A Deputy Grand Inspector General, visiting an inferior
body, is to be received with seven stars and seven swords,
and to enter under the Arch of Steel, swords clashing and
gavels beating ; a Sovereign Grand Inspector General with
nine stars and nine swords; and the M.-. P.-. Sovereign
Grand Commander with eleven stars and eleven swords ;
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clashing and gavels beating. And whenever the presiding
officer is not of equal rank with the visitor, he surrenders
to him the Mallet of Command.
ARTICLE L.
Every Sov/. Grand Inspector General, active member
of the Supreme Council, possesses, and may exercise in the
State in which he resides, during the recess of the Supreme
Council, all the prerogatives of a Grand Master, so far as
relates to the Ancient and Accepted Rite.
ARTICLE LI.
All the existing Statutes and Regulations of this Supreme
Council. are to be taken and held as superseded by these
present Revised Regulations, which with the Regulations
of 1762, and the Grand Constitutions of 1786, so far as the
same are unaltered hereby, and with the unwritten princi-
ples and landmarks of Freemasonry, shall henceforth be
the law of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite in the
Southern Jurisdiction of the United States.
Certified to be authentic by us.
Albert Pike, ^

Sov.". Gr.\ Com.'.
ALBERT G. MACKEY, ^

Sec.\ Gen.'. H:. E.'.
STATUTES OF i 866,

WITH

ADDITIONS AND MODIFICATIONS
TO CLOSE OF MAY SESSION, 1870,

OS

THE SUPREME COUNCIL, 33d,

FOK

The Southern Jurisdiction of the United States.
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