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Cash Withdrawn ! from Call £ 2000 o o , . - £ 9757 7 ° £ 13278 9 1 ° DISBURSEMENTS . Annuitants ... ... ... £ 5480 o o Salary of Secretary and Clerk 290 o o

Collector's Commission ... 93 17 6 Messenger ... 500 Assistance in Office ... ... 11 8 8 Secretary , Provincial Expenses 59 16 n Medicine for residents at Asylum 12 10 o Warden , Gatekeeper , and

Gardener at Asylum 64 o o Taxes , eSrc , at Asylum ... 32 7 6 Repairs and Furniture , & -c , at Asylum 414 6 n Law Charges , tec , at asylum 6 16 Stationery , Printing , etc . ... 129 4 Advertisements ... ... 19 18 Postages , & c , including

expenses of Election ... 138 2 o Petty Expenses 10 18 7 Entertainmentof Stewards and Annuitants ... ... 28 9 2 Votes of Thanks to Stewards 19 10 6 Gardening , & c . at the Asylum 29 17 1 Powers of Attorney antl Commission , on

transfering Stock , & c . ... 17 4 9 Gratuity to Secretary and Collector ... ... ... 30 o o Pension to late Gardener ... 6 10 o Repaid Donation ( credited in

error ) 5 5 o Secretary for Petty Cash ... 25 o o Rent of Fieltls ( 5 quarters ) ... 23 8 9 Rent , & c , of Office 1800 Deposited at call ... ... 2000 o o Purchase : of £ 2000 3 percent Consols and

Commission ... ... ... 1920 o o £ 10891 13 o Balance on this account ... 2386 16 10 WIDOWS' FUND . Receipts .

Balance 31 st March , 1877 £ 2574 5 u Donation fiom Grand Lodge £ 300 o o „ Grand Chapter 50 o o „ Lodges , Chapters , antl Individuals S 123 16 7

Annual Subscriptions ... 1305 4 6 Dividend on Stock in the Government Funds ... 54 6 11 10 Rent of Field ( 5 quarters ) ... 12 10 o Interest on Cash at call ... 17 18 3 Cash withdrawn from call ... 1000 o o

£ 835 6 1 2 £ 10930 6 8 Disbursements . Annuitants ... ... ... £ 4101 o o Salary of Secretary and

Clcik ... ... 290 o o Collector and Commission ... 104 5 9 Messenger ... ... ... 50 0 Assistance in Ofiice ... ... 11 8 8 Secretary ( Provincial expenses ) 59 16 10 Medicine for Residents at

Asylum ... ... 12 10 o Matron at Asylum ... ... 30 o o Rates , Taxes , & c . ... .... 32 7 4 Repairs and Furniture , & c ... 414 7 o Law Charges 6166 Stationery , Printing , & c . ... 125 7 9 Advertisements ... ... 19 18 3 Postages , & c . ( including

expenses of Election . ) ... 130 9 2 Petty expenses 10 18 8 Entertainment of Stewards and Annuitants ... 28 9 2 Votes of Thanks to Stewards 19 10 6 Garelcning , Sec , at Asylum ... 2 « j 17 1 Powers of Attorney and Commission on transferring

Stock 17 2 3 Gratuity to Secretary and Collector ... ... 30 o o Repaid Donation ( creditetl in error . ) 5 5 o

Secretary , for petty cash ... 25 o o Rent of Field ( 5 quarters ) ... 23 8 9 Rent , & c , of Office ... 18 o o Deposited at call ... ... 1000 o o Purchase of £ 1125 3 per cent Consols & Commission 1080 o o £ 7 632 1 2

Balance on this Account £ 3299 5 6 SUSTENTATION or BUILDING . Balance 31 st March , 18 77 ... £ 27 4 4 Dividends on Stock in the Government Funds ... 30 o o

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Repairs £ 10 8 10 Balance on this account ... £ 46 15 i , Balance on Male account ... ... ... 23 S 6 16 10 „ Female „ 3299 5 6 „ Sustentation ... ... ... - 4 6 1 ; 6

Total Balance as per Auditors'Report £ 5732 17 10 The permanent income of thc Institution is as follows : — MALE FUND . Annual Grant from G . Lodge £ 500 o o

