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He said that as the object of the Institution vvas the admission of female children whose parents had been reduced by misfortune , he believed it vvas common ground to them all that anything which would tend to have in the Institution only such children who vvere the daughters of necessitous brethren , would be a great boon . At the present moment the practice was that the whole petitions came before the General Committee . The Secretary ' s

duties were confined to receiving all the petitions , and the various requirements were in order . When the petitions came before the General Committee there was no one there who had had an opportunity sufficiently of examining them so as to satisfy himself that the case vvas not an improper one . The Committee which he proposed vvould have full information . A B ROTHER having seconded the motion ,

Bro . J . S . CUMBERLAND thought they were going the wrong way about . They were by this motion defining the duties of the Petitions Committee before appointing a Petitions Committee . The proper way to go about it vvas to move first that such a Committee of Petitions be appointed , and then so many brethren shall serve on it . If Bro . Morley put it that way he vvould sympathise with him in his view .

Bro . MORLEY thought Bro . Cumberland had misunderstood him . His motion said "From the General Committee , five or seven Life Governors , being Freemasons , shall be elected annually to act as a Petitions Committee . "

A BROTHER asked what precautions had hitherto been taken to be certain that the petitions placed before the General Committee were deserving of the benefits of this Institution . There was one case wholly unworthy of support in the list for that day , and it had been withdrawn , but not by the Committee , " ex proprio motu . "

Bro . J AMES BRETT ( London ) , P . G . P ., enquired whether the brother was in order in mentioning names . The BROTHER said the question vvas whether enquiries vvere made by the Committee before placing a child ' s name on the list . In the case he vvas

alluding to certainly it could not have been done or the child vvould not have been placed on the list . He might say he belonged to several Institutions besides the Masonic Charities , and every case brought before those Institutions was thoroughly investigated before the Committee before it was admitted to the list .

The CHAIRMAN informed the brother that the General Committee met on the last Thursday of every month , and investigated every case . The BROTHER said he never heard of the Committee ; he had no notice of its meetings . ( " Order , order . " ) The CHAIRMAN added that the brother was going into a question that

ought to be brought before the General Committee . The present meeting vvas a Quarterly Court , which delegated to the General Committee that had just been re-elected certain duties , and if the brother was now going to bring before this Quarterly Court a case which ought to be brought before the General Committee he should rule him out of order .

Bro . W . H . SPAULL ( Shropshire ) said the case vvas not on the list ; it had been withdrawn by the mother . Bro . J . H . MATTHEWS ( London ) said no doubt the brother was a member of the General Committee . The BROTHER said the General Committee was , so far , a close body . He had been a Life-Governor for years , and he had not been on the General Committee .

The CHAIRMAN remarked that the General Committee was not a close body . Every Life-Governor had a right to attend its meetings , which vvere on the last Thursday of every month . The BROTHER enquired what notice was given of it . The CHAIRMAN : It meets on the last Thursday in the month at 4

0 clock in the Board Room , Freemasons' Hall . The BROTHER : I have no knowledge of it . Bro . J AMES STEVENS ( London ); It is in the Calendar . The BROTHER was endeavouring to speak , when there were loud cries of " Order , " but he said ; If the Chairman says I am out of order , I will sit down .

The CHAIRMAN : I rule you out of order . Bro . J . S . CUMBERLAND then proceeded to point out that the motion of Bro . Morley was not in proper form , and that there ought to be a motion first that there be a Petitions Committee .

Bro . W . H . SPAULL , however , pointed out that the motion vvas perfectly regular— " That the recommendation of the General Committee be adopted "—and in that recommendation there vvas the proposition— " From the General Committee , five or seven Lite-Governors , being Freemasons , shall be elected annually to act as a Petitions Committee . "

Bro . MORLEY said that vvas so ; he was quite in order . AU the other portions were only matters of detail , and he should move the whole en bloc . Bro . CUMBERLAND , who was met with loud cries of "Order" and "Time , " said he supported the motion for the reason that the General Committee had not time to go into all the cases thoroughly , and this Petitions Committee vvould be a God-send to them .

