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The Charities.
Brother R . T . Crucefix , Treasurer ; Brother Field , Secretary ; and Brother Nicholls , Collector . , ror , „„ , The following subscribers were unanimously elected on the General Committee : — Bros . Acklam , Phillips , H . Turner G . W . Pike UdaD H .
Beattie , , J . Cullington , Rackstraw , Vmck ( Rev . ) O . Kincaid , Sangster , wT ™^ T Leach , Stevens , J . L . Wison , R-L . Mountain , Shaw , Wilson , S . B . Patten , Tombleson , Yates .
The scrutineers declared the number of votes on the ballot to be m favour of Brother Thomas Horth , 213 ; another candidate 62 ; a third but few ; for a fourth none . . .. . Whereon Brother Horth was declared elected , and his wife ( 11 i consequence ofthe confinement of her husband to his bed ) attended and returned thanks .
Monthly meeting , Wth August . Nothing particular . Special General Meeting , 12 th August . R . T . Crucefix , M . D ., m the C The Chairman reported that the Brethren to whom the preparation of a dutiful address to her Most Excellent Majesty Queen Adelaide had been entrusted at the last General Meeting , had decided upon the following , which had been presented through Brother the Earl Howe .
" TO HER MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY QUEEN ABELAIDE . " M ADAM , —We the Members of a Quarterly General Meeting of the Governors and Subscribers ofthe Asylum for Worthy Aged and Decayed Freemasons , held at Freemasons' Tavern on the eighth day of July 1840 , beg leave to tender to your Majesty our most obedient duty , and to couple therewith the expression of our most sincere gratitude for the has afforded towards the
advancebenevolent aid which your Majesty ment of the objects of the Institution . . , . , „ „ fti , By such support your Majesty has graciously evinced a proof of the same feelings of ctetrity , which throug hout a long and filustrious hfe Cedlhe leading princip le of our late Sovereign and Brother King William the Fourth , of happy memory . benevolence independent of the moral sanction it
You ? Majesty ' s , confers upon the Asylum for Worthy Aged and Decayed Freemasons has a still higher claim in out- estimation , when we remember that it is extended by the hand of that Royal Mason ' s widow-Long may you live , most gracious madam , to shed by your virtues a pure and holy light upon the station to which Providence has caUed you is the sincere prayer of your Majesty ' s most devoted and faithful
^ pwfiTirs Signed by order of the General Meeting , ROBERT T HOMAS C RUCEFIX , M . D ., Chairman . " London , \ 6 th July , 1840 .
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The Charities.
Brother R . T . Crucefix , Treasurer ; Brother Field , Secretary ; and Brother Nicholls , Collector . , ror , „„ , The following subscribers were unanimously elected on the General Committee : — Bros . Acklam , Phillips , H . Turner G . W . Pike UdaD H .
Beattie , , J . Cullington , Rackstraw , Vmck ( Rev . ) O . Kincaid , Sangster , wT ™^ T Leach , Stevens , J . L . Wison , R-L . Mountain , Shaw , Wilson , S . B . Patten , Tombleson , Yates .
The scrutineers declared the number of votes on the ballot to be m favour of Brother Thomas Horth , 213 ; another candidate 62 ; a third but few ; for a fourth none . . .. . Whereon Brother Horth was declared elected , and his wife ( 11 i consequence ofthe confinement of her husband to his bed ) attended and returned thanks .
Monthly meeting , Wth August . Nothing particular . Special General Meeting , 12 th August . R . T . Crucefix , M . D ., m the C The Chairman reported that the Brethren to whom the preparation of a dutiful address to her Most Excellent Majesty Queen Adelaide had been entrusted at the last General Meeting , had decided upon the following , which had been presented through Brother the Earl Howe .
" TO HER MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY QUEEN ABELAIDE . " M ADAM , —We the Members of a Quarterly General Meeting of the Governors and Subscribers ofthe Asylum for Worthy Aged and Decayed Freemasons , held at Freemasons' Tavern on the eighth day of July 1840 , beg leave to tender to your Majesty our most obedient duty , and to couple therewith the expression of our most sincere gratitude for the has afforded towards the
advancebenevolent aid which your Majesty ment of the objects of the Institution . . , . , „ „ fti , By such support your Majesty has graciously evinced a proof of the same feelings of ctetrity , which throug hout a long and filustrious hfe Cedlhe leading princip le of our late Sovereign and Brother King William the Fourth , of happy memory . benevolence independent of the moral sanction it
You ? Majesty ' s , confers upon the Asylum for Worthy Aged and Decayed Freemasons has a still higher claim in out- estimation , when we remember that it is extended by the hand of that Royal Mason ' s widow-Long may you live , most gracious madam , to shed by your virtues a pure and holy light upon the station to which Providence has caUed you is the sincere prayer of your Majesty ' s most devoted and faithful
^ pwfiTirs Signed by order of the General Meeting , ROBERT T HOMAS C RUCEFIX , M . D ., Chairman . " London , \ 6 th July , 1840 .