Bon Accord Mark Masons.

BON ACCORD MARK MASONS .

The subjoined is the last letter ive shall publish on the subject of the Bon Accord , thinking that more than enough has been said with regard to it . The Book of Constitutions clearly defines , that " Chair Masters " Lodges shall only be hill by Charter from the Grand Chapter of Scotland —and the only three unattached to Chapters ever granted , were No . 1 , Kinross , 21 st December , 1842 ; 2 , —Defensive Board of Edinburgh , 21 st

December , 1842 ; and 3 , —St . John ' s of Manchester , 21 st March , 1845 . This last led to some difficulty , owing to a brother taking the P . M . degree in it , having claimed to sit as a l' . M . in an English Lodge which of course could not be allowed , he having never been regularly installed into the chair . The result of tin ' s was , that on March 12 , 1848—we are quoting from Minutes of G . Chapter published in the Book of Constitutions—it

was resolved , "To abrogate the law chap . IV ., par . 35 , by which the Supreme Chapter agrees to issue warrants constituting Lodges to confer the degree of Mark and Past Master , and to enact and declare , that the power of granting these degrees shall be vested in Chapters only , as formerly declared by a resolution of the Supreme Chapter , dated IGth September , 1846 . " Now as the Aberdeen Bon Accord Chapter did not obtain its own Charter until two years after the above resolution was

passed , abrogating the power even of Grand Chapter , to grant " Chair Master" Charters ; it is clear it could have no right to issue any such charter , and it cannot be asserted that the Bon Accord of London has a charter for a Chapter , in which only the above resolution declares shall the degrees of Past or Mark Masons be given . That Comp . Gaylor was perfectly right with regard ( o the necessity of Comp . Jones being

registered on the books of the G . Chapter of Scotland—notwithstanding anything Comp . Keltic may say to the contrary , —is shown by the following extract , from resolutions also passed on March 12 , 1848 . "That no companion whose name is not registered iu the books of the Supreme Chapter , shall , be eligible to be a member thereof or to be an office bearer in any subordinate Lodge . " "Affiliated Comps . from Chapters

not under S . G . C . of Scotland , must be recorded and have their diploma from the Chapter in which , affiliated , and all fees paid before they can hold any office in any Chapter under the Rule of S . G . C . of Scotland . " Wc think that the question of legalising the " Mark Degree" in England , is now about to be satisfactorily settled , and we shall , therefore , decline to go any further into the quarrel in which the Aberdeen Chapter has brought itself with the Grand Chapter of Scotland .

To the Editor of lite Masonic Mirror . . . Aberdeen , IWi Ocloicr , 1855 . SIR , —In tire fast number of the Mirror , I promised to show "the glaring amount ofignorance displayed" by W . Gaylor , Scribe N . in reference to tho other members " forming the London Bon Accord" Mark Master Lodge . As I wish to be correct ,