ordinate Chapters shall be notified that the Grand Masonic Hall at Lexington is in sufficient readiness to receive the Grand Chapter; after which, the meeting shall be held at said Grand Hall on the first Monday in September in every year; and this section shall not be alter-. ed but by the concurrence of a majority of all the subordinate Chapters, voting for that purpose by Chapters.

Sec. 5. All questions which may arise, shall be determined my a majority of votes, except as is herein provided; and when they are equally divided, the Grand High Priest presiding, shall give the casting vote.

ARTICLE II-OF FEES AND CONTRIBUTIONS.

Sec. 1. The fee for a warrant to constitute a new Chapter, shall be ninety dollars, which shall be paid in advance. Sec. 2. The fee for a warrant to hold a Lodge of Mark Master Masons, shall be twenty dollars, which shall be paid before the warrant is issued.

Sec. 3. Each subordinate Chapter, shall pay to the Grand Treasurer at each stated meeting, the following sums: i. e. three dollars for every exaltation in the Chapter; one dollar for every companion admitted into the Chapter since the preceding stated meeting; and one dollar for every member belonging to the chapter, commencing said payments at the next stated meeting.

Sec. 4. Every subordinate chapter shall report to the Grand Chapter at each stated meeting, the names of the officers and members thereof, noting the number and date of admissions, exaltations, rejections, suspensions, expulsions, demissions and deaths since the last return, and such other matter as they may think proper.

Sec. 5. All applications for the exaltation or advances

ment of candidates in any Chapter or Lodge, shall lie over at least one stated meeting for consideration.

Sec. 6. Every independent Mark Master's Ledge, under the jurisdiction of this Grand Chapter, shall make a return to each stated meeting addressed to the Grand Secretary, containing a list of the officers, members, admissions, rejections, suspensions, expulsions, demissions and deaths, and such other matter as they may think proper, and shall not confer the degree of a Mark Master for a less sum than five dollars; and for every one they may advance to this degree, they shall pay one dollar to the Grand Treasurer.

Sec. 7. No monies shall be paid by the Grand Treasurer, except on the order of the Grand High Priest, or officer presiding.

Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of the Grand Treasurer to receive all monies, and at the stated meetings to exhibit his accounts of receipts and disbursements, to a committee to be appointed for that purpose, which committee shall report the state of the same, to the Grand Chapter.

Sec. 9. It shall be the duty of the Grand Secretary, to cause to be printed the returns from the several subordinate Chapters and Lodges; an abstract of the proceedings of each communication of the Grand Chapter, and shall forward copies of the same to the Secretaries of the several Grand Chapters of the United States; to the Secretary of the general Grand Chapter, and of the several Chapters under the jurisdiction of this Grand Chapter.

Sec. 10. The Grand Secretary shall be allowed the following sums for his services: For every charter written on parchment, five dollars; for every dispensation, two dollars fifty cents, to be paid by the applicants. He

shall receive for his other services such sums as the Grand Chapter may deem reasonable.

Sec. 11. A Stewart and Tyler shall be appointed at each stated meeting, who shall receive such compensation for their services as the Grand Chapter may deem reasonable.

Sec. 12. Any Chapters under the jurisdiction of this Grand Chapter, that shall fail to assemble and work for the space of twelve months, or that shall fail to be represented at the stated meetings of the Grand Chapter, cither by their own immediate representatives, or their proxies, for two stated meetings in succession; or shall fail for the same length of time to discharge all duties to the Grand Chapter, such chapter shall forfeit its Charter, together with all its jewels, furniture and effects of every description, to the disposal of the Grand Chapter.

Sec. 13. Whenever it shall so happen that at a regular meeting of this Grand Chapter, there shall not be present the Grand High Priest, Deputy Grand High Priest, Grand King or Grand Scribe, the oldest High Priest shall take the chair and preside as the High Priest at such meeting.

Sec. 14. Alterations, amendments, or additions may be made to these by-laws at any stated meeting of the Grand Chapter, a majority of all the Chapters under this jurisdiction concurring therein, voting for this purpose by Chapter; and in case of equal division, the Grand Council collectively, shall give the casting vote, except on a proposition to remove the place of the meeting of this Grand Chapter.

Regulations for the conduct and behaviour of Ancient York Masons

Charge at Opening and Closing

Prayer at Opening

CHAPTER VII.

Prayer at Initiation

Charge at Initiation in the First Degree

Charge at Initiation in the Second Degree

Prayer at Raising

Charge at Raising

CHAPTER VIII.

General Remarks on the First Lecture

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