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The Freemason , SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 1 , 187 3 .

The Revised Constitutions Of The Irish Grand Lodge.

THE REVISED CONSTITUTIONS OF THE IRISH GRAND LODGE .

We have been favoured with a view of the draft of the Constitutions of the Grand Lodge of Ireland , as " amended hy the . By-Laws

Committee , the consideration of which has been postponed until the meeting' of Grand Lodge in November . "

At the outset we feel bound to say , that , in our opinion , tbese amended laws of the Craft in Ireland are a great improvement upon all their existing regulations . In the first place , they are

somewhat more methodically arranged , though in this respect they are still susceptible of improvement , and might be conveniently broken up into more distinct and definite tcrtions .

In the next place , 'hey are in themselves clear and explicit , alike in the privileges they assert , the proceedings , they forbid , the regulations they prescribe , and thc penalties they enforce .

But there are oneortwo anomalies , as it appears to us , in these revised C institutions , to which we think it we'l io allude to day , and some provisions , we venUire ' to think , also of doubtful propriety , to wh 1 I 1 we wish to call the the calm

The Revised Constitutions Of The Irish Grand Lodge.

attention of our excellent brethren across the Channel , trusting ., as we do so , that they will accept our criticisms in the same fraternal spirit of good will and interest with which they ara

tendered by ourselves . The Irish Grand Lodge is henceforth to be composed exactly as our own , and is based on the simple and pure Craft system , and thus the

regulations of the Book of Constitutions are drawn up by the Committee of Grand Lodge for the government , as with us , of Craft Masonry . But Law 133 introduces this strange

anomaly r—It recognizes four alien bodies , accepts them as of coordinate jurisdiction and authority with Grand Lodge , and gives to their decisions the force of a decision of Grand

Lodge ! By this most remarkable provision a sentence of the " Grand Royal Arch Chapter , " of the " Great Priory of High Knights Templar , " of

the " Grand Chapter of Prince Masons of Ireland , " and of the " Supreme Council of the Thirty-third Degree in Ireland , " for expulsion , suspension , or restoration of " any brother "

shall , "on the case being communicated tothe Grand Lodge of Ireland , be accepted as final and conclusive , without any further enquiry or investigation . "

Now there is something in this proposed enactment , which strikes us as very peculiar and unprecedented . Why are these four foreign governing bodies—foreign that is to Crait

Masonry—introduced into these new Constitutions of the Grand Lodge of Ireland ? What has the Grand Lodge of Irish Craft Masons , qua a 'Grand Lodge , to do with such

high and eminent grades ? Under these provisions , a Craft Mason who may have committed no offence against the Craft , or infringed any of the regulations of Grand

Lotlge , may be expelled , for a non-compliance with some technical and special regulation of these four august assemblies , of which Craft Masonry knows nothing , from the privileges of

his private lodge , and Provincial Grand Lodge , and Grand Lodge . For by law 133 , the sentence of any such foreign authority , is irreversible , in fact incontestable .

The Grand Lodge of Ireland has nothing reall y to do with these authentics or they with it , but it thus gives them practically coequal and coordinate authority with itself , the ultimate court of appeal

to all Craft Masons in Ireland , and what is still more strange and inexplicable , does not even propose to consider the grounds of the sentence , be that sentence fair or unfair serious or petty , legal or illegal , but simply to record it , and to acton it .

Now we venture to think that this proposition is a great blot in the Revised Constitutions . It is , prima facie , utterly unjust and clearly unprecedented , at least with us , and introduces

an entirely new element into our Craft Regulations , fraught with a very dangerous precedent , and suggestive of very serious consequences to Masonic Jurisprudence in Ireland .

We are aware , that , in that country the High Grades are bound more closely to the Craft system than with us , but we feel it our duty to express onr opinion in all deference to the Irish Grand Lodge , tl . at the proposed law is both un-