Diligent inquiry failing to furnish me with the name of any person who would undertake the business of organizing Tribes in this Reservation, I therefore tried to find some one in each locality who would undertake to organize a Tribe nearby. As a direct result, ten new Tribes were instituted, the organizers being in each case persons living in the near locality of the new Tribes." The method thus inaugurated by Great Sachem Pelham has been pursued by his successors to the present, with results never equaled by any Reservation in the history of the Order. As usual he recounts the dispensations granted, decisions made, and announces the inauguration by the Great Council of the United States of the Orphan's Guardian Fund. "I appointed Past Sachem Frank L. Smith Exemplifier for the Reservation at large, and sent him on an extended trail, and he visited and exemplified the work to forty-one tribes in two moons. It is to be regretted that the amount of the appropriation for this purpose would not permit the visitation of every Tribe in the Reservation. That the visits and instructions were highly appreciated is attested by numerous letters from the Tribes, and they clearly remonstrate the great importance of following up the institution of a Tribe by proper instruction and encouragement, either by a neighboring Tribe or by a Great Chief or Exemplifier." He reported the following tribes as being defunct:--Delaware, No. 23, Lebanon; Seneca, No. 27, Stanford; Narragansett, No. 43, Middlesboro; Shabbona, No. 46, Somerset; Sagamore, No. 66, Hickman; Nokomis, No. 74, Franklin. Among the recommendations offered were the following:-- "That a code of laws be prepared for the government of Councils of the Degree of Pocahontas of this Reservation." "That the horse be adopted as the Totem of this Reservation as recommended by our Great Representatives at Norfolk last Corn Moon." The following appointments were made to fill vacancies:-- On Laws and Usage--C. P. Harding, of No. 5. On State of the Order--Thos. O. Long, of No. 57. On Charters--John H. Ropke, of No. 8; Chas. Wheeler, of No. 48; G. W. Griffith, of No. 11. The Great Council then went into the election of Great Chiefs. Horace J. McFarlan, of No. 33, was elected Great Sachem by acclamation. H. H. Denhardt, of No. 11 was elected Great Senior Sagamore without opposition. Lewis L. Bebout, of No. 60 was elected Great Junior Sagamore on the second ballot, O. R. King, of No. 1, L. D. Owen, of No. 8, and D. H. Russell, of No. 10 being also in nomination. Henry W. Ray, of No. 3 was unanimously elected Great Chief of Records, Henry Schwieters, of No. 8 being also nominated but declined to make the race. C. E. Lyddane, who had held the chieftaincy for five consecutive great suns was not a candidate for re-election, and he was awarded the honors of a Past Great Sachem. S. C. Moore, of No. 7 was re-elected Great Keeper of Wampum without opposition.