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Correspondence.
CORRESFOIDENCE ,
[ The Editor does not hold himself responsible for any opinions entertained by Correspondents . ]
MARK MASONRY IN THE COLONIES . TO THE EDITOR OF THE EREEMASO ] Srs \ MAGAZi : NE AND MASOKIC MIRROE . Sin and Brother , —When an unsettled question of Masonic law or practice is found to produce very great inconvenience arid injury to the Order , it is , I apprehend , full time that the rulers of the Craft should apply the necessary remedy . Your journal is now our chief organ , and grievances appearing in its pages cannot but attract the notice of those by
whom that remedy can be applied . In the Articles of Union between the two Grand Lodges of England , ( Nov . 1813 ) , clause 2 , "it is declared and pronounced that pure antient Masonry consists of three degrees and no more , viz ., those of the Entered Apprentice , the Fellow Craft , and the Master Mason ( including the supreme order of the Holy Royal Arch ) .
In the Supreme Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of England , held on the 7 th November , 1855 , the Grand Scribe E . ( Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge ) represented that certain circumstances had arisen in Nova Scotia and Canada respecting the Mark degree , by which the Lodges and Chapters on the registry of the Grand Lodge of England Were brought into collision . Avith those held under the Irish and Scotch registries ; and that
it was desirable that the Grand Lodge of England should enter on the question of the Mark degree . The Grand Scribe E . also stated , that in order to qualify himself for entering on the investigation he had recently taken the Mark degree at Newport , in the Isle , of Wight . A committee was thereupon formed to examine and report to the M . W . Grand Master whether it was advisable to attach the Mark degree to our present
Constitution . In Grand Chapter , on the 1 st February , 1856 , on report of the committee and on motion , it was resolved , that as the Mark degree formed no part of Royal Arch Masonry , the question of its introduction into Masonry be left to the Grand Lodge of England .
On the 5 th March , 1856 , in the Grand Lodge of England , ( the Grand Master being absent ) , upon report of the investigating committee , and on motion , it was resolved , that the degree of Mark Mason is not at variance with Craft Masonry , and that it be added thereto under proper regulations . But on the 4 th June , 1856 , after many and lucid arguments on both sides , the Grand Master said that Seeing that the Book of Constitutions called upon all Masters to declare that no man or body of men could moke inno-
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Correspondence.
CORRESFOIDENCE ,
[ The Editor does not hold himself responsible for any opinions entertained by Correspondents . ]
MARK MASONRY IN THE COLONIES . TO THE EDITOR OF THE EREEMASO ] Srs \ MAGAZi : NE AND MASOKIC MIRROE . Sin and Brother , —When an unsettled question of Masonic law or practice is found to produce very great inconvenience arid injury to the Order , it is , I apprehend , full time that the rulers of the Craft should apply the necessary remedy . Your journal is now our chief organ , and grievances appearing in its pages cannot but attract the notice of those by
whom that remedy can be applied . In the Articles of Union between the two Grand Lodges of England , ( Nov . 1813 ) , clause 2 , "it is declared and pronounced that pure antient Masonry consists of three degrees and no more , viz ., those of the Entered Apprentice , the Fellow Craft , and the Master Mason ( including the supreme order of the Holy Royal Arch ) .
In the Supreme Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of England , held on the 7 th November , 1855 , the Grand Scribe E . ( Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge ) represented that certain circumstances had arisen in Nova Scotia and Canada respecting the Mark degree , by which the Lodges and Chapters on the registry of the Grand Lodge of England Were brought into collision . Avith those held under the Irish and Scotch registries ; and that
it was desirable that the Grand Lodge of England should enter on the question of the Mark degree . The Grand Scribe E . also stated , that in order to qualify himself for entering on the investigation he had recently taken the Mark degree at Newport , in the Isle , of Wight . A committee was thereupon formed to examine and report to the M . W . Grand Master whether it was advisable to attach the Mark degree to our present
Constitution . In Grand Chapter , on the 1 st February , 1856 , on report of the committee and on motion , it was resolved , that as the Mark degree formed no part of Royal Arch Masonry , the question of its introduction into Masonry be left to the Grand Lodge of England .
On the 5 th March , 1856 , in the Grand Lodge of England , ( the Grand Master being absent ) , upon report of the investigating committee , and on motion , it was resolved , that the degree of Mark Mason is not at variance with Craft Masonry , and that it be added thereto under proper regulations . But on the 4 th June , 1856 , after many and lucid arguments on both sides , the Grand Master said that Seeing that the Book of Constitutions called upon all Masters to declare that no man or body of men could moke inno-