„ G . Chapter 100 o o Dividends on £ 30 , 870 Stock in the Government Funds ... ... 857 13 o £ ' 457 13 o

WIDOWS' FUND . Annual Grant from G . Lotlge £ 300 o o „ G . Chapter 100 o o Dividends on £ i 9 , 5 ,-, o Stock in thc Government Funds ... ... 54 6 11 10 £ 94 U 11 10

SUSTENTATION OF BUILDING . Dividends on £ 1000 Stock in thc Government Funds ... ... ... £ 30 o o £ 2434 4 10 ( Signed ) J . C REATON , P . G . D ., Vice-Patron , Chairman . Freemasons' Hall , London , W . C . Sih May , 1878 .

This report was then ordered to be received and entered on the minutes . Bros . Adlard , Bellerby , and Dilley were elected on thc Committee of Management for thc ensuing year . Bros . H . G . Warren , A . H . Tattershall , and R . B . Webster were elected Auditors , the Chairman announcing at

thc same time that he much regretted that Bro . John Symonds had resigned his position of Auditor on account of ill-health . The scrutineers of votes were afterwards appointed , and the brethren proceeded to elect nineteen agetl brethren and eighteen widows . At the close of the poll thc following was found to be the result : —

SUCCESSFUL . MA LES . Grant , Willliam ... ... ... 166 9 Butel , Alexander ... ... 1420 Dawjon , John 1338 Collins , Edward 1325

Usher , Vi llliam Charles ... ... 1073 Uaberliell , John 1058 Williams , David ... ... ... 1050 Marlor , Reibert ... ... ... 1025 Gasvvcll , George Thomas ... 1021 Obcrdocrffer , Atlolphe Jean Matthieu 1017 Shoring , Joseph Richard 1015

Hewson , Thomas ... ... ... 929 Gifford , Walter Edmund ... ... 914 Thompson , William Henry ... 913 Hancock , James ... ... ... 889 Holt , Edmund 888 Mongar , John Thomas ... 79 6 Girnet , Peter Christian ... ... 756 Wright , Henry 727

FEMALES . Hutchings , Margaret 1245 Gower , Mary 1161 Tibbals , Sirah ... ... 1123 Burt , Elizabeth Guntlry 99 8 Tucker , Ann ... 997

Stansfield , Alice 944 Brinckley , Eliza 937 Purchase , Mary 911 Wood , Betty ... ... 900 Tremble , Mary 899 Wilson , Jane 880

Billinge , Elizabeth 871 Sherry , Maria Georgina 867 Ferryman , Sarah 861 Hodge , Elizabeth 810 Beale , Sarah 809 Curtail , Mary ... ... ... 6 39 Fletcher , Betty 6 * io

UNSUCCESSFUL . MALES . Wade , William B . 5 60 Palmer , William Taverner ... 529 Cushen , Thomas ... ... ... 404 Wootl , William ... ... ... 2 SI

Wardale , Henry ... ... ... 16 3 Morton , Hiram ... . „ ... 119 Holdaway , Henry 85 Walker , Robert Cox 39 Waultlby , James 4 Bennett , Joseph 4

FEMALES . Thompson , Julia 601 Peters , Catherine ... ... 324 Percival , Amy 316 West , Mary Ann H 303

Hodgson , Sarah Ellen 252 Maynanl Elizabeth T . ... ... 227 Woods , Sarah ... ... ... 216 Elliott , Isabella ... 201 Child , Elizabeth 185 k Shearer , Anne 178

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Alien , Sarah Ann ... ... 164 Lewis , Jane Dodge ... ... 127 Gambell , Naomi ... ... 67 Eade , Hannah Betsy 43 Francis , Elizabeth ... ... 33 Child , Elizabeth Mary Ann ... 33 Findley , Mary Ann ... ... 29 Wakefield , Ann ... ... ... 19

Stafford , J ane ... ... ... 9 Crispin , Maitha ... ... ... 6 Milnes , Mary Ann 4 Harfoot , Ann ... ... 3 George , Hannah ... ... 1 Vincent , Eliza — Votes of thanks to thc scrutineers of votes and to the chairman closed the proceedings .

