stating his age, occupation and residence, and the degree to which he has arrived in Masonry, and be recommended by at least two members of the Chapter or Lodge to which he applies, when a Committee of Inquiry of three members (excluding the recommending members) shall be appointed, who shall report at the next or some subsequent stated meeting, and if the report be favorable, the applicant may be ballotted for at a stated meeting, and receiving a unanimous vote shall be declared to be approved or elected.

SEC. 5. An applicant for the degrees and membership, or for membership only, may withdraw his petition before report thereon, or after report and before ballot, if the report be favorable.

SEC. 6. An applicant being once rejected, a second ballot may be had on motion to that effect duly made and seconded at one stated meeting and adopted at the next or a subsequent stated meeting'; but the ballot so allowed shall be taken at the next stated meeting after the adoption of such motion. Provided, That due notice of the taking of such ballot shall be given to every member.

SEC. 7. An applicant being twice rejected, no further proceedings shall be had in his case, but by appeal to the Grand Chapter; and no Chapter or Lodge shall act upon the petition of an applicant who has been rejected in another Chapter or Lodge respectively, without the consent of the Grand Chapter, after notice to the Chapter or Lodge in which he has been rejected.

SEC. 8. If the application is for membership only, the companion or brother must produce a certificate from the Chapter or Most Excellent or Mark Master's Lodge, to which he last belonged, or other satisfactory proof

that he is not at the time of his application a member of any Chapter or Most Excellent or Mark Master's Lodge respectively.

SEC. 9. Should an applicant for the degrees and membership, or for membership only, neglect to come forward within six months from the time he is approved or elected, all proceedings in such case shall be null and void, and a new application must be made as in

the first instance

At the Quarterly Communication of the Grand Chapter, held May 16, A. D. 1864, A. I 2394, the following amendment offered at the Quarterly Communication, held February 15, A. D. 1864, A. I. 2394, was adopted, to wit: In Art. XV. (F.), Sec. 6, add to the end of the section, the following words; "and that said second ballot shall be taken within six months from the date of the first rejection."

case of emergency, of which the Chapter or Lodge respectively shall be the judge, when the degrees may be conferred upon the same evening that the petition is presented.

SEC. 13. The Royal Arch degree shall not be conferred on a greater or less number than three at one and the same time.

SEC. 14. The Most Excellent Master's degree shall

stating his age, occupation and residence, and the degree to which he has arrived in Masonry, and be recommended by at least two members of the Chapter or Lodge to which he applies, when a Committee of Inquiry of three members (excluding the recommending members) shall be appointed, who shall report at the next or some subsequent stated meeting, and if the report be favorable, the applicant may be ballotted for

upon the petition of an applicant who has been rejected in another Chapter or Lodge respectively, without the consent of the Grand Chapter, after notice to the Chapter or Lodge in which he has been rejected.

SEC. 8. If the application is for membership only, the companion or brother must produce a certificate from the Chapter or Most Excellent or Mark Master's Lodge, to which he last belonged, or other satisfactory proof

that he is not at the time of his application a member of any Chapter or Most Excellent or Mark Master's Lodge respectively.

SEC. 9. Should an applicant for the degrees and membership, or for membership only, neglect to come forward within six months from the time he is approved or elected, all proceedings in such case shall be null and void, and a new application must be made as in the first instance.

SEC. 10. No Chapter shall exalt any one to the degree of a Royal Arch Mason for a less sum than ten dollars, nor shall any Chapter or Lodge make an M. E. M. for a less sum than three dollars, nor a Mark Master for a less sum than three dollars; but these fees may be remitted by a vote of a majority of the members present at any stated meeting: Provided, That no partial remission of the fees shall be allowed.

SEC. 11. The fees for conferring degrees shall, in all cases, be paid in advance, and in cash.

SEC. 12. A Chapter or Most Excellent or Mark Master's Lodge may confer the respective degrees. upon applicants as sojourners, without electing them members of the Chapter or Lodge. But the petitions must be presented, referred, and lie over one month, as in the case of applicants for membership; unless in case of emergency, of which the Chapter or Lodge respectively shall be the judge, when the degrees may be conferred upon the same evening that the petition is presented.

SEC. 13. The Royal Arch degree shall not be conferred on a greater or less number than three at one and the same time.

SEC. 14. The Most Excellent Master's degree shall

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not be conferred on a greater number than six at one and the same time.

SEC. 15. The Mark Master's degree shall not be conferred on a greater number than eighteen at one and the same time.

G.

MEMBERS.

SECTION 1. No mason shall be a member of two Chapters or Lodges at one and the same time; but a member of a warranted Most Excellent or Mark Master's Lodge may be a member of a Chapter; and a member of a warranted Mark Master's Lodge may be a member of a warranted Most Excellent Master's Lodge.

SEC. 2. The suspension or expulsion of a Royal Arch, Most Excellent or Mark Master Mason from a Blue Lodge, shall ipso facto work his suspension or expulsion from his Chapter and Most Excellent and Mark Master's Lodges.

SEC. 3. The suspension or expulsion of a Royal Arch Mason from his Chapter, shall ipso facto work his suspension or expulsion, from his Most Excellent and Mark Master's Lodges.

SEC. 4. The suspension or expulsion of a Royal Arch Mason from his Most Excellent or Mark Master's Lodge shall ipso facto work his suspension or expulsion from his Chapter.

SEC. 5. No Royal Arch, Most Excellent or Mark Master Mason shall continue to be a member of any Chapter or Most Excellent or Mark Master's Lodge for