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Palace Yard , and the Brethren are particularly requested to keep by the marshal in charge of their division .-8 . Having arrived , at the site , the Brethren will take open order , as directed in paragraph 6 , in order that the GTund Lodge may pass through their ranks to the foundation stone .
9 . The ceremony being over , the procession will be re-formed , and return ' m inverted order by George-street , St . Andrew-square and street , Waterloo-place , and the Regent-road , to the picture gallery of Holyrood Palace , where the Grand Lodge will be closed . The Brethren will then separate . 10 . Costume . Full dress- ^ black with white gloves . 11 . Bands brought by Lodges to consist of not less than eight , and to be under the complete control of the director of music as to their place in the procession .
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CANADA . GRAND LODGE OF CANADA . A meeting of the committee of Officers of the Grand Lodge of Canada , specially convened by order of the M . W . G . M ., was held at Hamilton , on the 7 th and 8 th days ofMay , a . l . 5858 , for thei purpose of considering certain correspondence and
suggestions which had been received on the subject of a permanent union of all the Lodges in the Province under one Grand Lodge . There were present the Most Worshipful Grand Master , Bro . Wm / M . Wilson , presiding ; the R . W . Bros . W . C . Stephens , Capt . Thompson Wilson , James Daniels , Richard Bull , Thos . B . Harris , John Osborne , Charles Magi 11 , John R . Holden ; and the V . W . Bros . F , J . Rastrick , H . Crouse , and H , Grist .
The M . W . G . M . submitted for the consideration and opinion of the committee a letter he had received on the 4 th instant , from R . W . Bro . T . G . Ridout , which enclosed a copy of " Proposed Articles of Union between the Grand Lodges of Canada , submitted for the consideration of the Craft , by R . W . Bro . T . D . Harington ; " which proposal Bro . Ridout expressed his belief " was well
adapted to the wants of the Craft under the Antient Grand Lodge , " and suggested " that if the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Canada was of opinion that the Grand Lodge of Canada would accept the same as a satisfactory basis upon which to found a union , that the sense of the whole Craft under the two jurisdictions should be taken at a special meeting of each body , to be summoned for that purpose at an early day . "
The committee having read the letter from Bro . Ridout , and the suggested articles of union , and having likewise read an address to the Grand Lodge of Vermont , from the M . W . Bro . P . C . Tucker , its Grand Master , which appeared in the printed proceedings of that Grand Lodge in January last , and also a report to the Grand Lodge of South Carolina , by W . Bro . Albert G . Mackay , its Grand Secretary , which appeared in the printed proceedings of that Grand
Lodge in December last , and also various other documents and letters relating thereto , and having likewise read letters from R . W . Bro . A . Bernard , P . D . G . M ,, R . W . Bro . W . B . Simpson , D . G . M ., and R . W . Bro . Kivas Tully , the representative of the Grand Lodge of Ireland , expressive of their opinions on the subject , which were carefully considered and discussed , and it was unanimously resolved : —
'" That the committee are fully aware that the members of the Grand Lodge of Canada , whilst themselves actuated by a sincere desire for the welfare of the Craft in the Province in their action in the organization of the Grand Lodge of Canada in 1865 , readily concede an equal sincerity of motive to those Brethren
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Palace Yard , and the Brethren are particularly requested to keep by the marshal in charge of their division .-8 . Having arrived , at the site , the Brethren will take open order , as directed in paragraph 6 , in order that the GTund Lodge may pass through their ranks to the foundation stone .
9 . The ceremony being over , the procession will be re-formed , and return ' m inverted order by George-street , St . Andrew-square and street , Waterloo-place , and the Regent-road , to the picture gallery of Holyrood Palace , where the Grand Lodge will be closed . The Brethren will then separate . 10 . Costume . Full dress- ^ black with white gloves . 11 . Bands brought by Lodges to consist of not less than eight , and to be under the complete control of the director of music as to their place in the procession .
Colonial
COLONIAL
CANADA . GRAND LODGE OF CANADA . A meeting of the committee of Officers of the Grand Lodge of Canada , specially convened by order of the M . W . G . M ., was held at Hamilton , on the 7 th and 8 th days ofMay , a . l . 5858 , for thei purpose of considering certain correspondence and
suggestions which had been received on the subject of a permanent union of all the Lodges in the Province under one Grand Lodge . There were present the Most Worshipful Grand Master , Bro . Wm / M . Wilson , presiding ; the R . W . Bros . W . C . Stephens , Capt . Thompson Wilson , James Daniels , Richard Bull , Thos . B . Harris , John Osborne , Charles Magi 11 , John R . Holden ; and the V . W . Bros . F , J . Rastrick , H . Crouse , and H , Grist .
The M . W . G . M . submitted for the consideration and opinion of the committee a letter he had received on the 4 th instant , from R . W . Bro . T . G . Ridout , which enclosed a copy of " Proposed Articles of Union between the Grand Lodges of Canada , submitted for the consideration of the Craft , by R . W . Bro . T . D . Harington ; " which proposal Bro . Ridout expressed his belief " was well
adapted to the wants of the Craft under the Antient Grand Lodge , " and suggested " that if the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Canada was of opinion that the Grand Lodge of Canada would accept the same as a satisfactory basis upon which to found a union , that the sense of the whole Craft under the two jurisdictions should be taken at a special meeting of each body , to be summoned for that purpose at an early day . "
The committee having read the letter from Bro . Ridout , and the suggested articles of union , and having likewise read an address to the Grand Lodge of Vermont , from the M . W . Bro . P . C . Tucker , its Grand Master , which appeared in the printed proceedings of that Grand Lodge in January last , and also a report to the Grand Lodge of South Carolina , by W . Bro . Albert G . Mackay , its Grand Secretary , which appeared in the printed proceedings of that Grand
Lodge in December last , and also various other documents and letters relating thereto , and having likewise read letters from R . W . Bro . A . Bernard , P . D . G . M ,, R . W . Bro . W . B . Simpson , D . G . M ., and R . W . Bro . Kivas Tully , the representative of the Grand Lodge of Ireland , expressive of their opinions on the subject , which were carefully considered and discussed , and it was unanimously resolved : —
'" That the committee are fully aware that the members of the Grand Lodge of Canada , whilst themselves actuated by a sincere desire for the welfare of the Craft in the Province in their action in the organization of the Grand Lodge of Canada in 1865 , readily concede an equal sincerity of motive to those Brethren