Notes On American Freemasonry.

bodies , according to the laws , constitutions and usages of the Masonic fraternity , and not wishing to become a corporate body under the provisions of the act , may take and hold real estate for their use and benefit , by purchase , grant , devise , gift , or otherwise , in and by the name and members of the said body , according to

the respective registers of the grand body under which the same may be holders , and the presiding officers of such body , together with the Secretary thereof may make conveyance of any real estate belonging to such body , when authorized by a majority

of all the members of said body , under such regulations as the said Masonic body , or its grand body , may see fit to make ; but such conveyance shall be attested by the seal of said subordinate body . " ( Secf Ion VIII . ) ' should it be become necessary at any

time to protect the rights of such Masonic body in and to the real estate and personal property , said body not being incorporated under this act , the presiding officer thereof may bring suit in his own name for the benefit ofthe Masonic body over which he presides in any of the courts of record of this Territory

having original jurisdiction , and may prosecute or defend the same in the Supreme Court of the Territory . " He then says : " Thus it will be seen that all the benefits of an incorporation are obtained without the usual

embarrassments . " Lodges in this jurisdiction fourteen , besides five under dispensation . Initiated , 112 ; passed , 100 ; raised , 9-1 ; number of nembers , 717 ; living out of territory , 13-1 . ( To he Continued ) .

Masonic Jottings.—No. 43.

MASONIC JOTTINGS . —No . 43 .

BY A PAST PEOYI : SCIAL GRAXD MASTER . THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE . This is a Record of Religion which is without controversy , of Ethics which are without casuistry ,

of science which is illustrative of the power and goodness of the Glorious Architect of Heaven and Earth-The desire of every right minded member of our Institution must be that what is vulgar , what

is low , and what is coarse , should be altogether excluded from its pages ; and if unhappily , •" 'om any cause , what is such finds a place there , that those possessed of ability and courage to denounce and stigmatize it should not be wanting .

AN INACCURATE SAYING . It is an inaccurate saying that Freemasonry is one thing , and religion is another thing . Free-

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masonry is a compound of which religion is a necessary ingredient . The former ceases to be Freemasonry the moment you take away the latter . A LINE OF HORACE .

A line of Horace furnishes an appropriate answer to the remark of a Cambridge correspondent : — " Dum vitant stnlti vitia in contraria currant . " THESE JOTTINGS . A brother writes that he finds these Jottings

ill accord with what he sometimes reads in the " Freemasons' Magazine . " This is matter of congratulation ; for , were it otherwise , it would be a proof that be does not understand them , and , as regards him , they would lose a great part of their value .

DISSENT . Can evidence be found that , at any time , before the eighteenth century , dissent from the Church of England was regarded in Freemasonry with favour corresponding to that with which it was regarded in Parliament the first year of the reign of William and Mary .

ROMAN CATHOLICISM AND CATHOLICISM . A brother sending some remarks , respecting "the Charges of 1723 " overlooks the circumstance that Roman Catholicism is not Catholicism . UNION OBLIGATION—INITIATION OATH . Brother M . L . R ., the Obligation of the Union ,

1813 , was Christian . The Oath on Initiation is Christian . RELIGION OP THE REVIVAL MASONRY . Is there anything to indicate that Desaguliers and Anderson had any intention of making the

Religion of their Masonry different from the Reli gion of the Masonry of which it was the Revival . OUR MYTHS AND LEGENDS . Brother * * * It is not true that the contributor of these Jottings ever asserted that a belief in our Myths and Legends is necessary .

THE _ OIDEST RELIC OV HUJIAKIIT . —The oldest relic of humanity extant is the skeleton of one of the earlier Pharaohs , encased in its original burial robes , anil wonderfully perfect considering its age , which was deposited eighteen or twenty months ago in the British Museum , and is justly considered tlio most valuable of its archaological treasures . The lid of the coffin which contains tho royal mummy was inscribed with the name

of its occupant , PharaodMikerinus , who succeded the heir of the builder of the Great Pyrumid , about ten centuries before Christ . The monarch whose crumbling bones and leathery integuments are exciting the wonder-gazers in London , reigned in -Egypt before Solomon was horn , and only about eleven centuries or so after Mizraim , the grandson of father Noah , and the first of the Pharaohs , had been gathered to his fathers . The tidernark of the deluge could scarcely have been obliterated when this rnan ^ of the early world lived and moved and had his being .