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HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Ancient anfc lAcuptth Btottis\) ftite; 
 
 BEING THE 
 
 INTRODUCTION AND APPENDIX 
 
 (JonjpHfuHons 
 
 SUPREME COUNCIL FOR THE UNITED STATES 
 OF AMERICA, &c, &c. 
 
 NEW YORK. 
 1862. 
 
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INTRODUCTION. 
 
 ancient attfr 2Ure)ife& 0cotttsl) Ml 
 
 HISTORY. 
 
 1ITHOUT attempting to en- 
 ter into the fubjecl of the 
 " Origin of Mafonry," re- 
 fpecling which there are fo 
 many and diverfe theories, 
 even at the prefent period ; 
 it is unquestionably the fact, 
 that the greateft impetus 
 was given to the Society by the revival of 1717 ; 
 and by its fubfequent eftablifhment as an organized 
 affociation under the control of governing bodies, 
 known as Grand Lodges. The eftablifhment of 
 thefe ruling Mafonic governments has refulted not 
 only in its extenfion throughout the whole habitable 
 globe; but by bringing "Order out of Chaos ; " and 
 by fubftituting permanent and fixed laws, whereby 
 the noble fcience, and the Royal Art may be propa- 
 gated, for thofe mere traditions by which the Craft 
 
 had 
 
6 IntroduBion. 
 
 had until that period guided themfelves in their oc- 
 casional gatherings, given it a ftability and perman- 
 ence it had not previoufly attained, and made the 
 language of Symbolic Mafonry univerfal. 
 
 As one of the natural refults flowing from this 
 happy revival of Mafonry under fuch aufpices, was 
 the introduction of the moft diftinguifhed and en- 
 lightened men of every nation. The fublime lelfons 
 of morality and virtue inculcated by its fymbols as 
 taught in the Lodges, was to the educated and en- 
 quiring mind, but the preparation for the develope- 
 ment of thofe myfteries, by which the fearcher after 
 truth, could by the inveftigation of its allegorical 
 fyftem, and myftical reference as a fcience, extend 
 its beneficial effects upon the minds and manners of 
 men. 
 
 But while the teachings in the primary fchool of 
 Mafonry — the Lodge — inculcated the neceflity of a 
 thorough inveftigation of the myfteries, " by the 
 ftudy of the liberal arts," whereby the "Ineffable" 
 beauties contained within its arcana might be un- 
 folded, its miflion under the organization as eftab- 
 lifhed at the revival of 171 7, was too circumfcribed. 
 
 The hidden treafures of the Royal Art ftill re- 
 mained unexplored, and for the fuccefsful purfuit of 
 fo captivating and ennobling a ftudy, the moft bril- 
 liant minds of Europe determined to eftablifh as 
 adjundts to the Symbolical Lodges, organizations 
 
 feparate 
 
Introduction. 7 
 
 separate and diftinct from them, for the exclufive 
 propagation of the myfteries but as yet only par- 
 tially unfolded to their view, embracing the hijiorical, 
 philofophical and ineffable myfteries in the precious 
 cafket. 
 
 With this object in view, many attempts were 
 made by the devotees of Mafonry as a fcience, to 
 eftablifh fuch feparate and diftindt organizations 
 wherein thefe fublime truths might be unfolded and 
 cultivated. 
 
 Some, n#y, very many of them, were ephemeral, 
 and outlived by their projectors. Others, again, rofe, 
 and for a time flourished, but eventually gave way to 
 the controlling influences of thofe founded on more 
 enlarged and philofophical principles, and which 
 were free from all taint of being connected with 
 the religious or political deligns of the age. 
 
 Bafed entirely upon the pure principles of Mafonry, 
 and having for its object folely the faithful elucida- 
 tion of the occult myfteries of the Society, was the 
 " Rite of Perfection," which grouped and fyftem- 
 atized the fcientific labors of many, in which the 
 hiftoric and chivalric were embodied; and which 
 was the parent of the "Ancient and Accepted 
 Scottish Rite," now univerfally acknowledged as 
 foremoft among the regularly conftituted Mafonic 
 organizations of the Old and New World. 
 
 According to fome authorities, the Rite of Per- 
 fection 
 
8 Introduction. 
 
 fection was founded in 1753-6, while others of 
 equal repute affert, that in 1758 certain Mafons, 
 ftyling themfelves "Sovereign Princes and Grand 
 Officers of the Grand and Sovereign Lodge 
 of St. John of Jerusalem," founded at -Paris a 
 body called "The Chapter" (or Council) "of 
 Emperors of the East and West." Their rite 
 feemed at the beginning to confift of twenty-five 
 degrees : at leaft, all the writers who fpeak of its 
 original fcale, affign it that number.* 
 
 The rite eftablifhed (or adopted) by this chapter 
 or council, confifting of twenty-five degrees, has 
 ordinarily been known as the Rite of Perfection, 
 or of Heredom.-J" 
 
 In 1759 the Council of Emperors of the Eajl and 
 Weft is faid to have eftablifhed a Council of 
 Princes of the Royal Secret at Bordeaux, \ 
 and from this period the Rite of Perfection began to 
 extend itfelf. 
 
 On the 27th Auguft, 1761, § Stephen Morin 
 being about to depart for America, received from 
 the Grand Orient of the Rite of Perfection at 
 Paris, full and entire power to eftablifh in every 
 part of the world the Perfect and Sublime Mafonry, 
 
 * Levefque, Apergu, 56. 1 Thory, Acta Lat. 74. Vidal Ferandie, 
 EfTai Hift. 145. Ragon, Orthod. Mag. 48, 49, 129. Clavel, Hilt. Pitt. 167. 
 f Ragon, Orthod. Mag. 129. 
 
 J Thory, 1 Acta Lat. 76. Ragon, Orthod. Mag. 171. 
 %EffaiHiJl. F. Vaffal. 13. 
 
 and 
 
Introduction. 9 
 
 and to multiply and create Infpedlors in all places 
 where the fublime degrees are not eftabliihed. 
 The Patent reads as follows : — 
 
 " &o tlje ©lorg of tljc ©ranb &rcl)itect of th,e Enioerse. 
 
 " At the Grand Orient of France, and by the good pleafure of His Moll 
 Serene Highnefs and the thrice Illuftrious Brother Bourbon, Comte de 
 Clermont, Prince of the Blood, Grand Mafter and Protedlor of all the 
 Regular Lodges. At the Orient of a place well lighted, where peace, 
 filence and concord reign, Anno Lucis, 5761, and according to the vulgar 
 ftyle, the 27th Auguft, 1761. 
 
 %u% t% Senebrie. 
 
 " We, the underfigned, Deputies-General of the Royal Art, Grand 
 Wardens and Officers of the Grand and Sovereign Lodge of St. John of 
 Jerufalem, eftabliihed at the Orient of Paris ; and we, Perfect Grand 
 Mailers of the Grand Council of the regular lodges under the prote&ion of 
 the Grand and Sovereign Lodge, by the facred and myfterious numbers, do 
 declare, certify and prescribe to all the well-beloved brethren, knights and 
 princes fpread over the two hemifpheres, that we being afTembled by order 
 of the Deputy-General Prefident of the Grand Council, a petition commu- 
 nicated to us by the refpedlable Bro. \ Lacorne, Deputy of our Thrice Il- 
 luftrious Grand Mafter, Knight and Prince-Mafon, was read while we were 
 in feffion, reprefenting that our very dear Bro. - . Etienne Morin, Grand 
 Eledt, Perfeft and Sublime Ancient Mafter, Knight and Sublime Prince of 
 all the Orders of the Sublime Mafonry of Perfection, Member of the 
 Royal Lodge dc la Triniti, Sec, being .about to fail for America, and de- 
 firing to be able to work under legal authority for the advancement and in- 
 creafe of the Royal Art in all its perfection, prays that it will pleafe the 
 Grand Council and Grand Lodge to grant him letters patent for the giving 
 Charters of Conftitution. 
 
 " Upon the report that has been made us therein, and we knowing the 
 eminent qualities of the very dear Bro.'. Etienne Morin, we have unhesi- 
 tatingly granted him this flight fatisfaftion for the fervices that he has always 
 done to the Order, and whereof his zeal guarantees to us the continuance. 
 
 " For thefe caufes, and for other good and fufficient reafons, applauding 
 
 and 
 
I o IntroduSiion. 
 
 and encouraging the very dear Bro. \ Etienne Mown in his defigns, and 
 wifhing to give him teftimonials of our gratitude, we have, by unanimous 
 confent, conftituted and inftituted him, and do by thefe prefents conftitute 
 and inftitute him, and do give to the Brother Etienne Morin, whofe figna- 
 ture is on the margin of thefe prefents, full and entire power to form and 
 eftabliih a lodge, for the purpofe therein of receiving candidates, and ex- 
 tending the Royal Order of Freemafons in all the perfect and fublime de- 
 grees ; to take care that the ftatutes and general regulations of the Grand 
 and Sovereign Lodge in particular, be kept and obferved ; and never to 
 admit therein any but the true and legitimate brethren of Sublime Mafonry. 
 
 " To regulate and govern all the members who Ihall compofe the Jaid 
 Lodge which he may eftabliih in the four quarters of the globe, where he 
 mail arrive or may remain, under the title of * Lodge of St. John,' fur- 
 nomed ' Perfect Harmony ;' giving him power to feleft fuch ofHcers to aid 
 him in governing his lodge, as he fhall think proper, whom we command 
 and enjoin to obey and refpefl: him. We order and command all matters 
 of regular lodges, of whatever rank they may be, fpread over the furface of 
 the earth and fea, we pray them and enjoin upon them, in the name of the 
 Royal Order, and in prefence of our Th.\ 111.'. Grand Matter, to recognize, 
 as we do, our very dear Bro. - . Etienne Morin, in his character of our 
 Grand Inspector, in all parts of the New World, appointed to enforce the 
 obfervance of our laws, and as Refp.\ Matter of the Lodge la Parfaite 
 Harmonic; and we do by thefe prefents conftitute our very dear Bro. - . 
 Etienne Morin, our Grand Mafter Infpedtor, and do authorize and empower 
 him to eftabliih in every part of the world the Perfect and Sublime Ma- 
 fonry, &c, &c, &c. 
 
 " Confequently, we pray all our brethren in general to give to our faid 
 Bro. - . Etienne Morin, fuch aid and affiftance as Ihall be in their power ; re- 
 quiring them to do likewife towards all the brethren who Ihall be members of 
 his lodge, and towards thofe whom he has admitted and conftituted, and Ihall 
 hereafter admit and conftitute in the Sublime Degrees of High Perfection, 
 whom we give him full and entire power to multiply, and to create infpectors 
 in all places where the Sublime Degrees are not eftablilhed ; well knowing 
 his great knowledge and capacity. 
 
 " In testimony whereof, we have delivered to him thefe prefents, 
 ficmed by the Deputy-General of the Order, Grand Commander of the 
 
 White 
 
IntroduBion. 
 
 ii 
 
 White and Black Eagle, Sovereign. Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret, .and 
 by us Grand Infpeftors, Sublime Officers of the Grand Council and Grand 
 Lodge eilablilhed in this capitol ; and we have fealed them with the great 
 feal of our 111. '. Grand Matter, His Moft Serene Highnefs, and with that 
 of our Grand Lodge and Sovereign Grand Council. At the Grand Orient 
 of Paris, the year of The. Light, 5761, and according to the Vulgar Era, 
 the 27th Auguft, 1761. 
 
 " Signed : Chaillou de Joinville, Deputy-General of the Order, Ven. •- 
 Mailer of the Firft Lodge in France, called St. Antoine, Chief of the 
 Eminent Degrees, Commander and Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret, 
 &c, &c, &c. . . . The Bro.*. Prince de Rohan, Mailer of the Grand 
 Lodge I' Intelligence, Sovereign Prince of Mafons, Sec, Sec, &c. . . . 
 Lacorne, Deputy of the Grand Mailer, Refp. \ Mailer of the Lodge de la 
 Trinite, Gr.\ Eleft Perfeft Knight, Sublime Prince Mafon, &c, Sec, Sec 
 . . . Maximilien de St. Simeon, Sen."- Warden, Gr.*. Eleft Perfeft 
 Knight and Prince Mafon, &c. . . . Savalette de Bukoly, Gr. \ 
 Keeper of the Seals, Grand Eleft Perfeft Knight and Prince Mafon, &c. 
 . . . Taupin, Grand Ambaflador of His Highnefs, Grand Eleft Perfeft 
 Mailer, Knight, Prince Mafon, &c. . . . The Count de Choiseul, Ven. ". 
 Mailer of the Lodge des Enfans.de la Gloire, Gr. \ El.*. Perf.*. Mailer, 
 Knight and Prince Mafon, &c. . . . Boucher de Lenoncourt, Ven.*. 
 Mailer of the Lodge- de la Vertu, Gr.*. EL*. Perf.*. Master, Kt.\ Pr.\ 
 Mafon, &c. . . . Brest de la Chaussee, Ven.*. Mailer of the Lodge de 
 I' Exactitude, Gr. *. El. *. Perf. *. Mailer, Kt. *. and Pr. *. Mafon. By order 
 of the Grand Lodge alfo Jigned, Daubantin, Gr. *. El. *. Perf. *. Mafon, 
 Kt. *. Pr. *. Mafon, Ven. *. of the Lodge St. Alphonfe, Grand Secretary of 
 the Grand Lodge and Sublime Council of the Prince's Mafons in France." 
 
 On the 2 1 ft September, 1762, nine Commiflioners 
 from the Council of Emperors of Eaft and Weft, 
 at Paris, and from the Council of Princes of the 
 Royal Secret at Bordeaux, met at the latter place, 
 and fettled the Regulations of the Mafonry of Per- 
 fection in thirty-five articles. Among thefe Regula- 
 tions, one fixed the number of the degrees of the 
 
 Rite 
 
1 2 Introduction. 
 
 Rite of Perfection or Heredom at twenty-five, and 
 their arrangement, and the titles and order of the 
 degrees were never afterwards changed until a new 
 rite was framed of them and others.* 
 
 Thefe constitutions were accepted by Bro.\ Mo- 
 rin after his arrival in America, and by him fur- 
 niftied to the Deputy Infpectors whom he appointed. 
 
 In 1769, Bro.\ Morin was at Kingfton, Jamaica, 
 and in January of that year as Grand Infpedtor, in a 
 Confiftory of Princes of the Royal Secret, informed 
 the Prince Mafons that from investigations made in 
 Paris, to learn whether the mafons ftyled " Kadofch" 
 were not in reality the Knights Templar, it had 
 been determined that the degree mould for the 
 future be ftyled " Knights of the White and Black 
 Eagle," and that the jewel should be a " Black 
 Eagle." The degree is fo ftyled in Art. 1 1 of the 
 Regulations of 1762. 
 
 Thus introduced into the New World, the Depu- 
 ties Infpectors whom he had appointed in accordance 
 with the powers conferred in his Patent, rapidly 
 fpread the Rite on this continent, while others were 
 equally induftrious in the iflands of the Weft Indies 
 in extending it. 
 
 The fucceffive deputizations, or their dates by 
 which the powers of Stephen Morin were exer- 
 
 * Levefque, Apergu, 58. Kauffman and Chapin, Hist. Phil. 452. 
 Thory, 1 Afta Lat. 79. 
 
 cifed 
 
Introduction. 1 3 
 
 cifed, and fucceffive Deputy Infpectors appointed, 
 cannot, with any degree of certainty, be afcertained, 
 though the rank and office of Deputy Grand In- 
 fpector affumed gradually more and more impor- 
 tance, in a country fo remote from the governing 
 power as America then was, and where neceffarily 
 fo much latitude was left to difcretion. 
 
 It is, however, undoubtedly the fact, that thofe 
 who derived their powers directly from Morin, 
 communicated the fame powers to others : as for 
 inftance, the Bro.\ Frankin who had directly re- 
 ceived from Bro.\ Morin at Jamaica, the degree 
 of Grand Deputy InfpeBor General, communicated 
 the fame to Bro.\ Moses M. Hayes at Boston. 
 Bro.\ Hayes communicated it to Bro.\ Barend 
 M. Spitzer at Charleston, 25th June, 178 1 ; Bro.\ 
 Moses C.ohen claims by patent from Bro.\ Spitzer, 
 January 12th, 1794, and Bro.\ Cohen communi- 
 cated it to Bro.\ Hyman Isaac Long, January 11, 
 1795; which latter brother, on the 12th Novem- 
 ber, 1796, as " Deputy Grand Infpector General and 
 Prince Mafon," granted letters patent of that date 
 to Alexandre Francois Auguste De Grasse 
 Tilly, Jean Baptiste Marie Delahouge, and 
 others, creating each of them " Patriarch Noachite 
 and Sovereign Knight of the Sun and H.\ S.'. Deputy 
 Infpectors General, &c." 
 
 The patents of De Grasse Tilly and Dela- 
 houge 
 
14 IntroduSiion. 
 
 houge were recognized, confirmed and approved 
 by the Grand Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, 
 at the Grand Eaft, Kingfton, Jamaica, the ioth day 
 of the 6th month, 1797. 
 
 It will at once be perceived that both thefe 
 brethren had conferred upon them by Hyman 
 Isaac Long, in 1796, the degree of " Sovereign 
 Knight of the Sun and H.\ S.\" — a degree which 
 was not catalogued in the lift of grades authorized 
 by the Conftitutions of 1762 ; and as the conferring 
 of fuch had to be ratified and confirmed by the 
 Grand Eaft at Kingfton, Jamaica, it is but fair to 
 prefume that this was one of the ifolated degrees 
 from time to time legalized by it, and thus added to 
 thofe of the parent rite. 
 
 In 1787, Joseph Cerneau, (horloger,) a native of 
 France, was Venerable of the refpeftable Lodge la 
 Reunion Defiree, at Port au Prince, St. Domingo. 
 He was one of thofe who fled that ifland in 1791, 
 at the breaking out of the negro infurredtion, taking 
 refuge at Neuvitas in the ifland of Cuba, where he 
 was well known and much refpe<fted. 
 
 Before leaving St. Domingo, he had attained the 
 rank, as his patent proved, of Grand Deputy In- 
 fpedlor General, and he fubfequently, by virtue of 
 his powers as fuch, communicated the fame to Ger- 
 main Hacquet, [notary,) , an ex- Venerable of the 
 Lodge Reunion des Cours, at Port au Prince. 
 
 In 
 
Introduction. 1 5 
 
 In 1 801, both thefe 111.*, brethren returned to St. 
 Domingo, and with others eftablifhed a Supreme 
 Council ; but toward the clofe of the fucceeding 
 year, its labours were terminated in confequence of 
 the blacks having again revolted ; and Bros. - . Cer- 
 neau and Hacquet, as well as Bro.\ Pierre Du- 
 pont Delorme — who had received a patent from 
 De Grasse Tilly as Prince of the Royal Secret, 
 and Deputy Infpector in May, 1802; fubfequent to 
 the formation of, and in apparent antagonifm to the 
 powers of the Council already eftablifhed by Cer- 
 neau and others — fled the ifland never to return ; 
 Cerneau going again to Cuba, and Hacquet to 
 the ifland of St. Thomas. 
 
 It is apparent by the above, that towards the very 
 clofe of the laft century, the Rite of Perfection was 
 extended by the grouping of other degrees from 
 time to time into its fyftem ; and unqueftionably 
 concurred in by Secret Articles agreed upon be- 
 tween the various Deputy Infpedtors, deriving their 
 powers as Sovereign Princes of the Royal Secret 
 from Morin directly ; or by communication from 
 thofe he had inverted. 
 
 The powers of all thefe were co-equal and co- 
 extenfive, whether on the continent of America, or 
 in the iflands of the West Indies. 
 
 Indeed, owing to the clofing of all the Mafonic 
 bodies, efpecially thofe of the Scottifh Rite, in 
 
 France, 
 
1 6 Introduction. 
 
 France, in 1789,* caufed by the Revolution, the 
 Grand Deputy Infpedtors in America, whether on 
 the continent or in the iflands, became independent ; 
 and as Principals, and by virtue of their own Sove- 
 reign authority, remodelled and extended the Kite of 
 Perfection, by cumulating what had been previoufy con- 
 trolled as honorary or fde degrees ; thus creating when 
 perfected, what is now known as the Ancient and 
 Accepted Scottiih Rite, adding to the feries, the con- 
 trolling degree of Sovereign Grand Inspector 
 General 33.*. 
 
 For the government of this Rite, though the 
 ConfHtutions and Regulations drawn up by the nine 
 Commiflioners in 1762, were not difcarded ; fome 
 other articles were agreed upon as Secret Consti- 
 tutions, among which was one defining the jurif- 
 didtional limits of the Supreme Councils thereafter, 
 of the Rite thus formed. Thefe Secret Constitu- 
 tions, fo far as faid then to have been agreed upon, 
 provided for the limiting of the number of Supreme 
 Councils in America, to two ; the one as remote from 
 the other as poffible ; and alfo that each other inde- 
 pendent nation mould have one Supreme Council. 
 
 Although as early as 1767, a Lodge of Perfection 
 was opened in Albany, New York ; and in 1783 an- 
 other at Charlefton, S. C, as well as others at diverfe 
 times in other places ; while on the 1 2th of May, 
 
 * Lcvefque, 76. Thory, 1 Acta Lat. 184. Rebold, Hist. Gen. 167. 
 
 1788, 
 
Introduction. 1 7 
 
 1788, the By-Laws and Regulations of the Grand 
 Council of Princes of Jerufalem were ratified at 
 Charleston, which body was eftablifhed on the 20th 
 of February preceding, by the Bro.\ Joseph Myers, 
 appointed Deputy Infpedtor for South Carolina, by 
 the Bro.\ Hayes ; Barend M. Spitzer, Deputy 
 Infpedtor for Georgia, and Bro.\ Forst, Deputy 
 Infpedtor for Virginia, — there had been no Deputy 
 for New York — it was not until May 31ft, 1801, that 
 a Supreme Council of the 33d degree was eftablifhed 
 on the continent of America, at Charlefton, S. C. ; thus 
 perfecting on the main land, as had been done almoft 
 fimultaneoufly by Cerneau and Hacquet and oth- 
 ers in the ifland of St. Domingo, when they eftablifh- 
 ed their Supreme Council, fhort-lived though it was.* 
 
 The Charlefton Supreme Council, was opened, as 
 before ftated, on the 31ft of May, 1801, with the 
 high honors of Mafonry, by the Bros. - . John Mit- 
 chell and Frederic Dalcho, Sovereign Grand 
 Infpeffors General ; and in the courfe of the year 
 1802, // is /aid, the whole number of Grand In- 
 fpedlors General was completed agreeably to " the 
 Grand Constitutions." j- 
 
 Thefe "Grand Conftitutions" were undoubtedly 
 at that period, the " Conftitutions of 1762," and the 
 " Secret Articles," previoufly alluded to, not then 
 
 * Calend. Mas. du St. Domingo, pour I' an. de la V.\ L.\ 1802. 
 \ Circular Sup. Court, at Charlefton, 4 Dec, 1802. 
 
 2 embodied 
 
1 8 Introduction. 
 
 embodied or claffified into the code, which was 'firft 
 published by the Charlefton Council in 1859, as 
 "The New Secret Institutes and Bases" of 
 1786, granted by Frederic II., King of Prussia, 
 on the 1 ft May of that year ; an aflertion probably 
 made to enhance the value which would be attribut- 
 ed to the Statutes in confequence of their having 
 greater antiquity, a Royal Patron ; and the ultimi 
 gradus, a Royal Founder ; but which is neverthe- 
 lefs entirely apocryphal, and not now believed in 
 by even the tranflator of thefe Statutes, 111. - . Bro.\ 
 Albert Pike, who himfelf calls attention to their 
 " errors in grammar " and other " obvious miftakes," 
 which conclufively prove their parentage to have 
 been derived from fome lefs dignified fource than 
 Frederic the Great, or his affociates. 
 
 Towards the clofe of 1803, 111. - . Bro. - . Germain 
 Hacquet, arrived at New York from St. Thomas, 
 and fhortly afterwards failed for France. He reach- 
 ed Paris in the early part of 1804, and there eftab- 
 lifhed a Council of the High Scottifh Degrees — firft, 
 in the feveral bodies of the Triple Unity; and fecond, 
 in thofe of the Phenix, at Paris ; and afterwards con- 
 ftituted in the bofom of the Phenix a Grand Confis- 
 tory, as the governing body of the Scottish Rite of 
 Heredom, with the title of Grand Confiftory of that 
 Rite for France.* 
 
 * EfaiHist. F. Vaflkl, 17. 
 
 Three 
 
Introduction. 1 9 
 
 Three months after the arrival of Bro.\ Hac- 
 quet, the Count De Grasse Tilly reached Paris, 
 bearing with him a patent as Grand Infpedtor 
 General 33 d, which was delivered to him by the 
 Sup.*. Council at Charlefton, 21ft of February, 
 1802.* By virtue of this patent, aided by other 
 111.'. Brothers, he organized and effablifhed a Su- 
 preme Council of the 33d for France, at Paris. On 
 the 22d of October, 1804, this body fufed with that 
 eftablished in France by Hacquet. Up to this 
 period, the ftatutes alluded to as emanating from 
 Frederic II., were unheard of in France, even De 
 Grasse Tilly had no knowledge of them. .j - 
 
 In Auguft, 1806, 111/. Bro.'. Joseph Cerneau 
 arrived at New York from Cuba, and by virtue of 
 his patent as Grand Infpedtor General, and in accor- 
 dance with the Secret Articles, hitherto alluded to, 
 effablifhed on the 28th day of the 8th month of 
 True Light, in the year 1807, a Moft PuhTant Sove- 
 reign Grand Confiftory of Supreme Chiefs of Ex- 
 alted Mafonry, its officers being : — 
 
 Joseph Cerneau, M.\ P.'. Sov.\ Gr.\ Com. 
 John W. Mulligan, Dep.\ Gr.\ Com. 
 De Witt Clinton, D.\ G'.\I.\ and G.\ P.'. A. 
 Dr. Charles Guerin, iff Lieut.'. Com. 
 Jacob Schieffelin, 2d Lieut.'. Com. 
 
 * EJai Hijl. F. Vaffal, 18. f W ai H }ft- F - Vafl " al > l 9 
 
 Cadwallader 
 
20 Introduction. 
 
 Cadwallader D. Colden, G.\ Ch.\ and G. - . Or. 
 
 J. P. Berard, G.-. S. - . G. 
 
 Martin Hoffman, G.\ K. - . of S. 
 
 J. B. Subrau, G.\ A.-. I. 
 
 Jonathan Schieffelin, G.\ I. - . G. 
 
 John Bleecker, G.\ G. - . of C. 
 
 John B. Ponzolz, A. - . G. - . S. - . G. 
 
 John C. Ludlow, A. - . G.\ I. - . G. 
 
 In September, 1807, Joseph Cerneau as Sup.*. 
 Chief of Exalted Mafonry, organized the " Grand 
 Council of Royal Majlers of the State of New York." 
 
 In 1808, The Grand Orient of France, in Sup. - . 
 Council of Rites, of which 111.'. Bro.\ Germain 
 Hacquet, was Prefident ; and, The Sovereign 
 Grand Confiftory of France, of which 111.". Bro.\ 
 Germain Hacquet was Sov.\ Grand Commander, 
 opened a correspondence with the M.\ P.\ Sov.\ 
 Grand Confiftory of New York, and appointed 111. - . 
 Bro. - . Cerneau its Reprefentative for the G. - . 0.\ 
 of France, Sup. - . Council of Rites, and Sovereign 
 Grand Confiftory. 
 
 The Sov.\ Gr. - . Confiftory of New York, was 
 reprefented in the Sovereign Grand Confiftory, &c, 
 of France by 111. - . Bro. - . Germain Hacquet; who 
 was further diftinguifhed by being elected an Hon- 
 orary Member. 
 
 In 1 81 2, "The Supreme Council of Grand In- 
 
 fpe&or 
 
Introduction. 2 1 
 
 fpedtor General of the 33d Degree, for the United 
 States of America, its territories and dependencies," 
 was opened with the high honours of Mafonry in 
 the City of New York, with its number of officers 
 complete, viz : — 
 
 Joseph Cerneau, M.\ P.\ Sov.\ G.\ Com. 
 De Witt Clinton, M.\ 111.-. D.\ G.\ Com. 
 John W. Mulligan, M. •.111.-. Lieut. \ G.\ Com. 
 Dr. Charles Guerin, 111.-. G.\ M.\ of State. 
 Cadwallader D. Colden, Ill.-.G.-.T.-. of H.-.E. 
 John P. Schisano, 111.-. G.\ Sec.-, of the H.\ E. 
 Jonathan Schieffelin, 111.-. G.\ K.-. of Seals. 
 J. P. Berard, 111.-. G.-. M.-. of Cer. 
 Martin Hoffman, 111.-. G.\ of G. 
 
