Travel Commission

In order to visit Lodges and Grand Lodges in other Jurisdictions, members are encouraged to request an official Travel Commission from the Grand Master, as issued by the Grand Secretary's office. A sample of the text of this Travel Commission is displayed below. A Travel Commission is only valid if it bears the original signatures of the Grand Master and Grand Secretary, and the impressed Seal of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania.

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EXCERPT FROM THE AHIMAN REZON
Or Book of the Constitution of the Right Worshipful Grand Lodge of the
Most Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of
Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania and
Masonic Jurisdiction Thereunto Belonging

11.27 COMMISSION TO A BROTHER TO VISIT
FOREIGN GRAND LODGES AND LODGES

To the Most Worshipful and Worshipful Grand and Subordinate Lodges of the
Most Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of the
world with which we are in amity:
I, __________________________, Right Worshipful Grand Master of Masons in
Pennsylvania and Masonic Jurisdiction Thereunto Belonging, send greetings:
Whereas it is the intention of our worthy and respected Brother ________________,
a Member of __________ Lodge No. ________, under my Jurisdiction, and the
Jurisdiction of our Grand Lodge, to travel into other Jurisdictions.
I, therefore, in order to promote, as far as in me lies, a fraternal
communication with the different Lodges with which our Grand Lodge is in
correspondence, do hereby authorize my said Brother ____________________ to visit
the Grand Lodge and Subordinate Lodges of Free and Accepted Masons with which
our Grand Lodge is in correspondence. In testimony whereof, I have caused him
to sign his name in his usual signature, in the margin hereof, and herewith I
commit him to the protection of the Great Architect of the Universe.
Given my hand and the seal of our Grand Lodge at the City of Philadelphia,
in Pennsylvania, this _______ day of _______ in the year of our Lord,
two thousand and __________ and of Masonry, six thousand and _________.

Attest:

[SEAL]

R.W. Grand Master

R.W. Grand Secretary