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Our Institutions.
OUR INSTITUTIONS .
WE published last week the usnal brief particulars of the amounts contributed to our three Masonic Charities during the past year . The total represented the magnificent sum of £ 49 , 762 lis 5 d , which , as compared with the £ 44 , 731 9 s 3 d raised in 1879 , showed an increase
of £ 5 , 031 2 s 2 d . We purpose now examining these particulars with some minuteness , so that our readers may be in a better position to judge for themselves what was done , and the better understand to what , if any , cause the differences in the incomes of the several Institutions are
attributable . The Royal Masonic Institution for Girls , as first in the order of priority , as a matter of course , has the first claim on our attention . Under the head of " Donations and Subscriptions " is entered the sum of £ 14 , 726 8 s lid , but
large as this sum is , there are other amounts received by the School during the year , which , if they are to be placed in any category at all , must be looked upon as " Donations . " There is , firstly , the Bentley Shaw memorial of one thousand guineas ( £ 1 , 050 ) , raised by West Yorkshire
for the purpose of commemorating in perpetuity the virtues and Masonic services of the late Bro . Bentley Shaw , who for so many years was Deputy Grand Master 1 of the Province , and who , from 1875 till his death , was likewise its Provincial Grand Superintendent of Royal Arch
Masonry . Then the Special Vote of £ 300 b y the Supreme Grand Chapter , and the Legacy of £ 100 , cannot be deemed otherwise than gifts . Therefore , superadding these three amounts to the £ 14 , 726 8 s lid , we have a total of £ 16 , 176 8 s lid to represent the "Donations and Subscriptions" to the Girls' School in 1880 . The Per .
manent Income in the shape of Dividends was £ 1 , 245 , to which must be added the Annnal Grants by Grand Lodge ( £ 150 ) and Grand Chapter ( £ 10 10 s ) , making the permanent revenue £ 1 , 405 10 s . These two sources of supply stand to each other in the ratio of about eleven and a half
to one . The miscellaneous items amount to £ 205 12 s , and swell the grand total for the year to £ 17 , 787 10 s lid . Next in order is the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution with £ 16 , 301 4 s . Here , again , the Donations and Subscriptions amounting to £ 13 , 200 8 s 6 d must be swelled to
£ 13 , 600 8 s 6 dby tbe addition of the Special Grant ( £ 300 ) by Supreme Grand Chapter , and the Legacy of £ 100 . lakrag the several sources of Permanent Income , we find they together reach £ 2 , 682 16 s 4 d , made up of Dividends and interest £ 1 , 732 16 s 4 d , and Annual Grants by Grand Lod
ge ( £ 800 ) and Grand Chapter ( £ 150 ) . Miscellaneous item s are insignificant , being only £ 18 . Comparing the donations with the fixed income , we find the former is to the latter in the ratio of about five to one . The Royal Masonic Institution for Boys brings up the
rear with £ 15 , 673 15 s 8 d . Of this amount £ 14 , 318 8 s 5 d are set down as Donations and Subscri ptions . To this add the Legacy of £ 100 and the Special Grant of Grand Chapter ( £ 300 ) , together with £ 357 for purchased admissions , and we arrive at a total under this bead of
* 15 , 075 8 s 5 d . The Permanent Income is very limited , consisting of the Graud Lodge Annual Grant of £ 150 , ™ e Grand Chapter Grant of £ 10 10 s , and Dividends * 38110 s 9 d , making a total together of £ 542 0 s 9 d . The Miscellaneous items reach £ 56 6 s 6 d . If we now compare our several Institutions one with another as regards these three different heads of revenue ,
Our Institutions.
