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1
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Required items to be listed on WM Trestleboard

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Page for Lodge Widows
Picture of GM
List of elected and appointed officers
Table of Contents
Grand Lecturer and Grand Inspector
Lodge Info, location, district, MWGM, WM, DD
History of Prince Hall

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African Lodge No.1 established on what date?

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July 3, 1776

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Where is the Trestleboard noted in the Constitution

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Article 18, Section 1

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African Lodge No. 459 held it’s first meeting

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May 6, 1787

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Grand Lodge is declared opened in ___________ when the GM presides

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Ample Form

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Possible Lodge Revenue

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Dues
Fundraisers
Donations
GL Raffle Ticket Sales
Raffles
Initiation Fees

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Prince Hall passed away

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December 4th, 1807

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PH and 14 other free blacks were initiated to Irish Military Lodge No. 441

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March 6, 1775

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Chapter and verses of the scriptures for all 3 degrees

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Psalm 133
Amos 7: 7-8
Ecclesiastes 12: 1-7

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Arts / Parts / Points

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Arts - specific Masonic knowledge
Parts - degrees into which Masonry is divided
Points - Rules or usages

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Required expenses in Lodge Budget

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  • GL Returns
  • Charitable Contributions
  • Fraternal Support
  • Rent
  • Insurance
  • LOI fees
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Does the Tyler need to ballot when voting on new members?

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No

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Perfect Points of your entrance

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Pectoral
Manual
Guttural
Pedal

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1st Degree - Modes of Recognition

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Step
Due Guard
Sign
Token
Word
Perfect Points of Your Entrance

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Effective Skills for Masonic Leaders

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Planning
Sharing Your Vision
Enlisting Help
Relationship Building
Financial Acumen
Time Management
Motivating People
Practicing Self Care
Crisis Management

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14 Brothers that joined Prince Hall

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Cyrus Johnbus
Prince Reayden
Peter Best
John Canton
Duff Buform
Bueston Slinger
Cato Speain
Fortin Howard
Peter Freeman
Richard Tilley
Thomas Sanderson
Boston Smith
Prince Rees
Benjamin Tiber

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Optional items included in Trestleboard

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Lodge Budget
List of Past Masters
Brothers birthdays
Call list
Roster

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Actions that PH and brothers were allowed to do

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  • Meet as a lodge
  • Walk on St. John’s Day
  • Bury their dead in manner and form
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The Holy Saints Johns

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St John the Baptist - June 24th - Summer Solstice
St John the Evangelist - Dec 27th - Winter Solstice

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1st Degree Prep

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Divested of all metallic substances
Neither naked nor shod
Bare foot nor shod
left knee and breast bare
Hoodwinked
Cable tow about his neck

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Why were you divested of all metallic substances?

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  • Bring nothing offensive or defensive items into the lodge
  • NO sound of metal was heard at the building of KS temple
  • Rite of destitution
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How did they built KS Temple?

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Work was done in the quarries, stones hewed, timber felled at Lebanon and transported to Joppa via Joppa. Carried to Jersalem and assembled with the use of wooden instruments

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Why were you neither naked or clothed?

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Masonry regards men by their inner quality and not by their external quality such as wealth and titles

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Why were you neither barefoot nor shod

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Ancient custom to display avowal of sincerity by removing and handing over your left shoe

