Membership last report, 8,933; adopted, 4,486; admitted by card, 122; reinstated, 227; suspended, 1,647; expelled, 21; withdrawn by card, 109; deceased, 91; present membership, 11,950; number of Tribes last report, 128; tribes instituted, 58; extinct since last report, 6; whole number of Tribes Jan. 1, 1908, 180; gain in tribes, 52; disbursed by Tribes for relief, $16,904.12; for burial of dead, $4,103.30; amount invested by Tribes, $70,500.79; amount in wampum belts of Tribes, $33,075.79; total worth of Tribes, $103,576.78; expenses of Great Council for great Sun, $9,611.46; balance in Great Council wampum belt, $2,208.01. The Great Representatives to the Great Council of the United States presented a report of the transactions of the Great Council of particular interest to the Great Council of Kentucky, and particularly as to the legislation in regard to the proposed Long House. The following was reported as having been adopted by the Great Council of the United States: "Be it resolved by this Great Council of the United States: That a committee of three of its members be appointed to devise ways and means for the erection of the Long House, to be erected at Louisville, Kentucky, and to report at the next session of this Great Council. Be it further resolved, that said Committee shall consist of the present Great Incohonee as Chairman and two Past Great Incohonees to be selected by the Great Incohonee and to serve at no expense to this Great Council." The Credential Committee then reported having approved of the credentials of 175 Past Sachems who were in waiting in the Forest, the same were admitted and instructed in the Great Council Degree. The same Committee also approved of the Credentials of the representatives of 143 Tribes. The total attendance was 343 Past Sachems. A speaking leaf was then read from Great Incohonee W. A. S. Bird, announcing the appointment of Past Great Sachem D. H. Russell as his special representative, and the credentials were acknowledged. Acting Great Incohonee Russell was then received with the usual honors. Great Sachem Page announced the following appointments to fill vacancies on Standing Committees:-- Degree of Pocahontas--Henry Lyons, of No. 166, Vice W. E. Coleman, of No. 78. State of the Order--W. E. Buck, of No. 60, vice Wm. Stoeckel, of No. 93. Past Sachem Albert Miller, of No. 1 presented the Great Council with two emblematic Tomahawks his own handiwork. Great Sachem Page appointed the following as a Committee on Charters:--N. G. Mothershead, of No. 57; Joe Woodruff, of No. 195; J. W. DeHart, of No. 8. The Finance Committee reported the following recommendations which were concurred in: That the books and accounts of the Great Chief of Records, the Great Keeper of Wampum and the Trustees of the Widows', Orphans' and Aged Red Men's Relief Fund, having been audited and found correct, be approved.