CHAPTER IV.
Of the Rights of Master Masons.
When a Mason has reached the third degree, he becomes entitled to all the rights and privileges of Ancient Craft Masonry.

These rights are extensive and complicated; and, like his duties, which are equally as extensive, require a careful examination, thoroughly to comprehend them.

Four of them, at least, are of so much importance as to demand a distinct consideration.

These are the rights of membership, of visitation, of relief, and of burial.

To each I shall devote a separate section.
Section I.
_Of the Right of Membership._ The whole spirit and tenor of the General Regulations, as well as the uniform usage of the craft, sustain the doctrine, that when a Mason is initiated in a lodge, he has the right, by signing the bye-laws, to become a member without the necessity of submitting to another ballot.