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United Grand Lodge .
per annum , and subject to all similar covenants , and to have the " occasional use of the Hall , under the same licence , conditions , and payments as heretofore ; the lease to be granted on the surrender of the existing lease , and the fulfilment of the covenants contained : in it . The Board being satisfied with the applicants , suggested and recommended to the Grand Lodge to authorize the Trustees to
grant a lease accordingly , a covenant being inserted that the lease shall become forfeited in the event of the bankruptcy or insolvency of the lessees . That a complaint was preferred by the Lodge of Benevolence against the Lodge of Harmony , No . 375 , Rochdale , for having recommended and certified Bio . Thomas Smith as having been a regular contributing member of the Lodge for upwards of twenty years , although
the name of that Brother had never been returned as a member , nor any contributions paid for him to the Fund of Benevolence ; and when those deficiences were pointed out by the Grand Secretary , the Lodge having persisted in the assertion that the petitioner had subscribed to the Lodge for the period specified , the Board having summoned the W . M . to answer the complaint , he furnished extracts from the minutes of the Lodge , shewing that Bro . Smith was initiated in 1804 ; that he had been in the habit of attending the Lodge , and had discharged the duties of W . M . ; and stating that his name had been returned , and the fees paid .
On reference to the Returns , however , the name of Bro . Smith did not appear . The Board , therefore , resolved that as it appears that the certificate appended by the W . M . of the Lodge of Harmony , No . 375 , to the petition of Bro . Smith iu Oct . 1850 , and the letters subsequently sent by this W . M . in May and Sept ., 1851 , comfirming the same , have induced the Lodge of Benevolence to award Bro . Smith the sum of 10 ? . ; and as it appears that such representations were
incorrect , and should not have been made without sufficient authority , the Board was of opinion that the W . M . and Brethren of the Lodge were highly reprehensible , and resolved that the Lodge be fined in the sum of 21 . 2 s . Bro . R . G . ALSTON , in moving that a lease of the Tavern be granted in accordance with the recommendation of the Board of General Purposes , said he did not think it necessary to trouble
Grand Lodge with any detail of what had been done by the Board under the difficult circumstances , in which they had been placed . The Board had done their utmost to protect the interests of Grand Lodge ; all arrears had been paid , and he had now to propose that a lease be granted , at the same rent as heretofore , to the three well-known respectable individuals ; in particular , he could not deny himself the pleasure of saying of Bro . Watson , that no man was more highly or deservedly respected in Masonry . He thought Grand Lodge could not do better than grant a lease to these Brethren , with such clauses as the Board of General
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United Grand Lodge .
per annum , and subject to all similar covenants , and to have the " occasional use of the Hall , under the same licence , conditions , and payments as heretofore ; the lease to be granted on the surrender of the existing lease , and the fulfilment of the covenants contained : in it . The Board being satisfied with the applicants , suggested and recommended to the Grand Lodge to authorize the Trustees to
grant a lease accordingly , a covenant being inserted that the lease shall become forfeited in the event of the bankruptcy or insolvency of the lessees . That a complaint was preferred by the Lodge of Benevolence against the Lodge of Harmony , No . 375 , Rochdale , for having recommended and certified Bio . Thomas Smith as having been a regular contributing member of the Lodge for upwards of twenty years , although
the name of that Brother had never been returned as a member , nor any contributions paid for him to the Fund of Benevolence ; and when those deficiences were pointed out by the Grand Secretary , the Lodge having persisted in the assertion that the petitioner had subscribed to the Lodge for the period specified , the Board having summoned the W . M . to answer the complaint , he furnished extracts from the minutes of the Lodge , shewing that Bro . Smith was initiated in 1804 ; that he had been in the habit of attending the Lodge , and had discharged the duties of W . M . ; and stating that his name had been returned , and the fees paid .
On reference to the Returns , however , the name of Bro . Smith did not appear . The Board , therefore , resolved that as it appears that the certificate appended by the W . M . of the Lodge of Harmony , No . 375 , to the petition of Bro . Smith iu Oct . 1850 , and the letters subsequently sent by this W . M . in May and Sept ., 1851 , comfirming the same , have induced the Lodge of Benevolence to award Bro . Smith the sum of 10 ? . ; and as it appears that such representations were
incorrect , and should not have been made without sufficient authority , the Board was of opinion that the W . M . and Brethren of the Lodge were highly reprehensible , and resolved that the Lodge be fined in the sum of 21 . 2 s . Bro . R . G . ALSTON , in moving that a lease of the Tavern be granted in accordance with the recommendation of the Board of General Purposes , said he did not think it necessary to trouble
Grand Lodge with any detail of what had been done by the Board under the difficult circumstances , in which they had been placed . The Board had done their utmost to protect the interests of Grand Lodge ; all arrears had been paid , and he had now to propose that a lease be granted , at the same rent as heretofore , to the three well-known respectable individuals ; in particular , he could not deny himself the pleasure of saying of Bro . Watson , that no man was more highly or deservedly respected in Masonry . He thought Grand Lodge could not do better than grant a lease to these Brethren , with such clauses as the Board of General