 On the 1 8th day of the 4th month, A.-. l.\ 
 5814, anfwering to June, a.-. d.\, 1814, "The 
 Grand Encampment of Sir Knights Templar and 
 Appendant Orders, for the State of New York," 
 was " regularly constituted by the Sovereign Grand 
 Confiftory of the Chiefs of Exalted Mafonry for the 
 United States of America, its territories and depen- 
 dencies, fitting in New York," 111.-. Bro.-. De Witt 
 Clinton, Deputy Grand Commander of the Su- 
 preme Council, being chofen by a majority of 
 votes, Grand Mafter of the Grand Encampment.* 
 
 * Proceedings of the Gr.\ Enc.\ of N. Y., pp. 5, 6. On the 21ft of 
 June, 1816, the G.\ Enc.\ of the U. S. was formed, and De Witt Clin- 
 ton eledled G.\ G.'. Mafter. 
 
 On 
 
22 Introduction. 
 
 On the 4th day of the 9th month, in the year of 
 Light, 1826, 111. - . Bro.\ David Jewett, by fpecial 
 patent from the Supreme Council, duly figned by 
 111.-. Bro.-. De Witt Clinton as Sov.\ G.\ Com.-, 
 by 111.-. Bro.-. Joseph Cerneau, Sovereign Grand 
 Commander, ad vitam, and others of the exalted 
 chiefs, was duly authorized to organize the Supreme 
 Council of Sovereign Grand Infpecliors General 33d 
 Degree, in Brazil, and in 1827, that Supreme Coun- 
 cil was eftablifhed at Rio de Janeiro. 
 
 On the 13th day of February, 1832, The Moft 
 Uluftrious Bro. - . Elias Hicks, P.-. Sov.\ Grand In- 
 fpedtor General of the 33d Degree, Moft P.-. Sov.\ 
 Grand Commander (ad vitam), and the Supreme 
 Council of the Most P.-. Sov.\ Grand Inspect- 
 ors General of the 33d and laft Degree, of the 
 Ancient and Accepted Scottifh Rite, Sub.-. Chiefs 
 of Exalted Mafonry for the United States of Ameri- 
 ca, their territories and dependencies, &c, &c, sit- 
 ting at the Orient of the World, under the C.\ C.\ 
 at the Central P.-. of the Z.\ correfponding to the 
 40th deg.-.4i m.-. N.\ L.\ and 3d deg.\ 1 m.-.io s.\ 
 E.-. Long.*, from Wafhington, duly and lawfully 
 reprefented by 
 
 The M.\ 111. - . & P.*. Br.-. Jonathan Schieffe- 
 lin, P.'. Sov.-. Grand Infpedtor General of the 
 33d Deg.-. Firft Lieut.-. G.-. Com.-. 
 
 The M.-. 111.-. Br.-. Orazio de Atellis, Mar- 
 quis 
 
Introduction. 23 
 
 quis de St. Angelo, P.". Sov.\ G.\ Infpeclor Gen- 
 eral of the 33d Deg.\ 
 
 The M.\ 111.'. Br. - . George Smith, P.\ Sov. - : 
 Gr. - . Infpecfor General of the 33d Deg.\ and 
 Grand Secretary of the H.\ E. - . 
 
 All three members of the aforefaid Supreme Coun- 
 cil, inverted with their regular and full powers — 
 
 OF THE ONE PART; 
 
 And the Moft 111. - . Br. - , m. a. n. a. r. de Jachim 
 de Santa Rosa de R. de St. Laurent, (Marquis 
 de Santa Rosa, Count de St. Laurent, &c, &c, 
 &c.,) P. - . Sov. - . G. - . Infpedtor General of the 33d 
 Deg. - . M. - . P. - . Sov. - . Grand Commander, (ad vitam,) 
 of the Supreme Council of the P. - . Sov. - . Grand In- 
 fpedtors General of the 33d Deg. - . of the Ancient 
 and Accepted Scottifh Rite, Sublime Chiefs of An- 
 cient and Modern Free Mafonry for Terra Firma, 
 South America, or New Spain, &c, &c, (from the one 
 Sea to the other, &c.,) the Canary Iflands, Porto Rico, 
 &c, founder of the .Moft Res. - . Lodge of the Com- 
 mandeurs du Mont Thabor, at the Orient of 
 Paris, Honorary Member of the Supreme Council 
 of the 33d Deg. - . for France, &c, &c, &c, duly 
 invefted with the whole powers and authority of his 
 Sup. - . Coun. - . and their fubordinate fections, &c, 
 heretofore fitting at the Cent. - . P. - . of the 9th 
 deg. - . 40 m. - . N. - . L. - . and 312th deg. - . 40 m. - . 
 
 Long. - . 
 
24 Introduction. 
 
 Long. - , from the Ferro Iflands, duly and lawfully 
 reprefented by 
 
 * The Moft 111.*. Br.-. Lorenzo de Zavala, P.-. 
 Sov. - . Grand Infpedtor General of the 33d Deg.\ 
 
 And the Moft 111.-. Br.-. Lucas Ugarte, P.-. 
 Sov.*. Grand Infpedlor General of the 33d Deg.\ 
 
 And the Moft 111.-. Br. John Melani, Chevalier 
 de Sussarelli, P. - . Sov.-. Grand Infpector General 
 of the 33d Deg.-. and Grand Chancellor, ad hoc, of 
 theH.-. E.\ 
 
 All three members of the Supreme Council afore- 
 faid, inverted with their full and regular powers — 
 
 OF THE OTHER PART; 
 
 Formed a Treaty of Union and Amalgamation, 
 whereby the Two United and Amalgamated Powers 
 fhall hereafter be defignated by the diftindtive title 
 of " United Supreme Council, for the West- 
 ern Hemisphere, of the P.-. Sov.-. Grand In- 
 spectors General, 33d and last Degree of 
 the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite 
 Sub.*. Chiefs of Exalted Masonry," and that 
 their feat fhall be " invariably in the United States 
 of America, at the Cent.-. P. - . of the 40th deg.-. 
 41 m.-. N.\ L.\ and 3d deg. - . 1 m.\ 13 s .\ E.\ 
 Long.-, from Wafhington," though, fhould any cafe 
 of emergency prefent itfelf, this Cent.-*. P.-. may be 
 changed by a decree of all their United Sections • 
 
 but 
 
Introduction. 25 
 
 but it fhall never be removed from out the territo- 
 rial limits of the United States of America." 
 
 On the 23d February, 1834, a Treaty of Union 
 and Confederation, was concluded at Paris, be- 
 tween the official Reprefentatives of the United Su- 
 preme Council for the Weftern Hemifphere, fitting 
 at New York, and the Commiffioners Plenipoten- 
 tiaries of the Supreme Council of France, and the 
 Supreme Council for the Empire of Brazil. 
 
 To this Treaty the Supreme Council fitting at 
 BrufTels became a party, on the 5th of March, 1835, 
 by its Adl of Ratification and Adhefion. 
 
 The Supreme Council for the Weftern Hemis- 
 phere, duly and regularly affembled at New York, 
 approved and ratified the adls of its Reprefentatives, 
 the Count St. Laurent, and the Marquis Lafay- 
 ette, in forming faid Treaty of Mafonic Union, Al- 
 liance and Confederation, December 6th, 1836, M.\ 
 111. - . Br. - . Elias Hicks, being then M.\ P.*. Sov.\ 
 Gr.\ Commander, ad vitam, &c, &c, &c. 
 
 Since this period, the Sup. - . Council for the 
 United States of America, its territories, and de- 
 pendencies, has maintained its organization, and is 
 at the prefent time rapidly extending the beneficent 
 principles of the Ancient and Accepted Scottifh 
 Rite, in all its purity and perfection. 
 
 New York, November, 1861. 
 
HISTORY 
 
 SUPREME COUNCIL 33 D > ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED 
 SCOTTISH RITE, 
 
 FOR THE 
 
 United States of America, its Territories and Dependencies. 
 
 On the 28th day of the 8th month of True Light 1807, the Molt 
 Puiflant Sovereign Grand Confiftory of Sublime Princes of the Royal Se- 
 cret ; Supreme Chiefs of Exalted Mafonry, according to the Ancient Con- 
 ftitutional Scottifh Rite of Heredom, for the United States of America, its 
 territories and dependencies, was opened in the City of New York, with 
 all the high honours of Mafonry, by Moil Puiflant Jofeph Cerneau, Sove- 
 reign Grand Infpe&or General 33 d, and conftituted in due form, with its 
 organization complete. The following illuftrious brethren compofed the lift 
 of officers, as appears by the records : 
 
 » 
 Jofeph Cerneau, Paft Mafter, . . T.\ P.\ S.\ G.\ C.\ 
 John W. Mulligan, Paft Mafter, . D.\ G.\ C.\ 
 De Witt Clinton, Grand Mafter of 
 the Grand Lodge, and Mayor of 
 the City of New York, . . . G.\ P.\ A.-. 
 Dr. Charles Guerin, Paft Mafter, . lft Lieut.-. G.\ C.\ 
 
 Jacob Schieffelin, 2d Lieut.-. G.'. C.'. 
 
 Cadwallader D. Colden, Paft Senior 
 Grand Warden of the Grand 
 Lodge of New York, . . . . G.-. C.\ and G.\ 0.\ 
 
 J. P. Berard, G.\ S.\ G.\ 
 
 Martin Hoffman, Deputy Grand 
 Mafter of the Grand Lodge of 
 
 New York, G. \ T. \ and G. -. K. \ of S. \ 
 
 J.B. 
 
i8o 
 
 Appendix. 
 
 J. B. Subrau, G.\ A.: L: 
 
 Jonathan Schieffelin, G. •. I. \ G.\ 
 
 John Bleecker, G, •. G.\ of C. \ 
 
 John B. Ponzolz, A.-. G.\ S.\ G. 
 
 John C. Ludlow, A.-. G.\ I.-. G.' 
 
 A Committee of General Adminiftration was alfo formed, conlifting of 
 the following Illuftrious Brethren : De Witt Clinton, Prefident ; Dr. Charles 
 Guerin ; John W. Mulligan ; Jacob Schieffelin ; J. P. Berard ; Martin 
 Hoffman and J. B. Subrau. 
 
 By a refolution of the Sovereign Grand Conliftory, circulars announcing 
 the organization and eftablilhmeht of the fame, with its Grand Eaft at New 
 York, were tranfmitted to all the Mafonic bodies in the United States. A 
 correfpondence was this year opened with the Grand Orient of France (Su- 
 preme Council of Rites), and with the Sovereign Grand Conliftory of France. 
 
 During the year 1808, the officers of the Sovereign Grand Conliftory re- 
 mained the fame, with the exception of 111. \ Brother Charles Clinton, who 
 was on the 28th day of the 8th month, appointed Grand Keeper of the Seals. 
 
 In the early part of the year 1809, a petition was prefented for the re- 
 organization and affiliation of the " Sovereign Chapter of Rofe Croix," 
 under the definitive title of " Triple Alliance," fitting in the Valley of New 
 York. It was the oldeft Chapter of that grade in the United States, and 
 its application •being favourably entertained, it was refufcitated, with the 
 following officers : 
 
 John W. Mulligan, 
 Jonathan Schieffelin, 
 Francis Dubuar, . 
 Thomas Lowndes, 
 Martin Hoffman, 
 Harman Weftervelt, 
 James B. Durand, 
 John P. Schifano, 
 Garrett Morgan, 
 Tobias W. Bedell 
 Cafpar W. Eddy, 
 Elias Hicks, . . 
 
 M.\ R.-. and P.' 
 
 . Prefident ; 
 Senior Warden; 
 Junior Warden j 
 Orator ; 
 Secretary ; 
 Treafurer ; 
 
 Grand Keeper of Seals ; 
 Expert ; 
 
 M.\ of Ceremonies ; 
 Hofpitaller ; 
 Guard of the Temple ; 
 Affiftant Orator ; 
 
 Aaron 
 
Appendix. 1 8 1 
 
 Aaron H. Palmer, . . M.\ R. 1 . and P.'. Affiftant Grand Secretary; 
 John Telfair, ... " " G.\ M. 1 . of Ceremonies; 
 
 Jofeph Colbert, . . . " " Affiftant Guard of the Temple. 
 
 There was alfo conftituted at the fame time with the above Chapter, a 
 Lodge of Perfection, and a Sublime Council of Princes of Jerufalem, undei 
 the fame title. In fucceeding years thefe three bodies — Lodge, Council and 
 Chapter, — compofed as they were of the moft refpeftable and influential 
 citizens, and Mafons became the moft numerous in memberihip of any in 
 the United States. 
 
 During this year, a Grand Council of Sublime Princes of the Royal 
 Secret, for the State of New York, was alfo conftituted, its officers being : 
 
 John W. Mulligan, 111. 1 . Prefident ; 
 
 Jacob Scheiffelin, Senior Warden ; 
 
 John P. Schifano, Junior Warden ; 
 
 Cafpar W. Eddy, Orator ; 
 
 Aaron H. Palmer, Secretary; 
 
 Jofeph Gouin, Treafurer ; 
 
 James Gelfton, Affiftant Treafurer ; 
 
 Jonathan Schieffelin, G. 1 . K. 1 . of the Seals ; 
 
 Francis Dubuar, M.\ of Ceremonies ; 
 
 Thomas Lowndes, Expert ; 
 
 John Telfair, Standard Bearer ; 
 
 Abraham Lott, Captain of Guards ; 
 
 Alexander S. Glafs, Hofpitaller. 
 
 In the year 1810, there was a change in the officers of the Sovereign 
 Grand Confiftory, 111.-. Brother Elias Hicks was elected G.\ A. 1 . I. 1 , in the 
 place of 111. 1 . Brother J. B. Subrau, and 111.-. Brother Jofeph Gouin was 
 elected Grand Hofpitaller. 
 
 In the month of Oftober of this year, the jurisdiction of the Sovereign 
 Grand Confiftory, was invaded by one Abraham Jacobs, who ^claimed to 
 have received the Sublime degrees at the South, previous to his arrival here. 
 This itinerant vendor of Mafonry, pleading ignorance of the exiftence of 
 the Sovereign Grand Confiftory, aflumed to confer the Sublime degrees up 
 to the 16th degree, or Prince of Jerufalem, upon nineteen brethren at 
 
 Tammany 
 
1 82 Appendix. 
 
 Tammany Hall, in the City of New York. Thefe brethren were fubfe- 
 quently conftituted into a Lodge of Perfeftion and a Council of Princes of 
 Jerufalem by an individual named John G. Tardy, who claimed to be 
 Deputy Infpeftor General for Pennfylvania, and through whofe inftrumen- 
 tality warrants were obtained from the Supreme Council at Charlefton. 
 
 This open aft of hoftility led to a controverfy as was naturally to be ex- 
 pefted, and was owing to the remonftrances of the Grand Eaft at New 
 Yrjrk being unheeded, but the commencement of a feries of unmafonic 
 afts on the part of the Supreme Council at Charlefton, which eventually, 
 owing to their afTaults upon the integrity of a fifter and co-equal body, and 
 their continued upholding of the afts of thofe who trafficked in degrees as 
 a marketable commodity, terminated in a total eftrangement. 
 
 The Lodge of Perfeftion and the Council of Princes of Jerufalem ille- 
 gally eftablifhed through the inftrumentality of Jacobs, lafted but a few 
 years, when they ceafed to exift. 
 
 In the year 1811, the 111.'. Brother De Witt Clinton became Deputy 
 Grand Commander of the Sovereign Grand Confiftory, and John W. 
 Mulligan, Minifter of State. There were alfo other changes, which made 
 the officers rank as follows : 
 
 Jofeph Cerneau, . . . T.\ P.-. S.\ G.\ Commander ; 
 
 De Witt Clinton, . . D.\ G.\ Commander ; 
 
 Dr. Chas. Guerin, . . lft Lieut.-. Commander ; 
 
 James B. Durand, . . zd Lieut.-. Commander; 
 
 John W. Mulligan, . . Minifter of State ; 
 
 Cadwallader D. Colden, 2d Minifter of State ; 
 
 John P. Schifano, . . . G.-. Chancellor ; 
 
 Jofeph Gouin, . . . . G.\ Treafurer ; 
 
 Jacob Schieffelin, . . . K.\ Great Seal ; 
 
 Jonathan Schieffelin, . . G.\ Mafter of Ceremonies ; 
 
 Touffaint Midy, . . . G.\ Expert Introducer ; 
 
 Elias Hicks, .... G.\ E.\ S.-. B.\ 
 
 Martin Hoffman, . . . G.\ C.\ G.-. 
 
 John C. Ludlow, . . . G.\ Hofpitaller ; 
 
 Charles Clinton, . . . G.\ Orator ; 
 
 J. P. Berard, .... G.-. Orator. 
 
 The 
 
Appendix. 183 
 
 The Grand Committee of General Adminiftration, charged with the 
 fuperviiion of the affairs of the Order, and through whofe hands all appli- 
 cations for Warrants, Patents, &c, &c, muft pafs, confifted of De Witt 
 Clinton, Prefident ; Dr. Charles Guerin ; James B. Durand ; John W. 
 Mulligan ; John P. Schifano ; Jofeph Gouin, and Jacob Schieffelin. 
 
 On the 15th day of the month Sivan, 5572 — 25th of May, 1812, the 
 Supreme Council of Sovereign Grand Infpeftors General of the 33d degree, 
 for the United States of America, its territories and dependencies, was 
 opened with the high honours of Mafonry in the City of New York, 
 with its number of officers complete, viz : 
 
 Jofeph Cerneau, . . . M .\ P. - . Sov. - . G.\ Commander; 
 
 De Witt Clinton, . . . D.\ G.\ Commander ; 
 
 John W. Mulligan, . . Lieut.". G.\ Commander; 
 
 Dr. Charles Guerin, . . G.\ M.\ of State ; 
 
 Cadwallader D. Colden, . G.\ T.\ of the H.\ E.\ 
 
 John P. Schifano, . . . G.'. Sec.-, of the H.\ E.\ 
 
 Jonathan Schieffelin, . . G. - . K. - . of the Seals ; 
 
 J. P. Berard, .... G.'. M.\ of Ceremonies ; 
 
 Martin Hoffman, . . . G.\ C.\ of G.'. 
 
 The feveral Mafonic bodies in the United States, as alfo the Grand Orient, 
 &c, of France, were duly informed by circular of the eftabllfhment of the 
 Supreme Council 33d for the United States of America, &c, &c. ; and 
 during the courfe of the year a reply was received from the Grand Orient 
 of France, in Supreme Council of Rites, in which was contained a full and 
 complete acknowledgment, and a requeft for an affiliation by the exchange 
 of Reprefentatives from the one Supreme body to the other. The latter 
 was acceded to, and T. - . M.\ 111.'. Brother Jofeph Cerneau, was ap- 
 pointed " Reprefentative of the Grand Orient of France in Supreme 
 Council of Rites, and for the Sovereign Grand Confiitory," and T.\ M.\ 
 111.'. Brother Germain Hacquet, Grand Honorary Commander, " Rep- 
 refentative near the Grand Orient of France in Supreme Council of Rites, 33d 
 and Sovereign Grand Confiitory. Thefe Illuftrious Reprefentatives were re- 
 tained by both Supreme bodies, and the correfpondence between them, which 
 was both intimate and fraternal, paffed through their hands until the year 1 8 2 7. 
 
 Although it was widely known that many of the individuals, who had 
 
 been 
 
1 84 Appendix. 
 
 been feduced and impofed upon by Abraham Jacobs, in 1810, and who 
 were fubfequently illegally formed into a Lodge of Perfection and a Coun- 
 cil of Princes of Jerufalem by the authority of the Supreme Council, fitting 
 at Charlefton, S. C, had during this year, in conference of their having 
 become aware of the irregularity of their formation, made application to 
 the Grand Eaft for the United States, its territories and dependencies, fit- 
 ting at New York, to receive the degrees depending on it j while others 
 who had been fimilarly deceived, withdrew from thefe bodies, which 
 fpeedily became inaftive, and fank into oblivion ; another of the agents of 
 the Southern Council, Emanuel De la Motta, who reprefented himfelf as 
 being the Treafurer General of the H.\ E. - . of that body, and who was 
 one of the figners of the celebrated circular iflued from Charlefton, Decem- 
 ber 4th, 1802, in which an utter ignorance of even the names and numbers 
 of feveral of the degrees was exhibited, and feveral degrees abfolutely omitted 
 to be catalogued, invaded the jurifdittion of the Supreme Council for the 
 United States of America, &c, &c, regularly conilituted, and fully ac- 
 knowledged by other filler Supreme Councils, and conferred certain of the 
 degrees upon various individuals, — upon fome for money confideration, and 
 upon others in repayment of fervices rendered, — contrary to Art. IX. of 
 the Secret Statutes attributed by ignorance or otherwife to have originated 
 by grant from Frederic II. of Pruffia, at Berlin, May lft, 1786, and by 
 which this fanje Emanuel de la Motta and his aflbciates pretended to be 
 governed. That Article reads as follows : 
 
 " In a country under the jurifdidtion of a Supreme Council of Sovereign 
 Infpeftors General, which has been duly conftituted, and is recognized by 
 all the other Councils, no Sovereign Grand Infpeftor General, or Deputy 
 Infpeftor General can exercife his individual powers, unlefs he fhall have 
 been recognized and confirmed by fuch Supreme Council." 
 
 The invafion was alfo the more flagrant, inafmuch as it conflifted with 
 another Article of faid pretended Pruflian Conftitutions, which admitted 
 of the formation of two Supreme Councils in America, and which, allow- 
 ing the Charlefton Supreme Council to have been regularly conftituted, 
 precluded them from interfering with the rights, privileges and prerogatives 
 of .that other Council regularly conftituted in the Valley of New York. 
 In .proof of this ftatement, reference is made to Art. V. § 3 of the fame 
 Ccmftitutions, which reads as follows : 
 
 "In 
 
Appendix. 
 
 185 
 
 " In each of the great nations of Europe, whether kingdom or empire, 
 there fhall be but a fingle Supreme Council of the 33d degree. 
 
 " In all thofe ftates and provinces, as well of the main land as of the 
 iflands, whereof North America is compofed, there fhall be two Councils, 
 one at as great diftance as may be from the other." 
 
 The a&s of this Emanuel de la Motta, and the evil fruits they bore, 
 will be fubfequently alluded to. 
 
 On the 23d of January, 1813, a warrant was granted, upon a petition 
 previoufly received from a conftitutional number of brethren in the City of 
 Newport, Rhode Ifland, afking for the conftituting of a Grand Council of 
 Princes of the Royal Secret 3 2d degree for that State, the fittings of the 
 fame to be held at Newport. 
 
 That Grand Council, after being conftituted, confifted of the following 
 illuftrious brothers and officers : 
 
 Ifaac Stall, . . . 
 
 John Brown, . . 
 
 Richard Merritt, 
 
 William Coggefhall, 
 
 Stephen De Blois, . 
 
 James Perry, . . . 
 
 Edward Eafton, . . 
 
 Eliflia Chafe, . . . 
 William Douglas, Eliflia Blifs, 
 Davis. 
 
 111.-. Prefident ; 
 
 " G.\ S.\ Warden; 
 
 " G.\ J. 1 . Warden ; 
 
 " G.\ Secretary; 
 
 " G.\ Treafurer; 
 
 " G. - . M. - . of Ceremonies ; 
 
 " G.\ K.\ of Seals ; 
 
 " G.\ C.\ of Guards. 
 Pratt, David M. Coggefhall, William 
 
 T.\ M.\ Illuftrious Brother Thomas Lowndes was appointed Reprefen- 
 tative near the Sovereign Grand Confiftory. 
 
 On the 19th day of June following, upon petition received from a num- 
 ber of refpeftable brethren in New Orleans, La., whofe prayer was granted, 
 a Council of Princes of the Royal Secret 3 2d degree was founded and 
 eftablifhed in that city, and became a dependency of the Supreme Council, 
 and Sovereign Grand Confiftory for the United States of America, &c, &c. 
 The officers of the fame were : 
 
 John 
 
1 86 Appendix. 
 
 John Pinard, 111-". Prefident ; 
 
 John B. M. Le FebvJ£, .... " G.\ S.-. "Warden ; 
 
 Emanuel Gigand, " G.\ J.\ Warden ; 
 
 Francis Martinez Y Pizarro, ... " G.\ Orator ; 
 
 Denis R. Defclnnet Deffaratts, . . " G.-. Secretary ; 
 
 C. F. LeRoux, " G.\ Treafurer; 
 
 Romain Pamar, " G.\ Expert ; 
 
 Raymond Devezee, " G.-. C". of Guards. 
 
 Of this Council, 111. - . Brethren Jofeph Cerneau, De Witt Clinton, and 
 James B. Durand were elefted Honorary Members, and the latter appointed 
 Reprefentative near the Supreme Grand Council and Sovereign Grand Con- 
 fiftory, New York City. 
 
 The illegal a£b of Emanuel de la Motta previoufly alluded to, led to 
 renewed remonftrances from the Supreme Council for the United States of 
 America, &c, &c, during this year ; and the knowledge of the faft of the 
 acknowledgment of the latter by the Grand Orient of France in Supreme 
 Council of Rites, alfo reached Charlefton, S. C, in official form. Inftead, 
 however, of fuch information leading to any difavowal of the intrulive 
 conduit of De la Motta, and his bold and unblulhing violation of the 
 Statutes by which they profefled to be governed ; either no notice was 
 taken of the fame, or if any, it was but to encourage him to ftill further 
 profecute his (or their) defigns. 
 
 With an affurance worthy of a better and more loyal caufe, De la 
 Motta abfolutely had the hardihood on the 21ft of September of this 
 year, to denounce in a printed circular, the Illuftrious Brother Joseph 
 Cerneau as. an importer, and the Supreme Council of which he was 
 Sovereign Grand Commander, an illegitimate organization. 
 
 This denunciatory document was widely circulated, but it was not until 
 a fecond edition of it was given to the public, endorfed by John Mitchell 
 and Frederick Dalcho, of Charlefton, S. C, (rendered neceffary by De la 
 Motta's want of perfonal charafter in New York,) that it attra&ed much 
 attention, though the original was taken into confideration by thofe whofe 
 reputation it attempted to affail. 
 
 The circular reads as follows : 
 
 CIRCULAR. 
 
Appendix. 187 
 
 CIRCULAR. 
 Deus Meumque Jus. 
 
 0RD0 AB CHAO. 
 
 In the name, and at the fpecial requeft of the Grand and Supreme Coun- 
 cil of the M.'. P.". Sovereigns, Gr.\ Inf.'. Gen. 1 . 33d Degree, duly and 
 lawfully conftituted, under the Celeftial Canopy of the Zenith, which an- 
 fwers to 3zd deg.\ 45 m. - . N.\ L. 
 
 To our 111.-. M.\ Val.-. and Sub.-. Pr.\ of the Royal Secret, Knights of 
 Kadofh, 111.-. Princes and Knights, Gr.\ Ineffable and Sublime, Free and 
 Accepted Mafons of all degrees, Ancient and Modern, over the furface of 
 the two Hemifpheres. 
 
 To all to whom thefe letters Jliall come. 
 
 UNION, CONTENTMENT 
 
 AND WISDOM. 
 
 Be it known and remembered, That whereas a certain individual of the 
 name of Joseph Cerneau, a Frenchman, born at Villeblerin, aged fifty, 
 and a jeweller by trade, refiding at prefent No. 118 William street, in the 
 city of New York, did fometime this laft fpring, publifh certain printed 
 pamphlets, by the French called " Tableaux," figned and fealed, wherein 
 he ftyles himfelf as " Mojl Potent Sov.\ Gr.\ Com.', of the 33^ Degr.for 
 the United States of America, its territories and dependencies, &c." And 
 whereas the only lawful body of the kind in the United States of America 
 was legally eftablifhed on the 31ft May, 5801, at the City of Charlefton, 
 S. C, and which is recognized all over the world : I, therefore, the under-, 
 figned, Gr.'. Inf.". Gen. - . 33d, Grand Dignitary Officer of the aforefaid 
 Sup.'. Council of the 33d in Charlefton, S. C, do hereby in their name, 
 and at their fpecial requeft, declare and certify, that having previoufly taken 
 fuch meafures as were expedient in all fuch cafes ; having alfo afcertained 
 that he is not of, nor knows any thing at all about the 331^ Degree; and that 
 having received no fatisfaction whatfoever from the faid Joseph Cerneau, 
 for his afluming a degree, title, and powers, to which he has not the fmalleft 
 claim or right whatever; in confequence whereof, and being in duty bound, 
 to stop, crush and publish all fuch characters, fo as to prevent their doing 
 
 any 
 
1 88 Appendix. 
 
 any further mifchief, and to continue to delude and impofe upon otherwife 
 worthy brethren, unacquainted with the Superior degrees of Free Mafonry. 
 
