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The Week.

the Avorks had boon commenced , ancl it AIMS expected the whole would he completed in four years . The money ( three millions ) had been lent by the Bank at "h per cent .

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NOTICES . Tun Brethren and others are requested to notice , that George AV . Bower has no connection Aviththe Freemasons' Magazine ; and all persons are cautioned against ( laying him anything on our account . Advertisers ivill oblige by forwarding their favours at tho latest by 12 o ' clock ou Alonday morning ,

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

" AV C . B . " —A brother ivho was raised to the third degree , on the 25 th Alarch last , may he exalted on the 2 Jth inst , tivelve " lunar" months having intervened between the raising aud exaltation . The full moon in March last ii'as on the 29 th . This year it "will be on the 18 th . DR . CULLEX ' LENTEN PASTORAL . —AVe shall take an early opportunity ol referring to the archbishop ' s strictures upon Freemasonry .

" A BROTHER . " —AVe do not ICIIOAV the ruling initiation fee " throughout the United States , " but we do know that in some portions of the Union it is a less number of dollars than ivo charge pounds . Heiice the universality of Freemasonry in America . "PADDY FROM CORK . "—The Constitutions of tho Grand Lodge of Ireland state that "Every AIaster and AVarden at his first attendance at Grand Lodge shall , if

called upon , undergo such examination as the presiding officer may appoint , ancl if not found duly qualified , shall not then be received as a member of the Grand Lodge . " AVe do not knoiv IIOAV often this rule is acted upon by our brethren across the channel , but most assuredly ivere it introduced nearer home and regularly onforced , it would conduce to the advantage of the Order . AIASOXRV AND THE POST Ol- ' FICK . —The Post Office authorities at Liverpool

must be in rather an unenlightened state , for a letter addressed R . AV . LoGeudi-o X . Starkie ( the Prov . Grand Aiaster ) , Alasonic Temple , Liverpool , was returned lately to the brother ivho Avrote it , AA'ith the endorsement < : Insufficient address . " Liverpool , Alarch 5 th . " INQUIRER . "—The law referred to will be found at page 57 of the Book of Constitutions , in these words , "Xo brother shall be Aiaster of more than one Lodge

at the same time , AA'ithout a dispensation from the Grand Aiaster . " The reason ivhy you did nofc find ifc in the Book of Constitutions bearing date 1 S 47 is , that tho buy AA'as not enacted until Xovember of that year , ivhen a special Grand Lodge was held , the minutes of ivhich were confirmed in December , Avhilst an edition of the Book of Constitutions AIMS published in the early part of the year . "A COLOURED BROTHER" had better remain in England . He ivill find but little support from the brethren of America , if Ave are to judge from the tone of their Alasonic publications regarding negro brethren .

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THE CANADAS. Article 1
THE GRAND LODGE PROPERTY. Article 3
OUR ARCHITECTURAL CHAPTER. Article 6
MILTON'S GENEALOGY. Article 10
ANCIENT RECORDS. Article 11
THE INDIAN RELIEF FUND. Article 12
SOLEMN ADOPTION OF A MASON'S CHILDREN. Article 13
EASTER DAY. Article 14
TIME'S BOOK. Article 14
SONNET. Article 15
CORRESPONDENCE. Article 16
MASONRY IN INDIA. Article 19
COUNTRY LODGE ROOMS. Article 20
THE MASONIC SCHOOLS. Article 21
MASONIC COSTUME. Article 22
THE MAIDA HILL COLLEGE. Article 22
THE MASONIC MIRROR. Article 24
METROPOLITAN. Article 25
INSTRUCTION. Article 30
PROVINCIAL. Article 30
Untitled Article 35
MARK MASONRY. Article 35
ROYAL ARCH. Article 36
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. Article 38
SCOTLAND. Article 38
AMERICA. Article 40
MASONIC FESTIVITIES. Article 44
THE WEEK. Article 45
Untitled Article 48
TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 48
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The Week.

the Avorks had boon commenced , ancl it AIMS expected the whole would he completed in four years . The money ( three millions ) had been lent by the Bank at "h per cent .

Ar04801

NOTICES . Tun Brethren and others are requested to notice , that George AV . Bower has no connection Aviththe Freemasons' Magazine ; and all persons are cautioned against ( laying him anything on our account . Advertisers ivill oblige by forwarding their favours at tho latest by 12 o ' clock ou Alonday morning ,

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

" AV C . B . " —A brother ivho was raised to the third degree , on the 25 th Alarch last , may he exalted on the 2 Jth inst , tivelve " lunar" months having intervened between the raising aud exaltation . The full moon in March last ii'as on the 29 th . This year it "will be on the 18 th . DR . CULLEX ' LENTEN PASTORAL . —AVe shall take an early opportunity ol referring to the archbishop ' s strictures upon Freemasonry .

" A BROTHER . " —AVe do not ICIIOAV the ruling initiation fee " throughout the United States , " but we do know that in some portions of the Union it is a less number of dollars than ivo charge pounds . Heiice the universality of Freemasonry in America . "PADDY FROM CORK . "—The Constitutions of tho Grand Lodge of Ireland state that "Every AIaster and AVarden at his first attendance at Grand Lodge shall , if

called upon , undergo such examination as the presiding officer may appoint , ancl if not found duly qualified , shall not then be received as a member of the Grand Lodge . " AVe do not knoiv IIOAV often this rule is acted upon by our brethren across the channel , but most assuredly ivere it introduced nearer home and regularly onforced , it would conduce to the advantage of the Order . AIASOXRV AND THE POST Ol- ' FICK . —The Post Office authorities at Liverpool

must be in rather an unenlightened state , for a letter addressed R . AV . LoGeudi-o X . Starkie ( the Prov . Grand Aiaster ) , Alasonic Temple , Liverpool , was returned lately to the brother ivho Avrote it , AA'ith the endorsement < : Insufficient address . " Liverpool , Alarch 5 th . " INQUIRER . "—The law referred to will be found at page 57 of the Book of Constitutions , in these words , "Xo brother shall be Aiaster of more than one Lodge

at the same time , AA'ithout a dispensation from the Grand Aiaster . " The reason ivhy you did nofc find ifc in the Book of Constitutions bearing date 1 S 47 is , that tho buy AA'as not enacted until Xovember of that year , ivhen a special Grand Lodge was held , the minutes of ivhich were confirmed in December , Avhilst an edition of the Book of Constitutions AIMS published in the early part of the year . "A COLOURED BROTHER" had better remain in England . He ivill find but little support from the brethren of America , if Ave are to judge from the tone of their Alasonic publications regarding negro brethren .

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