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Scotland.
Bro . Campbell apprised the meeting that next time a Lodge was held , he would move that Fro . the Rev . M'Kitchie Leckie be affiliated , and made an honorary member ; and the motion , which was seconded by Bro . J . M . Rowan , was carried .
On Monday , December 10 , the Brethren of St . Mark ' s assembled at an Emergency Meeting , presided over by D . M . Bro . Donald Campbell , with Bros . James Home as his S . W ., and W . Forrester as his acting J . W . ; and other Brethren ; Apprentices J . Werge and Francis Goold ( the G . L . law applicable to the short probation of the latter having been complied with ) were examined , found qualified , and passed and raised .
December 17 . —On this occasion Bro . D . Campbell performed the duties of Master , and , assisted by the Wardens , Bros . James Home and Robert Thomson , jun ., and other Office Bearers and Brethren , passed Apprentices Bros . Thomas Henderson and Alexander Paterson to the Fellow-craft Degree . It was ruled by a motion regularly made and seconded , that the sum of two guineas be presented to the wife of the Rev . T . P . Famer , late Chaplain of the Lodge , from the funds . The R . W . M . intimated that Bro . Julian Adams had requested , through him , the patronage and countenance of the members at his concert , in the City Hall , on Friday next .
ROYAL ARCH . Supreme Grand Chapter . Edinbtjegh . —A meeting of this Supreme body was held in the Hall of the Star Hotel , on Wednesday , December 19 , when the Minutes of last quarterly meeting were read amd confirmed . The Scribes laid before the meeting two several communications which had
been received from the Bon Accord Chapter of Aberdeen , remonstrating against the proceedings which had been adopted in reference to that body having granted a warrant for exercising the Degree of Mark Master to certain Brethren in London . It was unanimously agreed , that until the order made upon that Chapter in June last was obtempered , the Supreme Chapter should not entertain any representation on the subject , and the sentence of suspension formerly pronounced was declared to remain .
The Supreme Chapter enacted and declared , in terms of the following report by their committee : — " Your committee having anxiously and maturely considered the subject of remit to tliem , as to the issuing of Mark Warrants under sanction of the Supreme Chapter , unanimously recommend that the Supreme Chapter shall grant Warrants for conferring the Degree of Mark Master only in any country , although a Supreme Chapter of Royal Arch Masonry exists there , provided that such Supreme
Chapter does not take cognizance of that Degree , or until it do sanction the granting of such Degree by its own Chapters , or until some other Supreme body be duly constituted in that country to take the superintendence of the Mark Degree . " Your committee have come to this recommendation , on account of every Bast Master being obliged never to acknowledge any Lodge that does not hold of some Supreme body , and the necessity of stepping forward to the relief of the English Mark Masons , until they can put themselves under a Supreme body
there . It is the opinion of your committee , that when a Degree of Masonry is not practised in any country under some Supreme body in that country , the Supreme body in any other country may grant a Warrant . In this way the Supremo Chapter in Scotland has already granted Royal Arch Charters to the Netherlands and Belgium ; and if they have power to grant Charters for all the Degrees , it appears to your committee that they have power to grant them for one only , especially where that one is the lowest of the series . "
In respect of the eminent services which bad been rendered in the cause of R . A . Masonry in Scotland , by late Comp . Alexander Deuchar , it was agreed that a grant of £ f 0 be made from the funds of the Chapter for behoof of his widow , in any manner she may direct most congenial to her wishes and feelings . Other business having been disposed of , the Chapter was closed , and the Companions separated .
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Scotland.
Bro . Campbell apprised the meeting that next time a Lodge was held , he would move that Fro . the Rev . M'Kitchie Leckie be affiliated , and made an honorary member ; and the motion , which was seconded by Bro . J . M . Rowan , was carried .
On Monday , December 10 , the Brethren of St . Mark ' s assembled at an Emergency Meeting , presided over by D . M . Bro . Donald Campbell , with Bros . James Home as his S . W ., and W . Forrester as his acting J . W . ; and other Brethren ; Apprentices J . Werge and Francis Goold ( the G . L . law applicable to the short probation of the latter having been complied with ) were examined , found qualified , and passed and raised .
December 17 . —On this occasion Bro . D . Campbell performed the duties of Master , and , assisted by the Wardens , Bros . James Home and Robert Thomson , jun ., and other Office Bearers and Brethren , passed Apprentices Bros . Thomas Henderson and Alexander Paterson to the Fellow-craft Degree . It was ruled by a motion regularly made and seconded , that the sum of two guineas be presented to the wife of the Rev . T . P . Famer , late Chaplain of the Lodge , from the funds . The R . W . M . intimated that Bro . Julian Adams had requested , through him , the patronage and countenance of the members at his concert , in the City Hall , on Friday next .
ROYAL ARCH . Supreme Grand Chapter . Edinbtjegh . —A meeting of this Supreme body was held in the Hall of the Star Hotel , on Wednesday , December 19 , when the Minutes of last quarterly meeting were read amd confirmed . The Scribes laid before the meeting two several communications which had
been received from the Bon Accord Chapter of Aberdeen , remonstrating against the proceedings which had been adopted in reference to that body having granted a warrant for exercising the Degree of Mark Master to certain Brethren in London . It was unanimously agreed , that until the order made upon that Chapter in June last was obtempered , the Supreme Chapter should not entertain any representation on the subject , and the sentence of suspension formerly pronounced was declared to remain .
The Supreme Chapter enacted and declared , in terms of the following report by their committee : — " Your committee having anxiously and maturely considered the subject of remit to tliem , as to the issuing of Mark Warrants under sanction of the Supreme Chapter , unanimously recommend that the Supreme Chapter shall grant Warrants for conferring the Degree of Mark Master only in any country , although a Supreme Chapter of Royal Arch Masonry exists there , provided that such Supreme
Chapter does not take cognizance of that Degree , or until it do sanction the granting of such Degree by its own Chapters , or until some other Supreme body be duly constituted in that country to take the superintendence of the Mark Degree . " Your committee have come to this recommendation , on account of every Bast Master being obliged never to acknowledge any Lodge that does not hold of some Supreme body , and the necessity of stepping forward to the relief of the English Mark Masons , until they can put themselves under a Supreme body
there . It is the opinion of your committee , that when a Degree of Masonry is not practised in any country under some Supreme body in that country , the Supreme body in any other country may grant a Warrant . In this way the Supremo Chapter in Scotland has already granted Royal Arch Charters to the Netherlands and Belgium ; and if they have power to grant Charters for all the Degrees , it appears to your committee that they have power to grant them for one only , especially where that one is the lowest of the series . "
In respect of the eminent services which bad been rendered in the cause of R . A . Masonry in Scotland , by late Comp . Alexander Deuchar , it was agreed that a grant of £ f 0 be made from the funds of the Chapter for behoof of his widow , in any manner she may direct most congenial to her wishes and feelings . Other business having been disposed of , the Chapter was closed , and the Companions separated .