 Be it known and remembered, therefore, that by, and in virtue of " my 
 high powers," rights and prerogatives, as a lawful Gr.\ Inf.'. Gen. - , of 
 the 33d Degree, in the United States of America, I do hereby publish and 
 declare to the whole world, as well in my own name, as in that, and at 
 the fpecial requeft of my Supreme Council in Charlefton, S. C, the afore- 
 faid Joseph Cerneau, a Frenchman by birth, and a jeweller by trade, 
 &c, as an impojler of the firjl magnitude, and whom we have expelled 
 from every Mcfonic Afylum within our Jurfdiction, and further, that 
 whatever Mafonic works or Proceedings he may have performed, or put his 
 hands to, ever fince his arrival in this country from the Weft Indies, are 
 alfo hereby declared as unlawful, void, and totally vitiated by his la/1 
 bar faced impojlure and highly anti-Mafonic conduct. 
 
 That all thofe fymbolic brethren, and others who have been raifed by 
 him and his aflbciates in what he or they have been accuftomed to call his or 
 their Sovereign Chapter of Rofe Croix Grand Council of 33d, are hereby 
 declared irregular, and unlawful, and that unlefs they fhall each of them, 
 individually come forward, exprefs their forrow and abhorrence of fuch un- 
 lawful, nefarious conduct, and fubmit themfelves according to the exact tenor 
 of the laws, they fhall alfo be publilhed over the two hemifpheres, and de- 
 clared each of them, individually, as importers, and accomplices in his un- 
 lawful deeds. 
 
 Be it known and remembered also, That being determined to ftop and 
 crulh at" once and for ever, all fuch impositions as have been prafiifed and 
 perfifted in for fo many years by Joseph Cerneau and others, from foreign 
 countries, particularly the Weft Indies, I hereby, and in my own official 
 capacity, declare to whomfoever it may concern, that the Sow. Gr.\ Con- 
 fiftory of the 30th, 31ft, and 3 2d Degrees, originally eftablifhed in this 
 city on the 6th day of Auguft, 5806, by the Th.\ 111.-. Brn.\ John Gabriel 
 Tardy, John Baptifte Defdoity, Mofes Levy Maduro Peixotto, and John 
 James Jofeph Gourgas, all of them R.\ C. - . Eco.\ K.\ H.\ S.\ P.\ R.\ 
 S.\ Deputies Gr.\ Inf.". Gen.', and Grand Mafters under the old fyftem, 
 &c, &c, and others, has been rigoroufly infpefted, and their proceedings 
 approved of by me ; in confequence whereof, I hereby declare, acknowledge 
 and recognize them, ?.s well in my own name, as in that of my aforefaid 
 
 Gr.'. 
 
Appendix. 189 
 
 Gr.'. and Sup. - . Council of the 33d Degree at Charlefton, S. C, as being 
 the only lawful body in New York, which can exift for the Northern dif- 
 tritt of the United States of America, &c, &c. 
 
 In teftimony whereof, I, the aforefaid and underfigned Emuanuel de la 
 Motta, K.\ H.\ S.\ P.-. R.\ S.\ Sov.-. Gr.-. Inf.-. Gen.-. 33d Degree, and 
 111.-. Treaf. - . Gen. - , of the Holy Empire in the United States of America, 
 &c, &c, have delivered the prefent under my hand, and Grand Seal of 
 Sov. - . P. - . of R.-. S.\ and alfo of the Stamp of the 33d, at this Grand Eaft 
 of New York City, by the 40th degree, 42 m.\ N. - . L.\, the 26th day 
 of 6th month called Elul, A.-. Mi.-. 5573, A.-. L's.\ 5813, and of the 
 Chriftian Era this 21ft day of September, 1813. 
 
 Deus Meumaue Jus. 
 
 E. DE LA MOTTA, 
 
 K.\ H.-. S.-. P.-. R.\ S.\ Sov.-. Gr.-. Inf.-. Gen.-, of the 33d Deg.\ 
 and 111.-. Treaf.-. Gen.-, of H.\ E.\ in the U. S. A. 
 
 Signed, Sealed and Stamped on the original. 
 
 Deus Meumque Jus. 
 
 In the name and in behalf of the Sup. - . Gr.-. Council of Sov.-. Gr.-. 
 Inf.". Gen.', of the 33d Degree, holding its fittings in Charlefton, S. C, 
 we do hereby approve of, and confirm all and every of the foregoing decla- 
 ration and proceedings of our 111.-. Bro.\ E. de la Motta, the lll.\ Treas:. 
 Gen.-, of the H.\ E.'. againft a certain Joseph Cerneau, who has aflumed 
 to himfelf the profefiion of Principles and Degrees, of which he is ignorant, 
 and has arrogated to himfelf powers and privileges which never have been 
 lawfully committed to him ; and we do therefore declare and publiih, that 
 the aforefaid Joseph Cerneau and his abettor's and followers, are unworthy 
 of Mafonic communion with any regular Free Mafons, whether of high or 
 low degree, or wherefoever difperfed ; and that each and every of them 
 are hereby expelled from even every, or any lawful degree, or Mafonic 
 Society, in which they may have been received or admitted, until they 
 {hall make their peace with our aforefaid Grand Council, upon fuch terms 
 as our aforefaid 111.-. Treaf.-. Gen.-, of the Hv E.-. fhall recommend and 
 adopt for that purpofe. 
 
 Given 
 
190 Appendix. 
 
 Given under our hands and feals of the Grand Council of P.". of the 
 R. - . S.\ and of the Sup. - . Coun.\ of the 33d Degree for the U. S. A., and 
 dated the 24th day of December, 5813. 
 
 John Mitchell, K.\ H.\ S.\ P.'. R.\ S.\ 
 
 Sov.\ Gr.\ Inf.-. Gen.-. 33d, and Gr.\ Com.-, of the U. S. A. 
 
 Frederick Dalcho, K.\ H. - . S. - . P. - . R.\ S. - . 
 
 Sov.-. Gr.-. Inf.-. Gen.-. 33d, and Lieut.-. Gr.-. Com.-, of the 
 
 U. S. A. 
 
 Iflued by me this 31ft day of January, 5814, 
 
 E. de la Motta, K.-. H.\ S.-. P.-. R.-. S.\ 
 Sov.-. Gr.-. Inf.-. Gen.-. 33d, 111.-. Treaf.-. Gen.-, of H.\ E.-. 
 for the U. S. A. 
 
 Approved by 
 
 Isaac Atjld, M.\ D.-., K.-. H.-. S.-. P.-. R.-. S.-. 
 Sov.'. Gr. - . Inf.-. Gen. - . 33d; 
 
 James Moultrie, M.\ D.-., K.-. H.-. S.-. P.-. R.-. S.-. 
 Sov.'. Gr.'. Inf.". Gen.-. 33d. 
 
 The Supreme Council for the United States of America, &c, &c, fo 
 worthily prefided over by Illuftrious Brother Cerneau, appointed a Com- 
 mittee on the -28th day of the 1 2th month of feven of its members, emin- 
 ent for their focial Jlatus and attainments, to report on this moft extraor- 
 dinarily impudent and libellous document. 
 
 In the Sovereign Grand Confiftory, Illuftrious Brother Anthony Raine- 
 taux was elected Grand Secretary; Jofeph Bouchaud, Affiftant Grand 
 Secretary ; Thomas Lowndes, 2d M. \ C. \, and John Bleecker, G. \ O. -., 
 in place of J. P. Berard. 
 
 On the 2 2d day of January, 1814, the Sovereign Grand Confiftory of 
 Chiefs of Exalted Mafonry, fully imprefled with the neceffity and importance 
 of the fubjeft, decreed, by a unanimous vote, the eftablifhment of a Grand 
 Encampment of Sir Knights Templar and Appendant Orders for the 
 State of New York, and immediately proceeded to its formation by 
 choofing the Grand officers thereof, taken (for this time only) from among 
 its own members ; and the majority of votes proving in favour of 
 
 De Witt 
 
Appendix. 191 
 
 De Witt Clinton, . for Thrice 111.-. Grand Matter; 
 Martin Hoffman, . " Grand Generaliffimo ; 
 John W. Mulligan, " Grand Captain General ; 
 James B. Durand, . " Senior Grand Warden ; 
 Jacob Schieffelin, . " Junior Grand Warden ; 
 Elias Hicks, ..." Grand Orator ; 
 Anthony Rainataux, " Grand Recorder ; 
 Jofeph Gouin, . . " Grand Treafurer, and 
 Jonathan Schieffelin, " Grand Marlhal. 
 
 They were accordingly inftalled into their refpettive offices. 
 
 On the 18th day of June, 1814, this Grand Encampment was opened 
 with all due form and becoming folemnity. At the prefent period, (Feb- 
 ruary, i86z,) it is the largeft body of Knights Templar in the United 
 States of America, and fince the zift of June, 18 16, when the General 
 Grand Encampment of the United States, was formed, has been a compo- 
 nent part of that body, 111. - . Bro.\ De Witt Clinton, D.\ G.\ M.\ of 
 the Supreme Council 33d, &c, &c, being ele&ed firft General Grand 
 Matter. 
 
 On the 28th day of February, a. - . l.\ 5814, the Committee appointed 
 by the Supreme Council to take into confederation the printed circular of 
 De la Motta, reported as follows : 
 
 To the Glory of the Supreme Architect of the Universe. 
 ORDO AB CHAO. 
 
 At the Orient of the moll powerful Sovereign Grand Confiftory of Grand 
 Infpedlors General of the 33d degree, and Princes of the Royal Secret, 
 Supreme Chiefs of Exalted Mafonry of the Ancient Scottifh Rite of 
 Heredom, for the United States of America, under the celeftial canopy, 
 at the central point, anfwering to 40° 41', north latitude. 
 Health. Stability. Power. 
 
 Extract -from the minutes of the Grand Conjiflory, at its feflion the 28th 
 day of the 12th month, Anno Lucis, 5813. 
 
 The Committee appointed at the laft Seffion to take into coniideration 
 
 the 
 
192 Appendix. 
 
 the printed circular then communicated, made their report, which is as 
 follows : 
 
 To the mojl Potent Sovereign Grand Conjiftory of the United States of 
 America, its territories and dependencies, J/tting at 2\ ew York : 
 
 The Report of the Committee to whom was referred a printed paper 
 purporting to be ifTued under the fignatures of E. de la Motta, Jn. Mit- 
 chell and Frederick Dalcho. 
 
 Your Committee in undertaking the charge committed to them, have felt 
 that this production derives its only title to the confideration of the Gr.\ 
 Con. •. from the manner in which it has been publifhed and diftributed. 
 
 Had it been only communicated to thofe, who regularly clothed with the 
 exalted degrees, were furnifhed with the means to deteft its abfurdity, the 
 dignitv of the Gr. \ Con.", would have been properly vindicated in con- 
 signing it without notice to merited contempt. But the means which have 
 been ufed to diffeminate it, will not permit the Gr. \ Con. \ to be paffive, 
 nor to withhold from the Mafonic world, the proof that it is but a malicious 
 calumny, in every refpeft anti-Mafonic, and publifhed with no other view 
 than the gratification of private malice. 
 
 To this effect, your committee fubmit their reflections on this extraordin- 
 ary proceeding, on the degrees and power arrogated by E. de la Motta, a 
 native of St. Croix, in the Weft Indies, and on the authority of his two 
 chiefs, pretending to aft in the name of a Sup. \ Council at Charlefton. 
 
 From thefe it will appear to what extent De la Motta has relied on the 
 want of information and on the credulity of thofe to whom his miffive has 
 been fent. 
 
 It purports to be the aft of an individual in virtue of his own powers ; 
 yet affefting to proceed at the fpecial requeft of a collective bodv to which 
 he belongs, and muft be either his aft or theirs. If his own, in virtue of 
 exclufive authority in him, there could be no neceffitv, or even propriety, 
 in ufing the name of the Body. If its previous fanftion were requifite, 
 why is not that aft promulgated with the regular atteftations in fupport of 
 its authenticity ? Wherever a derivative authority is claimed, it can never 
 be allowed, unlefs accompanied by a conftituent aft in its perfeft form. 
 But an approbatory decree is fubjoined. Of whom ? Of the body ? No. 
 
 Two 
 
Appendix. 193 
 
 Two other reprefentatives, without credentials, ftart up to approve in the 
 name of a Council, the proceedings of De la Motta ; and, fo barren is it of 
 members, that it cannot fupply a Chancellor, or Secretary, or Keeper of the 
 Seals, to atteft an important document, directed to all the Mafonic bodies 
 in the Univerfe. The reafon muft be obvious. It appears from the very 
 inftruments— No fuch Council ever made fuch requeit — No fuch Council 
 in fact exifts. 
 
 On the 21ft September, 1813, at New York, (the defignated latitude of 
 which, does not reflect much credit on the geographical attainments of this 
 Sovereign Grand Infpector General,) this denunciation is made. Had it 
 been previoufly authorized, a confirmation would be nugatory. Yet, on the 
 24th December following, two perfons, acting as individuals, but in the 
 name of a Council, give their approbation ; and by this very inftrument, 
 fubfcribed by them as Sovereign Grand Commander and his Lieutenant, 
 exclude themfelves from deliberating or deciding on ulterior meafures,, 
 leaving thefe to the abfolute and arbitrary will of their Treafurer, an inferior 
 officer, whofe future acts, juft or unjuft, lawful or unlawful, they adopt and 
 fanction in advance. Can any Mafon, or any man, believe that fo pre- 
 poilerous an aft, can proceed from men having the flighteft knowledge of 
 the principles of our Order, or of common fenfe ? 
 
 Amply as other circumltances have proved to the Gr. \ Con. - , that if 
 there ever was a Council at Charleftori, it has long ceafed to exiit, no more 
 decifive evidence could be wanted than thefe abfurd contrivances of its 
 pretended members. If there were fuch a body, would it not be feen 
 vindicating to the Mafonic world prerogatives and jurifdiftion, againft the 
 ufurpation of which it complained, by one of its molt folemn acts, authen- 
 ticated in the ampleft form ? 
 
 Nor will the authority of De la Motta and his coadjutors, appear in a 
 more favourable light from the matter, than from the form, of this daring 
 calumny. 
 
 After fome confufed recitals, it declares, Firft, that Jofeph Cerneau is an 
 importer, expelled by De la Motta, from every Mafonic Afylum. Sec- 
 ondly, that his proceedings and Mafonic works, fince his arrival from the 
 Weft Indies, are unlawful, void and totally vitiated. Thirdly, it declares 
 the reafon why they are fo, that is, " by his laft bare-faced impofture, and 
 highly an ti-Mafonicf conduct." Now the only fpecific impofture and conduct 
 
 alleged 
 
1 94 Appendix. 
 
 alleged, and which is called the laft, and of courfe muft be the firft, alfo, is 
 the publication of the Tableaux, or lift of the members of this Gr. \ Con. \ 
 This, then, is the highly anti-Mafonic conduft by which he declares the 
 previous proceedings to be vitiated, admitting thereby that they were regu- 
 lar before. This abfurdity cannot efcape the notice of the moft carelefs. 
 Can the publication of a lift of perfons, compofing a colleftive body, vitiate 
 its afts ? Even fuppofmg fuch a meafure improper, it cannot annul antece- 
 dent regular tranfaftions. 
 
 Yet this is the only reafon offered to cover the malignity which has 
 prompted this atrocious libel on a valuable and zealous Mafon, an induftri- 
 ous artifan, the father of a family, a meritorious and peaceful citizen. 
 
 But the malice of this production is not more apparent than its arro- 
 gance and injuftice. Betraying the greateft ignorance of the Mafonic fyf- 
 tem in the United States, it ufurps jurifdiaion over the three degrees of 
 what is ufually denominated Ancient Mafonry. 
 
 It is well known that the three firft degrees are under the exclulive fuper- 
 intendence of Independent Grand Lodges. Admitting that De la Motta 
 is in faft a Gr. \ Inf. : Gen. '. (which your Committee have the moft fatif- 
 faftory reafons to dilbelieve) he has gone beyond the line of his duties and 
 his powers to interfere with that jurifdi&ion. 
 
 Your Committee on the point refer the Confiftory to the communication, 
 giving notice of its eftablifhment, to the Grand Lodge of the State of New 
 York, in which they expreflly recognize its rapremacy over Mafter Mafons. 
 
 The Sovereign Grand Commander, Cerneau, is punifhed and condemned 
 according to the " Old Syftem. " Ca/iigat audit que dolos, with fome im- 
 provements of this Modern Rhadamanthus, for he will hear nothing. 
 Next the aflbciates or members of the Confiftory are threatened with the 
 fame fate unlefs they fubmit ; and this fummons to anfwer, kept fecret for 
 more than three months, is for the firft time promulgated with the decree 
 of this .threefold Council of fingle men, expelling them in mafs " from 
 every or any lawful degree or Mafonic Society." 
 
 Did not the daring malignity of this pretended denunciation, fuftain the 
 indignation it excites, its ludicrous inconfiftency would put all gravity at 
 defiance. 
 
 As to the declaration in favour of a Sov. '. Gr. \ Con. \ faid to be formed 
 the 6th Auguft, 1806, it is only neceflary to remark, that thofe who have 
 
 any 
 
Appendix. 195 
 
 any knowledge of our degrees, of De la Motta, and of fome of the per- 
 fons he names, muft allow that it is utterly impqjjible that they ought to be 
 what they profefs. 
 
 It is well known that that body never pretended to any power previous 
 to the notice of its formation on the 7th March, 1809, long after this was 
 eftablifhed and its formation publicly announced. So well aware were the 
 perfons who compofed that Confiftory of its defefts and of the regularity 
 of this, that after many efforts to fuftain it, and much expenfe, borne in no 
 equitable proportion, by many who were deluded to enter it, they fuffered 
 it to fink at once into inactivity and oblivion. 
 
 Some individuals, who had affifted in its irregular proceedings, convinced 
 of their error, applied for and received the degrees depending on this 
 Grand Confiftory. 
 
 Others, tenacious of their pride, but convinced of our correftnefs, ap- 
 plied for admiffion collectively ; a propofition obvioufly inadmiffible, which 
 was at once rejected, and which could only have proceeded from perfons 
 ignorant of our laws and inftitutions, or difpofed to fan&ion the violation of 
 the obligations they impofe. 
 
 Your Committee might fecurely rely on the obfervations they have made 
 on this defamatory paper, to eftablifh its total irregularity ; but it is in fuch 
 direft violation of the fundamental laws and inftitutions of exalted Mafonry, 
 that they cannot refrain from fhowing that by thefe, that point is put be- 
 yond the reach of doubt. 
 
 The Gr. \ Con. - , is vefted with the fole power of adminiftration and 
 legiilation, including that of granting conftitutions, in all the degrees which 
 appertain to exalted Mafonry. The eftabliftiment of a Gr.". Con. - , abfo- 
 lutely fuperfedes the individual authority of the Grand Infpeftors General, 
 in the regulation and government of the Order. 
 
 As to this degree of Grand Infpeftor General, in rank the 33 d, the laws 
 and regulations direft the manner in which the members on whom it is 
 conferred fhall be felefted. It is a dignity granted as the reward of merit 
 and experience. Thofe who are inverted with it do not pofiefs the arbi- 
 trary and irrefponfible power which fome who pretend to aft under "Jccrct 
 conjlitutions " imagine they are authorized to exercife. 
 
 Before your Committee difmifs this difgufting mafs of abfurdity and 
 wickednefs, which certainly difcovers no charafteriftic of the Chriftian 
 
 morality 
 
1 96 Appendix. 
 
 morality of our Order, they beg leave to draw the attention of the Con- 
 fiftory to the infmuation contained in the words "having received no 
 fatisfaftion," &c., which leave it to be inferred that our Sovereign Grand 
 Commander was bound to give fuch fatisfaftion. De la Motta has not 
 pretended to allege that any application (which ought to have preceded an 
 accufation for negleft or refufal) was made to Brother Cerneau. But the 
 multiplied abufes exifting in this country by means of perfons falfely pre- 
 tending to pofTefs the Exalted degrees, early attrafted the notice of the 
 Gr.-\ Con. - , and connefted with various infidious attempts to take advan- 
 tage of the deficiency of our Sovereign Grand Commander in the Englifh 
 language, and of the unfufpicious confidence of his character, produced a 
 determination to have all applications referred to the Gr. - . Con. - . Of 
 this De la Motta was apprifed, he was told if he wifhed to infpeft our 
 Documents, he mould, by applying to the Gr. '. Con. \ have all the fatisfac- 
 tion he required, provided he proved his right to it. Had he purfued this 
 courfe, his conduft would have been conformable to that of a perfon 
 clothed with lawful powers. This refufal indicates that he was not willing 
 to examine too clofely into our powers, nor to fubmit his claims to that in- 
 veftigation which the Confiftory might deem it their duty to make. 
 
 After this ample expofure of an Inftrument which can infli<Et difgrace on 
 none but its authors and abettors, your Committee might fafely conclude 
 their labours, but they prefer fubmitting on this occafion fome of the cir- 
 cumftances attending the eftablifhment and progrefs of the Gr. \ Con. - ., 
 which will alfo refleft fome more light on the pretended Council at Charlef- 
 ton, which, in a fpirit of appropriation your Committee have no doubt is 
 in ftrift conformity with the faft, De la Motta emphatically calls his. 
 
 Immediately on its inftallation, the Gr. \ Con. - , gave notice to the Su- 
 preme Mafonic bodies in Europe and the Weft Indies, to whom it at the 
 fame time communicated copies of the patents under which it was formed. 
 Thefe were followed by the moft ample recognition on the part' of the Su- 
 preme Grand Council of France, an aft fumcient in itfelf to outweigh the 
 cavils of all impofters. 
 
 Having heard that a Council had exifted at Charlefton, South Carolina, 
 which might yet be in activity, a circular, with copies of the Patent or 
 Warrant, and a lift of the members, was alfo tranfmitted thither and de- 
 livered to the perfon whofe name appears as Grand Commander to the aft 
 
 approving 
 
Appendix. 1 97 
 
 approving De la Motta's denunciation. • No anfwer being received, another 
 was difpatched, but with no better fuccefs. Your Committee here will juft 
 remark that if the Council at Charlefton was a regular body, and deemed us 
 ufurpers, it was their duty to take inftant and effeftual meafures to arreft 
 our progrefs. If we were regular, Mafonic courtefy, as well as their obli- 
 gation, required them to acknowledge us without delay. They have done 
 neither. 
 
 This profound filence and neglefl; was of itfelf fufficient to fatisfy the 
 Gr. ". Con. •. that the body at Charlefton, if it ever had a lawful exiftence, 
 was extinct. 
 
 The fubfequent tranfa&ions of the Gr. - . Con.'- were warranted by the 
 high conftitutions under which it afts ; and were required by the abufes 
 produced in various parts of the United States, by importers who made a 
 fhamefiil traffic of their pretended degrees. 
 
 Its inherent power is the fulleft warrant for the extent of its jurifdiftion, 
 recognized as at leaft co-extenfive with the limits of the nation where it is 
 eftablifhed. 
 
 The public papers throughout the United States bear teftimony to the 
 publicity which it has given to all the afts of which it concerned the dif- 
 perfed members of the higher orders to be apprifed. Years have fince 
 elapfed, and till now no one has had the hardihood to impeach its pro- 
 ceedings. It has perfevered peacefully and succefsfully towards its ultimate 
 objefts, — the correftion of abufes, and the eftablilhmerit, on a firm founda- 
 tion, of the degrees under its peculiar care. 
 
 Men diftinguifhed in the annals of our Order, have received from it 
 conftitutions for the eftablifhment of exalted bodies, in various parts of the 
 United States. 
 
 And does this pretended Council of Charlefton, after years of torpid 
 indifference, expect now to rival the vital energies of this Confiftory ? If 
 two or three members, the fragments of its diflevered frame, (and of their 
 title to be thus confidered there is no proof,) do now refide at Charlefton, 
 it is obvious they have made no efforts to raife it from the duft. They 
 have not a fufficient number for any deliberation, or official purpofe, ac- 
 cording to the eftablifhed laws of the Order. How futile muft be their 
 expectations, that, after fo many years of peaceful flumber, three individ- 
 uals could overturn, or even make, a body regularly formed, refpeftable as 
 
 well 
 
198 Appendix. 
 
 well on account of its labours as of the individuals who compofe it, and 
 recognized by competent authority, whofe teftimony mull outweigh the at- 
 tempts of ten thoufand fuch detractors. 
 
 The Confiftory, if called upon by a body competent to decide, might 
 view with triumph the opportunity fuch an occalion would prefent to dif- 
 clofe all the evidence which they poffefs to confound their calumniators. 
 
 After this ample ftatement, your Committee are of opinion that the Gr. ". 
 Con.', mould fubmit to the good fenfe of all who may be called on to 
 judge, the decilion between it and its accufers. With refpeft to any future 
 attack either from the fame or any other quarter, your Committee deem it 
 moft dignified and proper for the Confiftory to oppofe the invitation for all 
 who feel interefted in their concerns to apply directly to it for information. 
 
 Your Committee advife that the Confiftory mould on no other fimilar 
 occafion give any other anfwer than that it is willing to fubmit its afts to 
 the inveftigation of all whom it may concern to make it in a regular and 
 conftitutional manner. 
 
 But your Committee cannot hefitate to advife that the Confiftory owe to 
 themfelves and the interefts of Mafonry in general, to denounce to the 
 Mafonic world this proceeding of De la Motta and his affociates. 
 
 All which is refpe&fully fubmitted. 
 
 New York, zith Feb. A. L. 5814. 
 Signed, 
 
 John W. Mulligan. . 
 
 JONA. SCHIEFFELIN. MaRTIN HoFFMAN. 
 
 E. Hicks. A. Rainetaux. 
 
 Jos. Bouchaud. Francis Dubuar. 
 
 Whereupon, Refolved, unanimoufly, That this Gr.-. Con.', approve and 
 adopt the faid report, that it be entered at length on the minutes of this 
 feffion, and the original depofited among the Archives of the Gr. : Con. \ 
 
 Refolved, That the conduft of Emanuel de la Motta and his affociates, 
 in framing and publifhing their faid afts againft our Sovereign Grand Com- 
 mander, and the members of this Gr.-. Con.-., be and it is hereby de- 
 nounced to the Mafonic world as irregular, anti-Mafonic, and fcandalous. 
 
 Refolved, That this Gr. \ Con. \ does not recognize the faid Emanuel 
 de la Motta and his affociates as legally poffeffing the degrees or powers 
 
 which 
 
Appendix. 199 
 
 which they claim, nor as worthy of admiffion into any regular affembly of 
 exalted Mafons. And that their pretended a&s are void and infignificant. 
 
 Refolved, That it be and hereby is enjoined on all the Mafonic bodies 
 under our jurifdiftion to govern themfelves by the tenor of thefe proceed- 
 ings. 
 
 Refolved that copies, authenticated in due form, of the faid report and 
 of the refolutions taken thereon at this meeting, be tranfmitted with all 
 poffible difpatch to the difFerent bodies correfponding with the G.\ Con. - , 
 in the two hemifpheres ;. to the Grand Councils of P. R. S. and other 
 bodies under its jurifdiclion. — To the moft Worfhipful the Grand Lodge 
 of the State of New York, and the other moft Worlhipful Grand Lodges 
 of the United States, and elfewhere under the canopy of heaven ; and to 
 fuch other bodies as the Sovereign Grand Commander fhall direft. 
 
 A True copy from the Minutes. 
 
 By order of the Grand Conjijlory. 
 
 A. RAINETAUX, 
 
 « R. C. K. H. S. P. R. S. 
 
 Grand Secretary. 
 Sealed and Stamped by 
 
 J. SCHIEFFELIN, 
 
 R. C. K. H. S. P. R. S. 
 
 Gr.\ Inf. - . Gen.'. 33d deg. 
 
 Grand Keeper of the Seals. 
 
 Previous to the above report having been made, letters were addreffed 
 to De la Motta, by 111. - . Brother Stephen De Blois, and others, in re- 
 fponfe to copies of the unmafonic circular above alluded to, which he had 
 the temerity to forward them. The letter of De Blois is as follows : 
 
 Newport, R. I., February 5th, 1814. 
 E. de la Motta : 
 
 Sir, — Your circular under date of the 31ft ult., I received by mail laft 
 evening, the contents of which in every point of view merit the contempt 
 of every Mafon or man of common fenfe. If any controverfy or mifun- 
 derftanding had taken place between your felf-ftyled Royal Highnefs, Illuf- 
 trious General of the Holy Empire, and the Grand Confiftory of the 
 United States, it was your duty to have pointedly addrefled them, and if our 
 
 interference 
 
200 Appendix. 
 
 interference had been deemed neceflary, we ought to have been addrefled 
 in a manner becoming a' Mafon and a gentleman. The Confiftory from 
 which we had the honour of receiving our charter, and which we now 
 work under, we were, previous to our application to them, convinced was 
 regularly and legally eftablifhed, and acknowledged in different parts of the 
 world. Our authority we do not mean to conceal, but enjoy every privi- 
 lege granted us, and defend the dignity attached thereto to the laft ex- 
 tremity. Your threats to expofe the gentlemen compofing the faid Gr. \ 
 Con. - ., particularly the Hon. De Witt Clinton, I doubt not will take fuch 
 notice of it as it requires, in which he will be fupported by his worthy 
 companions. In a Ihort time we mail call a meeting of our members, and 
 jointly reply to your contemptuous letter. In the mean time, we mail ad- 
 drefs Mr. Jofeph Cerneau and enclofe him one of your letters for his in- 
 fpection and direction. Let me refpeftfully caution your High and Mighty 
 Illuftrious Grand Infpeftor General, and Royal Treafurer of the United 
 States, not to harbour an idea of advertizing my name as he threatens, for 
 the moment I fee it, or hear of it, I will advertize you -as a fcoundrel 
 through the world, and individually profecute you to the extremity of the 
 law, in which I allure you I fhall be followed by each of my worthy com- 
 panions. If you have any further communications to make, let them be 
 couched in proper language, and in the like manner they will be replied to. 
 And if you wifh letters poft-paid, you will pleafe fet the example by paying 
 the pottage of any further letters you write. 
 
