The Lodge depended greatly upon visiting Brethren for most of its time in India and they  came from many jurisdictions: Scottish, Irish, Australian and Canadian Other features of those days, strange to the present generation  of the Lodge,  were the  quarterly  presentation and passing of the  accounts,  the  exclusion of Brethren (for non-payment of dues) by ballot, the occasional presentation of a Jewel to a Secretary for his work during the year and a requirement for full evening dress – with white waistcoats if the then prescribed black ones were not available or uniform to be worn.