon.
1st and 3d Fridays.
2d and 4th Tuesdays.
1st and 3d Fridays.
1st and 3d Saturdays.
1st and 3d Saturdays.
3d Friday.
Thursday on or before F. M.
2d aud 4th Fridays.
Saturday on or before F. M.
1st and 3d Tuesdays.
LaSalle '1st and 3d Wednesdays.
Carroll j Tuesday on or before F. M.
Madison Friday on or before full moon.
Warren 2d and 4th Thursdays.
Pulaski [Thursday on or before F. M.
Jersey Saturday after full moon.
Stephenson . First Monday.
Pike Saturday before full moon.
Whiteside Saturday on or before F. M.
Franklin Saturday on or before F. M.
Alexander . . . 1st and 3d Thursdays.
Pike Thursday on or before F. M.
Morgan 1st and 3d Thursdays.
McDonough . Tuesday on or before full moon.
Grundy 2d aud 4th Saturdays.
Champaign . . 1st and 3d Saturdays.
Boone 2d and 4th Wednesdays.
St. Clair Wednesday on or before F. M.
Grand Lodge of Illinois.
cccxxxv
LIST OF LODGES — CONTINUED.
NAME OF LODGE. NO
Viola
Prairie City.
Elbridge..". .
Hazel Dell.
577jViola
578 Majority Point
579 El bridge
580 Hazel Dell....
Dongola 5S1 Dongola
Shirley 582 Shirley
Highland 583 Highland
Vesper 584 Galesburg ....
Fisher 585 Grove City
Tazewell 1 586 Delavan . .
Princeton 587 Princeton
Troy ]588Troy
El wood 1 589 Milton Station
Fairmount '590 Fairmount
Gilman J591 Gilman
Fieldon l592;Fieldon
Mercer
Cumberland
Edgar
Cumberland.
Lodi 594
Miles Hart [595
National 596
Lostant 1597
Dorchester 598
Fowler 599
Cerro Gordo !600
Laclede 601
Watson '602
Clark 1603
Hebron .604
Allen 605
Wapella ;606
Streator ;607
Piper 608
Sheldon 609
Union Park 610
Lincoln Park 611
Rock River '612
Patoka 6131
Forrest |614
Anchor 615
Wadley 616
Milan i617
Basco |618
Berwick i619
New Hope 620
Venice 1621
Hopedale 622
Locust 623
Dubois 624
Melrose .
Union
Mosaic
Old Time
Tuscan
Norton
Ridge Farm...
E. F. W. Ellis.
Lodi
Paradise
Chicago ....
Lostant
Dorchester. .
Fowler
Cerro Gordo
LaClede ....
Watson
Martinsville
Hebron
Stanford
Wapella ....
Streator
Piper City..
Sheldon ....
Chicago ....
Chicago ....
Sterling ....
Patoka
Forrest
Mason City.
Franklin
Milan
Basco
Berwick
Livingston . .
Venice
Hopedale
Owaneco
Dubois
Union ....
McLean . .
Madison .
Knox
Christian .
Tazewell. .
Bureau . . .
Madison. .
Coles
Vermilion
Iroquois
Jersey . . .
Kane
Coles
Cook
LaSalle
Macoupin.. .
Adams
Piatt
Fayette
Effingham . .
Clark
McHenry . . .
McLean
DeWitt ....
STATED MEETINGS.
625 Melrose
627 Lick Creek...
628 Hudson
629 Havana
630 Griswold....
631 Caberey
632 Ridge Farm.
633 Rockford
Thursday on or before F. M.
Saturday on or before F. M.
Saturday on or before F. M.
Saturday on or before F. M.
and two weeks thereafter.
Thursday before full moon.
3d Saturday.
Thursday before full moon.
2d and 4th Wednesdays.
Tuesday on or before F. M.
1st and 3d Mondays.
1st and 3d Tuesdays.
2d and 4th Wednesdays.
Friday on or before full moon
and two weeks thereafter.
2d and 4th Thursdays.
2d and 4th Saturdays.
Saturday on or before full
moon.
2d and 4th Wednesdays.
Wed. on or before full moon.
Every Tuesday.
2d and 4th Saturdays.
Wed. on or before full moon.
Sat. on or before full moon.
Friday on or before full moon.
Thur. on or before full moon.
1st and 3d Saturdays.
Sat. on or before new and F. M.
1st and 3d Wednesdays.
Sat. on or before full moon.
Sat. on or hefore full moon.
LaSalle list and 3d Wednesdays.
Ford list and 3d Thursdays.
Iroquois 1st and 3d Tuesdays.
Cook . Every Saturday.
