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United Grand Lodge.
R . AV . Bro . R . G . ALSTON proposed that tho sum of 1001 . bo granted to Bro . William Honey , P . M . of tho Athelstan Lodgo , No . 19 , London , as recommended by the Loclge of Benevolence , which was seconded by Bro . J . Hodgkinsou ; ancl testimony being borne to the merits of Bro . Honey , tho question was put and carried unanimously . The Board of General Purposes reported that tho Glamorgan
Lodge at Cardiff , No . 43 , having recommended the petition of Amelia , tho widow of the late Bro . Capt . A . K . Dunn , who had been initiated in that Lodge on the 12 th of February , 1849 , and was drowned at sea on the 22 nd of August following , the same was laid before the Lodge of Benevolence , when it appearing that the name of Bro . Dunn had never been returned for registry , the case was referred to this Board for inquiry .
A letter was thereupon written to the Master of the Lodgo , who replied that , although Bro . Dunn was initiated in the Loclge , he had not been raised to tho third degree ; and the Lodge supposed that no register could be made so as to obtain a Grand Lodge certificate before taking the third degree . It , however , appeared that tho Lodge had received from Bro . Dimn the sum of 1 Is . to pay for the registry and certificate . The laws on this subject are very explicit : article 17 , page 64 , article 2 , page 73 , direct that every Lodge is to make a return of all Brethren initiated therein ; and article 1 , page 91 , and article 5 , page 93 , declare that every Brother is entitled to
a G . L . certificate immediately upon his being registered ; that each Lodge , therefore , when it makes a return of the Masons whom ' it has initiated shall pay for the certificate ; and further that a Brother who shall have obtained a certificate of the first or second degree will , after he has been advanced to a superior degree , be entitled to exchange such certificate for one of the superior degree without any additional expense .
The Board therefore resolved , that the W . M . of the Glamorgan Lodge , No . 43 , be admonished for his neglect , because it is his bounden duty to make himself acquainted with the laws of tho Craft , especially those which he has to carry out in the faithful discharge of his important office , and the withholding fees which are entrusted to his keeping is not only a wrong towards the G . L . funds
, but unjust towards individuals who have paid the money in full confidence of then * being placed in a position to claim ancl enjoy those privileges and advantages which upon their initiation they are led to expect . W . Bro . J . SAVAGE , pursuant to notice moved that the sum of 20 Z . should be granted to Bro . J . Lewisof the Robert Burns Loclge
, , No . 25 , as some acknowledgment for the kindness he had shewn to the widow and family of the late Bro . Puttock . Bro . Savage recapitulated the circumstances of the case , which , however , it is not necessary now to detail , as they havo been stated at former meetings of the Grand Lodge .
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United Grand Lodge.
R . AV . Bro . R . G . ALSTON proposed that tho sum of 1001 . bo granted to Bro . William Honey , P . M . of tho Athelstan Lodgo , No . 19 , London , as recommended by the Loclge of Benevolence , which was seconded by Bro . J . Hodgkinsou ; ancl testimony being borne to the merits of Bro . Honey , tho question was put and carried unanimously . The Board of General Purposes reported that tho Glamorgan
Lodge at Cardiff , No . 43 , having recommended the petition of Amelia , tho widow of the late Bro . Capt . A . K . Dunn , who had been initiated in that Lodge on the 12 th of February , 1849 , and was drowned at sea on the 22 nd of August following , the same was laid before the Lodge of Benevolence , when it appearing that the name of Bro . Dunn had never been returned for registry , the case was referred to this Board for inquiry .
A letter was thereupon written to the Master of the Lodgo , who replied that , although Bro . Dunn was initiated in the Loclge , he had not been raised to tho third degree ; and the Lodge supposed that no register could be made so as to obtain a Grand Lodge certificate before taking the third degree . It , however , appeared that tho Lodge had received from Bro . Dimn the sum of 1 Is . to pay for the registry and certificate . The laws on this subject are very explicit : article 17 , page 64 , article 2 , page 73 , direct that every Lodge is to make a return of all Brethren initiated therein ; and article 1 , page 91 , and article 5 , page 93 , declare that every Brother is entitled to
a G . L . certificate immediately upon his being registered ; that each Lodge , therefore , when it makes a return of the Masons whom ' it has initiated shall pay for the certificate ; and further that a Brother who shall have obtained a certificate of the first or second degree will , after he has been advanced to a superior degree , be entitled to exchange such certificate for one of the superior degree without any additional expense .
The Board therefore resolved , that the W . M . of the Glamorgan Lodge , No . 43 , be admonished for his neglect , because it is his bounden duty to make himself acquainted with the laws of tho Craft , especially those which he has to carry out in the faithful discharge of his important office , and the withholding fees which are entrusted to his keeping is not only a wrong towards the G . L . funds
, but unjust towards individuals who have paid the money in full confidence of then * being placed in a position to claim ancl enjoy those privileges and advantages which upon their initiation they are led to expect . W . Bro . J . SAVAGE , pursuant to notice moved that the sum of 20 Z . should be granted to Bro . J . Lewisof the Robert Burns Loclge
, , No . 25 , as some acknowledgment for the kindness he had shewn to the widow and family of the late Bro . Puttock . Bro . Savage recapitulated the circumstances of the case , which , however , it is not necessary now to detail , as they havo been stated at former meetings of the Grand Lodge .