XVI. The Grand WTardens, or any others, are first to ad-

vise with the Deputy about the affairs of the Lodge or of the brethren, and not to apply to the Grand Master without the knowledge of the Deputy, unless he refuse his concurrence in any certain necessary affair ; in which case, or in case of any difference between the Deputy and the Grand Wardens,
* In the second edition of the Book of Constitutions, printed in 1738, at page 162, this Regulation is thus explained : " In the first edition, the right of the Grand Wardens was omitted in this Regulation ; and it has been since found that the old Lodges never put into the chair the Master of a particu- lar Lodge, but when there was no Grand Warden in company, present nor former, and that in such a case a Grand officer always took place of any Master of a Lodge that has not been a Grand officer." This, it may be ob- served, is the present usage.
f " It was always the ancient usage," says Anderson, " that the oldest former Grand Wardens supplied the piaces of those of the year when ab sent" — Const., 2d edit, p. 162. Accordingly, the loth Regulation never was observed.
72 THE WRITTEN LAW.
or other brethren, both parties are to go by concert to the Grand Master, who can easily decide the controversy, and make up the difference by virtue of his great authority.
The Grand Master should receive no intimation of business concerning Masonry, but from his Deputy first, except in such certain cases as his Worship can well judge of; for if the application to the Grand Master be irregular, he can easily order the Grand Wardens, or any other brethren thus apply- ing, to wait upon his Deputy, who is to prepare the business speedily, and to lay it orderly before his Worship.