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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 17

Article VI. — Of Degrees

Article VI.

Of Degrees.

Time requisite to obtain degrees.

Sec. 1. A member who has been in membership for three months shall be eligible for the first two degrees, and one month additional time shall be required for each of the other three degrees: provided that, when extraordinary circumstances require it, the Lodge may, by dispensation from the Grand Master or his Deputy for the District first obtained, confer any or all the degrees in less time than is above required.

Deposit to accompany applications for degrees.

Sec. 2. Applications for any of the five Subordinate degrees shall be accompanied with the amount required therefor, and shall be presented to the Lodge when open in that order of business; and when the Lodge has regularly closed, it shall then open in the degree applied for, beginning with the lowest, and ballot upon the application; each degree must be balloted for separately when open in the degrees applied for, and if not more than two black balls be cast, the page 51 applicant shall be elected. A rejected application for degrees may be renewed at any time thereafter.
Sec. 3. If the Lodge does not confer the degrees upon its

Certificate to obtain degrees.

own members, a certificate shall be given to the applicant who has been elected to receive degrees, addressed to a Degree Lodge, or Officer authorised to confer Degrees, showing that he is a member of this Lodge, and has been authorised by ballot of the members of said Degrees of this Lodge to receive them, and the said Degree Lodge or Officer is authorised on the reception of such certificate to confer the said Degrees upon the Brother.
Sec. 4. Every Scarlet Degree member in good standing is

Degree of Rebekah.

entitled to, and may have the Degree of Rebekah conferred upon him. The wife of every Scarlet Degree member in good standing, or the Widow of one who was such at the time of his death, is entitled to and may receive the Degree of Rebekah, but application for the same must be made at a regular meeting of the Lodge, previous to the special meeting at which the Degree is conferred.