 Your obedient humble fervant, 
 
 Stephen De Blois. 
 
 The effects of the able report of the Committee on the minds of an 
 enlightened Fraternity foon became apparent. Its plain ftatements and un- 
 anfwerable arguments carried conviction of the iniquitous proceedings of De 
 la Motta and his aflbciates at Chariefton, S. C. ; for even from that city 
 where both Mitchell and Dalcho, and De la Motta were beft known 
 an application was fhortly afterwards made by brethren, refidents thereof 
 to the Supreme Council for the United States of America, &c, <Scc., for 
 the founding and conftituting a Grand Council of Princes of Jerufalem 
 which requeft was granted, and the faid Council confifted of the following 
 Illuftrious brethren as officers : 
 
 John 
 
Appendix. 201 
 
 John S. Cogdell, Senior Grand Warden of 
 
 the Grand Lodge of S. C. , 111.-. Prefident ; 
 
 Thomas W. Bacot, Grand Matter of the 
 
 Grand Lodge of S. C, . " Ex-Prefident ; 
 
 A. E. Ulmo, " Dep.-. Prefident; 
 
 Ifaac M. Wilfon, Grand Secretary of the 
 
 Grand Lodge of S. C, . " S.\ Gr.-. Warden ; 
 
 Peter Fagolle, " J.-. Gr.-. Warden ; 
 
 F. L. L'Herminier, " Gr.-. Orator ; 
 
 Charles S. Tucker, " Gr.-. Secretary ; 
 
 Peter Defpertes, •' Gr.-. Treafurer ; 
 
 A. L. Prince, « Gr.-. M.-. of Cer. ; 
 
 Antoine A. A. Carivene, " Gr.-. K.-. of Seals ; 
 
 Samuel Richards, " Gr.-. C.-. of Guards; 
 
 Richard Pearce, " Gr.-. Expert; 
 
 Jacques Magnan, " Gr.-. Hofpitaller. 
 
 Members. — Joel R. Poinfett ; Simon S. Chancognie ; John Uylee ; Pe- 
 ter Javain, which latter 111.-. Brother reprefented the Sovereign Grand 
 Confiltory of New York, and 111.-. Brother Jacob Schieffelin was appointed 
 reprefentative near the Sovereign Grand Confiftory at this Grand Eaft. 
 
 The Grand Council immediately after it had been constituted, founded 
 a Sovereign Chapter of Princes of Rofe Croix in the City of Charlefton, 
 under the title of " Friends of Peace," of which were officers : 
 
 Joel R. Poinfett, 111.-. Prefident ; 
 
 Thomas W. Bacot, " Ex-Prefident ; 
 
 John Dumaine, " Gr.-. S.\ Warden ; 
 
 John Cogdell, " Gr.-. J.-. Warden ; 
 
 Ifaac M. Wilfon, " Gr.-. Secretary; 
 
 Anthony E. Ulmo, " Gr. - . Orator; 
 
 Pierre Defpertes, " Gr. - . Treafurer ; 
 
 Chaf. S. Tucker, " Gr.-. M.-. of Cer. 
 
 A petition was alfo received from feveral brethren in Philadelphia, pray- 
 ing for the conftituting of a Grand Council of Princes of the Royal Secret, 
 3 2d degree, for the State of Pennfylvania. The requeft was complied 
 
 with, 
 
202 Appendix. 
 
 with, and a Grand Council conftituted there with the following 111.' 
 Brethren as officers : 
 
 John F. Hartell, 111.'. Prefident ; 
 
 John F. Canonge, 
 John F. Herils, . 
 Peter Duler, . . 
 J. Gardette, . . 
 A. Sabel, . . . 
 J. M. Monges, . 
 
 Gr.\ S.\ Warden ; 
 Gr.-. J.-. Warden ; 
 Gr.\ Secretary; 
 Gr.-. Treafurer ; 
 Gr.-. K.\ of Seals ; 
 Gr. - . Hofpitaller. 
 
 M.\ 111. - . Brother John W. Mulligan was appointed reprefentative near 
 the Sov.\ Gr.-. Confiftory at New York. 
 
 On the 21ft day of May, of this year, (1814,) De la Motta, (now 
 rendered notorious,) without even the knowledge of his aflbciates at 
 Charlefton, S. C, aided by an individual of the name of John James 
 Joseph Gourgas, an emigre, who had been an amanuenfis in his employ, 
 and others who had clandeftinely received the Sublime Degrees through 
 his (De la Motta's) inftrumentality, capped the climax of their illegal 
 and clandeftine proceedings, by eftablifhing what they denominated " The 
 Supreme Grand Council for the Northern Jurifdiftion of the United States," 
 whofe headquarters they located at New York. 
 
 This bold ufurpation was after a delay of nearly eight months, partially 
 fanftioned by fome of De la Motta's colleagues at Charlefton, who 
 granted a charter to the fpurious body thus formed, on the 7th January, 
 1815; but, it was not until the 21ft May, 1815, that the Charlefton 
 Council finally ratified the aft. 
 
 In 1816, in confequence of the invafion of the jurifdiftion, and the ad- 
 verfe feelings manifefted by the Supreme Council at Charlefton, the con- 
 tinued intrigues of its agents, and the founding by them of various bodies, 
 in this and other States, the following circular was iffued by the Sovereign 
 Grand Confiftory, and direfted to all the Mafonic bodies in the United 
 States of America. 
 
 0RD0 AB CHA0. 
 
 To the Glory of the G.\ A.-, of the Univerfe. 
 
 Moft Potent Grand Confiftory of the Supreme Chiefs of Exalted Ma- 
 
 fonry 
 
Appendix. 203 
 
 fonry of the Ancient Scottifh Rite of Heredom for the United States of 
 America, its territories and dependencies. 
 
 Extract, from the minutes of its Seffions of the 30th day of the ninth 
 moon, Anno Lucis, 5816, common era, 30th November, 1816. 
 
 Under the Cel. : Canopy of the Zenith, at the central point anfwering 
 to the \oth degree, 4 1 min. : N. : L. : 
 
 The Sovereign Grand Confiftory regularly convoked, met in general 
 aflembly on the day above mentioned, at the ufual place for holding its 
 fittings, and its labours opened by the Sovereign Grand Commander in the 
 accuftomed form and manner. 
 
 The fubjeft of the following decree being under confideration, and the 
 motives that led to this meafure being maturely weighed and appreciated, 
 feveral members having evinced their opinion upon it, and the 111. - . Bro. \ 
 Minifter of State, being heard, it was, unanimoufly adopted in thefe words : 
 
 Whereas the right of granting Conftitutional Charters, for Mafonic In- 
 stitutions, within the United States of America, its territories and depen- 
 dencies, from the perfeft Mailer fourth degree, to that of Grand Infpedtor 
 General 33d, both inclulive, exifts only with the Sovereign Grand Con- 
 fiftory of Supreme Chiefs of exalted Mafonry, therefore, 
 
 Resolved, That to be entitled to the privileges and prerogatives of 
 Mafonic bodies conftituted by this Grand Confiftory, all that are working 
 in thofe degrees in the United States of America, its territories and depen- 
 dencies under, or under pretence of any foreign authority, fliall within 
 eleven months from the date, prefent their warrant or authorization for the 
 infpeftion of this Grand Confiftory ; and that the certificates of fuch in- 
 fpeftion fliall be delivered gratis. 
 
 Also Refolved, That the preceding refolution be inferted at the head of 
 the lift of the members of the Sovereign Grand Confiftory, &c, about to 
 be printed. 
 
 A true copy from the Minutes. 
 
 A. Rainetaux, Gr. - . Chancellor. 
 
 The lift of officers above alluded to is as follows : 
 
 T.\ M.\ 111/. B.-. Jofeph Cerneau, P.-. M.\, M.\ P.'. Sov.\ Gr.-. Com. 
 
 De Witt Clinton, G.\ M.\ of the Grand Lodge, Dep.-. 
 Gr.-. Com. 
 
 T.\ M.: 
 
204 Appendix. 
 
 TV. M.\ 111.-. B.\ Charles Guerin, P.'. M.\, lft Lieut.-. G/. Cora. 
 " " James B. Durand, P. - . M.-., 2d Lieut.-. Gr.-. Com. 
 
 John W. Mulligan, P.-. M.\, lft M.-. of State; 
 
 Cadvvallader D. Colden, S.-. W.-. of the Gr.-. Lodge, 
 2d M.-. of State; 
 " " Anthony Rainetaux, G. - . Chancellor; 
 
 " " John P. Schifano, Gr.-. Secretary ; 
 
 " " Jofeph Bouchaud, P.-. M.\, lft Affiftant Secretary ; 
 
 " " Francis Dubuar, P.-. M.\, 2d Affiftant Secretary; 
 
 " " Jofeph Gouin, Gr.-. Treafurer ; 
 
 " " Jacob Schieffelin, P.-. M.-., Gr.-. K.'. of the Seals; 
 
 Jonathan Schieffelin, P.\ M.\, lft Gr.-. M.\ of Cer. 
 
 Thomas Lownds, P.-. M.-., 2d Gr.-. M.-. of Cer. 
 
 Touffaint Midy, lft Gr.-. Ex.-. Introd. 
 " " Elias Hicks, P.-. M.-., 2d Gr.-. Ex.-. Introd. 
 
 Martin Hoffman, Dep.\ Gr.-. M.\ of the Gr.-. Lodge, 
 Gr.'. Captain of G. 
 
 W. T. Hunter, P.-. M.\, Gr.-. Hofpitaller. 
 
 Prefent Members. — The Moft Illuftrious Brethren, Cafpar W. Eddy, 
 James Gelfton, Aaron H. Palmer, Abraham Lott, Alexander Glafs, John 
 Telfair. 
 
 Abfent Members. — The Moft Illuftrious Brethren, J. P. Berard, Ex.-. 
 Gr.-. Chan.-. Gr.-. Hon.-. Off.-. P.-. M.\, Charles Clinton, J. B. Subrau, 
 Lewis Labourdette, Lalung Montrop, Emmanuel Gigaud, J. B. M. Le 
 Febvre, W. Davis, P. Chamau, Moreau Lillet, D. D. Deffefarts, Stephen 
 Deblois, R. Merrill, J. F. Hurtel, P. Duler, T. W. Bacot, P. Defportes, 
 J. Dumaine. 
 
 Deputies Inf.'- Gen.: in the Provinces. — The Moft Illuftrious Brethren, 
 J. Pinard, for the State of Louifiana ; John A. Shaw, for the State of 
 Rhode Ifland ; A. J. Blocquerft, for the State of Pennfylvania ; Peter 
 Javain, for the State of South Carolina ; Louis de Loup, for the State of 
 Maryland. 
 
 Honorary Members.' — The Moft Illuftrious Brethren, Germain Hacquet, 
 Gr. '. Hon.-. Com. - ., Reprefentative near the Grand Orient of France in 
 Sup.'. Council of Rites Sov. \ Gr. \ Con. '., and Sup. - . Council of Grand 
 
 Infpeitors 
 
Appendix. 205 
 
 Infpeftors Generals 33d degree; J. J. Itter, Reprefentative near the Sup. - . 
 Council of Gr.\ Imp.-. General of the 33d degree for the Ifland of 
 Jamaica; A. M. Dupotet, Gr.\ Hon/. Com.-.; John A. Lamourous ; 
 John Huard ; Jofeph Toirac ; Barthelemy Bruneteau. 
 
 Reprefentatives of the correfponding bodies near the M.\ P. - . Sov.'. 
 Grand Confiftory. 
 
 The Moft Illuftrious Brethren, Jofeph Cerneau, for the Gr. - . O.-. of 
 France, Sup. - . Council of Rites, and Sov.-. Grand Confiftory; James B. 
 Durand, for the Sov.-. Gr.-. Council of the Sub. - . P.-. of R.\ Sec.-, for the 
 State of Louinana ; Thomas Lownds, for the Sov.-. Gr.-. Council of the 
 Sub.-. P.-. of R.\ Sec.-, fd^ the State of Rhode Ifland; John W. Mulli- 
 gan, for the Sov. - . Gr.\ Council of the Sub.-. P. - . of R.-. Sec.-, for the 
 State of Pennfylvania ; Jacob Schieffelin, for the Sov. \ Gr. \ Council of 
 the Sub. - . P.". of R. -. Sec. - , for the State of South Carolina. 
 
 Grand Committee of General Adminiftration. 
 
 Pre/ident.—T.: M.\ 111.-. B.\ De Witt Clinton. 
 
 Vicc-Prejident.—T.: M.\ 111.-. B.\ Charles Guerin. 
 
 Members. — James B. Durand, John W. Mulligan, Pafcal Schifano, 
 Jofeph Gouin, Anthony Rainetaux, Jacob Schieffelin. 
 
 During the year 1817, the circular which was addrefled the November pre- 
 ceding to the various Mafonic bodies throughout the United States, brought 
 under the inspection and approval of the Sovereign Grand Confiftory : 
 
 The Sov.-. Chapter of P.-. R.\ X.-., under the title of " Triple Al- 
 liance," fitting in the Valley of New York. 
 
 The Sov.-. Chapter of P.-. R.\ X.-., under the title of "Friends of 
 Peace," fitting in the Valley of Charlefton, S. C. 
 
 The Grand Council of Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret for the 
 State of New York, fitting in the City of New York. 
 
 The Grand Council of Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret for the 
 State of Louifiana, fitting in the Valley of New Orleans, La. 
 
 The Grand Council of Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret for the 
 State of Rhode Ifland, fitting in the City of Newport. 
 
 The Grand Council of Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret for the 
 State of Pennfylvania, fitting in the City of Philadelphia. 
 
 The 
 
206 Appendix. 
 
 The Grand Council of Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret for the 
 State of South Carolina, fitting in the City of Charlefton. 
 
 In the year 1818, the Supreme Council of the 33d degree publiftied 
 their annuary or official lift of officers, &c, and forwarded the fame to all 
 the bodies in correfpondence with them. The names are as follows : 
 
 T.\ M.\ 111.-. B.\ Jofeph Cerneau, P.\ M.\, M.\ P.-. Sov.\ Gr.-. Com. 
 De Witt Clinton, Gr.-. M.\ of the Grand Lodge, and 
 Governor of the State of New York, M.\ 111.-. D.\ 
 Gr.-. Com. 
 John W. Mulligan, P.-. M.\, M.-. 111.-. L.-. Gr.-. Com. 
 " " Cadwallader D. Colden, S.\ W.-. of the Grand Lodge, 
 
 and Mayor of the City of New York, 111.-. M.\ of 
 State ; 
 Charles Guerin, P.-. M.-., 111.-. Gr.-.Treaf.-. of the H.-.E. 
 
 John P. Schifano, 111.-. Gr.-. Secretary of the H.\ - E. 
 Jonathan Schieffelin, P.-. M.-., 111.-. Gr.-.K.-. of the Seals. 
 
 Prefent Members. — The Moft Illuftrious Brethren, Jacob Schieffelin, 
 James B. Durand, Jofeph Gouin, Elias Hicks, Touffaint Midy, Anthony 
 Rainetaux, Thomas Lownds, Francis Dubuar, Jofeph Bouchaud, Martin 
 Hoffman. 
 
 Abfent Members. — The Moft Illuftrious Brethren, G. Hacquet, Gr.-. 
 Hon.-. Com.-., France ; J. J. Itter, Jamaica ; Emmanuel Gigaud ; J. P. 
 Berard ; John Huard ; John B. Le Febvre ; Pierre Chamau ; A. J. Bloc- 
 querft ; J. F. Hurtel ; P. Duler ; Louis le Loup, Md ; J. Pinard, La ; P. 
 Javain, So. Ca. ; P. Defportes ; J. Dumaine. 
 
 In 1819, the lift of officers of the Sovereign Grand Confiftory was 
 flightly changed. 111.-. Brother Aaron H. Palmer was elefted Grand 
 Chancellor, in the place of A. Rainetaux; Jofeph Bouchaud, Grand Secre- 
 tary ; Harman Weftervelt, 2d Affiftant Grand Secretary ; Elias Hicks, 
 Grand Keeper of the Seals, and Abraham Lott, Grand Hofpitaller. 
 
 In 1820, the Sovereign Grand Confiftory iffued an edift, denouncing to 
 all the Grand and Subordinate bodies in the world, as an importer, Joseph 
 de Glock de Obernay, alias D'Obernay de Glock, who, under the pre- 
 tence of his quality as a Sovereign Grand Infpeftor General 33d degree, 
 
 had 
 
Appendix. 207 
 
 created members and erefted a Grand Confiftory in places under thi.<- 
 didtion ; and who had alfo conferred of his own mere motion the r 
 
 ,rees of Ancient Mafonry, and transferred the power to do fo to o 
 
 thin the jurifdidtion of regularly conftituted Grand Lodges. Th 
 
 •fure drove this importer into Mafonic exile, and with his remova. 
 /ils he had produced ceafed to exift. 
 
 In the Sovereign Grand Confiftory there were fome changes in the off- 
 ers : James Gelfton was elefted Grand Treafurer in place of Jofeph Gouin ; 
 Jofeph Gouin, Grand Keeper of the Seals, in place of Jacob Schieffelin ; 
 Cafpar W. Eddy, Grand Hofpitaller, in place of Abraham Lott j and 
 John Telfair, A.-, to G.\ I.-. 
 
 During the year 1821, a moft interefting and valuable correfpondence 
 was renewed with the Grand Orient of France, in Supreme Council of 
 Rites, which latter body through Reprefentative T.\ M.\ 111.-. Brother 
 Germain Hacquet, forwarded to the Supreme Council and Sovereign 
 Grand Confiftory their fraternal greetings, a copy of their Proceedings, and 
 a renewed letter of acknowledgment figned by the officers and members. 
 
 In this year 111.-. Bro.\ Jof. Cerneau refigned as Sov. - . Gr.\ Com.-., and 
 was fucceeded by 111.-. Bro.\ John W. Mulligan. 
 
 In the month of September, 1822, T.\ M. - . 111. - . Brother Seth Driggs 
 was appointed a Deputy Infpedtor General for the ifland of Trinidad, with 
 the neceflary powers forming and conftituting a Sovereign Grand Council 
 of Princes of the Royal Secret, 3 2d degree, together with Subordinate 
 bodies, and alfo the conftituting a Grand Provifional Committee at Port of 
 Spain, in that ifland. 
 
 Patents were alfo granted for the formation of Grand Councils of Princes 
 of the Royal Secret, 3 2d degree, and Capitulary Charters for Sovereign 
 Chapters of Rofe Croix, at the following places. 
 
 Baltimore, Maryland ; Havana, ifland of Cuba ; Mayaguez, ifland of 
 Porto Rico j Cumana, Barcelona and La Guayra, in the Republic of Col- 
 umbia. Deputy Inf.-. Gen. - , refiding in the above places were appointed. 
 
 In June, 1823, 111. - . Bro.-. John W. Mulligan refigned the office of Sov. - . 
 Gr.\ Com. - ., and 111. - . Bro.-. De Witt Clinton became Sov. - . Gr.\ Com.-., 
 111.-. Bro. - . Elias Hicks being appointed D.\ G.\ Com. 
 
 On the 15 th Auguft, a. d. 1824, the Marquis de La Fayette landed in 
 New York City, as the nation's gueft, and fhortly afterwards was exalted by 
 
 the 
 
208 Appendix. 
 
 the Supreme Grand Council to the 33d and laft degree of Mafonry. On 
 his return to France, he was received, acknowledged and proclaimed by the 
 Grand Orient in Supreme Council of Rites. 
 
 On the 2 2d November, the Sovereign Grand Confiftory granted a Capi- 
 tulary Charter for a Sovereign Chapter of Rofe Croix, under the diftindtive 
 title of "La Fayette," for the Valley of New York; the following 
 officers being named : 
 
 Oliver M. Lowndes, .... 111. - . Prefident ; 
 
 Garritt Morgan, " Gr.\ S.\ Warden; 
 
 Henry Marih, " Gr.\ J.-. Warden. 
 
 The officers of the Sovereign Grand Confiftory at the clofe of this year 
 were as follows : 
 
 De Witt Clinton, M.\ P.-. Sov.\ Gr.\ Com. 
 
 Elias Hicks, Dep. - . Gr. - . Com. 
 
 Jonathan Schieffelin, . . . . lft Lieut.\-Gen.\ Com. 
 
 F. Dubuar, 2d Lieut.\-Gen.\ Com. 
 
 Martin Hoffman, Minifter of State ; 
 
 John Telfair, Gr.\ Chancellor ; 
 
 Alex. S. Glafs, Gr. - . Treafurer ; 
 
 Oliver M. Lowndes, .... Gr.". Secretary; 
 
 Mariano Velafquez de la Cadena, Gr. - . Sec. - , for Foreign Department; 
 
 Thomas Lowndes, Gr.". K. - . of Seals ; 
 
 S. Morgan, lft Gr. - . M.\ of Cer. 
 
 Aug. T. Cerneau, 2d Gr.". M.". of Cer. 
 
 Wm. T. Hunter, Gr.". Ex.". Introducer; 
 
 Geo. Scriba, Jr., 2d Gr.". Ex. - . Introducer; 
 
 Henry Marih, Gr. - . C. - . of Guards ; 
 
 Hampton Dunham, .... Gr. - . Hofpitaller. 
 
 In the month of January, 1825, was exalted by the Sovereign Grand 
 Confiftory, Brother Richard S. Spofford, M. D., of Newburyport, Mafla- 
 chusetts, and at a fubfequent meeting held on the 1 7th day of fame month, 
 111. - . Brother Spofford was appointed by letters patent, Reprefentative of 
 the Sovereign Grand Confiftory in and for the State of Maffachufetts, with 
 
 the 
 
Appendix. 209 
 
 the rank of Deputy Grand Infpe&or General, with power to conftitute a 
 Sovereign Chapter of Rofe Croix, and alfo to form a Grand Council of 
 Princes of the Royal Secret for the State of Maflachufetts. 
 
 During the year 1826, tnere were no changes in the Supreme Council or 
 Sovereign Grand Confiftory. 
 
 In 1827, the Anti-Mafonic or Morgan excitement commenced its rav- 
 ages, and the Supreme Grand Council perceiving the defolation it had 
 brought, and was ftill bringing to fo many Mafonic hearth-ftones in other 
 branches of the Order, determined to remain perfectly paffive, and main- 
 tain a " mafterly inactivity " until the fcourge Ihould have expended its fury. 
 This courfe was ftrongly urged upon both the Supreme Grand Council and 
 Sovereign Grand Confiftory, by their Sovereign Grand Commander, the 
 Illuftrious Brother De Witt Clinton, who Ihortly after his advice had been 
 concurred in by his Supreme Council, was on the 1 1 th day of February, 
 1828, and while in the active performance of his duties as Governor of the 
 State of New York, fuddenly called to the Supreme Grand Council on 
 High, his deceafe being lamented not only by his Illuftrious Mafonic aflb- 
 ciates, but by the nation at large. To the vacancy thus created, T.\ M.\ 
 Illuftrious Brother Elias Hicks fucceeded, and the policy initiated by his 
 predeceflbr, was faithfully and wifely carried out, until the Anti-Mafonic 
 tornado had expended itfelf, when the aftive labours of Exalted Mafonry 
 were again refumed. 
 
 In the interim, i. e., during the years 1828, 18Z9, 1830, 1831, Cadwal- 
 lader D. Colden, and others withdrew altogether from the Mafonic inftitu- 
 tion in all its branches, but their places were immediately filled from the 
 other effective members of the Supreme Council, and Sovereign Grand 
 Confiftory. Several of the Lodges, Chapters, Councils and Confiftories de- 
 pendent on the Supreme Grand Council for the United States of America, 
 &c, &c, unable to withftand the devaftating influence of the politico- 
 Mafonic excitement, yielded up their exiftence, as well in New York, as in 
 other places. 
 
 At the fitting of the Supreme Grand Council on the 23d day of the 
 12th M.\ M.\ A. - . L. - . 5831, the proceedings were of a highly important 
 and interefting nature. We tranfcribe the following from the Golden 
 Book of the fame : 
 
 The Sup.-. Coun.-. of the P.-. S.\ Gr/. Inf.-. Gen.-. 33d and laft degree 
 
 of 
 
2 1 o Appendix. 
 
 of the Ancient and Accepted Scottifh Rite of Heredom, for the United 
 States of America, its territories and dependencies, fitting at the Vertical 
 Point of the Zenith, correfponding to the 40th deg.\ 41 m.\ N.\ L.\ and 
 3 deg.\ 1 m.\ 13 s.-. E.\ Long/, from Waftungton City, was extraordinarily 
 affembled on this day, near the B.\ B.\, by order and under the Prefidency 
 of the M.\ P.". Sov.-. Gr.-. Com.-, (ad vitam) the moft 111.-. Bro.-. Elias 
 Hicks. 
 
 The labours commenced with the ufual folemnities ; the proceedings of 
 the former fitting were read and fanftioned by the Sup. - . Coun.\ and figned 
 by the M.\ P.-. Sov.-. Gr.\ Com.-., the M.\ 111.-, lft Lieut.-. Gr.-. Com.-, 
 and by the 111.-. Gr.-. Sec.-, of the H.\ E.\ 
 
 The M. - . P.-. Sov. - . Gr.-. Com.-, read to the Sup.-. Coun.\ a defpatch 
 addrefled to him, under date of the 2d day of the 3d Mas.-. M.\ A.-. L.\ 
 5830, by the Sup.-. Coun.-. of France, of which the M.\ 111. - . Bro. - . 
 Count de St. Laurent had made an authentic tranflation, which was there- 
 unto annexed, alfo a file of printed documents relating to the tranfadlions 
 of that body. 
 
 The reading of thefe documents was liftened to with the greateft atten- 
 tion, and the important faft which the faid defpatch revealed to the Sup.'. 
 Coun. - . of the United States, &c, caufed among the members the moft 
 ferious reflections. 
 
 The fubjeft was forthwith taken into confideration, and the Sup.-. 
 Coun.'. unanimouflv decided that a Committee mould be appointed by the 
 M.\ P.". Scv.-. Gr.-. Com.-., for the purpofe of collecting information from 
 the Archives, and preparing a reply to the Sup. - . Coun.-. of France, tefti- 
 fying its defire to entertain continually with them the moft friendly and 
 regular communications, and alfo to tender our kind regards for the atten- 
 tions mown to us in the tranfmiffion of thofe printed works. 
 
 The Sup.'. Coun.-. Refolved, that the mentioned defpatch and the 
 printed works accompanying it be depofited in the Archives. 
 
 In conformity with thefe refolutions, the M. - . P.-. Sov.-. Gr.-. Com.-, 
 named the M.\ 111.'. Bro. - . the Marquis de Sant Angelo to affift him in 
 the faid refearches and collating the fafts for the reply to the Sup.-. Coun.-. 
 of France. 
 
 The M. - . 111. - . Bro. - ., the Marquis de Sant Angelo, communicated to 
 
 the 
 
Appendix. 211 
 
 the Sup.'. Coun.\ a defpatch from the P. - . Sov. - . Gr.\ Com. - ., the Count 
 de St. Laurent, by which he propofed to the Sup.". Coun.'. for the United 
 States of America, &c, to unite with them by a Treaty, of which he, at 
 the fame time, propofe the bafis, and of which the objeft is the Union of 
 ' the two Powers, and of the Ancient Supreme Council of Mexico, already 
 united to that of Terra Firma, South America, &c, in one felf-fame Dog- 
 matical and Adminiftrative power of the Ancient and Accepted Scottifh 
 Rite for every portion of America compofing their refpe&ive jurifdi&ions 
 and the Canary iflands. 
 
 This propofition developed by the M.\ 111.'. Bro.\ the Marquis de Sant 
 Angelo, was unanimoufly agreed to, and the Sup.'. Coun.'. Refolved, that 
 the M.\ P.'. Sov.'. Gr.'. Com.', fhall appoint a Committee of three mem- 
 bers to whom the neceffary full powers fhall be given to treat as Com- 
 miffioners on behalf of the Sup.'. Coun.'. with thofe of the Sup.'. Coun.'. 
 for Terra Firma, &c, whom the M.\ 111.', and M.\ P.'. Bro.'. Count de 
 St. Laurent fhall defignate to ftipulate, make and fign the faid Treaty. 
 
