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The Week.
the Avorks had boon commenced , ancl it AIMS expected the whole would he completed in four years . The money ( three millions ) had been lent by the Bank at "h per cent .
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NOTICES . Tun Brethren and others are requested to notice , that George AV . Bower has no connection Aviththe Freemasons' Magazine ; and all persons are cautioned against ( laying him anything on our account . Advertisers ivill oblige by forwarding their favours at tho latest by 12 o ' clock ou Alonday morning ,
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
" AV C . B . " —A brother ivho was raised to the third degree , on the 25 th Alarch last , may he exalted on the 2 Jth inst , tivelve " lunar" months having intervened between the raising aud exaltation . The full moon in March last ii'as on the 29 th . This year it "will be on the 18 th . DR . CULLEX ' LENTEN PASTORAL . —AVe shall take an early opportunity ol referring to the archbishop ' s strictures upon Freemasonry .
" A BROTHER . " —AVe do not ICIIOAV the ruling initiation fee " throughout the United States , " but we do know that in some portions of the Union it is a less number of dollars than ivo charge pounds . Heiice the universality of Freemasonry in America . "PADDY FROM CORK . "—The Constitutions of tho Grand Lodge of Ireland state that "Every AIaster and AVarden at his first attendance at Grand Lodge shall , if
called upon , undergo such examination as the presiding officer may appoint , ancl if not found duly qualified , shall not then be received as a member of the Grand Lodge . " AVe do not knoiv IIOAV often this rule is acted upon by our brethren across the channel , but most assuredly ivere it introduced nearer home and regularly onforced , it would conduce to the advantage of the Order . AIASOXRV AND THE POST Ol- ' FICK . —The Post Office authorities at Liverpool
must be in rather an unenlightened state , for a letter addressed R . AV . LoGeudi-o X . Starkie ( the Prov . Grand Aiaster ) , Alasonic Temple , Liverpool , was returned lately to the brother ivho Avrote it , AA'ith the endorsement < : Insufficient address . " Liverpool , Alarch 5 th . " INQUIRER . "—The law referred to will be found at page 57 of the Book of Constitutions , in these words , "Xo brother shall be Aiaster of more than one Lodge
at the same time , AA'ithout a dispensation from the Grand Aiaster . " The reason ivhy you did nofc find ifc in the Book of Constitutions bearing date 1 S 47 is , that tho buy AA'as not enacted until Xovember of that year , ivhen a special Grand Lodge was held , the minutes of ivhich were confirmed in December , Avhilst an edition of the Book of Constitutions AIMS published in the early part of the year . "A COLOURED BROTHER" had better remain in England . He ivill find but little support from the brethren of America , if Ave are to judge from the tone of their Alasonic publications regarding negro brethren .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Week.
the Avorks had boon commenced , ancl it AIMS expected the whole would he completed in four years . The money ( three millions ) had been lent by the Bank at "h per cent .
Ar04801
NOTICES . Tun Brethren and others are requested to notice , that George AV . Bower has no connection Aviththe Freemasons' Magazine ; and all persons are cautioned against ( laying him anything on our account . Advertisers ivill oblige by forwarding their favours at tho latest by 12 o ' clock ou Alonday morning ,
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
" AV C . B . " —A brother ivho was raised to the third degree , on the 25 th Alarch last , may he exalted on the 2 Jth inst , tivelve " lunar" months having intervened between the raising aud exaltation . The full moon in March last ii'as on the 29 th . This year it "will be on the 18 th . DR . CULLEX ' LENTEN PASTORAL . —AVe shall take an early opportunity ol referring to the archbishop ' s strictures upon Freemasonry .
" A BROTHER . " —AVe do not ICIIOAV the ruling initiation fee " throughout the United States , " but we do know that in some portions of the Union it is a less number of dollars than ivo charge pounds . Heiice the universality of Freemasonry in America . "PADDY FROM CORK . "—The Constitutions of tho Grand Lodge of Ireland state that "Every AIaster and AVarden at his first attendance at Grand Lodge shall , if
called upon , undergo such examination as the presiding officer may appoint , ancl if not found duly qualified , shall not then be received as a member of the Grand Lodge . " AVe do not knoiv IIOAV often this rule is acted upon by our brethren across the channel , but most assuredly ivere it introduced nearer home and regularly onforced , it would conduce to the advantage of the Order . AIASOXRV AND THE POST Ol- ' FICK . —The Post Office authorities at Liverpool
must be in rather an unenlightened state , for a letter addressed R . AV . LoGeudi-o X . Starkie ( the Prov . Grand Aiaster ) , Alasonic Temple , Liverpool , was returned lately to the brother ivho Avrote it , AA'ith the endorsement < : Insufficient address . " Liverpool , Alarch 5 th . " INQUIRER . "—The law referred to will be found at page 57 of the Book of Constitutions , in these words , "Xo brother shall be Aiaster of more than one Lodge
at the same time , AA'ithout a dispensation from the Grand Aiaster . " The reason ivhy you did nofc find ifc in the Book of Constitutions bearing date 1 S 47 is , that tho buy AA'as not enacted until Xovember of that year , ivhen a special Grand Lodge was held , the minutes of ivhich were confirmed in December , Avhilst an edition of the Book of Constitutions AIMS published in the early part of the year . "A COLOURED BROTHER" had better remain in England . He ivill find but little support from the brethren of America , if Ave are to judge from the tone of their Alasonic publications regarding negro brethren .