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Notices To Correspondents.
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS .
THE EDITOR requests that all original articles for approval , and for which remuneration is expected , may be sent to him at 74 , 75 , Great Queen-street , Lincoln ' s-Inn Fields , by the first weeks m the months of FEBRUARY , MAY , AUGUST , and NOVEMBER ; all Correspondence and Masonic Intelligence must be transmitted by the tenth day of MARCH , JUNE , SEPTEMBER , and DECEMBER , at latest , to insure its insertion . The attention of Contributors is earnestly requested to these directions , who are also desire * to retain copies of their MSS ., as the Editor does not pledge himself to return those which are not approved .
SALOP . —J . S . E . —The Lodge which stands first in the Eegistry of the Grand Lodge has the precedence . BATH . —B . C . "V . —The communication would have been inserted , but that it is unadvisable to encourage the repetition of any matter , which may tend to antagonism between the G . L . and the Higher Degrees . EAMSGATE . —<& . — "A . B . was made a serving Brother in the year 1850 but
, shortly after he had obtained the M . M . Degree , the Lodge in which he served , was , for sufficient reasons , removed to where his services were unnecessary to the Brethren , and would have been inconvenient to himself . Fortune has since favoured him , and he now seeks—by becoming a joining member of the Lodge in which he Avas made—to be ' entitled to all the privileges and benefits of the Craft . ' The question at issue has no reference to his becoming a member of any other Lodge 'in the vicinity of his dwelling' ( Bk . of Cons ., Sec . 15 , pp . 63-4 ) , but is simplthis—is heor is he notunder the circumstanceseligible to be
y , , , proposed , balloted for , and elected a regular joining member of his mother Lodge ?" The Brother is -not . eligible . The framers of the law evidently never contemplated such a case as that put to us , and another instance of a similar nature may never occur again . We believe that the B . G . P . has already decided the question according to our reading of the law .
MONMOUTH . —P . P . G . M . —Many thanks for your communications , and for the zeal you display on behalf of the charities of the Order , no less than for your kind expressions towards those connected with the F . M . Q . M . WALSALL . —M . D . —Tou will see that we have availed ourselves of your able and truly Masonic opinions . TORKSHIHE , WEST RIDING . —PROV . G . L . REPORT . —The late arrival of this
Report has precluded the possibility of our giving insertion to any part of it . We deeply regret to find from it that so much difference of opinion upon really unimportant matters exists amongst some of the Lodges of the West Riding . ALPHINGTON RECTORY . —W . B . —The resemblance ofthe snow crystal , observed by Capt . Scoresby in the Arctic Regions , to the R . A . Symbol , is exceedingly curious . We should be glad to have the attention of our readers called at length to this subject . Will W . B . be able to oblige us ?
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Notices To Correspondents.
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS .
THE EDITOR requests that all original articles for approval , and for which remuneration is expected , may be sent to him at 74 , 75 , Great Queen-street , Lincoln ' s-Inn Fields , by the first weeks m the months of FEBRUARY , MAY , AUGUST , and NOVEMBER ; all Correspondence and Masonic Intelligence must be transmitted by the tenth day of MARCH , JUNE , SEPTEMBER , and DECEMBER , at latest , to insure its insertion . The attention of Contributors is earnestly requested to these directions , who are also desire * to retain copies of their MSS ., as the Editor does not pledge himself to return those which are not approved .
SALOP . —J . S . E . —The Lodge which stands first in the Eegistry of the Grand Lodge has the precedence . BATH . —B . C . "V . —The communication would have been inserted , but that it is unadvisable to encourage the repetition of any matter , which may tend to antagonism between the G . L . and the Higher Degrees . EAMSGATE . —<& . — "A . B . was made a serving Brother in the year 1850 but
, shortly after he had obtained the M . M . Degree , the Lodge in which he served , was , for sufficient reasons , removed to where his services were unnecessary to the Brethren , and would have been inconvenient to himself . Fortune has since favoured him , and he now seeks—by becoming a joining member of the Lodge in which he Avas made—to be ' entitled to all the privileges and benefits of the Craft . ' The question at issue has no reference to his becoming a member of any other Lodge 'in the vicinity of his dwelling' ( Bk . of Cons ., Sec . 15 , pp . 63-4 ) , but is simplthis—is heor is he notunder the circumstanceseligible to be
y , , , proposed , balloted for , and elected a regular joining member of his mother Lodge ?" The Brother is -not . eligible . The framers of the law evidently never contemplated such a case as that put to us , and another instance of a similar nature may never occur again . We believe that the B . G . P . has already decided the question according to our reading of the law .
MONMOUTH . —P . P . G . M . —Many thanks for your communications , and for the zeal you display on behalf of the charities of the Order , no less than for your kind expressions towards those connected with the F . M . Q . M . WALSALL . —M . D . —Tou will see that we have availed ourselves of your able and truly Masonic opinions . TORKSHIHE , WEST RIDING . —PROV . G . L . REPORT . —The late arrival of this
Report has precluded the possibility of our giving insertion to any part of it . We deeply regret to find from it that so much difference of opinion upon really unimportant matters exists amongst some of the Lodges of the West Riding . ALPHINGTON RECTORY . —W . B . —The resemblance ofthe snow crystal , observed by Capt . Scoresby in the Arctic Regions , to the R . A . Symbol , is exceedingly curious . We should be glad to have the attention of our readers called at length to this subject . Will W . B . be able to oblige us ?