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</table>Hotc1733http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsGC2012_PART_IV&diff=50305&oldid=prevHotc1733: /* Sec. 402. APPLICATIONS FOR INITIATION: PAPERWORK */2014-04-28T18:12:14Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Sec. 402. APPLICATIONS FOR INITIATION: PAPERWORK</span></span></p>
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</table>Hotc1733http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsGC2012_PART_IV&diff=50301&oldid=prevHotc1733: /* References */2014-04-28T17:49:14Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">References</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** ''Amended 06/12/1878, 1878-50, revised 09/11/1878, 1878-87, to read: "All applications for initiation shall be made in writing, under the signature of the applicant, and in the following form:" (form as on VI-28) "No candidate shall be balloted for who has not been proposed at a stated monthly Communication, and who shall not have stood so proposed from one regular monthly Communication to another, without a dispensation therefor; nor shall a candidate, in any event, be balloted for, into whose moral character a strict inquiry has not been made, and whose name has not been borne on the notifications for the meeting at which he is to be balloted for. It shall not be regular hereafter for any Lodge, which does not usually issue written or printed notification of its meetings to ballot upon any application for the degrees where there is a dispensation therefor, at any but stated monthly Communications, without written or printed notifications to the members of the Lodge, with the name of their Candidate borne thereon." ''</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** ''Amended 06/12/1878, 1878-50, revised 09/11/1878, 1878-87, to read: "All applications for initiation shall be made in writing, under the signature of the applicant, and in the following form:" (form as on VI-28) "No candidate shall be balloted for who has not been proposed at a stated monthly Communication, and who shall not have stood so proposed from one regular monthly Communication to another, without a dispensation therefor; nor shall a candidate, in any event, be balloted for, into whose moral character a strict inquiry has not been made, and whose name has not been borne on the notifications for the meeting at which he is to be balloted for. It shall not be regular hereafter for any Lodge, which does not usually issue written or printed notification of its meetings to ballot upon any application for the degrees where there is a dispensation therefor, at any but stated monthly Communications, without written or printed notifications to the members of the Lodge, with the name of their Candidate borne thereon." ''</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** ''<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Amended </del>09/12/1894, 1894-62; "All applications for initiation shall be made in writing, over the signature of the applicant, and in the following form:"; contains the then-current Application form.''</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** ''<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Proposed 03/14/1894, 1894-14, amended </ins>09/12/1894, 1894-62; "All applications for initiation shall be made in writing, over the signature of the applicant, and in the following form:"; contains the then-current Application form.''</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''GC1918''': ''see [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsGC2012#Sec._401._APPLICATIONS_FOR_INITIATION:_APPLICATION_COMMITTEE_AND_STATEMENT Section 401] above.''</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''GC1918''': ''see [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsGC2012#Sec._401._APPLICATIONS_FOR_INITIATION:_APPLICATION_COMMITTEE_AND_STATEMENT Section 401] above.''</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''GC1930''': [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsGC1930#Section_401 Section 401], 1930-130; ''See above, including modifications on 09/09/1931 (1931-173), 12/08/1937 (1937-271), and 09/13/1944 (1944-156).''</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''GC1930''': [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsGC1930#Section_401 Section 401], 1930-130; ''See above, including modifications on 09/09/1931 (1931-173), 12/08/1937 (1937-271), and 09/13/1944 (1944-156).''</div></td></tr>
</table>Hotc1733http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsGC2012_PART_IV&diff=50299&oldid=prevHotc1733: /* Sec. 407. NOTICE AND WITHDRAWAL OF APPLICATIONS */2014-04-28T03:34:56Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Sec. 407. NOTICE AND WITHDRAWAL OF APPLICATIONS</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''GC1843''': [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsGC1843#Section_2_19 Part Fourth, 3:2], IV-647; ''see above section.''</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''GC1843''': [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsGC1843#Section_2_19 Part Fourth, 3:2], IV-647; ''see above section.''