The Great Council at this session liquidated its debt to Black Hawk Tribe, No. 2. After passing a resolution instructing the Great Representatives to invite the Great Council of the United States to kindle its next Great Sun Council fire in the hunting grounds of Louisville, the council fire was quenched with due solemnity. =1865.= TWELFTH GRAND SUN COUNCIL. The twelfth Grand Sun Council fire of the Right Worthy Great Council of Kentucky, Improved Order of Red Men, was kindled in the wigwam of Pocahontas Tribe, No. 3, in the hunting grounds of Newport, on the 10th sun of Buck Moon, G. S. 5625, Great Sachem B. B. Wilder presiding. Past Sachems were admitted from Tribes 3, 4 and 6. The Great Sachem said: "The Order has not advanced as much as we fondly hoped it would when the administration was placed in our hands, yet, considering the disturbed condition of the public mind and the distracted affairs of our beloved country, which has alike kept the loyal and disloyal citizens in a constant fever of excitement, we can congratulate the Great Chiefs that the Order has not lost ground, but is steadily and surely advancing, and by the will and assistance of the Great Spirit of the Universe the civil strife and rebellion that has been raging for more than four Grand Suns has at last come to a close and we are once more to have the happiness and pleasure of peace." The Great Chief of Records reported as follows: Number of working Tribes, 5; initiations, 61; rejections, 6; suspensions, 7; expulsions, 3; withdrawn by card, 1; deceased, 5; reinstated, 16; whole number of members, 318; paid for relief of brothers, $510.50; for relief of widows and orphans, $84.00. The election for Great Chiefs for the ensuing Grand Sun resulted as follows: Jacob Schenk Worthy Great Sachem R. B. McCracken Worthy Great Senior Sagamore George J. Fry Worthy Great Junior Sagamore B. B. Wilder Worthy Great Prophet Wm. Brigmann Worthy Great Chief of Records A. J. Francis Worthy Great Keeper of Wampum A. J. Francis, R. B. McCracken and A. Reese, Great Representatives to G. C. U. S. Notice was received from the Great Council of the United States of the proposed change in the mode of dating, to substitute Grand Sun of Discovery, 1492, as the base, computing from that date as G. S. D. 1, instead of the Jewish method then in use, and the Great Representatives were instructed to vote against the proposed change. The Great Chief of Records was instructed to devise and have printed a new form of Tribal Reports. In secret session, Past Great Incohonee A. J. Francis exemplified the unwritten work. It was resolved that the Representatives to the G. C. U. S. be requested to offer a resolution in that body by which the Representatives may in future be elected for two years instead of one.