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no business shall bo transacted at any adjourned mooting other than the business loft unfinished at tho meeting from which such adjournment took place . " Tho question referred to tho Board at tho last Grand Lodgo relating to public jjrocessions has boon under their consideration , but they defer reporting thereon for tho present . Tho Board have invited tenders for printing a fresh edition of

the Book of Constitutions , tho want of copies causing much inconvenience both at homo and abroad , and they recommend "That tho Board of General Purposes bo authorised forthwith to cause to bo printed aud published a now edition of tho Book of Constitutions , and that tho copyright of tho samo bo vested in Bro . William Gray Clarke , as Grand Secretary . "

To tho report is subjoined a statement of the Grand Lodgo accounts at the last meeting of tho Finance Committeo , hold on the 11 th February , shewing a balance in tho hands of the Grand Treasurer of £ 1 , 307 lGs . 5 d ., aud in tho hands of the Grand Secretary for potty cash £ 50 . Of these sums there belongs to tho Fund of Beuevolenco £ 2 , 159 Is , 7 d . ; to the Fund

of General Purposes £ 1 , 022 10 s . Id . ; aud there is in tho Unappropriated Account £ 57 G Is . 9 d . ( Signed ) J . LLEWELLYN EVANS , President . Freemasons' Hall , 20 th Feb ., 18 G 7 . On tho motion of Bro . Llewellyn Evans the report was taken as road , ancl afterwards received ancl ordered to be entered on

the minutes . Ho then said that there was one part of their report which tho Board felt obliged to briug under the notice of . the Grand Lodgo , and that was as to the irregularity alluded to in ono paragraph of it . They found that in the Lord Warden Lodge ( No . 1 , 006 ) , that great irregularities had been going on ; that brethren had been advanced from one degree to another within tho proscribed period , and when it at Srst came to tha knowledge of tho Board' they hoped , although they might have

committed some error , that they had not boon guilty of such great irregularity , as this was but a young lodgo , with no past Master of tho lodgo , and only one past charter belonging to it . They summoned tho Master and Wardens , but tho Master being away at tho timo ou his military duties , a member of the lodgo attended tho board aud produced tho books , when they found that thero had boon great breaches of tho law , for brethren had

been initiated on tho day following the consecration of tho lodgo . Tho further , however , thoy weut into tho investigation tho mora irregularities were found , and tho brother who attended frankly admitted thorn aud throw himself on tho part of tho lodgo on tho mercy of tho board . Now , according to Rule 8 , tho board had authority to hear and determine all complaints of a Masonic

complaint or irregularity respecting lodges , and could proceed [ to admonition , fine , or suspension , but if the case was of so flagrant a aatiu-o as to require erasure of a lodge tho board shall mako a special report thereon to tho Grand Lodge . Tho board , however , was of opiuion that tha Walmer Lodgo had undergone a punishment sufficient to act as a caution , only suspended tho lodge

until after tho meeting of Grand Lodge , and so tho matter stood when it was brought before tho Committeo of Masters , but since then a memorial had been presented from tho members of tho Lord AVarden Lodge , couched in very proper language , and promising a bettor observance of tho regulations for the future . That was not brought before tho Committeo of Masters in time ,

so thoy rocommomlod that under tho circumstances they should revert tho penalty of erasure , hut tho suspension of the lodgo should bo continued , with power to tho Board of General Purposes to remove tho same on duo submission being made . He found from tho Secretary of tho lodgo that the election of Master took place on tho lyth of the present month , and as tho Board of General Purposes did not meet until tho third Thursday in tho month it would be impossible for them to get into working

order by that time , according to tho by-laws , if tho suspension was continued . Ho woidd therefore not move a resolution , but , if Grand Lodge would permit it , that tho suspension should ceaso at tho close of that Grand Lodgo , aud that tho lodgo might bo permitted to work , especially as the petitioners have expressed a desire to work bettor for tho- future , they promising that no irregularities shoidd occur , and stating that it was thoir wish ,

and desire to adhere to tho Book of Constitutions and the regulations of Grand Lodgo . Bro . MASON , G . S . B ., said it behoved Grand Lodge to takespecial care that iu setting right this lodge that they were in order themselves . He doubted whether when a member of Grand Lodge had given notice of one motion he could

substitutea different one . He thought , however , that Grand Lodgeought strongly to express its disapproval of these irregularities for nothing brought , such discussion and . heart-burnings into a lodge as a disregard of the Book of Constitutions . He hoped on this occasion the Grand Lodge would mark its sense of the great irregularities this lodge had been guilty of , and leave

thematter in the hands of the Board of General Purposes , rather than move a new motion of which no notice had been given . Bro . LLETVELLT _* EVA 2 * S said he had moved no motion at all . The suspension of the lodge would cease as a matter of courseat the close of that Grand Lodge . Bro . SAVAGE , P . G . D ., said he thought it right that

thereshould be some substantial resolution upon this question , and although he regretted the irregularities that had taken place ,, he thought that this lodge had already been sufficientlypunished . Having had the honour of consecrating that lodge a few monthsago , he regretted the circumstances that had come to the knowledge of the Board . It was rather severe , but the Board or General Purposes had no other course to take , but he hoped now

that the suspension would be removed . After this warning no further irregularities . would be permitted from whatever cause they might have arisen , but he trusted now that the lodge would he restored to its working order . The D . G . MASTER , said it was their duty to maintain the ancient land-marks of the Craft , and to take all irregularities

into consideration . He thought the Board of General Purposes had done quite right in suspending the lodge , but now that suspension should cease . This was a young lodgo ancl Grand Lodge would look with indulgence on any inadvertance or mistake which might arise , hoping there would be an end of them . Tho suspension was then agreed to torminato with tho rising

of Grand Lodgo . Tho PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF GENERAL PURPOSES said that certain propositions stood for discussion for alterations in tho Book of Constitutions , and as many members of tho board desired further time to consider thoso propositions , ho should then defer bringing them before tha Grand Lodgo . As to ono regarding

processions , that had been referred back to tho board , as a , Yorb . il or clerical error had crept into tho resolution ; hut thoy would bo prepared to submit tho question again at tho next quarterly communication . Bro . ADLARD said if these alterations wore to stand over fertile next quarterly communication , ho -wanted to know what was

to bo done with regard to tho now edition of tho Book of Constitutions ? Bro . LLEW * ELLYN EVANS said ho should afterwards move , " That tho Board of General Purposes bo authorised forthwith to cause to bo printed and published a now edition of tho Book of Constitutions , and that tho copyright of tho samo bo vested in Bro . William Gray Clarke , as Grand Secretary . " Should tho Grand Lodgo concur in tho alterations proposed , thoy could either attach them to tho now edition , or keep the typo standing .