1.--Since the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia has been under the
supervision and control of the Past Grand Master Wm. H. Johnson and the
present Grand Master H. C. Scott of Washington, D. C., the Grand Lodge
has rendered some very important decisions which has been a guide for
many of the Grand Lodges for sometime in the past and will be a guide
and a landmark for many of the Grand Lodges in the future.
The Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts is Irregular and
clandestine, it was instituted with only one subordinate Lodge.
The Most Worshipful St. John's Grand Lodge of A. F. & A. Masons of the
State of Illinois that Bro. John G. Jones is the Grand Master of was
lawfully and constitutionally established according to the landmarks and
laws of Freemasonry and is recognized by this Grand Lodge.
The Most Worshipful King Solomon Grand Lodge of A. F. & A. Masons of the
State of Texas that Bro. Chas. L. Mitchell is Grand Master of has been
regularly and lawfully established and is recognized by this Grand
Lodge.
The Most Worshipful St. Andrew's Grand Lodge of A. F. & A. Mason of the
State of Louisiana that Wm. T. Grant is the Grand Master of has been
regularly instituted according to the landmarks and laws of Freemasonry
and is recognized by this Grand Lodge.
The Most Worshipful German Grand Lodge of A. F. & A. Masons of the State
of Alabama that Bro. J. H. McGehee is the Grand Master of has been
lawfully instituted and is recognized by this Grand Lodge.
The Most Worshipful Wm. T. Grant, Jr., Grand Lodge of A. F. & A. Masons
of the State of Mississippi has been regularly organized and is
recognized by this Grand Lodge. Bro. J. R. Rawlins of Natchez, Miss., is
the Grand Master of.
The Most Worshipful Hiram Grand Lodge of A. F. A. Masons of the State of
Pennsylvania that Bro. C. R. France is the Grand Master of, has been
instituted in a regular and lawful manner and is recognized by this
Grand Lodge.
The Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of the State of Florida that Bro. E. E.
Franklin is the Grand Master of was regularly instituted and is
recognized by us.
We find the formation of the spurious Grand Lodge of Texas that J. W.
McKinney is the Grand Master of and W. M. McDonald is the Grand
Secretary of, was established in the most extraordinary irregular and
unlawful manner and is with the establishing of the bogus Prince Hall
Grand Lodge of Massachusetts which was only organized with one Lodge.
The so-called Grand Lodge in the State of Texas which is said to have
been instituted by K. R. Rogers of Austin, Texas, and is known as the
Hiram Tyram Grand Lodge is beyond all question or doubt the most
Clandestine and irregular Masonic Grand Lodge that has ever appeared
upon the Masonic stage of action. It is a Grand Lodge only on paper and
was instituted not in compliance with any of the landmarks or laws of
Freemasonry and is therefore counterfeit and Bogus and is not recognized
by this Grand Lodge.
This Grand Lodge has carefully examined into the origin of the Compact
Grand Lodge of Masons in the State of Illinois that H. E. Burris, of
Rock Island is the Grand Master, and the notorious R. E. Moore is the
Grand Secretary of, and we find it was instituted with only two
warranted Lodges and a Lodge under dispensation and from the records of
the Grand Lodge of Ohio one of the warranted Lodges that took part in
the convention was at that time not in good standing with the Grand
Lodge of Ohio. See records of the Grand Lodge of Ohio of 1865 and 1866.
Prince Hall of Massachusetts, a founder of a Spurious and Illegitimate
Masonry, among the Colored Masons in the United States, died at Boston,
Mass., in the year of 1807.