fore, that it was
neither an oblong or square, neither had it the regular mark of the
craft upon it; and neither of them being Mark Master Masons, supposed
it of no use in the building, and hove it over among the rubbish.

Q. How many Fellow Crafts were there engaged at the building of the
Temple? A. Eighty thousand.

Q. Were not the Master Overseers liable to be imposed upon by
receiving bad work from the hands of such a vast number of workmen? A.
They were not.

Q. How was this imposition prevented? A. By the wisdom of King
Solomon, who wisely ordered that the craftsman who worked should
choose him a particular mark and place it upon all his work; by which
it was known and distinguished when carried up to the building, and,
if approved, to receive wages.

Q. What was the wages of a Fellow Craft? A. A penny a day.

Q. Who paid the craftsmen? A. The Senior Grand Warden.

Q. Was not the Senior Grand Warden liable to be imposed upon by
impostors in paying off such a vast number of workmen? A. He was not.

Q. How was this imposition prevented? A. By the wisdom of King
Solomon, who also ordered that every craftsman applying to receive
wages, should present his right hand through a lattice window of the
door of the Junior Grand Warden's apartment, with a copy of his mark
in the palm thereof, at the same time giving a token.

Q. What was that token? (This was before explained.)

Q. What did it allude to? A. To the manner of receiving wages; it was
also to distinguish a true craftsman from an impostor.

Q. What is the penalty of an impostor? A. To have his right hand
chopped off.

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SECOND SECTION.

Question--Where was you prepared to be made a Mark Master Mason? A. In
the room adjoining the body of a just and lawfully constituted Lodge
of such, duly assembled in a room or place, representing a workshop
that was erected near the ruins of King Solomon's Temple.

Q. How was you prepared? A. By being divested of all my outward
apparel and all money; my breast bare, with a cable-tow four times
about my body, in which situation I was conducted to the door of a
Lodge, where I gave four distinct knocks.

Q. What do these four distinct knocks allude to? A. To the fourth
degree of Masonry; it being that on which I was about to enter.

Q. What was said to you from within? A. Who comes there?

Q. Your answer? A. A worthy brother, who has been regularly initiated
as an Entere