Secretary’s Message

Bills for Lodge dues will be mailed shortly. As a reminder they are $100. Additionally, I wanted to remind you what is written in the Methodical Digest regarding dues.

Every chartered Lodge must pay $30 to the Grand Lodge of Virginia for each member listed at the last stated communication in December. Additionally, every Lodge Chartered or under dispensation, shall pay the Grand Lodge a fee of Fifty dollars for each petitioner for the degrees and raise by the Lodge or raised at the request of the Lodge.

We are also required to support other programs within the Grand Lodge:

In addition to these dues, effective January 1, 2006, every chartered Lodge with it’s annual returns shall make payment to the Grand Lodge of Virginia an assessment in the amount of one dollar to support the maintenance and operational expense of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial for each member for which the Lodge is liable for Grand Lodge dues. In addition…every chartered Lodge…shall make payments …in the amount of Three dollars for the Masonic Home of Virginia.

Lastly, these the Lodge is liable for dues to be disbursed as follows: $0.40 per member for the Scholarship Fund, A.F. & A.M. of Virginia; $0.20 per member to the Rainbow for Girls Foundation, Inc.; $0.20 per member to the Virginia Job’s Daughters Foundation, Inc. and $0.20 per member to the DeMolay Foundation, Inc. In total, dues and assessments amount to $38.00

Fraternally,

Charles R. Seaford

Charles R. Seaford Portrait December 2012