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THE STONEMASONS OF GERMANY. Concerning Punishments that XXIX. If a punishment ; complaint be laid for instance, if anyone may 125 entail exjiulsion from, the Craft. master, such as would entail the greater to be forbidden the craft, that shall the master of a before is a hear or judge of alone, but call to his aid the two nearest masters, who also possess a book and power according to these ordinances, that there may be three of them, and also the district not fellows that are in the employ where the complaint arose, and that which these three, together with the fellows, unanimously or by a majority, shall then decide on their oath and to the best of their judgment, that shall thereafter be maintained by the whole body of craftsmen. Wlien Quarrels XXX. Should arise, not concerning Masonry. be th