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Article 219.
ARTICLE 219 .
We would direct the attention of our readers to the ver ) important business coming before Grand Lodge on Wednesday next . We refer especially to No . 10 on the agenda paper which will be found in our columns in another place . It will be seen that the question of the true construction of the law will
now be raised in a legitimate manner by two petitions from members of the District Grand Lodges of Wellington and Canterbury , New Zealand , inviting Grand Lodge to declare in an authoritative manner what is the true interpretation of the rule . This , as our readers will remember , is the course that we
suggested in our leader of the 9 th May last ought to be adopted , and we trust that Grand Lodge will approach the subject in a calm and judicial frame of mind , and listening carefully to the arguments on either side , will come to a deliberate decision
worthy of the importance of the subject and the traditions of the Grand Lodge of England . The two opposing views of the true meaning of the law are clearly set out in paragraphs 5 and 7 of the Wellington Petition , which are as follows :
5 . "The R . W . District Grand Master was strengthened in this position by the statements made by the V . W . Grand Registrar to your M . W . Grand Master , in Quarterly Communication , on the 3 rd day of June , 1885 , when he said : 'While the allegiance of an individual Mason to his lodge can be broken
by him if he so choses to deal with his obligation , and ignore the extent to which it maybe binding on himself , that affects the individual brother only ; but the lodge is a body which is authorised to act by its Warrant , and owes its Masonic existence thereto We know from the moment we enter into
Freemasonry that the majority of brethren in a lodge bind the minority , yet in the matter of continuing to hold a Warrant , no matter what the majority , if any three brethren of the lodge continue , the majority cannot surrender it ; and therefore to protect the rights of the minority and of those who choose to
adhere to their alleigance , there is that very distinct rule made in the Book of Constitutions / And on the 5 th of December , 1888 , when he said : ' Having the honour of holding the position
of adviser to this Grand Lodge , I should say it is my duty to inform the brethren that we are bound to maintain the ri ghts of those who should not feel themselves enabled to join with the majority . '
7 . " From these letters it will be seen that the Colonial Board , under the advice of the V . W . Grand Registrar , have , ' as the consultative and executive authority of Grand Lodge in Colonial questions , ' declared the law to be as follows : —
" Law 219 can only extend to matters which can legitimately be the subject of discussion in the lodge , and cannot include a proposition which involves a disclaimer of the very authority under which those laws exist .
" Such laws regulate lodges and matters affecting them within themselves , and also their relation to the Supreme body , but proposals to secede , or renounce their allegiance to the latter are manifestly matters not covered by the laws and Constitutions of Grand Lode'e . "
The petition goes on to state calmly , but with considerable force and feeling , what are the practical effects of the ruling of the Colonial Board , and to argue respectfully , but strongly , against the correctness of that ruling . It is not our purpose now to enter afresh into the merits of the question . The two
views are so clearly stated in the petition as above quoted , that all our readers have to do is to decide for themselves which seems to them the construction most consonant with common sense and justice , and to say which of the two they prefer to be the law in future . In our correspondence columns will be
found a letter from " Lex Scripta " dealing with the historical aspect of the question . Whether his view is well founded or not is perhaps hardly material at the present moment . The later history of the question and the way successive Grand Lodges have dealt with it should be familiar to our readers . We
merely draw attention to the subject , and invite all who are able to attend Grand Lodge to remember that while in one sense they will be asked only to interpret the law as it stands , yet that in another sense they are asked to interpret it not merely as a judicial but as a legislative assembly . If the
question be approached in the proper spirit , and Grand Lodge be but true to itself , we have no fear but that the decision will be worthy of Grand Lodge , and we trust that however it be determined the question will be so dealt with as to calm the
bitterness of spirit which undeniably exists at the present time amongst our Colonial brethren , and to stop the conflict of interpretation between ourselves and the Grand Lodge of Scotland of similar laws .
United Grand Lodge Of England.
UNITED GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND .
