Royal Benevolent Institution For Aged Freemasons And Their Widows.

That it has heretofore been the custom to allow the Secretary of the Boys' School an annual sum of £ 10 to cover any expenses he may be put to in engaging the services of a Messenger when and as occasion requires . That by a resolution of a quarterly general court , held on the 16 th April , I 860 , the collector to the Boys' School is allowed a commission of 3 per cent , on the amount announced at festivals and received prior to the Stewards' Settling Meeting 3

; per cent , on so much of the balance of the total sums announced as is paid to the Secretary ; 5 per cent , on the portions of the balance received by himself , and the like per centage on subsequent and other donations . That by a resolution of the Quarterly General Court , dated Sth October , 1856 , the collector to the Girls' School is allowed a commission of 5 per cent , on all annual subscriptions and

donations under ten guineas , and 3 per cent , on all donations amounting to 10 guineas and upwards , whether received by himself or by the Secretary . Your Committee , upon consideration of the foregoing facts , beg to recommend that the duties of the collectors to the abovenampd charities , and of the collector to the Royal Benevolent Institution , be assimilated , and that each be directed to attend for three hours , viz ., from eleven until two on Tuesday and Friday

in each week , for the purpose of transacting their duties as collectors , of communicating with tlie Secretaries to the Institution , and of affording subscribers and donors the opportunity of paying their subscriptions and donations into the collectors ' hands , at a central and appointed office . The duties of collector and messenger being incompatible with each other , that an annual sum of £ 10 be allowed to the Secretary of each of the three Masonic Charitable Institutions for payment of Messenger ' s fees , and that this sum be not increased until the necessities of the Charities demand the constant attendance of a messenger to bo appointed by the

Committee of each Institution . That each collector he allowed a commission of 10 per cent , on all sums collected by himself under 20 s . each ; 5 per cent , on all collections made by him of sums amounting to £ 1 ancl under £ 10 ; and 3 per cent , on sums amounting to £ 10 and upwards . The question of remuneration to the collector to the Royal Benevolent Institution on sums paid to the Secretary and on

sums collected at Festivals , having been postponed until your Committee had been afforded an opportunity of conferring with the Sub-Committee of that Institution thereon , your Committee recommend , conjunctively as a Sub-Committee of each Charity , that the tliree collectors be each allowed a commission of 1 per cent , on all sxims collected at the Festivals , whether paid to the Secretary or collector of either Institution , and on all new subscriptions and donations paid at the officeand for

, which either the Secretary or collector shall give receipts ; except on legacies , annual grants from Grand Loclge or Grand Chapter , and on the dividends derived from funded property ; the per centage , nevertheless , on annual subscriptions and donations announced at Festivals paid at the , . office , after having been handed to the collector for the purpose of being received , to be in accordance with the scale enumerated in the preceding paragraph hereof .

Your Committee , during the above inquiry , having repeatedly had the subject of uniformity of remuneration to the Secretaries of the different charities brought under their notice , desire ( though extraneously ) to recommend that the payment to each of those officers be uniform in its amount , ancl respectfully suggest as a basis , an allowance to each of £ 150 per annum on the first £ 200 Q received on account of donations or subscriptions , and 5 per cent , on all further sums received during the year , except on legacies , grants from Grand Lodge or Grand Chapter , and dividends on funded property .

( Signed ) JOHN UDALL , RlCHAED HEEYE GlEATJD , E . Cox , BENJAMIN HEAD , J . CBEATON , H . EMPSON , G . HAWAHD , Octoher 14 th , 1863 . WILLIAM YOUNG .

Resolved , " That the reports of the sub-Committee appointed to consider the duties and emoluments of the collector and of the said sub-Committee , in conjunction with the committees of the other

Royal Benevolent Institution For Aged Freemasons And Their Widows.

Masonic Charities , be printed and circulated amongst the members of tho Committee of Management of this Institution ,, with the view of its being taken into consideration at their meeting on the 9 th December next . "

Old Dundee Lodge (No. 18).

OLD DUNDEE LODGE ( No . 18 ) .

CENTENAEY JEWEL . The Old Dundee Lodge has just celebrated its centenary by the issue of a very handsome jewel manufactured by Bro . Piatt , composed of the best gold and enamel work . The jewel , as will he seen by the annexed woodcut , is very chaste in its

design , and is a reproduction of the arms of the town of Dundee , taken from the corporate seal . The history of the lodge is somewhat interesting- . andtbeM . W . G . M . 's warrant for its adoption sets this forth as follows : —

" To the Worshipful Master , Wardens , other officers ,-a » id members of the Old Dundee Lodge ( No . IS ) , London , and all others whom it may concern , " Whereas it appears by the records of the Grand

Lodge that in the year 1722 a warrant of constitution was granted to certain brethren , therein named , authorising and empowering them and their regular successors to hold a loclge of Free and Accepted Masons at the

Castle Tavern , in Drurylane , which was then numbered 17 on tho registry of the Grand Lodge , and , after several changes , ancl in consequence of the union of the two Grand Lodges on the 27 th day of December 1813

, , the said lodge became ancl now stands No . 18 , on the registry of the United Grand Lodge of England , under the title or denomination of

' The Old Dundee Lodge , ' and meeting at the London Tavern , Bishopsgate-street , in the City of London : And whereas the brethren composing the said loclge are desirous , now thatone hundred years have elapsed since the constitution of tho loclge , to be permitted to wear a jewel commemorative of such event , ancl have prayed the sanction of the Most Worshipful Grand Master for that purpose , and the M . W . G . M . doth hereby ive and grant to all and each of the actual subscribing

memg bers of the same loclge , being Master Masons , permission to wear in all Masonic meetings , suspended to the left breast by a sky-blue ribbon not exceeding one inch and a half in breadth , a jewel , or medal , of the pattern or device of the drawing in the margin hereof , as a centenary jewel , but such jewel is to be worn only by those brethren who are hand fide subscribing members of the said lodge ; ancl so long only as they shall pay

their subscription thereto , and he returned as such to the-Grand Lodge of England . " Given at Freemasons' Hall , London , this 24 th clay of June , 1863 . By command of the Right Hon . the Earl of Zetland , M . W . G . M . " This warrant has been very handsomely illuminated on vellum , framed in carved solid oak , with the Dundee supporters aud legend ; and both jewel aud illumination reflect the highest credit on Bro . Piatt for the taste , beauty , and art displayed in their production .

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A TBUISM . — There is little difference between him that doth an injury , and hiin that requites it , but only that the one is wicked a little sooner than the other .