And the said Inspectors, Special Deputies, or Grand Con-
sistories shall have it in special charge to see that those
degrees are not indiscriminately conferred. The approval
must be filed with the petition of the applicant. [1868.
§ 15. Particular Consistories have no power of super-
vision or control over Councils of Kadosh or other bodies
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them, but directly to the Grand Consistory or Supreme
Council, as the case may be. [1868.
ARTICLE XXIII.
Diplomas, Briefs and Patents.
% I. The Secretary-General will, on application, and
without charge, viser any Diploma, Brief, or Patent, issued
by a Grand Consistory, and affix the seal of the Supreme
Council to his visd, without charge.
§ 2. All Diplomas, Briefs and Patents, of the 14th, i6th,
1 8th, 30th, and 32d degrees, will be in Latin, that they may
avail the holder everywhere ; and in every case he will sign
his name in the margin.
ARTICLE XXIV.
Rituals.
§ I. It is absolutely forbidden to any Grand Consistory,
Subordinate body or individual brethren or brother, to
print any Ritual of any of the degrees of the Ancient and
Accepted Scottish Rite.
§ 2. The Rituals printed by authority of the Supreme
Council, with the Secret Work, shall be alone used in all the
respective bodies of the jurisdiction, so soon as they are
completed and furnished; they shall only be issued to
active members of the Supreme Council, to special Deputy
Inspectors-General, to subordinate bodies and to such for-
eign bodies or brethren to whom the Supreme Council,
or Sovereign Grand Commander, may see fit to furnish

them.
