Grand ——. Sister ——, the duties of your honorable station are embodied in the name of your office. You are to assist the Grand Matron, and in case of her death, absence, or disability, you shall act for her and discharge her duties. To you is especially intrusted the supervision of your sister officers, that the paraphernalia of the Grand Chapter be properly preserved, and its Ritual ceremonies performed intelligently. Be ever ready to discharge these duties.
Asso. Grand Matron.
You will now be invested with your badge of office, and conducted to your station in the West.
G. M. Grand ——, I now have the pleasure of presenting to you, for installation, Brother ——, who has been duly elected Associate Grand Patron.
Grand ——. Brother ——, I congratulate you on being chosen to fill so high a station. Your duties are to assist the Grand Patron, and in case of his death, absence or disability, to assume his powers and duties. Those who have reposed so much confidence in you have reason to expect you to faithfully look after their interests, and zealously work for the welfare of the Order. Let the laws, tenets and professions of the Eastern Star be your constant study, that you may be ready to enforce them by precept and example, and the better enabled to exercise the higher and more exalted position to which you may be called at any moment.
Associate Grand Patron.
You will now be invested with the proper emblem of office, and conducted to your station on the left of the Associate Grand Matron, in the West.
G. M. Grand ——, it is my pleasant duty to introduce —— ——, duly elected to serve us as Grand Secretary for the ensuing year.