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CONSTITUTIONS AND REGULATIONS OF THE MOST WORSHIPFUL GRAND LODGE OF MASONS IN MASSACHUSETTS

The original Constitutions for the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts were compiled by a committee appointed by Most Wor. John Cutler, Grand Master, in April 1792. They are reproduced in the front of Volume II of the Proceedings, covering the years 1792-1815. A revised form of the Grand Constitutions appeared in June 1811, and is reproduced in the same volume of the Proceedings starting on Page II-515. This edition of the Grand Constitutions was prepared by a committee headed by John Dixwell, a future Grand Master, and was the foundation of all future revisions to the Grand Constitutions (made by amendments voted upon by the Grand Lodge and reported in the Proceedings.) At certain intervals the entirety of the Grand Constitutions was reprinted in the Proceedings. Each new full revision is reproduced below, with annotations for intervening amendment and revision.

• 1792 Grand Constitutions
• 1811 Grand Constitutions

CORPORATION BY-LAWS

Subsequent to the Act of Incorporation, the Grand Constitutions were reworked as a set of by-laws for the regulation of the Grand Lodge. Most of the text of the 1819 By-Laws comes from the 1811 Grand Constitutions, but there are some significant differences in procedure and some notable additions not considered in the earlier document. This set of by-laws was considered and revised during 1818 and was published in the Proceedings with the September, 1819 Quarterly communication.

• 1819 By-Laws

ACTS OF INCORPORATION

• 1817 Act of Incorporation