Freemasonry In Jamaica.

FREEMASONRY IN JAMAICA .

We . have been requested to publish the following : — District Grand Lodge , East Jamaica , March 6 , 1878 . To thc Right Worshipful J . W . Whitboume , Past Deputy District Grand Master of East Jamaica . Right Worship ful Sir and Brother , —

Having heard at thc last meeting of the District Grand Lodge of your resignation as Deputy District Grand Master , an office which , for many years , you have so worthily and satisfactory filled , the District Grand Lodge feels that it would not be performing its duty did it not convey to you its sentiments of regret , more especiilly when that retirement has been brought about by ill health .

The District Grand Lodge feels that this is the most opportune time for recording its appreciation of your valuable services , extending over a lengthened period , and which were freely rendered while acting during the absence of the Rig ht Worshipful District Grand Master as head of English Masonry in East Jamaica , and it must be a source of much pride to you , as it is of satisfaction to this District

Grand Lodge , to be able to refer with p leasurable recollections to the able , courteous , yet dignified manner in which those duties were performed . We tender for your acceptance the accompanying token ' in testimony of thc hig h regard and esteem in which , as a Mason , you arc so highly held , and we would ask you not to value this tribute for its intrinsic worth , but to receive it

as a mark of our brotherly love and respect for you . We cannot conclude this expression of our sentiments without the prayer that ere long you will be restored to good health , and that T . G . A . O . T . U . will grant you long life , accompanied with all earthly blessing , as a reward for that

unostentatiousness and usefulness which have characterised your past career . On behalf of the officers and members of the District Grand Lodge of East Jamaica . ROBERT HAMILTON , D . G . Master . G . C . H . Lewis , District Grand Secretary ,

March 6 , 1878 . To the Right Worshipful Grand Master , Officers , and Members of the District Grand Lodge of East Jamaica . Right Worship ful Sir and Brethren , — 1 crave your acceptance of my sincere thanks for the very kind and fraternal address you have been pleased to

present me , expressive of your regret at my resignation of thc office of Deputy District Grand Master , an office I have had the honour to hold for many years , and which , during the absence of our highly esteemed and talented Grand Master ( who has been doing the Craft and us honour elsewhere ) you so kindly say has been satisfactorily filled . It is indeed a source of pride and gratification to mc to

learn that , in administering thc vcry onerous duties of my office , I have been so fortunate as to give satisfaction j and , as you further kindly intimate , I have gained the esteem and regard of the members of the District Grand Lodge . Words can hardly express how consolatory this acknowledgement is to me , for the duties of my office were not at all times of a pleasant nature , nor were my intentions for

the good of the Craft always rightly understood , in my desire to uphold one of the grand princip les of our brotherhood , without which Masonry would be nothing more than a huge sham and a snare ; nay , as bad as a system of Masonry devoitl of the grandest of all our grand principles " our belief in and reverence for God . " The purity of those intentions , and your approbation , which I truly

appreciate , is however , mj solace . But , in all this , I should be selfish and ungrateful if I took all the credit to myself , and failed to recognise how much my success was dependent on your kind co-operati m ; nor can I rcfiain fron bearing willing testimony to the zeal of our late Dist . Grand Secretary , " the Very Worshipful ] . J . G . Lewis , " to whom I am grateful for past services ;

and I have no hesitation in stating that the present satisfactory stale of the District Grand Lodge is the result of thc members working together in harmony , which I hope will always be characteristic of our Masonic labours . The testimonial whicii accompanies the address which you have so generously presented to me I accept with grateful thanks . Permit me to express my gratitude for

this token of your brotherly love and esteem , and let me assure you that it will be treasured up in my household as a " souvenir" of your kindness , and keep alive the recollection of the many happy occasions we have met together for Masonic work . Allow me to thank you sincerely for your prayers and

good wishes for the restoration of my health , thc imperfect state of which ( being thc primary cause of my resignation ) has often prevented my visits to the lodges on occasions when it was my duty lo be in my place . Even in this , your kindness has been evinced , in making allowances for my shortcomings .