XVII. The property of the said two

Fraternities, whether freehold, leasehold, funded, real or personal, shall remain sacredly appropriate to the purposes for which it was created; it shall constitute one grand fund, by which the blessed object of Masonic benevolence may be more exten- sively obtained. It shall either continue under the trusts on which, whether freehold, leasehold, or funded, the separate parts thereof now stand; or it shall be in the
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power of the said United Grand Lodge, at any time hereafter, to add other names to the said trusts; or, in case of the death of any one Trustee, to nominate and appoint, otners for perpetuating the security of the same; and in no event, and for no purpose, shall the said united property be diverted from its original purpose. It being under- stood and declared that, at any time after the Union, it shall be in the power of the Grand Lodge to incorporate the whole of the said property and funds in one and the same set of Trustees, who shall give bond to hold the same in the name and on the behalf of the United Fraternity. And it is further agreed, that the Freemasons’ Hall shall be the place in which the United Grand Lodge shall be held, with such addi- tions made thereto as the increased numbers of the Fraternity, thus to be united, may require. And it is understood between the pirties, that, as there are now in the Hall several whole length portraits of Past Grand Masters, a portrait of the Most Worshipful His Grace the Duke of Atholl, Past Grand Master of Masons, according to the old Institutions, shall be placed there in the same conspicuous manner. : 37
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