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Committee was r ^ ad , showing . the state of the accounts from the 21 st July to the 20 th Oct ., from which it appeared that on the 21 st of July there was a balance ih hand of £ 308 6 s . id . f and tliere had been since received £ 123 ifs . & d ., making a total of £ 432 3 s . 1 O . dL The disbursenlents had been £ 81 l 3 s . 6 cZ ., leaving a balance in favour of Grand Chapter of £ 344 10 s . Ad
In conformity with the resolution of Grand Chapter , on the 4 th August , the Committee had purchased £ 20 u consols * making the amount of stock how held £ 2 , 200 . The Committee had reconsidered the subject referred back to them , relative to a gentleman exalted in the All Souls Chapter * Weymouth r who was said to have been initiated in Smyrna , under the Grand Lodge of Turkey vaiicl were still of opinion , that having no knowledge of such a body , they could not
authorize the issue of a certificate of exaltation , and recommended that it be not issued . The Committee had considered the petition of the Zetland Chapter , New South Wales , for a reduction of fees , and being of opinion that they should ^ assimi - late the practice of Grand Chapter as nearly as possible to that of Grand Lodge , recommended that in future the registration fee for Chapters in the colonies and foreign parts should be fs . 6 cZ ., but that the joining fee should be maintained at 2 s-. 6 d . The Committee further recommended that a circular letter should be
issued , enjoining Chapters to be careful in seeing that candidates for exaltation had been regularly initiated under the authority of bodies recognized by the Grand Lodge of England . After a short conversatioii the report was received and adopted . Comp * Hervey called attention to ; .-aft omission in the proceedings of the last Grand Chapter , which he now proposed to rectify . At the last Grand Chapter a
report was read from the General Committee proposing to give to private Chapters in the colonies , w here there were no Grand Superintendents , power to exalt candidates four weeks after they haol been raised as Master Masons , so as to pht them on an equality with the Irish and Scotch Chapters . That report had been received but not adopted , and therefore could not be acied lipoft . He , therefore , how wished to move that that portion of the report presented to Grand Chapter oil the 3 rd of August , to which he had alluded , be adopted .
Bro . Roxburgh submitted that the resolution could not now be brought forward , except as a substantive motion , of which regular notice must be given-r-the recommendation now standing ill the exact same position as a dropped motion . After a short conversation the M . E . Z . ruled hi accordance with the opinion of Comp . Roxburgh , and the matter was dropped , it being understood that Cbinp . Hervey would give a regular notice for the next meeting of Grand Chapter . The Chapter was then closed , the whole proceedings not occupying half an hour .
METROPOLITAN CHAPTER . Mount Sion Chapter ( No . 169 ) . —The first convocation of the season was held on Monday , Oct . 25 , at Eadley ' s Hotel , Bridge-street , Blackfriars , Comps . R . Sharpe , M . E . Z . ; J . Johnston , H . ; J . W . Long , J . ; when Bro . Goodchild , J . W ., of No . 227 , was exalted into this supreme degree . Another candidate was proponed for exaltation at the next convocation . PROVINCIAL CHAPTERS .
