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make arrangements for its presentation and reception during the session of the Grand Lodge . The Grand Master does not approve of the regulation laid over from last session for the trial of Grand Masters and Masters of Lodges .- —From the Mirror and Keystone .
PENNSYLVANIA
GRAND COUNCIL OP ROYAL AND SELECT MASTERS . This grand body was convened in Philadelphia on June 23 rd , by the requirements the Constitution , theM . P . Alfred Creigh , Grand Master , presiding . The address of the G . M . exhibited the ^ number of Grand Councils In the United States , with their of officers and time of meeting , and matters of great interest to the Craft . This is the fifth time Grand Master Creigh has been elected to this office , and shows the
attachment of the Illustrious Companions to their Grand Master . At the request of the Grand Council of the prior year , the G . M . prepared a manual of the degrees of Royal and Select Masters , which has met the sanction and approval of that grand body . The Grand Council has also amended their Constitution . A charter was also granted to Council No . 11 , to be located in the city of Philadelphia . The following officers were elected and installed to serve during the ensuing Masonic year —Alfred Creigh , Grand Master ; R . A . Lamberton , D . G . M . ; C . F . Knapp , G . T . I . M . ;
E . H . Turner , G . P . C . of W . ; Thomas S . Jordan , G . C . of G . ; T . W . Wright , Q . Rec . ; John Gutshal , G . Treas . ; Rev . Thomas Dougherby , Rev . B . R . Waugh , Rev . A . A . Reese , G . Chaplains ; C . F . Sargent , G . Marshal ; J . A . Demoyer , G . S . ; Alex . Wishart , G . Lecturer .
GRAND COMMANDERY OE MICHIGAN . The Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of the State of Michigan , met in Detroit on the first day of June last . Sir Knight John Gilbert , jun , presided . After the Commandery was opened , he read an address , and appointed the standing committees on credentials , on charters and dispensations , and on grievances . The committee on credentials reported forthwith , that representatives from the following Commanderies were entitled to seats : —Detroit , Pontiac , Hillsdale ,
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR .
Monroe and De Molay ( at Grand Rapids . ) This comprised all the Commanderies acting under charters , except Peninsular , No . 4 , at Kalamazoo . Immediately after the committee on credentials reported , the committee on charters and dispensations reported in favour of granting charters to two new Commanderies , one at St . Clair and one at Romeo , which had been acting under dispensations . The report was adopted , and the representatives of the new Commanderies were admitted as members of the grand body , with the right to speak and vote . The Commandery then proceeded to the election of officers , with the following result : N . P . Jacobs ,
G . C ; Wm . P . limes , Dep . G . C . ; Francis Darrow , G . Generalissimo ; T . A . Flower , G . Capt . G . ; Rev . D . C . Jacokes , G . Prelate ; L . R . Atwater , G . S . W . ; John Clarke , G . J . W . ; Wm . Barclay , G . Treas . ; G . W . Wilson , G . Rec . ; A . B . Ayres , Q . St . B . ; A . C . Baldwin , G . Sword B . ; H . M . Case , G . W . ; Bela Cogswell , G . Instructor ; C . D . Howard , G . Capt . of Guard . Sir Kt . Jacobs was then installed G . C . A vote was passed , appropriating money for the purchase of a jewel for Sir Knight Gilbert , and thanking him for his services as G . C . Peninsular Commandery , at
Kaamazoo , holds its charter from the General Grand Encampment of the United States ; it has not , as it claims , given up its allegiance to that body . It contends that it has the right to remain as it is , and work under its present charter . Its principal officers were present , with discretionary power , as we understand , but did not see fit to place their Commandery under the jurisdiction of tlie grand kody of Michigan .
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make arrangements for its presentation and reception during the session of the Grand Lodge . The Grand Master does not approve of the regulation laid over from last session for the trial of Grand Masters and Masters of Lodges .- —From the Mirror and Keystone .
PENNSYLVANIA
GRAND COUNCIL OP ROYAL AND SELECT MASTERS . This grand body was convened in Philadelphia on June 23 rd , by the requirements the Constitution , theM . P . Alfred Creigh , Grand Master , presiding . The address of the G . M . exhibited the ^ number of Grand Councils In the United States , with their of officers and time of meeting , and matters of great interest to the Craft . This is the fifth time Grand Master Creigh has been elected to this office , and shows the
attachment of the Illustrious Companions to their Grand Master . At the request of the Grand Council of the prior year , the G . M . prepared a manual of the degrees of Royal and Select Masters , which has met the sanction and approval of that grand body . The Grand Council has also amended their Constitution . A charter was also granted to Council No . 11 , to be located in the city of Philadelphia . The following officers were elected and installed to serve during the ensuing Masonic year —Alfred Creigh , Grand Master ; R . A . Lamberton , D . G . M . ; C . F . Knapp , G . T . I . M . ;
E . H . Turner , G . P . C . of W . ; Thomas S . Jordan , G . C . of G . ; T . W . Wright , Q . Rec . ; John Gutshal , G . Treas . ; Rev . Thomas Dougherby , Rev . B . R . Waugh , Rev . A . A . Reese , G . Chaplains ; C . F . Sargent , G . Marshal ; J . A . Demoyer , G . S . ; Alex . Wishart , G . Lecturer .
GRAND COMMANDERY OE MICHIGAN . The Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of the State of Michigan , met in Detroit on the first day of June last . Sir Knight John Gilbert , jun , presided . After the Commandery was opened , he read an address , and appointed the standing committees on credentials , on charters and dispensations , and on grievances . The committee on credentials reported forthwith , that representatives from the following Commanderies were entitled to seats : —Detroit , Pontiac , Hillsdale ,
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR .
Monroe and De Molay ( at Grand Rapids . ) This comprised all the Commanderies acting under charters , except Peninsular , No . 4 , at Kalamazoo . Immediately after the committee on credentials reported , the committee on charters and dispensations reported in favour of granting charters to two new Commanderies , one at St . Clair and one at Romeo , which had been acting under dispensations . The report was adopted , and the representatives of the new Commanderies were admitted as members of the grand body , with the right to speak and vote . The Commandery then proceeded to the election of officers , with the following result : N . P . Jacobs ,
G . C ; Wm . P . limes , Dep . G . C . ; Francis Darrow , G . Generalissimo ; T . A . Flower , G . Capt . G . ; Rev . D . C . Jacokes , G . Prelate ; L . R . Atwater , G . S . W . ; John Clarke , G . J . W . ; Wm . Barclay , G . Treas . ; G . W . Wilson , G . Rec . ; A . B . Ayres , Q . St . B . ; A . C . Baldwin , G . Sword B . ; H . M . Case , G . W . ; Bela Cogswell , G . Instructor ; C . D . Howard , G . Capt . of Guard . Sir Kt . Jacobs was then installed G . C . A vote was passed , appropriating money for the purchase of a jewel for Sir Knight Gilbert , and thanking him for his services as G . C . Peninsular Commandery , at
Kaamazoo , holds its charter from the General Grand Encampment of the United States ; it has not , as it claims , given up its allegiance to that body . It contends that it has the right to remain as it is , and work under its present charter . Its principal officers were present , with discretionary power , as we understand , but did not see fit to place their Commandery under the jurisdiction of tlie grand kody of Michigan .