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REQUIRED — A SITUATION of Trust and Responsibility b y a Regimental Ouartcrmastcr-Scrgcant R . A . about to retire from thc Army . Testimonials can bc forwarded . Lodge and Chapter 142 S . — Address , S ., 1 , Roselyn-tcrracc , Brockhurst , Gosport . FREEMASON'S WIDOW , who is in distressed circumstances , has THREE MASONIC FRAMED PICTURES to dispose nf ( very rare ) and can be had a BARGAIN . —Apply 14 , Danville-road , Denmark-hill , Camberwell .
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PARIS EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT for the Sons of Gentlemen . Principal : M . G . Ovrde , Officier d'Acadcmie , late Inspector of the Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Paris , and Translator of Higgenson's United States History . For terms , address G . Ovree , 14 , Rue David , Passy , Paris . CCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY , LIMITED . 10 , ST . SWITHIN'S LANE , LONDON , E . C . General Accidents . | Personal Injuries Railway Accidents . j Deaths by Accident . C . HARDING , Manager .
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4 £ » L CHARLES LANCASTER , fe"oV y " l ( Awarded 15 Prizes and Medals . ) '*| M ) W ' * L POR £ ^ ' ISVKSToa iSD rATK . \ Tl ! E OF TUK ^ gpf ? * 4-BAHREL BEEECHI . OADIHG HAMMERLESS FOB ROOK , GUN , RIFLE , & PISTOL . RABBIT , ( WelBlit ? ll-. 4 oz . ) ( Weight 101 b . ) ( -470 bore , 311-. Ooz . ) ^^ tlU' "THE COLINDIAN , " EXPRESS , MILITARY A RIFLED GUN FOK S 1 I ° T AND BALL . ___ Illustrated Detailed Price Lists free an Jpplication . LARGE BORE **"" ' ' ' '"'"& ' <•' " •»• RIFLES . 51 , NEW BOND ST ., W . Esubiid-cd IS - M .
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The Masonic Exhibition at Shanklin . THE " FREEMASON , " For SATURDAY , iSth inst ., Will contain A Pull Report of tlie Opening of the Masonic Exhibition at Shanklin , Together with an EXHAUSTIVE ANALYSIS of the Exhibits . ILLUSTRATED . PRICE THREEPENCE . Orders may bc given to any Bookseller , or sent direct to the Office , i 6 and iGa GREAT OUEEN ST ., LONDON , W . C .
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THE FREEMASON is published every Friday morning , price 3 d ., and contains the fullest and latest information relating to Freemasonry of every degree . Subscriptions , including Postage : — United States , United Kingdom . Canada , thc Continent , India , China , Ceylon , the Colonies & c . Arabia , & c
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Remittances may be made in Stamps , bnt Post Office Orders of cheques are preferred , the former payable to GEORGE KEXNMNO , Chief Olfice , London , the latter crossed London Joint Stock Hank .
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BOOKS . & c .. RECEIVED . " Keystone , " "Allen ' s Indian Mail , " " El Taller , " " Frcimaurcr-Zeitung , " " Natal Mercury , " " Cassell ' s National Library , " " La Fraterindad del Porvenir , " " Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine , " " Great Thoughts and Christian Graphic , " " Die liaiihutte , " " Jewish Chronicle , " " Cadiz Masonica , " "Piano , Organ , and M ., ci .. -l-. n . I . 'O T . 11 ,-t . nl " " Rl , Il . la ,. Tiin ^ c" IT ^ rn ,,- Vr .-h \ ' * 1 '
rnccedings of the Grand Lodge of " Quebec , " " An Appeal from Newark Commandery , No . 34 , Newark , Ohio , to every Loyal Knight Templar in Ohio and the United States of America , " "Organo Olicial de la Gran Logia , Mexicanos , " Reply to the War Whoops of Enock T . Carson , " " Sunday Times" ( London ) , " Citizen , " " Lancaster Daily Examiner , " " Court Circular , " " Hull and East Yorkshire Times , " " New Zealand Freemason , " and " Humanitas . "
Original Correspondence.
Original Correspondence .