Cook 1st and 3d Fridays.
Whiteside 1st Friday.
Marion list and 3d Mondays.
Livingston ..|lstand3d Mondays.
Mason 2d and 4th Tuesdays.
Morgan j Wed. on or before full moon.
MeDonough.. I Sat. on or before full moon.
Hancock jSat on or before full moon.
Warren 2d and 4th Thursdays.
Clark Sat. on or before full moon.
Madison 1st and 3d Saturdays.
Tazewell j 1st Thursday.
Christian Sat. on or before full moon.
Washington . Thursday on or before F. M.
and two weeks thereafter.
Clark Thursday on or before new and
F. M.
Union Saturday after full moon.
McLean Friday on or before full moon.
Mason 1st and 3d Wednesdays.
Hamilton Thurs. on or before full moon.
Kankakee Sat. on or before full moon.
Vermilion i2d and 4th Saturdays.
Wiunebago... 2d and 4th Thursdays.
COCXXXVI
Proceedings of the
LIST OF LODGES — CONTINUED.
NAME OF LODUE.
NO
c,:;i
LOCATION.
COUNTY.
STATED MEETINGS.
Wed. on or before F. M., and
every 2d Wed. thereafter.
Rochester
685
Sangamon... .
Wed. on or before lull moon.
636
Will
2d and 4th Saturdays.
637
1st and 3d Thursdays.
Fortitude
638
Henderson ...
1st and 3d Saturdays.
639
Chicago
Cook
1st and 3d Mondays.
MO
Whiteside
2d and 4th Tuesdays.
641
Tazewell
Saturday on or before F. M.
642
Chicago
Cook
Every Thursday.
D. C. Cregier
643
Cook
2d and 4th Wednesdays.
644
Oblong City...
Crawford
645
1st and 3d Thursdays.
Somonauk
646
Somonauk
DeKalb
1st and 3d Mondays.
647
C.4S
Edinburg
Thursday on or before F. M.
Saturday on or before F. M.
649
1st and 3d Thursdays.
650
Washington...
1st and 3d Saturdays.
Centre Star
651
Mackville
Piatt
Monday on or before F. M.
652
Mulkeytown..
Saturday on or after F. M.
Greenview
i ','<: ;
Greenview
Tuesday on or before F. M.
Woodford
654
El Paso
Woodford
1st Monday.
Yorktown
4:.:»
2d and 4th Saturdays.
656
Bloomint;ton..
McLean
2d and 4th Fridays.
657
Grand Tower..
Thursdav on or before F. M.
658
Rock Island...
Rock Island...
1st Fridav.
Lambert
659
1st and 3d Tuesdays.
Grand Chain
660
Grand Chain. .
Monday on or before F. M.
661
662
Potosi
Hyde Hark. ..
Sat. on or before full moon.
South Park
Every Saturday.
663
G64
665
Kingston Mine
Winterrowd...
Greenland
Effingham
Fayette
Tues. on or before F. M.
Sat. on or after full moon.
Friday on or before full moon.
666
Crawford
667
668
Erie
Whiteside....
White
Sat. on or before full moon.
Burnt Prairie
Burnt Prairie .
1st and 3d Saturdays.
669
Chicago
Cook
1st and 3d Mondays.
670
Montgomery .
Sat. on or before full moon.
671
672
Eddyville
Pope
1st and 3d Saturdays.
Eddyville
Saturday after full moon.
673
674
Cook
2d and 4th Mondays.
2d and 4th Mondays.
675
676
Highland Park
Sangamon. .. .
Tuesday on or before F. M.
A. 0. Fay
1st and 3d Tuesdays.
677
Enheld
White
Sat. on or before F. M., and
two weeks thereafter.
Sheffield
678
679
Sheffield
Illinois City.. .
Rock Island..
Thursday on or before F. M.
Monday on or before F. M.
(MO
Green River.. .
Tuesday on or before F. M.
Morrison ville
681
Morrisonville..
Tuesday on or before F. M.,
and two weeks thereafter.
Blue Mound
682
Blue Mound.. .
Saturday on or before F. M.
683
684
Galatia
Hancock
Saturday after lull moon.
Galatia
Saturday after full moon.
685
686
Rio
Chicago
Wed. on or before full moon.
Every Tuesday evening.
687
Orangeville. . .
Stephenson.. .
1st and 3d Thursdays.
CSS
Clifton
Iroquois
2d Tuesday.
689
Galva
Hanry
2d and 4th Tuesdays.
Grand Lodge of Illinois.
cccxxxvn
LIST OF LODGES — CONTINUED.
NAME OF LODGE.
NO
LOCATION.
