A member may be excluded from his lodge for a definite or indefinite period, on account of the non-payment of arrears.

This punishment may be inflicted in different modes, and under different names.

It is sometimes called, _suspension from the lodge,_ and sometimes _erasure from the roll_.

Both of these punishments, though differing in their effect, are pronounced, not after a trial, but by a provision of the bye-laws of the lodge.

For this reason alone, if there were no other, I should contend, that they do not affect the standing of the member suspended, or erased, with relation to the craft in general.