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will agree with me in thinking ( Heary hear . ) I know of no oney and I believe there he ^ done more- —who has rendered more y ^ Bro . ^ hite . ^ ^^ (^ thought moreof Freemasonry tha ^ more time to it . I feel confident that the Brethren will all agree with me in the
motion I have in ^ upon him this mark of our consider vices ^ but we are-giving as it w that the present G . Sec . "will derive the greatest advantage from the assistance and [ insl ^ uptipn M sp competent to assist him in every department . But Brp . White is s ^ pw e ^
no more aboiit hini , and I shall sin ^ have readv ( Gheers . ) I may just sa ^ that d to be GiMl ., Lfeelthat ^ I have been , and I have often heard ^ similar terms ^
Bro . Hall , P rov . G hardly necessary i ^ at ^^ i ^ beeh already seconded in the breasts of all t ^^ could be more pleatsant than to reward the merits of ail old * Medy and feitfefh I servant likp Bro . WW done than at the foot of the statue erected to their late G ; M ^ He looked oh it hot
only as a trihute of respect of their rev > rehce for the memo seconded ^ e motion ^ to egress a M ^ that : it might last many years . ( Cheers . ) Carried unanimously amid loud cheering .
ROYAL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION . The M . W /^ G Benevolent ^ Institution for Aged Freemasons and their Widows , with the alterations in the Rules and Regulations , as adopted at a Special General Meeting of the Governors and Subscribers of that Institution , for approval and sanction of Grand Lodge . The following are the alterations proposed , viz ; : — -- " "
( 1 . ) " A Special General Meeting shall be held on the requisition , in writing , of twelve Life Governors , instead of eighteen ; ten to be a quorum : should that number not be in attendance within fifteen minutes of the time specified 'in the advertisement , no business shall be transacted . ( 2 . ) "A donation of £ 50 , in one or more payments within five years , instead of three years , shall constitute the donor a Vipe-President of the Institution . ( 3 . ) " That the law requiring one-third of the annual subscriptions to be invested , be abrogated .
( 4 . ) " JSTo Brother having an income of £ 25 per annum shall be admitted to the benefit of the Institution . " Formerly it was £ 20 . ( 5 . ) " On the death of any male annuitant leaving a widow ( to whom he was married not les ^ than ten years before his election , and who shall be not less than fifty-five years of age , or altogether incapacitated from obtaining her support ) not
otherwise provided for , she shall be entitled , if approved by the Committee , to receive from the Widows' Fund one-half of the pension of such annuitant , and if she be a resident in the asylum , to continue such residence until the third election next after his death , in order to give her the opportunity of applying for election on the Widows ' Fund . "
On clause 1 , — Bro . Savage said twelve was a small number , and he should think there would be no difficulty in getting eighteen . Bro . Henry George Warren said there was great difficulty in getting the signatures of eighteen governors , and that was the reason they proposed to reduce it to twelve . He had himself found the difficulty of getting eighteen Life
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will agree with me in thinking ( Heary hear . ) I know of no oney and I believe there he ^ done more- —who has rendered more y ^ Bro . ^ hite . ^ ^^ (^ thought moreof Freemasonry tha ^ more time to it . I feel confident that the Brethren will all agree with me in the
motion I have in ^ upon him this mark of our consider vices ^ but we are-giving as it w that the present G . Sec . "will derive the greatest advantage from the assistance and [ insl ^ uptipn M sp competent to assist him in every department . But Brp . White is s ^ pw e ^
no more aboiit hini , and I shall sin ^ have readv ( Gheers . ) I may just sa ^ that d to be GiMl ., Lfeelthat ^ I have been , and I have often heard ^ similar terms ^
Bro . Hall , P rov . G hardly necessary i ^ at ^^ i ^ beeh already seconded in the breasts of all t ^^ could be more pleatsant than to reward the merits of ail old * Medy and feitfefh I servant likp Bro . WW done than at the foot of the statue erected to their late G ; M ^ He looked oh it hot
only as a trihute of respect of their rev > rehce for the memo seconded ^ e motion ^ to egress a M ^ that : it might last many years . ( Cheers . ) Carried unanimously amid loud cheering .
ROYAL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION . The M . W /^ G Benevolent ^ Institution for Aged Freemasons and their Widows , with the alterations in the Rules and Regulations , as adopted at a Special General Meeting of the Governors and Subscribers of that Institution , for approval and sanction of Grand Lodge . The following are the alterations proposed , viz ; : — -- " "
( 1 . ) " A Special General Meeting shall be held on the requisition , in writing , of twelve Life Governors , instead of eighteen ; ten to be a quorum : should that number not be in attendance within fifteen minutes of the time specified 'in the advertisement , no business shall be transacted . ( 2 . ) "A donation of £ 50 , in one or more payments within five years , instead of three years , shall constitute the donor a Vipe-President of the Institution . ( 3 . ) " That the law requiring one-third of the annual subscriptions to be invested , be abrogated .
( 4 . ) " JSTo Brother having an income of £ 25 per annum shall be admitted to the benefit of the Institution . " Formerly it was £ 20 . ( 5 . ) " On the death of any male annuitant leaving a widow ( to whom he was married not les ^ than ten years before his election , and who shall be not less than fifty-five years of age , or altogether incapacitated from obtaining her support ) not
otherwise provided for , she shall be entitled , if approved by the Committee , to receive from the Widows' Fund one-half of the pension of such annuitant , and if she be a resident in the asylum , to continue such residence until the third election next after his death , in order to give her the opportunity of applying for election on the Widows ' Fund . "
On clause 1 , — Bro . Savage said twelve was a small number , and he should think there would be no difficulty in getting eighteen . Bro . Henry George Warren said there was great difficulty in getting the signatures of eighteen governors , and that was the reason they proposed to reduce it to twelve . He had himself found the difficulty of getting eighteen Life