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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 7 of 10 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
At the Quarterly Communication of the 2 nd of September , 1840 , reported in the 28 th number of the Freemasons Quarterly Review , a discussion arose upon the confirmation of minutes which is singularly in point ; because both the law and the practice were specifically recognized , and the
impropriety of publishing resolutions , before confirmation , particularly alluded to , by an uncontradicted appeal to the opinion of the Grand Secretary himself . He tacitly admitted the fact , and the Grand Lodge acted accordingly We make a sufficient extract , for the purpose , from pages
481 and 482 . "Brother D . POLLOCK did not answer the question , but stated that he considered the confirmation of minutes to be merely a verification of their accuracy , and that it was not competent to any Brother to object to the propriety of any motion passed on a previous occasion . " Brother SANGSTER replied , that the P . G . R . must be ignorant of the of Grand Lodif such his inionit being perfectly well
practice ge were op , known that in Masonry it was a common practice to object to the confirmation of minutes , however accurate , when the succeeding Grancl Lodge did not coincide with the principle . The W . Brother then proceeded to argue that Brother Stevens should have been allowed to discuss the evidence on his appeal , but was stopped by the Grand Master , and Brother Sangster concluded by moving his amendment . Brother in seconding the amendmentstated his surprise
" STEVENS , , that the legal Brethren should be so little conversant with Masonic law . In the Book of Constitutions it was expressly declared that no new law should come into operation until it had been duly passed in one Grand Lodge and confirmed in another . " The GRAND MASTER . —The Brother is out of order . We are not discussing any new law , but whether the minutes shall or shall not be confirmed
. " Brother STEVENS respectfully submitted that any new law passed for the first time must be embodied in the minutes , and that therefore their confirmation or non-confirmation involved the whole question . But he was prepared , as the M . W . Grand Master seemed to desire it , to pass from the question as one of law , and would consider it as one of practice . All who were present knew what the practice was ; and he would illustrate it ba singular le . The Grand Lodsome few
y very examp ge , years since , passed a resolution , unanimously recommending the Asylum for Worthy Aged and Decayed Freemasons to the favourable consideration of the Craft . When , however , the proceedings of that day were published , this resolution was omitted ; upon which the worthy Treasurer of that charity called on the Grand Secretary ( who could at the moment correct the statement if it were incorreet ) to have the reason of this
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
At the Quarterly Communication of the 2 nd of September , 1840 , reported in the 28 th number of the Freemasons Quarterly Review , a discussion arose upon the confirmation of minutes which is singularly in point ; because both the law and the practice were specifically recognized , and the
impropriety of publishing resolutions , before confirmation , particularly alluded to , by an uncontradicted appeal to the opinion of the Grand Secretary himself . He tacitly admitted the fact , and the Grand Lodge acted accordingly We make a sufficient extract , for the purpose , from pages
481 and 482 . "Brother D . POLLOCK did not answer the question , but stated that he considered the confirmation of minutes to be merely a verification of their accuracy , and that it was not competent to any Brother to object to the propriety of any motion passed on a previous occasion . " Brother SANGSTER replied , that the P . G . R . must be ignorant of the of Grand Lodif such his inionit being perfectly well
practice ge were op , known that in Masonry it was a common practice to object to the confirmation of minutes , however accurate , when the succeeding Grancl Lodge did not coincide with the principle . The W . Brother then proceeded to argue that Brother Stevens should have been allowed to discuss the evidence on his appeal , but was stopped by the Grand Master , and Brother Sangster concluded by moving his amendment . Brother in seconding the amendmentstated his surprise
" STEVENS , , that the legal Brethren should be so little conversant with Masonic law . In the Book of Constitutions it was expressly declared that no new law should come into operation until it had been duly passed in one Grand Lodge and confirmed in another . " The GRAND MASTER . —The Brother is out of order . We are not discussing any new law , but whether the minutes shall or shall not be confirmed
. " Brother STEVENS respectfully submitted that any new law passed for the first time must be embodied in the minutes , and that therefore their confirmation or non-confirmation involved the whole question . But he was prepared , as the M . W . Grand Master seemed to desire it , to pass from the question as one of law , and would consider it as one of practice . All who were present knew what the practice was ; and he would illustrate it ba singular le . The Grand Lodsome few
y very examp ge , years since , passed a resolution , unanimously recommending the Asylum for Worthy Aged and Decayed Freemasons to the favourable consideration of the Craft . When , however , the proceedings of that day were published , this resolution was omitted ; upon which the worthy Treasurer of that charity called on the Grand Secretary ( who could at the moment correct the statement if it were incorreet ) to have the reason of this