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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 17

Relating to the R.W. Grand Lodge of New Zealand

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Relating to the R.W. Grand Lodge of New Zealand.

1. Whenever the sentence, "by a two-third vote," occurs

Meaning of "two-third" votes.

in the Constitution of this Grand Lodge, Or of a Subordinate Lodge, it shall mean two-thirds of all the members present entitled to vote.
2. All propositions offered in the Grand Lodge for reference

Propositions for Committees to be in writing, and duplicated.

to committees, must be submitted in duplicate, and upon paper equal in size to half a sheet of ordinary note paper.
3. All proposed amendments to the Constitution of the

Amendments to be written in extenso.

the Grand or Subordinate Lodges shall contain the section or sections written out in full, as proposed to be amended.
4. An Obituary Tablet shall be placed in the Journal,

Obituary Tablet.

upon which shall be recorded the names of such deceased members of this Grand Lodge as shall be announced at each Session, and such record shall be in lieu of resolutions relative thereto, except in case of the death of a Past Grand Master or Elective Grand Officer.
5. Officers of the Grand Lodge, who are by the Constitution

Officers not to vote as Representatives also.

entitled to vote, and as such officers do vote in the Grand Lodge, cannot also vote as Representatives.
6. On the call of the ayes and noes in the Grand Lodge,

Representatives alone, entitled to vote.

Representatives are entitled to but one vote each; and Past page 32 Grands, not Representatives, have no right to vote upon any question before the Grand Lodge.

Absentees may have their votes cast by colleagues.

7. A majority of Representatives present from a Lodge are permitted to cast the vote of the absentees of their Lodge, when the vote is taken by Lodges, and if there is but one Representative present from a Lodge, he can cast the full vote of his Lodge.

Who only are permitted to impart the secret work.

8. The Grand Master, his Deputy, a Representative to the Grand Lodge, or the Noble Grand, are the only ones who have the legal authority to impart instruction in the unwritten or secret work of the order in a Subordinate Lodge.

Lists of Lodge Representatives.

9. The R. W. Grand Secretary is required to make out a list from the semi-annual reports of the Subordinate Lodges, made on the 31st day of December in each year, of the number of Representatives to which each Lodge is entitled, and report the same to the Grand and Subordinate Lodges.

Finance Committee.

10. A majority of the Finance Committee must be appointed from the city or town, where the Grand Secretary resides.

Who may install.

11. In the absence of the D.D.G.M., a P.G. of the Lodge is authorised to install the Officers of a Lodge; and in the absence of a Past Grand, the Noble Grand may install.

Password to be half yearly.

12. The Password of Subordinate Lodges, on and after the 1st day of July, 1869, shall be semi-annual instead of quarterly, as hitherto.

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