we arrive at the following results . In respect of Donations and Subscriptions , the Girls' School stands first , with 16 , 176 8 s lid . Next in order is the Boys' School , with £ 15 , 075 8 s 5 d , and last , the Benevolent , with £ 13 , 600 8 s 6 d . In respect of Permanent Income , the
Benevolent Institution is a long way in front , with the sum of £ 2 , 682 16 s 4 d , the Girls' School following with £ 1 , 405 10 s , and then tho Boys' School , with £ 542 0 s 9 d . In Miscellaneous , the Girls' School is first , with £ 205 12 s ; the Boys' School second , with £ 56 6 s 6 d , and
the Benevolent third , with £ 18 . It results from this that , while the Girls' School met with the largest amount of support last year , its Permanent Income is little more than one-half of that of the Benevolent , while it is rather more than double that of the Boys' School . The Boys' School ,
with the next largest share of donations , is most wofully behind in respect of Permanent Income . As , indeed , onr readers are well aware , it is only in consequence ^ of the brilliant success of last year , that it has been enabled to raise the amount of its investments somewhat beyond the
figure they stood at when it was resolved on erecting the present School , and the whole of its funded property was sold out in order that it might form the nucleus of the fund to be raised for building . It has now invested exactly £ 15 , 000 stock which , at the average rate of four per cent .,
gives £ 600 a year , the difference between which sum and that actually received in 1880 being accounted for by the fact that , from tho latest investment having been made within the last six months , the Institution cannot as yet have derived any benefit from the providence of its rulers . The
Subscrip tions , & c , stand to its Permanent Income—as indicated by the receipts for 1880—in the ratio of about twenty-seven to one ; or , if we take the full amount at £ 600 , at about twenty to one , as compared with the eleven and a half to one of the Girls' School , and five to one of the
Benevolent . In other words , the Benevolent is about four times , and the Girls' School not far short of twice , as well off , in the important source of income , as the Boys' School . No doubt , in the course of years , these differences will be lessened ; but for some time to come it will behove the
Craft generally to bear this fact in consideration . There is one other point to which we feel justified in drawing attention . The Benevolent receives annually from Grand Lodge £ 800 , and Grand Chapter £ 150 ; or , together £ 950 ; while each of the Schools receives
only £ 150 from the former and £ 10 10 s from the latter . The Benevolent , therefore , receives nearly three times as much from these bodies as the Boys' and Girls' Schools taken together . We are speaking from memory , but we believe we are correct in saying that the grant of £ 150 per
annum to each School was fixed as a kind of annual composition in lieu of half-a-crown per head for each gentleman initiated into Freemasonry in the year . This plan was adopted in 3889 , when the average anrnial number of initiates must have been at the very outside 1 , 200 . Now , at
the Masonic banquet given by ex-Lord Mayor , Sir P . W . Truscott G . J . W ., His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales G . M ., in speaking of the amazing progress of Freemasonry during these latter years , mentioned in illustration of his point that about 10 , 000 gentlemen were annually received
into the Fraternity . Thus , if the olcl half-crown payment per initiate were now in force , each of the Schools would receive about £ 1 , 250 a year , or eig ht and one-third times as much as it actually receives . Now , we clo not wish to see any one of our Institutions too liberally patronised by-Grand Lodge at the expense of the others , but it
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Our Institutions.
OUR INSTITUTIONS .
WE published last week the usnal brief particulars of the amounts contributed to our three Masonic Charities during the past year . The total represented the magnificent sum of £ 49 , 762 lis 5 d , which , as compared with the £ 44 , 731 9 s 3 d raised in 1879 , showed an increase
of £ 5 , 031 2 s 2 d . We purpose now examining these particulars with some minuteness , so that our readers may be in a better position to judge for themselves what was done , and the better understand to what , if any , cause the differences in the incomes of the several Institutions are
attributable . The Royal Masonic Institution for Girls , as first in the order of priority , as a matter of course , has the first claim on our attention . Under the head of " Donations and Subscriptions " is entered the sum of £ 14 , 726 8 s lid , but
large as this sum is , there are other amounts received by the School during the year , which , if they are to be placed in any category at all , must be looked upon as " Donations . " There is , firstly , the Bentley Shaw memorial of one thousand guineas ( £ 1 , 050 ) , raised by West Yorkshire
for the purpose of commemorating in perpetuity the virtues and Masonic services of the late Bro . Bentley Shaw , who for so many years was Deputy Grand Master 1 of the Province , and who , from 1875 till his death , was likewise its Provincial Grand Superintendent of Royal Arch
Masonry . Then the Special Vote of £ 300 b y the Supreme Grand Chapter , and the Legacy of £ 100 , cannot be deemed otherwise than gifts . Therefore , superadding these three amounts to the £ 14 , 726 8 s lid , we have a total of £ 16 , 176 8 s lid to represent the "Donations and Subscriptions" to the Girls' School in 1880 . The Per .
