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United Grand Lodge Of Free And Accepted Masons Of England.
But his Royal Highness allowed him to appoint one of his sons as Provincial Grand Secretary . How the province had succeeded , it was not for him to say ; but it was pressed upon him by his late Royal Highness because it had been neglected for fifty years previously to his time , and because it was known he was an anxious Mason , whose heart was in the Craft , and his person ready to serve it , that he became , at the pressing solicitationhe might sayof the late Grand MasterProvincial
, , , Grand Master of the Province of Essex ; a province which now , he was proud to say , would not yield to any , in feeling , practice , or Masonic worth , under the Grand Lodge of England ; but if it was to be necessary that his Provincial Grand Secretary should he at a distance from him , he could not promise to continue the head of the Essex Brethren , whom he should part from with regret , but whom he would leave as soon as he could not serve to his own and their satisfaction .
Bro . M'MI ; LLBN saw very well that it was for the convenience of a solitary case that this motion was made . It might be convenient to one , but very inconvenient to many . He did not conceive that for an individual case the law should he altered , which worked very well , and was not complained of . The Provincial Grand Master for Essex was no doubt correct as far as he was concerned , but the Deputy Provincial Grand Master mostly did all there was to do , and near that officer the Provincial Grand Secretary should reside : as it was imperative that the Deputy should be in the Province , the Secretary must be so also . *
Bro . Dr . LANE was sorry to hear from Bro . Dobie , himself a Provincial Grand Master , that he entertained so indifferent an opinion of the rest of the Provincial Grand Masters , as to think them incapable of judging of the propriety where the Provincial Grand Secretary should be . The Province was circumscribed by certain boundaries , and yet mostly across those boundaries a most invaluable Provincial Grand Secretary might be resident , to whom , by the proposed arrangement , all the duties could effectivelbe performed . He considered it would be
y advantageous to the Provinces not to tie the government of the Provincial Grand Master too tightly , as much good might result in enabling the Provincial Grand Master to come more immediatel y into direct contact with the Brethren of his Province , than of almost compelling the duties to be performed by a resident Deputy within the Province . As now , the interest being local , and the Provincial Grand Master not necessarily resident within the Province , he might be almost estranged
from his Province , and depend upon his Deputy and Secretary ; but if the proposal were carried , it would open the door for interchange of communications between the Prov . Grand Master and his constituents Bro . DOBIE was of the opinion he had first stated , and would just tell them , since this question had been known to have been started he had received seven letters from Brethren not resident in Surrey , soliciting the appointment of secretary to that province . Bro . FAUDEL . —But Bro . Dobie need not appoint any one of them ; it was entirely in his discretion . Bro . R . GARDINER ALSTON had not said shall be resident out of the
province ; it was optional with the Prov . Grand Master , whose office was originally established for the purpose of spreading Masonry in the provinces , theieby advancing the interests of the Craft , and such was the object of the present motion . Any Prov . Grand Master having
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United Grand Lodge Of Free And Accepted Masons Of England.
But his Royal Highness allowed him to appoint one of his sons as Provincial Grand Secretary . How the province had succeeded , it was not for him to say ; but it was pressed upon him by his late Royal Highness because it had been neglected for fifty years previously to his time , and because it was known he was an anxious Mason , whose heart was in the Craft , and his person ready to serve it , that he became , at the pressing solicitationhe might sayof the late Grand MasterProvincial
, , , Grand Master of the Province of Essex ; a province which now , he was proud to say , would not yield to any , in feeling , practice , or Masonic worth , under the Grand Lodge of England ; but if it was to be necessary that his Provincial Grand Secretary should he at a distance from him , he could not promise to continue the head of the Essex Brethren , whom he should part from with regret , but whom he would leave as soon as he could not serve to his own and their satisfaction .
Bro . M'MI ; LLBN saw very well that it was for the convenience of a solitary case that this motion was made . It might be convenient to one , but very inconvenient to many . He did not conceive that for an individual case the law should he altered , which worked very well , and was not complained of . The Provincial Grand Master for Essex was no doubt correct as far as he was concerned , but the Deputy Provincial Grand Master mostly did all there was to do , and near that officer the Provincial Grand Secretary should reside : as it was imperative that the Deputy should be in the Province , the Secretary must be so also . *
Bro . Dr . LANE was sorry to hear from Bro . Dobie , himself a Provincial Grand Master , that he entertained so indifferent an opinion of the rest of the Provincial Grand Masters , as to think them incapable of judging of the propriety where the Provincial Grand Secretary should be . The Province was circumscribed by certain boundaries , and yet mostly across those boundaries a most invaluable Provincial Grand Secretary might be resident , to whom , by the proposed arrangement , all the duties could effectivelbe performed . He considered it would be
y advantageous to the Provinces not to tie the government of the Provincial Grand Master too tightly , as much good might result in enabling the Provincial Grand Master to come more immediatel y into direct contact with the Brethren of his Province , than of almost compelling the duties to be performed by a resident Deputy within the Province . As now , the interest being local , and the Provincial Grand Master not necessarily resident within the Province , he might be almost estranged
from his Province , and depend upon his Deputy and Secretary ; but if the proposal were carried , it would open the door for interchange of communications between the Prov . Grand Master and his constituents Bro . DOBIE was of the opinion he had first stated , and would just tell them , since this question had been known to have been started he had received seven letters from Brethren not resident in Surrey , soliciting the appointment of secretary to that province . Bro . FAUDEL . —But Bro . Dobie need not appoint any one of them ; it was entirely in his discretion . Bro . R . GARDINER ALSTON had not said shall be resident out of the
province ; it was optional with the Prov . Grand Master , whose office was originally established for the purpose of spreading Masonry in the provinces , theieby advancing the interests of the Craft , and such was the object of the present motion . Any Prov . Grand Master having