 According to this refolution, the M.\ P.'. Sov.'. Gr.'. Com.', appointed 
 as members of the faid Committee, the M. '. 111. '. Bro. '. Jonathan Schief- 
 felin, lft Lieut.'. Gr.'. Com.'., the M.'. 111.'. Bro.'. O. de A. Marquis de 
 Sant Angelo, Sov.'. Gr.'. Inf.'. Gen.'., and the M.'. 111.'. Bro.'. George 
 Smith, Gr.'. Sec. of the H.'. E.'., to whom all due and full powers were 
 given to fulfill their miffion. 
 
 Refolved, that a copy of this Refolution be fraternally direcled to the 
 M.'. 111.'. Bro.'. the Count de St. Laurent. 
 
 The work of the day being terminated, the prefent record of the Sup.'. 
 Coun.'. was inferted in the Golden Book, read, approved, and figned at the 
 fame time, and the fitting clofed with the ufual folemnity. 
 
 Made, Signed and Sealed the day, month and year utfupra. 
 
 Elias Hicks, Sov.'. Gr.'. Com.', (ad vitam.) 
 Jonathan Schieffelin, lft Lieut.'. Gr.'. Com. 
 Geo. Smith, Gr.-. Sec. of the H.'. E. 
 
 The following is a copy of the mentioned powers : 
 
 ORDO AB CHAO. 
 
 From the Eaft of the W.'. and of the Sup.'. Coun.'. of Sov.'. Gr/. 
 
 Inf.'. 
 
212 Appendix. 
 
 Inf.-. Gen.-. 33d and laft degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottifh 
 Rite for the United States of America, its territories and dependencies, 
 fitting under the C.\ C.\ at the Vertical Point of the Zenith, correfpond- 
 ing to the 40th deg.\ 41 m.\ N.\ L.\, and 3 deg.\ 1 m.\ 13 s.\ E.\ 
 Long. - , from Washington City. 
 
 Deus Meumque Jus. 
 To our M.\ P. - . Sov.-. Gr.\ Inf.-. Gen.-., 33d degree, moft Valiant and 
 Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, Knights of K.\ H.\, 111.-. Princes 
 and Knights, Gr.-. Elefts, Ineffable and Sublime Mafons of all degrees An- 
 cient and Modern over the furface of the two Hemifpheres ; 
 
 To all thofe to whom theft Letters of Credence fhall appear and 
 may concern, 
 
 ' HEALTH, 
 
 UNION, POWER. 
 
 Know Ye, That having received an official proportion, dated the four- 
 teenth day of the prefent month, from our M.\ 111.', and P.". Bro. - ., the 
 Count de St. Laurent, Gr.-. Com.-, (ad vitarri) of the Sup.-. Coun.\ of 
 the 33d degree for Terra Firma, New Spain, South America, Porto Rico, 
 Canary iflands, &c, &c, tending to unite by a folemn Treaty that Dog- 
 matical and Adminiftrative Body, including all its fubordinate Sections, with 
 the Sup.-. Coun.-. of the United States of America, its territories and de- 
 pendencies, including all its fubordinate Sections, and hereby to confolidate 
 and increafe the power and profperity of our Sublime Order, and more 
 particularly the fafety and welfare of our Brethren throughout the whole 
 world, and efpecially of our Hemifphere, and having appointed Com- 
 miffioners with full and ample powers to arrange and regulate all matters 
 and things touching and concerning the faid Treaty : 
 
 And whereas, we the underfigned M.\ P.-. Sov. - . Gr.-. Com. - , and Sov. - . 
 Gr.-. Inf.'. Gen.-., 33d degree, duly and lawfully congregated, cheerfully 
 reciprocate in the laudable propofition of our M.\ 111.-. Bro.-. the M.\ P. - . 
 Sov. - . Gr.-. Com.-, (ad viiam) of South America, &c, have appointed our 
 M.\ 111. - . Brethren Jonathan Schieffelin, Gr.-. Inf. - . Gen.-., lft Lieut.-. 
 Gr.-. Com.-.; O. de A. Marquis de Sant Angelo, Gr.-. Inf.-. Gen.-., and 
 Geo. Smith, So.-. Gr.-. Inf. - . Gen.-, and Gr.-. Sec.-, of the H.\ E.\, to 
 
 meet 
 
Appendix. 213 
 
 meet in convention with the Commiffioners which our aforefaid raoft illuf- 
 trious and moft powerful Brother of South America mall judge proper to 
 appoint, and thereby upon exchanging their powers to arrange, regulate and 
 eftablifh all fuch matters and things concerning the faid Union of the two 
 Sublime Bodies with full and ample power to, conclude fuch a connexion or 
 Treaty, referving to ourfelves the ratification thereof. 
 
 To which Letters of Credence we have hereunto fubfcribed our names 
 and affixed thereto the Grand Seal of our Sublime Order, in open Council, 
 near the B. - . B. - ., under the C.\ C. - ., this 23d day of the 12th M. - . month, 
 A. - . L. - . 5831 ; (vulgd) 23d February, A. - . D.\ 1831. 
 
 (Signed) Elias Hicks, P. - . Sov.\ Gr. - . Com. - , (ad vitam.) 
 
 Jonathan Schieffelin, ill Lieut. 1 . Gr. - . Com. 
 O. de A. Marquis de Sant Angelo, 33d. 
 Geo. Smith, Gr. - . Sec. - , of the H. - . E. (l. s.) 
 
 The Committees named as above, after friendly explanations mutually 
 interchanged between them, being fully convinced, the two Powers being 
 of the fame Rite, and fame Degree, having a like Doctrine, being equally 
 animated with a defire of attaining the object of their inftitutions, and 
 both prefent, both willing to contract, both authorized fo to do for the 
 greateft poffible intereft of the Order, and efpecially that of our Sublime 
 Rite, as well as for the benefit and fecurity of the faithful Brethren who 
 obferve its rules ; unanimoufly acknowledged, agreed and • refolved, that a 
 Treaty may be concluded without violating that principle which is the 
 great palladium of the freedom and independence of all Mafonic Rites, 
 
 viz: 
 
 That " No Dogmatic Power of any Rite, can unite or amalgamate itfelf, 
 by any means whatever, with any other Adminiftrative or Dogmatic Power 
 of any other Rite, nor even confent to become a part of, or dependent 
 upon it without violating the letter and fpirit of the fundamental laws of 
 the Order, without renouncing the object of its eftablifnment, without for- 
 feiting, ab ipfo facto, its Supreme Character, and ceafing to be a Power, or 
 even a part of any Rite," concluded on the 5th day of the 2d month, 
 A. - . L. - . 5832, a Treaty of Union and Amalgamation, of which the fol- 
 lowing is a verbatim copy : 
 
 Treaty 
 
214 Appendix. 
 
 Treaty of 
 UNION AND AMALGAMATION 
 
 The M.\ 111.-. Bro.\ Elias Hicks, P.-. Sov.\ Grand Infpeftor General 
 of the 33d Degree, M.\ P.'. Sov. - . Grand Commander (ad vitairi), and the 
 Supreme Council of the M.\ P. - . Sov. - . Grand Inspectors General of 
 the 33d and laft Degree, of the Ancient and Accepted Scottilh Rite, Sub. - . 
 Chiefs of Exalted Mafonry for the United States of America, its territories 
 and dependencies, &c, &c, fitting at the Orient of the World, under the 
 C.\ C.\, at the Central Point of the Zenith, correfponding to the 40th 
 degree 41 m.". N.\ L.\ and 3d degree 1 m.\ 13 s.\ E.\ Long. - , from 
 Wafhington, duly and lawfully reprefented by 
 
 The M. - . 111. - , and P. - . Bro. - . Jonathan Schieffelin, P. - . Sov. - ., Grand 
 Infpeftor General of the 33d Degree lft Lieut. - . Grand Commander; 
 
 The M. - . 111. - . Bro. - . Orazio de Atellis, Marquis de Sant Angelo, 
 P. - . Sov. - ., Grand Infpeftor General of the 33d Degree; 
 
 The M. - . 111. - . Bro. - . George Smith, P. - . Sov. - ., Grand Infpeftor Gen- 
 eral of the 33d Degree and Grand Secretary of the H. - . E. 
 
 All three members of the aforefaid Supreme Council, inverted with their 
 regular and full powers. 
 
 OF THE ONE PART; 
 
 And the M. - . I. - . Bro. - . M. A. N. A. R. de Jachim de Santa Rosa de 
 St. Laurent, (Marquis de Santa Rosa, Count de St. Laurent, &c, &c, 
 &c.,) P. - . Sov. - . Grand Infpeftor General of the 33d Degree M. - . P. - . 
 Sov. - ., Grand Commander (ad vitam) of the Supreme Council of the P. - . 
 Sov. - . Grand Infpeftors General of the 33d Degree of the Ancient and 
 Accepted Scottilh Rite, Sublime Chiefs of Ancient and Modern Free 
 Mafonry for Terra Firma, South America or New Spain, &c, &c, (from 
 the one Sea to the other, &c.,) the Canary Iflands, Porto Rico, &c, founder 
 of the Moft Ref. - . Lodge of the Commandeurs du Mont Thabor at the 
 Orient of Paris, Honorary Member of the Supreme Council of the 33d 
 Degree for France, &c, &c, &c, duly inverted with the whole powers 
 and authority of his Supreme Council and their fubordinate Seftions, &c., 
 heretofore fitting at the Cent. - . P. - . of the 9th degree 40 m. - . N. - . L. - . and 
 
 312th 
 
Appendix. 215 
 
 312 degree 40 m.\ Long/, from the Ferro Iflands, duly and lawfully repre- 
 fented by 
 
 The M.\ 111.-. Bro.\ Lorenzo de Zavala, P.'. Sov.\ Grand Infpeftor 
 General of the 33d Degree ; 
 
 The M.\ 111. - . Bro. - . Lucas Ugarte, P.'. Sov.\ Grand Infpeftor Gen- 
 eral of the 33d Degree ; 
 
 And the M.\ 111. - . Bro.-. John Melani, Chevalier de Sussarelli, P.-. 
 Sov.-. Grand Infpeftor General of the 33d Degree and Grand Chancellor 
 ad hoc of the H.\ E.\ 
 
 All three members of the Supreme Council aforefaid, inverted with their 
 full and regular powers ; 
 
 OF THE OTHER PART. 
 
 To all Mafons whofliall behold theft Prefents : 
 
 HEALTH, 
 VIRTUE, UNION. 
 
 Confidering that two or more Sov. - . Mafonic Bodies of the fame Rite, 
 may voluntarily unite and amalgamate, themfelves in One Single Dogmatic 
 and Adminiftrative Body, whatever may be the limits of their refpeftive 
 territorial Jurifdiftions, without violating the Secret Grand Conftitutions, 
 Inftitutes, or General Statutes of our Order, or the Doftrines or integrity 
 of our Rite which is eflentially tolerant, free and independent ; 
 
 Confidering that the total extinftion of the Ancient Supreme Council 
 for Mexico or New Spain, &c, &c, and the aftual difperfion of the mem- 
 bers of the Supreme Council for Terra Firma, South America, &c, (from 
 the one Sea to the other,) the Canary Iilands, Porto Rico, &c, &c, have 
 deprived the greater part of the Weftern Hemisphere of all the invaluable 
 benefits that refult from the Ancient and Accepted regular Mafonic Worfhip ; 
 
 Confidering that it is the duty of every Dogmatic and Adminiftrative 
 Power in General, and of every true Scottifti Free and Accepted Mafon in 
 particular, to work indefatigably for the propagation of an Order, whofe ob- 
 ject is to fpread ufeful knowledge, to extend the perfection of Morality, the 
 exercife of all focial, domeftic and individual virtues, and confequently the 
 utmoft poffible happinefs of mankind in general, and of men in particular ; 
 
 Confidering that it is urgent to prevent throughout all and every quarter 
 of the World, and raoft particularly in the Weftern Hemifphere, in as far 
 
 as it 
 
21 6 Appendix. 
 
 as it is practicable, any fatal Schifm, any illegitimate and dangerous eftab- 
 lilhment of Pfeudo-Mafonic Bodies, the Offspring of Corruption, Venality 
 and bafe Ambition, and above all, any Arbitrary and irregular Conceffion 
 of Mafonic degrees by wandering impofters, to Individuals unworthy of 
 ever being a part of any honeft and moral aflbciation ; 
 
 Confidering, in fine, that, by this Union and Amalgamation made of the 
 two largeft Mafonic Powers in the New World, unity and liability of the 
 Order will be firmly confolidated, and the Sublime and pure Scottifli An- 
 cient and Accepted Rite, will more fecurely preferve its Independence, the 
 tolerance and purity of its Dogma, together with its confiftency and dignity; 
 
 WE HAVE AGREED AND DECREED, AND DO HEREBY 
 AGREE AND DECREE, AS FOLLOWS: 
 
 ARTICLE I. 
 
 The Supreme Council of the P.-. Sov.\ Grand Infpeftors General of 
 the 33d and laft Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottifli Rite, Sub- 
 lime Chiefs of Ancient and Modern Free Mafonry for Terra Firma, South 
 America, Mexico or New Spain, &c, Uz.,{from the one Sea to the otker,) 
 Porto Rico, the Canary Iflands, &c, &c. 
 
 And the Supreme Council of the P. - . Sov.\ Grand Infpe&ors General 
 33d and laft Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottifli Rite, Sublime 
 Chiefs of Exalted Mafonry for the United States of America, its territories 
 and dependencies. 
 
 Are, hereby, and for ever United and Amalgamated into One individual 
 Dogmatic and Adminiftrative Body, each One being an eflential part of the 
 other. 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 
 The Two United and Amalgamated Powers ftiall hereafter be defignated 
 by the diftindtive title of "UNITED SUPREME COUNCIL, FOR 
 THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE, OF THE P.-. SOV.\ GRAND 
 INSPECTORS GENERAL, 33 d AND LAST DEGREE OF THE 
 ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE, SUBLIME 
 CHIEFS OF EXALTED MASONRY. 
 
 Their feat is invariably in the United States of America, at the Cen.\ 
 
 P.'. of 
 
Appendix. 217 
 
 P.'. of the 40th degree 41 m.\ N.\ L.\ and 3d degree 1 m.\ 13 s.\ E.\ 
 Long. - , from Wafhington. 
 
 In any cafe of emergency that may prefent itfelf, this Cent.-. P.-. may 
 be changed by a decree of all their United Sections ; but it mail never be 
 removed from out of the territorial limits of the United States of America. 
 
 ARTICLE III. 
 
 In confequence of the Union and complete Amalgamation of the two 
 Powers, all Lodges, Chapters, Colleges, Areopagufes, Councils, Confiftories, 
 &c, &c, &c, preferring the Ancient and Accepted Scottilh Rite, and that 
 lave hitherto received their Patents, Charters, Conftitutions, Sec, Sec, Sec, 
 rom either of the two United Powers, either within the former limits of 
 .heir refpeftive territorial Jurifdi&ion, or of that of each other, are all 
 hereby, equally and indifcriminately recognized and proclaimed Lawful and 
 Regular, and will therefore receive New Patents, Charters, or Conftitutions 
 from the United Supreme Council for the Weftern Hemifphere, provided 
 they fhall regularly tranfmit to it the lifts of their refpeftive dignitaries, 
 officers and members, whether prefent or abfent, honorary or titulary, ac- 
 companied by an Authentic Copy of their Conftitution, Patent, Charter 
 and By-Laws, and likewife fubmit to the taking of a new oath to this 
 Power, and appoint and delegate Reprefentatives near it, duly inverted with 
 competent degrees and titles. 
 
 ARTICLE IV. 
 
 All Free Mafons of both the Americas, Porto Rico, the Canary Iflands, 
 &c, &c, profeffing the fame Ancient and Accepted Scottilh Rite, and who 
 may have hitherto received their Diplomas, Certificates or Patents from any 
 Mafonic Body eftablifhed at any point whatever within the former Jurif- 
 diftion of one or other of the heretofore Separate Powers, but not Confti- 
 tuted or Authorised by either of them, are to be confidered as regular 
 Mafons from and after the moment when they fhall duly take the oath to 
 fubmit to the Authority and Rules of the two United Powers, and fhall 
 then receive new Diplomas, Certificates or Patents, correfponding with their 
 refpeftive degrees. 
 
 Thofe alfo are to be confidered as regular Mafons of the Ancient and 
 Accepted Scottilh Rite, throughout the whole extent of the Jurifdiftion of 
 
 the 
 
21 8 Appendix. 
 
 the United Supreme Council for the Weftern Hemifphere, &c, who ex- 
 clusively derived or who may hereafter derive their Diplomas, Certificates 
 or Patents, from any regular Mafonic Body of the fame Rite, which mall 
 have duly recognised its Dogmatic and Adminiftrative Power and Inde- 
 pendence. 
 
 ARTICLE V. 
 
 From the moment of the fanftion and ratification of the prefent Treaty 
 on the part of the two contracting Powers, the M.\ 111. - , and P.\ Sov/. 
 Gr.\ Com.-, [ad vitam) of the Supreme Council for Terra Firma, South 
 America, Mexico or New Spain, the Canary Iflands, Porto Rico, &c, &c, 
 &c, Bro. - . Count de St. Laurent, will and does hereby, formally and fol- 
 emnly abdicate, for himfelf and his fucceflbrs, his aforefaid moft high dignity 
 and all the particular powers and authority inverted in his perfon as fuch, in 
 favour of the M.\ 111.'. Bro.'. Elias Hicks, M.\ P. - . Sov. - . Gr. - . Com. - . 
 (ad vitam) of the Supreme Council for the United States of America, its 
 territories and dependencies, his SuccefTors in that moft high dignity, and 
 alfo in favour of the faid Supreme Council j to be perpetually poflefled and 
 exercifed by them, without any reftriftion whatever, under the new title 
 which by the prefent Treaty is conferred upon the Union of the two 
 Powers, and conformably with our Grand Conftitutions, the Inftitutes and 
 Statutes of the Order and of the Rite. 
 
 ARTICLE VI. 
 
 In confequence of the premifes, the M. - . 111. - , and P. - . Sov. - . Gr. - . I. - . 
 G. - ., 33d Degree, M. - . P. - . Sov. - . Gr. - . Com. - , (ad vitam) of the Supreme 
 Council for the United States of America, its territories and dependencies, 
 fhall from and after the ratification of the prefent Treaty by the two Con- 
 tracting Powers, renounce (ipjo facto) that title for himfelf and his regular 
 fucceflbrs, and {hall aflume the title, rights and dignity of M. - . 111. - , and 
 M. - . P. - . Sov. - . Gr. - . Com. - , (ad vitam) of the United Supreme Council 
 for the Weftern Hemifphere, of the P. - . Sov. - . Gr. - . Infpe&ors General, 
 33d and laft Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottifh Rite, Sublime 
 Chiefs of Exalted Mafonry, and fhall be proclaimed and acknowledged as 
 fuch. 
 
 In the mean time, the M. - . 111. - , and M. - . Pot. - . Sov. - . Grand Infpeftor 
 General, 33d Degree, Bro. - . Count de St. Laurent, heretofore M. - . P. . 
 
 Sov. - . 
 
Appendix. 219 
 
 Sov.\ Gr. - . Com.-, (ad vitam) of the Supreme Council of the P.-. Sov.\ 
 Grand Infpe&ors General, for Terra Firma, South America, the Canary 
 Iflands, Porto Rico, &c, &c, &c, Sublime Chiefs of Ancient and Modern 
 Free Mafonry, mall become, ipfo facto, and mail aflume and preferve 
 during Ids life, the title and dignity of M.\ P. - . Sov.\, Affiftant Gr. - . 
 Com. - , (ad vitam) of the United Supreme Council for the Weftern Hemi- 
 fphere, &c, he mall be proclaimed and acknowledged as fuch, mail enjoy 
 all the privileges and honours inherent to this title and dignity, as an ex- 
 traordinary and honourable reward, due to his long, arduous and devoted 
 fervices to the Order and to our Sublime Rite. He mall be reprefented 
 in the Supreme Council by a Sov. - . Gr. - . Infpeitor General, at his option, 
 who, however, muft be an active member thereof. 
 
 ARTICLE VII. 
 
 The M. - . 111.". Bn. - ., P. - . Sov. - . Gr. - . Infpectors General, 33d Degree, 
 Princes of the Royal Secret and all other Sublime Princes and Exalted 
 Mafons who now form a part of the Supreme Council of the 33d Degree 
 for Terra Firma, South America, &c, &c, Sec, or of any of its fections, 
 {hall become, fo foon as the prefent Treaty of Union and Amalgamation 
 fhall have been ratified, honorary members, if abfent, or active members, if 
 prefent, of the United Supreme Council of the Weftern Hemifphere, &c, 
 or of its fubordinate feftions correfponding with their degrees. In both 
 cafes they are to retain the titles appertaining to their actual dignities, 
 without however any exclufive right or privilege of pretending to thofe 
 dignities in the New Body. 
 
 ARTICLE VIII. 
 
 For the purpofe of protecting, maintaining and fupporting the liability 
 and independence of the Order, and the welfare of its members, to pre- 
 ferve it from any innovation or arbitrary ufurpation, to uphold, throughout 
 the extent of its Jurifdiftion, the inviolability of the Secret G. •- Conftitu- 
 tions, the Inftitutes and Statutes of the Rite, the prefent Treaty, and alfo 
 to favour, in as far as may be poffible, the propagation of the True Light ; 
 the United Supreme Council for the Weftern Hemifphere may partially 
 delegate its Authority, when it fhall confider it advifable and proper fo to 
 do, to fuch Mafonic Body or Power or Grand Infpector General, 33d De- 
 gree, 
 
220 Appendix. 
 
 gree, of the Ancient and Accepted Scottifli Rite, which it has already- 
 recognised or may hereafter recognise as lawfully exifting in any part of the 
 Weftern Hemifphere. 
 
 ARTICLE IX. 
 The M.\ 111.-, and M.\ P.\ Bro.\ Count de St. Laurent, immediately 
 after the fan&ion and ratification of the prefent Treaty by the Supreme 
 Council for the United States of America, lhall depofit in the Archives of 
 the United Supreme Council for the Weftern Hemifphere, and which fhall 
 be the proper Archives of the a&ual Supreme Council of the United 
 States of America, &c, a lift of all the Lodges, Chapters, Councils, Con- 
 fiftories, &c, &c, &c, that have hitherto exercifed their labours under his 
 aufpices, conftitutions and control, with fpecifications of their refpeftive 
 locations ; he lhall likewife depofit all the documents he may at prefent 
 poflefs, or may hereafter recover, belonging to his former Supreme Council 
 or relating to its incipient eftablifhment, and all its tranfadtions up to the 
 prefent day. 
 
 ARTICLE X. 
 
 Both the Contracting Powers have declared and proclaimed, and they do 
 hereby proclaim and declare that the Thirteen Articles or Points of Mafonic 
 and true Scottifli doctrine, inferted in the Records of their aforefaid and 
 underfigned Committees, are to be confidered as fo many palladium of the 
 integrity and fafety of the Order, and of the tolerance, freedom and inde- 
 pendence which conftitutes the bafis thereof, and likewife thofe of the an- 
 cient and Accepted Scottifli Rite. They pledge themfelves to maintain 
 them by all regular Mafonic means in their power, as if they were literally 
 inferted in the body of the prefent Treaty, in as far and fo long as it may 
 pleafe the Great Architect, of the Univerfe to proteft and preferve their 
 Union and Amalgamation and to blefs their undertakings. 
 
 ARTICLE XI. 
 Experience having proved that on feveral occafions, and in fome parts 
 of the globe, deductions contrary to thofe dodlrines have been erroneoufly 
 drawn from the difpofitions of the decree of the Sov.\ Gr.\ Confiftory fcr 
 the United States of America, &c, iffued the 30th day of the firfl: month 
 A. - . L. - . 58-26, it is hereby agreed and underftood that, the. Supreme Coun- 
 cil for the United States of America, &c, does hereby revoke fuch parts 
 
 of faid 
 
Appendix, 221 
 
 of faid decree, as may be in oppofition to any of the aforefaid Thirteen 
 Points of Mafonic or Scottifh doctrine. 
 
 ARTICLE XII. 
 
 Thofe only, whatever their feveral and refpeftive titles may be, or their 
 former dignities, in the one or the other of the two Contracting Bodies, 
 and whofe names are already or may hereafter be fet down in the lifts an- 
 nexed to the prefent Treaty, {hall be acknowledged as Active or Honorary 
 Members of the United Supreme Council for the Weftern Hemifphere, or 
 its inferior feitions, provided that they be included in one of the Catego- 
 ries determined by the 7th Article of this Treaty ; and fuch of the afore- 
 faid members as may have received fpecial powers from one or the other of 
 the two Contracting Powers, up to the date of thefe prefents, mail fubmit 
 the fame for the Ratification of the United Supreme Council, within the 
 fpace of nine months at furtheft, from the day of Ratification ; this term 
 expired, all thofe powers not fanclioned as aforefaid, fhall be deemed and 
 confidered abfolutely void. 
 
 All powers granted anterior hereto by one or the other of the two M.\ 
 P. - . Contracting Parties to individual Mafons, whofe names are not included 
 in the aforefaid lifts of the members of the prefent Union, fhall become 
 null and void from the day of the Ratification of this Treaty. 
 
 ARTICLE XIII. 
 
 The prefent Treaty embodied in authentic duplicate original, bearing the 
 fame form, tenor and date, duly figned and fealed by the joint Committees 
 of both the Contracting Parties, fhall be fubmitted for the fanftion and 
 Ratification of the faid Powers, to take effedl within the fpace of nine 
 days from the date thereof at furtheft. 
 
 After the Ratification thereof, it fhall be fworn to, and forthwith recorded 
 Signed and Sealed in the Golden Book of the A&ual Supreme Council for 
 the United States of America, its territories and dependencies, and fhall 
 form the clofe of the faid book. 
 
 All the other books ufed or kept by the Grand Secretary, Grand Chan- 
 cellor or Grand Treafurer of the aforefaid Supreme Council for the United 
 States, &c, fhall be regularly flayed, fhut and clofed. 
 
 A new Golden Book, Records and other neceffary Regifters fhall be 
 opened in due form by competent Officers or Dignitaries, for the use of 
 
 the 
 
222 Appendix. 
 
 the Secretary, Chancery and Treafury Departments of the New H. - . Emp. - . 
 of the Weftern Hemifphere. 
 
 The prefent Treaty lhall form the commencement of the new Golden 
 Book of the United Supreme Council for the Weftern Hemifphere, when 
 duly figned, fealed and ratified. * 
 
 ARTICLE XIV. 
 Every Mafon who fhall henceforth be admitted to the 32d or 33d De- 
 gree and all other Mafons ■of the faid Degrees, who fliall become members 
 of the Grand Confiftory of the 3 2d Degree, or of the United Supreme 
 Council of the 33d Degree for the Weftern Hemifphere, lhall fign the 
 original of this Treaty, and make oath to maintain and fupport the fame. 
 Mafonic Bodies or Mafons of inferior degrees lhall fwear to obferve and 
 refpeft this Treaty and fubmit thereto. 
 
 ARTICLE XV. 
 
 A new Seal of the Order for the ufe of the New United Power fhall 
 forthwith be made, correfponding exaftly with the model hereinafter affixed. 
 
 ARTICLE XVI. 
 Authentic copies of the prefent Treaty fhall be tranfmitted, as foon as 
 poffible, to all Mafonic Bodies fubjeft to the joint Jurifdi&ion of the New 
 United Powers, to all their Gr.\ Inf.". Gen. - , and to all duly and regularly ac- 
 knowledged Dogmatic or Adminiftrative Home and Foreign Mafonic Powers, 
 with whom they have heretofore correfponded, or may hereafter correfpond. 
 Done, Signed and Sealed by us, the members of both the aforefaid dele- 
 gated Committees, in the place fpecified in our records, at the Cent. - . P. - . 
 of the Z.\ this fifth day of the firft week of the fecond month denominated 
 Yiar, under the Zodiacal Sign of Taurus, in the Year of the G.\ L. - . 
 Five thoufand Eight hundred and Thirty-two, and of our L. - . and Sav. - . 
 the fifth day of April, One thoufand Eight hundred and Thirty-two. 
 O. de A. Marquis de Saxt Angelo, 33d; 
 Lorenzo de Zavala, 33d ; 
 Jonathan Schieffelix, 33d} 
 Lucas Ugrate, 33d; 
 
 J. Melaki Sussarelli, 33d, Gr.\ Chan.-, and Sec. - , ad hoc. [l. s.J 
 Geo. Smith, G. - . S. - . of S. - . C. [l. s.] 
 
 SPECIAL 
 
Appendix. 223 
 
 SPECIAL POINTS 
 
 Of the Doctrine of the Ancient and Accepted Scotti/li Rite which the two 
 Contracting Parties engage to maintain, fupport and defend by all 
 jujl and honourable means. 
 
