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justify my coming before Grand Lodge this evening . 1 it , I do not hesitate to state , in behalf of and in connection with that cause without some association with which I am never intruding myself on Grand Lodge ; and it is on be half of our great Masonic Institutions that I do say that if this office is one of responsibility , if this office be one honourif this office be of reputeif this office be
, one , one of distinction , why do not we select for this office a brother who has made himself conspicuous not only by the respon sibilities he has undertaken but by the generous support he has given to these Institutions ? I would not for a sing instant do the injustice of being the organ or mouthpiece of any section of Freemasonry that for one instant ques tioned the freest possible exercise of thhih prerogative
; g of the Grand Master in appointing his Grand Officers from year to year ; but I will , whenever have a justifiable pretext , stand here as the exponent of those who wish to see the privileges of Freemasonry entertained , and not overridden by secret councils . Now brethren , there ate a certain , number of names that I have heard likely to be mentioned proposed for the distin
or guished office of Grand Treasurer , and I must siy that from the multifarious businesses many of us are engaged in , there has been no time or opportunity , whatever course had been proposed by our rulers or any one else , for consideration . I have thought , that we ought , when anjoppor tunity was afforded , not to give our suffrages on this to brother who had not been adorned bthe
question any y Grand Master with the modern purple ; but I cannot tell this evening that any brother with the exception of the one who has just been nominated for the office of Grand Treasurer will be proposed who has not been so adorned and , therefore , without consultation , for the purpose of nominating one who has honoured himself by his largehearted support of Charitiesand who has also had
our , the purple awarded to him , and , 1 think , seventeen years ago very worthily indeed received that honour , 1 am about to propose , in order to test whether we shall have this election in our hands or not , and whether you , brethren , feel with me that those who support our Institutions have done as great and good services in connectiwith Freemisonry
m as is possible to be effected , and whether you will by your spontaneous suffrages , if these brethren have been honoured already , add honours to them , and if they have not had honours conferred upon them when a worthy name is submitted to you you will confer the honours on them—I wish to test it this evening . I do not wish to detain furtherbut I will simply the name
you , propose of our worthy brother , Colonel Creaton , Past Grand Beacon , who has been a great supporter of our various Institutions , is a Trustee of them , a member of all our Committees , a most liberal and constant supporter of all the Charities , and who for many years of his life has been one who shows the greatest interest in Freemasonry Let us under such circumstanceswhen for the first time
, in twenty-seven years and upwards the office of Grand Treasurer is placed in our nomination show that we can reward a Past Grand Deacon who , by seventeen years of hard work in our cause , has proved himself worthy of the high honour of havingjthat office conferred upon him . BroJames TerryProvGDCHerts : Most Worship
. , . ... ful Pro G . Master , I . have much pleasure in seconding the nomination of our Bro . Lieut .-Col . Creaton as Grand Treasurer . The Earl of Carnarvon : Brethren , it is my duty to call upon any brother who has any other candidate to pro pose for this office . BroJBMoncktonPresident of the Board of General
. . . , Purposes : Most Worshipful Pro . G . Master , 1 ask to be entitled to say a word or two on what has been said by our Bro . Binckes , because I think what I may say will be useful to this Grand Loeige . While 1 agree with a good deal which has been uttered by our Bro . Binckes 1 do not agree with all . I rather think and imagine that Grand Lodwill pethaps take it from him that the reason of
ge the first nomination of Grand Treasurer to-night is the result of some terrible inquisition . Now I am prepared to say for myself that I am in the councils of the Most Worshipful Grand Master , and that till I entere d Grand Lodge to-night I had not the smallest notion of who was
going tobe proposed as Grand Treasurer in the place of our late much-respected Bro . Tomkins . I did not know who was going to be proposed , and 1 say this in Grand Lodge because i do not like it to be said in Grand Lodge that there is anything secret . Brethren who are in a Masonic position must judge what is best for the general
