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Article THE FREEMASONS QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 5 of 8 →
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The Freemasons Quarterly Review.
—we give to the last sentence of this law , the only construction which can fairl y apply to it—that it is a negative declaration , made to confirm still more strongly the affirmative which precedes it ; and that the words " previously communicated to this General Committee" must , be
taken with inference to the antecedent conditions , or " as aforesaid . " That we may know how far this law was applicable to the case in question , we must see what were the proceedings of Grand Lodge with reference to the resolutions . In the
first place , the Board of General Purposes made a Report to the Grand Lodge , recommending the adoption of a system of Annuities , accompanied by a very scanty outline or detail . This Report was referred to the Board for further consideration . At a subsequent Grand Lodge , the
Board of General Purposes made a special report , containing the forty-seven resolutions ; which report was received , and there ended the special functions of the Board . It was then ordered that the resolutions should be printed and circulated among the Craft immediately , with a view to
their being taken into consideration at the next ensuing Quarterly Communication . But that Order in Grand Lodge in nowise interfered with , or could be held to suspend the operation of the eighth regulation of the Book of Constitutions pertaining to the Grand Lodge , or of any
other standing Masonic law . And in order , therefore , that these resolutions should come on regularly for discussion on the 2 nd of March , it was necessary that notice of motion should have been given at the Committee of Masters on the preceding Wednesday . But either through
negligence or design—through inattention to the law , or a secret assurance that the law , in this case , might be violated with impunity—no such notice was given ; and all who attended the Committee of Masters , with the exception of those who were privately better informed , concluded that the question affecting the principle of amalgamating the proposed with
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The Freemasons Quarterly Review.
—we give to the last sentence of this law , the only construction which can fairl y apply to it—that it is a negative declaration , made to confirm still more strongly the affirmative which precedes it ; and that the words " previously communicated to this General Committee" must , be
taken with inference to the antecedent conditions , or " as aforesaid . " That we may know how far this law was applicable to the case in question , we must see what were the proceedings of Grand Lodge with reference to the resolutions . In the
first place , the Board of General Purposes made a Report to the Grand Lodge , recommending the adoption of a system of Annuities , accompanied by a very scanty outline or detail . This Report was referred to the Board for further consideration . At a subsequent Grand Lodge , the
Board of General Purposes made a special report , containing the forty-seven resolutions ; which report was received , and there ended the special functions of the Board . It was then ordered that the resolutions should be printed and circulated among the Craft immediately , with a view to
their being taken into consideration at the next ensuing Quarterly Communication . But that Order in Grand Lodge in nowise interfered with , or could be held to suspend the operation of the eighth regulation of the Book of Constitutions pertaining to the Grand Lodge , or of any
other standing Masonic law . And in order , therefore , that these resolutions should come on regularly for discussion on the 2 nd of March , it was necessary that notice of motion should have been given at the Committee of Masters on the preceding Wednesday . But either through
negligence or design—through inattention to the law , or a secret assurance that the law , in this case , might be violated with impunity—no such notice was given ; and all who attended the Committee of Masters , with the exception of those who were privately better informed , concluded that the question affecting the principle of amalgamating the proposed with