Blaokbubn . --Chapter o f Perseverance ( No . 135 ) . —An emergency convocation of this Chapter was held at the Old Bull Hotel , on Monday evening , Oct .- 25 th , the acting Principals being Comps . Cloughj 7 m \ Pilkington , H <; and Houlkeiv J *; assisted by Coiiips * Bell , E , ; Yates , N *; Hornby , P r * Soj . ; Butfcerfielcl and Peel , as Assist . Sojs . ; and Pearson , Janitor . The following Companions were present — Radcliffe , Backhouse , Ibbotson , Bolton / atid Cocker . The visitors were Comps . Dawsofl , P . Z „ No . 44 ; Redick , P . & , No . 436 ; Hayhurst , Jif No , 436 ; Collinson ,
P . Z ., No . 336 ; and Morley , E . No . 336 . The Chapter having been duly opened , Bros . Paterson , Parkinson , Henderson , B . Walmsley , P . Walnif-ley , ; and W . P-
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Committee was r ^ ad , showing . the state of the accounts from the 21 st July to the 20 th Oct ., from which it appeared that on the 21 st of July there was a balance ih hand of £ 308 6 s . id . f and tliere had been since received £ 123 ifs . & d ., making a total of £ 432 3 s . 1 O . dL The disbursenlents had been £ 81 l 3 s . 6 cZ ., leaving a balance in favour of Grand Chapter of £ 344 10 s . Ad
In conformity with the resolution of Grand Chapter , on the 4 th August , the Committee had purchased £ 20 u consols * making the amount of stock how held £ 2 , 200 . The Committee had reconsidered the subject referred back to them , relative to a gentleman exalted in the All Souls Chapter * Weymouth r who was said to have been initiated in Smyrna , under the Grand Lodge of Turkey vaiicl were still of opinion , that having no knowledge of such a body , they could not
authorize the issue of a certificate of exaltation , and recommended that it be not issued . The Committee had considered the petition of the Zetland Chapter , New South Wales , for a reduction of fees , and being of opinion that they should ^ assimi - late the practice of Grand Chapter as nearly as possible to that of Grand Lodge , recommended that in future the registration fee for Chapters in the colonies and foreign parts should be fs . 6 cZ ., but that the joining fee should be maintained at 2 s-. 6 d . The Committee further recommended that a circular letter should be
issued , enjoining Chapters to be careful in seeing that candidates for exaltation had been regularly initiated under the authority of bodies recognized by the Grand Lodge of England . After a short conversatioii the report was received and adopted . Comp * Hervey called attention to ; .-aft omission in the proceedings of the last Grand Chapter , which he now proposed to rectify . At the last Grand Chapter a
report was read from the General Committee proposing to give to private Chapters in the colonies , w here there were no Grand Superintendents , power to exalt candidates four weeks after they haol been raised as Master Masons , so as to pht them on an equality with the Irish and Scotch Chapters . That report had been received but not adopted , and therefore could not be acied lipoft . He , therefore , how wished to move that that portion of the report presented to Grand Chapter oil the 3 rd of August , to which he had alluded , be adopted .
Bro . Roxburgh submitted that the resolution could not now be brought forward , except as a substantive motion , of which regular notice must be given-r-the recommendation now standing ill the exact same position as a dropped motion . After a short conversation the M . E . Z . ruled hi accordance with the opinion of Comp . Roxburgh , and the matter was dropped , it being understood that Cbinp . Hervey would give a regular notice for the next meeting of Grand Chapter . The Chapter was then closed , the whole proceedings not occupying half an hour .
METROPOLITAN CHAPTER . Mount Sion Chapter ( No . 169 ) . —The first convocation of the season was held on Monday , Oct . 25 , at Eadley ' s Hotel , Bridge-street , Blackfriars , Comps . R . Sharpe , M . E . Z . ; J . Johnston , H . ; J . W . Long , J . ; when Bro . Goodchild , J . W ., of No . 227 , was exalted into this supreme degree . Another candidate was proponed for exaltation at the next convocation . PROVINCIAL CHAPTERS .
Blaokbubn . --Chapter o f Perseverance ( No . 135 ) . —An emergency convocation of this Chapter was held at the Old Bull Hotel , on Monday evening , Oct .- 25 th , the acting Principals being Comps . Cloughj 7 m \ Pilkington , H <; and Houlkeiv J *; assisted by Coiiips * Bell , E , ; Yates , N *; Hornby , P r * Soj . ; Butfcerfielcl and Peel , as Assist . Sojs . ; and Pearson , Janitor . The following Companions were present — Radcliffe , Backhouse , Ibbotson , Bolton / atid Cocker . The visitors were Comps . Dawsofl , P . Z „ No . 44 ; Redick , P . & , No . 436 ; Hayhurst , Jif No , 436 ; Collinson ,
P . Z ., No . 336 ; and Morley , E . No . 336 . The Chapter having been duly opened , Bros . Paterson , Parkinson , Henderson , B . Walmsley , P . Walnif-ley , ; and W . P-