15 Filing false petitions

No. 15. Filing False Petitions

Decision: A member of a lodge having stated in his petition for the degrees that he had not before applied for initiation, when in fact he had been rejected in another State, should be tried for unmasonic conduct, in that he has knowingly and wilfully deceived the lodge.

General Regulations, Article IV, Sec. 2.4.1. May 15, 1871. (Doyle, GM)