COUNTY.
STATED MEETINGS.
690
Englewood
Cook
Every Saturday.
691
Larkingsburg.
Raymond
Clay
Raymond
692
Montgomery.
1st and 3d Thursdays.
Herrin's Prairie. .
693
Herrins' Prai'e
Williamson.. .
Friday after full moon.
694
695
Christian
Randolph
2d Monday.
Sat. on or before full moon.
ShilohHill
Shiloh Hill....
Belle Rive
696
Belle Rive
Sat. on or before full moon.
697
Cook
Every Thursday.
Hutton
69S
Hutton
699
Rosemond
Christian
1st and 3d Mondays.
Pleasant Plains...
700
PleasantPlains
Sangamon . . .
Wed. on or before full moon.
Temple Hill
701
Temple Hill...
Pope
2d Saturday.
702
Alexandria
Fri. on or before full moon.
703
Cook
2d Monday.
704
Braid wood
Will
1st and 3d Thursdays.
Ewing
705
Ewing
Franklin
Last Saturday in each month.
706
Shelby
Wed. on or before full moon.
Circle
707
Coles
3d Wednesday.
708
Cook
Each alternate Thursday.
709
Hoopeston
Vermilion . . .
2d and 4th Saturdays.
Farmer City
710
Farmer City...
DeWitt
Mon. on or before full moon.
711
Cook
Collinsville
712
Collinsville . . .
Thur. on or before F. M.
Index. cccxxxix
INDEX.
A.
PAGE.
ACCOUNTS— Of Grand Treasurer 20
Of Grand Secretary 54
Of Grand Master 9-11
ADDRESS— Of Grand Master 7
Referred 19
Committee on 19
Report upon 46
ADVANCE LODGE— Constituted 7
AGARD, R. W. BRO— Resolution by 50
AMENDMENTS TO BY-LAWS— Adopted 29
Proposed 50, 80, 82
List of ccxvn
APPEALS AND GRIEVANCES— Report of Committee on 32, 51, 63
AUDITING COMMITTEE— Report of 30
AVERY, W. BRO— Resolution by 76
B.
BARRY A.— Petition for restoration of 35
Restored 36
BELLE RIVE LODGE— Constituted 7
BURNSIDE LODGE— Constituted 7
BURRILL. JOHN F.— Resolution by 83
Elected Grand Secretary 60
BYRON LODGE NO. 274— Jobn S. Rosier vs 34
BY-LAWS— Amended 29
Proposed Amendments to ccxvn
Proposed New Code of ccxviu
Of the Grand Lodge ecu
44*
ccoxl Index.
c.
PAGE.
CASHMAN LODGE— Constituted 7
Hall of Dedicated 15
CANADA— In relation to Grand Lodge of 16
CENTRE LODGE— Constituted 7
CHANGE OF LOCATION— Of Russellville Lodge 17
Of Freemanton Lodge No. 533 46
CHARTERS— New 17
CHARTER OAK LODGE— F. H. Stratton vs 51
CLIFTON LODGE— Constituted 7
CORNER STONES— Laid 15
CORINTHIAN HALL— Dedicated 16
CREGIER, P. G. M.— Resolution by . 5
Presentation of Jewel to 92
CONSTITUTION OF THE GRAND LODGE exevi
COMMITTEES— Appointment of 6
Credentials ) .' 6
Report of., j 37
Finance . . j 6
Report of j 76, 85, 90
To Examine Visitors 6
Petitions | 6
Report of J 45
General 6
Obituaries ) 6
Report of. j 62
Chartered Lodges | 6
Report of j 7S
Lodges U. D I 6
Report of . . . ) 27, 62
Mileage and Per Diem ) 6
Report of j 63
Masonic Correspondence / 6
Report of J" 50, i
Masonic Jurisprudence ) 6
Report of. j 82
Library 6
Appeals and Grievances | 6
Report of j" 32,51,63
Auditing | 6
Report of J 30
Restoration of Records I 6
Report of | 88
D.
DAVIS, R. W. BRO— Resolution by 53
DEATHS ccxxxvux
DECISIONS— By Grand Master 14
DEDICATIONS 15
DE LANCET, W. J . A.— Elected Junior Grand Warden 60
Index. cccxli
PAGE.
DEMENT LODGE, NO. 515— H. W. Dunning vs 54
DILLS, II ARRISON— Grand Representative of Kansas 60
Elected Grand Treasurer 60
DISCIPLINE 13
DISPENSATIONS— For New Lodges , 9
Special 10
To confer Degrees 11
For Elections, etc 12
DUNNING, HENRY W— vs. Dement Lodge 34
DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND MASTERS— Reports of cclxvi
List of cclxxxii
E.
