India.

Deputy Provincial Grand Master , " R . W . Bro . G . S . Judge , whilst the matter was under discussion , and unconfirmed in Lodge . " This District Grand Loclge also entirely approves of the letters of its Deputy Provincial Grand Master , R .. W . Bro . G . S . Judge , of the 13 th July ancl 25 th November last , and considers that he has entirely exonerated himself from blame , and ifc concurs with him in maintaining that no Provincial Grand

Lodge of Western India under Scotland existed in the early part of this year . " 2 . "That if the Provincial Grand Lodge of AA ' estern India under Scotland do not , within three weeks after this resolution is communicated to them , make the reparation demanded by E . W . Bro . G . S . Judge in his letter of the 25 th November last , the whole correspondence , together with these resolutions , be sent to the Grand Loclge of England , with a request that the

matter may be laid before the Grand Lodge of Scotland . " 3 . "That the resolutions just passed be communicated to the Provincial Grand Lodge oi Western India under Scotland , with a copy of R . AV . Bro . G . S . Judge ' s letter of the 25 th November last , and that these resolutions , and the whole of the correspondence , be printed in the form of a pamphlet and distributed , and that the same be sent to the Indian Freemasons ' Friend and to London to the FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE for

publication therein , in order to counteract any ill effect which may have arisen from the publication of the charges , without E . W . Bro . G . S . Judge ' s reply thereto . " ( Signed ) ALFRED KING . Provincial Grand Secretary of Bombay .

Provincial Grand Lodge of AA estern India under Scotland . Bombay , 3 rd March , 1864 . To V . W . Bro . ALERED KING , P . G . Secretary to the District Grand Lodge of Bombay and its Territories under England . V . W . SIR AND BROTHER , —The accompanying letter was drafted on the same date which it bears , but through some

cause or other the P . G . Secretary seems to have neglected to forward it to its destination . The R . AA * . the Provincial Grand Master has now ordered me to direct the letter to your address , which I have groat pleasure in doing so . I remain , dear Sir ancl V . AV . Brother , yours fraternally , ( Signed ) K . R . CAMA , Officiating Secretary Provincial Grand Loclge of Western India under Scotland .

Provincial Grand Lodge of AA ' estern India under Scotland , Bombay , 28 th December , 1863 . To V . W . Bro . ALERED KING , P . G . Secretary to the District Grand Lodge of Bombay and its Territories under England . V . AV . SIR AND BROTHER , —I am desired by the Provincial Grand Master of Western India and the Provincial Grand Lodge

under Scotland to acknowledge tlie receipt of your letter , dated Bombay , the 10 th December , 1863 , and its voluminous accompaniments . Your letter ancl its accompaniments were considered at a meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Western India , held on the 19 th day of December instant ; and in accordance with the resolutions then passed , I have to inform you that , through the inadvertance of the late V . AV . Secretary , Bro . Summers ,

two sentences hacl been added to the resolution passed on the reception of E . AV . Bro . Judge ' s letter of explanation regarding the opening by him of a letter which was not addressed to him , and the detention of another which also was not addressed to him , and it was resolved that those sentences should be expunged from the minutes of the meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge held on the 26 th September last , so that the resolution referred to as it now ends and stands as confirmedreads— " ancl that

, the explanation of R . W . Bro . Judge is satisfactory , " a copy of the confirmed minutes will he sent to the District Grand Loclge of Bombay and its Territories , and the lodges working under Scotland , ancl also to the Grand Lodge of Scotland as soon as the 2 ) roceedings shall have been completed . It was also resolved that the Provincial Grand Loclge of Western India deprecates and disapproves most highly of the

publication of an attack upon a brother without waiting for his answer , considers such a proceeding to be unfair ancl un-Masonic , and regrets that any such publication should have been made . I am at the same time to state that the Provincial Grand Lodge of AA'estern India under Scotland took no part in the

publication referred to of the offensive epithets applied to R . AV . Bro . Judge , nor did it authorise such publication . I am further desired to express the hope of the Provincial Grand Lodge of AA ' estern India , that this explanation may be considered satisfactory , and that we may in future work amicably together in the good cause of Masonry . I am further directed to say that the Provincial Grand Loclge having made such amends as is in its power , this communication may be received in the spirit it is intended . I remain , V . W . Sir and Brother , yours fraternally ,

