Every Past Sachem will therefore take notice and make a special effort to be present in the hunting grounds of Lexington on the 27th and 28th suns of Hunting Moon, G. S. D. 404.
The council fire will be kindled at the 10th run, rising of the sun, and the Great Council Degree conferred upon all Past Sachems then in waiting, and the transaction of business will begin immediately thereafter.
The institution will take place in Red Men's Hall, 38 East Short street.
Osceola Tribe, No. 18, Ashland, and Miami Tribe, No. 17, Newport, are now under my jurisdiction, and they will pay their per capita tax to the Great Council of Kentucky, as soon as instituted, instead of to the Great Council of Ohio."
The Great Chief of Records of the Great Council of the United States, in his report to the G. C. U. S. for G. S. D., gives the following statistics for the Tribes in Kentucky under the jurisdiction of the G. C. U. S., which does not include Miami, No. 17, and Osceola, No. 18:
Number of Tribes, 5; adopted, 267; admitted by card, 2; withdrawn by card, 20; Past Sachems, 26: total membership, 249.
FIRST GREAT COUNCIL OF KENTUCKY.—LEXINGTON, KY., DEC. 27, 1895.
First Row—John I. Winter, Frank L. Smith, J. Hull Davidson, J. R. McConnell, W. C. Conley, P. G. S. of Penn., Chas. C. Conley, P. G. I., J. B. Mendenhall, W. E. Fite, A. F. German.
Second Row—W. B. Wilkerson, W. C. Diederich, Willie Walker, J. W. Hollar, R. W. Jones, O. R. King, T. M. Russell, J. W. Crumbaugh, John Armstrong, R. Eason, E. G. Van Zandt.