The Four Bodies of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, sitting in the Valley of Joplin, Orient of Missouri, acknowledge and yield allegiance to the Supreme council (Mother Council of the World) of the Inspectors General, Knights Commanders of the House of the Temple of Solomon of the Thirty-third Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States of America, whose See is at Charleston, in the State of South Carolina.