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Notice.
NOTICE .
The EDitok requests that all communications may be sent to him , at 74-5 , Great Queen-street , Lincoin ' s ^ Inn-fields , London , W . C ., by the 20 tb of each month , at latest , to insure their insertion . The '^ FbeemasonsVMJagazine and Masonic Mibeob . "—The Brethren are respectfully informed , that the Volume for 1856 , in a handsomely e mbossed symbolic cover ^ is now ready , price 13 s . 6 d . Covers may be had at the office , price Is . ; . or the Brethren may have their Numbers bound for Is . 6 d .
became defunct ; and we would advise the Brethren to petition the M . W . G . M . to appoint a new Prov . G . M . ; at the same time—being for a colony , with the residents of which , as well as with the standing of the Brethren , the G . M . may probably be unacquainted—calling the attention of the M . W . G . M . to the names of two w * more Brethren whose position is such as is likely to meet with the approbation alike of the G . M . and the Brethren of the colony . (< P . M . O . " asks " Can an excluded member from a Private Lodge demand his Grand Lodge certificate ?"—If a Lodge feels it has good reason to do so , it will be justified in withholding the certificate , leaving it to the Brother , if dissatisfied with the decision , to bring the question before the Prov . G . M ., or , should there not be one ,
TO eOEEESPOIO ) ENTS . " The Freemasons' Magazine . "—Brethren having January numbers on hand which they do not require , may receive the current number , or the full price for them , at the office , RedLionCourt , Fleet-street . Correspondents are requested to address their communications direct to the Office , and not to the private house of any Brother , " Phqunix" asks "If a Provincial Grand Warrant has been granted to a colony , and the Prov . G . Lodge cease to meet for seven or eight years since the death of the late Prov . G . M ., what would you advise should be done for the purpose of getting up a Prov . G . Lodge again , in case you could not find any representatives of the old one V—With the death of the Prov . G . M . the Prov . Gi * and Lodge
the Board of General Purposes . " Hierophant , " Norfolk , writes , " Page 72 of the ' Book of Constitutions , ' < Of the Masters and Wardens of Lodges / sec 6 , provides : l In the Master ' s absence , the immediate P . M ., or if lie be absent , the senior P . M . of the Lodge present , shall take the chair ; " but if the W . M . be present and incapable of working the ceremonies , what is to be done , as he cannot appoint a Deputy ( unless he be a Prince of the blood royal ) ? The W . M . of my Lodge was so situated , and kept away from the Lodge when ceremonies were performed . If he be present I apprehend , if several P . Ms , are competent to work the ceremonies , the immediate P . M ., or , in his absence , the senior P . M . present , would have a right to work the
Lodge , and that the W . M . could not ( except as a matter of courtesy ) select one of them to do so . "—The W . M . has a right to call upon any Brother ( P . M . or not ) competent to work the ceremonies , to assist him in their * performance , he , however , retaining the chair and ruling the Lodge .
We have received the New York Masonic Messenger ; as a specimen of its literary contents , we have elsewhere published from its pages a short sketch , by Bro . Bobt . Morris , entitled " The Stranger , the Fatherless , and the Widow . "
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Notice.
NOTICE .
The EDitok requests that all communications may be sent to him , at 74-5 , Great Queen-street , Lincoin ' s ^ Inn-fields , London , W . C ., by the 20 tb of each month , at latest , to insure their insertion . The '^ FbeemasonsVMJagazine and Masonic Mibeob . "—The Brethren are respectfully informed , that the Volume for 1856 , in a handsomely e mbossed symbolic cover ^ is now ready , price 13 s . 6 d . Covers may be had at the office , price Is . ; . or the Brethren may have their Numbers bound for Is . 6 d .
became defunct ; and we would advise the Brethren to petition the M . W . G . M . to appoint a new Prov . G . M . ; at the same time—being for a colony , with the residents of which , as well as with the standing of the Brethren , the G . M . may probably be unacquainted—calling the attention of the M . W . G . M . to the names of two w * more Brethren whose position is such as is likely to meet with the approbation alike of the G . M . and the Brethren of the colony . (< P . M . O . " asks " Can an excluded member from a Private Lodge demand his Grand Lodge certificate ?"—If a Lodge feels it has good reason to do so , it will be justified in withholding the certificate , leaving it to the Brother , if dissatisfied with the decision , to bring the question before the Prov . G . M ., or , should there not be one ,
TO eOEEESPOIO ) ENTS . " The Freemasons' Magazine . "—Brethren having January numbers on hand which they do not require , may receive the current number , or the full price for them , at the office , RedLionCourt , Fleet-street . Correspondents are requested to address their communications direct to the Office , and not to the private house of any Brother , " Phqunix" asks "If a Provincial Grand Warrant has been granted to a colony , and the Prov . G . Lodge cease to meet for seven or eight years since the death of the late Prov . G . M ., what would you advise should be done for the purpose of getting up a Prov . G . Lodge again , in case you could not find any representatives of the old one V—With the death of the Prov . G . M . the Prov . Gi * and Lodge
the Board of General Purposes . " Hierophant , " Norfolk , writes , " Page 72 of the ' Book of Constitutions , ' < Of the Masters and Wardens of Lodges / sec 6 , provides : l In the Master ' s absence , the immediate P . M ., or if lie be absent , the senior P . M . of the Lodge present , shall take the chair ; " but if the W . M . be present and incapable of working the ceremonies , what is to be done , as he cannot appoint a Deputy ( unless he be a Prince of the blood royal ) ? The W . M . of my Lodge was so situated , and kept away from the Lodge when ceremonies were performed . If he be present I apprehend , if several P . Ms , are competent to work the ceremonies , the immediate P . M ., or , in his absence , the senior P . M . present , would have a right to work the
Lodge , and that the W . M . could not ( except as a matter of courtesy ) select one of them to do so . "—The W . M . has a right to call upon any Brother ( P . M . or not ) competent to work the ceremonies , to assist him in their * performance , he , however , retaining the chair and ruling the Lodge .
We have received the New York Masonic Messenger ; as a specimen of its literary contents , we have elsewhere published from its pages a short sketch , by Bro . Bobt . Morris , entitled " The Stranger , the Fatherless , and the Widow . "