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District Grand Lodge of Bombay and its Territories . Bombay , 3 rd August , 1863 . To G . A . Summers , Esq ., Provincial Grand Secretary Provincial Grand Lodge of Scotcli Masonry in Western India . SIR AND BROTHER , —I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your favour of the 24 th ultimo , and to thank you for the promise therein to lay before your next meeting of the

Provincial Grand Lodge of Western India under Scotland the letter of R . W . Bro . Judge , and may I beg that you will at the same time accompany it with my letter of the 15 th ultimo handing it to you . AVith reference to mine of the 15 th I have not yet received a communication from you in respect of the questions asked in the 2 nd and 3 rd paras ., and as the R . W . the P . G . Master of Bombay and its territories is anxious to obtain the information

to enable him to act upon ifc without further loss of time , will you kindly let me have it at your earliest convenience . Your favour under reference has not noticed these questions , hut I can hardly believe there is anything in them to render it necessary to obtain a Provincial Grand Lodge resolution hefore replying . I remain , Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , ( Signed ) ALFRED KING . Provincial Grand Secretary of the District Grand Lodge of Bombay and its Territories under England .

District Grand Lodge of Bombay and its Territories . Bombay , 10 th October , 18 G 3 . To . G . A . Summers , Esq . Provincial Grand Secretary Provincial Grand Lodge of Scotcli Masonry in Western India , Bombay . SIR AND BROTHER , —Permit me again to beg your reference to my letters , dated respectively 15 th July and 3 rd August last , and to request a replyto the questions thereinat your earliest

, , convenience , as I am given to understand you have recently had a meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Western India under Scotland . I am , Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , ( Signed ) ALFRED KING , Provincial Grand Secretary .

Masonic Hall , Provincial Grand Lodge of Western India , Bombay , 17 th October , 1863 . To A . King , Esq ., Provincial Grand Secretary of the District Grand Lodge of Bombay and its Territories under England . Sia AND BROTHER , —With reference to my letter of the 24 th of July last , and your reply thereto , I am directed by the Right AVorshipful fche Provincial Grand Master of Western

India to forward to you , for fche information of fche Provincial Grand Master of Bombay and its Territories , the following resolution passed at a meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge , on Saturday , the 26 th day of September last — " That since Brother Judge was under the impression , as stated by him , that the Eastern Chair in the Provincial Grand Lodge was unoccupied , whereas by virtue of his office of Depute Provincial Grand Master R . W Bro . G . R . Bailingall was fche actual occupant of it ,

and his occupancy was so far recognised by the Grand Lodge of Scotland , that he had been on more occasions than one requested to take the office permanently .- these facts not being known to Brother Judge , that the brethren accept his explanation on the subject of his having received and opened letters addressed to the Provincial'Grand Secretary of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Western India , and for his communication to the Secretary of Lodge ' Hope' Kurracheeand that on Brother Jud's

tender-, , ge ing an apology for his action iu the matters referred to , that the subject of the correspondence now under consideration be buried in oblivion . " I much regret that press of business of a more important nature compelled me to postpone forwarding the foregoing resolution until the present moment .

I remain , Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , ( Signed ) G . A . SU -U ITERS , For Provincial Grand Secretary of Western India . Bombay , 25 th November , 1863 . To V . W . Bro . Alfred King , Provincial Grand Secretary of the District Grand Lodge of Bombay and its Territories , Bombay . DEAR AND V . W . SIR AND BROTHER , —With reference to the

letter to your address from the P . G . Secretary of the Provincial Gvand Lodge of A \ r estern India under Scotland , of the 17 th October last , forwarded to me by you during my absence from Bombay , I beg to offer the following remarks for submission , together with fche rest of fche correspondence on this subject , to the B .. W . the Provincial Grand Master and District Grand Lodge of Bombay under England , with a view to the same being laid before the Grand Lodge of England and

Scotland , if the demands contained in this letter are not complied with . 1 . I am surprised that the letter under notice does not give the information asked for in your letter of the 15 fch July last , by mentioning the fact that the Provincial Grand Lodge of AVesfcern India under Scotland was constitutionally re-opened on the 26 th September last by R . W . Bro . R . B . Barton , under

the authority of a commission received from the Grand Lodge of Scotland a few days after that date . 2 . I am still more surprised to find that R . AV . Bro . R . B . Barton , and his legally constituted Provincial Grand Lodge , have adopted as their own the illegal proceedings of the body of Masons who arrogated to themselves the title of " The Provincial Grand Lodge of Scotch Masonry in Western India , " to which they had no right , and whom for distinction I shall

style " soi-disant Provincial Gvand Lodge , " who met on the 30 th May last , and opened lodge without the authority of a warrant or commission from any Grand Lodge , in violation of their obligations , and in direct contravention of Article X . Cap .

XIII . of the laws of the Grand Lodge of Scotland , under which they pretend to work . 3 . I am informed by the A . W . Bro . the Rev . J . J . Farnham , the Prov . G . Chaplain of the District Grand Lodge of Bombay under England , that he has resigned his office of Prov . O . Chaplain of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Western India under Scotland , because the charges made against me were published without reply .

4 . I am also informed that the Depute and Substitute Provincial Grand Masters of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Western India , R . W . Bros . N . W . Oliver andF . L . Brown , who were present at the meeting of that Provincial Grand Lodge on the 26 th September last , deny that the resolution communicated to you was the resolution really passed and recorded at that meeting , and that denial is corroborated by V . W . Bro . the Rev . J . J . Farnham , but until the rest of the members of the

Provincial Grand Lodge of Western India repudiate the said resolution , 1 am bound to treat it as the resolution really passed , because it has been sent to you officially as such . 5 . I perceive by the resolution contained in the letter under notice , that the Provincial Grand Lodge of Western India was under the impression that I had offered an explanation to the soi-disant Provincial Grand Lodge , whereas my explanation was tendered to the R . W . Provincial Grand Master of Bombay under England alone ; the soi-disant Provincial Grand Lodge having disentitled itself to any explanation from me by condemning me unheard .

6 . I regret to find that tho resolution , above referred to , contains , what I am compelled to designate , a wilful misstatement , to the effect that I had opened letters intended for the Secretary of tho soi-disant Provincial Grand Lodge , and had admitted the fact by explaining how I had happened to do so , whereas the letter of tbe 22 ml June last from the Secretary of . the soi-disant Provincial Grand Lodge accuses me of having opened only one such letter , and , as that was the only such

letter I had ever opened , I did not explain having opened any other . Ifc would seem , however , that the said resolution was intentionally so worded for the purpose of making ifc appear that I had admitted that Brother G . A . Summers had spoken fche truth iu the soi-disant Provincial Grand Lodge on the 30 th May last , when , as is reported in the August number of the Indian Freemasons' Friend , he alleged , well knowing the contrary to be the factthat I had opened " several letters intended

, for him . " 7 . I pass over , as unworthy of remark , the discourtesy shown to the R . W . the Provincial Grand Master and myself , the Deputy Prov . G . Master of Bombay under England , in the letter under notice , by withholding from us the title of" Right Worshipful , " though it is scrupulously given to our respective equals the R . W . Prov . G . Master and Depute Prov . G . Master of Western

India under Scotland . 8 . I also pass over , as beneath my notice , the discourtesy conveyed in the expression " as stated hy him" in the commencement of the said resolution , but I cannot pass over the perver-