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The Charities.
" To alter the existing mode of distributing the ' Fund of Masonic Benevolence , ' and to propose , instead thereof , a resolution affirming' THAT IT IS JUST AND EXPEDIENT THAT THREE-FOURTHS OF THE AVAILABLE FUNDS OF THE GRAND LODGE BE DISTRIBUTED ON THE ANNUITY PRINCIPLE TO POOR AND DESERVING MASONS , AND THEIR WIDOWS ; AND THE REMAINDER APPLIED TO SUCH INDIVIDUAL CASES OF EMERGENCY AS MAY REQUIRE PARTICULAR RELIEF . '
" If the Grand Lodge should affirm the foregoing resolution , the M . W . G . Master will be respectfully solicited to point out the best mode of carrying into effect the practical operation of the principle adopted . " GIRLS' SCHOOL , Oct . 10 . —The Minutes ofthe various Committees were read , and confirmed . Brother W . Harvey was appointed one of the medical attendants ; and Mr . Alexander , jun ., oculist to the institution .
A legacy was announced from the late Brother Woodyer , butler to the Earl of Clare . Bro . Baumer moved to alter back the hour of meeting in General Committee , from the hour of three to one o ' clock . Carried by a majority of one . Seven children were elected into the School , without ballot—viz . Matilda M . C- Robinson , T . R . Rackstraw , Olivia M . C . Thomas , Emma Piper , S . Walton , M . Smeatham , A . Stephens . The last four are children from the provinces .
BOYS SCHOOL . —No news is good news . A ballot will take place on the 13 th Jan . 1840 , for the admission of five children . There are ten candidates .
Asylum For The Worthy Aged And Decayed Freemason.
ASYLUM FOR THE WORTHY AGED AND DECAYED FREEMASON .
It may be doubtful whether we ought , in the slightest manner , to advert to the circulation , at theGeneral Meeting of tlie 13 th November , of a slanderous libel , signed * * * inasmuch as cowardice and malice are among the crimes known as DETESTABLE . We shall avoid publishing the wretched libel itself . The Lodge , the name and number of which is appended to the libel , will no doubt assert its honor , as a public duty . Being among those who practice loyaltyarising from a
con-, viction that good principles alone can support any society that is based upon honor and honesty , we feel disgust at the hardihood which has thus attempted to degrade the high character of His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex , our Most Worshipful Grand Master ; and , had not the Meeting attested its character , and passed judgment—certainly , fattoo leniently—measures would have been taken to prevent the libeller from ever again disgracing the Order . The Brethren whom en masse
he has calumniated , can take their own part , and the libeller may be safel y left to their mode of treatment ; but we sincerely express our deep regret , that the first , and the noblest ofthe Craft , must endure so unmerited an infliction , and from a quarter so wretchedly ignoble . At a Quarterly General Meeting of the Governors and Subscribers to this Institution , held at Radley ' s Hotel , Bridge Street , Blackfriars , ( specially summoned ) on Wednesday , the 9 th of October , 1839 ,
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The Charities.
" To alter the existing mode of distributing the ' Fund of Masonic Benevolence , ' and to propose , instead thereof , a resolution affirming' THAT IT IS JUST AND EXPEDIENT THAT THREE-FOURTHS OF THE AVAILABLE FUNDS OF THE GRAND LODGE BE DISTRIBUTED ON THE ANNUITY PRINCIPLE TO POOR AND DESERVING MASONS , AND THEIR WIDOWS ; AND THE REMAINDER APPLIED TO SUCH INDIVIDUAL CASES OF EMERGENCY AS MAY REQUIRE PARTICULAR RELIEF . '
" If the Grand Lodge should affirm the foregoing resolution , the M . W . G . Master will be respectfully solicited to point out the best mode of carrying into effect the practical operation of the principle adopted . " GIRLS' SCHOOL , Oct . 10 . —The Minutes ofthe various Committees were read , and confirmed . Brother W . Harvey was appointed one of the medical attendants ; and Mr . Alexander , jun ., oculist to the institution .
A legacy was announced from the late Brother Woodyer , butler to the Earl of Clare . Bro . Baumer moved to alter back the hour of meeting in General Committee , from the hour of three to one o ' clock . Carried by a majority of one . Seven children were elected into the School , without ballot—viz . Matilda M . C- Robinson , T . R . Rackstraw , Olivia M . C . Thomas , Emma Piper , S . Walton , M . Smeatham , A . Stephens . The last four are children from the provinces .
BOYS SCHOOL . —No news is good news . A ballot will take place on the 13 th Jan . 1840 , for the admission of five children . There are ten candidates .
Asylum For The Worthy Aged And Decayed Freemason.
ASYLUM FOR THE WORTHY AGED AND DECAYED FREEMASON .
It may be doubtful whether we ought , in the slightest manner , to advert to the circulation , at theGeneral Meeting of tlie 13 th November , of a slanderous libel , signed * * * inasmuch as cowardice and malice are among the crimes known as DETESTABLE . We shall avoid publishing the wretched libel itself . The Lodge , the name and number of which is appended to the libel , will no doubt assert its honor , as a public duty . Being among those who practice loyaltyarising from a
con-, viction that good principles alone can support any society that is based upon honor and honesty , we feel disgust at the hardihood which has thus attempted to degrade the high character of His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex , our Most Worshipful Grand Master ; and , had not the Meeting attested its character , and passed judgment—certainly , fattoo leniently—measures would have been taken to prevent the libeller from ever again disgracing the Order . The Brethren whom en masse
he has calumniated , can take their own part , and the libeller may be safel y left to their mode of treatment ; but we sincerely express our deep regret , that the first , and the noblest ofthe Craft , must endure so unmerited an infliction , and from a quarter so wretchedly ignoble . At a Quarterly General Meeting of the Governors and Subscribers to this Institution , held at Radley ' s Hotel , Bridge Street , Blackfriars , ( specially summoned ) on Wednesday , the 9 th of October , 1839 ,