The Great Chief of Records made the following recommendations:
1st. That the Card Catalogue system, as inaugurated by the G. C. of R., be approved and adopted.
2nd. That the report blank in connection therewith be approved and adopted, and Tribes be required to report in accordance therewith.
3rd. That each Tribe be required to place on file with the G. C. of R. a copy of their by-laws in printed form.
4th. That the price schedule of supplies as printed in the first records be approved and adopted.
5th. That the G. C. of R. be forbidden to furnish or supply any individual members of the Order with any supplies whatever, except it be a question book and necessary literature for the purpose of instituting new Tribes and charter supplies to new Tribes, and to Tribes only when ordered under the seal of the Tribe, and in no case unless paid for when ordered, in current funds.
These five recommendations were reviewed by the committee on the state of the Order, approved by them and were then adopted by the Great Council.
The following statistics are drawn from the report of the Great Chief of Records: Whole number of members at time of institution, 623; adopted since, 525; admitted by card, 3; reinstated, 2; suspended, 7; withdrawn, 4; number of members in Tribe failing to report, 17; whole number at present time, 1,125; rejected, 19; Past Sachems, 76; Past Great Sachems, 3; Tribes at institution, 10; Tribes instituted, 2; Tribes failing to report, 1; Tribes in good standing, 11; balance in hands of Great Keeper of Wampum, $117.02.
The Great Sachem appointed the following committees:
On State of the Order—H. H. Wilson, No. 1; J. W. McKibben, No. 6; W. C. Pelham, No. 3.