Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New York, Volume 138

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Page 178 - The trustees of the Society for establishing a Free School in the City of New York, for the education of such poor children as do not belong to or are not provided for by any religious society...
Page 186 - The Grand Lodge of the most ancient and honorable fraternity of free and accepted Masons (according to the old constitutions...
Page 157 - If any Set or Number of Masons shall take upon themselves to form a Lodge without the Grand Master's Warrant, the regular Lodges are not to countenance them...
Page 21 - GOD bless our native land ! Firm may she ever stand, Through storm and night ! When the wild tempests rave, Ruler of winds and wave, Do thou our country save By thy great might. 2 For her our prayer shall rise To God, above the skies ; On him we wait : Thou who art ever nigh, Guarding with watchful eye, To thee aloud we cry, God save the state ! SHEPHERD OF THY LITTLE FLOOK.
Page 172 - On this Sacred Volume, on the 30th day of April, 5789, in the city of New York, was administered to GEORGE WASHINGTON, the first President of the United States of America, the oath to support the Constitution of the United States. This important ceremony was performed by the Most Worshipful Grand Master of Free and Accepted Masons of the state of New York, the Honorable Robert E. Livingston, Chancellor of the state.
Page 168 - Woodcock] (with the consent of the Members of their Lodge) to nominate, chuse, and install their Successors, to whom they shall deliver this Warrant, and invest them with their Powers and Dignities as Free Masons, &c.
Page 157 - ... be vested in certain lodges, or assemblies of masons, convened in certain places ; and that every lodge to be hereafter convened, except the four old lodges, at this time existing, should be legally authorized to act by a warrant from the Grand Master, for the time being, granted to certain individuals by petition, with the. consent and approbation of the Grand Lodge, in communication ; and that without such warrant, no lodge should be hereafter deemed regular or constitutional.
Page 47 - Whilst it is impossible to lay down a hard and fast rule as to the...
Page 159 - Practices and designs not being known, nor by them published to the World, has been the reason that in Holland, France, Italy and other Places they have been suppressed.
Page 223 - A lodge of free and accepted masons duly chartered by and installed according to the general rules and regulations of the grand lodge of free and accepted masons of the state of New York; 2.

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