The following is the business to be transacted in Grand Lodge on Wednesday next , the 2 nd prox . : 1 . The minutes of the Quarterl y Communication of the 2 nd September for confirmation . 2 . Nomination of a Grand Master for the ensuing year . 3 . Nomination of a Grand Treasurer for the ensuing year .
4 . Appointment and investment of a President of the Board of Benevolence . 5 . Election of a Senior and a Junior Vice-President of the Board of Benevolence . 6 . Election of 12 Past Masters to serve on the Board of Benevolence for the year ensuing .
7 . Report of the Board of Benevolence for the last quarter , in which are recommendations for the following grants , viz .: A brother of the Upton Lodge , No . 1227 , London ... ^ 75 o o The widow of a brother of the Arboretum Lodge , No .
731 , Derby ... ... ... ... 100 o o A brother of the Lodge of Emulation , No . 299 , Dartford ... 100 o o A brother of the Cecil Lodge , No . 449 , Hitchin ... 50 o o A brother of the Earl of Lathom Lodge , No . 1922 , London 100 0 o The widow of a brother of the Shadwell Clerke Lodge , No .
1910 , London ... ... ... ... 50 o 0 A brother of the Lodge of Concord , No . 323 , Stockport ... 50 o o The widow of a brother of the Lodge of Benevolence , No . 226 , Littleborough ... ... ... 50 o o A brother of the Humber Lodge , No . 57 , Hull ... 50 o 0 A brother of the Belgrave Lodge , No . 749 , London ... so o 0
8 . REVORT 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 last meeting of the Finance Committee , held on Friday , the 13 th
day of November instant , showing a balance in the Bank of England ( Western Branch ) of £ 4919 ios . 4 d ., and in the hands of the Grand Secretary for petty cash ; £ ioo , and for servants' wages ^" ioo , and balance of annual allowance for library £ 8 5 s . Sd . ( Signed ) THOMAS FENN ,
Freemasons Hall , London , W . C , President . 17 th November , iSgi . 9 . NOTICES OF MOTION—1 st . B y Bro . Sir Albert \ V . Woods , K . C . M . G ., C . B ., Garter , P . G . W ., and Grand Director of Ceremonies :
That , in recognition of the eminent services rendered to the Grand Lodge of England by Bro . the Earl of Lathom , Pro Grand Master , for the 16 years during which he has held the position of Deputy Grand Master , it is hereby resolved that a full length portrait of his lordship be painted and placed in the Masonic Temple , Freemasons' Hall , London .
2 nd . By Bro . Sir JOHN BRADDICK MONCKTON , P . G . W . — That the sum of five hundred guineas be given from the funds at the disposal of Grand Lodge to the funds of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution on the occasion of the Jubilee Festival in February next . 3 rd . B y Bro . RICHARD EVE , P . G . Treasurer ,-Chairman of the Board of Management of the Royal Masonic Institution for
Boys—That'the resolution of Grand Lodge of Wednesday , 1 st December , 1852 , to the following effect : " That the sum of ^ 500 be paid out of the Funds for General Purposes to be invested in the three first names of the Trustees of the Building Fund of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys and of the Grand Treasurer for the time being , respectively , for the purpose of providing a fund to be kept separate and distinct . . ...
to be applied exclusively for the purpose of upholding , repairing , & c , the intended new structure of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys , & c , & c , & c ., '' be rescinded , and that the Council of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys be permitted to merge into the general invested capital of the Institution the said sum of J 500 paid from the funds of Grand Lodge under such resolution .
10 . 'Ihe Grand Registrar will submit to Grand Lodge for its consideration and decision , two petitions from members of the District Grand Lodges of Wellington and Canterbury , New Zealand , recentl y received through the District Grand Master of Wellington , praying for a ruling in the case of a majority of members desiring to transfer their allegiance to a proposed local Grand Lodge .
