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United Grand Lodge Of England.
dent ; that the Funds of Benevolence hacl been improperly diverted from legitimate objects ; that many Lodges made a property of the funds ; and that the attendance of Masters of Lodges was not only very scanty , but they frequently retired after tbe disposal of their own cases , ancl left the country petitions to be disposed of by the few that remained . He then entered into a financial statement , by which he showed the possibility of repairing the exhausted state of the Fund of Benevolence
, which he frankly stated was greatly attributable to the vote of 400 / . per annum to the Benevolent Annuity Fund , and observed that he did not propose to tax the Craft according to a proposition about to be offered by a worthy member , but by removing all the expenses on the fund , to be charged to the Board of General Purposes ; a sufficient saving would thus be made to render any additional taxation unnecessary . He observed , that he long hoped that some more experienced member would have
taken up the subject , but as no one hacl clone so , he thought it became his essential duty . He then moved the adoption of the resolution , which being seconded , _ Bro . M'MULLEN entered into a very elaborate statement , detailing his views , which were diametrically opposed to those of the worthy mover , whose statement he hacl no doubt was drawn from sources on which he reliedbut which . were in all main particulars erroneousthat so far
, ; from the Funds of Benevolence being in an exhausted state , seven hundred pounds were some two or three years since bought into the public funds , and the claims on the Board were gradually reducing in number . The charge against the Masters of meeting in small number was not borne out , it could be proved that they averaged at a meeting seventeen . Bro . M'Mullen moved as an
amendment" That this part of the report be referred to the Board of General Purposes for their reconsideration . " Bro . CRUCEFIX stated his objection to a reference to the Board to be insurmountable , for that if the Board were honest at first they would only arrive at the same conclusion ( here Bro . M'Mullen observed , that the present Board was not the Board who arranged the report ); that ( said Bro . C . ) if the Board were not identically the same , they were so
nearly the same as hardly to admit the technical doubt ; that if a reference were to be made , the Grancl Lodge must , in December next , be needlessly occupied , and have to postpone much important business . He washimself already put to serious personal inconvenience by thedelay , for a twelvemonth he hacl an important motion on the paper , which stood over meeting after meeting , and ( pointing to the clock ) that dial taught him to feel that he must still wait patientlyfor that to-night there was
, for him no hope . He thought the worthy mover should not have alluded to his ( Bro . t ' . ' s ) intended motion , but as he had done so , he begged the Grand Lodge to consider that , like a jury , they should keep their mind free from prejudice . In one essential point the worthy mover was in error , for so long back as 1835 ( Bro . C ) , having given notice of a motion to revise the constitutions , was commanded by the late Grand Master to attend himwhen some propositions were not merely
enter-, tained but acted on , and other subjects were in progress , when events occurred not necessary to be now otherwise noticed . The Grand Lodge would bear in mind , that in i 841 the then President of the Board and four other lawyers ( one since deceased ) produced the revision of the laws , which they triumphantly announced as perfect ! yet now , after a lapse of three years , that book is by the same junta declared to be so faulty ,
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United Grand Lodge Of England.
dent ; that the Funds of Benevolence hacl been improperly diverted from legitimate objects ; that many Lodges made a property of the funds ; and that the attendance of Masters of Lodges was not only very scanty , but they frequently retired after tbe disposal of their own cases , ancl left the country petitions to be disposed of by the few that remained . He then entered into a financial statement , by which he showed the possibility of repairing the exhausted state of the Fund of Benevolence
, which he frankly stated was greatly attributable to the vote of 400 / . per annum to the Benevolent Annuity Fund , and observed that he did not propose to tax the Craft according to a proposition about to be offered by a worthy member , but by removing all the expenses on the fund , to be charged to the Board of General Purposes ; a sufficient saving would thus be made to render any additional taxation unnecessary . He observed , that he long hoped that some more experienced member would have
taken up the subject , but as no one hacl clone so , he thought it became his essential duty . He then moved the adoption of the resolution , which being seconded , _ Bro . M'MULLEN entered into a very elaborate statement , detailing his views , which were diametrically opposed to those of the worthy mover , whose statement he hacl no doubt was drawn from sources on which he reliedbut which . were in all main particulars erroneousthat so far
, ; from the Funds of Benevolence being in an exhausted state , seven hundred pounds were some two or three years since bought into the public funds , and the claims on the Board were gradually reducing in number . The charge against the Masters of meeting in small number was not borne out , it could be proved that they averaged at a meeting seventeen . Bro . M'Mullen moved as an
amendment" That this part of the report be referred to the Board of General Purposes for their reconsideration . " Bro . CRUCEFIX stated his objection to a reference to the Board to be insurmountable , for that if the Board were honest at first they would only arrive at the same conclusion ( here Bro . M'Mullen observed , that the present Board was not the Board who arranged the report ); that ( said Bro . C . ) if the Board were not identically the same , they were so
nearly the same as hardly to admit the technical doubt ; that if a reference were to be made , the Grancl Lodge must , in December next , be needlessly occupied , and have to postpone much important business . He washimself already put to serious personal inconvenience by thedelay , for a twelvemonth he hacl an important motion on the paper , which stood over meeting after meeting , and ( pointing to the clock ) that dial taught him to feel that he must still wait patientlyfor that to-night there was
, for him no hope . He thought the worthy mover should not have alluded to his ( Bro . t ' . ' s ) intended motion , but as he had done so , he begged the Grand Lodge to consider that , like a jury , they should keep their mind free from prejudice . In one essential point the worthy mover was in error , for so long back as 1835 ( Bro . C ) , having given notice of a motion to revise the constitutions , was commanded by the late Grand Master to attend himwhen some propositions were not merely
enter-, tained but acted on , and other subjects were in progress , when events occurred not necessary to be now otherwise noticed . The Grand Lodge would bear in mind , that in i 841 the then President of the Board and four other lawyers ( one since deceased ) produced the revision of the laws , which they triumphantly announced as perfect ! yet now , after a lapse of three years , that book is by the same junta declared to be so faulty ,