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Grand Lodge.

These were plain and intelligible grounds on ivhich to base tho resolution , and such as ive had foreseen must at some time be brought before Grand Lodge ; as wiil be proved by a reference to our number of June 23 rd , 1858 , where , after expressing our concurrence iu the increase of salary granted to Bro . Farnfield ( though as a rule we disapproved of Grand Lodge taking the details of financial

arrangements into its own hands ) Ave wrote : —• ¦ One thing is HOAV clear , the Board of General Purposes must reconsider the Avhole question of remuneration in the Grand Secretary ' s office ; for it certainly will be a most curious anomaly for the superior officer to be paid less , or even as little as his assistant Should the Grand Secretary ' s salary be raised , another question Avill arise—one ivhich cannot be passed over in

silence . Three Officers will havo had their salaries raised ; the fourth may fairly ask are not his claims to be considered also 1 " In the words we have italicised lay the whole gist of the questionand not only did we then prepare the brethren for the early consideration ofthe question of Thursday last , but it is clear from the speech ivhich Bro . Whitmore made at the Special Grand Lodgeon June

, 16 th , 18-58 , in moving tho addition to Bra Farnfield ' s- salary , that ho also foresaw , if his motion ivas carried , that of Thursday last ivould folloAV as a natural sequence—for ho then said , in explaining the reasons Avhich might be urged against tho vote ,

" One ivas , that should they agree to the vote , " the Assistant Secretary ' s salary ivould be greater than that of the Secretary ; but the question they had to consider ivas . not how much the Secretary received , but what the Assistant Secretary deserved . " On the motion for increasing the Grand Secretary ' s salary on Thursday last being put , Bro . Stebbing opposed it on the ground that

the Grand Secretary had been but recently appointed ; that the late Grand Secretary and the present Assistant Grand Secretary did not get their salaries increased until after having been many years in office , and then not in consequence of increased duties , but for many years of continued and zealous services . But what said Bro , Whitmore upon this point last year ?

" It ivould be ivell to consider what had been the past and ivhat were the present duties of Bro . Farnfield . He held in his hands a table which showed that within the last twelve years tho business of Grand Lodge , in the mere registration of those AVIIO joined either particular Lodges or Masonry in general , had increased threefold , and there ivas , of course , a corrcspondm" - increase in the accounts of Grand Lodge ; and although Bro . Farnfield had for many years kept the cashbookno one could ei'er say that he had kept

, a farthing ofthe cash . Another circumstance , ivhich had tended to increase the business of the Grand Secretary ' s office , ivas the interest in Masonic affairs ivhich the Freemasons' Magazine had created among the Brethren generally and which had led to a vast deal of correspondence between the country and colonial Lodges and the Grand Lodge . "

It is true that he added thafc ifc ivas not so much for the present as for the past services of Bro . Farnfield that he asked for the increase 4 E 3

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TO OUR READERS. Article 1
GRAND LODGE. Article 1
SECRET SOCIETIES OF THE MIDDLE AGES.—V. Article 9
THE NIGHTINGALE. Article 17
CORRESPONDENCE. Article 18
THE MASONIC MIRROR. Article 22
PROVINCIAL. Article 35
ROYAL ARCH. Article 42
SCOTLAND. Article 43
THE WEEK. Article 43
NOTICES. Article 47
TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 47
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Grand Lodge.

These were plain and intelligible grounds on ivhich to base tho resolution , and such as ive had foreseen must at some time be brought before Grand Lodge ; as wiil be proved by a reference to our number of June 23 rd , 1858 , where , after expressing our concurrence iu the increase of salary granted to Bro . Farnfield ( though as a rule we disapproved of Grand Lodge taking the details of financial

arrangements into its own hands ) Ave wrote : —• ¦ One thing is HOAV clear , the Board of General Purposes must reconsider the Avhole question of remuneration in the Grand Secretary ' s office ; for it certainly will be a most curious anomaly for the superior officer to be paid less , or even as little as his assistant Should the Grand Secretary ' s salary be raised , another question Avill arise—one ivhich cannot be passed over in

silence . Three Officers will havo had their salaries raised ; the fourth may fairly ask are not his claims to be considered also 1 " In the words we have italicised lay the whole gist of the questionand not only did we then prepare the brethren for the early consideration ofthe question of Thursday last , but it is clear from the speech ivhich Bro . Whitmore made at the Special Grand Lodgeon June

, 16 th , 18-58 , in moving tho addition to Bra Farnfield ' s- salary , that ho also foresaw , if his motion ivas carried , that of Thursday last ivould folloAV as a natural sequence—for ho then said , in explaining the reasons Avhich might be urged against tho vote ,

" One ivas , that should they agree to the vote , " the Assistant Secretary ' s salary ivould be greater than that of the Secretary ; but the question they had to consider ivas . not how much the Secretary received , but what the Assistant Secretary deserved . " On the motion for increasing the Grand Secretary ' s salary on Thursday last being put , Bro . Stebbing opposed it on the ground that

the Grand Secretary had been but recently appointed ; that the late Grand Secretary and the present Assistant Grand Secretary did not get their salaries increased until after having been many years in office , and then not in consequence of increased duties , but for many years of continued and zealous services . But what said Bro , Whitmore upon this point last year ?

" It ivould be ivell to consider what had been the past and ivhat were the present duties of Bro . Farnfield . He held in his hands a table which showed that within the last twelve years tho business of Grand Lodge , in the mere registration of those AVIIO joined either particular Lodges or Masonry in general , had increased threefold , and there ivas , of course , a corrcspondm" - increase in the accounts of Grand Lodge ; and although Bro . Farnfield had for many years kept the cashbookno one could ei'er say that he had kept

, a farthing ofthe cash . Another circumstance , ivhich had tended to increase the business of the Grand Secretary ' s office , ivas the interest in Masonic affairs ivhich the Freemasons' Magazine had created among the Brethren generally and which had led to a vast deal of correspondence between the country and colonial Lodges and the Grand Lodge . "

It is true that he added thafc ifc ivas not so much for the present as for the past services of Bro . Farnfield that he asked for the increase 4 E 3

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