 The two Contra&ing Powers conceive it a duty which they owe to the 
 Order, to the Ancient and Accepted Scottifh Rite which they poffefs, to 
 the Scottifh Mafons fpread over the face of the Earth, and to themfelves, 
 hereby, now and forever, folemnly to confecrate thofe univerfal principles 
 which are fo many bafes of their Doftrine. 
 
 lft. Mafonry is a Worfhip which extends itfelf under different Rites 
 recognized and approved, originating from one common fource, thofe Rites, 
 although of divers claries, neverthelefs tend to the fame objeft : Philofophy, 
 Morality, Benevolence, fuch are the obligations which the true Mafon im- 
 pofes on himfelf and is bound to practife. 
 
 This Worihip is effentially tolerant, free and voluntary in the exercife 
 of its Rites. 
 
 2d. All true Mafons, whatever their country or Rites may be, form but 
 one family of brothers, extended over the furface of the globe. 
 
 They compofe but one Order which has its Dogma, and which is gov- 
 erned by general and fundamental Inftitutes and Statutes ; and that how- 
 ever diverfified its Rites, all Mafons are obliged to refpeft and obferve. 
 
 3d. The diverfity of Rites, neceffarily caufes the diverfity of powers 
 which govern them ; for one rite is independent of the other. 
 
 4th. To attempt to encroach upon the independence of a Rite, is to at- 
 tack the independence of all the other Rites, fchifm is thereby introduced, 
 and the whole Order difturbed. 
 
 5th. An aft emanating from the Dogmatic or Adminiftrative Power of 
 One Rite, can only operate upon Mafons of that Rite, who are fubjeft to 
 the Jurifdiftion of that Power. It has no authority whatever over them, 
 but in as far as it is ftriclly conformable to the fundamental laws of the Order, 
 and it can prefcribe nothing whatever that is in oppofition to thofe laws. 
 
 The duties and privileges which arife from thofe principles, partake of 
 the freedom of opinions ; they are the diftates of confcience. 
 
 6th. Faithful and devoted to his country— fubmiffive to its laws and in- 
 stitutions, 
 
224 Appendix. 
 
 ftitutions, the true Mafon enumerates among his moft facred obligations, the 
 fulfilment of the oaths which bind him to his Rite, to the Lodge where he 
 received Light, and to the Mafonic Power whence he derived his privileges. 
 He can only be exonerated from his obligations, by that power with 
 which he contrafted them, and in conformity with the Mafonic Laws which 
 he has fworn to obferve and refpedt, laws without which, no Masonry 
 
 COULD EXIST. 
 
 7th. Every attempt, every fuggeftion, having a tendency to induce a 
 Mafon to violate his fworn faith, to defert the banners of his Rite, are out- 
 rages which he is bound to repel. 
 
 Every meafure calculated to compel him to do fo, is unjuft, arbitrary, 
 oppreffive, anti-Mafonic, and he is bound to refift it. 
 
 8 th. Every Mafonic Power governs by general Statutes the different 
 AfTociations appertaining to his own Rite, whether located within the limits 
 of its territorial Jurifdidlion, or eftablilhed by its authority or licenfe in 
 countries where no power of the fame Rite as yet exifts. 
 
 9th. The power governing one Rite, is independent of another, even of that 
 fame Rite, and having an equal degree of authority, in their refpeflive Orients. 
 
 10th. All Mafonic Powers, whatever their Rites may be, are fubjecTed 
 to the General Laws of the Order. They are Radii tending to the fame 
 Central Point by unity of Opinions and Principles. (S.\ S.\ S. '.) 
 
 11th. The object for which Lodges are eftablilhed, is to accompliih the 
 ends of the Order. 
 
 That of a Dogmatic Power confifts in teaching them the doctrine and 
 directing their actions by the purity of the Dogma, and by the obfervation 
 of the General Inftitutes and Statutes of the Order. 
 
 It attains this object: by alluring to the Lodges of its Jurifdiction, a law- 
 ful Conftitution, by regulating the labours of the Rite which it profeffes, 
 and by maintaining among the Lodges and the Mafons compoling them, 
 harmony, good morals and union. 
 
 It overreaches this end, and defeats this purpofe, whenever it undertakes 
 to prevent Mafons of its own Rite, and fubjected to its authority, to feek 
 elfewhere than in their own Rite, and within its territorial Jurifdiction, 
 Lights which are not to be found in it ; for, the very essence and nature 
 of a Mason, is to seek for light wherever he thinks he can find it. 
 
 1 2th. Every Mafonic Power regularly and lawfully inftituted, duly recog- 
 nised, 
 
Appendix. 225 
 
 nized, and veiled with the plenitude of the Dogmatic Power of a Rite, 
 over whatever territorial Jurifdi&ion, has inconteftably and exclusively the 
 right to conftitute, control and govern all the Lodges of the felf-fame Rite 
 within the whole extent of its domain. 
 
 But this right never can give to a like power that of excluding, prohibit- 
 ing or hindering a Power of another Rite, even of a Foreign Orient, to 
 grant to Mafons who folicit in the forms prefcribed, the Charters neceffary 
 to eftablifh regular Lodges, Chapters, or even a power of that Rite within 
 the fame territorial Jurifdiftion. 
 
 13th. And inafmuch as regards particularly the Ancient and Accepted 
 Scottilh Rite, which the two Contracting Powers profefs they acknowledge 
 and declare, 
 
 That, there can exift but One Single Dogmatical Power or Sup. \ Coun. \ 
 of the 33d Degree of that Rite, within the fame territorial Jurifdiftion. 
 
 That, the aforefaid power having authority over fuch territorial Jurif- 
 diftion, is the competent Judge of Points of Honour, among Mafons Sub- 
 jected to its control • 
 
 That, no Power whatever appertaining to this, or any fubordinate 
 branches thereof, can, without violating the general Statutes and Inftitutes 
 of the Order, renouncing the objects of its inftitution, forfeiting its Charter, 
 the nobleft of its prerogatives, and moreover its authority, amalgamate itfelf 
 with any other Power whatever of another Rite, founded upon a different 
 fyftem ; nor can it ever become, under any title whatfoever, a feftion or a 
 part of that Power ; this fpecies of Amalgamation is at variance with the 
 mutual Independence of the Rites, and can only lawfully exift between 
 Bodies of the fame Rite and of the like DocTxine. 
 
 O. de A., Marquis de Sant Angelo, 33d ; 
 
 Lorenzo de Zavala, 33d; 
 
 Jonathan Schieffelin, 33d; 
 
 Lucas Ugarte, 33d; 
 
 J. Melani Sussarelli, 33d, Gr.\ Chan.-, and Sec.-, ad hoc. [l. s.J 
 
 Geo. Smith, 33d, G.\ S.-. of S. - . C. [l. s.] 
 
 This Treaty was folemnly ratified, and the Amalgamation completed on 
 the 13th day of the zd month, A.-. L.\ 5832, as will more fully appear by 
 the following extract from the Golden Book : 
 
 TO 
 
226 Appendix. 
 
 TO THE G.-. OF THE G.\ A.-. OF THE U.\ 
 
 ORDO AB CHAO. 
 
 The United Supreme Council, for the Weftern Hemifphere, of the 
 Pot.-. SSS.\, G.\ III.-. G.-. was duly and lawfully aflembled under the C.\ 
 C-. and the fign of Taurus at the V.-. P.-. of the Z.\, correfponding to 
 the 40th degree 41 m.\ N.'. L. - . and 3d degree 1 m.\ 13 s.". E.\ Long.-, 
 from Wafhington City, on the 13th day of the 2d M.\ M. - ., A.-. L. - . 
 5832, at the Orient of the City of New York, in the United States of 
 America. 
 
 After the Triple Ratification of the Treaty of Union made and figned 
 on the 5th day of the prefent month, between the M.\ P.". Sov.\ Gr.\ 
 Com.-, (ad zitam) Bro.\ Count de St. Laurent, in his own name, and in 
 the name and behalf of the Sup. - . Coun.". of Gr.\ Inf. - . Gen.-., 33d and 
 laft degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottiih Rite, for Terra Firma, 
 South America, New Spain, Sec, Sec, (from the onejea to the other,) the 
 Canary Iflands, Porto Rico, &c, &c, &c, and the Sup. - . Coun.'. of Gr.\ 
 Inf.-. Gen. - ., 33d and laft degree of the fame Rite for the United States 
 of America, its territories and dependencies, the labours of both the Bodies 
 hitherto exifting under thofe titles refpettivelv were declared to be from this 
 time for ever clofed, and the ceremony of Inftallation of the . United Su- 
 preme Council forthwith proceeded in. 
 
 The M.-. P.". Sov.-. Gr.\ Com.-, then addreffed the Body in an appro- 
 priate and feeling addrefs, congratulating them upon the aufpicious event 
 which had juft taken place, pourtrayed its benign and faiutary influence 
 upon the operations of the Scottiih Rite, and Exalted Mafonrv in the Weft- 
 ern Hemifphere, implored them to engage with energy and zeal in pro- 
 moting the grand obje&s of the Inftitution and invoking the favour and 
 bleffing of the G.'. Arch.', of the Univerfe upon this as well as upon all 
 their future labours, concluded by announcing That, conformably with the 
 6th Article of the Treaty, and in confideration of the difmterefted zeal, 
 the pre-eminent talents, and the profound devotion, the M.\ 111.-. Bro.-. 
 the Count de St. Laurent, exemplified in fuggefting and promoting the 
 negotiation which has led to this interefting occurrence, he had proclaimed 
 
 him 
 
Appendix. 227 
 
 him and did anew proclaim him to be perpetual Affiftant Sov.\ Gr.\ Com.-, 
 of the United Supreme Council for the Weftern Hemifphere. 
 
 The M.\ 111.-. Sov.-. Gr.-. Com.-, then nominated and appointed: 
 The 111.-. Bro.-. Jonathan Schieffelin, ... ill Lieut.-. Gr.-. Com. 
 Francis Dubuar, .... 2d Lieut.-. Gr.-. Com. 
 
 George Smith, Gr.-. Sec.-. 
 
 M. Velazquez de la Cadena, Affiftv. Sec.-, and Gr.-. 
 
 Archivift ; 
 " Lorenzo de Zavala, . 
 
 Joseph Bouchaud, . . 
 " John Telfair, 
 
 " O. de A. Sant Angelo, 
 
 J. Melani Sussarelli, 
 
 Lucas Ugarte,. 
 
 Min.-. of State; 
 Gr.-. Treafurer; 
 Gr. - . Keeper of Seals ; 
 Gr.-. M.\ of Cer. 
 Gr.-. Expert ; 
 Gr.-. Cap.-, of Guards; 
 Gr. - . Hofpitaller; 
 Gr. - . Sword Bearer ; 
 Gr. - . Stand.'. Bearer. 
 
 All which officers were duly inftalled and proclaimed with the accuftomed 
 ceremonies and formalities, and preceded by the Sov.\ Gr.-. Com.-., took 
 and fubferibed the Oath appertaining to their refpeftive Offices. 
 
 The Gr.-. Inf.-. Gen. - , prefent, renewed the obligations of their Rank, 
 and fwore fidelity to the United Sup.-. Coun.-. and fubrniffion to its rules 
 and decrees, and the Minifter of State, for, and in the name and on behalf 
 of all abfent Sov.\ Gr.-. Inf.". Gen.-., and other M.\ Sub.-. PP.-., who by 
 virtue of the Stipulations of the Treaty of Union make a part of the 
 United Sup.-. Coun.-. or of its fubordinate feilions, promifed due fubrnif- 
 fion and fidelity, with the exprefs understanding that no fuch abfentee 
 Ihould be admitted to a feat in the Supreme Council or in any of its in- 
 ferior feftions without having firft confirmed his fubrniffion by taking and 
 fubferibing the ufual Obligations and tranfmitting an Authentic Copy of the 
 fame to be entered upon the minutes of the United Sup.'. Coun.'. 
 
 The Golden Book of the United Sup.'. Coun. - . was then regularly 
 opened, paged and numbered by the M.\ P.-. Sov.\ Gr.'. Com.-., the 
 Affift.-. Sov.\ Gr.-. Com.-, and the 111.-. Bro.-. lft Lieut.-. Gr.-. Com.-., 
 counterfigned by the M.\ 111.-. Bro. - . Gr. - . Secretary. 
 
 Ordered, 
 
228 Appendix. 
 
 Ordered, That the minutes of the proceedings of the two laft fittings of 
 the Supreme Council for the United States of America, and fuch extracts 
 from its Golden Book as the Sov.\ Gr.\ Com. - , mall direft, fhall be tran- 
 fcribed into the Golden Book of the United Supreme Council under the 
 head of the prefent fitting. 
 
 Ordered, That the M.\ 111. - . Bro. - . Count de St. Laurent, and the M. - . 
 111. - . Bro. - . Sant Angelo, be a committee to examine, and extracl: from the 
 Rules and Regulations of both the Sup. - . Coun. - . for the United States of 
 America and South America, fuch rules as may to them feem fuitably 
 adapted to the United Sup. - . Coun. - . for the Weftern Hemifphere, and re- 
 port them together with fuch other Rules, not comprifed therein, as may 
 be deemed ufeful and proper for its adoption. 
 
 Ordered, That thefe proceedings be forthwith printed under the dire-ftion 
 of the Sov. - . Gr. - . Com. - , together with the Treaty of Union, its Ratifica- 
 tion, &c, and that Copies of the fame be tranfmitted to all acknowledged 
 Mafonic Bodies in the two Hemifpheres, but more efpecially to thofe Con- 
 fiftories, Colleges, Tribunals, Chapters, and Lodges which derive their au- 
 thority from, or claim affinity to this Sup. - . Coun. - . 
 
 The proceedings of the prefent fitting having been read and approved, 
 the United Supreme Council was clofed in due and folcmn Form. 
 
 Deus Meumque Jus. 
 
 Elias Hicks, Gr. - . Inf. - . Gen. - . 33d Degree, Gr. - . Com. - , (ad vitam.) 
 
 De St. Laurent, G. - . I. - ., 33d and Affift. - . Gr. - . Com. - , (ad vitam.) 
 
 Jonathan Schieffelin, lft Lieut. - . Gr. - . Com.. 
 
 Francis Dubuar, 2d Lieut. - . Gr. - . Com. 
 
 George Smith, Gr. - . Sec. - . Gen. 
 
 M. Velazquez de la Cadena, Affift. - . Gr. - . Sec. 
 
 Lorenzo de Zavala, Min. - . of State ; 
 
 John Telfair, Gr. - . Keeper of the Seals ; 
 
 O. de A. Sant Angelo, Gr. - . M. - . of Cer. 
 
 J. Melani Sussarelli, 33d, G. - . C. - . of G. 
 
 Lucas Ugarte, 33d, Gr.'. Standard Bearer. 
 
 During 
 
Appendix. 229 
 
 During this year, (1832,) 111.-. Bro.\ Le Blanc de Marconnay was re- 
 ceived into the Supreme Council, was conftituted a Sovereign Grand In- 
 fpeftor 'General, and was fubfequently acknowledged and received by the 
 Grand Orient of France in Supreme Council of Rites, and became Orator 
 of the Chamber of Council and of Appeals of that Exalted Body. 
 
 The officers of the Supreme Council at the clofe of this year were : 
 
 M.\ 111.-. Elias Hicks, M.\ Pot.-. Sov.\ Gr.\ Com.-, (ad vitam.) 
 
 De St. Laurent, Marquis de Santa Rofa, M.\ Pot.-. S.\ Afl".\ Gr.\ 
 
 Com.-, (ad vitam.) 
 " Jonathan Schieffelin, ill Lieut.-. Gr.\ Com. 
 " Francis Dubuar, zd Lieut. - . Gr.\ Com. 
 " Lorenzo de Zavala, Min.-. of State of the H.\ E. 
 " George Smith, lit Gr.-. Sec.-. G.\ for the English Language, 
 
 and Chancellor of the H.\ E. 
 " Mariano Velasquez de la Cadena, 2d Gr.-. Sec.-. G.\ for the 
 
 Spanilh and Foreign Languages and Archivift ; 
 Jofeph Bouchaud, Gr.-. Treaf.-. Gen.-, of the H.\ E. 
 " John Telfair, Gr.-. Keeper of the Seals ; 
 " Orazio de Attelis, Marquis de Sant'Angelo, Gr.-. Ex. - . and Gr. - . 
 
 M.\ of Cer. 
 " Juan Melani, Chevalier de SufTarelli, Gr.-. Captain of the Guard ; 
 " Lucas Ugarte, Gr. - . Standard Bearer. 
 
 Effective Members. — 111.-. Brothers Touiflant Midy, Jacob Schieffelin, 
 Oliver M. Lownds, Elifha W. King, Harman Weftervelt, Aaron H. Palmer, 
 James Herring, John S. Mitchell, Thomas Longworth, Aaron R. Thompfon, 
 Miguel Cabera de Navares, Jofeph Michard, Alp. Delaflechelle, J. R. Bailey. 
 
 During the year 1833, a propofition was made by fome of the members 
 of the pretended Supreme Council eftablilhed by De la Motta, in May, 
 1814, and which had been in obfcurity for many years, to be acknowledged 
 by, and admitted into the Supreme Council ; but owing to their illegal and 
 clandeftine origin, the fame was not favourably entertained, the Supreme 
 Council, while fympathizing with the deception praftifed on them, declining 
 to recognize their alleged Mzforiic Jlatus , except upon their fulfilling the 
 well known requirements of Mafonry. 
 
 On 
 
230 Appendix. 
 
 On the 23d day of February, 1834, 111.-. Brothers, the Count St. Lau- 
 rent, and the Marquis de Lafayette, a&ing as reprefentatives for the Su- 
 preme Grand Council, together with the reprefentatives for the Supreme 
 Councils of France and Brazil, formed a Treaty of Mafonic Union, Al- 
 liance and Confederation, to which the Supreme Council of Belgium be- 
 came a party on the 5th day of March, 1835. Previous, however, to the 
 acceffion of the Supreme Council of Belgium, %. e., on the 20th of May, 
 1834, one of the Reprefentatives of this Supreme Council in the Conven- 
 tion at Paris, the 111.-. Bro.". the Marquis de Lafayette, breathed his laft, 
 mourned alike by the people and Fraternity of France, and of the United 
 States, by both of whom his memory will ever be cherilhed for his many 
 Mafonic and civil virtues, and his devotion to the caufe of Mafonry and of 
 civil and religious liberty. 
 
 The official notification of this fad event was communicated by his col- 
 league, 111.-. Bro.-. the Count St. Laurent, to the Supreme Council for the 
 United States of America, &c, &c, in a circular, ftill carefully preferved 
 in the Archives, of which the following is a literal tranflation : 
 
 To all True Scottifh Mafons. 
 
 On the loth May, 1834, our illuftrious and beloved Bro.'. General La- 
 fayette, S. '. G. ■- I.'. G. -. and Gr.\ Reprefentative of the L T nited Sup.-. 
 Council of the Weftern Hemifphere near the Sup. - . Coun. - . of France, 
 wrote the following at the bottom of the copy of his patent in the Golden 
 Book (p. 80) of Bro. - . Count de St. Laurent, one of the principal digni- 
 taries of the faid Sup.'. Council : 
 
 " It is to the extreme indulgence of the Sup.-. Council of the United 
 States, that being exalted to the 33d degree, notwithftanding the fuperior 
 knowledge and fervices of many of my brethren, I am to-day indebted for 
 the eminent favours which the Grand Council of the Weftern Hemifphere 
 has conferred upon me. I accept them with profound gratitude, and will 
 endeavour to merit them by my zeal. May our ancient inftitution propa- 
 gate and patronize liberty, equality, philanthropy, and contribute to the 
 great movement of focial civilization which mud emancipate the two 
 hemifpheres. Lafayette." 
 
 The 20th May, 1834, at half-paft five o'clock in the forenoon, our be- 
 loved 
 
Appendix. 231 
 
 loved Bro.\ General Lafayette pafl"ed to immortality. Let us ftrive to imi- 
 tate his virtues, and let us cheriih his memory. 
 
 To the M.\ 111.-. Bro.\ De St. Laurent, [l. s.] 
 
 O. M. Lownds, 33d Deg.\ S.\ G.\ I.-. G.\ 33d Deg. 
 
 New York. 
 
 Paris, 21 May, 1834. 
 
 The Treaty of Union, Alliance and Confederation is as follows : 
 
 TREATY OF MASONIC UNION, ALLIANCE AND CONFEDERATION. 
 
 To the Glory, 
 
 In the Name and under the Protection of the 
 
 GRAND ARCHITECT OF THE UNIVERSE. 
 
 ORDO AB CHAO. 
 
 The Gr.\ and Sup.-. COUNCILS of the 33d and laft Degree of 
 
 THE ANCIENT ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE 
 
 hereafter named ; 
 
 To the Mafonic Powers lawfully e/labliflied and acknowledged ; 
 
 To the True, Faithful, Reg. and Free Sc.-Mas., of all Degrees Ancr. 
 
 and Mod. : ; 
 To the True Mafons of all the Regular Rites fpread over thtfurface of 
 
 the Globe. 
 
 VIRTUE, 
 
 HEALTH, TOLERANCE 
 
 FIRMNESS, CONCORD, PERSEVERANCE, POWER. 
 
 We make known, that upon the exprefs and formal demand made by 
 the M.'. 111.', and P.-. Sov.\ Grand Infpectors General of the Order, 33d 
 and laft degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottilh Rite, Grand Reprefen- 
 t2tives inverted with Full Powers by the Sup. - . Council, for the Empire of 
 Brazil, of the P.-. Sov. - . Gr.\ Inf.-. Gen.'., Chiefs, Protectors and True 
 Guardians of the Order, 33d and laft degree of the Ancient Accepted 
 Scottilh Rite, duly empowered at the Sup.'. Council of France ; anxious 
 that urgent meafures may be taken by all the Dogmatic Powers of the Rite 
 
 duly 
 
232 Appendix. 
 
 duly eflablifhed and acknowledged, to put an end to the many abufes which 
 have been introduced into the Order, and which threaten even the ez- 
 iftence of the faid Rite ; 
 
 WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, 
 
 lft. M.-A.-N.-A.-R. de R. de Jachim de S-te.-Rofe de Roume de Sant 
 Laurent (M-is. of Saint Rofe, Count of Saint Laurent), formerly Captain 
 and Commodore of the Mexican Navy, &c, .Sec. ; — P.". M. - ., — Sov. - . Gr.\ 
 Inf.'. Gen. - ., 33d Degree; M.\ P. - . Sov. - . Affiftant Grand Commander, 
 ad vitam, of the United Supreme Council for the Weftern Hemifphere 
 (legally and folemniy formed, — of the Old Supreme Councils of New 
 Spain, of Terra Firma and South America, from one fea to the other, 
 Canary Iflands, &c, &c, and of the Old Supreme Council of the L nited 
 States of North America), fitting at the E.\ of New York; — Ordinary and 
 Extraordinary Super-Grand Reprefentative, Grand General and Special 
 Deputy of this Mafonic Power, to each and all the Mafonic Powers legally 
 ejlabliflied on the two Hemifpheres, &c, &c. ; 
 
 And Gilbert Mottie de Lafayette (M-is.), Lieutenant-General in the 
 Service of France, Member of the Chamber of Deputies, &c, &:c. ; P.'. 
 M.\, S. - . Gr.\ Inf. - . Gen. - ., 33d Degree; Grand Honorary Dignitary and 
 Grand Ordinary Reprefentative of the fame United Supreme Council for 
 the Weftern Hemifphere, to the Supreme Council of France ; 
 
 Both pofleffing Full Powers and Credential Letters in due Forms. 
 
 2d. The Administrative Committee of the Supreme Council, for France, 
 of the P. - . Sov. - . Gr. - . Inf. - . Gen. - ., Chiefs, Prote&ors and true Guardians 
 of the Order, 33d and laft Degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottifh Rite; 
 the fame Committee having for Prefident the M. - . 111. - . Bro. - . Emanuel 
 John Baptist, Baron Freteau-de-Pent, Councillor at the Court of CafTa- 
 tion, Member of the Legion of Honour, &c, &c, &c. ; Sov. - . Gr. - . Inf. - . 
 Gen. - ., 33d Degree, and Lieutenant Grand Commander of this Supreme 
 Council ; the above Committee being legally authorized for the prefent pur- 
 pofe, in confequence of the decree of the 29th July, 1824, and by the fpecial 
 delegation of the M. - . 111. - , and P. - . Sov. - . Grand Commander, ad vitam, 
 Bro. - . Antoine Gabriel, Duke of Choiseul Stainville, Peer of France 
 Lieutenant-General in the fervice of France, Aid-de-Camp to the King, 
 Governor of the Louvre, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, &c, Src. 
 
 3d. 
 
Appendix. 233 
 
 3d. Antonio Carlos Ribeiro de Andrada Machado-da-Silva, Brazilian 
 Nobleman, Grand Cordon of the Imperial Order of the Southern Crofs, 
 Knight of the Order of Chrift, formerly Councillor at the Royal Court of 
 Bahia, ancient Deputy to the Conftitutional Cortes of Portugal and to the 
 Conftituent Aflembly of the Empire of Brazil; Sov.'. Gr.\ Inf.". Gen.'., 
 33d Degree; Lieutenant Grand Commander of the Sup.'. Council of 
 Brazil, fitting at Rio de Janeiro ; 
 
 And Luiz de Menezez Vasconcellos de Drummond, Brazilian Noble- 
 man, Knight of the Order of Chrift, formerly direftor of the Cuftoms at 
 Rio de Janeiro; Sov.'. Gr.'. Inf. - . Gen.'., 33d Degree; Grand Treafurer 
 )f the H.'. Em.'., for Brazil ; 
 
 Both Grand Reprefentatives poflefling Full Powers from the faid Sup.'. 
 Jouncil, to the Sup.'. Council of France. 
 
 ALL of us affifted by the M.'. 111.'. Bro.'. Charles Nicolas Jube, retired 
 Major-General, Officer of the Legion of Honour, &c, P.'. M.'. Sov.'. 
 Gr.'. Inf.'. Gen.'., 33d Degree; Member of the Sup.'. Council of France, 
 Grand Secretary and Chief of the Office of the Secretary General of the 
 Rite, taking part in thefe deliberations by our unanimous confent, as Grand 
 Secretary General of the Rite, pro tempore. 
 
 In the Names of our Refpective Mafonic Powers, above mentioned : 
 
 We aflembled beneath the Celeftial Ar.'. and Zen.', of the Cent.', and 
 Vert.'. Point, correfponding with the 48° 50' 14" N.'. alt.'., by -o- deg.\ 
 of Long.', from the mer.'. of Paris, at the E.'. of the World, in a place 
 well illuminated, very ftrong and very holy, near the B.'. B.'., this 15th 
 day of the moon of Adar, lzth month, under the fign of the Fifties, 
 A.'. L.'., 5833, and of the Chriftian Era, the 23d February, 1834. 
 
 Having mutually communicated and duly examined our refpe&ive Pow- 
 ers, found them fatisfaftory, and having duly exchanged them, 
 
 We Formed and Conjiituted ourfelves into a Mafonic Congrefs ; 
 
 And confidering that it is neceflary for the fupport, durability and dignity 
 of the Masonic Order, and of the Ancient Accepted Scottifh Rite, to 
 oppofe powerfully the 'abufes which have crept into the Order, and to re- 
 eftablifh it in its primitive purity ; 
 
 Taking for the bafe of our deliberations and refolutions, the following 
 
 thirteen 
 
234 Appendix. 
 
 thirteen principal Points, of the ancient and imprefcriptible Doftrines of 
 the Order, and principally the Scottifti Mafonry, viz : 
 
 lit. Free Mafonry is a universal worship, having for its objects, God 
 and Virtue, and which is divided into different known and approved Rites. 
 
 Originating from one common fource, thofe Rites, although differing in 
 form, neverthelefs tend to the fame end ; 
 
 — The Adoration of the Great Archit.\ of the Un.\, Philofophy, Mo- 
 rality and Benevolence towards all men ; — this is what every True Mafon 
 ought inceflantly to ftudy and endeavour to praftife. 
 
 This Worfhip is eflenlially tolerant, and every Mafon is at liberty to 
 choofe the Rite he may wifh to profefs. 
 
 2d. All True Mafons, of whatever Country or Rites they may be, form 
 but one family of brothers fpread over the furface of the globe. 
 
 They form an Order which has its peculiar Dogmas, and which is gov- 
 erned by General Laws and Fundamental Statutes ; 
 
 And whatever may be the Rite they profefs, Mafons are, neverthelefs, 
 obliged to refpeft and obferve thofe Laws and Statutes. 
 
 3d. The diverfity of Rites neceffarily caufes the diverlity of Powers 
 which govern them ; for each Rite is independent of all the others. 
 
 4th. To attempt to encroach upon the independence of a Rite, is to 
 attack the independence of all the other Rites ; Jchifm is thereby introduced, 
 and the whole Order difturbed. 
 
