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Otjk Architectural Chapter
Craft would be placed were it forced by law to appoint Grand Superiiitendentswsdio cannot superintend the construction of buildings , and Organists who cannot touch an organ , for the Constitutions have not forced the Grand Master to do anything so ridiculous .
The Grand Superintendent of Works of the Grand Lodge of England is to advise with the Board of General Purposes on all plans of buildings or edifices undertaken by the Grand Lodge , and furnish estimates ; he is to superintend their construction , and see that they are conformable to the plans as approved . He is at the first meeting of the Board of General Purposes in every year to report on the state of repair of the edifices of the Grand Lodge , and make such further reports , from time to time , as he may deem expedient . ''
So far for his duties , now for his Masonic standing . The Grand Wardens have no Masonic qualification defined , nor has the Grand Treasurer , nor the Grand Beacons j and as to the Grand Secretary and his clerks , it is only declared they must be Master Mason sy but the salification of the Grand Superintendent of Works is exactly defined ^ for he must be a Master Mason . Thus the M . W . Grand Master has the power of selection from all professionally qualified persons who are Master Masons .
We now come to the provinces . Of course it will be seen that the qualification of a Provincial Grand Superintendent cannot be higher than that of Grand Superintendent of England . A Provincial Grand Warden must be a Master or Past Master of a Lodge , and a Provincial Grand Deacon must be a Warden or Past Warden of a Lodge
but there is no such limitation for Provincial Grand Superintendent , the only requirement of the law being that he shall be resident in the province and a subscribing member to a Lodge therein , unless he obtain a dispensation , on which there is a fee of one guinea . There is therefore no penalty on the Provincial Grand Master of appointing an incompetent Past Master to this office .
The Grand Registrar of England must be an actual Master or Past Master of a Lodge , and for this sufficient reason , that he may be invested with the powers of Provincial Grand Master of a Vacant province . For Provincial Grand Registrar there is no such requirement , as he has no such duties to fulfil .
The Grand Organist of England ought to be a Master Mason , but foi ' Provincial Grand Organist there is no restriction and for anything that appears , he may be a E . G . or E . A . The object of this legislation is verv rational and very
simple-While the offices of Wardens and Deacons are more particularly kept as the rewards for deserving Lodge officers , there is full scope given to the Grand Masters to provide their Grand Lodges with competent professional assistance , without imposing any requirement of Masonic rank , which might exclude a senior and eminent professional man who is perhaps but a new and unrewarded Mason . The secretaries of the Architectural Exhibition have announced , that the next year ' s exhibition will be held in the new gallery of the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Otjk Architectural Chapter
Craft would be placed were it forced by law to appoint Grand Superiiitendentswsdio cannot superintend the construction of buildings , and Organists who cannot touch an organ , for the Constitutions have not forced the Grand Master to do anything so ridiculous .
The Grand Superintendent of Works of the Grand Lodge of England is to advise with the Board of General Purposes on all plans of buildings or edifices undertaken by the Grand Lodge , and furnish estimates ; he is to superintend their construction , and see that they are conformable to the plans as approved . He is at the first meeting of the Board of General Purposes in every year to report on the state of repair of the edifices of the Grand Lodge , and make such further reports , from time to time , as he may deem expedient . ''
So far for his duties , now for his Masonic standing . The Grand Wardens have no Masonic qualification defined , nor has the Grand Treasurer , nor the Grand Beacons j and as to the Grand Secretary and his clerks , it is only declared they must be Master Mason sy but the salification of the Grand Superintendent of Works is exactly defined ^ for he must be a Master Mason . Thus the M . W . Grand Master has the power of selection from all professionally qualified persons who are Master Masons .
We now come to the provinces . Of course it will be seen that the qualification of a Provincial Grand Superintendent cannot be higher than that of Grand Superintendent of England . A Provincial Grand Warden must be a Master or Past Master of a Lodge , and a Provincial Grand Deacon must be a Warden or Past Warden of a Lodge
but there is no such limitation for Provincial Grand Superintendent , the only requirement of the law being that he shall be resident in the province and a subscribing member to a Lodge therein , unless he obtain a dispensation , on which there is a fee of one guinea . There is therefore no penalty on the Provincial Grand Master of appointing an incompetent Past Master to this office .
The Grand Registrar of England must be an actual Master or Past Master of a Lodge , and for this sufficient reason , that he may be invested with the powers of Provincial Grand Master of a Vacant province . For Provincial Grand Registrar there is no such requirement , as he has no such duties to fulfil .
The Grand Organist of England ought to be a Master Mason , but foi ' Provincial Grand Organist there is no restriction and for anything that appears , he may be a E . G . or E . A . The object of this legislation is verv rational and very
simple-While the offices of Wardens and Deacons are more particularly kept as the rewards for deserving Lodge officers , there is full scope given to the Grand Masters to provide their Grand Lodges with competent professional assistance , without imposing any requirement of Masonic rank , which might exclude a senior and eminent professional man who is perhaps but a new and unrewarded Mason . The secretaries of the Architectural Exhibition have announced , that the next year ' s exhibition will be held in the new gallery of the