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Article QUARTERLY COMMUNICATION. ← Page 8 of 12 →
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Quarterly Communication.
The GRAND MASTER would ask , if it was good taste of Bro . 'Whitmore to speak after what had passed . Bro . Whitmore then sat down . Considerable confusion , ancl cries of divide , divide—in the midst of which the motion was put , the Grand Master stating he declared the confirmation negatived by a majority , and if any one chose to dispute it they must stand up and say so , and demand a division . Order being a little
restored—Bro . CRUCEFIX , addressing the Grancl Master , observed , that however grievously disappointed , he should most certainly avail himself of the Grand Master ' s suggestion to issue forthwith a circular to the Craft at large , calling on them , en masse , to support the cause of the widow . Bro . HENDERSON moved that the grant of 200 / . per annum to the Benevolent Annuity Fund he not confirmed . He would simply state the reason whhe hacl not put the two in one motion before ; the fact
y seemed to him to be that some might approve of 200 / . to one charity , or to 300 / . to another charitable object , but to move against both at once was not in his opinion tbe way to act with the two questions , each of which involved a separate and distinct principle ; he therefore took the 300 / . grant first—for it was quite at his option to move it as he had , namely , that a portion of such and such minutes be not confirmed , and now he took another part and proposed not to grant the additional 200 / .
as proposed . Bro . PHIMPE seconded the proposition , trusting that due care would be observed before grants of money to the Benevolent Annuity Fund were voted , when they were doubled in Grand Lodge without any previous intimation . Bro . J . L . STEVENS thought that some object was behind from the way the question of confirmation had been dealt with , and the last being taken first ; if they voted now for the 200 / . to the Benevolent Annuity
Fund it would be brought forward as an argument against them hereafter , ancl the widow would have a very indifferent chance . Whatever the motion intended he hoped it woulcl not be carried . Bro . CRUCEFIX . —As a consistent Mason , although the widow hacl been so ingloriously defeated , he must support the additional grant to the Benevolent Annuity Fund . Bro . DOBIE wished to remind Grand Lodge that what appeared an
increase of income was really the transfer of 400 / . a year of expenses to the Fund of General Purposes ; but now all the revenue of the Fund of Benevolence was devotecl to charity , and , as was seen , pretty nearly absorbed . Before , the balance at the banker ' s was always on the debtor side , and frequently to some extent ; but it was only since 1842 that a balance could be made in favour of the Fund . Confirmation refused .
It having been moved and seconded that the minutes of the Quarterly Communication of the 1 st December be confirmed—Bro . LANE objected to such portion as permitted an infringement to be made in the time of giving the degrees in the colonies . He was the more sorry to be compelled , by a sense of duty , to press his objections , as the M . W . Grand Master had countenanced and introduced the innovation , for which no better reason than that of expediency had been offered ; the whole subject had been allowed to rest on the consideration that Scotch ancl Irish lodges existed in some of our possessions , and those lodges adopted a shorter time for performing certain ceremonies than ourselves ; no one had shown them to be more correct , on the contrary ,
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Quarterly Communication.
The GRAND MASTER would ask , if it was good taste of Bro . 'Whitmore to speak after what had passed . Bro . Whitmore then sat down . Considerable confusion , ancl cries of divide , divide—in the midst of which the motion was put , the Grand Master stating he declared the confirmation negatived by a majority , and if any one chose to dispute it they must stand up and say so , and demand a division . Order being a little
restored—Bro . CRUCEFIX , addressing the Grancl Master , observed , that however grievously disappointed , he should most certainly avail himself of the Grand Master ' s suggestion to issue forthwith a circular to the Craft at large , calling on them , en masse , to support the cause of the widow . Bro . HENDERSON moved that the grant of 200 / . per annum to the Benevolent Annuity Fund he not confirmed . He would simply state the reason whhe hacl not put the two in one motion before ; the fact
y seemed to him to be that some might approve of 200 / . to one charity , or to 300 / . to another charitable object , but to move against both at once was not in his opinion tbe way to act with the two questions , each of which involved a separate and distinct principle ; he therefore took the 300 / . grant first—for it was quite at his option to move it as he had , namely , that a portion of such and such minutes be not confirmed , and now he took another part and proposed not to grant the additional 200 / .
as proposed . Bro . PHIMPE seconded the proposition , trusting that due care would be observed before grants of money to the Benevolent Annuity Fund were voted , when they were doubled in Grand Lodge without any previous intimation . Bro . J . L . STEVENS thought that some object was behind from the way the question of confirmation had been dealt with , and the last being taken first ; if they voted now for the 200 / . to the Benevolent Annuity
Fund it would be brought forward as an argument against them hereafter , ancl the widow would have a very indifferent chance . Whatever the motion intended he hoped it woulcl not be carried . Bro . CRUCEFIX . —As a consistent Mason , although the widow hacl been so ingloriously defeated , he must support the additional grant to the Benevolent Annuity Fund . Bro . DOBIE wished to remind Grand Lodge that what appeared an
increase of income was really the transfer of 400 / . a year of expenses to the Fund of General Purposes ; but now all the revenue of the Fund of Benevolence was devotecl to charity , and , as was seen , pretty nearly absorbed . Before , the balance at the banker ' s was always on the debtor side , and frequently to some extent ; but it was only since 1842 that a balance could be made in favour of the Fund . Confirmation refused .
It having been moved and seconded that the minutes of the Quarterly Communication of the 1 st December be confirmed—Bro . LANE objected to such portion as permitted an infringement to be made in the time of giving the degrees in the colonies . He was the more sorry to be compelled , by a sense of duty , to press his objections , as the M . W . Grand Master had countenanced and introduced the innovation , for which no better reason than that of expediency had been offered ; the whole subject had been allowed to rest on the consideration that Scotch ancl Irish lodges existed in some of our possessions , and those lodges adopted a shorter time for performing certain ceremonies than ourselves ; no one had shown them to be more correct , on the contrary ,