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EXTRACTS FROM CONSTITUTIONS.
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7. A full transcript of the record and evidence shall accompany
the appeal, and the case shall be determined upon such transcript
; but the Council of Deliberation, or the Supreme Coun-
cil, may grant a new trial for reasons not appearing in the tran-
script, if in its judgment justice requires it.
8. The Council of Deliberation shall consider the matter while
open on the highest degree to which the accused has attained ;
and it may modify, sustain or reverse the judgment of the sub-
ordinate Body, and send the case back for a new trial, or enter
such judgment as it deems that justice and the good of the Rite
require.
9. The judgment of the Council of Deliberation shall take
effect without reference to which of the subordinate Bodies ren-
dered the original judgment.
10. From the judgment of the Council of Deliberation an appeal
lies to the Supreme Council ;
the causes of appeal shall be speci-
fied and no other causes than those specified shall be considered
by the Supreme Council, which may render such judgment, or
give such direction to the case as it deems just.
11. When complaint is made or information given to an Illus-
trious Deputy, of the commission of an offence of a grave charac-
ter by any member of the Rite in his jurisdiction, he may cause
charges to be filed with him, to be tried by the Council of Deliberation
at its next session, or at a session to be specially called by
him for the purpose, with original jurisdiction. The Deputy
shall cause all necessary notice to be given, and may appoint a
commissioner to take testimony from either party in the nature
of deposition ; or, after notice to the accused and an opportunity
to be heard thereon, he may appoint commissioners, who must be
members of the Council of Deliberation, to take all the testimony,
and report the same and their conclusions thereon to the Council
of Deliberation : the Council shall hear the case and render its
judgment, which shall be final and subject to the appeal herein-
before provided. The Illustrious Minister of State shall act as
prosecutor in such cases, and may have the assistance of any
brother of the Rite. If the accused is an officer, the Illustrious
Deputy may suspend his official functions pending the trial.
10. This article shall not apply to Sovereign Grand-Inspectors-
General, who are amenable to the Supreme Council only.