Candidates before Advancement
    Section X. Of Balloting for Candidates in each Degree. 
    Section XI.  Of the Number to be Initiated at one Communication. 
    Section XII.  Of Finishing the Candidates of one Lodge in another. 
    Section XIII.  Of the Initiation of Non-residents. 
Chapter II.  Of the Rights of Entered Apprentices. 
Chapter iii.  Of the Rights of Fellow Crafts. 
Chapter iv.  Of the Rights of Master Masons. 
    Section I. Of the Right of Membership. 
    Section II.  Of the Right of Visit. 
    Section iii.  Of the Examination of Visitors. 
    Section iv.  Of Vouching for a Brother. 
    Section V. Of the Right of Claiming Relief. 
    Section VI.  Of the Right of Masonic Burial. 
Chapter V. Of the Rights of Past Masters. 
Chapter VI.  Of Affiliation. 
Chapter VII.  Of Demitting. 
Chapter VIII.  Of Unaffiliated Masons.

Book Fourth.  Of Masonic Crimes and Punishments.

Chapter I. Of What Are Masonic Crimes. 
Chapter II.  Of Masonic Punishments. 
    Section I. Of Censure. 
    Section II.  Of Reprimand. 
    Section iii.  Of Exclusion from the Lodge. 
    Section iv.  Of Definite Suspension. 
    Section V. Of Indefinite Suspension. 
    Section VI.  Of Expulsion. 
Chapter iii.  Of Masonic Trials. 
    Section I. Of the Form of Trial. 
    Section II.  Of the Evidence in Masonic Trials. 
Chapter iv.  Of the Penal Jurisdiction of a Lodge. 
Chapter V. Of Appeals. 
Chapter VI.  Of Restoration.

Index. 
Footnotes.

Preface.

In presenting to the fraternity a work on the Principles of Masonic Law, it is due to those for whom it is intended, that something should be said of the design with which it has been written, and of the plan on which it has been composed.  It is not pretended to present to the craft an encyclopedia of jurisprudence, in which every question that can possibly arise, in the transactions of a Lodge, is decided with an especial reference to its particular circumstances.  Were the accomplishment of such an herculean task possible, except after years of intense and unremitting labor, the unwieldy size of the book produced, and the heterogeneous nature of its contents, so far from inviting, would rather tend to distract attention, and the object of communicating a knowledge of the Principles of Masonic Law, would be lost in the tedious collation of precedents, arranged without scientific system, and enunciated without explanation.

When I first contemplated the composition of a work on this subject, a distinguished friend and Brother, whose opinion I much respect, and with whose advice I am always anxious to comply, unless for the most satisfactory reasons, suggested the expediency of collecting the decisions of all Grand Masters, Grand Lodges, and other masonic authorities upon every subject of Masonic Law, and of presenting them, without commentary, to the fraternity.