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When to turn in your work?

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Gerald.Harris

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owls84 said:
Ok, I read this as the EA or FC examination can be done at a called or stated meeting as per Art. 235 and 436 as Bros. Hale and Blake stated. The Masters examination is done in accordanance with Art. 439, Examination in the Master's Degree. This just states that it must be done in an "open" Lodge. That leads me to believe that it, just as the EA and FC, can be done in called or stated.

Personally, I have never seen a lodge perform examinations at a Stated Meeting.
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I have opened meetings for the purpose and seen brethren examined in called and stated meetings. All of the articles cited 235,436, and 439 do apply. I do not know of any law that requires any examination to be held only at a stated meeting, but I have conducted many exams during a stated meeting. I believe that most Masters will gladly open their lodge for the purpose of conducting an examination in any of the three degrees.
 
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webstermason

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You will always have brothers who make it to stated meetings to vote to pay the phone bill, but never make it to the degrees, thus they've never met the person turning in his work.
 
JTM

JTM

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we never have proficiencies during our stated meetings... and we're a degree factory, going through 10-20 candidates a year.
 
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