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Article THE CONSTITUTIONS OF 1762, ← Page 5 of 6 →
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The Constitutions Of 1762,
Every year , on Saint John the Evangelist , each Private or Particular Grand Council must nominate Nine Officers , the President not comprised , who ought always to be continued for three years—1 st . The Lieutenant Commander to preside in the absence of the
Grand Master and Commander—2 nd . The Grand Warden of the Lodge to preside in the absence of the Second President—3 rd . The Grand
Orator—4 th . The Grand Keeper of the Seals and Grand Secretary—5 th . The Grand Treasurer—6 th . The Grand Captain of the Guards—7 th . The Grand
Introductor—8 th . The Grand Master Architect and Engineer—9 th . The Grand Hospitallerand six others , who reunited under the Orders of the Sovereign of the Sovereign Princes or his Lieutenant Commander , shall remain without alteration , and there can not be admitted any other whilst the Gz-and
Council is subject to the Grand Inspector or his Deputy as their chiefs and acknowledged as such on all occasions and under the obedience of their Council for what conceims the Royal Art , as well as in the inferior degrees .
We , Sovereigns of the Sovereigns , Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret , of the Royal Military Order of the most respectable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons , Have deliberated and resolved that the present Statutes and Regulations shall be obsei-ved . Order to our Grand Inspectors and Deputies to have them read
and received in all the Private Councils , Chapters , and Royal Lodges , and in no others whatsoever at the Grand East of Berlin , * under the Celestial Canopy , the day and year aforesaid , & c , & c , & c . We , the undersigned , P . M ., R . A . G . G ., P ., and S . N . Pees , of Jm . ; R . * Scott ; K . H . ; S . P . of the R . S . ; Deputies Grand
Inspectors Gal . and Grand Masters Sovns . Gd . Jrs . Gal . of the 23 rd degree and Grand Commanders , do hereby certify and attest the present copy and translation of the Statutes , Regulations and Constitutions of the Sublime Knights Princes of the Royal Secret , to be true and comfortable to those in our Registers and Archives . In Testimony
Whereof we have signed , sealed , stamped , and delivered the present at the Grand East of New York City , under the C . C . of the Ze by 40 d ., 42 m ., N . L ., and near B . B ., this 26 th day of the 6 th month ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Constitutions Of 1762,
Every year , on Saint John the Evangelist , each Private or Particular Grand Council must nominate Nine Officers , the President not comprised , who ought always to be continued for three years—1 st . The Lieutenant Commander to preside in the absence of the
Grand Master and Commander—2 nd . The Grand Warden of the Lodge to preside in the absence of the Second President—3 rd . The Grand
Orator—4 th . The Grand Keeper of the Seals and Grand Secretary—5 th . The Grand Treasurer—6 th . The Grand Captain of the Guards—7 th . The Grand
Introductor—8 th . The Grand Master Architect and Engineer—9 th . The Grand Hospitallerand six others , who reunited under the Orders of the Sovereign of the Sovereign Princes or his Lieutenant Commander , shall remain without alteration , and there can not be admitted any other whilst the Gz-and
Council is subject to the Grand Inspector or his Deputy as their chiefs and acknowledged as such on all occasions and under the obedience of their Council for what conceims the Royal Art , as well as in the inferior degrees .
We , Sovereigns of the Sovereigns , Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret , of the Royal Military Order of the most respectable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons , Have deliberated and resolved that the present Statutes and Regulations shall be obsei-ved . Order to our Grand Inspectors and Deputies to have them read
and received in all the Private Councils , Chapters , and Royal Lodges , and in no others whatsoever at the Grand East of Berlin , * under the Celestial Canopy , the day and year aforesaid , & c , & c , & c . We , the undersigned , P . M ., R . A . G . G ., P ., and S . N . Pees , of Jm . ; R . * Scott ; K . H . ; S . P . of the R . S . ; Deputies Grand
Inspectors Gal . and Grand Masters Sovns . Gd . Jrs . Gal . of the 23 rd degree and Grand Commanders , do hereby certify and attest the present copy and translation of the Statutes , Regulations and Constitutions of the Sublime Knights Princes of the Royal Secret , to be true and comfortable to those in our Registers and Archives . In Testimony
Whereof we have signed , sealed , stamped , and delivered the present at the Grand East of New York City , under the C . C . of the Ze by 40 d ., 42 m ., N . L ., and near B . B ., this 26 th day of the 6 th month ,