proved by the Committee on the Address of the Grand Master, and the Grand Lodge agreed with the Committee. The same Committee was of the opinion that the decision that an applicant with only one eye was eligible should be disapproved, "but the Grand Lodge having decided to the contrary last year we do not advise to that effect." At the time of the San Francisco disaster, the Grand Master ordered provisions at a cost of more than $250. to be sent to the suffering Brethren. He also expressed the regret that was felt in the departure from the Jurisdiction of Most Worshipful Reverend Brother C. ENSOR SHARP, Past Grand Master.

Number of Lodges, including 3 under dispensation, 41; initiated, 252; total membership, 3051, a gain of 220. Receipts, including balance of $3,199.30, were $8,003.30; disbursements, $5057.44; balance, $2,945.86.

The Grand Lodge of Alberta was recognized, following the recommendation of the Committee on Foreign Correspondence, and the Committee's recommendation that recognition of the Grand Lodge Valle de Mexico, be refused, was also followed, the Committee saying:

"In 1902 we reported on a similar request from the same Grand Lodge, and at that time pointed out that the Grand Lodge Valle de Mexico was the lineal descendant of the Gran Dieta Symbolica, a body which removed the Great Light from its altars; made Masons of women, and indulged in other irregular practices. This is the same Grand Lodge, although just at the present time the Great Light is displayed on the altars of the Lodges and they are prohibited from making women Masons.

"Another strong objection to the recognition of this Grand Lodge, and, indeed, of any alleged Masonic body in Mexico, is its origin. The Lodges in that country are, without exception, creatures of the A. & A. S. R., which

has no authority, and never had authority, to confer the three Degrees of Masonry or to warrant Masonic Lodges."

The Grand Chaplain, Very Worshipful Brother Reverend H. G. FIENNES-CLINTON, delivered an instructive address on Light, his points being light is one, light is manifold, light is a revelation of darkness, and light is progressive.

The report on Foreign Correspondence is as usual by the Chairman, Right Worshipful Brother WILLIAM ANDREW DEWOLF SMITH. In his introduction, he refers to the matter of the recognition of Queensland, and we assure our Brother that the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania is not accustomed to "recognize anything in the way of a Grand Lodge without enquiring too closely about its antecedents." Our Brother commends very properly the Transactions of Quatuor Coronati Lodge, No. 2076, of London, and Brother ROBERT FREKE GOULD'S "Concise History of Freemasonry.

Our Brother thinks with us that during the administration of the obligation music should not be permitted; says that it will not be long before-"the Mystic Shrine" will be recognized as one of the "higher Degrees" by some of the Grand Lodges of the United States; and regrets that he has not been able to find the reference to the use of the national flag by Lodges prior to the formation of the Grand Lodge of England in 1717.

We cannot agree that "The assumption of universal jurisdiction by the Grand Lodge of Scotland does not invalidate the work of one of its regular Lodges however much it may conflict with our ideas of the comity which should exist between various Grand Lodges," but do agree "that Lodges formed by Supreme Councils of the Scottish Rite have no right to form Grand Lodges which have any claim upon Masonic Grand Lodges for recognition."

We also agree in opposing public installations.

Our Brother is properly not satisfied with many of the assertions which are made in what were formerly regarded as Masonic authorities, and wants proof of many of them, which, unfortunately, is not forthcoming.

We may

Pennsylvania for 1905 is fully reviewed. note the statement that two petitions for Warrants for new Lodges were referred to "the Grand Lodge officers." Such was not the case. In Pennsylvania the Grand Officers consist of the Grand Master, the Deputy Grand Master, the Grand Wardens, the Grand Treasurer and the Grand Secretary, which have been recognized in the Grand Lodge of England as Grand Officers since 1753. In addition to the Grand Officers, the Grand Lodge has other officers, such as the Grand Deacons, Grand Chaplains, etc.; so that while it is true that all Grand Officers are Grand Lodge Officers, it is by no means true that all Grand Lodge Officers are Grand Officers. In the case in question the petitions were referred to "the Grand Officers."

Our report receives our Brother's careful consideration, and we are glad to have him agree with us so often.

With regard to the appointment of Representatives by the Grand Master of England, our understanding (and we have grounds for the same) is that Representatives are not now appointed unless to fill up vacancies, at the request of Grand Lodges where Representatives have been appointed previously.

The portraits of Most Worshipful Past Grand Masters Brothers ELI HARRISON, SR., (Grand Master, 1878, 1879 and 1880) and COOTE M. CHAMBERS, (1881), and the retiring Grand Master, Most Worshipful Brother THOMAS J. ARMSTRONG, are given in the front of the Proceedings.

Most Worshipful Brother JAMES H. SCHOFIELD, of Trail, Grand Master; Very Worshipful Brother ROBERT E. BRETT, of Victoria, Grand Secretary, re-elected.

CALIFORNIA-1905.

THE Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the Jurisdiction of California began its Fifty-sixth Annual Communication at the Masonic Temple, in the City of San Francisco, on Tuesday, October 10, A.D. 1905, and closed three days later.

Most Worshipful Brother GEORGE W. HUNTER, Grand Master.

The address of the Grand Master is a forceful paper, in which he treats of a number of important matters. In mentioning those of other Jurisdictions who have passed from earth, he includes Past Grand Master WAGNER and Junior Grand Warden SWAIN. The following words in connection with the Masonic Home, may well be pondered:

"If it were to do over again, it may be that it would have been better not to have built the Home but to have created a fund of some sort which could have been used to help subordinate Lodges when necessary to support their aged and unfortunate members, their widows and orphans, they to remain among their friends in the places where the Lodges were located, and the associations were dear to them."

Seventeen corner-stones were laid, only one by the Grand Master.

Among his decisions, which, with some slight modifications were approved, by the Committee on Jurisprudence and the Grand Lodge, we note:

"8. While Masonry is not a religious institution and should not mix up with religious matters, or favor any creed or sect, yet if the members of a Lodge or any considerable number of them, see fit to assemble in the hall, and walk together to church, and attend service there in

a body on Easter Sunday, I do not see that any harm to Masonry can come from it, and know of nothing to prevent it. No dispensation could be granted to wear regalia on such an occasion."

Number of Lodges, including 8 under dispensation, 299; "gained by degrees, 2,419"; total membership, 31,561, a gain of 2,093. Receipts, including overdraft, 44,008.53; disbursements, the same.

An interesting question arose with regard to the right of a Grand Lodge, in this case, Scotland, to establish a Lodge in the Hawaiian Islands after they had been transferred to the United States, August 12, 1898. No Grand Lodge was ever established there. The Committee on Jurisprudence were of the opinion that the action of the Grand Lodge of Scotland in establishing "Maui" Lodge, September 22, 1904, "cannot be regarded as such an invasion of the jurisdiction of any American Grand Lodge as would warrant them in holding the Lodge to be an illegal body."

We notice in the report of the San Francisco Board of Relief that a Brother of our Lodge No. 108 was buried with Masonic honors, while the Los Angeles Board performed a similar favor for a Brother of our No. 543. Brethren from Pennsylvania were aided to the extent of $403.75, of which amount $212. was afterwards returned.

The large size of the California Proceedings is to be lessened by printing the roster of the Lodges triennially, which is a good plan, and by confining the Report on Correspondence "to no more than fifty pages of matter consisting of digested facts regarding our sister jurisdictions," which does not strike us as a good plan.

It was decided that the action taken last year in abrogating the Representative system was illegal, and the