PROCEEDINGS GRAND LODGE - Freemasons of Wisconsin

Permission to Call a Special Meeting or Communication ............. 9Permission to Have a Joint Communication and Fraternalvisits Between Sister Grand Jurisdictions ................................. 3Permission to Hold Joint Installations with Job’s DaughtersBethels .......................................................................................... 1Permission from Elected Lodge Senior Warden to also act asLodge Chaplain ............................................................................ 1Permission for a Lodge to Hold an Installation of Officers on aSunday .......................................................................................... 1Permission for a Past Master of a Lodge to act as Pro-TemMaster For Rest of Term due to Elected Master’s Call toActive Duty .................................................................................. 1Permission to Operate Under a Blanket Dispensation to ServeWine or Beer ................................................................................ 4TOTAL 114The Committee is of the opinion that all the dispensations were properly issuedpursuant to the Masonic Code.EDICTSThe Grand Master Issued one Edict this year, to all Constituent Lodges onFebruary 15, 2006, pertaining specifically to the Man to Mason to Shrine event tobe held March 25th in Madison and April 29, 2006 in Green Bay and Milwaukee:• Granting Dispensation to waive the requirements as stated in Chapter 73.09of the Wisconsin Code, to allow more than one candidate to receive all parts ofthe degrees at the same time, with the use of exemplars as appropriate; and• Granting dispensation to waive the requirements as stated in Chapter 74.01of the Wisconsin Masonic Code, to allow the candidates to demonstrateproficiency as defined and accepted by the Grand Lecturer and the DistrictLecturers and as defined in the White Paper for Masonic Classes, prior to theFellowcraft and Master Mason degree, and• Granting dispensation to waive the requirements as stated in Chapters 22.03and 78.03, to allow Wisconsin residents who have not resided in Wisconsin fora year to petition a lodge for this event. All cases involving the residencerequirement will be handled on an individual basis by the Grand Master andin concurrence with the Grand Secretary; and• Granting dispensation to waive the requirement as stated in Chapters 68.05and 73.02 of the Wisconsin Masonic Code, to allow the lodge to receive a petitionfor the degrees and take action on that petition at a stated or a specialcommunication called for that purpose only; and to allow that the time elementfor receiving and balloting on a petition be reduced to a time period that thelodge feels adequate to receive, interview and ballot upon such petition’ and toallow an adequate period of time between the receiving, balloting and theinitiation of a candidate as the lodge feels appropriate.It is the opinion of the Committee that this Edict was lawfully issued.15