Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Scotland.
Donald Ross and Jas . Mackie , Grand Tylers ; Bro . AA . Donaldson ( Albion Cloth Company ) , Clothier and Paraphernalia Maker to Grand Lodge . PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTERS . —Aberdeen city , Alex . Hadden , of Persley ; Argyllshire and Isles , AValter Frederick Campbell , of Islay ; Ayrshire , lt . VV . M . of the Mother Lodge , Kilwinning ; Berwickshire ,
John Campbell Renton , of Mordington ; Dumbartonshire , A . Smollett , of Bonhill , 31 . P . ; Dumfriesshire , John Babington , of Summerville ; East Lothian , Earl of Dalhousie ; Elgin and Moray , Right Hon . Fox Maule , 31 . P . ; Fifeshire , J . Whyte Melville , of Benr . ochy , & c ; Forfarshire , Lord Panmure ; Glasgow , Henry Monteith of Carstairs ; Inverness-shire , AVilliam Rrodie of Brodie ; Lanarkshire , Middle AVardMarquis of Douglas : Upper AVardSir Norman Macdonald
Lock-, , hait , of Lee and Carnwath , Bart . ; Linlithgowshire , Honourable the Master of Torpichen ; Peebles and Selkirk shires , AA ' . F . Mackenzie , M . P . ; Perthshire , East , Lord Kinnaird and Rossie ; Perthshire , AVest , Marquis of Breadalbane ; Renfrewshire , East , Sir John Maxwell , of Pollock , Bart . ; Ross and Cromarty , Sir Evan Mackenzie , of Kilcoy , Bart . ; Stirlingshire , Lord Abercromby . Madras , Marquiss of Tweeddale , K . T . ; Western Provinces of India ,
James Burnes , K . IL , LL . D ., F . R . S ., Bombay ; AA ' est India Islands , Hon . AV . Stephenson , Grenada ; Jamaica , Rev . AV . G . P . Burton ; Canada , Sir Allan Napier Macnab ; Nova Scotia , New Brunswick , Prince Edward Island , The Hon . J . L . Starr , Halifax ; Bahama Islands , J . Cooke , Nassau , N . P . ; Bermudas , Dr . Jos . S . Hunter , Mayor of St . George ' s ; Rep . of Colombia , Senor Jose G . Nunez , Angostura ; Australia Felix , J . Hunter Ross , Melbourne ; South Australia , Allan Macfarlan of Glensloy , Adelaide .
CHARTERS GRANTED to St John ' s Operative Lodge , Rutherglen ; the Elgin Lodge of Montreal ; and the Lodge St . Clair , Edinburgh . The Faifley and Duntochor Union Lodge has been transferred from the Province of Dumbarton to the Province of Glasgow . PRINCIPAL MASONIC OCCURRENCES . —Aug . 3 , 1846 . —The Fund of Scottish Masonic Benevolence was this day established , and regulations for the management and distribution of the Fund were enacted b y the Grand Lodge . These rules have been extensively circulated among the members of the fraternity .
Nov . 30 , 1846 . —The election of Grand Officers took place to-day . The names of those elected will be found above . —The Festival of St , Andrew the Apostle , Patron Saint of Scotland , was celebrated by the Grand Lodge in the evening . His Grace the Duke of Athole , M . AV . Grand Master Mason of Scotland , presided on the occasion .
Feb . 1 , 1847 . —The Grand Lodge agreed to an interchange of representatives with the Grand Lodge of England , and authorised a commission in favour of Bro . J . Maitland , ( late Grand Clerk , ) with the rank of a Junior Grand Warden , to be expede , so soon as the Grand Lodge of England should be prepared on its part to appoint a Representative to the Grand Lodge of Scotland .
April 9 . —The foundation-stone of the Caledonian Railway Station , at the Edinburgh terminus , was laid this day by his Grace the Duke of Athole , Most AVorshipful Grand Master Mason of Scotland , with VOL . " v . II n
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Scotland.
