25.
[14] Art.

xxxix.
[15] The word "time" has been interpreted to mean _communication_.
[16] And this is not because such past officer has an inherent right to the mastership, but because as long as such an one is present and willing to serve, there does not exist such an emergency as would authorize a dispensation of the law.
[17] What further concerns a lodge under dispensation is referred to a special chapter in a subsequent part of the work.
[18] It is well known, although it cannot be quoted as authority, that the Athol Constitutions expressly acknowledged the existence of this prerogative.

See Dermott's Ahiman Rezon.
[19] Book of Constitutions, edit.

1767, p.

222.
[20] Book of Const., p.