The motion was then put and carried , and the Scrutineers of votes for the election were appointed . Bro . RUSSELL ( Kent ) said before the business of the Court terminated ne wanted to draw attention to a circumstance which very vitally affected this Institution . In the reading of the minutes of the General Committee ° y the Secretary , he noticed that some very large transactions had been taking place with the Institution ' s invested funds , and he observed that very great skill had been shown in the management of those invested funds , and that great success had been achieved and a very large sum of money had been saved to the Instituton . He thought , therefore , that the brethren should not allow the present opportunity to pass without some recognition of the very valuable services that had been rendered in the conversion of the funds under the scheme of the Chancellor of the Exchequer . He vvould )* ke to know whether any brother vvas entitled to their thanks for this , because if so he should like to include the brother who inspired the action ot the Committee . ( Hear , hear , and cries of " Bro . Fenn . " ) . About £ 1000 nad been saved to the Institution . This was a very important matter and ne did not think this service should pass without recognition . ( Hear , hear . ) t a brother had caused a loss of less amount it would have created great Qissatiifaction ; but now the General Committee and Bro . Fenn , through ^ eir skilful management , acting under Bro . Fenn's advice , had saved a ar ge sum of money to the Institution , and the least that could be done vvas th ° r a VOte ° ^ t ' ' t 0 them . He begged to move a vote of thanks to ^ ne General Committee for acting on the advice of Bro . Fenn in the conersion of the Consols of the Institution , and to Bro . Fenn for giving the The motion was seconded and carried , and the brethren then proceeded

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to elect 37 out of an approved list of 73 girls into the Institution . At the declaration of the poll the following was found to be the result :

SUCCESSFUL . Name Votes . Name . Votes . Ruby Rosetta "Webster 3434 Olive Lano Greenwood S 59 Adelaide Howett Jane Harling ... 3009 Fanny Gertrude Williams ^ 49 Laura Amelia Thaw 2732 Margaret Ellen May Roberts ... 183 S Jessie Henrietta Codling 2731 Olga Katinka Tettenborn 1 S 22 Hilda Maud Liverd 2467 Alice Taverner 1819 Florence Charlotte Hemmings ... 2323 Mary Ponsford Gould ... " . 1771 Bertha Elizabeth Venables 2319 Edith Jane Cooper ... 1767 Leonie Rosamond Lee 229 S Beatrice Emma Turner ... ... 1722 Henrietta Ada Staff 2289 Annie Elizabeth Alice Sumner ... 16 S 9 Amy Florence Gorton 2195 Priscilla Minnie Swaebe 1670 Eliza Pether 2112 Mabel Elizabeth Bruce 16 78 Georgina Balch 2099 Muriel Agnes Smith i 665 Mabel Alice Cookes 2035 Edith Lilian Jones 1622 Mary Maud Swan Schofield ... 202 S Lena Sybil Kassell ... I 6 I <; Edith Winterbottom 2009 Ethel Hilda Hall ... ' "' 1 G 06 Hilda Collard 2008 Ethel Michael 1502 Ivy Grace Towse 1934 Anita Mary Thorne 1579 Fanny Clark Campbell 1910 Ellen Eliza Young ... i ? S 7 Lilian May Astington ... ... 1 S 67

