Minutes of general and Committee meetings (1856-1962), correspondence and letterbooks, alphabetical registers of members (1855-1953), financial records, arbitration material, rule books, and records of the following lodges: Batesford, Ballarat, Beechworth, Big Hill, Black Forest, Bolinda Vale, Campaspe, Carlsruhe, Castlemaine, Collingwood, Faraday, Footscray, Geelong, Harcourt, Leithbridge, Maryborough, Middle Stump, Moorabool, Morang, Pentridge, Prahran, Ravenswood, Riddles Creek, Sunbury, Williamstown, Woodend, and Yan Yean. Also includes record of contributions and cash receipts of the Operative Masons' Benefit Society (1850-1851).
Friendly Society of United Operative Stonemasons of VictoriaIncludes minutes of meetings of Moorabool Lodge Strike Committee and details of income and expenditure 1861.
Also includes Treasurer's list of sick members' names and amounts paid 1880-82.
Includes pressclippings and correspondence pasted into volume.
This volume also includes a record of contributions to the Harcourt Lodge 1859, the Middle Stump Lodge 1860-61 and Black Forest Lodge 1861. The cover is inscribed 'Two Mile Creek Lodge'.
Includes a record of members' contributions 1855-57 and details of income and expenditure 1856-57. Also includes members' contributions and cash receipts of the earlier Operative Masons' Benefit Society 1850-51.
Includes press cuttings relating to Lock Out 1921, stone deterioration and use of pneumatic tools 1921-1937.
Also includes record of payments by Melbourne and Footscray Lodge members of Timber Workers' Levy 1929 and Unemployed Levy 1929-30.
Includes accounts of income and expenditure for Lock Out Fund 1914.
Later entries in this volume are incomplete.
This volume duplicates entries in items E117-15-1 and E117-15-2 and includes some additional information for 1895. It also includes a list of members out of work due to the Lock Out in April-July 1914.
Includes a list of members of the Woodend Lodge in the back.
Includes contributions for Yan Yean Lodge 1874-75, and Victorian members' payments of Lock Out Levy 1914, Anti-conscription Levy 1917-18, and Extra Levy for Funds 1920-21. There is also a list of Pentridge Lodge members at the back.
Victorian members' payment (and non-payment) of the Extra Levy for Funds 1921-22 is also recorded in this volume. Includes a list of members of the Williamstown Lodge in the back.
The Melbourne Lodge also recorded contributions to the Sick Fund 1906-1914 in this volume. Includes a list of members of the Ravenswood Lodge in the back.
Includes a list of Prahran Lodge members at the back.
Includes record of income and expenditure 1860 and list of addresses for secretaries of other lodges.
Includes loose pages from membership register for surnames R to Z only, recording details for members initiated from 1863 to 1930, and list of members receiving unemployed sustenance payments in June 1929.
There is a record of bank notes sent to the Central Committee 1859 in the back of the volume.
The back of the volume has been used by the Melbourne Lodge to record 'art union' ticket sales 1915 for late members John Mathewson, W Brunsdon, J Clark and J Powell.
A newspaper clipping relating to Eight Hours Anniversary celebrations in Ballarat and Melbourne 1880 is attached to the front cover.
Members' payment of the compulsory levy and the Timber Workers' Levy 1929 is in the back of the volume.
The book was originally used by the Maryborough Lodge and a list of members' names 1860-61 is in the back.
The book was originally used as the contribution book for Bolinda Vale Lodge 1860 and there is a list of members of the lodge in the back. There are also a few entries for the Melbourne Branch Sick Fund 1901.
Includes a list of members in the back and a separate list of addresses for members.
Also includes contributions for Faraday Lodge 1866-67. From 1921 to 1922 the book was used by the Footscray Branch to record payment of the Lock Out Levy by members.
The membership register is in the back of the volume - it records re-admitted members for the period 1862-63 and new members for 1910- 1923. At the front of the volume is a list of names of members' wives 1860, a list of members receiving accident funds 1859-60, 'names, dates and causes of deceased members' (recording payment of funeral allowance) 1857-62, 'record of inquiries' of effects of use of pneumatic tools 1921, accidents reported 1921-23 and deaths reported 1921-23.
Includes correspondence relating to the balance sheets and payment of Strike Pay 1861.
Includes at the back list of members' payments to other lodges 1861.
Includes at the front members' payment of Strike Levy.
Includes at the back members' payment of Railway Strike Levy.
Includes Melbourne Lodge subscriptions for J Clark, H Versi and R Rees 1914-16.
Includes Sunbury Lodge accounts 1858-1861 and also list of unemployed 'caused through strike' since 1 November 1906, list of members locked out on 3 Dec 1906 to 27 Dec 1906 and list of members' names and amounts on 5 May 1915.
Arranged alphabetically by members' names.
Includes some correspondence and notes for arbitration cases.
Includes in the front record of income and expenditure for Morang Lodge 1875.