Names of brethren nominated for election to the offices of Senior and Junior Vice-President of the Board of Benevolence : Bro . James Brett , P . G . P ., as Senior Vice-President ; Bro . Charles Alexander Cottebrune , P . G . P ., as Junior Vice-President ; and none others were nominated . Names of Past Masters nominated to serve on the Board of Benevolence :
NOMINATED BY Bro . William Peter Brown , P . M . 90 ... ~ ] ,, James Bunker , P . M . 1158 ,, George B . Chapman , P . M . 27 ,, Charles Dairy P . M . 141
„ Simon H . Goldschmidt , P . M . 1329 ... f-Bro . Henry Garrod , P . G . Purst . ,, James Burgess Grieve , P . M . 1351 ... | „ Lewis Christopher Haslip , P . M . 813 | ,, George Read , P . M . 511 | „ Alfred Cooper Woodward , P . M . 1538 !
„ George R . Lar . gley , P . M . 1 S 3 ... „ W . M . Bywater , P . G . S . B . „ George Coope , P . M . 1612 , Charles Dairy , P . M . 141 „ Thomas Cusworth , P . M . 1579 ... „ L . C . Haslip , P . M . 813 „ William Fisher , P . M . 834 ¦) ,, Ebenezer C . Mulvey , P . M . 2353 ¦¦¦ [ „ James Brett , P . G . Purst . „ William Vincent , P . M . 11 94 ... _) ,, Thomas Weeks , P . M . 749 / .. _ , „ „ „ Charles J . R . Tijou , P . M . 1804 ... j " Henry Garrod > P - G - Purst
•*¦ . The commission to execute a portrait-bust of the late Bro . Alderman Sir R . N . Fowler , Bart ., M . P ., to be placed as a memorial of that most worthy citizen in the Guildhall , has been assigned to Bro . Walter Merrett , of the Strand Lodge , No . 10 S 7 . Bro . Merrett is already known by his excellent busts of the late Bro . the Earl of Shaftesbury , Bro . Alderman Sir B . S . Phillips , and Sir R . W . Carden , Bart ., which occupy places of honour in the Guildhall , and his satisfaction must be all the greater at receiving this commission , as it was assigned to him after a competition in which five other artists took part .
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Article 219.
ARTICLE 219 .
We would direct the attention of our readers to the ver ) important business coming before Grand Lodge on Wednesday next . We refer especially to No . 10 on the agenda paper which will be found in our columns in another place . It will be seen that the question of the true construction of the law will
now be raised in a legitimate manner by two petitions from members of the District Grand Lodges of Wellington and Canterbury , New Zealand , inviting Grand Lodge to declare in an authoritative manner what is the true interpretation of the rule . This , as our readers will remember , is the course that we
suggested in our leader of the 9 th May last ought to be adopted , and we trust that Grand Lodge will approach the subject in a calm and judicial frame of mind , and listening carefully to the arguments on either side , will come to a deliberate decision
worthy of the importance of the subject and the traditions of the Grand Lodge of England . The two opposing views of the true meaning of the law are clearly set out in paragraphs 5 and 7 of the Wellington Petition , which are as follows :
5 . "The R . W . District Grand Master was strengthened in this position by the statements made by the V . W . Grand Registrar to your M . W . Grand Master , in Quarterly Communication , on the 3 rd day of June , 1885 , when he said : 'While the allegiance of an individual Mason to his lodge can be broken
by him if he so choses to deal with his obligation , and ignore the extent to which it maybe binding on himself , that affects the individual brother only ; but the lodge is a body which is authorised to act by its Warrant , and owes its Masonic existence thereto We know from the moment we enter into
Freemasonry that the majority of brethren in a lodge bind the minority , yet in the matter of continuing to hold a Warrant , no matter what the majority , if any three brethren of the lodge continue , the majority cannot surrender it ; and therefore to protect the rights of the minority and of those who choose to
adhere to their alleigance , there is that very distinct rule made in the Book of Constitutions / And on the 5 th of December , 1888 , when he said : ' Having the honour of holding the position
of adviser to this Grand Lodge , I should say it is my duty to inform the brethren that we are bound to maintain the ri ghts of those who should not feel themselves enabled to join with the majority . '
7 . " From these letters it will be seen that the Colonial Board , under the advice of the V . W . Grand Registrar , have , ' as the consultative and executive authority of Grand Lodge in Colonial questions , ' declared the law to be as follows : —
" Law 219 can only extend to matters which can legitimately be the subject of discussion in the lodge , and cannot include a proposition which involves a disclaimer of the very authority under which those laws exist .
