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row , ' IslaV '© arcia , Alfcirsllos , Santillan , Sunico , Ho ^ frn & nn , Welter , Du Chesnois . The Lodge being opened in due form , -and the minutes of the last regular Lodge having been read and confirrAed , the WJVL proceeded to install as W . M . Bro . William C . Thompson ^ Ttxe Brother having been duly installed in the chair , the ^ memb ers ; of the Lo dge saluted him as W . M . in the usual manner . Y
2 & e W . M . then proceeded t 6 appoint the officers for the ensuing ye and # hey were invested s ^^ rally with the appropriate jewels , & c ., of effice , with the t ^ stomary charges * The officers were , Bros . Luinb , S . W . y Sughes , J ; W . ; Woodgate ^ Sec ; Smith , S 3 . j Dorr , J . D ; ^ ^ ffitee immediate bu ^ ne ^ of the to in due ten , # nA the ^ Brethren repaired to the welH $ 5 pointe & I ^ ov ^ ntse Hotel , : * rhere , ^ tev ^ a most excellent dinner yrm provided by the anle host , Bro * Preau ^ on ^ hom the arrangements of the banquet reflected great credit .
I'he chair wmsccujried by the newly-elected W . M ., Bro . W . C . Thompson ; and ssmongst the fi & y Jfrethren assembled aruund . that majnincetftly-loaded board were to te recogni ^ d English , North Ameiimn , Fretich , Spanish , German , and Baafcy Brethren of Ae vai & oxia native Lodges ^ representing a great ntiniher of different sects and regions framuaaiem A most agreeaMe evening was passed , and nmch praise besto ^^ d hy all * he foreigners on the abfe working of fie installing & M , and Chaplain , 3 le $ v J . € . Ford . After dinner a number of Masonic toasts weredrunk , anojdury responded to .
It nmy fee remarked that it is only within the last few years that Masonry has been revived in Buenos Ayres . During the government of General Bosas there ^ rere no regular Lodgesv but si n ce the change of government which took place in 18 £ 1 , the Excelsior Lodge teas been formed , and already numbers about forty sibscriMng ftiembers , ail speaking the * English language . There 'are also four native Lodges , formed by warrant of the Grand Orient ef Montevideo ; and one French Lodge * in all afoout 300 or 400 Masons , and this number may be said to fee rabidly increasing .
CALIFORNIA . Freemasonry has made rapid progress in this state . Ten years ago there were only three Lodges , composed of about fifty Brethren belonging to other parts of the United States . There are now eighty regular Lodges and above 3 , 000 Brethren . A duel having taken place between two Freemasons , one of the combatants , who was a member of the Grand Lodge , was expelled ; the other has been erased from the Lodge to which he belonged . These two acts of morality
have caused a great sensation , and will have a good effect in a country where the evil passions require to be severely checked . In Iowa an incident has marked the little sympathy which the States , even those in which slavery does not exist , entertain for the blacks . A negro Freemason having been sued by a Lodge for his contributions , pleaded that he dared not attend the Lodge , lest his presence might cause a disturbance . This having come to the knowledge of the Grand Lodge , they reprimanded the Lodge which had admitted a man of colour into its bosom . —Le Franc-Macon .
India.
INDIA ,
BOYAL ARCH . PROVINCIAL GRAND CHAPMEL Bombay . —The firat Provincial Grand Chapter ever held in Western India took ilttce here on the 22 nd Sept ., 1856 ; but the report of the proceedings has only ust dome to > hand . There were present , the MJ 2 . Grand Superintendent of Western Incfia and . Bw > vincial Grand Prin < sipal % ,, O . S . Judge : Comps .
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row , ' IslaV '© arcia , Alfcirsllos , Santillan , Sunico , Ho ^ frn & nn , Welter , Du Chesnois . The Lodge being opened in due form , -and the minutes of the last regular Lodge having been read and confirrAed , the WJVL proceeded to install as W . M . Bro . William C . Thompson ^ Ttxe Brother having been duly installed in the chair , the ^ memb ers ; of the Lo dge saluted him as W . M . in the usual manner . Y
2 & e W . M . then proceeded t 6 appoint the officers for the ensuing ye and # hey were invested s ^^ rally with the appropriate jewels , & c ., of effice , with the t ^ stomary charges * The officers were , Bros . Luinb , S . W . y Sughes , J ; W . ; Woodgate ^ Sec ; Smith , S 3 . j Dorr , J . D ; ^ ^ ffitee immediate bu ^ ne ^ of the to in due ten , # nA the ^ Brethren repaired to the welH $ 5 pointe & I ^ ov ^ ntse Hotel , : * rhere , ^ tev ^ a most excellent dinner yrm provided by the anle host , Bro * Preau ^ on ^ hom the arrangements of the banquet reflected great credit .
I'he chair wmsccujried by the newly-elected W . M ., Bro . W . C . Thompson ; and ssmongst the fi & y Jfrethren assembled aruund . that majnincetftly-loaded board were to te recogni ^ d English , North Ameiimn , Fretich , Spanish , German , and Baafcy Brethren of Ae vai & oxia native Lodges ^ representing a great ntiniher of different sects and regions framuaaiem A most agreeaMe evening was passed , and nmch praise besto ^^ d hy all * he foreigners on the abfe working of fie installing & M , and Chaplain , 3 le $ v J . € . Ford . After dinner a number of Masonic toasts weredrunk , anojdury responded to .
It nmy fee remarked that it is only within the last few years that Masonry has been revived in Buenos Ayres . During the government of General Bosas there ^ rere no regular Lodgesv but si n ce the change of government which took place in 18 £ 1 , the Excelsior Lodge teas been formed , and already numbers about forty sibscriMng ftiembers , ail speaking the * English language . There 'are also four native Lodges , formed by warrant of the Grand Orient ef Montevideo ; and one French Lodge * in all afoout 300 or 400 Masons , and this number may be said to fee rabidly increasing .
CALIFORNIA . Freemasonry has made rapid progress in this state . Ten years ago there were only three Lodges , composed of about fifty Brethren belonging to other parts of the United States . There are now eighty regular Lodges and above 3 , 000 Brethren . A duel having taken place between two Freemasons , one of the combatants , who was a member of the Grand Lodge , was expelled ; the other has been erased from the Lodge to which he belonged . These two acts of morality
have caused a great sensation , and will have a good effect in a country where the evil passions require to be severely checked . In Iowa an incident has marked the little sympathy which the States , even those in which slavery does not exist , entertain for the blacks . A negro Freemason having been sued by a Lodge for his contributions , pleaded that he dared not attend the Lodge , lest his presence might cause a disturbance . This having come to the knowledge of the Grand Lodge , they reprimanded the Lodge which had admitted a man of colour into its bosom . —Le Franc-Macon .
India.
INDIA ,
BOYAL ARCH . PROVINCIAL GRAND CHAPMEL Bombay . —The firat Provincial Grand Chapter ever held in Western India took ilttce here on the 22 nd Sept ., 1856 ; but the report of the proceedings has only ust dome to > hand . There were present , the MJ 2 . Grand Superintendent of Western Incfia and . Bw > vincial Grand Prin < sipal % ,, O . S . Judge : Comps .