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	Record Group Number:	900000
	Series/Collection Number:	M78- 172
	Creator:	Freemasons. Mount Olive Lodge No. 5 (Tallahassee, Fla.)
	Title, Dates:	Mount Olive Lodge No. 5 minutes, 1914-1916.
	Amount:	1.00 v.
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	Organization/Arrangement:	Chronological.
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	Biographical/Historical:	The Mount Olive Lodge No. 5 of Tallahassee, Florida, is a lodge of Freemasons affiliated with the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Florida, known collectively as the Masons. The lodge is nonpartisan and nonsectarian, has the right to do all work of Ancient Craft masonry, and its membership is selective. A person who desires to become a Mason must be a man, believing in the existence of a Supreme Being; at least twenty-one years of age; of good moral character, temperate, industrious and capable of earning of livelihood; literate; and able to comply with all requirements of the ceremonies of initiation and modes of recognition. This fraternal brotherhood instructs members in moral truths, provides scholarships for higher learning, and does charitable works.
	Summary:	The records contain the meeting minutes of the Mount Olive Lodge No. 5 that document the activities and decisions of the lodge. Included are the names of members, approval of degrees and amount of dues paid.
	Finding Aids:	Volume listing available. 0
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	Ownership/Custodial History:	Found in the J. G. Riley House, Tallahassee by the Historic Tallahassee Preservation Board which presented it to the Archives.
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	Subject Access Fields:	Freemasons Freemasons. Mount Olive Lodge No. 5 (Tallahassee, Fla.) Fraternal organizations. Freemasonry Lodges Florida Friendly societies Florida Minutes. aat Leon County (Fla.) Tallahassee (Fla.)
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