not requiring proficiency in each degree before proceeding to the next degree (in many cases, initiates were being passed to the Fellowcraft degree and raised to the Master Mason degree within two days of being initiated as an Entered Apprentice). There were 5 Masonic Lodges in Mormon communities by April 27, 1843: Nauvoo Lodge, U.D. (Nauvoo, IL) Helm Lodge, U.D. (Nauvoo, IL) Nye Lodge, U.D. (Nauvoo, IL) Rising Sun Lodge No.12 (Montrose, IA) Keokuk Lodge, U.D. (Keokuk, IA) There were eventually 1,492 members of these lodges, but only a total of 414 Masons in all the other Illinois lodges. A resolution passed in the Grand Lodge of Illinois on October 3, 1843 to revoke the charter of Rising Sun Lodge, revoke the dispensations of and refuse to provide charters for the rest of these Lodges for the following reasons: Rising Sun Lodge No. 12 had not paid its dues to the Grand Lodge was doing its Masonic work irregularly (or improperly). Nauvoo Lodge, U.D. was doing its Masonic work irregularly. failed to bring its record books to the Grand Lodge for inspection. was making men Masons without regard to character. was not requiring its candidates to become proficient in one degree before being pushed through another degree. Helm Lodge, U.D. was doing its Masonic work irregularly, particularly by "acting on four petitions in one day". was pushing candidates from the first degree to the third within two-day time-periods. failed to present their records to the Grand Lodge for inspection. had only paid a portion of its dues to the Grand Lodge. Nye Lodge, U.D. had the same problems as Helm Lodge. initiated candidates within a day of receiving their petitions (thereby not leaving any time for the petitions to be examined, the petitioner to be investigated, and the Lodge to elect the petitioner to become a candidate for the degrees). Keokuk Lodge, U.D. was doing its Masonic work irregularly. had allowed petitions to be received and acted upon "within one lunar month." Following this resolution, Grand Master Alexander Dunlap later sent a representative of the Grand Lodge to Nauvoo Lodge to revoke its dispensation. According to the records of the Grand Lodge, its representative was "treated with contempt," the Lodge refused to part with its charger, and the Lodge stated that they would continue to do Masonic work. Because of this, a resolution in the Grand Lodge of Illinois passed