Legislative Investigation into Masonry

Title	A Legislative Investigation into Masonry
Author	B. Hallet and staff of the Office of the Boston Daily Advocate
Date	1832
Country	United States
Type	Pamphlet
Length	86 pages
Description	A media expose of an investigation into Masonry held in Rhode Island at the height of the anti-masonic movement in the early nineteenth century. The full title is: A Legislative Investigation into Masonry of more than 50 adhering and seceding masons, before a committee of the General Assembly of Rhode Island held at Providence and Newport between December 7 1831 and January 7 1832. Reported from minutes taken at the time. The report ends with a concluding note condemning the ‘dangerous tendency and principles of the Institution’.