ELECTION— Made Special Order 46
Of Grand Officers 60
ENGLE WOOD LODGE— Constituted 7
EXPULSIONS ccxci
F.
FORMS cclxix
G.
GALATI A LODGE— Constituted 7
GENERAL REGULATIONS ccxvi
GINTHER, W. BRO.— Resolution by 93
GORIN, M. W. BRO.— Resolution by 80
Offered Amendments to By-Laws, 50, 82
GRAND LECTURERS— Appointment of. 17
List of Cover.
GRAND OFFICERS— Election of 60
List of 2
Installation of 83
Appointment of 83
GRAND MASTER— Address of 7
Account of 9( 11
Election of 60
Decisions by 14
GRAND TREASURER— Account of 20
Report on account of 76
Election of 60
GRAND SECRETARY— Account of 54
Report on account of 76
Election of 60
Special Report of 20
CCOXLII
Index.
PAGE.
GRAND LODGE OF— Alabama i
Arkansas vi
British Columbia xi
California xn
Canada xxu
( olorado xxv
Connecticut xxvn
Delaware xxxi
District of Columbia xxxvi
England clxxxvii
Florida xl
(ieorgia xliii
Germany clxxxviii
Idaho xlv
Indiana l
Iowa cxc
Kansas lv
Kentucky lx
Louisiana lxi v
Maine lxxvi
Maryland lxxxv
Massachusetts lxxxvii
Michigan xcn
Minnesota xovn
Mississippi oil
M issouri cvm
Montana cxvi
Rebraska cxvm
Nevada cxxi
New Brunswick cxxvi
New Hampshire cxxtiii
New York cxxx v
North Carolina cxxxix
Nova Scotia cxli
Ohio cxliv
Oregon cxlvii
Pennsylvania CL
Quebec cliv
Rhode Islaud clvii
South Carolina clix
Tennessee clxi
Utah CLXviti
Vermont clxx
Virginia clxxiv
Washington clxxix
West Virginia clxxxii i
Wisconsin clxxxv
CRAY, ABNER S.— Restoration of 34, 36
GREEN, WM. G— Recommendation for restoration of 52
Restored 53
Index. oooxlii]
H.
PAGE.
HAMBLIN, W. BRO.— Resolution by.. 87
HAMILTON, W. BRO.— Resolution by 78
HAWLEY, JAMES A.— Elected Grand Master GO
HERRINS' PRAIRIE LODGE— Constituted . . 7
HESPERIA LODGE NO. 411— A. H. Small vs 33
E. C. Hubbard vs 35
HODSON HUME— vs. Kendrick Lodge 35
HUTTON LODGE— Charter issued to 8
Constituted 8
HUBBARD, E. C— vs. Hesperia Lodge 35
I.
IDAHO— Grand Lodge of x],v
IOL A LODGE— Constituted. 7
INSTALLATION- Of Grand Officers 83
INDIANA, GRAND LODGE OF l
J.
JOHNSONVILLE LODGE 27
JOPPA LODGE 27
Chartered 28
JUNIOR GRAND WARDEN— Election of GO
K.
KANSAS, GRAND LODGE OF lv
Representative of received 60
KENTUCKY, GRAND LODGE OF Lx
KENDRICK LODGE NO. 430 -Hume Hodson vs 35
KINGSBURY, AUSTIN G.— vs. Mt. Carmel Lodge 34
KOS1ER, JOHN S.— vs. Byron Lodge 34
L.
LAWS AND REGULATIONS IS
LEBKICKER, SAMUEL — Recommendation for restoration of 52
Restored 53
LECTURERS, GRAND— Appointed 17
List of Coveh.
LOCATION CHANGED— Russellville Lodge 17
Freeman ton Lodge 02
LONG, W. BRO— Resolution by 93
LOUNSBURY, GEO. E— Elected Deputy Grand Master GO
LOUISIANA— Grand Lodge of lxiv
occxliv Index.
M.
PAGE.
MAINE— Grand Lodge of lxxvi
MASSACHUSETTS— Grand Lodge of lxxxvii
MARYLAND— Grand Lodge of lxxxv
MICHIGAN— Grand Lodge of xcn
MINNESOTA xcvn
MISSOURI— Grand Lodge of cvm
MONTANA— Grand Lodge of cxvi
MEAKER, WM. C— Restoration of 33, 36
McCRONE, JAMES — Recommendation for restoration of 52
Restored 53
MINUTES— Reading of, dispensed with 5
MORSE, LYSANDER— Petition of, for restoration 37
Recommendation for restoration of 52
Restored 53
MT. CARMEL LODGE— Austin G. Kingsbury m 34
MASONIC CALENDAR.. cclxxxvi
N.
