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ability , but also by the paramount plea of absolute necessity , that body has decided to abide by the strict and literal terms employed at the Union in establishing a landmark . , ; " ~ . . I am entitled to assunie this . decision as tantamount to a declaration that no Lodge , Chapter , or Officer belonging to the Grand Lodge , or Grand Chapter of England , can , without a violation of that landmark , confer or authorize the conferring of any Degree in Masonry except that of Entered Apprentice , Fellow Craft , Master Mason , and Royal Arch Companion , that is > four Degrees , and no more , except to an elected and installed Master of a Blue Lodge , who , previously to his installation , receives the Degree or privilege of a Past Master .
In this view of the case , I am desirous to learn by what authority certain Lodges or Bodies in Canada and Nova Scotia , enrolled on the Registry of the United Grand Lodge , or the Grand Chapter of England , have undertaken to confer the Mark Degree . Have the Grand Bodies one code of laws for their own government , and another for their Colonial Grand Lodges and Chapters '¦? .. '¦ If it be inadmissible for Lord Zetland , and the Grand Bodies over which he presides , to war rant Mark Lodges , it surely cannot be proper for his colonial representatives to do so .
If the Bodies so established by this very questionable authority be illegal , their progress ought to be at once arrested ; if legal , then the necessary measures should be adopted to secure their recognition in Scotland and America . ' '"¦ . A Mark Master . Erederickton , New Brnnswiclc , Feh . 7 th , l % 5 T .
West Lancashire Masonic Educational Institution.
f WEST LANCASHIRE MASONIC EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION .
A special court of the governors of this Institution was held on Thursday evening , 19 th of February , at the Royal Hotel , Dale-street , Liverpool . The chair was taken by Bro . H . M . Molyneux , W . M . No . 294 , one of the vice-presidents . The business of the court was to determine the number of children to be elected as objects of the charity , to elect them , and to determine the amount of money to be applied * on behalf of each child . The three sons of a deceased Brother were elected , and the sum of £ 37 placed at the disposal of the Finance
Committee to defray the expense of their education for the next twelve months . Two . of the children are placed in the Middle School of the Collegiate Institution in this town . A very satisfactory letter , dated from Calcutta , from one of the objects of the charity , on his arrival there , having been apprenticed to the Messrs . Lockett by the governors of the Institution , was read at the meeting . Another letter , from the captain with whom he sailed , was also read , wherein he spoke in the highest terms of commendation of his conduct . This terminated the business of the court .
Masonic Hall . —After the above a meeting was held of the subscribers to the Masonic Hall , The report of the General Committee recommending the purchase of a plot of leasehold land in Hope-street was received . The feeling of the meeting being strongly in favour of the purchase of freehold laud , the Committee were directed to make inquiries respecting two freehold lots in the same neighbourhood , and report as early as possible to the subscribers . The Committee
appointed for conducting the amateur performances to be held at the Theatre Royal , on the 13 th of March , in aid of the above , announced the performances for that evening . We are glad to hear that in less than six months nearly £ 1 , 000 has been paid into Messrs . Moss and Co . ' s Bank for the above undertaking , and that ere long the Freemasons of Liverpool will have a noble and commodious building for their meetings . What are the Manchester men about that they are not moving in a like direction ? YOL . III . 2 0 *
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ability , but also by the paramount plea of absolute necessity , that body has decided to abide by the strict and literal terms employed at the Union in establishing a landmark . , ; " ~ . . I am entitled to assunie this . decision as tantamount to a declaration that no Lodge , Chapter , or Officer belonging to the Grand Lodge , or Grand Chapter of England , can , without a violation of that landmark , confer or authorize the conferring of any Degree in Masonry except that of Entered Apprentice , Fellow Craft , Master Mason , and Royal Arch Companion , that is > four Degrees , and no more , except to an elected and installed Master of a Blue Lodge , who , previously to his installation , receives the Degree or privilege of a Past Master .
In this view of the case , I am desirous to learn by what authority certain Lodges or Bodies in Canada and Nova Scotia , enrolled on the Registry of the United Grand Lodge , or the Grand Chapter of England , have undertaken to confer the Mark Degree . Have the Grand Bodies one code of laws for their own government , and another for their Colonial Grand Lodges and Chapters '¦? .. '¦ If it be inadmissible for Lord Zetland , and the Grand Bodies over which he presides , to war rant Mark Lodges , it surely cannot be proper for his colonial representatives to do so .
If the Bodies so established by this very questionable authority be illegal , their progress ought to be at once arrested ; if legal , then the necessary measures should be adopted to secure their recognition in Scotland and America . ' '"¦ . A Mark Master . Erederickton , New Brnnswiclc , Feh . 7 th , l % 5 T .
West Lancashire Masonic Educational Institution.
f WEST LANCASHIRE MASONIC EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION .
A special court of the governors of this Institution was held on Thursday evening , 19 th of February , at the Royal Hotel , Dale-street , Liverpool . The chair was taken by Bro . H . M . Molyneux , W . M . No . 294 , one of the vice-presidents . The business of the court was to determine the number of children to be elected as objects of the charity , to elect them , and to determine the amount of money to be applied * on behalf of each child . The three sons of a deceased Brother were elected , and the sum of £ 37 placed at the disposal of the Finance
Committee to defray the expense of their education for the next twelve months . Two . of the children are placed in the Middle School of the Collegiate Institution in this town . A very satisfactory letter , dated from Calcutta , from one of the objects of the charity , on his arrival there , having been apprenticed to the Messrs . Lockett by the governors of the Institution , was read at the meeting . Another letter , from the captain with whom he sailed , was also read , wherein he spoke in the highest terms of commendation of his conduct . This terminated the business of the court .
Masonic Hall . —After the above a meeting was held of the subscribers to the Masonic Hall , The report of the General Committee recommending the purchase of a plot of leasehold land in Hope-street was received . The feeling of the meeting being strongly in favour of the purchase of freehold laud , the Committee were directed to make inquiries respecting two freehold lots in the same neighbourhood , and report as early as possible to the subscribers . The Committee
appointed for conducting the amateur performances to be held at the Theatre Royal , on the 13 th of March , in aid of the above , announced the performances for that evening . We are glad to hear that in less than six months nearly £ 1 , 000 has been paid into Messrs . Moss and Co . ' s Bank for the above undertaking , and that ere long the Freemasons of Liverpool will have a noble and commodious building for their meetings . What are the Manchester men about that they are not moving in a like direction ? YOL . III . 2 0 *