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the W . Master and Officers of the Loge La Tolerance , No . 784 , London , attended to answer a complaint preferred against them by a Brother , for excluding him . The Board , having investigated the case , and finding that no written notice of the complaint had been < nven to the Brother—resolved that the exclusion by the Loge La Tolerance of the Brother on the 2 nd of June , 1857 , was informal , by reason of his not having previously had due notice of the complaint made against him and the time appointed for its consideration . It was farther resolved that the resignation of the said Brother not

having been accepted , he still remains a member ; awd the Loge La Tolerance may proceed to receive his resignation , or act otherwise as they may deem proper . " The Board have to report , that it having been represented to this Board , that Brethren are in the habit of attending G . L . wearing jewels not recognised by the G . L ., the Grand Pursuivant be advised to see that the law be carried into effect . " The Board subjoin a statement of Income and Expenditure for

the last quarter . Fund of Benevolence . £ s . d . Balance in the hands of the Treasurer July 1 st 799 4 8 Subscriptions since received 411 1 S Total 1210 6 4 Deduct expenditure , including the purchase of £ 500 Consols .. 516 2 0 Balance 004 3 10

General Fund . Balance in the hands of the Treasurer July 1 st 1344 4 5 Subscriptions since received 602 14 8 Total 1 S 4 G 19 1 Deduct expenditure , including the purchase of £ 1000 Consols .. 100 S 4 5 Balance 738 14 8 Money received % rithout any direction as to how it should be

appropriated ; 474 6 0 Total balances 1213 0 8 In the hands of the Grand Treasurer 1 S 57 4 0 In the hands of the Grand Secretary for petty cash .. .. 50 0 0

Total 1907 4 0 " Since the last Quarterly Communication , £ 500 have been invested to the credit of the Benevolent Fund , making' the total investments of that Fund £ 17 , 500 ; and £ 1000 have been invested to the credit of the General Fund , making the total sum so invested £ 7 , 500 . " V . W . Bro . HENDERSON , G . R ., moved the adoption of the Report , which was duly seconded .

The W . M . of Loge La Tolerance , No . 784 , wished to explain the conduct of the Lodge in the matter mentioned in the Report . He considered that the Brother , who complained of having been excluded , had had sufficient notice of the intention of the Lodge to keep him out , although no written notice had been forwarded to him ; the fact being that both the W . M . and the J . W . of the Lodge had waited on him , and personally informed him of what was going to be done . W . Bro . HERVEY , P . G . D ., said the Board did not wish to throw

any slur upon Loge La Tolerance , but merely intimated that a sufficient notice had not been given to the excluded Brother ; the Book of Constitutions requiring that such notice should be in writing . The Board in fact placed the Lodge and the complaining Brother in the same position as they had been in before the exclusion took place , leaving them to proceed in the matter regularly , but ventured no opinion as to who was right and who was wrong . The Report was then adopted . COLONIAL BOARD .

The G . SECRETARY then read the Report of the Colonial Board as follows : — " To the United Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of England . " The Colonial Board begs to report , that they have printed the papers referred to them in June , together with their reply to the memorial from the Provincial Grand Lodge of Canada West . " Grand Lodge will perceive that the privileges and powers of

selfgovernment , proposed to be conceded to the said Provincial Grand Lodge , appear unlikely to meet , the present requirements of that bod y- *** . # »

" This is the more to be regretted , since it is admitted on all sides that , had these concessions been made at an earlier period , they might have been amply sufficient to satisfy the demands of the Canadian Masons "It appears , however , that—owing to the rapidly increasing power and influence of the irregular G . L ., as well as from other internal causes—the P . G . L . has been placed in a position of considerable difficulty and disadvantage , while the harmony of the Craft has been greatly imperilled .

" Having regard therefore to the many unhappy circumstances connected with the present state of disunion in Canada , it appears to be the duty of G . L . to spare no effort to restore that province to a condition of Masonic . efficiency , union , and harmony . " The steps , that may now be necessary for the attainment of this most desirable consummation , will doubtless in due course be pointed out by the Prov . G . L . " No official information however having as j'et reached England of the course proposed to be adopted by the Prov , G . L ., nor any

answer having been received to the last communication from Grand Lodge , it only remains for Grand Lodge to delay all further action till such communication shall have arrived . " The Board has received and replied to communications from Lodges in Victoria , Australasia ; St . Thomas , West Indies ; Trinidad ; and Jamaica ; relative to various points of Masonic discipline . " The Board have further to report that an appeal has been received from the W . M . of Lodge , No . 781 , against the suspension of that Lodge by the Prov . G . M . of Tasmania ; and the Board

recommend that such suspension be confirmed . " In the absence of Bro . Burlton , the President ; and Bro . Beach , Chairman of the dav ; ( Signed ) JOHN HERVEY , V . P . "Freemasons' Hall , London '; Augustith , 1857 . " W . Bro . HERVEY , P . G . D ., said that , as Vice-President of the Board , he had—in the absence of the President , Bro . Burltonsigned that Report : his doing so was completely a ministerial act

, and he reserved to himself the right of canvassing some of its statements . W . Bro . HAVERS , P . G . D ., then said he could wish for the sake of that unanimity which should exist among Masons , that a sense of dutv did not compel him to move that only a portion of that report

should be received . He should at once proceed to lay before G . L . his reasons for asking them to take that course , and should conclude his remarks by moving that all such portions of the report as related to the executive duty of the Colonial Board , namely , the first two , and the three concluding paragraphs , be received . He held that the duties of the Colonial Board were purely of an exemptive character . Grand Lodge deputed to them the performance of those acts which , as a large body , it could not without inconvenience itself administer ; and so long as they confined themselves to

the performance of those duties , so long Grand Lodge was bound to thank them . Without imputing to them ( and he did not wish to impute to them ) the slightest inclination to exceed the proper bounds of their duty , he could not read their report ivithout thinking that it was one which ought not to be addressed from a subordinate to a supreme body . He would take out of it all that was dictatorial and offensive to the supreme body , and would propose that they should adopt all that related to their executive duty . To the first two paragraphs he would raise no objectionas they merely related

, to the printing of the documents submitted to them , though he would remark , that if the communications alluded to in the eighth paragraph were of sufficient importance to deserve notice in the report , full information should have been given as to their nature , since G . L . did not delegate to the Board any power to act in its stead . In paragraph 9 , they said that an appeal had been received from the W . M . of No . 781 against the suspension of that Lodge by the P . G . M . of Tasmania , and they recommended that suspension should be confirmed . He was sorry to say that in that

recommendation they had exceeded their duty . All appeals lay directly to the G . L ., and by no means or authority could the Colonial Board decide one of them . In this particular instance the appeal was directed to the G . M ., and by his desire it was communicated to the Colonial Board ; but no authority of any sort or kind was given to them to decide upon it . But even supposing that the appeal was made to Grand Lodge itself , they could not in his opinion , by any stretch of the constitution , have entertained it . The Grand Master had , in kind and courteous language , protested against this infringement of his prerogative , but had at the same time intimated his desire so far as he could consistently do so , to carry out their recommendations . That was a matter which he thought did great credit to their G . M . Having thus taken notice of all the portions of the