Donald Ross and Jas . Mackie , Grand Tylers ; Bro . AA . Donaldson ( Albion Cloth Company ) , Clothier and Paraphernalia Maker to Grand Lodge . PROVINCIAL GRAND MASTERS . —Aberdeen city , Alex . Hadden , of Persley ; Argyllshire and Isles , AValter Frederick Campbell , of Islay ; Ayrshire , lt . VV . M . of the Mother Lodge , Kilwinning ; Berwickshire ,
John Campbell Renton , of Mordington ; Dumbartonshire , A . Smollett , of Bonhill , 31 . P . ; Dumfriesshire , John Babington , of Summerville ; East Lothian , Earl of Dalhousie ; Elgin and Moray , Right Hon . Fox Maule , 31 . P . ; Fifeshire , J . Whyte Melville , of Benr . ochy , & c ; Forfarshire , Lord Panmure ; Glasgow , Henry Monteith of Carstairs ; Inverness-shire , AVilliam Rrodie of Brodie ; Lanarkshire , Middle AVardMarquis of Douglas : Upper AVardSir Norman Macdonald
Lock-, , hait , of Lee and Carnwath , Bart . ; Linlithgowshire , Honourable the Master of Torpichen ; Peebles and Selkirk shires , AA ' . F . Mackenzie , M . P . ; Perthshire , East , Lord Kinnaird and Rossie ; Perthshire , AVest , Marquis of Breadalbane ; Renfrewshire , East , Sir John Maxwell , of Pollock , Bart . ; Ross and Cromarty , Sir Evan Mackenzie , of Kilcoy , Bart . ; Stirlingshire , Lord Abercromby . Madras , Marquiss of Tweeddale , K . T . ; Western Provinces of India ,
James Burnes , K . IL , LL . D ., F . R . S ., Bombay ; AA ' est India Islands , Hon . AV . Stephenson , Grenada ; Jamaica , Rev . AV . G . P . Burton ; Canada , Sir Allan Napier Macnab ; Nova Scotia , New Brunswick , Prince Edward Island , The Hon . J . L . Starr , Halifax ; Bahama Islands , J . Cooke , Nassau , N . P . ; Bermudas , Dr . Jos . S . Hunter , Mayor of St . George ' s ; Rep . of Colombia , Senor Jose G . Nunez , Angostura ; Australia Felix , J . Hunter Ross , Melbourne ; South Australia , Allan Macfarlan of Glensloy , Adelaide .
CHARTERS GRANTED to St John ' s Operative Lodge , Rutherglen ; the Elgin Lodge of Montreal ; and the Lodge St . Clair , Edinburgh . The Faifley and Duntochor Union Lodge has been transferred from the Province of Dumbarton to the Province of Glasgow . PRINCIPAL MASONIC OCCURRENCES . —Aug . 3 , 1846 . —The Fund of Scottish Masonic Benevolence was this day established , and regulations for the management and distribution of the Fund were enacted b y the Grand Lodge . These rules have been extensively circulated among the members of the fraternity .
Nov . 30 , 1846 . —The election of Grand Officers took place to-day . The names of those elected will be found above . —The Festival of St , Andrew the Apostle , Patron Saint of Scotland , was celebrated by the Grand Lodge in the evening . His Grace the Duke of Athole , M . AV . Grand Master Mason of Scotland , presided on the occasion .
Feb . 1 , 1847 . —The Grand Lodge agreed to an interchange of representatives with the Grand Lodge of England , and authorised a commission in favour of Bro . J . Maitland , ( late Grand Clerk , ) with the rank of a Junior Grand Warden , to be expede , so soon as the Grand Lodge of England should be prepared on its part to appoint a Representative to the Grand Lodge of Scotland .
April 9 . —The foundation-stone of the Caledonian Railway Station , at the Edinburgh terminus , was laid this day by his Grace the Duke of Athole , Most AVorshipful Grand Master Mason of Scotland , with VOL . " v . II n