. ; but do not let it be thought that these matters are arranged beforehand , and I am sure this has not been the case in this instance . I had not the smallest notion , though I am one of the Grand Officers , of who was likely to be iiominated for the office of Grand Treasurer to-night . Bro . Mclntyre , G . R .: Most Worshipful Pro G . Master J am not about to propose any candidate for the office o Grand Treasurerbut I wish to call the attention of the
ge some , be led away upon this subject by Bro . Binckes from the usual practice at the election of Grand Master and Treasurer . Now , on this subject the Book of Constitutions is clear in its provisions . The Book of Constitutions enacts that" the Grand Master shall , according to antient usage , be nominated at the Quarterly Communication in December , " proposed for election in Marchand installed at the Grand
, Festival . The Book of Constitutions is also clear in what it says respecting the Grand Treasurer ; he does not require a nomination . If my memory serves me right , and in this Grand Lodge it goes back to a very long period , I never recollect the Grand Treasurer being nominated at the Quarterly Communication in December . 1 have known him always proposed and elected in Marchand it is well
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known that one particular brother during his lifetime was constantly brought forward . Grand Lodge was never at any time taken by surprise in that proposition ; but 1 venture to say this , that it matters not whether the nomination takes place in December , no other nomination might be made in March ; because if other nominations might
be made in March it would be free to every brother to consult his own feelings , to act for what he considered the good of the Craft , and to come forward prepared to prop ise a brother for the office of Grand Master . If on the other hand a nomination is to be matle in the month of December the whole of Grand Lodge would bi shut out in the month of March , and no one so nominated could be put up for
election for the Granei Master , because no one not nominated in December can be put for election in March . I he provisions of the Book of Constitutions have been acted upon on this occasion , as I trust they are on every other occasion and therefore there is no irregularity in the present proceedings . On the proposition of Bro . Cave on the one side and Bro . Binckes on the other , I shall not offer any opinion at allbut do think it is of the officers
; I my duty , as one of Grand Lodge to whom is confided the task of seeing that Grand Lodge law is correctly laid down , to place btfure you that which the Book of Constitutions enacts . Bro . Raynham W . Stewart , P . G . D / : M . W . Pro Grand Master , our Bro . Binckes was perfectly right when he said the nomination of Grand Treasurer took placs in December have nominated in Decemberand it has been
I myself , earned . No doubt , as our Bro . Grand Registrar says , no question was ever raised to Bro . Tomkins , but as far as I know , ever since I have been connected with Grand Lodge I have always known Grand Treasurer nominated in December , and , as I have sai I , I have done it myself . Bro . Brackstone Baker , P . G . S .: Most Worshipful Pro Grand Masterit is delicate admit tei
, a very subject I quite propose any ons in competition with those two brethren who have already been suggesteel to this Grand Loiige as Grand Treasurer , but when I name one brothei for the office I am quite sure that the brethren who have nominated them will admit to you , and that you will assent , that a more worthy , a more earnest , a more eager , and more active has of late shown him
never years - self in this Grand Lodge . 1 refer to Bro . John Moxon Clabon , who has been well known for the last twenty or thirty years among us , a man of high social position , a man of high standing in the City—all necessary positions —and who in this Grand Lodge has over and over again come here to advocate the cause of the Benevolent Fund of which he is the President ; and 1 am sure that from his activityand from the desire he has to devote himself to
, the interests of Masonry , no better man could you have for Grand Treasurer than Bro . John Moxon Clabon . Therefore , M . W . Pro G . M ., with your permission , 1 beg to propose Bro . J . M . Clabon as Grand Treasurer—I have had no communication with him on the subject j it is quite a voluntary proposal on my part—if he will accept the office , though I do not know that he will . BroGPBritten : MWPro GMI the
, g me great pleasure to second the name of Bro . Clabon . I am sure that in the whole Craft we shall find no man more zealous and able than Bro . Clabon , and if he will accept the office of Grand Treasurer , I am sure he will be doing good to the cause of and conferring
Masonry , upon us a great obligation . I am just informed that Bro . Ferdinand de Rothschild , who has been proposed as our Grand Treasurer , is a Mason only newly made , only two or three months j that he has never passed the chair . ( Cries of " Oh , oh . "; If that statement is wrong , I beg pardonbut I am informed that he has not yet passed the
