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India.
BnoTHER DR . TYTLER —We feat our friend has sent No . 3 by private hand ; 1 S 0 . 4 has reached us under date Oct . 13 , 1837 ! No . 2 , Sept . 11 , 1837 ; No . 2 includes page 0 ; and No . 4 commences page 10 of the M . S . P . M . A . J . —The subscriptions for the Asylum , however small , will be gratefully accepted . Bno . E . —Yes ; the Lodges have both subscribed to the Offering to the Grand Master . BRO . G . —The petition for a Provincial Ruler , will , we hope , be successful . The appointment of an active and spirited Mason , would speedily re-animate the Brethren .
PETITION TO THE GRAND MASTER . " To His Royal Highness Prince Augustus Frederick Duke of Sussex , Most AVorshi pful Grand Master of the United Fraternity of Antient Free and Accepted Masons of England . " The Petition of the Master , AA ardens , and the undermentioned Brethren of the Sussex Lodge , No . 629 , working at Neemuch , in the North-West Provinces of Bengal ,
" Humbly Sheweth , " That the Petitioners are located in that part ofthe British possessions in India forming the jurisdiction of the late government of Agra , and now subordinate to the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces , which territory contains several AVarranted Lodges , working under the authority of the United Grand Lodge , ancl also some which assemble under dispensations , pending the receipt of regular warrants .
" 2 . That this Lodge , as one of the number alluded to , has long considered the appointment of a District Grand Master for these Provinces a desideratum , as an authorized head , to whom all subjects of Masonic complaint or irregularity respecting Lodges , or individual Masons , could be referred and speedily determined . " 3 . That it is of opinion the establishment of a District Grand
Lodge for the North-AVestern Provinces , would add greater dignity to the Craft in this part of India , afford incalculable advantages to the several Lodges within its jurisdiction , and at the same time relieve the United Grand Lodge from attention to details of minor importance , which at present must of necessity be submitted to it from this distant quarter of the globe . " 4 . That deeply impressed with the great importance of the measure
, and of the benefit to the Craft , which would result from it , the undersigned earnestly entreat their Most AA ^ orshipful Grand Master to nominate a District Grand Master for the North-AVestern Provinces of India ; and that considering the great distances at which Lodges are separatee from each other , it would give greater efficiency to the measure suggested , if the District Grand Master , in addition to his authorized Deputy , be empoweredas occasion shall requireto appoint Special
, , Deputies for the remote Provinces ; and further that , with regard to the liability to removal , to which every official person , either civil or military , is subject in this country , it he incumbent on the District Grand Master , his Deputies , and all District Grancl Officers , to vacate their offices on quitting the Province in which they can no longer act with benefit ; but to retain , on account of their services , the honours of the past ranks .
" 5 . That they also beg with submission to suggest , that with a view to obviate the evil which would arise from the District Grand Lodge ceasing to exist , during a reference to England , the District Grand
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India.
BnoTHER DR . TYTLER —We feat our friend has sent No . 3 by private hand ; 1 S 0 . 4 has reached us under date Oct . 13 , 1837 ! No . 2 , Sept . 11 , 1837 ; No . 2 includes page 0 ; and No . 4 commences page 10 of the M . S . P . M . A . J . —The subscriptions for the Asylum , however small , will be gratefully accepted . Bno . E . —Yes ; the Lodges have both subscribed to the Offering to the Grand Master . BRO . G . —The petition for a Provincial Ruler , will , we hope , be successful . The appointment of an active and spirited Mason , would speedily re-animate the Brethren .
PETITION TO THE GRAND MASTER . " To His Royal Highness Prince Augustus Frederick Duke of Sussex , Most AVorshi pful Grand Master of the United Fraternity of Antient Free and Accepted Masons of England . " The Petition of the Master , AA ardens , and the undermentioned Brethren of the Sussex Lodge , No . 629 , working at Neemuch , in the North-West Provinces of Bengal ,
" Humbly Sheweth , " That the Petitioners are located in that part ofthe British possessions in India forming the jurisdiction of the late government of Agra , and now subordinate to the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces , which territory contains several AVarranted Lodges , working under the authority of the United Grand Lodge , ancl also some which assemble under dispensations , pending the receipt of regular warrants .
" 2 . That this Lodge , as one of the number alluded to , has long considered the appointment of a District Grand Master for these Provinces a desideratum , as an authorized head , to whom all subjects of Masonic complaint or irregularity respecting Lodges , or individual Masons , could be referred and speedily determined . " 3 . That it is of opinion the establishment of a District Grand
Lodge for the North-AVestern Provinces , would add greater dignity to the Craft in this part of India , afford incalculable advantages to the several Lodges within its jurisdiction , and at the same time relieve the United Grand Lodge from attention to details of minor importance , which at present must of necessity be submitted to it from this distant quarter of the globe . " 4 . That deeply impressed with the great importance of the measure
, and of the benefit to the Craft , which would result from it , the undersigned earnestly entreat their Most AA ^ orshipful Grand Master to nominate a District Grand Master for the North-AVestern Provinces of India ; and that considering the great distances at which Lodges are separatee from each other , it would give greater efficiency to the measure suggested , if the District Grand Master , in addition to his authorized Deputy , be empoweredas occasion shall requireto appoint Special
, , Deputies for the remote Provinces ; and further that , with regard to the liability to removal , to which every official person , either civil or military , is subject in this country , it he incumbent on the District Grand Master , his Deputies , and all District Grancl Officers , to vacate their offices on quitting the Province in which they can no longer act with benefit ; but to retain , on account of their services , the honours of the past ranks .
" 5 . That they also beg with submission to suggest , that with a view to obviate the evil which would arise from the District Grand Lodge ceasing to exist , during a reference to England , the District Grand