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Ireland.
mensurate with the importance of the object to be attained , collected enrolled , and convoked the present consistory . ' The several candidates having undergone the usual severe scrutiny , and being critically catechised b y Companion Thomas Alb right , they retired to the robing room , and remained thereuntil "The Chapter " was instituted with all " the pomp and circumstances" customary on similar occasions , and each of the three acting Grand Principals . Tenison
Companions Benson , , and Greene had been invested with the toga , and assumed the sceptre of superior authority . The candidates were then introduced from the corridor , when the Deputy Grand Secretary of Ireland went through the mystic workings of this beautiful system seriatim , all the ranks , rights , and immunities of Companionship being finally conferred by the Princi pals . The Brethren , after expressing then ; thanks to Companion T . AVri ht for his presentation to them of
g a portion of the requisite costumes , made arrangements to bring the future operations of the conclave forward , with a regularity and splendour suited to that dignity and earnestness seldom claimed , but universally conceded to the members of a body which has attained so brilliant a zenith . The following Companions were by the unanimous voice elected officers for the ensuing twelve months : —
PRINCIPALS . George James Baldwin , Anne , St . Mount-Joy Square . George Fitton , Abbey Street . Thomas Joseph Tenison , Gloucester Street . HIGH PRIEST . Rev . Thomas Carmichael , A . B ., Baggot Street .
SOJOURNERS . John Hazlett , Lower Dominick Street . Hercules Ellis , Hardwicke Street . Richard Caulfield Martin , Merrion Square . TREASURER . AVilliam Murray , Eccles Street .
SCRIBES . John M'Nally , Upper Dominick Street . Terence Hughes , Gardiner Street . INNER GUARD . Hon . Theobald F . AV . Butler , Rathmines .
June 1 . —The Grancl Lodge of Ireland met on this evening for the dispatch of business . b AVm . AVhite , Esq ., on the Throne . A return of the Brethren elected to serve the offices of Master and AA aniens m the Metropolitan Lod ges was handed in , and applications accordingly made from more bodies , praying the concurrence and sanction of the members of the Grand Lodof Ireland to such relation
ge . Inere was then a close investi gation entered upon , and which resulted in the approval and appointment of all those Brethren who had complied with the regulation , which requires " that no officer shall be approved of , who having served a former office , shall be found not to have attended , either b y person or proxy , four times in his half year of office "
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Ireland.
mensurate with the importance of the object to be attained , collected enrolled , and convoked the present consistory . ' The several candidates having undergone the usual severe scrutiny , and being critically catechised b y Companion Thomas Alb right , they retired to the robing room , and remained thereuntil "The Chapter " was instituted with all " the pomp and circumstances" customary on similar occasions , and each of the three acting Grand Principals . Tenison
Companions Benson , , and Greene had been invested with the toga , and assumed the sceptre of superior authority . The candidates were then introduced from the corridor , when the Deputy Grand Secretary of Ireland went through the mystic workings of this beautiful system seriatim , all the ranks , rights , and immunities of Companionship being finally conferred by the Princi pals . The Brethren , after expressing then ; thanks to Companion T . AVri ht for his presentation to them of
g a portion of the requisite costumes , made arrangements to bring the future operations of the conclave forward , with a regularity and splendour suited to that dignity and earnestness seldom claimed , but universally conceded to the members of a body which has attained so brilliant a zenith . The following Companions were by the unanimous voice elected officers for the ensuing twelve months : —
PRINCIPALS . George James Baldwin , Anne , St . Mount-Joy Square . George Fitton , Abbey Street . Thomas Joseph Tenison , Gloucester Street . HIGH PRIEST . Rev . Thomas Carmichael , A . B ., Baggot Street .
SOJOURNERS . John Hazlett , Lower Dominick Street . Hercules Ellis , Hardwicke Street . Richard Caulfield Martin , Merrion Square . TREASURER . AVilliam Murray , Eccles Street .
SCRIBES . John M'Nally , Upper Dominick Street . Terence Hughes , Gardiner Street . INNER GUARD . Hon . Theobald F . AV . Butler , Rathmines .
June 1 . —The Grancl Lodge of Ireland met on this evening for the dispatch of business . b AVm . AVhite , Esq ., on the Throne . A return of the Brethren elected to serve the offices of Master and AA aniens m the Metropolitan Lod ges was handed in , and applications accordingly made from more bodies , praying the concurrence and sanction of the members of the Grand Lodof Ireland to such relation
ge . Inere was then a close investi gation entered upon , and which resulted in the approval and appointment of all those Brethren who had complied with the regulation , which requires " that no officer shall be approved of , who having served a former office , shall be found not to have attended , either b y person or proxy , four times in his half year of office "