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Masonic meetings; to receive visitors and assign them their places in accordance with the rank in the order; to marshal all processions and demonstrations, both within and without the Lodge, and to give the honours at Masonic festivals. In addition to these your regular duties, you will be expected to render assistance (when needed), to the Deacons and other Officers and to generally to see that the Ceremonies are decorously and correctly conducted. In order that you may be duly qualified for the performance of
these multifarious duties, I would recommend to you to a diligent and careful study of the practical working of the Ceremonies, as well as with the ancient usages and established customs of the Fraternity, in order that you may with due authority, correct that which may be wrong and while encouraging and directing enlightened and progressive improvement, you may guard against unconstitutional innovations in the body of Freemasonry.
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