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Answers To Correspondents.

Answers to Correspondents .

W . BURROUGHS , "MASONIC HERALD , " Calcutta . —The reason of- the non-arrival of the August issue of the " Masonic Magazine" is , that we are at present out of that number , but will mail you a copy immediately we have it .

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Births, Marriages And Deaths.

Births , Marriages and Deaths .

DEATH . On the i 8 tb ult ., of consumption , at Parkstone , Poole , Dorset , Bio . Rev . Edward Evans lladatb , M . A ., P . P . G . C . Lincolnshire , Founder of the llcreward Lodge , aged 44 years .

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The Freemason , SATURDAY , DRCKMIIUR 6 , 1873 .

Charity Voting.

CHARITY VOTING .

The Court of Queen ' s Iknch has decided , flint , the interchange of i-otes is perfectly legal , and that a contract to barter or purchase votes is maintainable !

Soiv . ething was said , as to an implied condition to accept the worthiest candidate , laid upon nil subscribers , but that , as we before observed ,

constitutes a great dilliculty in itself , and rests , we still venture to think , on a misapprehension o ( the actual facts of the case .

Charity Voting.

It is understood that the cases of all candidates are submitted to the " House Committee , " or " Board of Management , " and no cases are presumed to get upon the List , which do not

conform to the rules of the Institution , and are not in themselves cases properl y claiming relief and support . It then becomes a very difficult matter for any

one , or any body , to lay down absolutely , which out of forty or fifty applicants is the most deserving case . As Mrs . Malaprop said , not only are "

comparisons odorous , " but it seems to us , that , once admitted on the list , and being , in one sense , on a common ground of urgency , and having an

equal claim to support , it then becomes a question , necessarily , of individual opinion and private judgment .

Because A supports case 15 , and B supports case 20 , and D supports case 27 , no one can fairly say that either A , B , or D has not a right to select that particular case , or ought to have

selected case 21 , which seems to another mind the most deserving case . The tests of urgency and merit vary conderably , and we can quite fancy a case to arise

where A and B think certain tests are not decisive of the merits of a particular case , and D and E think other tests equally decisive of the merits of a totally different case .

We feel persuaded , that , on the whole , with some unavoidable defects , we cannot materially amend the present system , without committing other injustices than those the recent agitations

profess to have discovered , and propose to remedy . On the whole , the actual system works well admittedly for the financial welfare of the

Institutions , and in these days of hard and fast lines , and of very doubtful political economy , we think it far be tter , in the interests of the recipients themselves , " quieta non movere . "

The Scottish Grand Lodge.

THE SCOTTISH GRAND LODGE .

As we are always anxious not to err in any statements we make , and always to do full justice to others , it seems but fair that we should supplement our leader of last Saturday with a

few explanatory remarks . It appears , from a copy of Scotch Regulations for Lodges , which we have seen , that there is at present a minimum initiation fee incumbent on

Scotch Lodges , namely , £ 1 is ., exclusive of a registration fee of 5 s . 6 d . But this is obviousl y far too low , and ought at least to be £ ^ 3 3 s . or £ 4 4 s . There is also a power given to Lodges ,

by which they can charge the member by a twothirds' vote , with the payment annually of a sum not exceeding £ 1 , of which ios . is to be set aside as a charity fund , to be administered by

the Master , Wardens , and Secretary , or by the Committee of the Lodge , and for contributing to the Fund of Masonic Benevolence , and the other ios . to form part of the Lodge Fund , towards

the ordinary expenses . We , however , shall not be wrong in stating that this permissive law is " more honoured in

the neglect , than in the observance . " There is , Bro . I'aton states , an inherent right in Lodges to levy annual payments ^