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Correspondence.
TO THE EDITOR 01 THE FREEMASONS MAGAZINE-AND MASONIC MIRROR , Sir and Brother , —You will now learn , no doubt with feelings of pain , a determination which will be carried out at no distant period , unless immediate measures are adopted by Grand Lodge , or the W . M . the Grand Master , for benefiting subordinate Lodges in the West Indies ; and such can only be done by the appointment of fit and proper Masoos as Provincial Grand Masters;—men who , although not blessed with title or honours , are yet good and true , and have a perfect knowledge of our institution .
The object is to call a meeting , at one of the central West-India islands , of delegates from each Lodge holding of England , for the purpose of propounding measures for the establishment or formation of a "West-India Grand Lodge . ' It is not known as yet who the representative from this island will be ; but the general opinion of the Craft is that it will he Bro . Daniel Hart , whose exertions in the cause of Freemasonry are undeniable . I will on a future occasion give further particulars .
A petition to the Grand Master is now in course of signature , and will shortly be forwarded , praying the appointment of Bro . Hart as Provincial Grand Master . I am , Sir and Brother , Yours very fraternally , Port of Spain , 8 th May , 1856 . Y . B .
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAG AZOTE AND MASONIC MIRROR . MASONIC CLIQUES .- ^ \ ^— , / A Bath , June 15 , 1855 .
Dear Sir and Brother . —I have not been StiL ^ inattentive reader of the anonymous quarrel that has taken place in your columns , in reference to Freemasonry in the province of Somersetshire , and in the city of Bath . I should have continued silent , had I not , as W . M . of the Royal Sussex Lodge , been alluded to in u Justitia ' s" last letter . I now give that individual notice , that if this correspondence is to be continued , and he has aught to say in reply , that he will copv my example , and authenticate his statements with his own
signature ; for I decline a controversy with anonymous writers , and nothing but a sense of duty to myself and Brethren would induce me now to reply to him . I propose to divide my reply into two divisions—1 st . Craft Masonry ; 2 nd . Knight Templary . With regard to my Lodge having admitted a Brother as a joining member who Lad hissed P . M . Percy Wells while officiating as W . M . of the B . C . L ., the facts are these : —The Brother in question had audibly hissed a remark from the
chair , the occupant immediately ordered his removal , and he was then and there removed , without any opportunity being offered him to " publicly own his fault . " He being proposed as a joining member of my Lodge , in open Lodge I investigated the circumstance fully , in the presence of the S . V . of the B . C . L ., and the following letters will explain the facts attending on it : — "Bath , February 5 , 1856 .
" Dear Sir and Brother , —1 inclose you the letter you were kind enough to send me . I showed it in confidence , without mentioning your name , to the proposer and seconder of the writer ( my Wardens ); they with me consider it a most ample apology for an unintentional breach of an unknown law . I have great pleasure in informing you that the Brother was unanimously elected , after due inquiry in open Lodge , a private interview between myself and the Brother , and after the perusal of his letter by myself and Wardens . I did not vote for either of the candidates brought forward ; I left the matter to be decided by the
members . " The following letter is addressed to the Sec . B . C . L ., und If ? referred to above : —• " Bath " , . December (> , LS /> 5 . " . Dear Sir and Brother , — - ! beg through you to apologize to the Brethren of the B . O . L ., that not boing aware of a certain prohibition laid down in the Book of Constitutions , I inadvertently on the last Lodge night transgressed in one of
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Correspondence.
TO THE EDITOR 01 THE FREEMASONS MAGAZINE-AND MASONIC MIRROR , Sir and Brother , —You will now learn , no doubt with feelings of pain , a determination which will be carried out at no distant period , unless immediate measures are adopted by Grand Lodge , or the W . M . the Grand Master , for benefiting subordinate Lodges in the West Indies ; and such can only be done by the appointment of fit and proper Masoos as Provincial Grand Masters;—men who , although not blessed with title or honours , are yet good and true , and have a perfect knowledge of our institution .
The object is to call a meeting , at one of the central West-India islands , of delegates from each Lodge holding of England , for the purpose of propounding measures for the establishment or formation of a "West-India Grand Lodge . ' It is not known as yet who the representative from this island will be ; but the general opinion of the Craft is that it will he Bro . Daniel Hart , whose exertions in the cause of Freemasonry are undeniable . I will on a future occasion give further particulars .
A petition to the Grand Master is now in course of signature , and will shortly be forwarded , praying the appointment of Bro . Hart as Provincial Grand Master . I am , Sir and Brother , Yours very fraternally , Port of Spain , 8 th May , 1856 . Y . B .
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAG AZOTE AND MASONIC MIRROR . MASONIC CLIQUES .- ^ \ ^— , / A Bath , June 15 , 1855 .
Dear Sir and Brother . —I have not been StiL ^ inattentive reader of the anonymous quarrel that has taken place in your columns , in reference to Freemasonry in the province of Somersetshire , and in the city of Bath . I should have continued silent , had I not , as W . M . of the Royal Sussex Lodge , been alluded to in u Justitia ' s" last letter . I now give that individual notice , that if this correspondence is to be continued , and he has aught to say in reply , that he will copv my example , and authenticate his statements with his own
signature ; for I decline a controversy with anonymous writers , and nothing but a sense of duty to myself and Brethren would induce me now to reply to him . I propose to divide my reply into two divisions—1 st . Craft Masonry ; 2 nd . Knight Templary . With regard to my Lodge having admitted a Brother as a joining member who Lad hissed P . M . Percy Wells while officiating as W . M . of the B . C . L ., the facts are these : —The Brother in question had audibly hissed a remark from the
chair , the occupant immediately ordered his removal , and he was then and there removed , without any opportunity being offered him to " publicly own his fault . " He being proposed as a joining member of my Lodge , in open Lodge I investigated the circumstance fully , in the presence of the S . V . of the B . C . L ., and the following letters will explain the facts attending on it : — "Bath , February 5 , 1856 .
" Dear Sir and Brother , —1 inclose you the letter you were kind enough to send me . I showed it in confidence , without mentioning your name , to the proposer and seconder of the writer ( my Wardens ); they with me consider it a most ample apology for an unintentional breach of an unknown law . I have great pleasure in informing you that the Brother was unanimously elected , after due inquiry in open Lodge , a private interview between myself and the Brother , and after the perusal of his letter by myself and Wardens . I did not vote for either of the candidates brought forward ; I left the matter to be decided by the
members . " The following letter is addressed to the Sec . B . C . L ., und If ? referred to above : —• " Bath " , . December (> , LS /> 5 . " . Dear Sir and Brother , — - ! beg through you to apologize to the Brethren of the B . O . L ., that not boing aware of a certain prohibition laid down in the Book of Constitutions , I inadvertently on the last Lodge night transgressed in one of