CONVERSE DALHOUSIE Malden Braintree DELTA DE WITT CLINTON Sandwich DORCHESTER ELIOT EUREKA FELLOWSHIP FRANKLIN FRATERNAL FRIENDSHIP GOLDEN FLEECE GOLDEN RULE GRANITE GRECIAN HAMMATT HAYDEN HENRY PRICE HIRAM HOWARD HYDE PARK JOHN HANCOCK KILWINNING Dorchester . W. Willis I. Foss. W. John W. Fisher. W. William S. Wallace. Bro. Theodore L. Southback. W. George M. Rogers. W. Henry B. Prescott. W. Elisha H. Fisher. Bro. Lyman A. Pratt. Bro. John H. C. Hadley. R.W. Edward L. Chase. W. Edward N. Eames. W. G. Sidney MacFarlane. Bro. Elmer C. Richardson. Bro. Harmon O. Nelson. R.W. Charles H. Littlefield. East Boston. W. Ira P. Smith. JOHN T. HEARD JOSEPH WARREN KING CYRUS KING PHILIP KONOHASSETT Lowell Stoneham Provincetown Fall River Cohasset . . Bro. Franklin G. Graham. W. William H. Buswell. W. Chester P. Woodbury. W. Charles G. Cutter. R.W. Frank L. Weaver. W. Simeon C. Smith. R.W. Robert N. Hathaway. W. William H. Parker. Bro. Lincoln Bryant. W. Levi H. Howes. W. Zeno S. Parker. W. Harold S. Thomas. No. Brookfield. W. Sumner Holmes. Haverhill Framingham Cambridge . Waltham W. George F. Ridgway. R.W. John J. Van Valkenburgh. W. Samuel T. Garfield. W. Charles J. Sheppard. Millbury No. Eastern Brockton Lowell Watertown Hanover Plymouth . . R.W. Columbus Corey. W. Frederick Porter. W. Walter E. Johnson. W. Winslow B. Clark. W. George H. Dale. Bro. Edwin H. Gibson. W. Henry H. Litchfield. Whitman Boston Chelsea Quincy Haverhill Foxboro SAINT JAMES Mansfield W. George W. Harring. W. Roy F. Allen. W. George F. Wright. W. Henry E. Fairbanks. W. William W. Neifert. R.W. Benjamin J. Warton. W. George M. R. Holmes. E. Bridgewater. R.W. Charles F. Mann. W. Charles W. Peare. W. Harry W. Kimball. R.W. Daniel J. Strain. W. Philip T. Nickerson. Bro. Albert A. Chamberlain. R.W. Albert N. Ellis. W. William A. Maxwell. W. Thomas Bevington. W. Isaac H. Eddy. R.W. Albert G. Brock. Bro. Robert E. Dillon. W. Frederick W. Klemm. W. John M. Crawford. R.W. Arthur D. Prince. W. Ernest W. Hatch. W. Edmund S. Willard. R.W. George E. Fenn. GRAND MASTER'S ADDRESS. The M.W. Grand Master delivered the following address: BRETHREN OF THE GRAND LODGE: In January I addressed to the Brethren an encyclical letter in which I advised the abolition of the office of Corresponding Grand Secretary, and the striking out of the word "Recording" from the title of the Recording Grand Secretary. For more years than I have been a Mason the office of Corresponding Grand Secretary has been an honorary office only. It has been held for many years by an illustrious Brother, but I am not aware that he has ever been called upon to perform any services for the Grand Lodge in connection with the office. R.W. Brothers Davis and Nickerson have been discharging the duties of correspondence as well as of record and all other duties appertaining to the position. Retention of the office is misleading, and now that R.W. Brother Richardson has declined reappointment to it it seems to me better to abolish the office entirely. You will therefore notice that no Brother has been appointed to that position for the current Masonic year. I suggest that amendments be made to the Grand Constitutions for the purpose of carrying this recommendation into effect, and accordingly have appointed a committee to consider such amendments as are necessary, and to report at the June Communication. I also recommend striking out the last sentence of Part Three, Article I, Section 1 of the Grand Constitutions, and have referred this matter to the same committee. COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE. Nearly every jurisdiction in this country as well as most of those abroad has a Committee on Correspondence. This committee annually reviews the Proceedings of other Grand Lodges, printing the same in connection with the Proceedings of the home Grand Lodge for the current year, thereby giving the Brethren of each jurisdiction an opportunity to become informed as to the Proceedings in all other jurisdictions. Massachusetts never has had such a committee and many criticisms have been aimed at us on that account. Indeed a few Committees on Correspondence have been childish enough to say that they would no longer review the Proceedings of Massachusetts inasmuch as Massachusetts did not review the Proceedings of their jurisdictions. In other words, that they would deprive the Brethren in their own jurisdictions of information concerning Massachusetts, though supplying it as to the rest of the Masonic world, simply because Massachusetts does not have the custom of printing a report from a Committee on Correspondence. This matter is somewhat akin to those already referred to the committee, and I am asking the same committee to consider this whole subject, reviewing the situation and advising the Grand Lodge whether in its opinion we should adopt the custom common to almost all other Grand Lodges, or whether we should proceed as we have heretofore in this connection. NECROLOGY. The funeral of our late Brother R.W. Thomas W. Davis occurred the day following the Stated Communication for the celebration of the Feast of Saint John the Evangelist. While there were no Masonic services there were many officers and members of the Grand Lodge present to pay their last tribute of respect to his memory. The Grand Master was accompanied by M.W. William David McPherson, Grand Master of Masons in Canada for the Province of Ontario. Among those who were also present I noted the Deputy Grand Master, R.W. and Rev. Frederick W. Hamilton, Past Grand Masters Charles T. Gallagher, Dana J. 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