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XXVII. The Grand Wardens, or the Stewards, shall appoint beforehand such a number of Brethren to serve at Table as they think fit and proper for that Work; and they may advise with the Masters and Wardens of Lodges about the most proper Persons, if they please, or may take in such by their recommendation; for none are to serve that day, but free and accepted Masons, that the Communication may be free and. harmonious.

XXVIII. All the Members of the Grand Lodge must be at the Place long before Dinner, with the Grand Master, or his Deputy, at their Head, who shall retire, and form themselves. And this is done in order,

1. To receive any Appeals duly lodged, as above regulated, that the Appellant may be heard, and the affair may be amicably decided before Dinner, if possible; but if it cannot, it must be delayed till after the new Grand Master is elected; and if it cannot be decided after Dinner, it may be delayed, and referred to a particular Committee, that shall quietly adjust it, and make Report to the next Quarterly Communication, that Brotherly-Love may be preserved.

2. To prevent any difference or disgust which may be feared to arise that day; that no interruption may be given to the Harmony and Pleasure of the Grand Feast.

3. To consult about whatever concerns the decency and decorum of the Grand Assembly, and to prevent all indecency and ill manners, the Assembly being promiscuous.

4. To receive and consider of any good motion, or any momentous and important Affair, that shall be brought from the particular Lodges, by their Representatives, the several Masters and Wardens.

XXIX. After these things are discussed, the Grand Master and his Deputy, the Grand Wardens, or the Stewards, the Secretary, the Treasurer, the Clerks, and every other Person, shall withdraw, and leave the Masters and Wardens of the particular Lodges alone, in order to consult amicably about electing a new Grand Master, or continuing the present, if they have not done it the day before; and if they are unanimous for continuing the present Grand Master, his Worship shall be called in, and humbly desired to do the Fraternity the Honor of ruling them for the year ensuing and after dinner it will be known whether he accepts of it or not.-For it should not be discovered but by the Election itself.

XXX. Then the Masters and Wardens, and all the Brethren, may converse promiscuously, or as they please to sort together, until the Dinner is coming in, when every Brother takes his seat at Table.

XXXI. Some time after Dinner the Grand Lodge is formed,

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not in retirement, but in the presence of all the Brethren, who yet are not members of it, and must not therefore speak until they are desired and allowed.

XXXII. If the Grand Master of last year has consented with the Master and Wardens in private, before dinner, to continue for the year ensuing; then one of the Grand Lodge, deputed for that purpose, shall represent to all the Brethren his Worship's good Government, &c. And turning to him, shall, in the name of the Grand Lodge, humbly request him to do the Fraternity the great Honor (if nobly born, if not) the great kindness, of continuing to be their Grand Master for the year ensuing. And his Worship declaring his consent by a bow or a speech, as he pleases, the said deputed Member of the Grand Lodge shall proclaim him Grand Master, and all the Members of the Lodge shall salute him in due form. And all the Brethren shall for a few Minutes have leave to declare their Satisfaction, Pleasure and Congratulation.

XXXIII. But if either the Master and Wardens have not in private, this day before Dinner, not the day before, desired the last Grand Master to continue in the Mastership another year; or if he, when desired, has not consented: Then, the last Grand Master shall nominate his successor for the year ensuing, who, if unanimously approved by the Grand Lodge, and if there present, shall be proclaimed, saluted, and congratulated the new Grand Master as above hinted, and immediately installed by the last Grand Master, according to Usage.

XXXIV. But, if that Nomination is not unanimously approved, the new Grand Master shall be chosen immediately by Ballot, every Master and Warden writing his Man's Name too; and the Man, whose name the last Grand Master shall first take out, casually or by chance, shall be Grand Master for the year ensuing; and if present, he shall be proclaimed, saluted, and congratulated, as above hinted, and forthwith installed by the last Grand Master, according to Usage.

XXXV. The last Grand Master thus continued, or the new Grand Master thus installed, shall next nominate and appoint his Deputy Grand Master, either the last or a new one, who shall be also declared, saluted and congratulated as above hinted.

The Grand Master shall also nominate the new Grand Wardens, and if unanimously approved by the Grand Lodge, shall be declared, saluted, and congratulated, as above hinted; but if not, they shall be chosen by Ballot, in the same way as the Grand Master: As the Wardens of private Lodges are also to be chosen by Ballot in each Lodge, if the Members thereof do not agree to their Master's Nomination.

(To be continued.)

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THE CONSTITUTIONS OF THE FREE-MASONS. [Continued from page 266.]

XXXVI. But if the Brother whom the present Grand Master shall nominate for his Successor, or whom the Majority of the Grand Lodge shall happen to choose by ballot, is, by sickness or other necessary occasion, absent from the Grand Feast, he cannot be proclaimed the new Grand Master, unless of the old Grand Master, or some of the Masters and Wardens of the Grand Lodge can vouch, upon the honor of a Brother, that the said Person, so nominated or chosen, will readily accept of the said Office; in which case the old Grand Master shall act as Proxy, and shall nominate the Deputy and Wardens in his name, and in his name also receive the usual Honors, Homage and Congratulation.

