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resumed by an unanimous vote , iu the same manner and under the same regulations as in the caso of the application of a stranger to tho Lodge . It does not matter for what purposes the dimit is taken , the result is as above stated . The dimit is the evidence that the person making the application for membership was once a member of some Lodgo in good standing . The

application must lie over one communication , as in case of new members . —Nebraska . A brother cannot bo made a member by virtue of a majority vote in his favour for Worshipful Master . No dimitted Mason can be made a member by implication ; lie can only become so by being regularly proposed by petition , which must be properly referred to the

appropriate committee , aud at the same time prescribed in the bye-laws he can bo balloted for , and upon an unanimous vote iu his favour , declared elected . The vote must be secret ballot , bo directly upon the question of membership , and unanimous . The Grand 'Master has no power to dispense with these three requisites . He can only dispense with time . —ib .

A brother diniitting for the purpose of joining another Lodge , but who has failed to do so , cannot affiliate again unless by petition in the usual form , which petition must be duly acted upon , regardless of his former membership in the Lodge . —Vermont . A member of a Lodge can dimit only for two reasons : First , removing from the jurisdiction ; Second , when tho Lodge of which ho is a member is too numerous , and for the purpose of formin < r a new Lodge .- —Alabama .

The vote of tho Lodge is the dimit . —Alabama and Maine . An appointed officer can dimit from his Lodge . — Master Delaware ; contra , Committee on Grand Master ' s Address , "Delaware . A brothel' Master Mason , in good and regulr . i' standing , dues all paid to dateis entitled to a dimit when

, demanded bj- himself in person or by petition . Notice on the part of a brother of his intention to prefer charges against one applying for a dimit does not operate as a sufficient bar , unless charges are preferred and filed auainst the brother before the Lodge is closed . —Kansas .

DUES . Every Mason who has the ability to pay dues should be required to do so . No excuse of religious scruples should be received to avoid the requirement of a positive law . —Missouri . Persons under suspension for non-payment of dues , by an extinct or dormant Lodge , can bo restored only by

the Grand Lodge . —Illinois . Suspension of a member for a definite time does not exonerate him from payment of dues during such suspension . —Ohio . Q . Can a member be expelled for non-payment of dues ? A . Be cannot , justly or lawfully .- — " North Carolina . A Mason can not be expelled for non-payment of dues .

All by-laws which suspend a member after a certain time for non-payment of dues , without a trial , are illegal and void . —Missouri-Q . When one has been stricken from the roll of membership for non-payment of dues , upon payment of said dues can the Lodge restore him to membership ? A . The brother must petition , as other non-affiliated

Masons , the same Lodge , or any other . If he petitions another Lodge than his former one , the one so electing to the membership becomes liable to the Lodge ho was stricken from for the amount he owed said Lodge at the

time . Q . Ought not a member be expelled from the privileges of Masonry who is in arrears to his Lodge for dues for eight or ten years , and has been notified of his delinquency by the Secretary , quarterly , for one year , when charges are preferred against him , and he fur-

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nished with a copy of said charges and notified a stated meeting of the Lodge , but pays no attention to said notices ? If not expelled , what should be done with him ? A . No brother should ever be expelled for non-payment of Lodge dues ; if possible to avoid it ; but for contempt of summons he should be suspended indefinitely , or expelled , if the brethren considered the

contempt of sufficient magnitude . It is always best , if a brother is able to pay and will not , to givo him nodes to appear at a stated meeting- and show cause why his name should not be stricken from the roll . If he does not give the Lodge satisfaction , in person , or by proxy or letter , ho should be stricken from the roll , thereby relieving your Lodge from paying Grand Lodgo dues ,

and placing him in tho situation of a non-affiliated Mason , for which he cannot relieve himself without paying up what he owed at the time . or the Lodgo receiving him paying for him . —Teunosse .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

MASONRY BEFORE THE REFORMATION . A correspondent is in error . The contributor tells us that before the Reformation " the Masons were simply common workmen . , or labourers , just as the wrights or others , and so far as science is concerned , the wright is probably the more scientific of the two . " See a communication " Freemason' Magazine , "' vol . 22 , page 110 . —CHAMPS PURTOX COOMIK .

fREEMASONRY IS NOT A UELIGION . The foregoing is the heading of a communication , "Freemasons' Magazine , " vol . 20 , page 185 . "With the exception of the heading , a Fellow Craft doubts if it puts forth a Masonic proposition which the columns of our periodical have not often showed to be untenable . - —• CHAIIXES PUBTOX Coorun .

SOMETHING DEROGATORY . A . member of Grand Lodge , who has for many years been a reader of the "Freemasons * Magazine , " writes , that to institute a comparison between our learned and accomplished Brother " Ebor , " now " A . Masonic Student , " and " A Contributor " would be something derogatory to Craft Literature . —CHARLESPUKTOX COOPEK .

THE INSTRUCTED— THE UNINSTBUCTED . The instructed views Masonry from the summit of the mountain . The uninstructed looks at Masonry from a hollow at the foot . —A EAST EEOVISCIA . II G-HAXD M ASIEB .

A CONTRIBUTOR AND OUR TRADITIONS . A communication made by a contributor to the " Freemasons'Magazine , " in October ,. 18 f > 9 , contains these words : — " Had we any traditions anent Speculative Masonry worthy of the name , it would be worth while examining into their ori gin ; but our

pretended traditions have been maanfaetured since last century . " JNow it is requested by brothers , readers of a contributor ' s communications , during the last two or three years , that he will in the firais place , point out what are the traditions into the ori gin of which , in his judgment , it is not worth suMl * esamining ; and .