To him it is indebted for its existence, and on his will depends the duration of that existence.

He may at any time revoke the dispensation, and the dissolution of the lodge would be the instant result.

Hence a lodge working under a dispensation can scarcely, with strict technical propriety, be called a lodge; it is, more properly speaking, a congregation of Masons, acting as the proxy of the Grand Master.
With these views of the origin and character of lodges under dispensation, we will be better prepared to understand the nature and extent of the powers which they possess.
A lodge under dispensation can make no bye-laws.

It is governed, during its temporary existence, by the general Constitutions of the Order and the rules and regulations of the Grand Lodge in whose jurisdiction it is situated.

In fact, as the bye-laws of no lodge are operative until they are confirmed by the Grand Lodge, and as a lodge working under a dispensation ceases to exist as such as soon as the Grand Lodge meets, it is evident that it would be absurd to frame a code of laws which would have no efficacy, for want of proper confirmation, and which, when the time and opportunity for confirmation had arrived, would be needless, as the society for which they were framed would then have no legal existence--a new body (the warranted lodge) having taken its place.
A lodge under dispensation cannot elect officers.