</div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">** ''Proposed 03/13/1893, 1893-15, rejected 06/14/1893, 1893-48, an amendment to exclude the names of petitioners from notices by lodges. "We claim that our Lodge is our Masonic home, or family, and we ought certainly to be permitted to say who shall sit with us here, and become our Brethren in Free Masonry. So it seems to us that every reasonable means should be employed to inform each and every Brother what is proposed to be done in his Lodge. The addition of the proposed clause to our Constitution will, in our opinion, open the door for the application and admission of those who will be no ornament to our Fraternity. It cannot be expected that every member of a Lodge will be present at all meetings, and unworthy men may be admitted when those who best know their. faults will not be aware of their application." ''</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** ''Proposed 03/14/1894, 1894-15, amended 09/12/1894, 1894-63, to read: "Candidates must be proposed at a Regular Monthly Communication and stand proposed from one Regular Monthly Communication to another; and in Lodges usually issuing written or printed notifications, the names of candidates must be borne upon the notifications of the Communication at which they are to be balloted for. No candidate shall be balloted for at any but a Regular Monthly Communication, in any Lodge, unless a Dispensation therefor shall have been obtained, and then only when written or printed notifications of the Communication, bearing the name of the candidate to be balloted for, shall have been sent to all the members. This applies to Lodges which do not usually issue written or printed notifications, as well as to others." ''</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** ''Proposed 03/14/1894, 1894-15, amended 09/12/1894, 1894-63, to read: "Candidates must be proposed at a Regular Monthly Communication and stand proposed from one Regular Monthly Communication to another; and in Lodges usually issuing written or printed notifications, the names of candidates must be borne upon the notifications of the Communication at which they are to be balloted for. No candidate shall be balloted for at any but a Regular Monthly Communication, in any Lodge, unless a Dispensation therefor shall have been obtained, and then only when written or printed notifications of the Communication, bearing the name of the candidate to be balloted for, shall have been sent to all the members. This applies to Lodges which do not usually issue written or printed notifications, as well as to others." ''</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''Grand Lodge Committee Report''', 12/10/1863, VI-477: [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsEdicts1850-1899#Candidates On District Deputy Powers and Candidates], refers to discussion of the right of District Deputies to grant dispensations on candidate applications.''</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''Grand Lodge Committee Report''', 12/10/1863, VI-477: [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsEdicts1850-1899#Candidates On District Deputy Powers and Candidates], refers to discussion of the right of District Deputies to grant dispensations on candidate applications.''</div></td></tr>
</table>Hotc1733http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsGC2012_PART_IV&diff=50298&oldid=prevHotc1733: /* Earlier Revisions */2014-04-28T03:30:31Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Earlier Revisions</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''Grand Lodge Committee Report''', 03/12/1856, VI-4; on the Grand Master's address from December 1855: "The subject of non-affiliated masons has occasioned much perplexity to the Gd. Lodges which have hitherto attempted to deal with it. No successful result has yet been attained. We have doubts whether such result can be obtained through the exercise of legitimate power by any Gd Lodge, If brethren feel so little interest in Masonry, that they forbear to take membership when it does not involve manifest inconveniences if they stand aloof and thus discountenance the efforts of the faithful: — the question may well arise whether they are to be regarded as worthy brethren and whether they would come within the prescribed rule, in a case of emergency. Their case however, we apprehend, is one which, if curable, must be treated, by moral suasion, rather than by legal enactment, if they be convinced that their present position is unmasonic and ask membership, of their own free will and accord, we might hope for mutual advantage. But compulsory membership, even if practicable, gives very slight promise of benefit to either party."</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''Grand Lodge Committee Report''', 03/12/1856, VI-4; on the Grand Master's address from December 1855: "The subject of non-affiliated masons has occasioned much perplexity to the Gd. Lodges which have hitherto attempted to deal with it. No successful result has yet been attained. We have doubts whether such result can be obtained through the exercise of legitimate power by any Gd Lodge, If brethren feel so little interest in Masonry, that they forbear to take membership when it does not involve manifest inconveniences if they stand aloof and thus discountenance the efforts of the faithful: — the question may well arise whether they are to be regarded as worthy brethren and whether they would come within the prescribed rule, in a case of emergency. Their case however, we apprehend, is one which, if curable, must be treated, by moral suasion, rather than by legal enactment, if they be convinced that their present position is unmasonic and ask membership, of their own free will and accord, we might hope for mutual advantage. But compulsory membership, even if practicable, gives very slight promise of benefit to either party."