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. Thus a blind man has been initiated in Mississippi, and a one-armed one in Kentucky; and in France a few years since, the degrees were conferred by sign-language on a deaf mute!
65. Namely, the incorrectly presumed operative origin of the Order. The whole of this report, which is from the venerable Giles F. Yates, contains an able and unanswerable defense of the ancient law in opposition to any qualification.
66. See proceedings of New York, 1848, pp. 36, 37.
67. Such is the formula prescribed by the Constitutions of England as well as all the Monitors in this country.
68. See Mackey's Lexicon of Freemasonry, 3d Edit., art, Ballot.
69. Book of Constitutions. Edit. 1755, p. 312.
70. See Mackey's Lexicon of Freemasonry, 3d Edit., art. Ballot
71. Except when there is but one black ball, in which case the matter lies over until the next stated meeting. See preceding Section.
72. Masonry founded on Scripture, a Sermon preached in 1752, by the Rev. W. Williams.