A petition for a warrant to establish a new Lodge requires signatures from at least seven Master Masons registered under the Grand Lodge's Constitution. For Lodges meeting in Districts or abroad, a minimum of four-sevenths of the signatories must be registered Masons. Non-registered Brothers may sign only if they are recognized by a Grand Lodge and declare adherence to the Book of Constitutions. Each petition must detail the Lodges associated with each signatory and include a Certificate confirming no debts to those Lodges, as per Rule 175. Additionally, a recommendation from the Master and Wardens of a regular Lodge, approved by a majority of present Brethren, must accompany the petition. Notice of the petition's consideration must be included in the meeting summons. If the proposed Lodge is in a Metropolitan Area, the petition is first sent to the relevant Grand Master before being forwarded to the Grand Secretary for the Grand Master's decision.
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Every application for a warrant to hold a new Lodge must be by petition to the Grand Master, signed by not less than seven Master Masons regularly registered under the Constitution of the Grand Lodge. Provided that in the case of petitions for Lodges to meet in Districts, or abroad not within the territory of any District Grand Lodge, it shall suffice if at least four-sevenths in number of the signatories are Brethren so registered, but no Brother not so registered shall sign any petition unless he be regularly registered under the Constitution of a Grand Lodge recognised by the Grand Lodge, and shall at the same time declare in writing his adherence to the Book of Constitutions, and promise due obedience to the Grand Master and the Rules and Regulations of the Grand Lodge. The petition must specify every Lodge to which each signatory belongs and every Lodge to which he has at any time belonged, and in respect of each of the signatories be accompanied by a Certificate in accordance with Rule 175 from every such Lodge showing that he is not indebted to it. To every such petition must be added a recommendation, signed in open Lodge by the Master and Wardens of a regular Lodge under the Grand Lodge with the approval of a majority of the Brethren then present, and notice that the petition is to be submitted for approval must have been given on the summons convening the meeting at which it is to be considered. The petition must then be transmitted to the Grand Secretary for the decision of the Grand Master, provided that, if the Lodge is proposed to be holden in a Metropolitan Area, Province or District, the petition, with the Certificates and recommendation, is in the first instance to be forwarded to the Metropolitan, Provincial or District Grand Master, as the case may be, who is to transmit the same with his observations thereon to the Grand Secretary for such decision as before mentioned.