for whom Most Worshipful Charles T. Gallagher will later make a recommendation which has my entire endorsement.

GEORGE E. FENN WILL.

Worshipful Brother George E. Fenn, of Melrose, died May 28, 1915, leaving a will dated June 8, 1905, and codicils dated May 7, 1913, and February 13, 1915, probated in Middlesex County on June 28, 1915. After certain specific legacies, he establishes a Trust Fund. The following clause is operative after the death of the beneficiary, viz.:

"First, I give and bequeath to the Masonic Educational and Charity Trust, a corporation duly established by law, the sum of Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000) to be known as the George E. Fenn Charity Fund. The income of said fund shall be used for charity of the Grand Lodge of Masons of Massachusetts at the discretion of said corporation."

Nothing has yet been received under this will.

ISAAC H. EDDY WILL.

Brother Isaac H. Eddy, of Boston, died August 30, 1915, leaving a will dated November 22, 1911, and a codicil dated October 17, 1913, probated in Suffolk County on October 7, 1915. After certain specific legacies he leaves a trust for the benefit of his wife during her life, after which the following clause becomes operative, viz.:

"Eighth. To the proper officers, committee, trustees, or whoever of the Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts may be authorized to receive it, I give the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000) for the benefit of the Masonic Home at Charlton in this state."

Nothing has yet been received under this will.

AMENDMENT OF CHARTER.

Under the Charter granted us by the Commonwealth the Grand Lodge is entitled to hold real estate to the value of $2,000,000, and personal property to the amount of $200,000. Owing to the tremendous increase in valuation of our real estate, now set at $1,540,000, and the real estate owned by the Grand Lodge and occupied for the Masonic Home, we are rapidly approaching the figures named for real estate, and if our Curiosities of the Craft are valued as they would be by a library or museum we already have more personal property than we are authorized to hold. I recommend that the Grand Master be given authority to petition the Legislature to increase the amount of real estate we are authorized to hold to $5,000,000, and the amount of personal property we are authorized to hold to $1,000,000.

In view of the amount of funds in the Masonic Education and Charity Trust, I also recommend that the Grand Master be authorized to petition the Legislature to increase the amount of funds which the Trust is entitled to hold to $5,000,000.

REGALIA.

Acting in accordance with the vote of the Grand Lodge of December 9, 1914 (1914 Mass. 353, 364) constitutional regalia has been obtained for the Grand Master and Deputy Grand Master. That of the Grand Master was made by the firm which in London has manufactured regalia for the Grand Lodge of England for more than a century. No one could be found in this country who could manufacture it

properly. Using that regalia and pictures from abroad as patterns, it has been found possible to manufacture the remainder of the regalia in this country, and that will gradually be done.

(A statement made by the Recording Grand Secretary on December 14, 1881, with regard to regalia [1881 Mass. 224] is incorrect so far as it intimates that the regalia of the elected officers was in strict conformity with the requirements of the Constitution. The then Secretary, usually very accurate, was apparently in this instance over-appreciative of the gift which had been made to the Grand Lodge.)

PROCEEDINGS OF 1914.

It may interest you to know that Masonic Reviewers all over the world have been cordial in their commendation of our volume of printed Proceedings for 1914. For instance, Past Grand Master Block of Iowa devotes sixteen printed pages to Massachusetts saying:

"This volume of Proceedings is so full of the very best things that transpire in the Masonic world that we propose to give it much more space in our review than is ordinarily awarded to one state." (1915 Iowa Correspondence Report 129.)

And Past Provincial Grand Master Brigham of New Zealand says:

"The volume which chronicles the transactions of this jurisdiction is the largest which has so far reached our table. It is also the most comprehensive, contains many most interesting portraits and other illustrations, whilst that dignity and regularity which should adorn a