E. H. ADDINGTON

OF FRBEMASONRY IN LOUISIANA. SS
the code of 1844 with that of 1832,t proves that this charge was wholly
unfounded, and at the same time shows upon what grounds the attempt
to revolutionize the Grand Lodge was justified.
Articles 1—6 are essentially the same in both codes: Art. 3 requiring a
candidate for initiation to have attained his twenty-first year, to have
a free and honorable situation, and able to read and write; Art. 4 allowing
the son of a Mason, when presented by his father or tutor, to be received
at the age of eighteen, but providing that in no case could he be made
a Master Mason until he was twenty-one: Art. 6 permits Masons' to work
in the different Kites, and declares there is only one centre of Masonic
authority for all symbolic lodges in the jurisdiction—the Grand Lodge of
Louisiana.
Art. 7 of the code of 1844 extends membership in the Grand Lodge to
all Past Masters of lodges in the State, instead of confining it (as by Art.
200 of the code of 1832) to the Past Masters who were active members
of the lodges sitting in New Orleans, but retains the provision that members
are alone eligible to office in the Grand Lodge: the Masters of all
lodges (not already Past Masters) and the Wardens of the city lodges are
entitled to seats as representatives; the delegates of the country lodges
(who must be members of the Grand Lodge) are also classed as representatives
; but the same article grants them the right. to speak and vote
upon all questions, which was denied by the code of 1832.
But in order that this concession would not interfere with the rights
of the life members, Art. 8 provides that members of the Grand Lodge,
ceasing to be active members of one of the subordinate lodges, may preserve
their rank and title in the Grand Lodge on paying into its treastiry "a
contribution of two dollars per month."
Art. 11 provides that the country lodges shall select delegates from the
the members of the Grand Lodge residing in New Orleans, and prescribes
the same formalities as those required by Sec. 4 of the Constitution of 1819
{ante, p. 27), but prohibits any member representing more than two
lodges at the same time—instead of three as heretofore.*
Articles 203—8 of the code of 1832, which defined the powers of the
Grand Lodge so far as not conceded to the Symbolic Chambers, are replaced
by the following:
Art. 21. The Grand Lodge has alone the power of legislating for all
symbolic lodges of this State; of taking cognizance of all that concerns the
Order in general, and of all that is not left especially to the power of one
of the sections of the Grand Council of Rites:—of stating ultimately upon
all such legislative, dogmatical, and administrative questions as are foreseen
by the ancient and general statutes of the Order, and which may be
submitted - to it by the lodges under its jurisdiction; but in this case it
shall not decide before it has consulted its Grand Council of Rites in the
section to which the question pertains.
Art. 22. The Grand Lodge grants no constitutions to lodges situated in
those countries where a supreme Masonic authority is established, nor in
any State or Territory of the American Union where a Grand Lodge is
established.
And it allows no foreign Masonic Power, nor any of the Grand Lodges
of the other States of the American Union, to constitute lodges, of whatever
Rite tbey may be, within the State of Louisiana. And should the case
tFor an abstract of the General Regulations of 1832, gee ante p. 39 et seq.
*By an amendment, adopted Jan. 27, 1846, every lodge meeting out of the city of New
Orleans and parish of Jefferson, might appoint as its delegates, either a member of
the Grand Lodge or one of its own members: provided, however, that no delegate be
allowed to represent more than one lodge at the same time.