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Masonic Intelligence.
Secretary , for the purpose of deciding on the proceedings necessary to be adopted for the preservation of order in the Craft , and the maintenance of the subordination so essential to the government of the great body of Masons , and after referring to the Constitutions relating to the case , sent the following summons to Brother R . T . Crueefix . * " It was proved at the Board that the above summons was delivered to Brother R . T . Crueefix in on the same day
person , . " The Board again assembled on the 18 th day of July , at the hour mentioned in the above summons , and as neither Brother R . T . Crueefix , nor any one on his behalf , attended the Board , or made any communication to the Board upon the subject of the said summons , the Board issued another summons in the same form as given before , with the addition of its being made peremptory for Brother R . T . Crueefix attending the Board on the following Saturdaythe 25 th clay of Jul
, y then instant , at the same hour , which last peremptory summons was also proved to have been served personally f on Brother R . T . Crueefix , on Monday the 20 th July . " The Board again assembled on the 25 th day of July , at the hour mentioned in the summons , when the following communication in writing was received from Brother R . T . Crueefix . 1
£ We cannot refrain from a few remarks on this very logical , gentlemanly , ancl truly Masonic ukase . ] " The Board entertained no The Board may entertain no doubt whatever as to their juris- doubt of their jurisdiction , but diction ; and on the supposed ob- serious doubts are entertained by jection of the Board's right to pro- others , ceed without a specific laint
comp in form by an avowed prosecutor , are perfectly satisfied both as to their right ' to take cognizance of all matters relating to the Craft , ' and also as to the imperative duty imposed upon the Board by the Constitutions toproceed to the
consideration of any special matter which may be referred to it by the G . M . or the Grand Lodge , in preference to other business . " The Board was also satisfied Is Masonry Free , or is it not ? that Brother R . T . Crueefix could It is a piece of sophistry to state not , by the steps he has taken , as that an office or distinction cannot
stated in his letters to the M . W . be resigned into the hands that Grand Master and to the Board , conferred the office or distinction ; divest himself of his Masonic cha- in fact , the Board admits the conracter , either as a member of the trary , for it does not attempt to Grand Lodge , or of the Craft . say that Dr . Crueefix is a Member of any English Lodge . " The Board , therefore , pro- The following letter will be the ceeded to take into consideration best reply to the " not improbable " the several matters referred to in sophistries of the Board : —
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Masonic Intelligence.
Secretary , for the purpose of deciding on the proceedings necessary to be adopted for the preservation of order in the Craft , and the maintenance of the subordination so essential to the government of the great body of Masons , and after referring to the Constitutions relating to the case , sent the following summons to Brother R . T . Crueefix . * " It was proved at the Board that the above summons was delivered to Brother R . T . Crueefix in on the same day
person , . " The Board again assembled on the 18 th day of July , at the hour mentioned in the above summons , and as neither Brother R . T . Crueefix , nor any one on his behalf , attended the Board , or made any communication to the Board upon the subject of the said summons , the Board issued another summons in the same form as given before , with the addition of its being made peremptory for Brother R . T . Crueefix attending the Board on the following Saturdaythe 25 th clay of Jul
, y then instant , at the same hour , which last peremptory summons was also proved to have been served personally f on Brother R . T . Crueefix , on Monday the 20 th July . " The Board again assembled on the 25 th day of July , at the hour mentioned in the summons , when the following communication in writing was received from Brother R . T . Crueefix . 1
£ We cannot refrain from a few remarks on this very logical , gentlemanly , ancl truly Masonic ukase . ] " The Board entertained no The Board may entertain no doubt whatever as to their juris- doubt of their jurisdiction , but diction ; and on the supposed ob- serious doubts are entertained by jection of the Board's right to pro- others , ceed without a specific laint
comp in form by an avowed prosecutor , are perfectly satisfied both as to their right ' to take cognizance of all matters relating to the Craft , ' and also as to the imperative duty imposed upon the Board by the Constitutions toproceed to the
consideration of any special matter which may be referred to it by the G . M . or the Grand Lodge , in preference to other business . " The Board was also satisfied Is Masonry Free , or is it not ? that Brother R . T . Crueefix could It is a piece of sophistry to state not , by the steps he has taken , as that an office or distinction cannot
stated in his letters to the M . W . be resigned into the hands that Grand Master and to the Board , conferred the office or distinction ; divest himself of his Masonic cha- in fact , the Board admits the conracter , either as a member of the trary , for it does not attempt to Grand Lodge , or of the Craft . say that Dr . Crueefix is a Member of any English Lodge . " The Board , therefore , pro- The following letter will be the ceeded to take into consideration best reply to the " not improbable " the several matters referred to in sophistries of the Board : —