Grand Lodge Committee on Jurisprudence

 

Charter: The Committee on Jurisprudence serves as a deliberative group within the Grand Lodge structure. 

 

Duties: It shall review all proposed amendments to existing law, as well as proposed new laws, and make recommendations to assembled delegates at the Grand Annual Communication to either approve or reject each proposal. 

 

The Chairman, or its collective membership, may have questions on Masonic law referred to it by the Grand Master or Grand Secretary. 

 

As an adjunct function, it assists the Grand Master by reviewing Lodges' by-laws revisions and assuring that they are in proper form and content before recommending his approval. 

 

Proposed Charters for new Lodges are referred to the Committee for review, evaluation, conformity to Grand Lodge requirements, necessary communications with the proposers, and final recommendations to the Grand Master and Grand Lodge delegates.  It may also have referred to it matters regarding Lodge consolidations and dissolutions. 

 

Membership: The Committee shall be composed of nine (9) members and two (2) adjunct members appointed by the Grand Master of Masons in Virginia.

 

Committee Members:

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Walter Scott Downs, Chairman

Samuel Thomas Atkinson

Frank Genues Bond

William Edward Hershey, Jr.

William Lee Luthie

Mickey Mantle Merritt

Daniel Knowlton Read, Jr.

Robert Edward Simpson

Clarence Edward Whitley

Russell Jackson Comer, Jr., Adjunct

David Henry Smith, Adjunct

For further information on this committee please contact the committee chairman.