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the use of the General Fund of Charity. (See Makings,
Art. 9.)
Thus the Committee of Charity has been established
among the Free and Accepted Masons of England, who
have very generously contributed to their General Fund, and
do still persevere in the good work.
ART. 34. The Committee regularly meets, according to
summons of the Grand Master, or his Deputy, and has re­
lieved many distressed Brothers with small sums, not exceed­
ing five Pounds to each. But the Grand Lodge has ordered
the Treasurer to pay to some petitioners, ten, or fifteen, or
twenty Pounds, as they thought the case required. So that
the distressed have found far greater relief from this General
Charity than can be expected from particular Lodges ; and
the contributions being paid by the Lodges in parcels, at
various times, have not been burdensome.
ART. 35. The Treasurer's accounts have been audited
and balanced at every Grand Lodge ; whereby all know the
stock in hand, and how every parcel of the Charity has been
disposed of; every thing being duly recorded in the Grand
Lodge Book, and in that of the Committee, of which every
Master of a contributing Lodge is a Member.
OF THE STEWARDS.
The first mention made of Stewards, is in the Old Regula­
tions, 33, concerning the Annual Feast, where it is ordained,
That in order to relieve the two Grand Wardens in the ex­
traordinary trouble of that General Assembly, and that all
matters might be expeditiously and safely managed, the Grand
Master or his Deputy, shall have power to nominate and ap­
point a certain number of Stewards, as his Worship shall think
fit, to act in concert with the two Grand Wardens; and that
all things, relating to the Feast should be decided among
them by a majority of votes ; except the Grand Master, or