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Answer from last month about the clock: UGLE in London
The following is an except from a masonic newspaper.
THE FREEMASON, MARCH 6, 1875
On Friday the 19th inst, in St. Mark's Hall, Buchanan-street, an emergency meeting took place at which a Board of Installed Master Masons was formed, consisting of Bros. Thomas Halket PM 102; Arch. McTaggart PM 27 and John Fraser PM 87 for the purpose of conferring the Installed Masters' degree upon three brethren from Lanark. Those were Bros. Wm. McLehose, RWM Lodge 21 Old St. John, Lanark; John Currie PM of same lodge and John Annan RWM Lodge 326 Clydesdale, Lanark. The ceremony was efficiently performed by Bro. Halket.
On Friday the 19th inst, in St. Mark's Hall, Buchanan-street, an emergency meeting took place at which a Board of Installed Master Masons was formed, consisting of Bros. Thomas Halket PM 102; Arch. McTaggart PM 27 and John Fraser PM 87 for the purpose of conferring the Installed Masters' degree upon three brethren from Lanark. Those were Bros. Wm. McLehose, RWM Lodge 21 Old St. John, Lanark; John Currie PM of same lodge and John Annan RWM Lodge 326 Clydesdale, Lanark. The ceremony was efficiently performed by Bro. Halket.
With the new ceremony of Installed Master as this time, only some masters would have been through it and most PMs would not. Hence these emergency meetings of ‘Installed Master Lodges’ for the sole purpose of giving masters and PMs the w. and g.
