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Corresfoidence,
vations in the .-tenetsof Freemasonry , and that by the Act of Union their Order was declared to consist of three degrees , and no more , he could not do otherwise than record his vote in favour of the non-confirmation of the minutes . " And on question , the non-confirmation of the minutes with regard to the Mark degree was carried by a large majority .
. In the May number ( 1851 ) of Morris ' s Freemasons' Magazine , of Boston , U . S ., there appears " a . letter' from John D . Nash relating to the Mark degree . One paragraph reads thus , "'At our request Brother Keith , our Prov . Grand Master , wrote to the Grand Chapter of England on the subject . Their answer was , that they did not require nor care anything about the degrees , and he might do as he thought proper in relation to the matter ; that the Principals of his Chapter might grant a warrant to aMark Lodge if they saw fit . "
In the same Magazine for September , 1851 , there is a copy of a letter from the Provincial Grand Secretary ( English registry ) of Nova Scotia , datecTTMarch 1 , 1851 , wherein he says that the Provincial Grand Master has issued his warrant to work a Lodge of Mark Master Masons , from a permission to do so conveyed to him in a communication addresse d to him by the Grand Secretary of the United Grand Lodge of England . "
And in the same number there is printed a copy of the warrant so issued for the " '" Union Mark Lodge of Halifax , Nova Scotia , " which warrant concludes thus , u Given under my hand and seal , as Provincial Grand Master , " ( and 2 ^ ex officio the head of Royal Arch Masonry in the colonies of Nova Scotia ,
New Brunswick , the Islands of Prince Edw ard and Newfoundland , and the English and Scottish Masonical jurisdiction thereunto belonging ) , " and in conformity with a communication addressed to me by the Grand Secretary of the United Grand Lodge of England , at Halifax , this 1 st day of March , a . d . 1851 , and of Light 5851 . "
I have thought it right to place before you this pr 6 cis of the various proceedings which have caused the present state of Masonical affairs , ere I called your attention to the subject of this communication ; and I shall only remark that as the Grand Master and Grand Z . of English Masonry has declared the Mark degree an innovation in Masonry—as the Grand Chapter and the Grand Lodge of England have both repudiated the degree , and
declined the responsibility of its adoption—and as the Grand Secretary and Grand Scribe E ., at the time of conveying a sanction to the Provincial Grand Master to warrant Mark Lodges , was not himself a Mark Mason , but afterwards took it in order to qualify himself for investigating its connexion with English Masonry—the Union Mark Lodge stands in the unpleasant position of having neither lawful parent nor sponsor .
The Supreme Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Scotland , by its General Laws and Regulations , chapter 1 , section 28 , provides that u no one shall be exalted to the Royal Arch degree until he has received the degrees of Mark Master and Past Master , as also the Excellent degree ; nor can any one be recognized as a Mark or Past Master who has not received these degrees in a Lodge or Chapter whose right to grant them is recognized by the Supreme Royal Arch Chapter or Grand Lodge of Scotland . "
A Royal Arch Chapter , called the Fredericton , No . 77 , on the registry of Scotland , is working in this city . At its regular meeting on last Wednesday , Senor Louis Gomez Casseres , pianist to the Earl of Mulgrave , the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia , presented himself as a visitor ; he exhibited a diploma from the Supreme Grand Royal Arch Chapter of England , by which it appears that he was duly exalted to that degree in the Chapter u Royal , " attached to St . Andrew ' s Lodge , No , 137 ( E . Il . ) ity Halifax , Ngva Scotia , in the year 1855 . ? V
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Corresfoidence,
vations in the .-tenetsof Freemasonry , and that by the Act of Union their Order was declared to consist of three degrees , and no more , he could not do otherwise than record his vote in favour of the non-confirmation of the minutes . " And on question , the non-confirmation of the minutes with regard to the Mark degree was carried by a large majority .
. In the May number ( 1851 ) of Morris ' s Freemasons' Magazine , of Boston , U . S ., there appears " a . letter' from John D . Nash relating to the Mark degree . One paragraph reads thus , "'At our request Brother Keith , our Prov . Grand Master , wrote to the Grand Chapter of England on the subject . Their answer was , that they did not require nor care anything about the degrees , and he might do as he thought proper in relation to the matter ; that the Principals of his Chapter might grant a warrant to aMark Lodge if they saw fit . "
In the same Magazine for September , 1851 , there is a copy of a letter from the Provincial Grand Secretary ( English registry ) of Nova Scotia , datecTTMarch 1 , 1851 , wherein he says that the Provincial Grand Master has issued his warrant to work a Lodge of Mark Master Masons , from a permission to do so conveyed to him in a communication addresse d to him by the Grand Secretary of the United Grand Lodge of England . "
And in the same number there is printed a copy of the warrant so issued for the " '" Union Mark Lodge of Halifax , Nova Scotia , " which warrant concludes thus , u Given under my hand and seal , as Provincial Grand Master , " ( and 2 ^ ex officio the head of Royal Arch Masonry in the colonies of Nova Scotia ,
New Brunswick , the Islands of Prince Edw ard and Newfoundland , and the English and Scottish Masonical jurisdiction thereunto belonging ) , " and in conformity with a communication addressed to me by the Grand Secretary of the United Grand Lodge of England , at Halifax , this 1 st day of March , a . d . 1851 , and of Light 5851 . "
I have thought it right to place before you this pr 6 cis of the various proceedings which have caused the present state of Masonical affairs , ere I called your attention to the subject of this communication ; and I shall only remark that as the Grand Master and Grand Z . of English Masonry has declared the Mark degree an innovation in Masonry—as the Grand Chapter and the Grand Lodge of England have both repudiated the degree , and
declined the responsibility of its adoption—and as the Grand Secretary and Grand Scribe E ., at the time of conveying a sanction to the Provincial Grand Master to warrant Mark Lodges , was not himself a Mark Mason , but afterwards took it in order to qualify himself for investigating its connexion with English Masonry—the Union Mark Lodge stands in the unpleasant position of having neither lawful parent nor sponsor .
The Supreme Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Scotland , by its General Laws and Regulations , chapter 1 , section 28 , provides that u no one shall be exalted to the Royal Arch degree until he has received the degrees of Mark Master and Past Master , as also the Excellent degree ; nor can any one be recognized as a Mark or Past Master who has not received these degrees in a Lodge or Chapter whose right to grant them is recognized by the Supreme Royal Arch Chapter or Grand Lodge of Scotland . "
A Royal Arch Chapter , called the Fredericton , No . 77 , on the registry of Scotland , is working in this city . At its regular meeting on last Wednesday , Senor Louis Gomez Casseres , pianist to the Earl of Mulgrave , the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia , presented himself as a visitor ; he exhibited a diploma from the Supreme Grand Royal Arch Chapter of England , by which it appears that he was duly exalted to that degree in the Chapter u Royal , " attached to St . Andrew ' s Lodge , No , 137 ( E . Il . ) ity Halifax , Ngva Scotia , in the year 1855 . ? V