, in Grand . Lodge . If that is so I cannot think , and nothing will induce me to believe , that such a man should be propssed for the greatest honour it is in our power to give . I beg to second the nomination of Bro . Clabon as Grand Treasurer . Bro . J . M . Clabon , P . G . D : Most Worshipful Pro Grand MasterI have been proposed for this Grand Office
with-, out any previous knowledge , except that my Bro . Brackstone Baker told me a few minutes ago that he was going to propose me . If I was in competition with Bro . Ferdinand de Rothschild alone I might be disposed to go to the poll with him j but I am very loth to go to the poll with my dear old friend Bro . Lieut .-Col . Creaton . ( Great applause . ) have known LieutColCreaton in
. many years Masonry , and in various charities , more particularly our own Masonic Charities , and I know there is no man that deserves honour more than Col . Creaton . The Earl of Carnarvon : Then Bro . Clabon has withdrawn . ( Cries of " No , no . " ; Bro . J . M . Clabon : Having been proposed by Bro . Brackstone Bakerand seconded bBroBrittenI think it
, y . , would be unfair to withdraw ; but I adhere to what I said before , that I do not wish to go to the poll with Col . Creaton . Bro . Thomas Fenn , P . G . D : Most Worshipful Pro Grand Master , will you allow me to say , in answer to Bro . Britten , that Bro . Ferdinand de Rothschild was made a Mason in the Prince of Wales Lod No 259 in i 860
ge , . , or 1861 , at the time I happened to be Master of that lodge . Bro . G . P . Britten : Most W . Pro Grand Master , then am sorry I made the statement I did that Bro . ele Rothschild was only a new Mason . I must have been misinformed . The Earl of CarnarvonHas brother other
any any candidate to propose ? Brethren , it appears that there are three candidates before this Grand Lodge for election to the office of Grand Treasurer—Bros . Ferdinand de Rothschild , Col . Creaton , and Clabon . I shall take those three names successively , and shall call for a show of hands in favour of each . If , of course , the show of hands should overwhelmingly clear and distinct in favour of
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of those candidates 1 shall not proceed to verify it by actual voting ; but if there is any doubt on the subject I shall require Granei Lodge to divide ; and I think that will be the best way to do it . The election was then taken , when the show of hands for Colreaton enormousl
. C was y in excess of the show of hands in favour of the other two candidates . The Earl of Carnarvon : 1 have to announce to Grand Lodge that by an incontestable and enormous majority Bro . Col . Creaton is elected ( Loud applause . ) Bro . Col . Creaton , who was received with loud cheers
: p I am taken a little aback , for I was not aware when I entered Etiis hall to-night that my name woul 1 have been proposed for this honourable office . I thank you very much for this honour that has been cemferred upon me , and assure you that nothing shall be wanting on my part to carry out the duties of the office to which you have elected me with honour and integrity
. The Report e > f the Lodge of Benevolence for the last quarter , was then taken , and the following grants were confirmed : — £ - < L The five orphans of a brother of the Clapton Lodge , 1365 , Clapton ... ... too o o A brother of the Belvidcre Lodge , 503 , Maidstone 100
... ... ... ... o o A brother of the Albion Lodge , 9 , London so o o A brother of the Barnard Lodge , 1230 , Barnard Castle ... ... ... 50 o o The widow of a brother of the Vilruv ' un Lodge , 87 , London ... ... c 0 0 o A brother of the Lodge of Frcedam , J ; , Gravesend 100
... ... ... o o A brother of the Royal Kent Lodge of Antie | uity , 20 , Chatham ... ... 100 o o The widow of a biother of the Royal Athelstan Lodge , 19 , Loudon ... ... 1 , 10 a o NIITK . —A grant ot ^ . ' 100 was made to this brother on the 4 U 1 of December , 1878 which lapsedin of his
, , consequence death , on the 24 th of December , before confirmation of the grant by Grand Lodge . The widow of a brother of the Ranelagh Lodge , 8 34 , London ... ... ... 75 o 0 A brother ot the Loyal Berkshire Lodge of 574 Newbury
Hope , , .., ... 75 o o Repoit of the Board of General Purposes . To the United Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of England . The Board of General Purposes beg to submit a statement of the Grand Lodge accounts , at the meeting of the Finance Committee , held on Friday , the 14 th day of February ult . shewing a balance in the Bank of England
, of £ 7 828 lbs . id . j and in the hands ol the Grand Secretary for petty cash £ 75 , and for servants' wages £ 9 6 ics ( Signed ) J B . MONCKTON , President . Freemasons' Hall , London , W . C . 18 th February , 1879 . BroJohn BMonckton : Most Worshipful ProGrand
