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be erased . The chapters specified in Schedule B , which were also summoned , hold out hopes of being able to carry on the work of Royal Arch Masonry if more time is granted them ; and the committee therefore recommend that no further action be taken by Grand Chapter with respect to these chapters . ( Signed ) FREDERICK PATTISON , FliEE . UASOXs' HALL , President . LONDON , 17 th April , 1861 .

SCHEDULE A . No . 52 Chapter of Friendship Manchester . 64 Mount Moriah Chapter Arundel . OS Albion Chapter London . 104 St . Michaels' Chapter Barbadoes . 130 Chapter of Unanimity Preston 157 Union Chapter ' Bridgewater .

161 All Saints Chapter AA ooler . 173 Chapter of Benevolence AVarrington . 179 Chapter of Unanimity AATikefield . 181 Prestonian Chapter Preston . 1 S 6 Alston Chapter Rochford . 1 S 9 Chapter of the Garden of Eden ... Manchester . 235 Chapter of Love and Unity Dover

312 Chapter of Loyalty and A irtue ... Barnstaple . 316 Cumberland Chapter Coventry . 325 Chapter of the Rock Trichinopoly , Madras . 334 Chapter of Trinity Macclesfield . 330 Blackburn . 337 Chapter of Hope and Sincerity ... Berkeley . 339 Chapter of Harmony Boston .

350 Chapter of Universality Lancaster . 366 Chapter of the School ' of Plato ... Cambridge . 370 King ' s Friends Chapter Nantwich . 373 Chapter of Loyalty Sheffield . 374 Chapter of Concord Lincoln . 378 Chapter of Temperance Alcester . 353 Chapter of St . Michael Beccles . 354 Alfred Chapter Leeds .

3 So Chapter of Good Intent Hebden Bridge , near Halifax . 387 Chapter of Harmony Gosport . 402 Chapter of Integrity Mottram . 403 Chapter of Faith Stockport . 421 Chapter of Unanimity Marple . 423 Chapter of Concord Preston . 434 Chapter of United Brethren Mellor , Lancashire . 147 KingstonJamaica .

, 448 Athol Chapter Lueea Bay , Jamaica . 449 Seville Chapter St . Ann's Bay , Jamaica . 450 Friendly Chapter Montego Bay , Jamaica . 45 S Sussex Chapter Island of St . Thomas . 459 Chapter of Benevolence Sherborne . 47 S Chapter of Freedom Padiham . 451 Clithero .

496 Moira Chapter Belleville , Canada AVest . 541 Mount Olive Chapter Demerara . 5-16 Chapter of Perseverance Bombay . 570 Albion Chapter St . John , New Brunswick . 595 Mount Sinai Chapter Longtown . 597 Downshire Chapter Reading . 62 S St . John ' s Chapter Secunderabad , Madras .

660 Sutherland Chapter Burslem . 06 S Parramatta , NewSouth Wales . 083 Cambrian Chapter Haverfordwest . 731 St . George ' s Chapter Montreal , Canada East . 761 Holy Jerusalem Chapter Agra , East Indies . 70 S Ionic Chapter Toronto , Canada AVcst . S 17 North Essex Chapter Booking . S 31 Mount Horeb Chapter Madras .

SCHEDULE B . 60 Royal George Chapter Norwich . S 9 A olubian Chapter Falmouth . 232 Albion Chapter Barbadoes . 473 Hope Chapter Cape of Good Hope . 550 Chapter of Afilor & Perseverance . . Allahabad , Bengal . 735 Celestial Chapter Canton .

