223).
[24] Book of Constitutions, p.

247 [25] The existence of this prerogative is denied by the Grand Lodges of Missouri, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Massachusetts, while it is admitted by those of New York, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Wisconsin, Vermont, Mississippi, Ohio, New Hampshire, Maryland, Indiana, Texas and Florida; in the last two, however, subject to limitation.
[26] That is, the one who has longest been a Freemason.
[27] Book of the Lodge, p.

115 (U.M.L., vol.i., book 2, p.

78).
[28] It was abolished in New York in 1854.
[29] This is a small chest or coffer, representing the ark of the covenant, and containing the three great lights of Masonry.
[30] "What man is there that hath a new house and hath not dedicated it?
Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it." Deut.xx.

5.
[31] De Syned.Vet.Ebraeor., 1.iii., c.xiv., Sec.