. . . Master , I am happy to be able to state , as the members of the Grand Lodge will see by the paper , that beyond the ordinary statement , the Board , although they have been busy during the last quarter , has nothing to draw the attention of Grand Lodge to particularly . It must be very satisfactory to Grand Lodge to know that all that has been done does not call for any special reportI move that
. this report be received and entered on the minutes . The motion having been seconded , was duly carried . Grand Secretary then read the repoit of Bro . R P . Harding , Auditor of Grand Lodge accounts , of receipts and disbursements during the year 18 7 8 , which was adopted . BroMclntyreGRbrought the appeal and
, , up protest of Bro . George John Ityan , District Grand Senior Warden of the Argentine Republic , against the action of the District Grand Lodge in repealing some of the bye-laws , against the wishes of the District Grand Master , and contrary to the provisions of the treaty entered into between the Grand Orient of the Argentine Republic and the Granei Lodge of England , authorising the establishment of District Grand Lodge at
Ayres , under the English Constitution . Bro . Mclntyre said that by the treaty entered into between Grand Lodge of England many years ago and the Grand Orient of the Argentine Republic , Grand Lodge had the power to establish lodges in that Republic , and to
name a District Grand Lodge and Grand Master to rule over them . The representative of England was to be a Provincial Grand Master , and the Grand Lodge was tc have the power of framing bye-laws of their own , and the Grand Master to appoint his Deputy and officers . With
" Lodge has the power of framing bye-laws for its own government , and of making regulations for the guidance of the private lodges of the province ; provided that none of these be contrary to or inconsistent with the laws and Constitutions of the Grand Lodge ; but such bye-laws shall not be valid until submitted to and approved by the Most Worshiful Grand Master That the state of
p . " was things which existed when the Provincial Grand Lodge was established in the Argentine Republic . District Grand Loelges were now placed in a very similar position , for the Book of Constitutions said with respect to District Grand District Grand Lod make rules and
Lodges— " ges may regulations for the management and conduct of their own proceedings , and of those of any Committee of their own body , and may alter such rules as they think fit ; but no rule or regulation shall be in force until approved by the Most Worshipful the Grand Master of Eng land . " The that had arisen between the in this
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justify my coming before Grand Lodge this evening . 1 it , I do not hesitate to state , in behalf of and in connection with that cause without some association with which I am never intruding myself on Grand Lodge ; and it is on be half of our great Masonic Institutions that I do say that if this office is one of responsibility , if this office be one honourif this office be of reputeif this office be
, one , one of distinction , why do not we select for this office a brother who has made himself conspicuous not only by the respon sibilities he has undertaken but by the generous support he has given to these Institutions ? I would not for a sing instant do the injustice of being the organ or mouthpiece of any section of Freemasonry that for one instant ques tioned the freest possible exercise of thhih prerogative
; g of the Grand Master in appointing his Grand Officers from year to year ; but I will , whenever have a justifiable pretext , stand here as the exponent of those who wish to see the privileges of Freemasonry entertained , and not overridden by secret councils . Now brethren , there ate a certain , number of names that I have heard likely to be mentioned proposed for the distin
or guished office of Grand Treasurer , and I must siy that from the multifarious businesses many of us are engaged in , there has been no time or opportunity , whatever course had been proposed by our rulers or any one else , for consideration . I have thought , that we ought , when anjoppor tunity was afforded , not to give our suffrages on this to brother who had not been adorned bthe
question any y Grand Master with the modern purple ; but I cannot tell this evening that any brother with the exception of the one who has just been nominated for the office of Grand Treasurer will be proposed who has not been so adorned and , therefore , without consultation , for the purpose of nominating one who has honoured himself by his largehearted support of Charitiesand who has also had
our , the purple awarded to him , and , 1 think , seventeen years ago very worthily indeed received that honour , 1 am about to propose , in order to test whether we shall have this election in our hands or not , and whether you , brethren , feel with me that those who support our Institutions have done as great and good services in connectiwith Freemisonry
