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in their midst and when they shall adjourn then the Fire Keepers shall 
pick up these strings of Wampum again, and again offer thanksgiving 
and close the Council, and all business in connection with the Council 
shall then be adjourned. 
Then they said, We shall now establish that our custom shall be 
that when our Annual Confederate Council shall meet we shall then 
smoke the pipe of Peace. 
And they, the Lords, then said, We shall now proceed to define the 
obligations and position of the Lords of the Confederacy as follows:— 
ist. If a Lord is found guilty of wilful murder he shall be deposed 
without the warning (as shall be provided for later on) by the Lords of 
the Confederacy, and his horns (emblem of power) shall be handed 
back to the Chief Matron of his family and Clan. 
2nd. Then the Lords said, If a Lord is guilty of rape he shall be 
deposed without the usual warning by the Lords of the Confederacy, 
and his horns (as the emblem of power) shall be handed back to 
the Chief Matron of his family and Clan. 
3rd. Then the Lords said, If a Lord is found guilty of theft he 
shall be deposed without the usual warning by the Lords of the Con- 
federacy and his horns (the emblem of power) shall be handed back to 
the Chief Matron of his family and Clan. 
4th. Then the Lords continued to define the obligations and posi- 
tion of the Lords of the Confederacy as follows:— 
(A) If a Lord is guilty of unwarrantably opposing the object of 
decisions of the Council and in that way showing disrespect for his 
brother Lords by urging that his own erroneous will in these matters 
be carried out, he shall be approached and admonished by the Chief 
Matron of his family and Clan to desist from such evil practices and 
urged to come back and act in harmony with his brother Lords. 
(B) If the Lord refuses to comply with the request of the Chief 
Matron of his family and Clan and still persists in his evil practices 
of unwarrantably opposing his brother Lords, then a Warrior of his 
family and Clan will also approach him and admonish him to desist 
from pursuing his evil course. 
(C) If the Lord still refuses to listen and obey, then the Chief 
Matron and Warrior shall go together to the Chief Warrior and they 
inform him that they have admonished their Lord and he refused to 
obey. Then the Chief Warrior will arise and go there to the Lord and 
will say to him, Your nephew and niece have admonished you to desist 
from your evil course, and you have refused to obey. Then the Chief 
Warrior will say, I will now admonish you for the last time and if you 
continue to resist to accede to and obey this request, then your duties 
as Lord of our family and Clan will cease, and I shall take the deer’s 
Sec. II., 1911. 16. 
