1. This jurisdiction shall be divided into Districts, and a District Deputy Grand Master shall be appointed for each District; whenever the interests of the Order require it, the M. W. Grand Master is authorised to divide Districts, or attach new Lodges, and appoint additional D. D. Grand Masters whenever deemed expedient.

2. District Deputy Grand Masters, or Installing Officers in this jurisdiction, are required to examine each Elective Officer in their respective Districts, relative to their proficiency in the work of the Order, and to install no such officer unless he has all the charges and work of such office fully committed to memory, except the lectures pertaining to the five degrees and the Degree of Rebekah.

3. District Deputy Grand Masters must be obeyed by Lodges in their jurisdictions; and they have a right to demand certified copies of the proceedings of a Lodge, when so instructed by the Grand Master.

4. A District Deputy Grand Master may withhold the new S.A.P.W. from a Noble Grand, who has been installed by any other officer, until the reports and dues of the Grand Lodge have been delivered to him, or notice served upon him that they have been given to the Installing Officer.

5. Each District Deputy Grand Master is entitled to have in his possession a copy of the Proceedings of this Grand Lodge, and a Digest of the Laws of the G.L.U.S., and he is required to deliver the same to his successor in office.

6. A District Deputy cannot in any way delegate his power to another, nor appoint a Past Grand to install officers in his absence.

7. D. D. Grand Masters are instructed not to install the Recording Secretary of any Lodge without the Lodge place in his possession a proper seal, as required by law: Provided that this shall not apply to the officers to be installed at the institution of any new Lodge.

8. All Lodges shall take a receipt in duplicate from the D. D. Grand Master for their returns and the amount of money paid by them for the Grand Lodge, one receipt shall be immediately forwarded to the Grand Secretary by post, and it shall be the duty of the D. D. Grand Master, within ten days thereafter, to forward the amount and returns so received to the Grand Secretary. Should the Grand Secretary not receive the returns and money set forth in such receipt, within thirty days, it shall be his duty to inform the Grand Master of the same, who shall communicate with the Lodge, inquiring into the cause of delay; and if the Lodge reports that the returns and percentage have been delivered to the D. D. Grand Master, it shall be the duty of the Grand Secretary fortwith to prefer charges against such D. D. Grand Master to the Lodge of which he is a member, and proof of neglect of his duty shall subject such D. D. Grand Master to any penalty known to the Order.

9. Lodges shall make a reasonable appropriation to defray the expenses of the Installing Officer when visiting for that purpose.

10. The M. W. Grand Master is authorised to appoint D. D. Grand Masters for Lodges working in a foreign language who are acquainted with both such foreign and English languages, who shall be under the same requirements, and shall have and exercise the same powers had and exercised by other D. D. Grand Masters; also authorised to make special Districts of Lodges working in a foreign language when deemed for the interest of the Order.

11. The numbers attached to the Lodges in this jurisdiction are hereby abolished, and new numbers are hereby given to them in the numerical order in which they were instituted commencing with number one. The first Lodge instituted commencing the series, which will be hereafter continued in the same order. The Lodges now existing being known and numbered as follows: viz.—Loyal Pioneer, No. 1; Loyal Wanganui, No. 2; Loyal Alexandra, No. 3; Loyal Leith, No. 4; Loyal Anderson's Bay, No. 5; Loyal Alfred, No. 6.

12. Until further ordered, the divisions into Districts shall be as follows:—

District	No. 1,	comprising	Lodges	Nos. 1 and 3.
District	No. 2,	comprising	Lodges	No. 4.
District	No. 3,	comprising	Lodges	No. 5.
District	No. 4,	comprising	Lodges	No. 6.
District	No. 5,	comprising	Lodges	No. 2.