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Officers of an Encampment (Preceptory)

Form of Declaration

Ceremony of Opening the Encampment

Do. Closing

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Charge to a Knight Templar

Ceremony of Installing Eminent Commander

Ceremony of Consecrating an Encampment

Masson's System of Examination,

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Officers of an Encampment.

The old nomenclature of Officers is here retained, the recent changes at present in use being:

Declaration.

To the E. C. and Sir Knts. of the ... Enc., registered under the Gd. Conc. of the Royal, Exalted, Religious, and Military Order of Masonic Knts. Templar in England and Wales.

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of, being a Companion of the Chapter of R. A. Masons, No.

-, meeting in, and called Chapter of, am desirous of being installed into the Order of Masonic Knts. Templar in England and Wales; and do therefore humbly supplicate the E. C. and the Knights now assembled, that they will graciously condescend to admit me into their

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zeal, I trust that the sincerity of my endeavours to promote the glory of the Cross will entitle me to their favourable opinion. And I do hereby declare, that I am a Christian, and believe in the doctrine of the Holy and Undivided Trinity; and that I will submit to and observe the ByeLaws of the Enc., and all the usages, customs, and statutes of the Order, and particularly the statutes which are, and may from time to time be, resolved and agreed upon for the government of the said Order in England and Wales, by the above-mentioned Grand Conclave.-As witness my hand this day of

Witness. (Signed)

Encampment.

E. C.-Sir Knights, assist me to open this Encampment.

(The Knights all rise.)

E. C.-Sir Knight Second Captain, What is the first care of every Knight Templar?

2d C.-To see that the Encampment is properly guarded.

E. C.-Direct that duty to be done. 2d C.-Sir Knight_Captain of the Lines, see that the Encampment is properly guarded. C. OF L. EQUERRY WITHOUT.

C. OF L.-Sir Knight Second Captain, the Encampment is properly guarded.

2d C.-Eminent Commander, all is

secure.