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and hope it always will be, to require even any security
whatever from one whose rank, fortune, probity, and honor,
might be alone sufficient in the case, and acting especially in
a matter of public charity to Masons, himself a Mason, and
under the high and solemn tie and obligation of that great
characters—The committee notwithstanding conceived, that
no Brother who may be nominated for that purpose, would
probably decline giving the Grand Lodge the satisfaction, if
they require it, of his own single personal security ; and
therefore submit it as their humble opinion,
That the Treasurer do give his personal security, by his
own bond, to the Grand Master, Deputy Grand Master, and
Senior Grand Warden, and the two Brothers of the afore­
said Committee of Five, not off<strong>ice</strong>rs, in the penalty and
with condition to be approved by the Grand Lodge hereafter,
if they think fit to require it.
And as concerning the Treasurer's Accounts, the com­
mittee were further of opinion,
That the Treasurer do produce his accounts of his receipts
and disbursements—either by order of the Grand Lodge or
Committee of Five—fair, and lay them before the Grand
Lodge, at every Quarterly Communication, with the vouch­
ers, for the disbursements; the items of the accounts to be
then publicly read over; and if any dispute or difficulty
shall arise upon any of them, the matter to be referred to
such five Brethren present, as the person then presiding shall
nominate, and the Grand Lodge approve, to examine into
the grounds of the same against the next Quarterly Com­
munication, when they are to report their proceedings in the
case, with the state of it, for the final judgment and direction
of the Grand Lodge: and,
That the Treasurer's accounts be allowed, from time to
time, by the Grand Master's signing them, as allowed in the
Grand Lodge, and any seven Masters of Lodges present
attesting such signing in their presence, and two copies of