By-laws of Mary commandery, no.36, masonic knights templar. Code of templar laws, etc |
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appointment ARTICLE Assembly in April asylum ballot Bossert BURKHARDT BY-LAWS Captain certificate Chapeau Chartered Commanderies Chas conclave confer the Orders constituted DANIEL SUTTER deries dimit Dispensation due notice duly elected Eminent Commander FRANK MILLS Frederick Generalissimo George George W Grand and Past Grand Commander Grand Commandery Grand Encampment Grand Master Grand Recorder HAMILTON Harry HECK Henry inches installed Jacob James James L Joseph July 20 June 12 jurisdiction KELLY Knighthood or membership LEWIS GROSS Lodge or Chapter mandery MARY COMMANDERY MASONIC KNIGHTS TEMPLAR MEYER Miller NELSON BATTEN nent Commander Orders of Knighthood Past Commander PATRIARCHAL CROSS Pennsylvania petition petitioner PHILADELPHIA rejected Robert Samuel Sept SIR CHARLES SIR HORACE FRITZ SIR JOHN H SIR JOHN WILSON Sir Knights SIR WILLIAM SIR WILLIAM H SIR WM Subordinate Commandery suspension or expulsion Sword Bearer Templar law Thomas Treasurer TRUSTEES UNAFFILIATED KNIGHTS vote William H
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Page 18 - After a dispensation is granted to form a new Commandery, the membership of the Knights who petitioned therefor remains in abeyance as to the older Commanderies to which they belonged when signing the petition. They become active members of the Commandery while under dispensation, and when a charter is granted, and the Commandery constituted, they continue to be members of the new Commandery, and cease to be members of the old one.
Page 26 - The military chapeau, trimmed with black binding, one white and two black plumes, and appropriate cross on the left side. Gauntlets. — Of buff leather, the flap to extend four inches upwards from the wrist, and to have the appropriate cross embroidered in gold, on the proper colored velvet, two inches in length.
Page 20 - Every petition for the Orders of Knighthood shall declare the Lodge and Chapter in which the petitioner received the degrees, and shall state whether he has or has not been previously rejected by any Commandery.
Page 12 - Expulsion, or suspension from his Masonic rights by his Lodge or Chapter, deprives a Knight of all rights and privileges in his Commandery, and of all intercourse with the Order.
Page 26 - Five inches wide in the whole, of white bordered with black, one inch on either side, a strip of navy lace one-fourth of an inch wide at the inner edge of the black. On the front centre of the scarf, a metal star of nine points, in allusion to the nine founders of the Temple Order, inclosing the Passion Cross, surrounded by the Latin motto, ' In hoc signo vinces ; ' the star to be three and three-quarter inches in diameter. The scarf to be worn from the right shoulder to the left hip, with the ends...
Page 27 - DISTINCTIONS. — The Sir Knights will wear white metal, wherever metal appears. Commanders and Past Commanders, Grand and Past Grand Officers, gold. CROSSES. — Sir Knights, Commanders, and Past Commanders of Subordinate Commanderies will wear the PASSION CROSS; Grand and Past Grand Officers of State Commanderies, the...
Page 16 - In the absence of a Statute of the proper Grand Commandery, or of a special Edict of the Grand Encampment, defining the limits of each Commandery, the jurisdiction thereof, whether Chartered or under dispensation, extends in all directions to one-half the distance, by a direct line, between itself and the next nearest Commandery...
Page 12 - When a Commandery has ceased to exist, its members may join another Commandery, upon petition, and certificate from the Grand Recorder of the State holding the Charter and papers of the extinct Commandery that his standing therein was good when said Commandery ceased to exist. 5. Charter, when it may be surrendered.