IJI ^ S ^ K SSS WylHr ^^^ imlmm ^^^^_^^__^ ^ r 9 iW ^
SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER II , 1886 .
[ Wc do not hold ourselves responsible for , or even approving of thc opinionsexpressedby our correspondents , but wewish in aspirit oi fair play to att to permit—within certain necessary limits—free discussion . ] — ' ¦ — THE TREASURERSHIP OF THE BOYS' SCHOOL .
To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Bear Sir and Brother , I see from your report of the proceedings of Grand Lodge last week that Bro . Jabez Hogp , P . G . U ., in moving the adoption of an amended regulation of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution affecting the election of its Treasurer , is said to have stated that " in the other Institutions—the Boys' and the Girls '—Grand
Lodge had already sanctioned the alteration which was now asked for the Benevolent Institution , which was that they might not be compelled to elect their Treasurer annually . " I do not know Bro . Hogg ' s authority for this statement , but having had occasion to study most carefully thc minutes—so far as they have been preserved—of the Boys ' School , I can confidently affirm that Grand Lodge never sanctioned any such change as regards that Institution , for
the best of all reasons , that it has never possessed or claimed to exercise any such authority , the entire control of its affairs having , so far as my reading goes , always been vested in thc governors and subscribers to thc Institution . The reason for the difference in the relations between Grand Lodge and our two Schools—though I must be understood as speaking only of the Boys ' , with whose minutes 1 am familiar—on the one hand , and Grand
Lodge and the Benevolent Institution on the other , will be manifest to Bro . Hogg , and other of your readers who take an interest in these matters , when I point out to them that the Schools were founded by individual brethren , while thc Benevolent Institution was founded by Grand Lodge , thc Male Fund in 1842 and the Widows' Fund in 1849 . " ' true that from about the year 1 S 05 till the Union the financial statements of thc Treasurer of the Boys' School were
published in the Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of the "Ancients , " Bro . Robert Leslie , who was Grand Secretary of that body , being likewise the Treasurer of the Institution ; while after the Union there was for several years a Board of Schools under United Grand Lodge , whose chief business , however , appears to have been to pay over the varying contributions of Grand Lodge ( since commuted into a fixed annual sum of / Ti . so paid to each School ) to
the Treasurers of the two Schools , a moiety to each Treasurer . But there is nothing in the minutes of the Institution for Boys to show that either before or after the Union Grand Lodge ever did anything more than contribute towards its support , the supporters having in their own hands the entire management of its affairs , electing their own oflicers and Committee , and every now and then
revising the regulations on their own responsibility , and without any reference , or an idea of any reference , to Grand Lodge . The case is very different as regards the Benevolent Institution , which , as l . have said , was founded by Grand Lodge , and in the management of whose business that body would naturall y have a proprietary right j and though , without a copy of its regulations to refer to , I should hesitate to speak
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with anything like certainty upon the point , it seems to me on the impulse of the moment that no alteration in the laws of the Benevolent Institution can be valid until it has been confirmed by Grand Lodge . In which case , of course , it would follow that the Treasurer appointed under the old law—that is , the Grand Treasurer , not Bro . Edgar Bowyer —would remain in office until superseded by another
Treasurer appointed under the new law , as sanctioned and confirmed by Grand Lodge . On this point I will say nothing further here , as it does not come within thc scope of this letter . But to return to tho Boys' School and its Treasurership . There arc no minutes extant before January 1 S 12 , and nothing therefore to show how Bros . William Burwood and
Robert Leslie , who successively filled the office of Treasurer up to that date , were elected . Cole ' s " Illustrations of Masonry , " -published in 1801 , and thc balloting paper for July 1 S 03—see Appendix li .., " History of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys "—mention the former as "Institutor and Treasurer" in those years , and the printed proceedings of the "Ancient" Grand Lodge contain the
accounts of the latter as Treasurer from about 1 S 05 to the Union . Moreover , Cole gives the Rules and Regulations of the Institution in 1801 , among them being the following : — " XVI . —That in case of the death , resignation , or dismission of the Treasurer , Secretary , or Collector , a Special General Meeting be called by order of the Committee within fourteen days , to declare the same , and fix the time
