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Gband Lodge
over in silenqe . Three officers will have had their salaries raised ; the fourth may fairly ask- ~ are not his claims to be considered also ^^ ^ The vote of an additional £ 100 per annum to each fund of the Benevolent Institution—the Aged Masons and the Wido the proceedings of t ^
Provincial Grand Lodges
PEOVINCIAL GEAND LODGES
It is rarely that the bu special rem ark , though , should it do so , we should not hesitate to express our o > pim ceedings in the province of Ee ^ to the E ^ should not call attention ^ repprt---but for the aeknowledgment which was there made * by so
eminent a legal authority as the Prov ; G . M ^ Bro Cooper ( who stands deservedly lawyer ) ^ of the correctness of the views en Mhjgazine as to the proper mode of openin Brp . Copper admitted t ^ Prov . Grand Lodge within a private Lodge , because he found the practice in existence when he came into office ; arid his attention had
not been called to its impropriety . JSPo sooner , however * was his attention directed to the subject through the pages of the jFV ^^ a ^ o ;? ^ Magazine , than he inquired into it as a constitutional lawyer ; and , having convinced himself of the correctness of our views , determined at once to reform the practice , so far as the province over which he presides is concerned ; and we cannot doubt that the example so well set will speedily be followed by other Prov . Grand Masters , on reading
the observations of Bro . Cooper on the subject . TheE . W . Prov . G . M . also alluded to another irregularity in Prov . Grand Lodges pointed out in the Freemasons ' Magazine—that of allowing Brethren other than installed Masters and "Wardens to be present during the transaction of business . He admitted that , according to the Book of Constitutions , Prov . Grand Lodges consisted only of such Brethren ; but stated that he did not think it necessary to make any change in the custom
which had grown up of allowing other Brethren to be present , as there was no important business to be transacted ; but should such business ever arise , on its being notified to him that unqualified Brethren were present in Prov . Grand Lodge , he should request them to withdraw . To our thinking , the question of the importance or non-importance of the business to be transacted has nothing to do with the matter—all we have to look to is the legal construction of Prov . Grand Lodge . A Provincial , like the Supreme Grand Lodge , consists only of installed Masters , Past Masters , and Wardens , and we are sure that the other Brethren would never complain of
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Gband Lodge
over in silenqe . Three officers will have had their salaries raised ; the fourth may fairly ask- ~ are not his claims to be considered also ^^ ^ The vote of an additional £ 100 per annum to each fund of the Benevolent Institution—the Aged Masons and the Wido the proceedings of t ^
Provincial Grand Lodges
PEOVINCIAL GEAND LODGES
It is rarely that the bu special rem ark , though , should it do so , we should not hesitate to express our o > pim ceedings in the province of Ee ^ to the E ^ should not call attention ^ repprt---but for the aeknowledgment which was there made * by so
eminent a legal authority as the Prov ; G . M ^ Bro Cooper ( who stands deservedly lawyer ) ^ of the correctness of the views en Mhjgazine as to the proper mode of openin Brp . Copper admitted t ^ Prov . Grand Lodge within a private Lodge , because he found the practice in existence when he came into office ; arid his attention had
not been called to its impropriety . JSPo sooner , however * was his attention directed to the subject through the pages of the jFV ^^ a ^ o ;? ^ Magazine , than he inquired into it as a constitutional lawyer ; and , having convinced himself of the correctness of our views , determined at once to reform the practice , so far as the province over which he presides is concerned ; and we cannot doubt that the example so well set will speedily be followed by other Prov . Grand Masters , on reading
the observations of Bro . Cooper on the subject . TheE . W . Prov . G . M . also alluded to another irregularity in Prov . Grand Lodges pointed out in the Freemasons ' Magazine—that of allowing Brethren other than installed Masters and "Wardens to be present during the transaction of business . He admitted that , according to the Book of Constitutions , Prov . Grand Lodges consisted only of such Brethren ; but stated that he did not think it necessary to make any change in the custom
which had grown up of allowing other Brethren to be present , as there was no important business to be transacted ; but should such business ever arise , on its being notified to him that unqualified Brethren were present in Prov . Grand Lodge , he should request them to withdraw . To our thinking , the question of the importance or non-importance of the business to be transacted has nothing to do with the matter—all we have to look to is the legal construction of Prov . Grand Lodge . A Provincial , like the Supreme Grand Lodge , consists only of installed Masters , Past Masters , and Wardens , and we are sure that the other Brethren would never complain of