" Such laws regulate lodges and matters affecting them within themselves , and also their relation to the Supreme body , but proposals to secede , or renounce their allegiance to the latter are manifestly matters not covered by the laws and Constitutions of Grand Lode'e . "
The petition goes on to state calmly , but with considerable force and feeling , what are the practical effects of the ruling of the Colonial Board , and to argue respectfully , but strongly , against the correctness of that ruling . It is not our purpose now to enter afresh into the merits of the question . The two
views are so clearly stated in the petition as above quoted , that all our readers have to do is to decide for themselves which seems to them the construction most consonant with common sense and justice , and to say which of the two they prefer to be the law in future . In our correspondence columns will be
found a letter from " Lex Scripta " dealing with the historical aspect of the question . Whether his view is well founded or not is perhaps hardly material at the present moment . The later history of the question and the way successive Grand Lodges have dealt with it should be familiar to our readers . We
merely draw attention to the subject , and invite all who are able to attend Grand Lodge to remember that while in one sense they will be asked only to interpret the law as it stands , yet that in another sense they are asked to interpret it not merely as a judicial but as a legislative assembly . If the
question be approached in the proper spirit , and Grand Lodge be but true to itself , we have no fear but that the decision will be worthy of Grand Lodge , and we trust that however it be determined the question will be so dealt with as to calm the
bitterness of spirit which undeniably exists at the present time amongst our Colonial brethren , and to stop the conflict of interpretation between ourselves and the Grand Lodge of Scotland of similar laws .
United Grand Lodge Of England.
UNITED GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND .
The following is the business to be transacted in Grand Lodge on Wednesday next , the 2 nd prox . : 1 . The minutes of the Quarterl y Communication of the 2 nd September for confirmation . 2 . Nomination of a Grand Master for the ensuing year . 3 . Nomination of a Grand Treasurer for the ensuing year .
4 . Appointment and investment of a President of the Board of Benevolence . 5 . Election of a Senior and a Junior Vice-President of the Board of Benevolence . 6 . Election of 12 Past Masters to serve on the Board of Benevolence for the year ensuing .
7 . Report of the Board of Benevolence for the last quarter , in which are recommendations for the following grants , viz .: A brother of the Upton Lodge , No . 1227 , London ... ^ 75 o o The widow of a brother of the Arboretum Lodge , No .
731 , Derby ... ... ... ... 100 o o A brother of the Lodge of Emulation , No . 299 , Dartford ... 100 o o A brother of the Cecil Lodge , No . 449 , Hitchin ... 50 o o A brother of the Earl of Lathom Lodge , No . 1922 , London 100 0 o The widow of a brother of the Shadwell Clerke Lodge , No .
1910 , London ... ... ... ... 50 o 0 A brother of the Lodge of Concord , No . 323 , Stockport ... 50 o o The widow of a brother of the Lodge of Benevolence , No . 226 , Littleborough ... ... ... 50 o o A brother of the Humber Lodge , No . 57 , Hull ... 50 o 0 A brother of the Belgrave Lodge , No . 749 , London ... so o 0
8 . REVORT 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 last meeting of the Finance Committee , held on Friday , the 13 th
day of November instant , showing a balance in the Bank of England ( Western Branch ) of £ 4919 ios . 4 d ., and in the hands of the Grand Secretary for petty cash ; £ ioo , and for servants' wages ^" ioo , and balance of annual allowance for library £ 8 5 s . Sd . ( Signed ) THOMAS FENN ,
Freemasons Hall , London , W . C , President . 17 th November , iSgi . 9 . NOTICES OF MOTION—1 st . B y Bro . Sir Albert \ V . Woods , K . C . M . G ., C . B ., Garter , P . G . W ., and Grand Director of Ceremonies :
That , in recognition of the eminent services rendered to the Grand Lodge of England by Bro . the Earl of Lathom , Pro Grand Master , for the 16 years during which he has held the position of Deputy Grand Master , it is hereby resolved that a full length portrait of his lordship be painted and placed in the Masonic Temple , Freemasons' Hall , London .