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Why were you hoodwinked with a cabletow about your neck?
- Heart can behold the wonders and beauty of masonry - Be kept in the dark concerning free masonry - to be led out if unable to continue
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Principal Tenets
Brotherly Love Relief Truth
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Chalk, Charcoal, and Clay
Chalk - Freedom of EAs Charcoal - Represents Fervency Clay - Represents zealousness of the Earth to which we all return
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Four Cardinal Virtues or Perfect Points
Fortitude Prudence Temperance Justice
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Latest name of the GL
The Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of MD and its Jurisdiction, Inc November 24, 1947
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Purpose of the Charter
Needed in order for the lodge to meet, confer degrees and bury their dead
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First Lodge in MD
Friendship Lodge #6 - Feb 2, 1825
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First GL in MD
First Colored GL AFAM of the State of MD Created by Rev James A Handy - served as GM
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First three lodges of first GL in MD
Friendship #1, St. James #2, Enterprise #3
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Third GL formation in MD
First Union Colored GL of the State of MD Sept 12, 1876 James A Handy and Nathaniel Burgess
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How many lodges are required to form a GL
Three
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Locations of the GL
The Douglass Institute, 11 E. Lexington Street The Samaritan Temple, Saratoga and Davis Streets 333-335 Courtland Street 1429-1431 McCulloh Street 1301-1307 Eutaw Place (1960 - Present)
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How many jurisdictions in the state of MD
15
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Total number of MWGMs
27
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Four Grand Masters - Last 100 years
Joseph P Evans Willard Allen Samuel T Daniels Shelton D Redden
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Elected GL Officers
GM - Noel C Osborne, Sr DGM - Kevin L Barney SGW - Wiliam Davidson III JGW - Randolph Smith Grand Sec - Rodney James Grand Treasurer - Reginal E Jeffries Grand Inspector - David L. Crawford Grand Lecturer - Darryl Jefferson
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1st Degree - Charge
- Acceptance - The greatest and best of men - Duties to God, Neighbor, and Ourselves - Peacefull Citizen - Outward Demeanor - Secure and Inviolate the principles
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Public Speaking Skills
- Planning & Preparation - Positive Non Verbal Communication - Confidence
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Examples of Crisis moments
- Natural Disasters - Confrontation - Misconduct - Deception - Death
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Right Knee and Breast Bare
- Teach you to act upon the square with all mankind and your brethen - Respective Duties to God and the Craft
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Cable tow twice about the neck
- Distance one could travel in an hour, which is three - Distance from which a summons may be answered - Bound as long and as strong as himself determines
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The Plumb
- Test Perpendiculars - Being an upright man and Mason
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The Square
- Prove Right Angles - Meaning Virtue
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The Middle Chamber
- Journey from ignorance to enlightenment - Two Pillars on the Porch - Winding Stairs
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The Level
- Proves horizontals - Symbolize equality
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Winding Stairs
- Three Principal Officers - Wisdom, Strength, Beauty - Attentive Ear, Instructive Tongue, Faithful Breast - Five Human Senses - Five Orders of Archiecture - Seven Steps
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Five Orders of Architecture
Ionic, Doric, Corinthian, Composite, Tuscan
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Seven Steps of Winding Stairs
- Grammar - Rhetoric - Logic - Arithmetic - Geometry - Music - Astronomy
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2nd Degree - Symbolism
- Enlightenment - The Letter G - Wages of a FC - Hieroglyphic Light
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2nd Degree - Modes of Recognition
Step - Due Guard - Sign - Grip & Word
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The Letter G
- Geometry - Sacred name of Deity - Spiritual sun shining upon the Earth
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Heiroglyphic Light
A system of morality, veiled in allegory, illustrated by signs and symbols
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Death of Grand Master Hiram Abiff - Body
- At the brow of a hill
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Monument at the Grave
- Broken Column - Weeping Angel - Open Book
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Events for building the Temple
- no sound of an axe, hammer or any metal tool - only rain during the night season or during refreshment
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Employment at KS Temple
3 - GM 3,300 - MM 80K - FC 70K - EA
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Jubal A - Jubal O - Jubal M
JA - Envy, hate JO - False friends and outside forces JM - Death
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Sprig of Acacia
- Resurrection of the Body - Immortality of the Soul
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Constitution content
- 38 Articles - 3 Appendices - 79 pages
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Constitution - Appendices
Appendix A - Bylaws of Constituent Lodges Appendix B - Standard Forms Appendix C - Index
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Latest Edition of Constitution
March 12, 2022
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Original Date of Constitution
February 2nd, 1910
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Oifficial name change to MWPHGL of Free and Accepted Masons of MD and Its Jurisdiction, Inc
November 24, 1947
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Article 3
Members of the GL - annual and permanent
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Article 5
Election and Appointment of GL Officers
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Article 7
Powers of GL Officiers
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Article 7 - Various sections
Section 1, 6, 7 - compensation for services Section 9 - Inspections, audits, annual report Section 10 - DDGM can grant dispensation for 1st degree Section 21 - expense incurred by GL officers to be paid by GL
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Article 8
Committees Sect 14 - LOI instruct in proper procedures
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Article 10
Meetings Sect 1 - Annual Comms Sect 2- Special Comms
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Article 11
Voting Sect 1 - GL votes Sect 2 - Constiituent Lodge votes
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Article 12
Fees and Revenues Sect 2 - Set and Stated Fees
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Article 17
Misc Sect 1 - Brother can't hold more than one office Sect 2 - required payment of dues and taxes to sit in GL Comm Sect 4 - Timely submission of annual returns (10) days before sessiosn Sect 11 - Lodge funds must be turned to Secretary Sect 12 - PH Day - 2nd Sunday in Sept Sect 15 - Bros in membership not recognized by GL is deemed unmasonically
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Article 18
Ample Form Due Form In Form Summons Flooring, Clandestine Mason, Heal, Demit, Dispensation
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Article 19
Constituent Lodges
78
Article 21
Proxies
79
Article 22
Election and Installation of Lodge Officers

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