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1832

JOSEPH JENKINS, Grand Master

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QUARTERLY COMMUNICATIONS

• 03/14 (Masons Hall, Boston): IV-237;

• 06/13 (Masonic Temple, Boston): IV-258;
  • IV-262: Committee appointed to consider the expediency of celebrating a Centennial for the Grand Lodge.

• 09/12 (Masonic Temple, Boston): IV-263;
  • IV-265: A Circular by the Grand Lodge of Rhode Island was placed in the record, regarding calumnies against Masons.
    • Despite an assertion that "there is no evidence that the obnoxious and criminal clauses in the forms of oaths, contained in the antimasonic books ever made any part of the forms used in Rhode Island or indeed any where else . . . and a vast variety of reasoning and argument contained in sixty eight octavo pages, all or nearly all of which is not unfavorable to the Masonic Institution" - a committee from the Rhode Island legislature came to the conclusion "that the Masons owe it to the community, to themselves and sound principles to discontinue the Masonic institution." The resolve of the Grand Lodge of Rhode Island was that "no good can result either to the public or to Masons in adopting their recommendation - that in our view the clamorous leaders of antimasonry care not whether we meet in Lodges or Chapters - it is not the Institution of Masonry they are contending against: political power is the object. . . our duty is plain; which is that we manifest a determination peacefully to adhere to our institution through evil as well as through good report."

• 12/12 (Masonic Temple, Boston): IV-223; Annual Communication.
  • IV-269: Petition from Cassia Lodge for financial assistance; refused as Grand Lodge has a large debt, due to the building of the Temple.
  • IV-270: Grand Treasurer to provide the Golden Urn at every Quarterly.
  • IV-271: Communications from other Grand Lodges.
  • IV-271: Grand Lodge to procure a safe for the use of the Grand Lodge.
  • IV-271: Report of Committee on Finance.
  • IV-273: Report of Committee on Charity.
  • IV-274: Report of Trustees of the Charity Fund.
  • IV-275: Elijah Crane elected Grand Master. (Only 42 ballots cast.) Other Grand Lodge officers elected.

• 12/27 (Masonic Temple, Boston): IV-277:
  • IV-277: Installation of Grand Master Crane and other Grand Lodge officers.
  • IV-279: "Resolved, that in the commencement and completion of the spacious Masonic Edifice in which we are now for the first time assembled for the annual organization of the Grand Lodge and which is an object for Masonic pride and delight, we recofnize the enterprise, devotion, and perseverance of Grand Master Jenkins, and heartily acknowledge his faithful application of peculiar personal qualifications for conducting this arduous undertaking, under circumstances peculiarly discouraging to Masonic enterprise."
  • IV-280: Grand Lodge to donate the chandelier used in the Masonic Hall to Bethel Church.

PETITIONS FOR CHARTERS

None.

SPECIAL COMMUNICATIONS

• 01/25: IV-235; Grand Treasurer authorization; borrowing of additional money.

• 04/30: IV-239; Report of Building Committee.

• 05/30: IV-255; Dedication of the Temple.

GRAND LODGE TEMPLE HALL

• 01/25: IV-235; Building Committee authorized to borrow an additional $7,000; the Grand Treasurer was authorized to sign notes on behalf of the Grand Lodge.

• 03/14: IV-238; Committee on Dedication to fix the day of dedication.

• 04/30: IV-239ff; Building Committee reported on contributions and loan sources for the building of the Temple. Extensive report on details of the hall.

• 05/30: IV-255ff; Dedication of the Masonic Temple. Address by Rev. Bernard Whitman.

• 06/13: IV-259; Reports of Dedication and Building Committees. Thanks of the Grand Lodge voted to committees, particularly R.W. Gardner Greenleaf, the "Master Builder" of the Masonic Temple.

• 09/12: IV-264; Thanks and pieces of plate rendered to committee members and R.W. Greenleaf.

• 12/27: IV-279: Thanks rendered to Grand Master Jenkins.

A period engraving of the Temple as completed

LIST OF LODGES BY DISTRICT (with date of precedence): 1832

★ = Appeared in Grand Lodge in 1832.

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