CHAPTER II.
Of Lodges under Dispensation.
It is evident, from what has already been said, that there are two kinds of lodges, each regular in itself, but each peculiar and distinct in its character.

There are lodges working under a dispensation, and lodges working under a warrant of constitution.

Each of these will require a separate consideration.

The former will be the subject of the present chapter.
A lodge working under a dispensation is a merely temporary body, originated for a special purpose, and is therefore possessed of very circumscribed powers.

The dispensation, or authority under which it acts, expressly specifies that the persons to whom it is given are allowed to congregate that they may "admit, enter, pass, and raise Freemasons;" no other powers are conferred either by words or implication, and, indeed, sometimes the dispensation states, that that congregation is to be "with the sole intent and view, that the Brethren so congregated, admitted, entered, and made, when they become a sufficient number, may be duly warranted and constituted for being and holding a regular lodge."[33] A lodge under dispensation is simply the creature of the Grand Master.