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126 shall not issue any Masonic writing under their private seal or seals.

If the Grand Master in person attend the ceremony, the Lodge is said to be constituted in ; if the Deputy Grand Master only, it is said to be constituted in ; but if the power of performing the ceremony be vested in any other person, it is said to be constituted in.

CONSECRATION.

On the day and hour appointed, the Grand Master and his officers, or their representatives and proxies, meet in a convenient room near the Lodge to be consecrated, and open in the Third degree.

After the officers of the new Lodge are examined, they send a messenger to the Grand Master, with the following message:


 * The officers and brethren of . . . . . . Lodge, who are now assembled at . . . . . ., have instructed me to inform you, that the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge was pleased to grant them a charter, authorizing them to form and open a Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons in the town of . . . . . . They are now desirous that their Lodge should be consecrated, and their officers installed in due and ancient form; for which purpose they are now met, and await the pleasure of the Most Worshipful Grand Master.

The Grand Lodge then walk in procession to the hall of the new Lodge. When the Grand Master enters, the grand honors are given by the new Lodge; the officers of which resign their seats to the Grand officers, and take their several stations on the left.

If the ceremonies are to be performed in public, the Grand Marshal then forms the procession in the following order: