United Grand Lodge.

to the Board that , after a ballot had been taken on which the Candidate had been blackballed , members of the Lodge were openly questioned as to which way they had voted on such ballot , thus wholly nullifying fche principle ofthe ballot ; the Board resolved , that the Lodgo of Israel , No . 205 , London , be suspended until , and inclusive of , tbe 30 th day of November , 1871 , and that their Warrant and Books be in the meantime

retained , and the said Lodgo was and remains suspended accordingly . 3 . From what transpired in the investigation of the complaints against the Lodge of Israel , the Board ordered the outgoing Master , Bro . Michael I . Emanuel , who had occupied the Chair when the two first ballots were taken , and who had

remitted the third ballot for the Candidate who had been so twice blackballed , to be taken at a later period of the same evening , to be summoned to answer for his nart in the transac

. Bro . Emmanuel having attended tbe Board , gave a very full explanation of what bad taken place , expressed his regret for having allowed such improprieties to take place under bis ruling , and submitted himself to the mercy of the Board . Whereupon it was resolved , "That Bro . Michael I . Emmanuel bo severely censured for having , whilst Master in tbe Chair of the Lodge

of Israel , No . 205 , at the Meeting of the said Lodge , on the 24 th January , 1871 , ordered a second ballot , to be taken for one and the same Candidate , there having been throe blackballs on tho first ballot , and for having ordered , after such second ballot bad been taken , on wliich there were two blackballs , that the question of election should nevertheless stand over for a

third ballot at a later period of the same evening , and for having as Immediate Past Master sanctioned such third ballot , thus wholly nullifying the principle of fche Ballot , and that Bro-Michael I . Emanuel bo cautioned as to his conduct iu future . ' aud Bro . Michael I . Emanuel was censured and cautioned accordingly .

4 . The Board have taken into consideration the reference made to them at the Quarterly Communication held on tho 1 st ( lay of June , 1870 , on the subject of providing an Organ forthe use of Grand Lodge , at an expense of not exceeding £ 600 .

The Board , with a view of economising as much as possible the funds of Grand Lodge , consulted Messrs . Gray and Davison , the eminent Organ Builders , as to fche practicability of utilising one or other of the Organs already possessed by Grand Lodge . Having received a Report that the Organ which formerly stood in the late Temple might be so renovated and improved as to be made sufficient for the use of Grand Lodge , and that parts of

the other Organ might advantageonsly be used for the purpose , thus utilising both Organs , which in their then condition the Board was advised were unsaleable , the Board arranged with Messrs . Gray and Davison for the providing an Organ accordingly ; the total cost for such renovation and improvement , and for a partially new front , and to include the building and

erection of such Organ to be £ 202 . Messrs . Gray and Davison have promised that the Organ shall be in place by the next Quarterly Communication , which the Board hope will he the- case . The Board , after much consideration , and acting on the advice and opinion of the W . Bro . James Coward , P . G . Organist , and of Messrs . Gray and Davison

, decided on erecting the Organ on the Dais , as being the situation considered to be tbe best calculated to develope the capabilities of the Instrument ; and the Board trust that what they have done in this matter will meet with the approbation of Grand Lodge .

At the meeting of tbe Board held on Tuesday , the lGfch inst ., after the ordinary business bad been disposed of , it was unanimously Resolved" That the best thanks of the Board are eminently merited by and are hereby most cordially offered to the V . W . Bro . John Llewellyn Evans , the President ; not only for the able manner

in which he has presided over , and the unremitting attention he has devoted to the business of the Board , but also for his gentlemanly bearing and invariable courtesy to all its members . '' To the Report is subjoined a statement of the Grand Lodge accounts at tbe last meeting of tbe Finance Committee , held on the 12 th May , 1871 , showing a balance in the hands of the Grand Treasurer of £ 3 , 723 Is . 3 d . and in the hands ofthe Grand Secretary for petty cash , £ 75 .

S . Report of the Colonial Board to the United Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accopted Masons of England : — " Early in April , 1870 , a letter was received in the office of the Graud Secretary from Bro . William Edgar Coquillette , W . M . of the St . George ' s Lodge , No . 410 , E . R ., Montreal , stating that it was the intention ofthe lodge to secede from the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of England , and to join another Masonic

body . By the same mail a letter was received , signed by twenty-nine members of the lodge , protesting against the secession , and claiming the warrant , hooks , and property of the lodge . About tbe same time a communication was addressed by Bro . tho Honourable William Badgley , Dist . G . M . for Montreal ; to the Most Worshipful Grand Master , soliciting the interference ofthe home authorities on the same subject , some doubt having been temporarily raised as to the position of Bro . Badgle } - as such District Grand Master .

The Colonial Board having had the papers before them , the the Grand Secretary , under their directions , on the 21 st April wrote to Bro . Coquillette calling bis attention to the book of Constitutions , page 71 , art . 29 , Edit . 1867 , and requesting him to deliver up the warrant to the members adhering to their allegiance . Brother Coquillette replied on the 9 th of May , desiring ,

before complying with this request , to have a copy of the protest and the names of the Twenty-nine members who had signed it . As Bro . Coquillette himself admitted that some of the members of the St . George ' s Lodge adhered to their allegiance , and his proceeding being in violation of the law , the Colonial Board declined to afford this information , and the Grand Secretary

was directed to write again on the loth of June , repeating the request that the Warrant should be delivered to the remaining members , aud pointing out that the Warrant , Books , Furniture and Funds belong to them . To which an answer was received on the 26 fcli July , simply referring the Grand Secretary to a body with which the Grand Lodgo of England is not at

present in correspondence . On the 31 st August , 1870 , the Grand Secretary , by direction of tbe Board , again wrote to Bro . Coquillette , reminding him that the question was one entirely between the Grand Lodge and himself , and that he was violating the Constitutions , wliich , as a ruler in the Craft , he bad solemnly engaged himself to

maintain , hut stating , with a view to conciliation , that if he entertained an objection to surrender the Warrant to tbe brethren , at Montreal , he might return it to the Grand Secretary ' s Office in London , at the same time calling his attention to the powers which the Board possessed . To this letter no answer has been returned .