V. For the purpose of establishing and

securing this perfect uniformity in all the warranted Lodges, and also to prepare for this Grand Assembly, and to place all the Members of both Fraternities on the level of equality on the day of Re-union, it is agreed that as soon as these presents shall have received the sanction of the respective: Grand Lodges, the two Grand Masters shall appoint each nine worthy and expert Master Masons, or Past Masters, of their respective: Fraternities, with Warrant and instructions to meet together at some convenient central place in London, when each party having
' opened in a separate apartment a just and
perfect Lodge, agreeably to their peculiar regulations they shall give and receive mutually and reciprocally the obligations of
both Fraternities, deciding by lot which
shall take priority in giving and receiving
the same; and being thus all duly and.
equally enlightened in both forms, they shall
be empowered and directed, either to hold’
a Lodge under the warrant or dispensation:
to be entrusted to them, and to be entitled: 45
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the Lodge of Reconciliation, or to visit the several Lodges holding under both the Grand Lodges for the purpose of obligating, instructing and perfecting the Master, Past Masters, Wardens, and Members, in both the forms, and to make a return to the Grand Secretaries of both the Grand Lodges of the names of those whom they shall have thus enlightened. And the said Grand Secretaries shall be empowered to enrol the names of all the Members thus remade in the Register of both the Grand Lodges, without fee or reward: it being ordered that no person shall be thus obligated and regis- tered whom the Master and Wardens of his Lodge shall not certify by writing under their hands, that he is free on the books of his particular Lodge. Thus on the day of the Assembly of both Fraternities, the Grand Officers, Masters, Past Masters, and Wardens, who are alone to be present, shali all have taken the obligation by which each is, bound, and be prepared, to make their solemn engagement, that they will thereafter abide by that which shall be recognized and declared to be the true and universally accepted obligation of the Master Mason. 46
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