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INSTALLATION.
To the Grand Chancellor.
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Sublime Prince , you have been elected to the office
of Grand Chancellor of this Consistory. You are the constitutional
and legal adviser of the Commander-in-Chief, and to you
he looks for counsel. It is your duty to prepare all accusations
against Masons charged with the commission of offences against
our laws. You will inspect and sign all diplomas, briefs, patents,
letters of constitution, and certificates, and see that they are in
due form and contain the necessaiy conditions. It is therefore
indispensable that you should be familiar with the constitution,
regulations, laws, statutes, institutes, and forms of the order. In
the absence of the Grand Minister of State you will perform his
duties, and you must therefore acquaint yourself with the history,
doctrine, and philosophy of Masonry, that you may be prepared
to do so. And finally, it is your duty to conduct all proper cor-
respondence with other Consistories and foreign Masonic bodies.
I hope you may so perform these varied and important duties as
to earn for yourself honor, and benefit this Consistory and the
order. You will please be seated at my left.
To the Grand Secretary.
Sublime Prince, , you have been elected to the office
of Grand Secretary of this Consistory. It will be your duty to
take charge of all papers and proceedings to be laid before the
Consistoiy, and present them in due time ; to turn over to the
Grand Keeper of the Seals such as are proper to be kept among
the archives ; to enter and record in the Book of Gold all the
proceedings, deliberations, decisions, and decretals of the Consis-
toiy ; to conduct all correspondence with the Bodies and indi-
vidual Masons under its jurisdiction ; to prepare and sign all
diplomas, briefs, patents, letters of constitution and certificates,
submitting them to the Grand Chancellor for examination, and
procuring them to be sealed by the Grand Keeper of the Seals,
and signed by the necessaiy officers ; to receive all moneys due
the Consistoiy from all sources whatever, and give duplicate
receipts therefor, and to pay the same over to the Grand Treas-
to keep regular account of all such receipts and payments,
urer ;
with such other duties as of right and by prescription to the office
of Grand Secretary do belong. These varied and important du-