m as is possible to be effected , and whether you will by your spontaneous suffrages , if these brethren have been honoured already , add honours to them , and if they have not had honours conferred upon them when a worthy name is submitted to you you will confer the honours on them—I wish to test it this evening . I do not wish to detain furtherbut I will simply the name
you , propose of our worthy brother , Colonel Creaton , Past Grand Beacon , who has been a great supporter of our various Institutions , is a Trustee of them , a member of all our Committees , a most liberal and constant supporter of all the Charities , and who for many years of his life has been one who shows the greatest interest in Freemasonry Let us under such circumstanceswhen for the first time
, in twenty-seven years and upwards the office of Grand Treasurer is placed in our nomination show that we can reward a Past Grand Deacon who , by seventeen years of hard work in our cause , has proved himself worthy of the high honour of havingjthat office conferred upon him . BroJames TerryProvGDCHerts : Most Worship
. , . ... ful Pro G . Master , I . have much pleasure in seconding the nomination of our Bro . Lieut .-Col . Creaton as Grand Treasurer . The Earl of Carnarvon : Brethren , it is my duty to call upon any brother who has any other candidate to pro pose for this office . BroJBMoncktonPresident of the Board of General
. . . , Purposes : Most Worshipful Pro . G . Master , 1 ask to be entitled to say a word or two on what has been said by our Bro . Binckes , because I think what I may say will be useful to this Grand Loeige . While 1 agree with a good deal which has been uttered by our Bro . Binckes 1 do not agree with all . I rather think and imagine that Grand Lodwill pethaps take it from him that the reason of
ge the first nomination of Grand Treasurer to-night is the result of some terrible inquisition . Now I am prepared to say for myself that I am in the councils of the Most Worshipful Grand Master , and that till I entere d Grand Lodge to-night I had not the smallest notion of who was
going tobe proposed as Grand Treasurer in the place of our late much-respected Bro . Tomkins . I did not know who was going to be proposed , and 1 say this in Grand Lodge because i do not like it to be said in Grand Lodge that there is anything secret . Brethren who are in a Masonic position must judge what is best for the general
. ; but do not let it be thought that these matters are arranged beforehand , and I am sure this has not been the case in this instance . I had not the smallest notion , though I am one of the Grand Officers , of who was likely to be iiominated for the office of Grand Treasurer to-night . Bro . Mclntyre , G . R .: Most Worshipful Pro G . Master J am not about to propose any candidate for the office o Grand Treasurerbut I wish to call the attention of the
ge some , be led away upon this subject by Bro . Binckes from the usual practice at the election of Grand Master and Treasurer . Now , on this subject the Book of Constitutions is clear in its provisions . The Book of Constitutions enacts that" the Grand Master shall , according to antient usage , be nominated at the Quarterly Communication in December , " proposed for election in Marchand installed at the Grand
, Festival . The Book of Constitutions is also clear in what it says respecting the Grand Treasurer ; he does not require a nomination . If my memory serves me right , and in this Grand Lodge it goes back to a very long period , I never recollect the Grand Treasurer being nominated at the Quarterly Communication in December . 1 have known him always proposed and elected in Marchand it is well
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known that one particular brother during his lifetime was constantly brought forward . Grand Lodge was never at any time taken by surprise in that proposition ; but 1 venture to say this , that it matters not whether the nomination takes place in December , no other nomination might be made in March ; because if other nominations might
be made in March it would be free to every brother to consult his own feelings , to act for what he considered the good of the Craft , and to come forward prepared to prop ise a brother for the office of Grand Master . If on the other hand a nomination is to be matle in the month of December the whole of Grand Lodge would bi shut out in the month of March , and no one so nominated could be put up for
election for the Granei Master , because no one not nominated in December can be put for election in March . I he provisions of the Book of Constitutions have been acted upon on this occasion , as I trust they are on every other occasion and therefore there is no irregularity in the present proceedings . On the proposition of Bro . Cave on the one side and Bro . Binckes on the other , I shall not offer any opinion at allbut do think it is of the officers
