The following was presented to Grand Lodge in Trenton
on April 20th 1922:
“Your Committee on Dispensations and Warrants, to whom was
referred the question of granting a warrant to Delta Lodge, beg leave to report
that the petitioners are all regularly dimitted Masons of St. John’s, Lisburn
Lodge No. 811 of the jurisdiction of Ireland, Amicable Lodge No. 25 of the
jurisdiction of Maryland, Ark Lodge No. 176 of the jurisdiction of Minnesota,
Newark Lodge No. 7, Northern Lodge No. 25, Bloomfield Lodge No. 40, Independence
Lodge No. 42, St. Alban’s Lodge No. 68, Cosmos Lodge No. 106, Orient Lodge No. 126,
Tyrian Lodge No. 134, Roseville Lodge No. 143, Columbia Lodge No. 176, Ophir
Lodge No. 186, and Composite Lodge No. 223 of the jurisdiction of New Jersey,
Tompkins Lodge No. 471 and Charles W. Mead Lodge No. 862 of the jurisdiction of
New York, Carey Lodge No. 420 of the jurisdiction of Ohio, Norristown Lodge No.
620 of the jurisdiction of Pennsylvania, and were set to work by the Most
Worshipful Grand Master on the fourth day of February, 1922; that they
conferred the Entered Apprentice Degree on eighteen candidates; the Fellow
Craft Degree on ten candidates and eight petitions are waiting action; that
they have a suitable and safe lodge-room in which to do Masonic work; that they
have secured suitable paraphernalia, and that they have $1,327.00 in the
treasury.
Your Committee, therefore, respectfully recommends that a
warrant be granted to Marion H. Hall, as Worshipful Master; J. Vreeland Haring,
as Senior Warden, and Lewis C. Hoover, as Junior Warden, and their associates,
for a Masonic lodge at Newark, to
be known and hailed as Delta Lodge No. 232.”
