Excerpt from Minutes of the Right Worshipful Grand Lodge, Vol. 8: Of the Most Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvaniajurisdiction Thereunto Belonging This volume, the eighth issued under the direction of the Committee on 'library, contains the Minutes of the Right Worshipful Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, F. And A. M. 1849 - 1854. The two important events of that period were the reinter ment of the remains of Brother Stephen Girard and the laying of the corner-stone of the new Hall on Chestnut street. To afford the student and reader as much information as possible the Committee have added two appendices. One containing an account of the reinterment of Brother Stephen Girard, with the oration delivered on that occasion by R. W. Past Grand Master Joseph Ripley Chandler, and the other the account of the laying of the corner-stone of the new Hall on Chestnut street, with the oration delivered by R. W. Past Grand Master John Kearsley Mitchell, who was at that time the R. W. Junior Grand Warden. Four steel portraits of the Grand Masters of those years are inserted. 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.