before all the members of the grand Lodge, upon the first Wednesdays in March, June, September, and December, yearly.

8. So far as this committee shall exercise the power vested in them, to hear complaints and punish delinquents, according to the laws of the craft, they are instructed to adhere most religiously to the following regulation, viz. If a complaint be made against a 'brother, by another brother, and he be found guil" ty, he shall stand to the determination of this com'mittee, or the grand lodge. But if the accuser or ' complainant cannot support his charge, he shall incur such penalty as the said committee shall deem just.'

9. THE Steward's Lodge shall meet quarterly, as follows, viz. On the last Wednesday in February, May, August, and November, annually; at which times the dues of the Lodges in the city of New-York are to be paid, and in default thereof, each negligent lodge shall be precluded from the benefits and privileges of the grand Lodge, during such default or negligence.

RESOLVED, It is the opinion of this grand lodge, that a brotherly connection and correspondence with the Right Worshipful Grand Lodges in North-America, France, England, Scotland, Ireland, and the West-Indies, will be productive of honor and advantage to the craft.'

ORDERED, That the Grand Secretary shall trans'mit the names of the officers of this Grand Lodge to the Secretaries of the Grand Lodges aforesaid, year⚫ly, or as often as any new choice is made; together ' with such information as may tend to the honor and ⚫ interest of the ancient craft: And that all such in'formation, or correspondence shall be conveyed in the most respectful terms, such as may suit the ho nor and dignity of the craft.'

CHAPTER IV..

CHARGES, PRAYERS, &c.

A short CHARGE to a new admitted MɅSON.

BROTHER,

You

OU are now admitted by the consent of this lodge, a fellow of our most ancient and honorable Society ancient, as having subsisted from time immemorial-and honorable, as tending in every particular to do honor to those who conform to its noble precepts. The greatest monarchs, and most exalted heroes and patriots, of all ages and countries throughout the known world, have been encouragers of the Royal Art ; and many of them have presided as Grand Masters in their respective territories; not thinking it any lessening of their dignities to level themselves with their brethren in Masonry, and to act upon the same square as they did.

THE World's GREAT ARCHITECT is our Supreme Master; and the unerring rule he has given us, is that by which we work. Religious disputes are never suffered within the Lodge; for, as Masons, we only pursue the universal religion of nature. This is the centre which unites the most different principles in one sacred band, and brings together those who were the most distant from one another.

THERE are three general heads of duty which Masons ought always to inculcate, viz. to God, our neighbour and ourselves,-to God, in never mentioning his name but with that reverential awe which a creature. ought to bear to his Creator, and to look upon him always as the summum bonum which we came into the world to enjoy, and according to that view to regu

A PRATER said at the opening of the Lodge or making a new Brother, &c. used by Jewish Free Masons.

O LORD, excellent art thou in thy truth, and there is nothing great in comparison to thee; for thine is the praise from all the works of thy hands, for ever

more.

ENLIGHTEN us, we beseech thee, in the true knowledge of Masonry: By the sorrows of Adam, thy first made man by the blood of Abel, the holy one; by the righteousness of Seth, in whom thou art well pleased; and by thy covenant with Noah, in whose architecture thou wast pleased to save the seed of thy beloved; number us not among those that know not thy statutes, nor the divine mysteries of thy secret Cabala.

BUT grant, we beseech thee, that the ruler of this lodge may be endued with knowledge and wisdom, to instruct us and explain his secret mysteries, as our holy brother Moses* did (in his Lodge) to Aaron, to

*In the preface to the Mishna, we find this tradi tion of the Jews explained as follows:

GOD not only delivered the law to Moses on Mount Sinai, but the explanation of it likewise: When Moses came down from the mount and entered into his tent, Aaron went to visit him, and Moses acquaint ed Aaron with the laws he had received from God, to gether with the explanation of them: After this, Aaron placed himself at the right hand of Moses, and Elea zar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron, were admitted, to whom Moses repeated what he had just before told to Aaron These being seated, the one on the right hand the other on the left hand of Moses, the seventy elders of Israel, who compose the Sanhedrium, came in, and Moses again declared the same laws to them, with the interpretation of them, as he had done before to Aaron and his sons. Lastly, all who pleased of the common people were invited to enter, and Mosés instructed them likewise in the same manner as the rest. So that Aaron heard four times what Moses had

Eleazer and Ithaina, the sons of Aaron, and the several elders of Israel.

AND grant that we may understand, learn and keep all the statutes and commands of the Lord, and this holy mystery, pure and undefiled unto our lives end. Amen Lord.

A PRAYER used amongst the Primitive Christian MA

SONS.

THE might of the Father of Heaven, and the wisdom of his glorious Son, through the grace and goodness of the Holy Ghost, being three persons in one Godhead, be with us at our beginning, and give us grace so to govern us here in our living, that we may come to his bliss that never shall have end. Amen.

Another PRAYER, and that which is most general at Making or Opening.

MOST holy and glorious Lord God, thou great arehitect of heaven and earth, who art the giver of all good gifts and graces, and hast promised that when two or three are gathered together in thy name, thou will be in the midst of them: In thy name we assemble and meet together, most humbly beseeching thee to bless us in all our undertakings, that we may know and serve thee aright, that all our doings may tend to thy glory and the salvation of our souls.

AND we beseech thee, O Lord God, to bless this our present undertaking, and grant that this our new brother may dedicate his life to thy service, and be a true and faithful brother among us: Endue him with

been taught by God upon Mount Sinai; Eleazer and Ithamar three times, the seventy elders twice, and the people once. Moses afterwards reduced the laws which he had received into writing, but not the expla nations of them: these he thought it sufficient to trust to the memories of the above-mentioned persons, who being perfectly instructed in them, delivered them to their children, and these again to theirs, from age to age.