XXVII. The Grand Wardens or the Stewards shall appoint

beforehand such a number of brethren to serve at table as they think fit and proper for that work ; and they may ad- vise with the Masters and Wardens of Lodges about the most proper persons, if they please, or may take in such by their recommendation ; for none are to serve that day but Free and Accepted Masons, that the communication may be free and harmonious.
XXV 111. All the members of the Grand Lodge must be at the place long before dinner, with the Grand Master, or his Deputy, at their head, who shall retire and form themselves And this is done in order :
76 THE WRITTEN LAW.
1. To receive any appeals duly lodged, as above regu- lated, that the appellant may be heard, and the affair may be amicably decided before dinner, if possible ; but if it cannot, it must be delayed till after the new Grand Master is ekcted ; and if it cannot be decided after dinner, it may be delayed, and referred to a particular committee, that shall quietly adjust it, and make report to the next Quar- terly Communication, that brotherly love may be pre- served.
2. To prevent any difference or disgust which may be feared to arise that day ; that no interruption may be given to the harmony and pleasure of the grand feast.
3. To consult about whatever concerns the decency and decorum of the Grand Assembly, and to prevent all inde- cency and ill manners, the assembly being promiscuous.
4. To receive and consider of any good motion, or any momentous and important affair, that shall be brought from the particular Lodges, by their representatives, the several Masters and Wardens.