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AA ^ e have great pleasure in calling attention to the following circular address , and will gladly receive any amount of subscription which may be forwarded to us , for the purpose of advancing the cause , for which assistance is urged . —ED . F . Q . M . and R . " To the M . AV . G . Masters , AVardens , and Brothers of the Grand Lodges of the United States and of Europe , and to the AV . Masters , Officers and Brethren of the Subordinate Lodges under their respective
jurisdictions . "At the Annual Communication of the M . AV . G . L . of the State of California , the following resolution was unanimously adopted : — " AVhereas , Several of the Lodges under this jurisdiction , and the members thereof , by their great liberality to strange Brothers , have become indebted for greater amounts than they are able to pay , therefore ,
" Resolved , that a Committee of seven be appointed to address a circular to other Grand and Subordinate Lodges , setting forth the amount and nature of the embarrassments aforesaid , and for what cause incurred , which circular shall be published with the proceedings of this Grand Lodge . " The undersigned wereappointed that Committee , and in the discharge of their duties , beg your indulgence to state : That at an early period in the history of the immense emigration into this new country from every State in the Union , and from every part of Europe , it was found that
vast numbers came without any adequate knowledge of the nature or extent of the wants to which they would become exposed , in the prosecution of the mining enterprises which they came to pursue , as well as without any idea of the causes which have been found to operate in breaking down their health and constitutions . They , therefore , came most lamentably unsupplied with any other means of providing for their necessities than their capacities for labour . It therefore happened in the autumn of 1849 and the succeeding winterthat large numbers
, , were compelled to leave the mining districts , and repaired to Sacramento City for medical advice , and for attendance in sickness . As a considerable number of such sick and destitute persons were members of the Masonic Fraternity , they naturally and of right made their condition known to their Brethren , then established at that place . " Under a most generous impulse , and a lively sense of their obligations , the Brethren undertook to institute a sanitary establishment , that should
supply the place of a hospital . At that time municipal government had not been organised , and public affairs were conducted chiefly on the voluntary principle . So it was in the case of the health establishment set up by the Masons . They found , however , that the demands upon them were , in the course of a few months , increased to an extent greater than they had anticipated , and greater than their own means , and the contributions which they could collect , would enable them to meet . They could not , however , go back , nor could they abandon the sufferers xvhom they had been obliged to receive , and whose numbers were greatly
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Amerlca.
AMERlCA .
AA ^ e have great pleasure in calling attention to the following circular address , and will gladly receive any amount of subscription which may be forwarded to us , for the purpose of advancing the cause , for which assistance is urged . —ED . F . Q . M . and R . " To the M . AV . G . Masters , AVardens , and Brothers of the Grand Lodges of the United States and of Europe , and to the AV . Masters , Officers and Brethren of the Subordinate Lodges under their respective
jurisdictions . "At the Annual Communication of the M . AV . G . L . of the State of California , the following resolution was unanimously adopted : — " AVhereas , Several of the Lodges under this jurisdiction , and the members thereof , by their great liberality to strange Brothers , have become indebted for greater amounts than they are able to pay , therefore ,
" Resolved , that a Committee of seven be appointed to address a circular to other Grand and Subordinate Lodges , setting forth the amount and nature of the embarrassments aforesaid , and for what cause incurred , which circular shall be published with the proceedings of this Grand Lodge . " The undersigned wereappointed that Committee , and in the discharge of their duties , beg your indulgence to state : That at an early period in the history of the immense emigration into this new country from every State in the Union , and from every part of Europe , it was found that
vast numbers came without any adequate knowledge of the nature or extent of the wants to which they would become exposed , in the prosecution of the mining enterprises which they came to pursue , as well as without any idea of the causes which have been found to operate in breaking down their health and constitutions . They , therefore , came most lamentably unsupplied with any other means of providing for their necessities than their capacities for labour . It therefore happened in the autumn of 1849 and the succeeding winterthat large numbers
, , were compelled to leave the mining districts , and repaired to Sacramento City for medical advice , and for attendance in sickness . As a considerable number of such sick and destitute persons were members of the Masonic Fraternity , they naturally and of right made their condition known to their Brethren , then established at that place . " Under a most generous impulse , and a lively sense of their obligations , the Brethren undertook to institute a sanitary establishment , that should
supply the place of a hospital . At that time municipal government had not been organised , and public affairs were conducted chiefly on the voluntary principle . So it was in the case of the health establishment set up by the Masons . They found , however , that the demands upon them were , in the course of a few months , increased to an extent greater than they had anticipated , and greater than their own means , and the contributions which they could collect , would enable them to meet . They could not , however , go back , nor could they abandon the sufferers xvhom they had been obliged to receive , and whose numbers were greatly