the Independent and Regular Grand Lodge for France and the Colonies for that purpose be declined. CHARLES T. GALLAGHER. DANA J. FLANDERS. EVERETT C. BENTON. HENRY J. MILLS. The report was accepted and the recommendation adopted. COMMITTEE ON RECOGNITION OF FOREIGN JURISDICTIONS. M.W. Brother Charles T. Gallagher presented the following report: IN GRAND LODGE, June 9, A.D. 1915. To the Master, Wardens, and Members of the Grand Lodge. BRETHREN: On the 10th day of December, 1913, a Committee was appointed, consisting of Charles T. Gallagher, Dana J. Flanders, Melvin M. Johnson, Thomas W. Davis, and Henry J. Mills, to consider the general question of recognition of foreign jurisdictions as referred to by Grand Master M.W. Brother Benton in his Annual Address. On the election of our M.W. Brother Johnson as Grand Master he resigned and Brother Benton was appointed in his place. Without considering whether this Committee and its work expired by limitation in December last they report at this time asking to be relieved of the further consideration of the subject. The terrible condition of affairs in Europe, involving every Masonic jurisdiction to such an extent that any satisfactory consideration of the subject cannot be thought of for months and perhaps years, is a sufficient reason for asking to be relieved. For the Committee, CHARLES T. GALLAGHER, Chairman. The report was accepted and the Committee was discharged. ADDITIONAL REAL ESTATE AT CHARLTON. The Most Worshipful Grand Master informed the Grand Lodge that the purchase of additional land at Charlton, authorized at the March Communication of the Grand Lodge, had not been made for the reason that the title to the land in question was not satisfactory. M.W. Brother Dana J. Flanders then presented the following vote of the Board of Masonic Relief and offered the accompanying resolution. At the regular meeting of the Board of Masonic Relief held at the Masonic Home, Charlton, on June 5, 1915, the following vote was carried unanimously. Most Worshipful Brother Dana J. Flanders moved that the Most Worshipful Grand Master be requested to recommend to the Grand Lodge at its next Communication on June 9, 1915, the purchase of a tract of land, known as the Burlingame lot, so called, consisting of twenty (20) acres, more or less, and containing a very desirable water supply. This land adjoins "Overlook" on the south. Price two thousand (2,000) dollars. A true copy. Attest. EDMUND S. YOUNG, Clerk, Resolved: That the Most Worshipful Grand Master be authorized and empowered to cause to be examined the title of that parcel of real estate of twenty (20) acres more or less, in the town of Charlton, with the appurtenances thereunto belonging, known as the Burlingame lot, which property is adjoining the estate known as the "Masonic Home" and if the report on such title is satisfactory to purchase said real estate for and in the name of the "Master, Wardens, and Members of the Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts," the purchase price not to exceed the sum of two thousand (2,000) dollars, and such amount not to exceed two thousand (2,000) dol |