The council fire was then quenched.
1869.
SIXTEENTH GREAT SUN COUNCIL.
The sixteenth Great Sun Council fire was kindled in the wigwam of Delaware and Seneca Tribes, in the hunting grounds of Louisville, on the 25th Buck Moon, G. S. D. 378, Great Sachem Thomas W. Giedeon and Great Chief of Records Chas. Hebel being the only Great Chiefs present.
Representatives were admitted from Tribes Nos. 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10.
The Great Sachem said: "During the past great sun I have granted dispensations to open two new Tribes. One in Bowling Green, hailing as Oswego Tribe, No. 11, on the 12th sun, Traveling Moon, G. S. D. 377. Past Great Sachems G. B. Kiteley and W. D. Turner, of Louisville, instituted the Tribe, to whom I am under many obligations for their kind services; also to Past Sachem Lezinski, Bro. Thos. Carnet, of Bowling Green, and Deputy Great Incohonee of Tennessee, in opening Matamora Tribe, No. 12, at Hopkinsville, on the 19th sun of Cold Moon, G. S. D. 378, and I now ask that charters be granted to them." The Great Sachem also made many valuable recommendations to the Great Council.
The Great Chief of Records reported: "Number of Tribes, 10; members, 548; adoptions, 139; rejections, 4; suspensions, 34; admitted by card, 3; withdrawn, 7; deceased, 4; Past Great Sachems, 9; Tribes instituted, 2.
For the first time bonds were required of the Great Chief of Records and the Great Keeper of Wampum.
The finance committee reported $356.74 in the hands of G. K. of W. A. J. Francis, and $165.86 in the hands of G. C. of R. Charles Hebel."
The election resulted as follows:
| Edmund Merkley | Great Sachem |
| Fred Braum | Great Senior Sagamore |
| D. A. King | Great Junior Sagamore |
| Geo. W. Reese | Great Prophet |
| G. B. Kiteley | Great Chief of Records |
| W. D. Turner | Great Keeper of Wampum |
| G. B. Kiteley | Great Representative to G. C. U. S. |