53. Book of Constitutions, edition of 1755, p. 282.
54. If it is an extra communication, this item of the transaction is, of course, omitted, for minutes are only to be confirmed at regular communications.
55. Oliver's Preston, p. 163, note (U.M.L., vol. iii., p. 135).
56. Such is the provision in the modern constitutions of England, but the 4th of the 39 Regulations required the candidate to be at least twenty-five.
57. See these regulations in Preston, p. 162, Oliver's ed. (U.M.L., vol. iii., p. 135).
58. Oliver's Preston, p. 72, (U.M.L., vol. iii., p. 59).
59. Blackstone, Com. I., Introd., § 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."