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This organization shall be known as ""

Affiliated Master Masons, their wives, daughters, legally adopted daughters, mothers, sisters and half-sisters; also the widows, daughters, legally adopted daughters, mothers, sisters and half-sisters of Master Masons who were affiliated at the time of their death, are eligible to membership in this Order, provided that all petitioners shall have attained to at least the age of eighteen years.

The government of the Order is vested in three bodies, named respectively in the order of their rank, General Grand Chapter, Grand Chapter and Subordinate Chapter.