Emigration Belt

It is provided thus: When a person or family belonging to the Five Nations desires to abandon their nation and the territory of the Five Nations, they shall inform the chiefs of their nation and the Council of the League of Five Nations shall take notice of it. When any person or any of the people of the Five Nations emigrate and reside in a distant region away from the territory of the League of Five Nations, the Chiefs of the Five Nations, at will, may send a messenger carrying a broad belt of black wampum. When the messenger arrives, he shall call the people together or address them personally, displaying the belt of the black wampum, and they shall know that this is an order for them to return to their original homes and to their council fire.