§ 6. Princes not members of the Grand Consistory are
competent to sit as members of such Tribunals ; and, if
there be not sufficient Princes in the State where the Ac-
cused resides to constitute the Tribunal, they may be ap-
pointed from an adjoining, or the nearest,. State, wherein
there are enough ; and, in that case, the Tribunal may sit
in such other State. But, when any of the Inspectors
Inquisitors are to be appointed from another State, the
-Tribunal must be ordered by the Sovereign Grand Com-
mander or an Inspector-General of his own motion, or at
the request of a Prince or Princes of the Royal Secret.
§ 7. None of the Dignitaries of a Grand Consistory can
be members of such a Tribunal.
§ 8. Such a Tribunal may be ordered for the trial of all
such cases as may come before it, without naming any par-
ticular case or party.
§ 9. Any Mason knowing of the commission by a Brother
of rank above the Eighteenth degree, of any offence against
Masonic Law, the Constitutions, Regulations or Statutes,
or. of any conduct on his part unbecoming a Mason, a
Knight and a Gentleman, may make known the fact to a
Grand Consistory, an Inspector-General, the Grand Com-
mander-in-Chief of a Grand Consistory, or the Sovereign
Grand Commander, by communication in writing, stating
the offence, its nature and circumstances, and the time or
times of its commission.
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kind by the officer ordering the Tribunal upon his own in-
formation or knowledge, with the names of the witnesses,
shall be furnished to the Advocate, who shall cause to be
prepared and prefer the act of Accusation.
