FREEMASONRY IN 1877.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2836, 18 March 1878, Page 2

FREEMASONRY IN 1877.

When the three Masonic charitable institutions closed their office doors on Monday afternoon the amouut of subscript tions, donations, Ac, received during the jear 1877 reached the total no of £42,627 8s lid. Of this Bum, £16,411 19* fid had been received by the Boyal Masonic Benevolent Institution for Aged Freemasons and the Widows of Freemasons, £14,316 9a 6d by. the Boyal Masonic Institution for Boys, and £11.900-. by the Koyal Masonic Institution, tot Girls. In 1876 the total amount received by the three institutions was £39,6G0, ' out of which sum the boys' school were the largest recipients, the Benevolent Institution taking the second place. The latter, institution, however, in 1877 heads the list with a sum larger than that ever yet obtained-by any one of the Masonic institutions. The girls' school, which in 1876 and 1877 was the lowest on the Hit of subscriptions, ii the oldest of the three institutions ; the boys' school it the next in age; and the Benevolent institution is the youngest by nearly half a century. The g:rls' school boards, clothes, and educates 162 girls, aud will during the present month admit 25 more; the boys' school boards, clothes, and,educates 186 boys, and is about to take in a larger number; and the Benevolent Institution has now on its books 145 aged Freemasons receiving annually £40 each, 130 widows receiving annually £32 each, and 13 widows receiving annually half their late hocband's annuities, or £20 each.—English P«P«*- ";.