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Brethren that shall be recommended by the coEtributing
Lodges to the Grand Off<strong>ice</strong>rs, from time to time.
The motion being readily agreed to, Richmond, Grand
Master, desired all present to come prepared to give their
opinion of it at next Grand Lodge ; which was held in ample
form on March 17th, 1724, when
ART. 3. At the Lodge's desire, Grand Master Rich­
mond named a committee for considering of the best methods
to regulate the said Masons general charity ; they met, and
chos« for Chairman, William Cowper, Esq., Clerk of the
Parliament, who drew up the report. But the affair requir­
ing great deliberation, the report was not made till the Grand
Lodge met in ample form, on November 27, 1725, when
Richmond, Grand Master, ordered the report to be read. It
was well approved and recorded in the book of the Grand
Lodge; for which that committee received public thanks, in
this form; the committee, to whom it was referred to consider
of proper methods to regulate the general charity, after
several meetings for that purpose, came to the following
resolutions, as condusive to the end proposed by the reference:
1st. That it is the opinion of the committee, that the
contributions from the several Lodges be paid quarterly and
voluntarily.
2d. That no Brother be recommended by any Lodge a s
an object of charity, but who was a member of some regular
lodge, which shall contribute to the same charity, on or before
the 21st day of November, 1724, when the general charity
was first proposed in the Grand Lodge.
3d. That no Brother who has been admitted a member of
any such Lodge since that time, or shall hereafter be so
admitted, be recommended till three years after such admis­
sion ; and as to the methods or rules to be observed by the
Grand Lodge, in relieving such Brethren, who shall be quali­
fied as aforesaid, whom they 6hall think fit, upon application