Excerpt from 1877, Constitution of the Grand Commandery Knights Templar of Pennsylvania: To Which Is Appended the Constitution, Rules and Edicts of the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar of the United States of America On the 20th of June, 1816, the General Grand Encamp ment of the United States was organized; and it being a general Grand body, Grand and subordinate Encampments placed themselves under its jurisdiction, with a view of having a complete Templar union. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.