; I my duty , as one of Grand Lodge to whom is confided the task of seeing that Grand Lodge law is correctly laid down , to place btfure you that which the Book of Constitutions enacts . Bro . Raynham W . Stewart , P . G . D / : M . W . Pro Grand Master , our Bro . Binckes was perfectly right when he said the nomination of Grand Treasurer took placs in December have nominated in Decemberand it has been
I myself , earned . No doubt , as our Bro . Grand Registrar says , no question was ever raised to Bro . Tomkins , but as far as I know , ever since I have been connected with Grand Lodge I have always known Grand Treasurer nominated in December , and , as I have sai I , I have done it myself . Bro . Brackstone Baker , P . G . S .: Most Worshipful Pro Grand Masterit is delicate admit tei
, a very subject I quite propose any ons in competition with those two brethren who have already been suggesteel to this Grand Loiige as Grand Treasurer , but when I name one brothei for the office I am quite sure that the brethren who have nominated them will admit to you , and that you will assent , that a more worthy , a more earnest , a more eager , and more active has of late shown him
never years - self in this Grand Lodge . 1 refer to Bro . John Moxon Clabon , who has been well known for the last twenty or thirty years among us , a man of high social position , a man of high standing in the City—all necessary positions —and who in this Grand Lodge has over and over again come here to advocate the cause of the Benevolent Fund of which he is the President ; and 1 am sure that from his activityand from the desire he has to devote himself to
, the interests of Masonry , no better man could you have for Grand Treasurer than Bro . John Moxon Clabon . Therefore , M . W . Pro G . M ., with your permission , 1 beg to propose Bro . J . M . Clabon as Grand Treasurer—I have had no communication with him on the subject j it is quite a voluntary proposal on my part—if he will accept the office , though I do not know that he will . BroGPBritten : MWPro GMI the
, g me great pleasure to second the name of Bro . Clabon . I am sure that in the whole Craft we shall find no man more zealous and able than Bro . Clabon , and if he will accept the office of Grand Treasurer , I am sure he will be doing good to the cause of and conferring
Masonry , upon us a great obligation . I am just informed that Bro . Ferdinand de Rothschild , who has been proposed as our Grand Treasurer , is a Mason only newly made , only two or three months j that he has never passed the chair . ( Cries of " Oh , oh . "; If that statement is wrong , I beg pardonbut I am informed that he has not yet passed the
, in Grand . Lodge . If that is so I cannot think , and nothing will induce me to believe , that such a man should be propssed for the greatest honour it is in our power to give . I beg to second the nomination of Bro . Clabon as Grand Treasurer . Bro . J . M . Clabon , P . G . D : Most Worshipful Pro Grand MasterI have been proposed for this Grand Office
with-, out any previous knowledge , except that my Bro . Brackstone Baker told me a few minutes ago that he was going to propose me . If I was in competition with Bro . Ferdinand de Rothschild alone I might be disposed to go to the poll with him j but I am very loth to go to the poll with my dear old friend Bro . Lieut .-Col . Creaton . ( Great applause . ) have known LieutColCreaton in
. many years Masonry , and in various charities , more particularly our own Masonic Charities , and I know there is no man that deserves honour more than Col . Creaton . The Earl of Carnarvon : Then Bro . Clabon has withdrawn . ( Cries of " No , no . " ; Bro . J . M . Clabon : Having been proposed by Bro . Brackstone Bakerand seconded bBroBrittenI think it
, y . , would be unfair to withdraw ; but I adhere to what I said before , that I do not wish to go to the poll with Col . Creaton . Bro . Thomas Fenn , P . G . D : Most Worshipful Pro Grand Master , will you allow me to say , in answer to Bro . Britten , that Bro . Ferdinand de Rothschild was made a Mason in the Prince of Wales Lod No 259 in i 860
ge , . , or 1861 , at the time I happened to be Master of that lodge . Bro . G . P . Britten : Most W . Pro Grand Master , then am sorry I made the statement I did that Bro . ele Rothschild was only a new Mason . I must have been misinformed . The Earl of CarnarvonHas brother other
any any candidate to propose ? Brethren , it appears that there are three candidates before this Grand Lodge for election to the office of Grand Treasurer—Bros . Ferdinand de Rothschild , Col . Creaton , and Clabon . I shall take those three names successively , and shall call for a show of hands in favour of each . If , of course , the show of hands should overwhelmingly clear and distinct in favour of
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of those candidates 1 shall not proceed to verify it by actual voting ; but if there is any doubt on the subject I shall require Granei Lodge to divide ; and I think that will be the best way to do it . The election was then taken , when the show of hands for Colreaton enormousl
