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How a Lodge governs itself. Membership, officers, jurisprudence.

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Business

How a Lodge governs itself. Membership, officers, jurisprudence.

What Pound's Masonic Jurisprudence and the published Grand Lodge codes describe: how a Lodge comes to exist (charter, dispensation, by-laws), how it admits men (petition, investigation, ballot), how it handles trouble (trials and discipline), and how it lives inside a larger structure of Grand Lodges with their published doctrine of exclusive territorial jurisdiction. Plain practical Masonry.

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Later chapters in this theme

  1. Structure, Etiquette, and the Wider Family
  2. Form and Furniture of the Lodge
  3. Lodge Furniture
  4. Landmarks, Constitutions, and the Grand Lodge
  5. The Investigation Committee
  6. Masonic Trials and Discipline
  7. The Ballot
  8. Charter and By-laws
  9. Grand Lodge and Subordinate Lodge
  10. The Annual Return
  11. Dues Notices and the Member Roll
  12. Minutes, Records, and the Lodge's Written Memory
  13. Petitions, Investigations, and Ballot Paperwork
  14. Lodge Correspondence and Reporting Discipline

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