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INSTALLATION OF A LODGE OF PERFECTION. 509
nate, according to their stations ; and to submit to the decision
and awards of your brethren in any case where the constitution
or principles of the order require it.
III. You promise to avoid disputes and quarrels ; to be modest
in your behavior and carnage ; courteous to all men, and faithful
to your Lodge and brethren, and carefully to refrain from intem-
perance and excess.
IV. You promise hospitably to treat and courteously to receive
all brethren, and to discountenance impostors and all who seek
to disturb the Ancient and Accepted Scottish rite.
V. You agree to diffuse and disseminate the principles of our
order ; to pay due homage to the Supreme Council, and strictly to
conform to all edicts emanating therefrom that are not subversive
of the principles and ground-work of the Ancient and Accepted
Scottish rite.
VI. You admit that it is not in the power of any man or
body of men to make innovations in the essential and fundamental
principles of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish rite.
VII. You promise to attend regularly the meetings of your
Lodge, and to instruct and counsel the brethren ; that you will
faithfully and punctually perform all your duties as Grand Master,
and that you will never open or close your Lodge without
giving a lecture, or some portion tbereof, for the instruction of
the brethren.
VIII. You admit that no new Lodge of Perfection can be
formed without permission of the Supreme Council, or a Deputy
Inspector-General in a country where there is no Consistory, and
that no countenance should be given to an irregular Lodge, or to
any person initiated therein.
IX. You admit that no person can be regularly allowed to
receive any degree in a Lodge of Perfection, or admitted a
member of the same, without previous notice and due inquiry
into his character, nor unless he be a Master Mason, in good
standing.
X. You agree that no visitor shall be received into your Lodge
without due examination and proof of his title to be so, unless he
is personally known as a Grand Elect, Perfect, and Sublime
Mason, to some member of your body.
These are the regulations of the Ancient and Accepted Scot-
tish rite. Do you submit to these charges and promise to sup-