</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''GC1843''': [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsGC1843#Section_13_2 Part Fifth, Section 13], proposed 03/14/1894, 1894-17, adopted 09/12/1894, 1894-95; "No Brother shall be a member of more than one Lodge, nor shall he hold more than one office in the same Lodge, or in Grand Lodge, at the same time."</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''GC1843''': [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsGC1843#Section_13_2 Part Fifth, Section 13], proposed 03/14/1894, 1894-17, adopted 09/12/1894, 1894-95; "No Brother shall be a member of more than one Lodge, nor shall he hold more than one office in the same Lodge, or in Grand Lodge, at the same time."</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsGC1843#Section_11_2 Part Fourth, 3:11], proposed 03/14/1894, 1894-17, adopted 09/12/1894, 1894-65; "All Lodges in Boston shall demand, as the fee for initiating, crafting, and raising a Mason, not less than fifty dollars, including the fee to the Grand Lodge. Two or more Lodges located in any city or town, except Boston, shall agree upon a minimum fee of not less than twenty-five dollars; and in case they cannot agree, the fee shall be fixed by the Grand Master. No reduction shall be made in the fees for degrees required by a Lodge, excepting by a two-thirds vote of the Grand Lodge. No Lodge under this jurisdiction shall charge less than twenty-five dollars for the degrees, or take a note of hand for the fees, or grant any tune of Credit therefor, or confer any degree gratuitously or without the regular charge therefor, or return any fees after the three degrees have been conferred."</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsGC1843#Section_11_2 Part Fourth, 3:11], proposed 03/14/1894, 1894-17, adopted 09/12/1894, 1894-65; "All Lodges in Boston shall demand, as the fee for initiating, crafting, and raising a Mason, not less than fifty dollars, including the fee to the Grand Lodge. Two or more Lodges located in any city or town, except Boston, shall agree upon a minimum fee of not less than twenty-five dollars; and in case they cannot agree, the fee shall be fixed by the Grand Master. No reduction shall be made in the fees for degrees required by a Lodge, excepting by a two-thirds vote of the Grand Lodge. No Lodge under this jurisdiction shall charge less than twenty-five dollars for the degrees, or take a note of hand for the fees, or grant any tune of Credit therefor, or confer any degree gratuitously or without the regular charge therefor, or return any fees after the three degrees have been conferred."</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''Grand Lodge Committee Report''', 06/10/1891, 1891-61, and 09/09/1891, 1891-82, to raise the fee to fifty dollars for any city and forty dollars in any town; an extensive report of the committee was provided and a discussion permitted. The proposal was postponed.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''Grand Lodge Committee Report''', 06/10/1891, 1891-61, and 09/09/1891, 1891-82, to raise the fee to fifty dollars for any city and forty dollars in any town; an extensive report of the committee was provided and a discussion permitted. The proposal was postponed.</div></td></tr>
</table>Hotc1733http://www.masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsGC2012_PART_IV&diff=50294&oldid=prevHotc1733: /* Sec. 402. APPLICATIONS FOR INITIATION: PAPERWORK */2014-04-28T02:43:12Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Sec. 402. APPLICATIONS FOR INITIATION: PAPERWORK</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** '''Grand Lodge Committee Report''', 12/09/1863, VI-483 (1863-24), on the powers of District Deputy Grand Masters, a [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsEdicts1850-1899#Candidates report] provided a definition of a candidate, and recommended the following directive: "Ordered: That it shall not be regular hereafter for any Lodge, which does not usually issue written or printed notification of its meetings to ballot upon any application for the degrees where there is a dispensation therefor, at any but stated monthly meetings without written or printed notifications to the members of the Lodge, with the name of their Candidate borne thereon." ''Note: at some point this text was incorporated into [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsGC1843#Section_1_19 Part Fourth, 3:1].''</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** '''Grand Lodge Committee Report''', 12/09/1863, VI-483 (1863-24), on the powers of District Deputy Grand Masters, a [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsEdicts1850-1899#Candidates report] provided a definition of a candidate, and recommended the following directive: "Ordered: That it shall not be regular hereafter for any Lodge, which does not usually issue written or printed notification of its meetings to ballot upon any application for the degrees where there is a dispensation therefor, at any but stated monthly meetings without written or printed notifications to the members of the Lodge, with the name of their Candidate borne thereon." ''Note: at some point this text was incorporated into [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsGC1843#Section_1_19 Part Fourth, 3:1].''