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(H) Then the Lords further continued and said, If ever it should 
occur that the Chief Matron in a family or Clan in which a Lordship 
title is vested should be removed by death and leave female infants who 
owing to their tender age cannot nominate a candidate to bear their 
Lordship title, then the Lords (of the same Nation) during their 
pleasure and whenever the infant or heirs to the title shall come before 
the Lords and request that the Lordship title be restored to them, 
then the Lords will obtain the title and restore it accordingly. 
(I) Then the Lords continued and said, We now have completed 
laying the foundation of our rules and regulations (Ka-ya-neh-ren- 
ko-wa) and we will now proceed to follow and carry out the working 
of these rules and regulations of the Confederacy, and the local affairs 
of our respective settlements; and whenever we discover a Warrior who 
is wise and trustworthy and who will render his services for the benefit 
of the people, and thus aid the Lords of the Confederacy, we will claim 
him into our midst and confer upon him the title of self-made (or Second) 
Chief (Eh-ka-neh-do-deh) and his title shall only last during his life- 
time and shall not be hereditary, and at his death it shall die with him. 
Then the Lords (Ro-de-ya-ner-sonh) again considered and said, We 
have now completed the appointment of our Lords. It may so occur that 
before we may be quietly reseated in our respective places, we may 
sustain another loss by death (of a Lord). In that case we shall do 
this, while yet the dying Lord is suffering the agonies of death the Lords 
(his brother Lords) will come and take his deer’s horns from off his head 
and place them beside the wall so that if by the will of the Great Spirit he 
recovers from his illness, he will resume his crown of deer’s horns and 
resume the duties of a Lord. And they further considered this matter 
and said, While the Lord is ill we will place a string of black Wampum 
at the head of his bed, and if he dies, any one belonging to his Clan will 
take this string of black Wampum and announce his death to the whole 
circle of the Confederacy as follows:— 
If a Lord among the three brothers of the Mohawks, Senecas and 
Onondagas dies the Chief Warrior or Warriors will convey the string of 
black Wampum to their son, Oh-dah-tshe-deh or De-ka-eh-yonh or their 
Colleagues, and he will leave it there, and while on his way from the 
home of the dead Lord he will repeat at regular intervals the mourning 
cry, three times thus:—Kwa——ah; Kwa——ah; Kwa—ah. 
Then Oh-dah-tshe-deh or Deh-ka-eh-yonh or their Colleagues will 
convey the string of black Wampum to their four brothers, and so on 
until the whole circle of the Confederacy will become aware of the death 
of the Lord. And if a Lord among the four brothers of the Oneidas and 
Cayugas dies (since Tuscaroras and other Nations were admitted) then 
the Chief Warrior or any Warrior deputed, will carry and convey the 