. C was y in excess of the show of hands in favour of the other two candidates . The Earl of Carnarvon : 1 have to announce to Grand Lodge that by an incontestable and enormous majority Bro . Col . Creaton is elected ( Loud applause . ) Bro . Col . Creaton , who was received with loud cheers
: p I am taken a little aback , for I was not aware when I entered Etiis hall to-night that my name woul 1 have been proposed for this honourable office . I thank you very much for this honour that has been cemferred upon me , and assure you that nothing shall be wanting on my part to carry out the duties of the office to which you have elected me with honour and integrity
. The Report e > f the Lodge of Benevolence for the last quarter , was then taken , and the following grants were confirmed : — £ - < L The five orphans of a brother of the Clapton Lodge , 1365 , Clapton ... ... too o o A brother of the Belvidcre Lodge , 503 , Maidstone 100
... ... ... ... o o A brother of the Albion Lodge , 9 , London so o o A brother of the Barnard Lodge , 1230 , Barnard Castle ... ... ... 50 o o The widow of a brother of the Vilruv ' un Lodge , 87 , London ... ... c 0 0 o A brother of the Lodge of Frcedam , J ; , Gravesend 100
... ... ... o o A brother of the Royal Kent Lodge of Antie | uity , 20 , Chatham ... ... 100 o o The widow of a biother of the Royal Athelstan Lodge , 19 , Loudon ... ... 1 , 10 a o NIITK . —A grant ot ^ . ' 100 was made to this brother on the 4 U 1 of December , 1878 which lapsedin of his
, , consequence death , on the 24 th of December , before confirmation of the grant by Grand Lodge . The widow of a brother of the Ranelagh Lodge , 8 34 , London ... ... ... 75 o 0 A brother ot the Loyal Berkshire Lodge of 574 Newbury
Hope , , .., ... 75 o o Repoit of the Board of General Purposes . To the United Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of England . The Board of General Purposes beg to submit a statement of the Grand Lodge accounts , at the meeting of the Finance Committee , held on Friday , the 14 th day of February ult . shewing a balance in the Bank of England
, of £ 7 828 lbs . id . j and in the hands ol the Grand Secretary for petty cash £ 75 , and for servants' wages £ 9 6 ics ( Signed ) J B . MONCKTON , President . Freemasons' Hall , London , W . C . 18 th February , 1879 . BroJohn BMonckton : Most Worshipful ProGrand
. . . Master , I am happy to be able to state , as the members of the Grand Lodge will see by the paper , that beyond the ordinary statement , the Board , although they have been busy during the last quarter , has nothing to draw the attention of Grand Lodge to particularly . It must be very satisfactory to Grand Lodge to know that all that has been done does not call for any special reportI move that
. this report be received and entered on the minutes . The motion having been seconded , was duly carried . Grand Secretary then read the repoit of Bro . R P . Harding , Auditor of Grand Lodge accounts , of receipts and disbursements during the year 18 7 8 , which was adopted . BroMclntyreGRbrought the appeal and
, , up protest of Bro . George John Ityan , District Grand Senior Warden of the Argentine Republic , against the action of the District Grand Lodge in repealing some of the bye-laws , against the wishes of the District Grand Master , and contrary to the provisions of the treaty entered into between the Grand Orient of the Argentine Republic and the Granei Lodge of England , authorising the establishment of District Grand Lodge at
Ayres , under the English Constitution . Bro . Mclntyre said that by the treaty entered into between Grand Lodge of England many years ago and the Grand Orient of the Argentine Republic , Grand Lodge had the power to establish lodges in that Republic , and to
name a District Grand Lodge and Grand Master to rule over them . The representative of England was to be a Provincial Grand Master , and the Grand Lodge was tc have the power of framing bye-laws of their own , and the Grand Master to appoint his Deputy and officers . With
" Lodge has the power of framing bye-laws for its own government , and of making regulations for the guidance of the private lodges of the province ; provided that none of these be contrary to or inconsistent with the laws and Constitutions of the Grand Lodge ; but such bye-laws shall not be valid until submitted to and approved by the Most Worshiful Grand Master That the state of
p . " was things which existed when the Provincial Grand Lodge was established in the Argentine Republic . District Grand Loelges were now placed in a very similar position , for the Book of Constitutions said with respect to District Grand District Grand Lod make rules and
Lodges— " ges may regulations for the management and conduct of their own proceedings , and of those of any Committee of their own body , and may alter such rules as they think fit ; but no rule or regulation shall be in force until approved by the Most Worshipful the Grand Master of Eng land . " The that had arisen between the in this