Proceedings of the M.W. Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Utah Volume 15 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...we had been "thar." IOWA. The Fifty-second Annual Communication was held in Cedar Rapids, June 2-4, 1885. M. W. Charles T. Granger, Grand Master, R. W. Theodore S. Parvin, Grand Secretary. Out of 411 Lodges, 317 were represented. Membership, 21,309, an average of fifty-one per Lodge. Income, $16,891.70. R. W. C. W. Fracker, Utah's Grand Representative, was in attendance. Bro. C. W. Eaton, ex-Mayor of the city, welcomed the Grand Lodge, in a neat address, which was responded to by the Grand Master. The Address of the Grand Master, covering twenty pages, is a well written document, and furnishes evidence that he had been diligent in the important work committed to his care. Three decisions are reported. The following is of importance to Utah: Should the year's residence in the State before petitioning for Degrees be continuous and immediately before? I held that it should. These questions arise in cases where residents of years' standing leave the State--that is, change their residence from the State--and after a longer or shorter time, return, and within a year thereafter petition for the Degrees. Cases of this kind are becoming quite numerous. This ruling was made by Grand Master Chapman, but is not embraced in our present "Code of Laws." The Grand Master complains of, and warns the Grand Lodge against "Hasty Legislation." Of late, most every Grand Master does the same thing, still the same thing goes on. Two Charters were arrested: one for failing to enforce discipline, the other for refusing to pay the tax ordered by the Grand Lodge to pay for the new Library Building. The Report of Bro. T. S. Parvin, Grand Secretary, is, as usual, an excellent document, which we cannot praise higher than to copy the introduction: "Dare ...