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Archibald Douglas , J . The minutes of the previous Quarterl y Communication were read and confirmed . Read and sustained Proxy Commission by Chapter Carlton , St . John , New Brunswick , No . 47 , in favour of Comp . W . D . MacRitchie , a regular R . A . Companion of the Edinburgh Chapter , No . 1 .

A Warrant of Constitution was agreed to be issued in favour of certain Companions of and belonging to the town of Paisley , in the western province of Scotland , empowering them to hold a Chapter there , under the name and title of "The Abbey Royal Arch Chapter of Paisley , " and to rank No . 76 on the roll of Supreme Grand Chapter . A motion , having for its object the conjoining the duties of various Officers of the Chapter , was , on a division , negatived by a majority .

The Scribes reported a communication from Comp . Wm . Ramage , of the Bon-Accord Chapter of Aberdeen , No . 70 , accompanied by an extract from the minutes of what was termed an adjourned meeting of that Chapter , held at Aberdeen on the 7 th of February last , and in terms thereof transmitting to the Supreme Chapter the charter which had been granted for the constitution of that body in

1850 . It was unanimously resolved , "That the charter now tendered be received and accepted , with an expression of regret to find that the resolutions come to by the members of the said Chapter were of a nature wholly unwarrantable , in so far as they were not only based upon a total misunderstanding of the laws of the Supreme Grand Chapter , but contained statements altogether at variance with the facts of the ease . "

It was further unanimously resolved , " That the Supreme Grand Chapter , taking into consideration the resolutions which had been passed at an adjourned meeting of the members of said suspended Chapter whilst under suspension , do suspend from all Royal Arch privileges the following members of said Chapter of BonAccord , Aberdeen , No . 70 , viz . — -James Rettie , Robert Findlay , R . S . Houston , William Ramage , Robert Beveridge , and William Molleson , movers and seconders of the resolutions passed at said meeting , in respect of their having acted in direct opposition to their engagements as Royal Arch Masons , and contrary to the laws and regulations of Supreme Grand Chapter . "

Other business , chiefly of a routine nature , referring to the ensuing election of Office-bearers , and celebration of the Vernal Equinox , having been disposed of , the Chapter was closed with all due solemnity , and the Companions separated . Aberdeen . —Bon Accord Chapter ( No . —) . —A meeting of this Chapter was held at the Masonic Hall , on Thursday , the 7 th March , at 8 " 30 P . M ., to hear a statement of the differences that had arisen between that Chapter and the Supreme Chapter of Scotland . There were present several of the members of the Bon

Accord Chapter , and a large number of the Companions of other Royal Arch Chaptersdn the Province of Aberdeen , and some few strangers , amongst whom it may not be out of place to notice E . Comp . Topp , an old Aberdonian , who , after an absence in various parts of the world for the lengthened period of forty-four years , returned to this his native place , and had the great pleasure and satisfaction of being received with acclamation by a generation that had not known him , but who were actuated by those high and ennobling sentiments which none but the duly initiated can partake of themselves or evince towards others .

The Chapter having been adjourned , not closed , at their last meeting , by reason of the suspension , the chairs were taken by Ex . Comps . James Rettie , Esq ., Prov . G . S . W . of this Province , and M . E . Z . ; Houston , II . ; and Findlay , J . ; and the proceedings of the last meeting were continued by adjournment . The M . E . Z ., in a clear and lucid statement , brought before the meeting the various facts which had conduced to tlie pending state of the Chapter , and intimated that the Companions of the Bon Accord Chapter had arrived at certain conclusions amongst themselves which they intended to adopt , but in the interim submitted their position to the Companions assembled .

Ex . Comp . Dr . Eraser was of opinion that no final resolution should be adopted , but that endeavours should be used to induce the Supreme Chapter to enter upon a consideration of the whole matters in question .