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Masonic Bepoetik&.
dnctors of th & Magazine the full responsibility of being enabled to prove to the Craft their fairness and accuracy , should they be impugned—a result of which we have no fear , The correspondenee begins with the following letter : —
Freemasons' Magazine Office , 2 , Red Lion-court , Fleet-street , May 25 , 1857 . " To the Very Worshipful William Grey Claeke , Esq ., Grand Segeetaey of Freemasons . ' , ' " V ^ Communicationof Grand Lodge , in March , called attention to the law whicli forbids the publication of Masonic inteUigence without the permission of the Grand Master , I herewith forward you the proofs of the proceedings at last Grand Lodge , and of other Lodges , together with those of Grand Chapter and several private
Chapters , and shall feel obliged by your laying before his lordship my respectful application for his lordship ' s consent to the publication of such proceedings in the forthcoming number of the Freemasons Magazine and Masonic M ^ Should the Grand Master be pleased to grant my request , I have further to ask that reporters ( of course being members of Grand Lodge ) may be allowed to take notes of the proceedings at future Quarterly Communications , with a view to their publication , if approved by the Grand Master . In making this application , however , I must be allowed to say that I have never wilfully violated the law , as I believed it was , by consent , in abeyance , the Freemasons' Magazme having been moYe than twenty years in existence before I became connected with it .
I have the honour to sign myself , "Very Worshipful Brother , Yours most respectfully and fraternally , The Editor .
To this communication we have received the following gracious reply : — Freemasons' Hall ( W . C . ) , May 28 , -1857 . Sib and Brother , —I laid before the M . W . G . Master your application for his consent , according to Law 3 , page 74 , of the Book of Constitutions , to the publication in the Freemasons' Magazine and Masonic Mirror of certain proceedings of Lodges and Chapters , as stated in the transcript which accompanied your application .
The M . W . Gr . Master having been pleased to consent to such publication , provided the Grand Registrar on examination of the transcript saw no objection , I am requested by the Grand Registrar to inform you , that on examination he finds nothing in the transcript unfit , in his opinion , for publication ; and that lie sees no objection to such publication , assuming that the statements are substantially correct , and that no Lodge or Chapter , whose proceedings are noticed , objects to the publication thereof . On those points the responsibility rests on you . Subject to that responsibility , you are at liberty to publish the matters contained in the
transcript . I remain , Sir and Brother , Yours fraternally , Wm , G , Clarke , G . 8 . The Editor of the Freemasons ' ^ Magazine and Masonic Mirror .
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Masonic Bepoetik&.
dnctors of th & Magazine the full responsibility of being enabled to prove to the Craft their fairness and accuracy , should they be impugned—a result of which we have no fear , The correspondenee begins with the following letter : —
Freemasons' Magazine Office , 2 , Red Lion-court , Fleet-street , May 25 , 1857 . " To the Very Worshipful William Grey Claeke , Esq ., Grand Segeetaey of Freemasons . ' , ' " V ^ Communicationof Grand Lodge , in March , called attention to the law whicli forbids the publication of Masonic inteUigence without the permission of the Grand Master , I herewith forward you the proofs of the proceedings at last Grand Lodge , and of other Lodges , together with those of Grand Chapter and several private
Chapters , and shall feel obliged by your laying before his lordship my respectful application for his lordship ' s consent to the publication of such proceedings in the forthcoming number of the Freemasons Magazine and Masonic M ^ Should the Grand Master be pleased to grant my request , I have further to ask that reporters ( of course being members of Grand Lodge ) may be allowed to take notes of the proceedings at future Quarterly Communications , with a view to their publication , if approved by the Grand Master . In making this application , however , I must be allowed to say that I have never wilfully violated the law , as I believed it was , by consent , in abeyance , the Freemasons' Magazme having been moYe than twenty years in existence before I became connected with it .
I have the honour to sign myself , "Very Worshipful Brother , Yours most respectfully and fraternally , The Editor .
To this communication we have received the following gracious reply : — Freemasons' Hall ( W . C . ) , May 28 , -1857 . Sib and Brother , —I laid before the M . W . G . Master your application for his consent , according to Law 3 , page 74 , of the Book of Constitutions , to the publication in the Freemasons' Magazine and Masonic Mirror of certain proceedings of Lodges and Chapters , as stated in the transcript which accompanied your application .
The M . W . Gr . Master having been pleased to consent to such publication , provided the Grand Registrar on examination of the transcript saw no objection , I am requested by the Grand Registrar to inform you , that on examination he finds nothing in the transcript unfit , in his opinion , for publication ; and that lie sees no objection to such publication , assuming that the statements are substantially correct , and that no Lodge or Chapter , whose proceedings are noticed , objects to the publication thereof . On those points the responsibility rests on you . Subject to that responsibility , you are at liberty to publish the matters contained in the
transcript . I remain , Sir and Brother , Yours fraternally , Wm , G , Clarke , G . 8 . The Editor of the Freemasons ' ^ Magazine and Masonic Mirror .