leges of Masonry, and from membership in said Lodge.

For the following reasons (here state them) he prays to be restored to the rights and privileges of which he was thus deprived, and promises, if his prayer shall be granted, to conform to the legal conditions of his restoration.

MASONIC HOME

The following rules and regulations are adopted for the government of the Masons' Home of Georgia, subject to such future revisions as may be deemed desirable:

1st. The Home shall be largely industrial in its main features.

2d. The Home shall be located in the county of Bibb, State of Georgia.

3d. The government and management of the Home shall be in the hands of a Board of Trustees to consist of the following: The Grand Master, the Deputy Grand Master, the Senior Grand Warden, the Junior Grand Warden, all Past Grand Masters of the Grand Lodge, the Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter for the time being, the Grand Master of the Grand Council for the time. being, the Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery for the time being, one Trustee from each Masonic district, to be nominated by the members of the Grand Lodge from such district, two Trustees from the State at large to be appointed by the Grand Master. These Trustees after the first election to hold office for six years.

4th. The fiscal affairs of the Home shall be in charge of the Grand Treasurer, who shall be required to give such additional bond as the Board of Trustees may require.

5th. The actual care and supervision of the Home shall be committed to a Superintendent, to be chosen by the Board of Trustees, to serve according to such terms and

under such rules and regulations as the Board may adopt, and for his service he shall be paid such compensation as the Board may direct.

6th. All other officers and servants of the Home shall be chosen by the Board, who shall likewise fix their compensation.

7th. The Board shall be further authorized to adopt such plan of education, mental, moral and industrial, as will best tend to educate and train such orphans as may be committed to the care of the Home and employ such teachers and instructors as may be necessary to carry such plans into successful operation.

8th. The Board of Trustees shall have full authority and power to so regulate and conduct and maintain the Home as that it shall be in all respects as far as their agency can reasonably accomplish, a Home in fact as well as in name, for the care and maintenance of aged and indigent Masons, and their widows, and for the care, maintenance and education of the orphans of Masons. The Board of Trustees shall have full authority to make and prescribe all such rules and regulations as may in their judgment be necessary for the manner in which applicants for said Home shall be received from the Subordinate Lodges.

9th. We further recommend that it shall be the declared policy of this institution, as well as of the Grand Lodge, that the Masonic virtue of industry shall be maintained in the Home, according to the true Masonic spirit, and while labor shall not be compulsory upon its inmates, all of the hours of the day shall not be consumed in idleness.

FORMER PREFACES

SECOND EDITION

The exhaustion of the first edition of four thousand copies and the continued demand for this book justify a second edition. The Manual is unchanged. The Law Digest is revised and enlarged by the incorporation of all Edicts, approved Decisions of Grand Masters and other changes in Georgia Masonic law, including the annual Grand Communication of 1900. Thus is given in succinct form, with references to authentic sources and in condensed topical and alphabetical order, the Masonic law of Georgia as it exists at the beginning of the Twentieth Century.

This second edition is now issued to an indulgent brotherhood, for whose generous reception and approval of the first edition the author will always be grateful.

JOHN W. AKIN

Cartersville, Ga., Sept. 1, 1901

THIRD EDITION

The exhaustion of the first and second editions of Akin's Manual calls for a third.

Since the publication of the second edition,

the Grand Lodge has adopted a Masonic Code with Forms. In this edition, therefore, the "Digest of Masonic Law," in the first and second editions, is replaced by those Forms and the Masonic Code, with changes therein made by subsequent Edicts and Decisions; these decisions being shown by the annotations to the Code and the Alphabetical Synopsis appended thereto. In other respects the book is unchanged; and this book contains the Exoteric Ritual of Masonry and the Georgia Masonic Law as it exists to-day.

For helpful suggestions I am indebted to one of the very brightest of Masons-our able Grand Master Meyerhardt.

This edition, prepared during the sometime weary hours of slow convalescence from a long illness, is sent forth to Georgia Masons in loving remembrance of their generous reception of "Akin's Manual."

JOHN W. AKIN

March, 1906

FOURTH EDITION

When the fourth edition of this work was published its distinguished Author had been translated "from the fading honors of an earthly Lodge to the mansions prepared for the faithful in another and a better world."

His "precious porcelain of human clay"