 5 th. An Aft emanating from the Dogmatic or Adminiftrative Power of a 
 Rite can only operate upon Mafons of that fame Rite, who are fubjeft to the 
 jurisdiction of that Power. It has no authority whatever over them, but in- 
 afmuch as it is ftriftly conformable to the Fundamental Laws of the Order, 
 and it can prefcribe nothing whatever that is in oppofition with thofe laws. 
 
 6th. Faithful and devoted above all things to his Country, and obedient 
 to the laws and inftitutions by which it is governed, the True Mafon enu- 
 merates among his molt facred obligations, the exaft fulfillment of the oaths 
 which bind him to his Rite, to the Lodge where he received the Light, and 
 to the Mafonic Power whence he derived his privileges. 
 
 He can only be exonerated from his obligations by that Power with 
 whom he contracted them and in conformity with the Mafonic Laws, which 
 he has fworn to obierve and refpeft, without which laws no masonry 
 
 COULD EXIST. 
 
 7 th. 
 
Appendix. 235 
 
 7th. Every attempt which may be made to compel a Mafon, either by 
 perfecution or violence, to quit the Rite to which he belongs, is contrary to 
 the fpirit and General Laws of Mafonry. 
 
 8th. Each Mafonic Power governs by its General Statutes all Lodges cr 
 Mafonic Societies of its own Rite, whether located within the limits of its 
 territorial Jurifdi&ion, or eftablifhed by it, or with its confent, in thofe 
 countries where no other Regular Power of the fame Rite already exift. 
 
 9th. The Power that governs a Rite in a territorial Jurifdi&ion, lawfully 
 acknowledged, is fovereign and independent throughout the whole extent 
 of fuch territorial Jurifdiftion, — but is neverthelefs fubject to the General 
 Laws of Mafonry and to the Fundamental Statutes of its particular Rite. 
 
 10th. All Mafonic Powers, whatever their Rites may be, are fubjeft to. 
 the General Laws of the Order ; they may be confidered as rays that verge 
 towards a common centre, by the unity of fentiments and principles. 
 
 1 ith. The objeft for which Lodges were eftablifhed, is to compafs the end9 
 the Order aims at. That of a Dogmatic Power confifts in teaching them the 
 Dq&rine, and directing their actions by the purity of the Dogma, and by 
 the obfervation of the Fundamental Statutes and Inftitutions of the Order. 
 
 It infures this objeft to the Lodges under its jurifdidtion; by a Lawful 
 Constitution, by regulating their labours, and by maintaining among thefe 
 Lodges, and the Mafons compofing them, harmony, good morals and union. 
 
 12th. Every Mafonic Power regularly and lawfully constituted, — duly 
 acknowledged, — and inverted with the full dogmatic authority of a Rite, 
 over a particular territory, pofleffes inconteftably and exclusively the right 
 to constitute and govern the Lodges of that fame Rite throughout the whole 
 of its dominions; 
 
 But this right never can authorize the faid Power to exclude, forbid or 
 hinder a Power of another Rite, even though of a foreign country, from 
 granting to fuch Mafons as may folicit the fame in the regular form, the ne- 
 cefTary Charters for the legal eftablifhment of Lodges and Chapters, or even 
 a Power itfelf, of that other Rite, within the limits of the fame territory. 
 
 13th. And in particular as regards the Ancient Accepted Scottifh Rite, 
 profeffed by the Contracting Powers — 
 
 They Acknowledge and Declare : 
 
 — That there can exift but one fole Dogmatic Power, or Supreme Coun- 
 cil of 
 
236 Appendix. 
 
 cil of the 33d Degree of that Rite within the fame territorial Jurifdiftion ; 
 that is to fay, throughout the territorial extent of an Independent State and 
 its dependencies, — wherever there does not exift boundaries legally eftab- 
 lifhed of fuch a territorial Jurifdiftion. 
 
 — That, fuch Power, eftablilhed for a particular territorial Jurifdiftion, 
 becomes a competent judge in all queftions of honour {point-d' honneuf) 
 among Mafons that owe it obedience. 
 
 — That, no Mafonic Power of the Ancient Accepted Scottifh Rite, nor 
 any fubordinate branch thereof, can, under any pretence whatsoever, become 
 joined to, or embodied with another Power or Aflbciation of a different 
 Rite ; nor can it legally become, under any title whatfoever, a Seftion or a 
 dependency of that other Power or Aflbciation. 
 
 — That, fuch a ftep — which would deprive the guilty Power of its inde- 
 pendence, its authority, and its very exiftence, — would alfo be a violation 
 of the general Spirit of Mafonry and the independence of the Rite ; — That 
 it would tend to throw the entire Order into confufion, and confequently, 
 all Mafons ought to be moil carefully cautioned againft every attempt or 
 fuggeftion that might be made, and that might lead them to fo fatal a refult. 
 
 According to these principles, and wifhing to infure the regeneration 
 of our Rite 
 
 To Maintain its unity j 
 
 Guarantee its independence ; 
 
 And Reftore its ancient difcipline ; 
 
 Defirous above all things, to deftroy radically all abufes which may have 
 crept in, — and which arife chiefly : 
 
 — From Neglect of the refpeft and obfervation, either of the primitive 
 Laws of the Order and of its Fundamental Statutes, or of the private 
 Statutes and Regulations emanating from each Mafonic Power ; 
 
 — From the criminal Facility, and perhaps from thejhameful Specula- 
 tion, which too often caufe the admiffion of Candidates and bellowing of 
 degrees ; 
 
 — From the carelefs indifference with which Diplomas, Briefs, Patents, 
 Sec, &c, fuppofed to have been given in foreign countries, are examined 
 and verified ; 
 
 Convinced that Union between all the Chief Powers of the Rite, — bv 
 keeping up among themfelves a more fraternal intimacy, — by multiplying 
 
 and 
 
Appendix. 237 
 
 and facilitating the means of a reciprocal and mutual correfpondence, and 
 by being as firmly united as poffible in the efforts which each of them in- 
 tends to make, with the view of reftoring to the Rite its ancient fplendour ; 
 
 WE, SOV.-. GRAND INS.-. GEN.-., 
 
 Ch. - ., Pr.\ and True Guard.-, of the Order, 33d and last Degree of 
 the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, 
 
 Already Named and Qualified j in the Names of 
 
 OUR RESPECTIVE SUPREME COUNCILS; 
 
 AND IN VIRTUE OF THEIR FULL POWERS, 
 
 We have Stipulated and Determined, and we do hereby Stipulate and 
 Determine the following Treaty : 
 
 ARTICLE I. 
 
 Now and for ever, there is an intimate and indifToluble union between all 
 the Supreme Councils of the Ancient Accepted Scottifh Rite, now regularly 
 conftituted for the United (and other) States of South and North Americas, 
 France, and the Empire of Brazil, their territories, dependencies and juris- 
 dictions — fuch as they are eftablifhed by the Deeds given at their firfl: 
 affembly and acknowledgment dated, viz : 
 
 For the United States of America, New Spain, South America, (formerly 
 Spanifh dominions,) &c, &c, the 13th day of the fecond month 5832 ; 
 
 For France, the 21ft September, 1762, and the decrees of 1804, 1806, 
 and 7th of May, 1821 ; 
 
 And laftly,* for the Empire of Brazil, under date of the 12th day of 
 the 8th month, 5832, (12th November, 1832.) 
 
 All which are acknowledged and deligned under the following titles : 
 
 United Supreme Council of the Western Hemisphere, fitting at the 
 Ea.\ of New York ; 
 
 Supreme Council of France, fitting at the Ea.\ of Paris ; 
 
 Supreme Council of the Empire of Brazil, fitting at the Ea.\ of Rio 
 de Janeiro. 
 
 * The Supreme Council sitting at Brussels, which, owing to a fortuitous circumstance, 
 had not been represented at the Congress, has since acceded to this Treaty, and joined 
 the Confederation. 
 
 The 
 
238 Appendix. 
 
 The above named Powers do hereby confederate and reciprocally bind 
 themfelves toward each other. 
 
 This Confederation, Union and Bound have for objeft, and they promife 
 mutually : 
 
 lft. To work in perfect union, and without remiffion, fo as to arrive at 
 the only object of the Order, — which is eminently philofophical, moral and 
 philanthropic. 
 
 zd. To maintain its Dogmas, Principles and Doftrines in all their purity, 
 to propagate them, defend and refpeft them, and caufe them to be refpe&ed 
 at all times and in all places ; 
 
 3d. To maintain, obferve, refpeft, defend and enforce the obedience and 
 refpeft in the fame manner, the General and Fundamental Inftitutions, 
 Conftitutions, Laws, Statutes and Regulations of the Order, and particu- 
 larly thofe of the Ancient Accepted Scottifli Rite. 
 
 4th. To maintain and defend with all their energy ; to guard and refpett, 
 and to enforce the obfervance and refpeft for the rights, privileges and in- 
 dependence of the Rite, and the integrity of their refpeftive territorial 
 Jurifdiftions ; to guard them from all ufurpation, and on every occafion to 
 reclaim againfl: any which may have been made. 
 
 5 th. To aft with perfeverance, and with all their influence, againfl; the 
 Indifference, Egotifm, Inconftancy, the mania of imprudent innovations and 
 Licence, — real tomb of liberty, true fource of difcord, hatred and anti- 
 Mafonic anarchy. 
 
 6th. To re-eftablifh the ancient difcipline of the Order ; to maintain, 
 ftrengthen and obferve it, and caufe it to be obferved and refpe&ed, under 
 all circumftances. 
 
 7th. Laftly, to proteft, and caufe to be refpe&ed, the True Mafons of 
 every Rite, but particularly the True and Faithful Scottifh Mafons, of 
 their refpeftive Obediences, in all places where they may extend their 
 influence. 
 
 For this purpofe, the Confederated Powers folemnly bind themfelves to a 
 mutual, conftant, perfevering, and firm paft of reciprocal aid in all occafions. 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 
 The intimate Alliance and Confederation of the Contratting Powers, 
 neceffarily extends, under their aufpices, to the Mafonic Affociations and 
 
 Lodges, 
 
Appendix. 239 
 
 Lodges, and to all True Mafons fubmiffive to their refpeftive Obediences 
 and Jurifdiftions. ■* 
 
 Confequently there cannot be formed between thefe different Aflbciations 
 or Lodges, any fort of particular Affiliation or Confederation, under pain 
 of irregularity and nullity, independent of other punifhments which may 
 be applied to the offenders, according to the Laws of the Order. 
 
 ARTICLE III. 
 
 The Confederated Powers, acknowledge and hereby proclaim anew, as 
 Grand Constitutions of the Ancient Accepted Scottilh Rite, the Confti- 
 tutions, Institutes, Statutes and General Regulations determined upon by 
 the nine Commiffioners of the Sub. - . P. - . of the R.\ Sec. - , on the zift 
 September, 1762; as they are now modified by thofe dated lit May, 1786, 
 — which they alfo acknowledge, proclaim and promife to refpeft, obferve 
 and defend, under the politive refervation, — to examine, reftify and curtail 
 the alterations and additions which have been made to the fame, and which 
 pervert their original difpofitions. 
 
 For this purpofe, an authentic Copy of the faid Grand Conftitutions of 
 1786, certified and ligned by all the Members of the prefent Congress, 
 lhall be annexed to each original duplicate of the prefent Treaty. 
 
 ARTICLE IV. 
 
 Every Aft or Convention already made, or which may be made by any 
 
 regular Mafonic Power whatever, — which are or may be contrary to the 
 
 principle of the Independence of the Rites, and to the difpofitions of the 
 
 Art. V. of the Grand Conftitutions of 1786, are declared null and of no 
 
 effeft. 
 
 ARTICLE V. 
 
 The Confederated Powers, faithful to the Fundamental Doftrines of the 
 Order, and wifhing to unite cctnftantly that of the Mafonic tolerance with 
 that of the abfolute Independence of the Rites, lhall acknowledge and re- 
 ceive, as True and Legitimate Mafons in their refpeftive Rites and degrees, 
 all thofe who fhall prove their qualities by authentic and regular Titles or 
 Patents, delivered by a Power legally eftablifhed and duly acknowledged, as 
 pofTeffing the right to grant fuch Certificates, Titles or Patents, for the 
 degrees of thefe Rites. 
 
 As 
 
240 Appendix. 
 
 As a confequence of the fame principles ; They declare, — that upon no 
 occafion or under any pretext whatever, will they acknowledge, as Legiti- 
 mate Mafons of the Ancient Accepted Scottifh Rite, any but thofe who 
 may have been regularly received, and provided with degrees of this Rite, 
 either by one of the Contracting Powers, or by a Lodge under their re- 
 fpeftive control, or by any other Power of the fame Rite, legally eftablifhed 
 and duly acknowledged as fuch by the Confederation. 
 
 Every Scottifh Mafon, who, after having been duly received in a Regular 
 
 Lodge of the Ancient Accepted Scottifh Rite, may have forfeited his oath, 
 
 deferted the Standard of the Rite, or may have been guilty of any other 
 
 irregularity, mail be deprived of the benefit of this difpofition, and pointed 
 
 out as irregular. 
 
 ARTICLE VI. 
 
 With the intention to caufe the infpe&ion which they engage to obferve, 
 to be more permanent, aftive and efficacious, in that intent, the Confederated 
 Powers, and the Corporations under their Obedien* will never acknowl- 
 edge as Regular Mafonic Titles, thofe proceeding from Mafonic Bodies or 
 Lodges not under their refpeftive Jurifdiftions, excepting fuch as fhould 
 have been duly verified, and ftamped by the Grand Secretary General of 
 the Power from which they emanate, as alfo by the different Reprefentatives 
 legally authorized, and reliding in the diftrift thereof. 
 
 However, all Authentic Titles proceeding from a Regular AfTociation of 
 the Rite, eftablifhed far from the feat of the Power upon which it depends, 
 fhall be received as valid and regular, if they have been verified and figned 
 by the Delegates or Deputies of the faid Power, eftablifhed by it, in the faid 
 diftant place, and who have continued faithful to their mandate, agreeably 
 to Article XVI. of the General Regulations of 1762. 
 
 ARTICLE VII. 
 
 In order to maintain and ftrengthen the difcipline of the Rite, and to 
 fulfil the true intent of Article V. of the fame General Regulations, it is 
 exprefsly agreed upon, between the Confederated Powers, that any meaf- 
 ures or definite condemnation which may be awarded, by any of them 
 againft a Mafon, a Lodge, or any Mafonic AfTociation whatever under their 
 control, fhall be deemed as the aft and deed of the whole Confederation, 
 fhall be immediately transmitted to each of the other Powers, and receive 
 
 its 
 
Appendix. 241 
 
 its full and entire execution throughout the whole extent of their refpedlive 
 Jurifdidtions. 
 
 A Scottifh Mafon who may unfortunately fall under a fentence of dif- 
 cipline, cannot elude its confequences by prefenting himfelf as a Mafon of 
 another Rite, even though he may have regularly praftifed the faid Rite, 
 before the fentence which punilhes him has been pronounced. 
 
 He mail be ftruck out of the Lifts of the Ancient Accepted Scottifh 
 
 Rite for ever, — if he fhould have become initiated into another Rite, with 
 
 the intention of eluding his fentence, while judgment was pending, or after 
 
 it has been pronounced. 
 
 ARTICLE VIII. 
 
 All correfpondence, all brotherly communications fhall ceafe to exifr. be- 
 tween the Confederated Powers, the Mafonic Aflbciations under their con- 
 trol, and the Lodges, Affociations, and Powers, of the foreign Obedience, 
 who, in the cafe above mentioned, may connive at fuch adls of infubordina- 
 tion and difobedience. 
 
 ARTICLE IX. 
 
 In the fame view, and for the purpofe of always preferving Union, 
 Concord and Regularity among the Mafons and in the different Corpora- 
 tions under their refpeclive Obediences,' — the Confederated Powers bind 
 themfelves to exercife among them, and in their different Lodges, a mutual, 
 permanent, aflive and tutelar infpeftion, as much in the choice of Candi- 
 dates for Initiation, as in the promotions and granting of degrees, delivery 
 of Briefs, Diplomas and Powers, and finally on every thing which may 
 concern their compofition, labours, direction, and all the different parts of 
 
 their adminiftration. 
 
 ARTICLE X. 
 
 From the date of the prefent Treaty, there fhall be an active and inti- 
 mate correfpondence between all the Confederated Supreme Councils. All 
 communications made to one, fhall be immediately difpatched to the others. 
 
 They fhall inform each other, every fix months, of any thing interefting 
 to the Order in general, which may come to their knowledge, or may take 
 place in their refpeclive Jurifdidtions ; but particularly as relates to the An- 
 cient Accepted Scottifh Rite, they fhall point out every thing which may 
 call for new meafures of prefervation, difcipline or general fafety. 
 
 They fhall remit to each other, once a year, an Official Lift of all the 
 1 6 3 0th > 
 
242 Appendix. 
 
 30th, 31ft, 32c! and 33d. forming their perfonal compofition, both attive and 
 
 honorary. 
 
 ARTICLE XI. 
 
 Every Confederated Sup. - . Councils, fhall, at all times, be reprefented at 
 each others by Sov. - . Gr. - . Inf.". Gen. - ., 33d degree of the Rite, appointed 
 by them, and who fhall be inverted with the moft extenfive powers. 
 
 Thefe Grand Reprefentatives can affift at all the labours of the fublime 
 degrees of the Rite, even thofe of the Sup. - . Council itfelf. They fliall be 
 fummoned to all thefe labours, and take part in all confultations. 
 
 They have the privilege of protefting, in the names of their refpeftive 
 Powers, againft any 'deliberation that may tend to injure the general in- 
 terefts of the Order, or thofe interefts which they reprefent in particular. 
 
 In fuch cafes, and at their exprefs demand, their Proteft fliall be inferted 
 in the Minutes of the fitting whereat they protefted, and a memorandum 
 (act) to that effett fliall be delivered to them without delay. „ They are re- 
 quired to make an official communication of the fame to every Member of 
 the Confederation. 
 
 And, in cafe the Sup. - . Council at which they are appointed Reprefenta- 
 tives, fhall adopt a Refolution in their abfence, they fliall likewife have the 
 right of protefting againft that Refolution. Confequently, they fhall always 
 be at liberty to infpeft the Regiflers of the Grand Secretary, who is bound 
 to comply at once with their requeft, and to communicate to them the 
 Regiflers, on thejpot, — alfo, to receive all Protefts which they may deem fit 
 to make, and deliver a memorandum {act) of the fame. 
 
 Immediately after the verification of their Credentials (Powers), they 
 fhall be acknowledged, folemnly proclaimed, and exercife all their rights and 
 privileges throughout the whole extent of the Jurifdiiftion in which they 
 fhall refide. They fliall ftand next in rank to the Sov. - . Gr. \ Inf. - Gen. - ., 
 33d degree, A&ive Members of the Sup. - . Councils to whom they fhall be 
 accredited. 
 
 Among themfelves, the precedence fhall be determined according to the 
 date of their admiflions as Grand Reprefentatives at thofe Councils. 
 
 ARTICLE XII. 
 
 Every five years, on the anniverfary day of the figning of this Treaty, 
 the Confederated Sup. - . Councils fhall afTemble in an Ordinary Congrefs, 
 
 in the 
 
Appendix. 243 
 
 in the perfons of their Reprefentatives to the Sup. - . Council of France to 
 inform themfelves of the general affairs of the Order; — to deliberate, and 
 determine in common upon whatever meafures which may be viewed by 
 them as neceflary for the interefts of the Ancient Accepted Scottifh Rite. 
 They mall, for this purpofe, receive fpecial Orders and Powers from their 
 Conftituents. 
 
 The Supreme Council of France will appoint at the fame time a 
 Delegate, inverted with fimilar powers, to be its Reprefentative at the 
 Congrefs. 
 
 A number exceeding more than the half of the Reprefentatives being 
 prefent at Paris, on the anniverfary day above ftated, and during the thirty- 
 three fubfequent days, fhall be legally fumcient to conftitute the Congrefs. 
 
 ARTICLE XIII. 
 
 Whenever the Grand Reprefentatives eftablifhed near any of the Con- 
 federated Powers, by the others, acknowledge the neceffity of aflembling an 
 Extraordinary Congrefs, and this Power partakes of the fame opinion — a 
 deliberation is to take place accordingly; — the motives muft be thereon 
 briefly, but clearly explained; — in cafe of unanimity, a declaration of urgency 
 is to be iflued, in the Minute (Verbal Procefs) of the deliberation, and 
 figned manu propria, by all the Members prefent, fent without delay to all 
 the Members of the Confederation, with appointment of the day when the 
 Congrefs is to meet, and fequefting them at the fame time to get themfelves 
 reprefented thereto, by Grand Infpedlors General, delegate ad hoc, and fur- 
 nifhed with full, abfolute, and fpecial Powers. 
 
 ARTICLE XIV. 
 
 Thefe fpecies of Congrefs are bound to aflemble on the day appointed 
 for their opening. 
 
 They are qualified to deliberate only upon the fpecial objeft for which 
 they are aflembled ; — all other matters foreign thereto fhall be declared null 
 and of no effeft. 
 
 They fhall Separate immediately after the fpecial object, for which they 
 were aflembled fhall have been fulfilled. 
 
 And in no cafe, can a Congrefs, either Ordinary or Extraordinary, con- 
 tinue open for more than thirty-three days. 
 
 The 
 
244 Appendix. 
 
 ARTICLE XV. 
 
 The rights are expreflly referred, of all the Grand and Sup. \ Councils 
 of the 33d and laft degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottifh Rite, legally 
 e/lablifhed and duly acknowledged, to this moment by one of the Members 
 of the Confederation, though compelled by temporary circumftances to re- 
 main inactive ; — They are hereby and brotherly requefted to accede to the 
 prefent Treaty, and to enter into our Holy Confederation fo foon as they 
 may begin anew their labours. 
 
 All thofe exifting now without our acknowledgment, and thofe who may 
 in future be eftablifhed, according to the Laws of the Order, may be re- 
 ceived on their juftifying the legality of their formation, and the General 
 Lift of their members. 
 
 The Confederation will be the judge of the cafe : Well grounded oppo- 
 sition of one of its Members will be fufficient to prevent the acknowledg- 
 ment, and determine the rejeftion of the demand. 
 
 ARTICLE XVI. 
 
 The Confederated Powers call the protection of the Gr. \ Arch.", of the 
 Un. •. upon their undertaking, — Sole and Sovereign Master of all 
 things. 
 
 They commit the prefent Treaty to the fafe-guard of the True and 
 Faithful Scottiih Mafons, fpread over the two Hemifpheres. 
 
 They command the Lodges, Mafons, and Mafonic Bodies, under their 
 refpecrive JurifdidHons, to conlider the prefent Treaty as a General Law of 
 the Order, — to refpedt it, and to obey its difpofitions ; they forbid them to 
 make in it the fmalleft alteration, under the ri& of being declared unworthy 
 of the title of Mafon, and of being ftruck out for ever from the Lifts, and 
 expelled from every aflembly of the Order. 
 
 ARTICLE XVII. 
 
 The prefent Treaty, made out in four Originals, and written in the four 
 languages of England, Spain, France and Portugal, duly figned and fealed 
 with our refpeftive feals, fhall be fubmitted to the ratification of each of the 
 Confederated Powers as fpeedily as poflible. 
 
 The Ratifications thereof fhall be exchanged between their refpeftive 
 
 Grand 
 
Appendix. 245 
 
 Grand Reprefentatives at the Sup. \ Council of France, in the Office of the 
 Secretary General [pro tern.) of the Rite, at the E. - . of Paris, viz: 
 
 For the United Sup. - . Council of the Weftern Hem. - ., in nine months. 
 
 For the Supreme Council of France, in nine days from this date. . 
 
 And for the Supreme Council of Brazil, in thirteen months. 
 
 Made, Stipulated and concluded between us, above qualified and under- 
 ligned. 
 
 At the place afore mentioned, the day, month and year, utfupra. 
 
 Deus Meumque Jus. 
 
 Ct de St. Laurent, S. - . G. - . I. - . G.\, 33d, Sec; 
 
 Lafayette, 33d; [l.;s.J 
 
 Bon Freteau-de-Peny, 33d ; 
 
 Setier, 33d; 
 
 Cte Thiebault, 33d; 
 
 Mis. de Giamboni, 33d; 
 
 A. C. R. d'Andrada, 33d; 
 
 Luiz de Menes. Vascos. de Drummond, 33d; 
 
 BY ORDER OF THE CONGRESS: 
 The G.-Sy.-G-l. of the Rite, pro tempore. 
 
 Charles Jube, 33d; S. - . G. - . I. - . G. [l. s.] 
 
 On the 6th day of December, 1836, the Treaty of "Triple Alliance" 
 was ratified by the Supreme Council, and, as will be feen by the following 
 extraft from the Archives : 
 
 Ratification by the 
 MOST POT. - . SOV. - . GRAND COMMANDER, 
 
 AND by 
 
 The United -Supreme Council for the Weftern Hemifphere of the Pot: 
 Sov.: Grand In/pec tors General 33^ Degree, &c, &c. 
 
 TO THE GLORY OF THE GREAT ARCH. - . OF THE UNI. - . 
 
 ORDO AB CHAO. 
 
 We, Elias Hicks, P. - . M.-. ex-G. - . S. - . of the R. - . W. - . G. - . L. - . of the 
 State of New York, ex-G. - . H. - . P. - . of the Wafhington Ch. - . of R. - . A. - . 
 
 M.\ 
 
246 Appendix. 
 
 M.\ ex-M. - . Pot/. Sov.\ Gr. - . Com.-, of the ex-Supreme Council of the 
 United States of North America, Sov.\ Gr. - . Inf. - . Gen. - . 33d Degree, M.\ 
 Pt. - . Sow. Gr. - . Commander ad vitam of the United Supreme Council for 
 the Weftern Hemifphere, &c, &c, &c. 
 
 In Supreme Grand Council, duly and regularly affembled. 
 
 Having feen and carefully examined the Treaty of Union and Confedera- 
 tion concluded at Paris on the 23d day of February, 1834, between the 
 official Reprefentatives of the United Supreme Council for the Weftern 
 Hemifphere and the Commiffioners Plenipotentiaries of the Supreme Coun- 
 cil of France, and Supreme Council for the Empire of Brazil ; and to 
 which Treaty the Supreme Council fitting at BrufTels by its Aft of Adhe- 
 fion and Ratification paffed on the 5th day of March, 5835, became a party : 
 
 Do, by thefe prefents, Approve and Ratify the faid Treaty of Union in 
 all and every, its feveral provisions and ftipulations, pledging our Mafonic 
 Honour, faithfully and rigidly to obferve and refpeft the fame, and to caufe 
 the fame to be refpefted and obferved by all the means within our power. 
 To this end, therefore, and the better to infure its more certain and effectual 
 attainment, We do order and direft all the Lodges, Chapters, Colleges, 
 Areopagus, Grand Councils and Confiftories within our jurifdiftion and 
 under our control, to caufe the faid Treaty upon their receiving an official 
 communication of this our Ratification, to be forthwith entered at large 
 in their refpeftive books of minutes. 
 
 And We hereby invite all our very 111. - . Bros. - . Sov. - . Gr. - . Inf. - . Gen. - , 
 to furnilh their aid in caufing the faid Treaty to be carried into full and 
 perfeft effeft, and do enjoin all the Sublimes and valiant Princes of the 
 Royal Secret, Gr. - . Infpeftors Judges Commanders and Knights Gd. - . Eleft 
 K-d-fh, to obferve and refpeft the fame, without fubterfuge, evafion or 
 alteration. 
 
 In faith whereof, We and our very 111. - . Brethren Sov. - . Gr. - . Infpeftors 
 General, members of our United Supreme Council for the Weftern Hemi- 
 fphere, have ligned thefe prefents, and have caufed the Grand Seal of the 
 Order and of the United Supreme Council, to be thereunto affixed. 
 
 Done in Supreme Council, at the City of New York, in the United 
 States of America, on the fixth day of the tenth month, Chiflew 26th, 
 A. - . L. - . 5836, and of the Chriftian era the fixth day of December, one 
 thoufand eight hundred and thirty-fix. 
 
 Dais 
 
Appendix. 247 
 
 Ddtts Meumque Jus. 
 
 E. Hicks, 33d, M.\ P.-. Sov.\ Gr.\ Com. 
 Jn. Schieffelin, 33d, lit Lieut. - . Gr.\ Com. 
 Francis Dubuar, 33d, 2d Lieut.*. Gr. - . Com. 
 De la Flechelle, 33d ; 
 
 JOS. BoTJCHAUD, 33d; 
 
 Thos. Longworth, 33d; 
 
 John B. Satterthwaite, 33d; 
 
 P. Remy, 33d; 
 
 Aaron H. Palmer, 33d; 
 
 Seth Driggs, G.\ I. - . G. - . 33d Degree; 
 
 Hn. Westervelt, 33d ; 
 
 I. DA RoCHA GALVAO, 33d; 
 
 James Herring, 33d; 
 Jos. Michard, 33d; 
 W. Wright Hawkes, 33d; 
 T. W. Satterthwaite, 33d; 
 G. de LoyneSj 33d; 
 
 Sealed by me, Grand Keeper of the Seals, 
 
 John Telfair, 33d, [l. s.J 
 By order 
 
 Dd. Naar, 33 d, [l. s.] 
 
