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Ireland.
41 , Uppir Dorset-street , Dublin . Sir , —In a late communication I took occasion to announce to you that a treaty was then in progress for a union and reconciliation between the Supreme Grand Council of Rites ancl the Grand Cliapter of Ireland . I feel now the greatest pleasure in being able to state that that treaty has been most satisfactorily completed and ratified upon terms highly honourable to both parties .
On Saturday last , according to a previous arrangement of details , these two bodies , so long opposed , assembled in contiguous apartments in the Commercial-buildings , Dame-street , and while each continued its sitting in due form , mutual recognitions were exchanged in the presence of his Grace the Duke of Leinster , who kindly consented to superintend these gratifying proceedings . Two members of the degree of Rose Croix attached respectively to
the S . G . Council of Rites and tbe Grand Chapter , having each afforded to the other a sufficient test of the legality and regularity of the body on whose behalf he had been appointed ' to act for that purpose , titles were admitted upon both sides , and such of the members of the Grand Chapter and its dependencies as were duly qualified by official rank , were eo instanti admitted as such , to take their seats as members ofthe Supreme Grand Council , which thus become the united representative body , of all the Chapters of the superior degrees of Freemasonry in Ireland .
By this united body a series of resolutions were framed with the unanimous assent of all parties , declaring that the Supreme Grand Council of Rites—the Grand Chapter of Ireland—and their several dependencies—as heretofore constituted , had been legal and regular—and that they accordingly stood approved , ratified , and confirmed , by the united body—but that all the warrants previously granted , either by the Supreme Grand Council , or by the Grand Chapter , while in a state of
severance , should be held from the Supreme Conclave thus united and reconciled as the Supreme Grand Council of Rites in Ireland . To these some further resolutions were appended , for the purpose of carrying out the principle of the above ; after which a written recognition of the Supreme Grand Council , thus united , was given on behalf of the Grand Chapter and its dependent Chapters . Warrants were then granted to the Grand Chapter and its
dependencies , but merely , as the resolutions expressly stated—for the purpose of uniformity—because the previous warrants granted by the Grand Chapter alone were pronounced legal and sufficient ; but it was not deemed necessary or expedient to grant new warrants to the Chapters held from the Supreme Grand Council of Rites previous to the junction ; because the united body had recognised and confirmed the warrants given by the Grand Chapter , and it was feared that , if a re-issue of warrants to the
dependencies of the Council of Rites , as previously constituted , had been determined upon , that course might have appeared to have been adopted from some merely invidious motive , as the new warrants , in such cases , could have merely repeated the identical terms of the olcl ones . In short , the reason of this re-issue of warrants by the United Council to some Chapters and not to others , was simply and solely ( as the resolution stated ) for the sake of uniformity , ancl not as a matter involving any principle ; nor was it for any other than merely formal purposes . From the above statement it appears that during a portion of this auspicious clay—namely , from the period of the exchange of mutual
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Ireland.
41 , Uppir Dorset-street , Dublin . Sir , —In a late communication I took occasion to announce to you that a treaty was then in progress for a union and reconciliation between the Supreme Grand Council of Rites ancl the Grand Cliapter of Ireland . I feel now the greatest pleasure in being able to state that that treaty has been most satisfactorily completed and ratified upon terms highly honourable to both parties .
On Saturday last , according to a previous arrangement of details , these two bodies , so long opposed , assembled in contiguous apartments in the Commercial-buildings , Dame-street , and while each continued its sitting in due form , mutual recognitions were exchanged in the presence of his Grace the Duke of Leinster , who kindly consented to superintend these gratifying proceedings . Two members of the degree of Rose Croix attached respectively to
the S . G . Council of Rites and tbe Grand Chapter , having each afforded to the other a sufficient test of the legality and regularity of the body on whose behalf he had been appointed ' to act for that purpose , titles were admitted upon both sides , and such of the members of the Grand Chapter and its dependencies as were duly qualified by official rank , were eo instanti admitted as such , to take their seats as members ofthe Supreme Grand Council , which thus become the united representative body , of all the Chapters of the superior degrees of Freemasonry in Ireland .
By this united body a series of resolutions were framed with the unanimous assent of all parties , declaring that the Supreme Grand Council of Rites—the Grand Chapter of Ireland—and their several dependencies—as heretofore constituted , had been legal and regular—and that they accordingly stood approved , ratified , and confirmed , by the united body—but that all the warrants previously granted , either by the Supreme Grand Council , or by the Grand Chapter , while in a state of
severance , should be held from the Supreme Conclave thus united and reconciled as the Supreme Grand Council of Rites in Ireland . To these some further resolutions were appended , for the purpose of carrying out the principle of the above ; after which a written recognition of the Supreme Grand Council , thus united , was given on behalf of the Grand Chapter and its dependent Chapters . Warrants were then granted to the Grand Chapter and its
dependencies , but merely , as the resolutions expressly stated—for the purpose of uniformity—because the previous warrants granted by the Grand Chapter alone were pronounced legal and sufficient ; but it was not deemed necessary or expedient to grant new warrants to the Chapters held from the Supreme Grand Council of Rites previous to the junction ; because the united body had recognised and confirmed the warrants given by the Grand Chapter , and it was feared that , if a re-issue of warrants to the
dependencies of the Council of Rites , as previously constituted , had been determined upon , that course might have appeared to have been adopted from some merely invidious motive , as the new warrants , in such cases , could have merely repeated the identical terms of the olcl ones . In short , the reason of this re-issue of warrants by the United Council to some Chapters and not to others , was simply and solely ( as the resolution stated ) for the sake of uniformity , ancl not as a matter involving any principle ; nor was it for any other than merely formal purposes . From the above statement it appears that during a portion of this auspicious clay—namely , from the period of the exchange of mutual