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we were not speaking without book , is well enough illustrated by " S criba , " who points to the Howe Lodge at fi ^ which were subscribed in debentures by Masons , who , on the opening of the Lodge cancelled their debentures , and thus endowed the Lodge with a building rent Afree , exempt from the ch influence , arid of dEaUihg under the control of strangers . This is an example crtier ^ m
" Scriba " does not however state how * the title is secured , whether freehold , and yvhether in the Lodge , Prov . G . Lodge or Grand Lodge This is a matter of moment , and in order to be allowed to hold lands in mortmain , it is very desirable Lodges shoidd obtain ^ u ^ regulations of the Privy Council , a licence frx > m th ^ acquiring freehold property .
It should be the olyect Avhpre possible , to provide that every M asonic building belonging to the Craft shPuld be freehold . By carefully actingAtpon this principle , the Society of ^ ^ the freehold of nearly all their mee ^^
that even if a meeting or cohgr ^^ secured that it acquires a power to let the m The like would sometime a period of great zeal a Lodge m its prosperity w ^
There Me , at present , very few of the provinces which possess provincial halls . In some of the provinces it is desirable that the Provincial Grand Lodge should make circuit in the various towxis which are most considerable , but in some provinces there is a metropolitan capital distinctly marked , which becomes the settled seat of the Prov . Grand Lodge . In all such cities a Prov . G . Lodge shouId beprovided , which could be effectually done by the organization of provincial resources .
A Modern PalajdiK . — General Franks thus speaks of an act of distinguished gallantry on the paxt of one of bis officers at the battle of Sultanpore , fought on the 22 nd Fehruary last : — " Lieut . T . T . McLeod limes , ofthe engineers , has been of the greatest assistance to me with his professional aid . I have already mentioned his distinguished conduct at the attack on the fort of Dhawrara . It is now
his due to relate that at the action of Sultanpore , far in advance of the leading skirmisher , he was the first to secure a gun which the eriemy were abandoning . Retiring from this , they rallied round another gun farther hack , from which the shot would in another instant have ploughed through our- advancing columns , when
Lieut . Innes rode up , unsupported , shot the gunner about to apply the inatch , and remaining undaunted at his post- —the mark for a hundred matchlock men sheltered in some adjoining huts—kept the artillerymen at bay until assistance reached him . For this act of gallantry , surpassed by none within my experience , it is my intention to recommend him for the honourable distinction of the Victoria Crom"
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we were not speaking without book , is well enough illustrated by " S criba , " who points to the Howe Lodge at fi ^ which were subscribed in debentures by Masons , who , on the opening of the Lodge cancelled their debentures , and thus endowed the Lodge with a building rent Afree , exempt from the ch influence , arid of dEaUihg under the control of strangers . This is an example crtier ^ m
" Scriba " does not however state how * the title is secured , whether freehold , and yvhether in the Lodge , Prov . G . Lodge or Grand Lodge This is a matter of moment , and in order to be allowed to hold lands in mortmain , it is very desirable Lodges shoidd obtain ^ u ^ regulations of the Privy Council , a licence frx > m th ^ acquiring freehold property .
It should be the olyect Avhpre possible , to provide that every M asonic building belonging to the Craft shPuld be freehold . By carefully actingAtpon this principle , the Society of ^ ^ the freehold of nearly all their mee ^^
that even if a meeting or cohgr ^^ secured that it acquires a power to let the m The like would sometime a period of great zeal a Lodge m its prosperity w ^
There Me , at present , very few of the provinces which possess provincial halls . In some of the provinces it is desirable that the Provincial Grand Lodge should make circuit in the various towxis which are most considerable , but in some provinces there is a metropolitan capital distinctly marked , which becomes the settled seat of the Prov . Grand Lodge . In all such cities a Prov . G . Lodge shouId beprovided , which could be effectually done by the organization of provincial resources .
A Modern PalajdiK . — General Franks thus speaks of an act of distinguished gallantry on the paxt of one of bis officers at the battle of Sultanpore , fought on the 22 nd Fehruary last : — " Lieut . T . T . McLeod limes , ofthe engineers , has been of the greatest assistance to me with his professional aid . I have already mentioned his distinguished conduct at the attack on the fort of Dhawrara . It is now
his due to relate that at the action of Sultanpore , far in advance of the leading skirmisher , he was the first to secure a gun which the eriemy were abandoning . Retiring from this , they rallied round another gun farther hack , from which the shot would in another instant have ploughed through our- advancing columns , when
Lieut . Innes rode up , unsupported , shot the gunner about to apply the inatch , and remaining undaunted at his post- —the mark for a hundred matchlock men sheltered in some adjoining huts—kept the artillerymen at bay until assistance reached him . For this act of gallantry , surpassed by none within my experience , it is my intention to recommend him for the honourable distinction of the Victoria Crom"