2.
[60] In an able report on this subject, in the proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Georgia for 1852.

In accordance with the views there expressed, Bro.

Rockwell decided officially, as District Deputy Grand Master, in 1851, that a man who had lost one eye was not admissible.
[61] Potter, 184.
[62] Page 18.

In December, 1851, the Committee of Correspondence of North Carolina, unregardful of the rigid rule of their predecessors, decided that maimed candidates might be initiated, "provided their loss or infirmity will not prevent them from making full proficiency in Masonry." [63] Proceedings of the G.L.of Mo.

for 1823, p.5.The report and resolution were on the petitions of two candidates to be initiated, one with only one arm, and the other much deformed in his legs.
[64] When the spirit of expediency once begins, we know not where it will stop.