name and by the authority
of the Most Worshipful* Grand Master of Free and Accepted Masons of
the State of Arkansas, I now declare this Lodge duly instituted and
properly prepared for the transaction of such business as may lawfully
come before it.

* If Grand Master Institutes the Lodge, in person, he will omit what
precedes the * and insert "as."

Instituting Officer: (Addressing Master.) I now deliver to you the
Dispensation empowering you and your brethren to work as a Regular
Lodge. You are its custodian and must see to it that it is present at
all Communications of the Lodge. You must also, as required by law,
safely transmit it to the Grand Secretary just prior to the next Annual
Communication of the Grand Lodge, and when this is done, Masonic work in
this Lodge must cease until the Dispensation is continued by the Grand
Lodge, or until the Lodge is constituted. I now deliver to you the gavel
of authority; wield it, my brother, with prudence and discretion. You
will now assume your station.

Constituting a Newly Chartered Lodge.

After the grant of a charter the new Lodge thus created should be
constituted, and its officers installed, by the Grand Master or his
Deputy or some past or present Master. The Lodge is opened on the Third
Degree. The Marshal forms the officers of the new Lodge in front of the
Installing Officer, whereupon the Deputy G. M. addresses the G. M. as
follows:

Most Worshipful, a number of brethren, duly instructed in the mysteries
of Masonry, having assembled together for some time past by virtue of a
dispensation granted them for that purpose, do now desire to be
regularly constituted as a lodge agreeably to the ancient usages and
customs of the fraternity.

The charter is presented by the D. G. M. to the Grand Master, who
examines it and, if correct, proclaims:

G. M.--The charter appears to be correct and is approved. Upon due
deliberation the Grand Lodge has granted the brethren of this new Lodge
a charter establishing and confirming them in the rights and privileges
of a regularly constituted Lodge. We shall now proceed according to the
ancient usage to constitute these brethren into a regular Lodge.

The officers of the new Lodge deliver up their jewels and badges to
their Master, who presents them, with his own, to the D. G. M. and he to
the G. M.

The D. G. M. then presents the Master-elect to the G. M., saying:

D. G. M.--Most Worshipful, I present to you Brother ----