XXII. The brethren of all the Lodges in and about London

and Westminster shall meet at an Annual Communication and Feast,f in some convenient place, on St. John Baptist's day, or else on St. John Evangelist's day, as the Grand Lodge shall think fit by a new Regulation, having of late years met on St. John Baptist's day ; provided : The majority of Mas- ters and Wardens, with the Grand Master, his Deputy and Wardens, agree at their Quarterly Communication, J three months before, that there shall be a feast, and a General
* The modern usage is for the highest present Grand officer to assume the vacant post.
t Very few Grand Lodges now observe this Regulation. The feast of St John is celebrated everywhere by the private Lodges ; but the Annual Com- munications of Grand Lodges generally occur at a different period of the year.
| Quarterly Communications are still held by the Grand Lodge of England, and a few Grand Lodges in this country ; but the Regulation is becoming generally obsolete, simply because it has been found impracticable.
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Communication of all the brethren ; for if either the Grand Master, or the majority of the particular Masters are against it, it must be dropt for that time.
But whether there shall be a feast for all the brethren or not, yet the Grand Lodge must meet in some convenient place annually, on St. John's day ; or if it be Sunday, then on the next day, in order to choose every year a new Grand Master, Deputy and Wardens.