UNSUCCESSFUL . Name . Votes . Name . Votes . Dorothy Janet Wood 1521 Harriet Fitzwater 19 G Mary Maud Watson 1 503 Agnes Le Gros 149 Eleanor Faith Groombridge ... 1481 Jane Routledge Wilkinson 134 Ruby Blanch Loetchen Butcher ... 1451 Mary Glover Wood 106 Alice Winifred Bingham 1449 Elizabeth Lamplough 78 Nellie Burgess 1355 Emily Frances Griffiths 47 Mabel Ann Bohli 1281 Ada Haylett 4 6 Ethel Sylvia Mountain 1214 Frances Emma Hooke 32 Alice Louise McCue 1175 Beatrice Cochrane 31 Ethel Mansfield Boyd 1161 Edith Fanny Hattie Cullis 29 Isabel Mildred Tomlinson Lane ... 1138 Bertha Johnston 28 Alberta Dale 914 Mary Gwendoline Robson 20 Florence Ethel G . Dixon 522 Annie Lydia Blackler 19 Helen Maud England 394 Ellen Eveline May 17 Mary Ellen Morris 372 Alice Katie Beatrice Prout 10 Ethel Mary Poore 370 Mary Beatrice Woodroffe Scholes ... 8 Eveleen Margaret Mary Whitefoord 23 S Jane Troop 5 Annie Wilson 201 Dorothy Parnell Anthony 4 Votes of thanks to the Scrutineers and the Chairman of the day closed the proceedings .

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THE REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMISSION . The Quarterly Court of the Subscribers to the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys was held on Friday , the 26 th ult ., at Freemasons' Tavern , Great Queen-street ; Bro . Henry Smith , D . P . G . M . for West Yorkshire , in the chair . There was a large attendance of the brethren , who vvere mainly attracted by the knowledge that the Report of the Special Commission to enquire into the management , discipline , and expenditure of the School vvould be presented .

•, Bro . George Plucknett vvas re-elected Treasurer , and the General Committee was re-elected . In the absence of Bro . A . F . Godson , M . P ., Bro . ROEBUCK , on behalf of the House Committee , moved that three additional boys be elected . Bro . H . VENN seconded the motion , which was agreed to . Bro . PHILBRICK , Q . C , G . Reg ., then said : On behalf of the Committee appointed under the resolution of last July to enquire into the

management , discipline , and expenditure of the Institution , and to report to this Court at a subsequent meeting , I beg to hand to the Court the unanimous report of the Committee acting under that resolution . It has been necessary for signing it to put it into print , and I have to state that the type will remain set until to-morrow , in order that if this Court like to order copies for its information they may be obtained without the expense and delay of re-composing by the printer . ( Hear , hear . )

The learned gentleman then handed a copy of the report , officially sealed in an envelope , to the CHAIRMAN , who , breaking the seal , said : I apprehend I must have a resolution to receive this report , and , if necessary , it can be read . Bro . J OSEPH STORY ( London ) said : Would not the most practical way be to move a resolution that the report be received , printed , and circulated

among the Governors i ( Hear , hear . ) If so , I shall have pleasure in moving it , for I think this is a matter which should be placed before every sub » scriber to this Institution . ( Applause . ) Bro . A . E . GLADWELL ( London ) seconded the motion . The CHAIRMAN : It is rather a lengthy report . [ The document occupied 48 pages in print . ] Bro . B INCKES , Secretary , suggested that there should first of all be a

motion simply that the report be received . The CHAIRMAN : Yes . It has been moved and seconded that the report be received . This motion was unanimously adopted . Bro . BINCKES * . Now it has become the property of the Institution , and the brethren can do as they like . Bro . STORY : I will now move that the report be printed and circulated .

Bro . RUSSELL ( London ) seconded the motion . Bro . BINCKES : There are over 4000 Governors . Is it to be understood that the report is to be sent round at the expense of the Institution to every qualified member of the Court ? Bro . GLADWELL : No . I vvould make a suggestion . It is a large

expenditure , and a very large number of the reports might be treated as waste paper , and not receive the consideration vve desire . I will , therefore , move that the reports be issued to all those who want them at a cost not exceeding one shilling each . ( Laughter , and cries of "Oh , " and "Certainly not . " )

Bro . PHILBRICK : I may mention that only the proof copies for signature and a copy for each member of the Committee have been taken as proofs . I am informed that the cost of printing the reports will be between £ 10 and ; £ i 2 per thousand . If paper not quite so good as this be used the charge will be about ^ 10 per thousand ; but it was necessary for us to have thicker paper as we had to write our signatures upon it . Bro . S TORY : When I proposed my resolution I did not think it worth while to occupy the time of the Court , because I thought such a proposition