V. OF THE MANAGEMENT OF THE CRAFT IN WORKING.

All Masons shall work honestly on working days, that they may live creditably on holy days ; and the time appointed
* Debmott says : " The Wardens are chosen from among the Master Masons."
f Dermott says that " none can act as Grand Master who has not acted as the Master of a particular Lodge." This, it is true, is the modern usage ; but the Old Charges make no such requisition, as it was alwaj's competent for the Grand Master to be chosen from the body of the craft. This is an instance in which in this country the authority of Dermott has exercised an influence paramount to that of the original constitutions. A large number of the Lodges in America derived their warrants from the Athol Grand Lodge. There is no such provision in the modern constitution of the Grand Lodge of England.
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by tlie law of the land, or confirmed by custom, shall be observed.
The most expert of the Fellow Craftsmen shall be chosen or appointed the Master or overseer of the lord's work:* who is to be called Master by those that work under him. The craftsmen are to avoid all ill language, and to call each other by no disobliging name, but Brother or Fellow ; and to behave themselves courteously within and without the Lodge.
The Master, knowing himself to be able of cunning, shall undertake the lord's work as reasonably as possible, and truly dispend his goods as if they were his own ; nor to give more wages to any Brother or Apprentice than he really may deserve.
Both the Master and the Mason receiving their wages justly, shall be faithful to the lord, and honestly finish their work, whether task or journey ; nor put the work to task that hath been acccustomed to journey.
None shall discover envy at the prosperity of a Brother, nor supplant him, or put him out of his work, if he be capable to finish the same ; for no man can finish another's work so much to the lord's profit, unless he be thoroughly acquainted with the designs and draughts of him that began it.
When a Fellow Craftsman is chosen TVarden of the work under the Master, he shall be true both to Master and Fel- lows ; shall carefully oversee the work in the Master's absence to the lord's profit; and his brethren shall obey him.
All Masons employed shall meekly receive their wages without murmuring or mutiny, and not desert the Master till the work is finished.
* Der5IOtt says : " A Master Mason only must be the surveyor or Master of the work." Here again the alteration of Dermott has, in modern usage, superseded the original regulation. Fellcw Crafts are not now eligible to office.
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A younger Brother shall be instructed in working, to pre- vent spoiling the materials for want of judgment, and for in- creasing and continuing of brotherly love.
All the tools used in working shall be approved by the Grand Lodge.
No labourer shall be employed in the proper work of Ma- sonry ; nor shall Free Masons work with those that are not free, without an urgent necessity ; nor shall they teach la- bourers and unaccepted Masons, as they should teach a Brother or Fellow.