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and statutes regulating it , and adopting those of her own manufacture . She was thus , ah initio , spurious and irregular in all that concerns the Ancient and Accepted Bite ; as much so as the Grand Lodge of England would be now were she to establish , " within her
bosom , " a Supreme Council , on territory already lawfully occupied . The Grand Orient rendered herself still more irregular , by changing the character of some of the Degrees , and innovating upon the
governmental principles of the " Illustrious Order . " She has since repeatedly added to her irregularities by interfering in places ^^ i ?/ 7 Iter jwis < Mction by granting , ^ as well as Sublime Degrees , and recognizing , as regular and constitutional , bodies spurious and unconstitutionally established .
On thp 3 rd of November , 1808 , at the Grand East in the City of New York ; a Sovereign Grand Council of Princes of Jerusalem , under the title of" Concordia Crescimtts ^ ' was established by the following fiye Brethren ;~
John James Joseph Gourgas John Gabriel Tardy . John Baptist Desdoity . Peter A . Du Peyrat . M . L . M . Peixotto .
F . ~ On ' thel 8 th day of the same month , these illustrious Brethren established , attached to said Grand Council , its Sublime Grand Lodge of Perfection , under the denomination of Aubora Grata . The first Grand Council of Princes of Jerusalem established in America , after the ratification of the new Constitution of the 33 rd , in 1786 , was that opened in the city of Charleston , South Carolina ,
in 1788 , on which occasion were present : Bro . Joseph Myers , Deputy Inspector-General for South Carolina ; Bro . B . M . Spitzer , Deputy Inspector-General for the state of Georgia ; and Bro . A . Frost , holding the same rank for Virginia . On the 4 th of December , 1802 , a warrant of Constitution passed the seal of the Grand Council of Princes of Jerusalem , for the establishment of a Sublime Grand Lodge of Perfection , in Savannah , Georgia .
The next event of importance connected with the Ancient and Accepted Rite , was the founding , on the 5 th of August , 1813 , of the Supreme Grand Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors-General , for the Northern jurisdiction of the United States , in the city of New York . Its organization is alluded to in the following extract from a hallustre , issued on the 2 nd of August , 1845 , by the Supreme Council of Charleston : —
On the 5 th clay of August , 1818 ,, as appears from authenticated documents in the possession of this Council , a similar Supreme Council was ^ in accordance with the Secret Constitutions , duly and lawfully established and constituted at the city of New York , by Emanuel De la Motta , as the representative and under the
* The last act of this kind that has come to my knowledge , was the chartering in the state of Virginia , in America , in 1849 , a Lodge of Master Masons ,
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Histoey' Of The Ancient Amtd Accepted Bi...
and statutes regulating it , and adopting those of her own manufacture . She was thus , ah initio , spurious and irregular in all that concerns the Ancient and Accepted Bite ; as much so as the Grand Lodge of England would be now were she to establish , " within her
bosom , " a Supreme Council , on territory already lawfully occupied . The Grand Orient rendered herself still more irregular , by changing the character of some of the Degrees , and innovating upon the
governmental principles of the " Illustrious Order . " She has since repeatedly added to her irregularities by interfering in places ^^ i ?/ 7 Iter jwis < Mction by granting , ^ as well as Sublime Degrees , and recognizing , as regular and constitutional , bodies spurious and unconstitutionally established .
On thp 3 rd of November , 1808 , at the Grand East in the City of New York ; a Sovereign Grand Council of Princes of Jerusalem , under the title of" Concordia Crescimtts ^ ' was established by the following fiye Brethren ;~
John James Joseph Gourgas John Gabriel Tardy . John Baptist Desdoity . Peter A . Du Peyrat . M . L . M . Peixotto .
F . ~ On ' thel 8 th day of the same month , these illustrious Brethren established , attached to said Grand Council , its Sublime Grand Lodge of Perfection , under the denomination of Aubora Grata . The first Grand Council of Princes of Jerusalem established in America , after the ratification of the new Constitution of the 33 rd , in 1786 , was that opened in the city of Charleston , South Carolina ,
in 1788 , on which occasion were present : Bro . Joseph Myers , Deputy Inspector-General for South Carolina ; Bro . B . M . Spitzer , Deputy Inspector-General for the state of Georgia ; and Bro . A . Frost , holding the same rank for Virginia . On the 4 th of December , 1802 , a warrant of Constitution passed the seal of the Grand Council of Princes of Jerusalem , for the establishment of a Sublime Grand Lodge of Perfection , in Savannah , Georgia .
The next event of importance connected with the Ancient and Accepted Rite , was the founding , on the 5 th of August , 1813 , of the Supreme Grand Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors-General , for the Northern jurisdiction of the United States , in the city of New York . Its organization is alluded to in the following extract from a hallustre , issued on the 2 nd of August , 1845 , by the Supreme Council of Charleston : —
On the 5 th clay of August , 1818 ,, as appears from authenticated documents in the possession of this Council , a similar Supreme Council was ^ in accordance with the Secret Constitutions , duly and lawfully established and constituted at the city of New York , by Emanuel De la Motta , as the representative and under the
* The last act of this kind that has come to my knowledge , was the chartering in the state of Virginia , in America , in 1849 , a Lodge of Master Masons ,