Year: 1866

Inp uniludI
Worshipiul Grand Lodge OF free ana ac-
cep,ed Masons for the State oi New lorK
Was inaugurated yesterday at Irving iiali
with the usual and impressive ceremonies
peculiar 10 the occasion. The Grand
Lodge, as at present constituted, comprises
all the Grand Officers, Masters, and PaSt
Masters before 1913, and the Wardcns OF
all Lodges in the State of New YORK,
numbering nearly six hundred, and thus
representing over sixty thousand Free Ma
sons throughout the State. The attendance
was unusually large.


ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE MOST woRSHlPFCL


GRAND MASTER.


The Grand Master congratulated the
Order upon its material increase since
their last annual report, and also upon the
unusual scrutiny exercised in the material
offered for acceptance. Reports OF pro-
yrcss. prosperity, and stability came up
from every part Of the State, and the most
exalted as well as the humblest member
might take pride in the declaration that
Il am Free and Accepted Mason of the
State Of New York"


THE VIRGINIA NAS0NS.


After alluding to the return of peace
and to the appointment of representatives
near the Grand Lodges from various coun-
tries, the Grand Master said it gave him
pleasure to state that the NJ. W. Grand
Lodge OF Virginia was now in perfect ac-
cord with their Lodge.


This statement will be gratifying to the
fraternity in Virginia, who are well aware


II. al, Il tn |


DECISIONS BY THE GRAND MASTER.


He then summarized the principal deci-
sions that he had been called upon TO
make, as follows:


|. That when person assumes a name
which is not his own for the purpose OF
deception, and with view TO being pro-
posed and accepted in Masonry, and isthuS
proposed and accepted, he commits an Of
fence against Masonry, Tor which he should
be disciplined if he should have been made
before the discovery of the error. If not
previously made Mason, then he should
Immediately become the subject of Il new
ballot, which the Master must order to be
had, on motion or without.


.. That brother has a right to act as
trial commissioner, and join his colleagues
in making a report, should he have en-
tered on the trial of q case, though during
the trial he should, BY being petitioner
for a Lodge L. D., become member OF
that Lodge on receiving its warrant.


3. That member of Lodge l. ID. does
not, by becoming such member, defeat the
warranted Lodge in which his membership
has become suspended of jurisdiction over
him for Masonic offences. That he can de-
mand to be admitted into such Lodge as
matter of right that he has right to be
heard orally in his defence before the Lodge
should charges be preferred against him.
That he has a right TO prefer charges
against a member of the warranted Lodge
in that Lodge, and to prosecute the same !;
but that for all other purposes he has no
rights in the warranted Lodge.


4. That If resident rejected candidate
should by inadvertence or by conceal
ment of facts be proposed in Lodge other
than that which rejected him in less than
six months after such rejection, the Lodge
in which he has been thus lastly proposed
must ballot on his application, even though
il is known that his receiving the degrees
after his election would be illegal. A
penalty for deceit or concealment should
be inflicted.


5. That if there should be proposed in
a Lodge a resident of foreign jurisdic-
tion, and that fact should be discovered
previously to the report of the inveSti-
eating committee, ballot is not neces-
Sary, the Lodge never having had terrific
rial jurisdiction OF the candidate, and
should cease to exercise control over the
material belonging to another State or
country rs soon us its mistake has been
discovered.


c. That after lapse of six months from
the time when a candidate has been
rejected he cannot be initiated In
another Lodge without the unanimous
consent of all the brethren present at a
regular communication of the rejecting
Lodge. When any Masonic body has the
right to vote on the question Of the inltia-
ton of candidate into Masonry, or the
advancement of brother, that vote should
be unanimous. The real question involved
is: "Shall the man be made Mason2 u
not what particular Lodge shall be tlre'por-
tai through which he may pass into the
fraternity.


:. That when second ballot, after q
most favorable one, is demanded on a
candidate, the Lodge cannot lay the bal
loting over, but must proceed forthwith TO
ballot, if the demand be made at a regular
communication. If the demand be made
at special communication, the candi-
date becomes Immediately estopped, and
the ballot must be taken at the next regu-
lar communication. That the brother
making the demand may at any time, with
draw it previously to the taking OF the
ballot.


s. That when a year has elapsed after
a favorable ballot on the question OF
initiation, and after demand for new
ballot had been made and laid over, and
the candidate had not been notified TO
come forward for initiation, the Lodge has
lost all jurisdiction over him, ana the
candidate can be proposed in second
Lodge, and initiated without recourse to
the rejecting Lodge.


9. A warranted Lodge rejected a candl-
date, and year afterward Lodge, under
was created, and the candi-
date was found to live higher TO the Lodge
II. D. than TO the warranted Lodge: sub
that Lodge made the. candidate,
and the Lodge q. d. applied to me to
make an order that the initiation fee be
paid over to that Lodge. decided ad-
to the application on the ground
that the warranted Lodge had full jurisdic-
ton of the candidate before the Lodge Y
d. was established, and that such jurisdic-
ton was continuous and unbroken.


10. That the power Of a Lodge to assess
It's members is not absolute; and when oD-
lection il made to the assessment, It's pro-
,nr;aty sbopId he submitted 10 and approved