manent Income in the shape of Dividends was £ 1 , 245 , to which must be added the Annnal Grants by Grand Lodge ( £ 150 ) and Grand Chapter ( £ 10 10 s ) , making the permanent revenue £ 1 , 405 10 s . These two sources of supply stand to each other in the ratio of about eleven and a half
to one . The miscellaneous items amount to £ 205 12 s , and swell the grand total for the year to £ 17 , 787 10 s lid . Next in order is the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution with £ 16 , 301 4 s . Here , again , the Donations and Subscriptions amounting to £ 13 , 200 8 s 6 d must be swelled to
£ 13 , 600 8 s 6 dby tbe addition of the Special Grant ( £ 300 ) by Supreme Grand Chapter , and the Legacy of £ 100 . lakrag the several sources of Permanent Income , we find they together reach £ 2 , 682 16 s 4 d , made up of Dividends and interest £ 1 , 732 16 s 4 d , and Annual Grants by Grand Lod
ge ( £ 800 ) and Grand Chapter ( £ 150 ) . Miscellaneous item s are insignificant , being only £ 18 . Comparing the donations with the fixed income , we find the former is to the latter in the ratio of about five to one . The Royal Masonic Institution for Boys brings up the
rear with £ 15 , 673 15 s 8 d . Of this amount £ 14 , 318 8 s 5 d are set down as Donations and Subscri ptions . To this add the Legacy of £ 100 and the Special Grant of Grand Chapter ( £ 300 ) , together with £ 357 for purchased admissions , and we arrive at a total under this bead of
* 15 , 075 8 s 5 d . The Permanent Income is very limited , consisting of the Graud Lodge Annual Grant of £ 150 , ™ e Grand Chapter Grant of £ 10 10 s , and Dividends * 38110 s 9 d , making a total together of £ 542 0 s 9 d . The Miscellaneous items reach £ 56 6 s 6 d . If we now compare our several Institutions one with another as regards these three different heads of revenue ,
Our Institutions.
we arrive at the following results . In respect of Donations and Subscriptions , the Girls' School stands first , with 16 , 176 8 s lid . Next in order is the Boys' School , with £ 15 , 075 8 s 5 d , and last , the Benevolent , with £ 13 , 600 8 s 6 d . In respect of Permanent Income , the
Benevolent Institution is a long way in front , with the sum of £ 2 , 682 16 s 4 d , the Girls' School following with £ 1 , 405 10 s , and then tho Boys' School , with £ 542 0 s 9 d . In Miscellaneous , the Girls' School is first , with £ 205 12 s ; the Boys' School second , with £ 56 6 s 6 d , and
the Benevolent third , with £ 18 . It results from this that , while the Girls' School met with the largest amount of support last year , its Permanent Income is little more than one-half of that of the Benevolent , while it is rather more than double that of the Boys' School . The Boys' School ,
with the next largest share of donations , is most wofully behind in respect of Permanent Income . As , indeed , onr readers are well aware , it is only in consequence ^ of the brilliant success of last year , that it has been enabled to raise the amount of its investments somewhat beyond the
figure they stood at when it was resolved on erecting the present School , and the whole of its funded property was sold out in order that it might form the nucleus of the fund to be raised for building . It has now invested exactly £ 15 , 000 stock which , at the average rate of four per cent .,
gives £ 600 a year , the difference between which sum and that actually received in 1880 being accounted for by the fact that , from tho latest investment having been made within the last six months , the Institution cannot as yet have derived any benefit from the providence of its rulers . The
Subscrip tions , & c , stand to its Permanent Income—as indicated by the receipts for 1880—in the ratio of about twenty-seven to one ; or , if we take the full amount at £ 600 , at about twenty to one , as compared with the eleven and a half to one of the Girls' School , and five to one of the
Benevolent . In other words , the Benevolent is about four times , and the Girls' School not far short of twice , as well off , in the important source of income , as the Boys' School . No doubt , in the course of years , these differences will be lessened ; but for some time to come it will behove the
Craft generally to bear this fact in consideration . There is one other point to which we feel justified in drawing attention . The Benevolent receives annually from Grand Lodge £ 800 , and Grand Chapter £ 150 ; or , together £ 950 ; while each of the Schools receives
only £ 150 from the former and £ 10 10 s from the latter . The Benevolent , therefore , receives nearly three times as much from these bodies as the Boys' and Girls' Schools taken together . We are speaking from memory , but we believe we are correct in saying that the grant of £ 150 per
annum to each School was fixed as a kind of annual composition in lieu of half-a-crown per head for each gentleman initiated into Freemasonry in the year . This plan was adopted in 3889 , when the average anrnial number of initiates must have been at the very outside 1 , 200 . Now , at
the Masonic banquet given by ex-Lord Mayor , Sir P . W . Truscott G . J . W ., His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales G . M ., in speaking of the amazing progress of Freemasonry during these latter years , mentioned in illustration of his point that about 10 , 000 gentlemen were annually received
into the Fraternity . Thus , if the olcl half-crown payment per initiate were now in force , each of the Schools would receive about £ 1 , 250 a year , or eig ht and one-third times as much as it actually receives . Now , we clo not wish to see any one of our Institutions too liberally patronised by-Grand Lodge at the expense of the others , but it