What is the Meritorious Service Award?
This honor is granted by the fifteen Councils of Deliberation to Thirty-second Degree or Thirty-third Degree Masons nominated for the award by the presiding officers of local bodies. Supreme Council law limits the number of such awards to one member a year from each body in a state, subject to reduction by each Council of Deliberation. At the end of July, 1987, there were 1,600 holders of the Meritorious Service Award throughout the Jurisdiction.