of election for filling up such vacancies , which shall bc by ballot . " This law , so far as I know , appears to have been acted upon ever since . In January , 1 S 15 , Bro . Lindo , at the time G . S . W . of England , was elected bya majority of 15 to 50 verBro . Scott . it being , however , at the same time enacted that the election should take place annually , and
this enactment continued in force for a long term of years , though the same brother was invariably re-elected . At a Special General Meeting in February , 1823 , Bro . Ramsbottom , M . P ., was elected to succeed Bro . Lindo , resigned , but as Bro . Ramsbottom was unable to undertake the duties , Bro * . F . W . Pott was elected in his stead at another special meeting in the following April . In April ,
1825 , Bro . Benjamin Rouse succeeded Bro . Pott , resigned , being elected by 14 votes to 11 over Bro . Harris . In 1 S 26 , on the recommendation of the Duke of Sussex , Bro . Moore was elected in place of Bro . Rouse , resigned . In 1841 Bro . the Rev . W . J . _ Rodber , G . Chap ., was elected by an overwhelming majority , vice Moore , resigned , Grand Master the Duke of Sussex , to whom application was
made to nominate a brother for the ollice , being careful , however , to point out to the Governors that the oflice was an elective one . On Bro . Rodber ' s death , Bro . Pollock was elected his successor , and in 1 S 46 , on Bro . Pollock going to India , Bro . B . B . Cabbell was elected . In 1 SO 9 , Bro . Cabbell resigned , and Bro . Algernon Perkins was elected in his stead , and after the latter's' death , Bro .
Plucknett , the present Treasurer , was chosen in January , 1 S 73 . It will be seen from this record of facts that Grand Lodge has never had anything to do with the election of Treasurer of thc Boys' School , and , though I have . not read the minutes of the Girls' School , my impression is that the Governors of that Institution have always , as regards the management of its affairs , acted independently of Grand Lodge . —Faithfully and fraternally yours , G . B . ABBOTT . ; th September , 1 SS 6 " .
Masonic Notes And Queries.
Masonic Notes and Queries .
675 ] FRENCH FREEMASONRY IN ENGLAND . Many thanks to Bro . Whytehead . I was aware of the lodge warranted by Grand Lodgeof York in 1762 to French prisoners of war . Bro . Gould gives the minute at p . 418 , chap , xviii . of his history . But there is a great difference . In this case a warrant was granted by an English authority under definite conditions for a specific purpose . In the
case discovered by Bro . Hughan , a high degree Mason , with no other authority than the usurped privileges of his Degree , takes upon himself to grant a warrant in the territory of an established Grand Lodge and professes to do so in the name of a foreign grand body to whom ho subordinates said lodge . This is a very distinct and
flagrant invasion of jurisdiction , and is all the more peculiar because the aggressor , De Grasse-Tilly , can in no wise be considered to have been empowered thus to act by the body whose name he invokes . Will Bro . Hughan furnish us with the particulars of the furniture used by this French lodge and supply any further information he may be possessed of . G . W . SPETH .
The Prince of Wales and Prince Albert Victor visited the Duke and Duchess of Connaught at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday , and remained to luncheon , the latter returning in the evening to Aldershot . The Prince and the Duke and Duchess visited the Colonial and Indian Exhibition thc same day , dining there , and afterwards walking through the buildings .
Thc 23 rd Triennial Conclave of the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar of the United States will be held in St . Louis , Missouri , on the 2 ist-24 th inst ., but the programme of arrangements , which is a formidable one , extends over a whole week , from the 19 th to thc 25 th inst ., both inclusive . On the 21 st inst . there will be a grand parade and escort of the Grand Encampment , on the 22 nd a display of drill by some of the visiting Commanderies
and a band concert , tho proceeds of which will be handed over to the fund for erecting the proposed Missouri Masonic Widows' and Orphans' Home . In the evening the city will be illuminated and the parades of the Trades Display Association and Flambeau Club will take p lace . One of the piincipal features of the week ' s campaign will be the river excursions which have been arranged for nearly every
evening in the week , and there will also be a frequent interchange of visits between the city and visiting Commanderies . In fact , thc whole of the week appears to be so fully occupied in parading , drill , visiting , illuminations , excursions , and the like , that it strikes us the great difficulty of all concerned will be to find the leisure tor doing nothing .
