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Rh INSTALLATION OF THE OFFICERS OF A NEW LODGE.

The Lodge having been thus Consecrated, Dedicated, and Constituted, it is next required that the officers be installed.

The Grand Master or presiding officer says to his Deputy:

Right Worshipful Deputy, have you carefully examined the Master nominated in the Warrant, and do you find him well skilled in the mystic art?

The Deputy replies:

Most Worshipful Grand Master, I have carefully examined and so find him.

The Grand Master says:

You will then present him at the pedestal for installation.

The Deputy taking the Master elect from among his fellows, presents him at the pedestal, saying:

Most Worshipful Grand Master, I present my worthy Brother, A. B., to be installed Worshipful Master of this new Lodge. I find him to be of good morals and of great skill, true and trusty; and as he is a lover of the fraternity, wheresoever dispersed over the face of the earth, I doubt not that he will discharge his duty with fidelity and with honor.

The Master then faces his brethren, and the Grand Master says:

Brethren, you now behold before the pedestal, Brother A. B., who has been duly nominated