2 nd . By Bro . Sir JOHN BRADDICK MONCKTON , P . G . W . — That the sum of five hundred guineas be given from the funds at the disposal of Grand Lodge to the funds of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution on the occasion of the Jubilee Festival in February next . 3 rd . B y Bro . RICHARD EVE , P . G . Treasurer ,-Chairman of the Board of Management of the Royal Masonic Institution for
Boys—That'the resolution of Grand Lodge of Wednesday , 1 st December , 1852 , to the following effect : " That the sum of ^ 500 be paid out of the Funds for General Purposes to be invested in the three first names of the Trustees of the Building Fund of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys and of the Grand Treasurer for the time being , respectively , for the purpose of providing a fund to be kept separate and distinct . . ...
to be applied exclusively for the purpose of upholding , repairing , & c , the intended new structure of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys , & c , & c , & c ., '' be rescinded , and that the Council of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys be permitted to merge into the general invested capital of the Institution the said sum of J 500 paid from the funds of Grand Lodge under such resolution .
10 . 'Ihe Grand Registrar will submit to Grand Lodge for its consideration and decision , two petitions from members of the District Grand Lodges of Wellington and Canterbury , New Zealand , recentl y received through the District Grand Master of Wellington , praying for a ruling in the case of a majority of members desiring to transfer their allegiance to a proposed local Grand Lodge .
Names of brethren nominated for election to the offices of Senior and Junior Vice-President of the Board of Benevolence : Bro . James Brett , P . G . P ., as Senior Vice-President ; Bro . Charles Alexander Cottebrune , P . G . P ., as Junior Vice-President ; and none others were nominated . Names of Past Masters nominated to serve on the Board of Benevolence :
NOMINATED BY Bro . William Peter Brown , P . M . 90 ... ~ ] ,, James Bunker , P . M . 1158 ,, George B . Chapman , P . M . 27 ,, Charles Dairy P . M . 141
„ Simon H . Goldschmidt , P . M . 1329 ... f-Bro . Henry Garrod , P . G . Purst . ,, James Burgess Grieve , P . M . 1351 ... | „ Lewis Christopher Haslip , P . M . 813 | ,, George Read , P . M . 511 | „ Alfred Cooper Woodward , P . M . 1538 !
„ George R . Lar . gley , P . M . 1 S 3 ... „ W . M . Bywater , P . G . S . B . „ George Coope , P . M . 1612 , Charles Dairy , P . M . 141 „ Thomas Cusworth , P . M . 1579 ... „ L . C . Haslip , P . M . 813 „ William Fisher , P . M . 834 ¦) ,, Ebenezer C . Mulvey , P . M . 2353 ¦¦¦ [ „ James Brett , P . G . Purst . „ William Vincent , P . M . 11 94 ... _) ,, Thomas Weeks , P . M . 749 / .. _ , „ „ „ Charles J . R . Tijou , P . M . 1804 ... j " Henry Garrod > P - G - Purst
•*¦ . The commission to execute a portrait-bust of the late Bro . Alderman Sir R . N . Fowler , Bart ., M . P ., to be placed as a memorial of that most worthy citizen in the Guildhall , has been assigned to Bro . Walter Merrett , of the Strand Lodge , No . 10 S 7 . Bro . Merrett is already known by his excellent busts of the late Bro . the Earl of Shaftesbury , Bro . Alderman Sir B . S . Phillips , and Sir R . W . Carden , Bart ., which occupy places of honour in the Guildhall , and his satisfaction must be all the greater at receiving this commission , as it was assigned to him after a competition in which five other artists took part .