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REQUIRED — A SITUATION of Trust and Responsibility b y a Regimental Ouartcrmastcr-Scrgcant R . A . about to retire from thc Army . Testimonials can bc forwarded . Lodge and Chapter 142 S . — Address , S ., 1 , Roselyn-tcrracc , Brockhurst , Gosport . FREEMASON'S WIDOW , who is in distressed circumstances , has THREE MASONIC FRAMED PICTURES to dispose nf ( very rare ) and can be had a BARGAIN . —Apply 14 , Danville-road , Denmark-hill , Camberwell .
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EMPLOYMENT , as CLERK , COLLECTOR , STOREKEEPER , Sic , is urgently required by advertiser ( M . M . ) , 35 y » ars of age ; several years in the army ; first-class testimonials as to character and ability . —Address H . J . F ., 4 i , Sussex-st ., London , S . W . CAMBRIDGE GRADUATE fP . M . and P . Z . ) . —PRIVATE TUITION in the CLASSICS , MATHEMATICS , ENGLISH , & c . Lectures on various subjects . Schools visited . Foreigners taught English by means of French . —Address , F . D ., 62 , Lancaster-road , Notting-hill , W .
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PARIS EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT for the Sons of Gentlemen . Principal : M . G . Ovrde , Officier d'Acadcmie , late Inspector of the Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Paris , and Translator of Higgenson's United States History . For terms , address G . Ovree , 14 , Rue David , Passy , Paris . CCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY , LIMITED . 10 , ST . SWITHIN'S LANE , LONDON , E . C . General Accidents . | Personal Injuries Railway Accidents . j Deaths by Accident . C . HARDING , Manager .
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Estab . l D U E R , C' * 749 . / ^ ' 146 , NEW BOND ST ., W ; , 4 ty CALLORD feCALLORD , V > k Queen ' s Terrace , St . John ' s Wood . ^ m ^ S s Vanstoall parts Daily . Hampers & Tins . ^ J / packed for thc conntry with lliscuits , & c . > / / French & Vienna l- ' ancy Rolls & bread . WEDDING BREAKFASTS SUPPLIED .
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BREECH-LOADERS . LARGEST STOCK IN LOWDOK " . All ( lie L < i ' es 6 Iniproi-ementt ; . HAMMERLESS GUNS . The Anson and Dee ' y patents , and other well-made toplevers at reduced prices . 15 guineas and upwards . THE NEWLY-IMPROVED AND PERFECTED EJECTOR HAMMERLESS , So highly approved of late . PIGrEON GUNS of wonderful shooting power . EXPRESS DOUBLE RIFLES , the light , handy 400 , and all other calibres . The best ROOK and RABBIT Rifles . E . M . REILLY and Co ., 16 & 277 , Oxford St ., London ; and Paris .
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4 £ » L CHARLES LANCASTER , fe"oV y " l ( Awarded 15 Prizes and Medals . ) '*| M ) W ' * L POR £ ^ ' ISVKSToa iSD rATK . \ Tl ! E OF TUK ^ gpf ? * 4-BAHREL BEEECHI . OADIHG HAMMERLESS FOB ROOK , GUN , RIFLE , & PISTOL . RABBIT , ( WelBlit ? ll-. 4 oz . ) ( Weight 101 b . ) ( -470 bore , 311-. Ooz . ) ^^ tlU' "THE COLINDIAN , " EXPRESS , MILITARY A RIFLED GUN FOK S 1 I ° T AND BALL . ___ Illustrated Detailed Price Lists free an Jpplication . LARGE BORE **"" ' ' ' '"'"& ' <•' " •»• RIFLES . 51 , NEW BOND ST ., W . Esubiid-cd IS - M .
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- " - ^ c , Moule ' s EARTH System , ^ O ^ ^ j . w . Girdlcstone ' s Patent , £ fs . ^ - 5 a , GARRICK STREET , s - *^ ' COVENT GARDEN , LONDON .