The report was received , and the various chapters ordered to be erased , with the exception of No . 402 , Mottram , which has just made its returns ; and Unanimity , 179 , AA ' akefield , Loyalty , 373 , Sheffield , Alfred , 3 S 4 , Leeds , ancl Harmony , 387 , Gosport , which , there are good reasons to believe , will all shortly be at work . A supplementary report was next read from the Committee , stating that petitions had been received for a Chapter to be attached to the Southern Cross Lodge ( 1095 ) Tarrangowcr , ATctoria , to be

called the Eureka Chapter , to be held at Maiden , Victoria , and the New Forest Lodge , 401 , Lymington , Hants ., to be called the New Forest Chapter , and the petitions being regular , the Committee recommended the granting of the warrants . They had also received a petition for a Chapter to bo attached to the Pamnure Lodge , 1025 , at Aldershott , and the Committee recommended that thewarrant be granted , subject to a dispensation being also granted for Comp . Stebbingthe first Z . namedto hold the office of Z . in two

, , Chapters at one time , he being- the present Z . of another Chapter in the same province . The report of the Committee having been read , and , on motion , ordered to be entered on the minutes , The petition for warrant of Constitution for a chapter to be attached to Lodge 1095 , was read , and itsxirayer acceeded to . Comp . HAVERS then rose , and called the attention of the Grand

Chapter to the omission of the business they were then entering upon , from the notice papers . The law recently passed required that notice of all business to come before the Grand Chapter , should be printed and circulated seven days previous to Grand Chapter ; and although he did not doubt the propriety of the applications for new chapters , he urged that , according to the law , they could not be entertained that evening . After some conversation ,

Comp . SiEBBixcr suggested that , inasmuch as the report of the Committee had been received , he hoped that although the strict letter of the law had not been obeyed , no difficulty wouldbe raised in granting the warrants .

Hie M . E . Z ., EARL DE GREY , said as he was not yet so acquainted with the constitution of the Grand Chapter as he trusted he should be in future , before venturing on deciding the question he should call on the G . Scribe , E ., to read the whole law on the subject , which having been done , Comp . HAVERS reiterated his objections to proceeding further . A desultory debate ensued , in which Comps . Slight , Le A ' eau , and others took partwhen

, , Earl DE GREY , Acting Z ., rose and said , the Grand Chapter was in this position—it had passed a resolution , and was then proceeding to act on matters contained in it , and although it was quite correct that the law , as read , was not complied with to the letter , he considered that they were not wrong in proceeding with the business included in the report . Comp . ROXBURGH suggested that the law , as it at present stood ,

was not intelligible . Comp . EVAXS at length moved " That the prayer of the petition for warrant for a Chapter to be attached to Lodge 401 be granted , " which motion was seconded by Comp . Lambert . Comp . HAVERS again rose and protested against their proceeding- further . Comp . ROXBURGH having read . the whole law bearing on the subject , said it was unquestionable that any companion could movean action on the Committee's report . The report had been received and ordered to be entered on the minutes , and the next step to be

taken was that some action should be taken upon matters contained iu that report . Comp . Havers' objection should have been taken on the acception of the report ; it was too late then , and therefore he , Comp . Roxburgh , could not think the Grand Chapter was wrong in proceeding . Comp . ADLARD used a like argument , aud urged that as they had granted the prayer of one petition , the consideration of the others should be proceeded with .

Earl de GREY said , had his attention been called to the subject before the report had been received , he should have said , they could not enter on any business not inserted in the notice papers ; but as that report had heen received , the only question before him was , could they now take action framed on that report ? Being of opinion that they could , ho should put Comp . Evans' motion , that the warrant for Chapter 401 be granted . The motion was carried by a

majority . Comp . EVAX'S then moved that the warrant for Chapter 1025 be granted , and also that , as Comp . Stebbing was at present Iif . E . Z . of another chapter , a dispensation be granted to enable him to be the 1 st Principal . This motion was also agreed to . The following Companions were elected on the General Committee of the Grand Chapter : —Algernon Perkins , John Iiervey ,

Frederick Adlard , Henry G . Warren , John Savage [ and — Gole ; and the G . 'Z . appointed Comps . Frederick Pattison , president , John G . Evans , and A . A . Le Veau . The chapter was then closed in due form .

DURHAM . GATESHEAD . — Chapter de Burghi ( No 614 ) was opened at the Grey Horse Inn . on Thursday , April 25 th , by Comp . A . Clapham , M . E . Z ., assisted by Comps . Alexander , II . ; P . Z . H . Hotham