THE STONEMASONS OF GERMANY.
is
disagreement provision
made
an arbitrator
for the election of
(Art. 43).
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Even
if
the cause
of dispute between two craftsmen did not affect masonry, they were still enjoined to refer it
to this court, before appealing to the tribunals of the state (Art. XXX.).
Only when differ-
ences could not be adjusted by the high court were appeals allowed (Ai't. XXL).
Complaints
of the civil authorities against the craft were also to be heard by a chief master (preamble to
The book-master dispensed the charities of the guild, and administered
the 1462
code).
relief to the sick
and distressed
(Art.
To him the lower masters handed their boxes
If the indiThis arrangement was a salutary one.
XXIV.).
annually and rendered their accounts.
vidual masters had been allowed to afford
a class of professional mendicants might
have arisen, as one master would have been ignorant of the doings of the others. But the
and as the districts were not very
district master could exercise greater caution and control
relief,
;
on the really needy and deserving in requiring them
large,
The Brother-book thus
to trave