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By Eoyal To Appointment * S _ ' ^ 5 L »* 9 * H . R . H , ———toH . R . 11 . ^ gggS * p . Princess of ( ££%$ _< £ & , "inccss - ~ t \ C \ TT Wales . < *— " * - <¦» Louise . JrUOI «• D * ™ ER , O . H . 5 ., BOUQUET . BAYSWATER HILL , LONDON , W .. c 7 c , INVENTOR OK THE NEW STYLE » HI- ***•> 1-AOUn ^ l'OSY BOUQUET-ThoSeason'sSuccess . SUCCESS . BRIDES' & BRIDESMAIDS' BOUQUETS on the Shortest Notice . Gr-oils delivcrt ' il , raivrully iwla'd , ! SISIEOIAII ' . I . Y _^__^ on refuijit ' nl'Oi ' tlirr .
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E . DENT & Co ., iy Inventions Exhibition Gold Medal awarded j £ j for Improvement in Turret Clocks . £ v ? 61 Strand & -1 Eoyal Exchange , London , 4 > y r ^ Cl . OCKM . UERS lo Ihe QUEEN . /& . ¦ > . ^> -takers " / the Ureal We . tminster Clacf , __ y is ? c" ° ''"»)• *< Jr ^ y Will bc li . ipiiytofurniiih ESTIMATES forthe ^* Installation or Repair nf CH- -. CH and yNv' other PiniLic CLOCK . *" . £ ^ Dent ' s new Illustrated Catalogue of Hlgh-* Class "Watches at Reduced Price * , sent Post Free .
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The Masonic Exhibition at Shanklin . THE " FREEMASON , " For SATURDAY , iSth inst ., Will contain A Pull Report of tlie Opening of the Masonic Exhibition at Shanklin , Together with an EXHAUSTIVE ANALYSIS of the Exhibits . ILLUSTRATED . PRICE THREEPENCE . Orders may bc given to any Bookseller , or sent direct to the Office , i 6 and iGa GREAT OUEEN ST ., LONDON , W . C .
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TO OUB , READERS .
THE FREEMASON is published every Friday morning , price 3 d ., and contains the fullest and latest information relating to Freemasonry of every degree . Subscriptions , including Postage : — United States , United Kingdom . Canada , thc Continent , India , China , Ceylon , the Colonies & c . Arabia , & c
13 s . 6 d . 15 s . 6 d . 17 s . 6 d
Remittances may be made in Stamps , bnt Post Office Orders of cheques are preferred , the former payable to GEORGE KEXNMNO , Chief Olfice , London , the latter crossed London Joint Stock Hank .
.
To Correspondents.
To Correspondents .
BOOKS . & c .. RECEIVED . " Keystone , " "Allen ' s Indian Mail , " " El Taller , " " Frcimaurcr-Zeitung , " " Natal Mercury , " " Cassell ' s National Library , " " La Fraterindad del Porvenir , " " Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine , " " Great Thoughts and Christian Graphic , " " Die liaiihutte , " " Jewish Chronicle , " " Cadiz Masonica , " "Piano , Organ , and M ., ci .. -l-. n . I . 'O T . 11 ,-t . nl " " Rl , Il . la ,. Tiin ^ c" IT ^ rn ,,- Vr .-h \ ' * 1 '
rnccedings of the Grand Lodge of " Quebec , " " An Appeal from Newark Commandery , No . 34 , Newark , Ohio , to every Loyal Knight Templar in Ohio and the United States of America , " "Organo Olicial de la Gran Logia , Mexicanos , " Reply to the War Whoops of Enock T . Carson , " " Sunday Times" ( London ) , " Citizen , " " Lancaster Daily Examiner , " " Court Circular , " " Hull and East Yorkshire Times , " " New Zealand Freemason , " and " Humanitas . "
Original Correspondence.
Original Correspondence .
IJI ^ S ^ K SSS WylHr ^^^ imlmm ^^^^_^^__^ ^ r 9 iW ^
SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER II , 1886 .
