CHAPTER VI

BOSTON—PHILADELPHIA—GEORGIA
1733, October 24, Boston. The First Lodge adopted its “By-Laws or Regula-
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O.R. B.MS. 7-12. 1883 Mass. 159.
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No Person shall be made a Mason unlefs all the Brethren members Prefent are Unanimous and if but one Member be against him he shall be rejected.
No Brother shall be admitted as Member of » this Lodge unlefs all the Members Prefent are unanimous as aforesaid and upon his or their admifsion shall pay twenty shillings, as also their Quarteridge, agreable to a former Vote, so many Lodge nights as is past of that Quarter to be first discounted, and shall consent to the by Laws and regulations of this Lodge by Sub- scribing their names to the same.
No Brother or Brothers shall shall (sc) eat any victuals in the Lodge Room while the Lodge is open, without the leave of the Mafter or Wardens nor call for any Liquor or Tobacco without Leave as aforesaid.
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Any Person or Persons being balloted in may be made on a private night by dispensa- tion from the Master & Wardens Provided the Expence of that Lodge be not taken out of the money that is paid for such making, but every Brother present at such private making shall pay his Clubb or share of that Expence.
No Brother that Lives within or about this Town (that is not a member of this Lodge) shall be admitted as a Visitor, before he has Signified his desire of being a Member and paying his Quarteridge, or else make it appear that he is actualy a Member of a Regular Lodge; Unlefs by a Dispenfation of the Mas- ter & Wardens.
Every Visitor shall pay three shillings to- wards the Reckoning Each night.
No Brother shall propose any Person in the Lodge to be made without first asking leave of the Mafter and Wardens.
Every Member of this Lodge shall pay eighteen shillings pr Quarter for the Expense of the Lodge, and every member that does not pay his Quarteridge on the first Lodge night
of the Quarter, or on the second at farthest (if
Prefent) shall be Excluded from being a Mem- ber, and all Privilidge of the Lodge.
Every Member shall pay at Least two shil- lings more pr Ord. to be applied as Charity Towards the Relief of poor Brethren.
Any Member that proposes a Candidate, if Voted or Balloted in; the member that pro- posed his friend, shall immediately deposite fourty shillings in the hands of the Cashire, which shall be Allow’d as part of the Making, provided the candidate attends at the time he is proposed to be made, but if the candidate does not attend as aforesaid, being duly warned,
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the said Fourty shillings shall be forfeited and spent and not allowed as part of that making.
The Treasurer or Cashier of this Lodge, upon his quitting his office or when another is chosen in his room, shall render a just and true Accot to the Master & Wardens of the Lodge for the time being of all the money Rec‘, Expended & Remaining in his hands with the Lodge book & Accompts which he is to deliver up to the Master and Wardens in order & fairly stated.
The Master & Wardens of this Lodge shall take care that the Expence of a Lodge night (when there is no making) shall not Exceed three shillings pr Member prefent for the Reconing which sum of three shillings p" mem- ber or Bro" present, the Cashire has Liberty to
ay & no more.
The Master of this Lodge, or in absence, the Grand Master Deputy Grand Master or War-
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to be held for a Making shall be obliged to give all the Members timely notice of the time and place in writing where such Lodge is held that they may give their attend® and every member being duly warned as aforesaid and neglecting to attend on such Private making shall not be clothed. (The above article Voted Nov: 14th: 1733: 5733).
No member that is absent from the Lodge of a Lodge night when there is a making, shall have the Benefit of being cloathed for that time.
“Being cloathed” refers to the very ancient custom, now forgotten, of requiring the candidate to furnish each
member gloves.
present with an apron and a pair of white
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1733, November 5, Philadelphia.