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1801

SAMUEL DUNN, Grand Master

Joseph Laughton, Deputy Grand Master
John Boyle, Senior Grand Warden
Isaac Hurd, Junior Grand Warden

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QUARTERLY COMMUNICATIONS

• 03/09 (Concert Hall, Boston): II-178;
  • II-178: Harmonic Lodge materials, including seal, returned.
  • II-179: Committee of Correspondence discharged and replaced by a Corresponding Grand Secretary. Thaddeus Mason Harris appointed, future ones to be elected.
  • II-180: Petition for Amity Lodge, Camden (Me.), granted.
  • II-180: All remaining petitions for lodges to be submitted to a committee of seven.

• 06/08 (Concert Hall, Boston): II-181;
  • II-181: John Proctor elected as Grand Secretary, replacing Daniel Oliver who had resigned.
  • II-181ff: The following petitions for lodges were granted:
    • Mount Lebanon, Boston
    • Fore Fathers' Rock, Plymouth
    • Fraternal, Barnstable
    • Pacific, Sunderland
    • Aurora, Leominster
    • Eastern, Eastport (Me.)
    • St. John's, Starbrock, Demarara
    • Rural, Rehoboth

• 09/10 (Concert Hall, Boston): II-183;
  • II-183: Committee to revise Grand Lodge regulations reported.
  • II-184: Grand Lodge to constitute Rising Star Lodge at Stoughton.
  • II-184: Report on Grand Secretary and Grand Treasurer accounts.

• 12/14 - 12/15 (Concert Hall, Boston): II-189;
  • II-190: Grand Secretary and Grand Treasurer accounts accepted.
  • II-190: Union Lodge, Nantucket, charter endorsed.
  • II-190: The following petitions for lodges were granted:
    • United, Topsham (Me.)
    • Corner Stone, Duxbury
    • Constellation, Dedham (granted 12/15).

• II-191: Report of committee on revisions of the Grand Constitutions (on 12/15):

1. Establishes Districts, 40 mile radius
2. Creates DDGMs
3. Establishes fees and requires returns
4. Establishes membership diplomas
5. Establishes Master election diplomas
6. Diplomas to be supplied
7. Past Master's Diplomas
8. Members' Diplomas if in good standing
9. Establishes fee for charters
10. Grand Secretary to transmit the report

• • District Committee appointed.

SPECIAL COMMUNICATIONS

• 10/21 (Stoughton): II-184;
  • II-184: Installation of Rising Star Lodge, Stoughton.

• 11/23 (Masons Hall, Boston): II-187;
  • II-187: Constitution of Mount Lebanon Lodge, Boston .

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