 Afting Sec. - . Gen. 
 
 During, the years 1837 and 1838, there was no change in the officers of 
 the Supreme Council. 
 
 In November, 1839, T.\ M.\ 111/. Bro. - . Elias Hicks, M.\ P.'. Sov. - . 
 Gr. - . Com. - , received from the Supreme Council for the Empire of Brazil 
 the following communication, inviting this Supreme Council to open a con- 
 tinuous correfpondence with it " by means of which they may keep one 
 another mutually informed of the requirements, and of the profperity of 
 the Order to which they belong." The communication was laid before 
 the Supreme Council by the M.\ P.". Sov. - . Gr. - . Com. - ., and the Gr. - . Sec. - . 
 Gen. - , of the H.\ E. - . directed to acknowledge the receipt of the fame, and 
 to pledge the faith of this Supreme Council to a compliance with the requeft. 
 
 The 
 
248 Appendix. 
 
 The meeting of the Supreme Council at whirh this communication was 
 read, was attended by the Sov. - . Gr. - Com.'., 111. . Bros. - . Jofeph Bouchaud, 
 Francis Dubuar, and four others, including the Gr.". Sec. - . Gen. - , of the 
 H. - . E. - . 
 
 The document, which is in French and Portuguese, as tranflated, reads 
 as follows : 
 
 IN THE NAME OF THE MOST HOLY AND GR. - . ARCH. - . 
 OF THE UNIVERSE. 
 
 ORDO AB CHAO. 
 
 To our M. : III. '. and M. R R. - . Brn. : Grand Dignitaries and Grand 
 Officers who compofe the Gr.\ 0r.\ of the U. S. of America, S. S. P. 
 
 The M. - . P. - . Sup. - . Council of PPP. - . SSS. - . GGG. - . III. - . GGG. - . 33d 
 and laft degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottilh Rite for the Empire 
 of Brazil, to wit : 
 
 The Count de Lages, Sov. - . Gr. - . Com. - ., Minifter and Secretary of 
 State in the War Department and in the Council of State, Lieutenant- 
 General, Senator and Noble of the Empire ; Honorio Hermeto Carneiro 
 Leao, Deputy to the General Legiflative Aflembly, Grand Judge of the 
 Supreme Court of Juftice, Lieut. - . Gr. - . Com. - .; Antonio Pereira Barreto 
 Pedrozo, Gr. - . Treaf. - . of the H. - . E. - ., Knight of the Order of Chrift, 
 Grand Judge of the Supreme Court of Juftice, Deputy to the General 
 Legiflative Aflembly and to the Provincial AfTembly of Rio de Janeiro ; 
 Joao da Cofta de Britto Sanches, Gr. - . Sec. - . Gen. - , of the H. - . E. - ., Cheva- 
 lier of the Imperial Houfehold, of the Council of H.\ I. - . M. - ., Com- 
 mander of Santa Maria d'Alagoa, of the Order of Chrift, and Marlhal of 
 the Camp ; Joao Huet de Bacellar Pinto Guedes, Chevalier of the Imperial 
 Houfehold, Colonel of Marine Artillery, Knight of the Order of SS. Bento 
 and d'Aviz, and of the Imperial Order of Cruzeiro, Gr. - . Sec. - . Gen. - . 
 Adjundl of the H. - . E. - ., Chief of the Gr. - . Secretariat of the 111. - . Central 
 Gr. - . Lodge ; Thomas Jofe Tinoco d'Almeida, Knight of the Order of 
 Chrift, Under-Secretary of State of the Minifter of Juftice ; Guftavo 
 Adolpho de Aguillar Pantoja, Grand Judge of the Supreme Court of Juf- 
 tice, Knight of the Orders of Chrift and Cruzeiro, Min. - . of State of the 
 H. - . E. \ ; Manoel Antonio Alves d'Azevedo, Grand Captain of the 
 Guards, and large landed proprietor ; Joaquim Antonio Cezar d'Andrade, 
 
 Gr. - . 
 
Appendix. 249 
 
 Gr.\ M.\ of Cer.\, large landed proprietor and Colonel of the Legion of 
 the National Guard ; Albino Gomes Guerra d'Aguiar, Knight of the Im- 
 perial Houfehold, Grand Officer of the Wardrobes of H. M. the Emperor, 
 Commander of the Order of Chrift, Officer of the Imperial Order of 
 Cruzeiro, Marfhal of the Camp, and CommifTary General of the Armies ; 
 Thomaz Jofe Pinto Serqueira, Bachelor of Canonical Law, of Civil Law, 
 Doctor of Judiciary Sciences, Grand Judge Honorary of the Supreme 
 Court, ex-Profeffor of the Chair of Ecclefiaftical Law, and ex-Subftitute 
 Extraordinary of Natural and Civil Jurifprudence, and of Judiciary Prac- 
 tice, Attorney at the Supreme Court of Juftice of the capital and province 
 >f Rio de Janeiro ; Joao Carneiro de Campas, of the Council of H.\ I.'. 
 VI.'., Commander of the Order of Chrift, under Secretary of State of the 
 Miniftry of Juftice ; Doctor Lourenjo Caetano Pinto, Chevalier of the 
 . Imperial Houfehold, Knight of the Order of Chrift, and Judge of the 3d 
 Civil Vara ; Doftor Joaquim Candido Soares de Meirelles, Phyfician and 
 Surgeon of the Faculty of Paris, Titulary Member and Prefident of the 
 Imperial Academy of Medicine, Correfponding Member of the Medico- 
 Chirurgical Academy of Naples, of the Philomatic Society of Paris, of the 
 Society of Medicine of Louvain, of thofe of Medical Sciences of Lifbon, 
 Profeflbr of Anatomy and Phyfiology of the Academy of Fine Arts of Rio 
 de Janeiro ; Joao Baptifta de Caftro, Member of the Supplementary Lift, 
 Proprietor and Major of the Second Line of Infantry. 
 
 Being convinced that one of the moft material caufes of the importance 
 of the Sublime Order, to which we have the pleafure of belonging, is that 
 fpirit of true fraternity, which extending over all Mafons, induces them to 
 aid and affift each other, in whatever part of the globe they may meet, re- 
 gardlefs of whatever motives may caufe them to differ in opinions or fenti- 
 ments, for thus it is ordained by our laws. The practice of thefe laws by 
 thofe who are infpirad with true Mafonic ardour, inconteftably demonftrates 
 that the views of the founders of this fo venerable inftitution, were not 
 mere vain Utopias never to be realized. 
 
 It is to obtain this grand refult that Mafonry is one and the fame over 
 the whole univerfe, in no point diverging from its myfterious dogmas, hav- 
 ing the fame figns, fame tokens, and fame words, in every region of the 
 earth which the True Light has reached, and where are inaugurated temples 
 to T. G. A. O. T. U. 
 
 Mafonry 
 
250 Appendix. 
 
 Mafonry is known in Brazil ; the Gr.\ Jehovah has there true adorers, who 
 the better to attain their objeft, have never ceafed to unite themfelves in bodies, 
 to elevate altars and to eftablifh a centre, conformably to the Gr. - . Conft.'. 
 Stat. - , and Gen. - . Reg. - , of the Order, given to this Rite by the immortal 
 Frederic, in 5786. The circle which conftitutes this centre, is at this day . 
 ftrong in the number of ig, in the number of Brethren and in their qualities. 
 Numbers of the firft claffes among the profane, are to be found in thefe 
 rEp, and the virtues of the true children of Heredom adorn the hearts of all. 
 
 The M.\ P. - . Sup. - . Coun. - . which directs this circle in the Valley of the 
 Hofpital at the O. - . of Rio de Janeiro, elegantly conftituted, defiring to facili- 
 tate all the means which can conduce, that not only this circle, but all the 
 circles of Mafons legally conftituted, may attain the majeftic aim, the objeft 
 of their efforts, has refolved to addrefs to the M. - . W. - . Gr. - . Or. - , of the 
 United States of America to invite it to open a continuous correfpondence 
 with it, by means of which they may keep one another mutually informed of 
 the requirements and of the profperity of the Order to which they belong. 
 
 The M. - . P.". Sup. - . Coun. - . of Rio de Janeiro does not offer its friend- 
 Hup and its fervices to the M. - . W. - . Gr. - . Or. - , of the United States, be- 
 caufe fuch offers would lead to the fuppofition that it is ignorant of the 
 duties of the true adorers of G. - . A. - . O. - . T. - . U. - ., but it haftens to 
 aflure it, that it is animated by fentiment of the moft perfeft efteem for the 
 merits, the lights, and the virtues of fuch 111. - , and fuch Ref. - . Brn. - ., and 
 that it will rejoice on every occafion that it receives intelligence of their 
 profperity and that it can find occafion to fatisfy any of their defires. 
 
 That the G. - . A. - . O. - . T. - . U. - . may fpread happinefs and profperity 
 over the M. - . W. - . Gr. - . Or. - , of the United States of America is the cor- 
 dial wilh of the underfigned brethren, Gr. - . Dign. - . and Gr. - . Off. - , and 
 and other members of the M. - . P. - . Sup. - . Coun. - . of the Ancient and Ac- 
 cepted Scottifh Rite for the Empire of Brazil. 
 
 Given in Sup. - . Coun. - . the 14th day of the 8th month of the year of 
 T. - . L. - ., 5839, under the C. - . V. - . correfponding to the Zenith 23d S.\ L.. - 
 
 {Signed,) 
 Conde de Lages, 33d, Sov. - . Gr. - . Com.; 
 
 Gustavo Adolpho d'Aguilar Pantoja, 33d, M.\ State of the H. - . E. 
 Antonio Pereira Bareto Pedrozo, 33d, Gr. - . Tr. - . of the H. - . E.\ 
 
 Thomaz 
 
Appendix. 251 
 
 Thomaz Jose; Tinoco d'Almeda, 33d; 
 
 Albino Gomez Guerra d' Agniar, 33d; 
 
 Dr. Thomaz JozjS Pinto Serquiera, 33d; 
 
 Joao Carneiro de Campos, 33d; 
 
 Dr. Joaquim Candido Soares de Meirelles, 33d ; 
 
 Honorio Hermeto Carneiro Leao, 33d, L.\ T. - . G. - . Com. 
 
 Manoel Antonio Alves de Azevedo, 33d, C. - . of the G. 
 
 Joao Huet de Bacellar Pinto Guedes, 33d. 
 
 Signed, ftamped and fealed by us, Gr. - . Sec", adjunct of the H.\ E.\ 
 and Chan. 1 . G. - . S. 
 
 Joao Huet de Bacellar. [l. s.] 
 
 In May, 1840, the regular meeting of the Supreme Council was fully 
 attended, no bufmefs of importance was tranfafted, and the officers retained 
 their refpeftive pofitions. Indeed, from this date until the 16th of April, 
 1844, though the regular feflions of the Supreme Council were held, the 
 tranfaftions were merely routine. On the latter day, however, it pleafed 
 the Supreme and Sovereign Grand Mailer of the Supreme Grand Council 
 on High, to remove to his fanftuary our 111.", and M. - . P. - . Sov.\ Gr.'. 
 Commander, Elias Hicks, who from the time of the death of the 111. - , and 
 lamented De Witt Clinton, in 1828, till the period of his own demife, 
 ably and honourably prefided over the Ancient and Accepted Rite in the 
 United States of America, its territories and dependencies. 
 
 At a meeting of the Supreme Council held immediately on the deceafe 
 of 111.-. Bro. - . Hicks, the 111.-, and M.\ P.-. Paft Sov. - . Gr.-. Commander, 
 John W. Mulligan, fucceeded to the vacancy as Sov.-. Gr.-. Commander; 
 111.-. Bro/. H. C. Atwood became Lieut. - . Gr.-. Commander; and there 
 were alfo fome changes in the minor offices in the Supreme Council. 
 
 During the year 1845, T.\ M.\ 111.-. Bro.-. John W. Mulligan, Sov.-. 
 Gr.-. Commander, received from the Prefident of the United States, the 
 honourable appointment of Conful General to Greece, for which country 
 he departed Oft. 4th, 1845, and from that period until June, 1851, 111. - . 
 Bro. - . Henry C. Atwood prefided over the deliberations of the Sup. - . Coun. - . 
 
 On the 24th July, 1846, 111. - . Bro. - . Henry Marfh, S.\ G. - . I. - . G.\ died, 
 and the vacancy in the Supreme Council thus created, was filled by 111. - . 
 Bro. - , Wm. F. Piatt, M. D. 
 
 On 
 
252 Appendix. 
 
 On the 27th Odlober, of this year, an effort was again made by fome of 
 the members of the Supreme Council to iffue Warrants for the formation 
 of Symbolic Lodges, in violation of the well fettled policy, which had pre- 
 viously governed the aftion of the Body. The right to do fo, was founded 
 on the Treaty of Union and Amalgamation of 183 z, by which the diftinc- 
 tive title of the Supreme Council was changed, and it became the " United 
 Supreme Council for the Weftern Hemifphere," as previoufly ftated. 
 
 The great majority of the Supreme Council difTenting from the propor- 
 tion, it was determined definitely to fettle the queftion by abrogating and 
 annulling the Treaty aforefaid ; and it was accordingly abrogated and 
 annulled, and from that date to the prefent, the Supreme Council, having 
 refumed its previous diftin£live title, has been known as the " Supreme 
 Council for the United States of America, its territories and dependencies." 
 
 From Odlober, 1846 until 1850, the meetings of the Supreme Council 
 were annual, and in the latter year, 111.". Bro.". Daniel Sickels, became Gr.". 
 Sec". Gen.", of the H.". E."., and 111.'. Bro. - . Edmund B. Hays, Grand 
 Minifter of State. 
 
 In May, 1851, 111.". Bro.". Jeremy L. Crofs, S.\ G.". I.". G.\, 33d, to 
 which grade he was exalted by the body calling itfelf the Supreme Council 
 at Charlefton, prefented his letters patent from the fame, and requefted 
 affiliation with this Scpreme Council. The patent is as follows : 
 
 Univer/i Ttrrarum Orbis Architectonis. 
 Per Gloriam Ingentis. 
 
 ORDO AB CHAO. 
 
 From the Grand Eaft of the Supreme Council of the Moll: Puiflant 
 Sov.". Gr.". Inf.". Gen.", of the 33d Degree, under the Celeftial Canopy of 
 the Zenith, anfwering to the zzd degree and 45 m.". N.\ Latitude. 
 
 To our 111."., moft Valiant and Sub.". Princes of the Royal Secret, Knights 
 K — H, 111.". Princes and Knights, Grand and Ineffable Free Mafons of all 
 Degrees, Ancient and Modern, on the- furface of the two Hemifpheres. 
 
 To all thofe to whom theft Letters of Credence fhall come : 
 
 HEALTH, STABILITY AND POWER. 
 
 Know ye, that we, the underfigned Sov.". Gr.". Inf.". Gen."., duly and 
 lawfully eftablifhed and congregated in Supreme Council of the 33d De- 
 gree, have duly and carefully examined our 111.-. Bro.-. Jeremy L. Crofs in 
 
 the 
 
Appendix. 253 
 
 the feveral degrees which he has lawfully received, and, at his fpecial re- 
 quefl, We do hereby certify, acknowledge and proclaim our 111.'. Bro. - . 
 Jeremy L. Crofs General Grand Lecturer of the Gen. - . Grand Chapter of 
 the U. S. A., refident in the City of New Haven and State of Connecticut, 
 to be an expert Mailer Mafon and Paft Matter of a Symbolic Lodge, and 
 alfo a Secret Mailer, Perfect Mailer, Intimate Secretary, Provoft and 
 Judge, Intendant of the Buildings, Eleft of Nine, 111. - . Eledted.of Fifteen,. 
 Sublime Knight Elect, Grand Mailer Architect, Knight of the Royal Arch, 
 Grand Elect: Perfect and Sublime Mailer. We do alfo certify him to be. a 
 Knight of the Eail or Sword and Prince of Jerufalem, Knight of the Eaft 
 and Weil, Sov. - . Prince of the Rofe Croix de Heredom, Grand PontiiF, 
 Mailer, ad vitam, Pruffian Knight, Prinse of Lebanon, Chief of the 
 Tabernacle, Prince of Mercy, Knight of the Brazen Serpent, Commander 
 of the Temple, Knight of the Sun, K — H, Knight of St. Andrew, Grand 
 Inquifitor Commander, Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret, Sov.". Gr. - . 
 Inf.". Gen. - , and Member of the Supreme Council of the 33d Degree. 
 
 And we hereby authorize and empower for life, our faid HI. - . Bro. - . 
 Jeremy L. Crofs, to eftabliih, congregate, fuperintend and inftrudt Lodges, 
 Chapters, Colleges, Confiilories and Councils of the Royal and Military 
 Orders of Ancient and Modern Mafonry, over the furface of the two 
 Hemifpheres, agreeably to the Grand Conilitutions. We therefore recom- 
 mend to all and every of our aforefaid Knights, Princes and Sublime Free 
 Mafons to receive and acknowledge our faid 111. - . Bro. - . Jeremy L. Crofs, 
 to the Higheil Degree in Mafonry, and we will reciprocate all attention 
 mown him, to thofe brethren when they may prefent themfelves to our 
 Supreme Council, furniihed with like lawful letters of credence. 
 
 To all which we, the aforefaid Sov. - . G. ". Inf.". Gen. - , and Members of 
 the Sup. - . Council of the 33d Degree for the U. S. A., fitting in the City of 
 Charleilon, S. C, and duly eftabliihed the 31ft day of May, 1801, have here- 
 unto fubfcribed our names and affixed upon the fame the Gr. - . Seals of the 
 faid 111. - . Order, in the Council Chamber, near the B.\ B.".,under the C. - . 
 C. •., this 24th day of the 5 th month, anfwering to the 24th day of June, 1824. 
 
 Moses Holbrook, M.\ D. - ., K. •. H. - ., S.\ P. - . R. - . S.\, 
 Sov. - . Gr. \ Inf. - . Gen. - , of the 33d Degree, and Grand Commander 
 in the U. S. A. 
 
 Frederick 
 
254 Appendix. 
 
 Frederick Dalcho, K.\ H.\, S.\ P.". R. ". S.\, 
 Sov.-. Gr.-. Inf.-. Gen.-, of the 33d Degree, Paft Grand Commander 
 in the U. S. A. 
 
 M. C. Levy, K.\ H.-., S.\ P.". R.\ S.:, 
 Sov.-. Gr.-. Inf.-. Gen.-. 33d Degree, Minifter of State; 
 
 Horatio D. Street, K.\ H.-., S.-. P.-. R.-. S.\, 
 Sov.-. Gr.-. Inf. - . Gen. - . 33d Degree, Keeper of the Seals; 
 
 Alex. McDonald, K.\ H.\, S.-. ?.: R.\ S.\, 
 Sov. - . Gr.-. Inf.'. Gen. - , of the 33d Degree, Grand Mafter of Cer. 
 
 James Moultrie, M.\ D.-., K.\ H.-., S.\ P.-. R.\ S.\, 
 C. C. Seering, K.\ H.-., S.-. P.-. R.-. S.-., 
 Sov.'. Gr. - . Inf.". Gen.-. 33d Degree, and Captain Life Guards; 
 
 Joseph McCosh, K.-. H.-., S.\ P.-. R.'. S.-., 
 Sov.'. Gr.-. Inf.-. Gen.-. 33d Degree, and Deputy Sec. - . Gen.-, of the 
 Holy Empire in U. S. A. 
 
 After complying with the formalities ufual in fuch cafes, and taking the 
 oath of fealty to this Supreme Council, 111.-. Bro.\ Crofs was admitted, and 
 his rank as S.\ G. - . I.". G.\ acknowledged. 
 
 A perufal of the patent of 111.-. Bro.\ Crofs from the Charlefton Body, 
 clearly demonftrates that at the time of its iflue the Southern Supreme 
 Council appeared to have no knowledge of the exiftence of the body faid 
 to have been organized by its authority in 1 8 1 5, in New York, and of which 
 John James Jofeph Gourgas was faid to have been the head. If that body 
 ever really exifted, it muft have died before the year 1824, for the figna- 
 tures of feveral of thofe who figned the patent of 111. - . Bro.\ Crofs, as well 
 as the body of the document itfelf would clearly tend to prove that the 
 Charlefton Council had renewed their pretended claim over the United 
 States of America, inftead of over the Southern Jurifdiftion merely. 
 
 In the month of June, 1851, T.\ M.\ 111.-. Bro.\ H. C. Atwood, re- 
 figned the office of S.\ G.\ Commander, and at the fame meeting 111.-. 
 Bro.-. Jeremy L. Crofs was elevated to that diftinguifhed ftation. The 
 111.-. Bro.-. Daniel Sickels, Gr. - . Sec. - . Gen.-, of the H.\ E.\, being abfent 
 from the city, 111.'. Bro. - . John W. Simons was appointed acting Gr.-. Sec.-. 
 Gen.-, during his abfence. 
 
 In September of this year, the venerable and 111.-. Bro. - . John W. Mul- 
 ligan 
 
Appendix. 255 
 
 ligan returned to New York, and immediately afterwards attended a meet- 
 ing of the Supreme Council. He infpedted the record of proceedings had 
 during his abfence, and after congratulating the Supreme Council on the 
 progrefs it had made, ratified, confirmed and fubfcribed to all that was done 
 during his official refidence abroad. 
 
 In 1852, T.\ M.-. 111.-. Bro.-. Jeremy L. Crofs, feeling the weight of 
 years, and his health requiring change of fcene, determined to remove to 
 his country home in New Hampfhire, which would preclude the poflibility 
 of his regular attendance at the meetings of the Supreme Council. He, 
 therefore, refigned the Sov. - . Gr. - . Commanderfhip, and was fucceeded by 
 Paft Sov.-. Gr.-. Com.-. 111.-. Bro.-. Henry C. Atwood ; 111.-. Bro.-. Robert 
 
 B. Folger afluming the refponfible and arduous duties of Gr.'. Sec.-. Gen.', 
 of the H.-. E.\, and 111.'. Bro.-. Daniel Sickels the office of Gr.-. Minifter 
 of State. The Sov.-. Gr.-. Commander was inftalled and proclaimed by 
 111.-. Bros.-. Mulligan and Crofs, Paft Sov. - . Gr.-. Commanders. 
 
 January lft, 1853, 111.-. Bro. - . Le Blanc de Marconnay, (who had re- 
 ceived his degrees under this Supreme Council,) Orator of the Chamber 
 of Council and of Appeals for the Grand Orient of France, was elefted an 
 Honorary Member of this Supreme Council, and his Diploma to that efFeil; 
 forwarded to him. 
 
 On the 4th April of this year, the M.\ P.-. and 111. - . Bro.-. General F. 
 
 C. de Mofquera of the Supreme Council of New Granada was received in 
 ample form by this Supreme Council, and on behalf of his mother body, 
 requefted an intimate correfpondence and alliance. The requeft was re- 
 fponded to, and in the month of October, the ratification of the fame was 
 received from the Supreme Council of New Granada, which body appointed 
 111.-. Bro.-. Henri Reilliet its reprefentative near to this Supreme Council 
 and Sov.'. Grand Confiftory. 
 
 During the year 1854, there were no changes in the Supreme Council. 
 
 In the fucceeding year (1855), there were feveral changes. 111.-. Bro.-. 
 Edmund B. Hays became Lieut.-. Grand Commander, and 111.-. Bro. - . 
 Hopkins Thompfon Gr.-. K.\ of Seals. 
 
 From the period laft named until 1859, there were no changes in the 
 memberfhip of the Supreme Council, with the exception of the admiffion 
 of 111.-. Bro.-. William H. Jarvis, who was appointed Gr.-. C.\ of G.\ ; 
 and indeed though the annual feffions were regularly held, the tranfaflions 
 
 were 
 
256 Appendix. 
 
 were not of importance, if the year 1857 be excepted, when a recognition, 
 &c, &c, of this Supreme Council was received from the Supreme Coun- 
 cil of Belgium. 
 
 In the latter part of September, i860, T.\ M.\ 111. - . Bro.-. Henry C. 
 Atwood, Sov.\ Gr.\ Com.-, died at his refidence in the State of Connecti- 
 cut. In the month of Oftober following, the announcement of that event 
 was made at a meeting of the Supreme Council, when 111.". Bro.'. Edmund 
 B. Hays, P.-. Lieut.-. Gr.\ Com.-, became M.\ P.-. Sov.\ Gr.\ Com.-.; 
 111.-. Bro.-. Hopkins Thompfon, P.-. Lieut.-. Gr.\ Com.-. ; 111.-. Bro.-. Geo. 
 L. Oftorn, Gr.-. Sec.-. Gen.-, of the H.\ E.\ ; 111.'. Bro.-. Benjamin C. 
 Leveridge, G.\ Min.-. of State; 111.-. Bro.-. Robert E. Roberts, G.\ Treaf.-. 
 Gen.-. H.-. E.-. ; 111.-. Bro.-. Harry J. Seymour, Gr.-. M.\ of Cer. 
 
 In 1861, 111.-. Bro.-. Daniel Sickels became Gr.-. Sec.-. Gen.-, of H.\ E.\, 
 in place of 111.-. Bro.-. Ofborn, refigned; 111.'. Bro.'. Henry C. Banks, Gr.-. 
 Marlhal, and 111.-. Bro. - . John Innes, Gr.-. Standard Bearer. 
 
 The Supreme Council at the commencement of this year (1862) was 
 compofed of the following 111.'. Brethren : 
 
 Edmund B. Hays, . . . M.\ P.-. Sov.\ Gr.-. Com. 
 Hopkins Thompfon, . . . P. - . Lieut.-. Gr.-. Com. 
 Benjamin C. Leveridge, . . Gr. - . Or.-, and Gr. - . M.-. of S. 
 Daniel Sickels, .... Gr.'. Chan.-., Gr.-. Sec.-. Gen.', of the 
 
 H.\ E.-., and K.\ of S.\ and A. 
 
 . . Gr.-. Treaf.-. Gen.-, of the H.\ E. 
 
 . . Gr.-. Marihal ; 
 
 . . Gr.-. M.-. of Cer. 
 . Gr.-. Standard Bearer ; 
 
 . . Gr.-. C-. of G. 
 
 Robert E. Roberts, 
 Henry C. Banks, . 
 Harry J. Seymour, 
 John Innes, 
 William H. Jarvis, 
 
 On the 17th of January, 1862, the venerable patriarch T.\ M.\ 111.'. 
 Bro.-. John W. Mulligan, who with the 111.-. Bros.-. Jofeph Cerneau and 
 De Witt Clinton, was one of the founders of the Sov.\ Grand Confiftory, 
 in 1807, and Supreme Council in 1812, and who at the laft annual meet- 
 ing of the latter body, a fhort time previous to his deceafe, was prefent 
 during its deliberations, in the 94th year of his age, and in the full poflef- 
 fion of his intelleclual faculties, was relieved of his earthly labours, for a 
 better and more enduring Council on High. 
 
 On 
 
Appendix. 257 
 
 On the 23d of fame month, the Supreme Council convened at the City 
 of Trenton, New Jerfey, conftituted a Grand Confiftory for that State, and 
 inftalled the following 111.'. Bros. - , as officers : 
 
 Thomas J. Corfon, M. D., (Gr.\ Senior Warden of the Gr.\ Lodge, 
 Gr.'. H.\ Prieft of the Gr.-. Chapter, and Gr.'. Com.', of the Gr.\ Com- 
 mandery of the State,) Com.', in Chief; George B. Edwards, Deputy 
 Com.'.-in r Chicf ; Jofeph H. Hough, (Gr.*'. Secretary of the Gr.'. Lodge,) 
 lft Lieut.'. Com.'.; William T. Woodruff, 2d Lieut.'. Com. - .; William 
 E.'. Stagg, Gr.'. Mia.', of State; Reuben S. Van Taflell, Gr.'. Chan.-.; 
 John Woolverton, M. D., (Gr.-. Secretary of the Gr. - . Chapter,) Gr.-. 
 Secretary; S. R. Terrell, Gr. - . Treafurer ; William R. Clapp, Gr. \ K.\ 
 of Seals ; William Armftrong, Gr.'. Engineer; W. T. Nicholfon, G.-. 
 Hofpitaller ; James E. Emerfon, Gr. - . M.\ of Cer.\ ; Chas. Bechtel, Gr.'. 
 Cap.', of Guards; John P. Nelfon, Gr.'. Standard Bearer; A. P. Howell, 
 G. '. Sentinel. 
 
 The interefting ceremonies incident to rfie above organization were 
 greatly heightened by the prefence of 111.'. Bros.'. David Naar and 
 Thomas W. Satterthwaite, S.'. G.\ I.'. G.\, — figners of the ratification 
 of the triple Treaty of Alliance between the Supreme Councils of France 
 and Brazil and this Supreme Body, in 1836, emeritus members of this 
 Council — who participated in the proceedings. 
 
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