Commissioners extraordinary, taken from amongst the king's grand council, were charged to try him; and Charles VII.
There Guy Johnson and other officers of the British Indian Department summoned a grand council of the Six Nations.
The bills to be laid before it were to be prepared in a grand council composed of the governor, the nobility, and the deputies of the proprietors, who were invested also with the executive power.
That the said general government be administered by a president general, to be appointed and supported by the crown, and a grand council, to be chosen by the representatives of the people of the several colonies, met in their assemblies.
On the next morning, the Miamis were called to a grand council.
On the seventeenth, when the construction of the fort was well advanced, Frontenac called the chiefs to a grand council, which was held with all possible state and ceremony.
Then Luther was summoned to appear before a grand council, or court, to be held in the city of Worms.
The Tribunal of Justice of this * shall consist of a Grand Council of Yahoos, and a Grand Council of Centaurs.
The Runner brought me talk from Old Tassel about a grand council.
Will you come to a grand council on the French Broad or on the Holston after I have returned from McGillivray’s town?
He gravely replied— “When you come back from carrying your talk to McGillivray, I will go to a grand council on the French Broad.
At Great Hiwassee I gave you a friendly talk and asked you to a grand council.
Five Princes are necessary to form a Grand Council.
A grand councilof the Pierced Noses met, and talked war and peace both.
From their five towns ruled by a grand council of fifty chiefs they constantly sent out their raiding parties into the north.
The three thousand other chiefs and warriors said that by Creek law, which Chief Macintosh himself had proposed, the land could not be sold except through the consent of a grand council.
This invitation was accepted, and the commissioners now awaited the termination of the preliminaries of a grand council of the northwestern tribes which was being held at the Rapids on the Maumee.
From the information of one Alexander McCormick, communicated to Captain Doughty, it appears that some time during the season of 1785, a grand council of the tribes was held at Coshocton, on the Muskingum.
The Cornplanter, with forty-eight chiefs of the Six Nations, were now deputed to a grand council of the Miami confederates held at Au Glaize on the Maumee in the fall of 1792.
Before this assumed serious proportions he summoned a Grand Council or Kuriltai, at his camp on the Onon, and then erected outside his tent the royal Mongol banner of the nine white yak-tails.
Grand Council of the empire was summoned at Hienyang.
When matters before the council are considered of great importance, a grand council of the gens may be called.
There is sometimes a grand council of the gens, composed of the councillors of the gens proper and all the heads of households and leading men--brothers and sons.
There is also sometimes a grand council of the tribe, composed of the council of the tribe proper and the heads of households of the tribe, and all the leading men of the tribe.
In China a member of the Emperor's Grand Council told me that the average rate of wages throughout the empire for all classes of labor is probably 18 cents a day.
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