NEW CHARTERS 17
NEW COLUMBIA LODGE— John A. Shirley vs 33
NORMAL LODGE— H. M. Van Doren vs 52
O.
OBITUARIES— Committee on, appointed 6
Report of 62
Opening of Grand Lodge 4
ORANGEVILLE LODGE— Constituted 7
OUR RELATIONS WITH SISTER GRAND LODGES 16
P.
PARKER, W. M.— Petition of, for new trial 52
PERA LODGE— Walter E. Smith vs : 51
PETITION OF LYSANDER MORSE 37
Rock River Lodge 37
From Tarbolton Lodge 60
PILCHER, AMAZIAH M.— Petition for restoration of 35
PLYMOUTH LODGE NO. 286.— Wells, Walley and Davis vs 35
PRENTICE, NATHAN FAY-.Death of IS
PRESENTATION— To P. G. M. Gregier 92
PERMANENT MEMBERS— List of cclx
Index. ccoxlv
R.
PAGB.
RAMBO, W. BRO.— Resolution by 80
RANDALL, W. BRO— Resolution by 82
RAYMOND LODGE— Constituted 7
READING OF MINUTES DISPENSED WITH 5
REGULATIONS, GENERAL ccxvi
RECEPTION— Representative Grand Lodge of Kansas 60
Representative Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania 90
REPRESENTATIVES— Grand, appointed 17
Of Subordinate Lodges 39
REINSTATEMENTS ccci
RICHARD COLE LODGE— Constituted 7
RIO LODGE— Constituted 7
ROBINSON, W. H.— vs. Yates City Lodge 32
ROBBINS, R. W. BRO.— Resolution by 82
Elected Senior Grand Warden 60
REPORT— Of Grand Secretary 53
Special 20
Orders drawn 60
Grand Treasurer 20
Committee Lodges U. D 27, 62
Auditing Committee 30
Committee on Amendment to Constitution 32
Committee on Appeals aud Grievances 32, 51, 63
Committee on Credentials 37
Committee on Petitions 45
Committee on Grand Master's Address 46
Committee on By-Laws 48, 81,88
Committee on Masonic Correspondence 50, i
Committee on Printing 50
Oommittee on Obituaries 62
Committee on Mileage and Per Diem 63
Committee on Finance 76,85,90
Committee on Chartered Lodges 78
Committee on Masonic Jurisprudence 82
Committee on Charity 89
Committee on Restoration of Records 88
Committee on Resolutions 92
District Deputy Grand Master's cclxvi
RESOLUTION— Donating money to Shreveport and Memphis . 5
Thanks to Musicians 36
To refund dues to Kingston Lodge 46
To refund dues of Galva Lodge 47
To pay W. Bro. J. Zimmerman, $5.30 49
To refund dues of Russellville Lodge 50
Regarding case of E. S. Valentine .. 53
cccxlvi Index.
PAGE.
RESOLUTION— To appoint committee to arrange decisions 7*5
Thanks to Bro. Edgar Sanders 78
To pay Committee on By-Laws and Printing 80
In regard to Grand Charity Fund 80
Thanks to Committee on By-Laws 92
Instructing Grand Secretary to publish By-Laws 92
Thanks to committees 93
To give property of Wiley M. Egan Lodge to Providence
Lodge No. 711 87
In regard to Elvaston Lodge 82
S.
SHILOH HILL LODGE— Constituted 7
SHIRLEY, JOHN A.— vs. New Columbia Lodge , . . . 52
SMITH, ALBERT— vs. Temple Lodge 33
SMITH, WALTER E.— vs. Pera Lodge 51
SMALL, A. H. — vs. Hesperia Lodge 33
SPRODL, HENRY J.— Restoration of 33, 36
SPECIAL REPORT— Of Grand Secretary 20
STANDARD WORK 17
STEPHENS, CHARLES C— Restoration of 32, 36
STRATTON, F. H.,— vs. Charter Oak Lodge 51
SUTTON, JOHN— vs. Grand Master 33, 83
SUSPENSIONS ccxca
T.
TABULAR STATEMENT— Lodges U. D 28
Chartered Lodges ccciv
TAYLOR, W. H— Petition for restoration of 36
TEMPLE LODGE— Albert Smith vs 33
W.
WELLS, W ALLEY and DAVIS vs. Plymouth Lodge 35
WILCOX, E. B.— Petition of, for restoration 35
Restored 36
Y.
YATES CITY LODGE— W. H. Robinson vs 32
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