73. That is, advance him, from the subordinate position of a serving man or Apprentice, to that of a Fellow Craft or journeyman.
74. This is also the regulation of the Grand Lodge of South Carolina.
75. Proceedings of Grand Lodge of New York, for 1845. He excepts, of course, from the operation of the rule, those made by dispensation; but this exception does not affect the strength of the principle.
76. Preston, edition of Oliver, p. 12 (U.M.L., vol. iii., p. 10).
77. Transactions of the G.L. of New York, anno 1848, p. 73.
78. Edition of 1723, page 71 (U.M.L., vol. xv., book 1, p. 71).
79. Preston, p. 48 (U.M.L., vol, iii., p. 40).
80. Const. New York, 1854, p. 13. The Constitutions of the Grand Lodge of England (p. 64) have a similar provision; but they require the Brother to express his wish for membership on the day of his initiation.
81. Preston, Oliver's Ed., p. 71, note (U.L.M., vol. iii., p. 60).
82. See Oliver, note in Preston, p. 75 (U.M.L., vol. iii, p. 61).