XXXVII. Then the Grand Master shall allow any Brother, Fellow Craft, or Apprentice, to speak, directing his discourse to his Worship; or to make any Motion for the good of the Fraternity, which shall be either immediately considered and finished, or else referred to the Consideration of the Grand Lodge at their next communication, stated or occasional. When that is over,

XXXVIII. The Grand Master or his Deputy, or some Brother appointed by him, shall harangue all the Brethren, and give them good advice: And lastly, after some other Transactions, that cannot be written in any Language, the Brethren may go away or stay longer, as they please..

XXXIX. Every Annual Grand Lodge has an inherent Power and Authority to make new Regulations or to alter these, for the real Benefit of this Ancient Fraternity: Provided always, that the Old Land-Marks be carefully preserved, and that such Alterations and new Regulations be proposed and agreed to at the third Quarterly Communication Preceding the Annual Grand Feast; and that they be offered also to the perusal of

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all the Brethren before dinner, in writing, even of the Youngest Apprentice; the Approbation and Consent of the Majority of all the Brethren present being absolutely necessary to make the same binding and obligatory; which must, after dinner, and after the new Grand Master is installed, be solemnly desired; as it was desired and obtained for these Regulations, when proposed by the Grand Lodge, to about one hundred and fifty Brethren, on St. John Baptist's Day, Seventeen Hundred and twenty-one.

POSTSCRIPT.

Here follows the manner of Constituting a New Lodge, as practised by his grace, the Duke of Wharton, the present. Right Worsiphful Grand Master, according to the Ancient Usages of Masons.

A New Lodge, for avoiding many irregularities, should be solemnly constituted by the Grand Master, with his Deputy and Wardens, or in the Grand Master's absence, the Deputy shall act for his Worship, and shall choose some Master of a Lodge to assist him; or in case the Deptity is absent, the Grand Master shall call forth some Master of a Lodge to act as Deputy pro tempore.

The Candidates, or the new Master and Wardens, being yet among the Fellow Craft, the Grand Master shall ask his Deputy if he has examined them, and finds the Candidate Master well skilled in the noble Science and the Royal Art, and duly instructed in our Mysteries, &c.

And the Deputy answering in the affirmative, he shall (by the Grand Master's Order) take the Candidate from among his Fellows, and present him to the Grand Master; saying, Right Worshipful Grand Master, the Brethren here desire to be formed into a new Lodge; and I present this my worthy Brother to be their Master, whom I know to be of good Morals and great Skill, true and trusty, and a Lover of the whole Fraternity, wheresoever dispersed over the face of the Earth.

Then the Grand Master, placing the Candidate on his left hand, having asked and obtained the unanimous consent of all the Brethren, shall say; I constitute and form these good Brethren into a new Lodge, and appoint you the Master of it, not doubting of your capacity and care to preserve the Cement of the Lodge, &c. with some other Expressions that are proper and usual on that occasion; but not proper to be writ

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Upon this the Deputy shall Rehearse the Charges of a Master, and the Grand Master shall ask the Candidate, saying, Do you submit to these Charges, as Masters have done in all Ages? And the Candidate signifying his cordial submission

thereunto, the Grand Master shall, by certain Significant Ceremonies and Ancient Usages, instal him, and present him with the Constitutions, the Lodge Book, and the Instruments of his Office, not altogether, but one after another; and after each of them, the Grand Master, or his Deputy, shall rehearse the short and pithy charge that is suitable to the thing presented. After this, the Members of this new Lodge, bowing all together to the Grand Master, shall return his Worship Thanks, and immediately do their Homage to their new Master, and signify their Promise of subjection and obedience to him by the usual Congratulation.

The Deputy and the Grand Wardens, and any other Brethren present, that are not Members of this new Lodge, shall next congratulate the new Master; and he shall return his becoming Acknowledgments to the Grand Master first, and to the rest in their Order.

Then the Grand Master desires the new Master to enter immediately upon the exercise of his Office, in choosing his Wardens; And the new Master calling forth two Fellow Craft, presents them to the Grand-Master' for his Approbation, and to the new Lodge for their Consent. And that being granted,

The senior or junior Grand Warden, or some Brother for him, shall rehearse the Charges of Wardens; and the Candidates being solemnly asked by the new Master, shall signify their submission thereunto.

Upon which the new Master, presenting them with the Instruments of their Office, shall, in due form, instal them in their proper Places: and the Brethren of that new Lodge shall signify their Obedience to the new Wardens by the usual Congratulation.

And this Lodge being thus completely constituted, shall be registered in the Grand Master's Book, and by his Order notified to the other Lodges.

APPROBATION.

WHEREAS, by the confusions occasioned in the Saxon, Danish and Norman Wars, the Records of Masons have been much vitiated, the Free Masons of England twice thought it necessary to correct their Constitutions, Charges and Regulations; first in the reign of King Athelstan, the Saxon, and long after in the reign of King Edward IV. the Norman: And, whereas, the old Constitutions in England have been much interpolated, mangled and miserably corrupted, not only with false spelling, but even with many false facts and gross errors in History and Chronology, through length of Time, and the ignorance of Tanscribers, in the dark illiterate Ages, before the revival of Geometry and Ancient Architecture, to the great Offence of all