Annual Reports of State Grand Bodies.

A reference to the correspondence will show the date of the reception of the several reports, and I do not deem it necessary to again repeat what I have so often urged concerning the importance of a prompt transmission of the returns, to avoid the necessity of changing the figures in the tables after they have been carefully prepared and sent to the printer. Such alterations are required every year by the delay of one or more reports to reach this office until August or September. The tables show that with the exception of the Grand Lodge of Chile, and the Grand Encampment of South Carolina, returns have been received from all the Subordinate Grand Bodies.