The special Committee appointed at the last Great Sun Council to present a plan for the establishment of a Widows' and Orphans' Fund presented a report embodying the text of a law and recommended its adoption, but its consideration was deferred one great sun that the matter might be referred back to the tribes for thorough discussion therein. The bill, as recommended by this Committee was adopted four great suns later with some slight modifications. The Committee on Law and Usage reported having prepared a model code of by-laws for the use of Tribes, and they having been promulgated by the Great Sachem were already in use by many Tribes. A law was enacted establishing the minimum fee for adoption at eight fathoms, it formerly being three fathoms. An amendment to the law was adopted requiring organizers to submit a list of all candidates for charter membership to all tribes in the same hunting grounds. The Great Representatives to the Great Council of the United States made a written report, which was the first time this had been done. State Organizer Jones reported having instituted fourteen new Tribes, and gave data in regard to each. It was ordered that the Great Representatives invite the Great Council of the United States to kindle its Great Sun Council Fire in 412 in the hunting grounds of Louisville. The bill proposed at the previous Great Sun Council, providing for the election of Great Chiefs in the Council Chambers of Tribes, by the "Australian" ballot, was reported on adversely by the Committee on Law and Usage, and thus the so-called "Goebel" bill was defeated. On the recommendation of the Committee on Laws and Usage, it was ordered by the Great Council that Tribes must pay benefits to a disabled brother as long as his disability should continue. It had been the custom of Tribes to provide by a by-law to that effect that benefits should cease after a stated period. The ruling also provided that the minimum amount of benefits to be paid should be a sum equal to the dues of the brother that might accrue during his disability, or in other words, enough to keep the brother in good standing. Later the Great Council of the United States fixed the minimum amount at one fathom per seven suns. A resolution was adopted requiring the financial Great Chiefs to give bond in an indemnity bonding company, and that the Great Keeper of Wampum should be paid a salary of fifty fathoms per Great Sun. The Finance Committee, among other recommendations offered the following which were agreed to:-- That the Assistant Great Chief of Records be allowed fifty fathoms for his services. That the printing for the ensuing Great Sun be awarded to the "American Red Man" at 95 cents per page. That five hundred fathoms be appropriated for the use of the Great Sachem for the best interests of the Order. The minimum fee for adoption in Councils of the Degree of Pocahontas was fixed at one fathom.