( Signed ) K . R . CAMA , Officiating Secretary Provincial Grand Lodge of AA ' estern India under Scotland . It was resolved—That the Provincial Grand Lodge of AA ' estern India under Scotland be informed , that , in consequence of their having delayed till the 3 rd of March 1864—a period of eleven weeks—to reply to this district Grand Lodge's

letter of the 10 th December 1863 , the whole matter had been referred to the Grand Lodge of England , as it was stated that it would bo in the said letter . Eesolved also—That in the opinion of this District Grand Lodge , the apology offered to its Deputy Grand Master , Bro . G . S . Judge , by the Provincial Grand Master ancl Provincial Grand Lodge of AA ' estern India under Scotland , in their letter of the 2 Sth December last , is insufficient for the following reasons .- —•

1 st . Because the following charges made against Bro . G . S . Judge are not retracted , nor is any apology offered for their having been made , although Bro . G . S . Judge has clearly proved them to be false : I . 'Vhe having misrepresented to the Secretary of Lodge Hope , ICurrachee , that the Provincial Grand Lodge of Western India was not iu existence on the 27 th January , 1863 . AA'hereas the fact is that his representation to that effect

was true . II . The having evinced a most studied desire to mislead one of the daughter lodges working under the Grand Lodge of Scotland . The fact being that he gave that loclge correct information . III . The acting under a spirit of opposition to the interests of Scotch Masonry in AA'estern India . The fact being that no such spirit existed .

IV . The having stated what he must have known was not the case . The fact being thafc his statement was true . 2 nd . Because no apology is offered for having ignored Bro .

G . S . Judge as a Mason by styling him " a Mr . Judge" and "this Mr . Judge , " in the written and printed minutes of the soi-disant Provincial Grand Lodge , adopted and confirmed by the Provincial Grand Lodge of Western India , at its meeting of the 26 th September last , ancl by so styling him in a letter to Loclge Hope , Kurrachee . 3 rd . Because tho Provincial Grand Lodge of AA ' estern India has not expunged from its records all mention of the

un-Masonic charges made against Bro . G . S . Judge , as unworthy of a place in them . 4 th . Because the Provincial Grand Lodge of AVestern India has not directed its apology to bo published in the FREEMASONS ' MAGAZINE and the Indian Freemasons' Friend , although the charges were published in these periodicals by some one who had access to the minutes of the soi-disant Provincial GrandLodge of AVestern Indiawhich the Provincial Grand Lodge of AVestern

, India had adopted as its own , and this District Grand Lodge is not informed that he had been punished for having committed so grave a Masonic offence , as that of publishing minutes of lodge proceedings without authority , though this District Grand Loclge is informed that Bro . G . A . Summers , in whose custody those minutes were , has been rewarded by being publicly thanked in the Provincial Grand Loclge of AVestern India , for what he had done whilst he held the office of Secretary both of the

soi-disant Provincial Grand Lodge aud of the Provincial Grand Loclge of AA ' estern India , one of his acts being the ignoring of Bro . G . S . Judge as a Mason by styling him a " Mr . Judge " and " this Mr . Judge " in loclge minutes , and in a letter to the Secretary of Loclge Hope , Kurrachee , another tho bringingof false charges against Bro . G . S . Judge , and a third the permiting of loclge minutes iu his custodoy to be published without

any authority to clo so . Moved by Bro . H . Wickhnm , P . Prov . J . G . AA " ., seconded by Bro . T . Diver , and carried unanimously—That these letters from this District Grand Lodge to the Provincial Grand Lodge