</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** ''Amended 12/12/1877, 1877-276, to include the name and date at which a candidate might have previously applied for admission in the candidate application.''</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** ''Amended 12/12/1877, 1877-276, to include the name and date at which a candidate might have previously applied for admission in the candidate application.''</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** ''Amended 06/12/1878, 1878-50, revised 09/11/1878, 1878-87, to read: "All applications for initiation shall be made in writing, under the signature of the applicant, and in the following form:" (form as on VI-28) "No candidate shall be balloted for who has not been proposed at a stated monthly Communication, and who shall not have stood so proposed from one regular monthly Communication to another, without a dispensation therefor; nor shall a candidate, in any event, be balloted for, into whose moral character a strict inquiry has not been made, and whose name has not been borne on the notifications for the meeting at which he is to be balloted for. It shall not be regular hereafter for any Lodge, which does not usually issue written or printed notification of its meetings to ballot upon any application for the degrees where there is a dispensation therefor, at any but stated monthly Communications, without written or printed notifications to the members of the Lodge, with the name of their Candidate borne thereon." ''</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** ''Amended 06/12/1878, 1878-50, revised 09/11/1878, 1878-87, to read: "All applications for initiation shall be made in writing, under the signature of the applicant, and in the following form:" (form as on VI-28) "No candidate shall be balloted for who has not been proposed at a stated monthly Communication, and who shall not have stood so proposed from one regular monthly Communication to another, without a dispensation therefor; nor shall a candidate, in any event, be balloted for, into whose moral character a strict inquiry has not been made, and whose name has not been borne on the notifications for the meeting at which he is to be balloted for. It shall not be regular hereafter for any Lodge, which does not usually issue written or printed notification of its meetings to ballot upon any application for the degrees where there is a dispensation therefor, at any but stated monthly Communications, without written or printed notifications to the members of the Lodge, with the name of their Candidate borne thereon." ''</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* ''1937-81, 06/09/1937, refers to [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsEdicts1900-1949#Applicants_.28Pre-Application_Statement.29 remarks] by Grand Master [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMAllen Allen] regarding the statement to be filed with the Pre-Application Committee. The full text of this statement appears on Page 1937-82.''</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* ''1937-81, 06/09/1937, refers to [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsEdicts1900-1949#Applicants_.28Pre-Application_Statement.29 remarks] by Grand Master [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMAllen Allen] regarding the statement to be filed with the Pre-Application Committee. The full text of this statement appears on Page 1937-82.''</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* ''1953-63, 03/11/1953, refers to [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsEdicts1950-1999#Investigating_Committees remarks] by Grand Master [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMRoy Roy] regarding investigations of candidates. "An applicant for the degrees was reported on favorably by the committee of investigation and elected to receive the degrees, in spite of the fact he had both court and jail records. . .  One of the most important items of information that should be secured is this: regardless of his apparently blameless character, is the applicant the kind of person who, when he becomes a member, will use the ballot box to avenge himself on one personally objectionable to him. The success of Masonry is determined by the quality of men we take into our membership. We cannot be too careful in screening." ''</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* ''1953-63, 03/11/1953, refers to [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=MassachusettsEdicts1950-1999#Investigating_Committees remarks] by Grand Master [http://masonicgenealogy.com/MediaWiki/index.php?title=GMRoy Roy] regarding investigations of candidates. "An applicant for the degrees was reported on favorably by the committee of investigation and elected to receive the degrees, in spite of the fact he had both court and jail records. . .  One of the most important items of information that should be secured is this: regardless of his apparently blameless character, is the applicant the kind of person who, when he becomes a member, will use the ballot box to avenge himself on one personally objectionable to him. The success of Masonry is determined by the quality of men we take into our membership. We cannot be too careful in screening." ''</div></td></tr>
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