Manual of the Lodge: Or, Monitorial Instructions in the Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, and Master Mason, Arranged in Accordance with the American System of Lectures: To Which Are Added the Ceremonies of the Order of Past Master Relating
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...Lodge shall grant a Warrant of Constitution for the same, or this dispensation be revoked by us or by the Grand Lodge aforesaid. Given under our hand and the seal of the Grand l. S. Lodge, at the Grand East of, this... day of.... A.'. L. 58.. A Lodge thus organized is said to be a Lodge under dispen. ation; and having ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...Lodge shall grant a Warrant of Constitution for the same, or this dispensation be revoked by us or by the Grand Lodge aforesaid. Given under our hand and the seal of the Grand l. S. Lodge, at the Grand East of, this... day of.... A.'. L. 58.. A Lodge thus organized is said to be a Lodge under dispen. ation; and having been erected for a special purpose, is possessed of very limited powers. It is simply the creature of the Grand Master, and depends on his will for the duration if itf existence. It can make no by-laws, but is governed by the general constitutions of the Order, and the rules and regulations of the Grand Lodge. It can not elect officers. The Master and Wardens are appointed by the Grand Master in the dispensation, and whatever other officers are necessary for carrying Od the business of the Lodge must be appointed temporarily by the Master. As there can be no election, neither can there be -uy installation; for not even are the Master and Wardens of a Lodge under dispensation permitted to be thus solemnly inducted into office. A Lodge under dispensation can elect no members. The Master and Wardens who are named in the act of dispen sation, are, in fact, the only persons recognized as constituting the Lodge. To them is granted the privilege, as proxies of the Grand Master, of making Masons; and for this purpose they arc authorized to congregate a sufficient number of brethren to assist them in the ceremonies. But all persons who have been made Masons in a Lodge under dispensation, with all those engaged in holding it under the act of dispensation, become members as soon as it receives its Warrant of Constitution. The act of dispensation continues of force, unless sooner revoked by the Grand Master, until the next regular communication of th...
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