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The Asylum For Worthy Aged And Decayed Freemasons.
ancl that the Subscribers of this Institution do retain their privileges pro rate , in that about to be formed . 2 . That the Building Fund of this Institution be also placed in the hands of Grand Lodge through the Board of General Purposes , to accumulate and to be applied in accordance with the resolutions passed at a General Meeting on the 13 th of October last , and communicated to the Board of General Purposes .
3 . That the preceding arrangements being made , all offices held in tins Institution be vacated . ( Signed ) R . T . CRUCEFIX , JOSEPH C . BELL , J . LEE STEVENS . R . FIELD , Secretary .
Some general remarks were made , and the Sub-Committee were requested to withdraw , a copy of the statement having been previously taken . The Sub-Committee , after a retirement of about three quarters of au hour , were re-introduced to the Board , when the President read the reply of the Board , of which the following is a copy : — " At a Meeting of the Board of General held the 7 th of
Purposes , day December , 1841 , W . Bro . Alex . Dobie , President , in the Chair , resolved unanimously : — " That in consequence of the resolution passed by the Members of the Asylum for Worthy Aged and Decayed Freemasons , requiring the building tunci still to be continued , this Board declines to entertain the proposition but the Board is willing to receive and consider any proposition that maybe made , having reference to the application ofthe entire fund for annuities . ResolvedThat
. " — a copy of the above resolution be forthwith transmitted by the Grand Secretary to the Secretary for the Asylum for Worthy Aged and Decayed Freemasons . ( Signed ) " WILLIAM H . WHITE , G . Sec . "
At a meeting of the General Committee , held on the Sth of December 1841 , the Sub-Committee delivered in the following report . * Report of Sub-Committee to General Committee , held at Radley ' s Hotel , the Sth December , 1841 . The Sub-Committee appointed to confer with the Board of General
, Purposes , beg leave to report progress as follows : — That the Sub-Committee held a meeting on Tuesday morning , the 7 th instant , and prepared their statement for the Board . ( Fide p 453 ) That the Sub-Committee then attended the Board of General Purposes , and , after a short introductory conversation , read , at the request of the VV . the President of the Board , the proposition , of which a copy was taKGn *
That subsequentl y , in reply to questions asked by the W . the President and other members of the Board , the Sub-Committee stated that no difficulty whatever was apprehended with referen ce to the transfer of the two funds , the Annuity Fund and the Building Fund , as proposed : but that there were insuperable objections , both on the part of the Trustees and of many of the Subscribers , to the transfer of the Building i-und for any other purpose than that of building , the period of erecting which , would remain entirel y in the hands of the Grand Lodge .
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The Asylum For Worthy Aged And Decayed Freemasons.
ancl that the Subscribers of this Institution do retain their privileges pro rate , in that about to be formed . 2 . That the Building Fund of this Institution be also placed in the hands of Grand Lodge through the Board of General Purposes , to accumulate and to be applied in accordance with the resolutions passed at a General Meeting on the 13 th of October last , and communicated to the Board of General Purposes .
3 . That the preceding arrangements being made , all offices held in tins Institution be vacated . ( Signed ) R . T . CRUCEFIX , JOSEPH C . BELL , J . LEE STEVENS . R . FIELD , Secretary .
Some general remarks were made , and the Sub-Committee were requested to withdraw , a copy of the statement having been previously taken . The Sub-Committee , after a retirement of about three quarters of au hour , were re-introduced to the Board , when the President read the reply of the Board , of which the following is a copy : — " At a Meeting of the Board of General held the 7 th of
Purposes , day December , 1841 , W . Bro . Alex . Dobie , President , in the Chair , resolved unanimously : — " That in consequence of the resolution passed by the Members of the Asylum for Worthy Aged and Decayed Freemasons , requiring the building tunci still to be continued , this Board declines to entertain the proposition but the Board is willing to receive and consider any proposition that maybe made , having reference to the application ofthe entire fund for annuities . ResolvedThat
. " — a copy of the above resolution be forthwith transmitted by the Grand Secretary to the Secretary for the Asylum for Worthy Aged and Decayed Freemasons . ( Signed ) " WILLIAM H . WHITE , G . Sec . "
At a meeting of the General Committee , held on the Sth of December 1841 , the Sub-Committee delivered in the following report . * Report of Sub-Committee to General Committee , held at Radley ' s Hotel , the Sth December , 1841 . The Sub-Committee appointed to confer with the Board of General
, Purposes , beg leave to report progress as follows : — That the Sub-Committee held a meeting on Tuesday morning , the 7 th instant , and prepared their statement for the Board . ( Fide p 453 ) That the Sub-Committee then attended the Board of General Purposes , and , after a short introductory conversation , read , at the request of the VV . the President of the Board , the proposition , of which a copy was taKGn *
That subsequentl y , in reply to questions asked by the W . the President and other members of the Board , the Sub-Committee stated that no difficulty whatever was apprehended with referen ce to the transfer of the two funds , the Annuity Fund and the Building Fund , as proposed : but that there were insuperable objections , both on the part of the Trustees and of many of the Subscribers , to the transfer of the Building i-und for any other purpose than that of building , the period of erecting which , would remain entirel y in the hands of the Grand Lodge .