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At that time the following "Regulation" was adopted: "That the privilege of assembling as Masons, which had hitherto been unlimited, should be vested in certain places; and that every lodge to be hereafter, convened, except the four old lodges at this time existing, should be legally authorized to act by a warrant from the Grand Master for the time being, granted to certain individuals by petition within the consent and approbation of the Grand Lodge in communication; and that without such warrant, no lodge should be hereafter regular or constitution.

This regulation, which has been observed by subsequent Grand Lodges, made it necessary that all lodges since authorized among Masons should be able to show the authority for their existence; and it is the purpose of this brief sketch to explain to the brethren of this jurisdiction, the manifest authority for the existence of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge for the State of North Carolina.

In accordance with the regulation above mentioned the Grand Lodge of England granted many warrants for holding lodges in the countries of Europe and upon the American continent. Indeed, all masonic lodges established since that period, directly or indirectly derive their existence from the Grand Lodge of England.

Many field or army warrants were granted for the holding of lodges, among which one was held in the army of General Gage in the town of Boston, Massachusetts. These Brethren applied to the Grand Lodge of England March 2, , for a warrant to form a regular lodge in Boston, which was granted September 29, , but which was not received until May 2, On the list of lodges in America under the English Constitution and as prepared by John Lane, Past Provincial Grand Registrar of Devonshire England is the following record: "Boston, , September 29, number , African Lodge, number in , erased in The officers were elected and installed; the Second Annual Communicatijon to be held at Portland, Oregon, June 22, 23, 24, On the 20th day of July in the year of , Sam H.

Nichols being Secretary of State, the Grand Lodge was incorporated under the name of Grand Lodge Free and Accepted Masons African of Washington, with all powers, rights and privileges of such corporations. This action was carried out by the Grand Officers on the 6th day of September, A resolution was adopted to re-file our Incorporation under the provisions of R. This was completed March 30, Ludlow Kramer, Secretary of State. Useful links: Sponsor MasonicSoftware.

Please contact me with any additional information, or any comments orsuggestions. My email address is paulb'at'bessel. It is reported that the following Grand Lodges have"blanket" recognition of all Prince Hall Grand Lodges that arerecognized by their corresponding "mainstream" Grand Lodge with dateswhen this was reportedly done. I have not been able to check to verify this, except where noted below.

The following Grand Lodges definitely have blanket recognition of Prince Hall Grand Lodges, as shown by the language in resolutions adopted by these Grand Lodges. Our Grand Lodge hereby recognizes, and will in the future recognize without further Grand Lodge vote, each Prince Hall Grand Lodge that does not state that it does not want to be recognized by our Grand Lodge, and that is recognized, and continues to be recognized, by: 1.

This recognition by our Grand Lodge of a Prince Hall Grand Lodge in another jurisdiction will be effective on the same dates and to the same extent as the recognition by the Grand Lodge that our Grand Lodge already recognizes in that jurisdiction.