FIRST EVER MEETING OF HIGH COUNCIL

THE ROSICRUCIAN
April 1874, page 98

A Meeting of the High Council

(Comprising the Magi and Magistri Templi)
Was held at 23A, Great Queen Street. London, on Friday, the 24th April, 1874.

Present —

Frater Colonel Francis Burdett, Hon. President.

R. W. Little, S.M.
H. G. Buss, Treas. General.
W. R. Woodman, Sec. General.
E. Stanton Jones.
W. J. Ferguson.
C. H. R. Harrison.
James L. Thomas.

The Chair was taken by Col. Burdett.

The Accounts were duly audited and found correct. They were presented of at the Quarterly Convocation (April
16th), but there was not time to examine them then.

It was decided that the government of the Rosicrucian Society be vested in the High Council, consisting of the
Magi and Magistri Templi, the 9° and 8°.

That all Rules be altered in conformity with the enlarged sphere of the Scociety.
That the Central Office be shared by the Red Cross and the Province of Middlesex in due proportions.
That the " Rosicrucian and Red Cross " be issued monthly.
That the Metropolitan College of England be the title of the London College.
That the titles Master-General and Deputy Master-General be abolished henceforth.
And that the Members of the London College subscribe ten shillings, and of the other Colleges five shillings
annually.

W. K. WOODMAN, S.G.