[ Wc do not hold ourselves responsible for , or even approving of thc opinionsexpressedby our correspondents , but wewish in aspirit oi fair play to att to permit—within certain necessary limits—free discussion . ] — ' ¦ — THE TREASURERSHIP OF THE BOYS' SCHOOL .
To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Bear Sir and Brother , I see from your report of the proceedings of Grand Lodge last week that Bro . Jabez Hogp , P . G . U ., in moving the adoption of an amended regulation of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution affecting the election of its Treasurer , is said to have stated that " in the other Institutions—the Boys' and the Girls '—Grand
Lodge had already sanctioned the alteration which was now asked for the Benevolent Institution , which was that they might not be compelled to elect their Treasurer annually . " I do not know Bro . Hogg ' s authority for this statement , but having had occasion to study most carefully thc minutes—so far as they have been preserved—of the Boys ' School , I can confidently affirm that Grand Lodge never sanctioned any such change as regards that Institution , for
the best of all reasons , that it has never possessed or claimed to exercise any such authority , the entire control of its affairs having , so far as my reading goes , always been vested in thc governors and subscribers to thc Institution . The reason for the difference in the relations between Grand Lodge and our two Schools—though I must be understood as speaking only of the Boys ' , with whose minutes 1 am familiar—on the one hand , and Grand
Lodge and the Benevolent Institution on the other , will be manifest to Bro . Hogg , and other of your readers who take an interest in these matters , when I point out to them that the Schools were founded by individual brethren , while thc Benevolent Institution was founded by Grand Lodge , thc Male Fund in 1842 and the Widows' Fund in 1849 . " ' true that from about the year 1 S 05 till the Union the financial statements of thc Treasurer of the Boys' School were
published in the Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of the "Ancients , " Bro . Robert Leslie , who was Grand Secretary of that body , being likewise the Treasurer of the Institution ; while after the Union there was for several years a Board of Schools under United Grand Lodge , whose chief business , however , appears to have been to pay over the varying contributions of Grand Lodge ( since commuted into a fixed annual sum of / Ti . so paid to each School ) to
the Treasurers of the two Schools , a moiety to each Treasurer . But there is nothing in the minutes of the Institution for Boys to show that either before or after the Union Grand Lodge ever did anything more than contribute towards its support , the supporters having in their own hands the entire management of its affairs , electing their own oflicers and Committee , and every now and then
revising the regulations on their own responsibility , and without any reference , or an idea of any reference , to Grand Lodge . The case is very different as regards the Benevolent Institution , which , as l . have said , was founded by Grand Lodge , and in the management of whose business that body would naturall y have a proprietary right j and though , without a copy of its regulations to refer to , I should hesitate to speak
Original Correspondence.
with anything like certainty upon the point , it seems to me on the impulse of the moment that no alteration in the laws of the Benevolent Institution can be valid until it has been confirmed by Grand Lodge . In which case , of course , it would follow that the Treasurer appointed under the old law—that is , the Grand Treasurer , not Bro . Edgar Bowyer —would remain in office until superseded by another
Treasurer appointed under the new law , as sanctioned and confirmed by Grand Lodge . On this point I will say nothing further here , as it does not come within thc scope of this letter . But to return to tho Boys' School and its Treasurership . There arc no minutes extant before January 1 S 12 , and nothing therefore to show how Bros . William Burwood and
Robert Leslie , who successively filled the office of Treasurer up to that date , were elected . Cole ' s " Illustrations of Masonry , " -published in 1801 , and thc balloting paper for July 1 S 03—see Appendix li .., " History of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys "—mention the former as "Institutor and Treasurer" in those years , and the printed proceedings of the "Ancient" Grand Lodge contain the
accounts of the latter as Treasurer from about 1 S 05 to the Union . Moreover , Cole gives the Rules and Regulations of the Institution in 1801 , among them being the following : — " XVI . —That in case of the death , resignation , or dismission of the Treasurer , Secretary , or Collector , a Special General Meeting be called by order of the Committee within fourteen days , to declare the same , and fix the time
