Sec. 1. Whenever any Subordinate or Degree Lodge shall violate the Constitution, Bye-Laws, Rules, or Regulations of this Grand Lodge, such Lodge shall be liable to a trial and punishment by the Grand Lodge, if in session, if not, by the Standing Committee.

Sec. 2. Upon the suspension or expulsion of a Lodge, or surrender of its Charter, it shall be the duty of its last installed officers and members, having the custody of the Charter, books, papers, property, and funds of the Lodge, to assign, transfer, and deliver the same on demand, to the Grand Master, or to the District Deputy Grand Master, or to such Past Grand as may be specially deputed by the Grand Master or the Grand Lodge to receive the same; and the same shall be held subject to the order of the Grand Lodge.

Sec. 3. All the effects or funds received by the Grand Lodge from any Subordinate or Degree Lodge, under the foregoing section, shall be kept separate and apart from the property or funds of the Grand Lodge, and such funds shall not be estimated as a part of the funds of the Grand Lodge, but shall be held in trust, to be restored, should such a Lodge ever be reinstated, or upon the expiration of the period of suspension: Provide, however, that in the event said Lodge should not be restored to fellowship within one year, the funds of said Lodge shall be placed in the general fund of the Grand Lodge.

Sec. 4. Any Subordinate Lodge failing to hold its meetings for six months, or to make its returns, as required by Article X., Sec. 3, of this Constitution, for one year, shall be deemed an extinct Lodge, and its Charter shall be forfeited.

Sec. 5. Members of a suspended or expelled Lodge, or of a Lodge whose Charter has been surrendered or forfeited, who were in good standing at the time of such suspension or dissolution, or who may have paid all arrearages then due to the Grand Lodge, shall, upon the recommendation of the District Deputy Grand Master of the District in which such suspended Or extinct Lodge was located, receive from the Grand Secretary a certificate under the seal of the Grand Lodge, to enable them to make application for admission to membership in another Lodge.

Sec. 6. Upon the application of five or more members of an extinct Lodge, to the Grand Lodge, for the restoration of such Lodge to fellowship, accompanied with satisfactory evidence that a fair opportunity has been given to all who were members in good standing at the time the same became extinct, to unite in such application, such applicants, or such portion thereof as the Grand Lodge may approve of, may be restored to fellowship in said Lodge, together with the Charter and effects belonging to such Lodge at the time of its extinction, unless such effects shall have been placed in the general funds of the Grand Lodge, as provided by Sec. 3 of this Article.