of election for filling up such vacancies , which shall bc by ballot . " This law , so far as I know , appears to have been acted upon ever since . In January , 1 S 15 , Bro . Lindo , at the time G . S . W . of England , was elected bya majority of 15 to 50 verBro . Scott . it being , however , at the same time enacted that the election should take place annually , and
this enactment continued in force for a long term of years , though the same brother was invariably re-elected . At a Special General Meeting in February , 1823 , Bro . Ramsbottom , M . P ., was elected to succeed Bro . Lindo , resigned , but as Bro . Ramsbottom was unable to undertake the duties , Bro * . F . W . Pott was elected in his stead at another special meeting in the following April . In April ,
1825 , Bro . Benjamin Rouse succeeded Bro . Pott , resigned , being elected by 14 votes to 11 over Bro . Harris . In 1 S 26 , on the recommendation of the Duke of Sussex , Bro . Moore was elected in place of Bro . Rouse , resigned . In 1841 Bro . the Rev . W . J . _ Rodber , G . Chap ., was elected by an overwhelming majority , vice Moore , resigned , Grand Master the Duke of Sussex , to whom application was
made to nominate a brother for the ollice , being careful , however , to point out to the Governors that the oflice was an elective one . On Bro . Rodber ' s death , Bro . Pollock was elected his successor , and in 1 S 46 , on Bro . Pollock going to India , Bro . B . B . Cabbell was elected . In 1 SO 9 , Bro . Cabbell resigned , and Bro . Algernon Perkins was elected in his stead , and after the latter's' death , Bro .
Plucknett , the present Treasurer , was chosen in January , 1 S 73 . It will be seen from this record of facts that Grand Lodge has never had anything to do with the election of Treasurer of thc Boys' School , and , though I have . not read the minutes of the Girls' School , my impression is that the Governors of that Institution have always , as regards the management of its affairs , acted independently of Grand Lodge . —Faithfully and fraternally yours , G . B . ABBOTT . ; th September , 1 SS 6 " .
Masonic Notes And Queries.
Masonic Notes and Queries .
675 ] FRENCH FREEMASONRY IN ENGLAND . Many thanks to Bro . Whytehead . I was aware of the lodge warranted by Grand Lodgeof York in 1762 to French prisoners of war . Bro . Gould gives the minute at p . 418 , chap , xviii . of his history . But there is a great difference . In this case a warrant was granted by an English authority under definite conditions for a specific purpose . In the
case discovered by Bro . Hughan , a high degree Mason , with no other authority than the usurped privileges of his Degree , takes upon himself to grant a warrant in the territory of an established Grand Lodge and professes to do so in the name of a foreign grand body to whom ho subordinates said lodge . This is a very distinct and
flagrant invasion of jurisdiction , and is all the more peculiar because the aggressor , De Grasse-Tilly , can in no wise be considered to have been empowered thus to act by the body whose name he invokes . Will Bro . Hughan furnish us with the particulars of the furniture used by this French lodge and supply any further information he may be possessed of . G . W . SPETH .
The Prince of Wales and Prince Albert Victor visited the Duke and Duchess of Connaught at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday , and remained to luncheon , the latter returning in the evening to Aldershot . The Prince and the Duke and Duchess visited the Colonial and Indian Exhibition thc same day , dining there , and afterwards walking through the buildings .
Thc 23 rd Triennial Conclave of the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar of the United States will be held in St . Louis , Missouri , on the 2 ist-24 th inst ., but the programme of arrangements , which is a formidable one , extends over a whole week , from the 19 th to thc 25 th inst ., both inclusive . On the 21 st inst . there will be a grand parade and escort of the Grand Encampment , on the 22 nd a display of drill by some of the visiting Commanderies
and a band concert , tho proceeds of which will be handed over to the fund for erecting the proposed Missouri Masonic Widows' and Orphans' Home . In the evening the city will be illuminated and the parades of the Trades Display Association and Flambeau Club will take p lace . One of the piincipal features of the week ' s campaign will be the river excursions which have been arranged for nearly every
evening in the week , and there will also be a frequent interchange of visits between the city and visiting Commanderies . In fact , thc whole of the week appears to be so fully occupied in parading , drill , visiting , illuminations , excursions , and the like , that it strikes us the great difficulty of all concerned will be to find the leisure tor doing nothing .