Appointive Committees Membership Committee - Mrs. Clarence S. Paine, Lincoln, Nebraska, chairman. Committee on Historical Museums in Educational Institutions-Edward C. Page, DeKalb, Illinois, chairman; A. H. Hirsch, J. M. McConnell, C. E. Pray, Lucy Simmons, J. A. Woodburn. Committee on Public Historical Museums - Edgar R. Harlan, Des Moines, Iowa, chairman; Eunice Anderson, Clifford Meyers. Committee on Nominations - Orin G. Libby, Grand Forks, North Dakota, chairman; Frank H. Hodder, John W. Oliver. Program Committee - Charles W. Ramsdell, Austin, Texas, chairman; Arthur C. Cole, Louis Pelzer, George M. Stephenson, J. E. Winston. Committee on Local Arrangements for the Sixteenth Annual Meeting Jasper Sipes, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, chairman; Margaret J. Mitchell, C. W. Turner. OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES FOR THE YEAR 1923-1924 EUGENE C. BARKER, President MRS. CLARENCE S. PAINE, Secretary-Treasurer Executive Committee In addition to the officers named above Ex-Presidents SOLON J. BUCK (1929), Chairman ST. GEORGE L. SIOUSSAT (1924) MILO M. QUAIFE (1926) Appointive Committees Membership Committee - Mrs. Clarence S. Paine, Lincoln, Nebraska, chairman, Committee on Historical Museums in Educational Institutions-Edward C. Page, DeKalb, Illinois, chairman; A. H. Hirsch, J. M. McConnell, C. E. Pray, Lucy Simmons, J. A. Woodburn. Committee on Public Historical Museums-Willoughby M. Babcock, Jr., St. Paul, Minnesota, chairman; William Beer, Robert Bingham, Jeanne E. Wier. Committee on Coöperation in Historical Work-Herbert A. Kellar, Chicago, chairman; Arthur C. Cole, John D. Hicks, Orin G. Libby, Harlow Lindley, Thomas M. Marshall, John W. Oliver, Charles W. Ramsdell, Joseph Schafer, Benjamin F. Shambaugh. Committee on Publicity — Thomas P. Martin, Austin, Texas, chairman; Chauncey S. Boucher, William E. Connelley, C. H. McClure, Donald L. McMurry, Margaret Mitchell, J. R. H. Moore. Committee on Nominations - David Y. Thomas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, chairman; Orin G. Libby, J. R. H. Moore. Program Committee - Charles H. Ambler, Morgantown, West Virginia, chairman; R. S. Cotterill, Archer B. Hulbert, J. Fred Rippy, W. T. Root, J. E. Winston. Committee on Local Arrangements for the Seventeenth Annual Meeting R. S. Cotterill, Louisville, Kentucky, chairman; Isaac W. Bernheim, H. G. Evans, L. R. Gottschalk, R. P. Halleck, Elizabeth Kincaid, Margaret Kirwan, E. J. McDermott, Mrs. Herbert Mengel, Emmet O'Neal, George T. Ragsdale, Otto A. Rothert, Rochester Ruggles, George D. Todd, R. C. Ballard Thruston, Mary Verhoeff, Norman J. Ware. MINUTES OF BUSINESS TRANSACTED AT THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING The business session of the fifteenth annual meeting of the Mississippi valley historical association was called to order by the president, William E. Connelley, after luncheon on Friday, May 12, 1922. The report of the secretary-treasurer was first in order. Miss Margaret Mitchell, a committee of one appointed to audit the financial statement, reported that the same had been prepared according to the rules of the association, was signed by a certified public accountant of Lincoln, Nebraska, and was acceptable to the committee. Following this report the financial statement and the report of the secretary were accepted. The secretary presented a recommendation from the executive committee that a registration fee of fifty cents be levied upon all members in attendance at each annual meeting, the same to go into the treasury of the association. This resolution was unanimously adopted. A second recommendation from the executive committee that active members of the association be asked to contribute $2.00 in addition to the annual dues of $3.00, for the year 1922-1923 only, was adopted. Announcement was made by the executive committee of the appointment of Clarence W. Alvord to represent the Mississippi valley historical association on the program committee of the American historical association for the mid-year meeting in New Haven, Connecticut, in December, 1922. The following amendments to the constitution, having been approved by the executive committee and recommended to the association, were adopted: Amend Article III to read: "Membership in this association shall be divided into four classes, namely: patrons, life, sustaining, and annual members. Any one interested in the study of Mississippi valley history may become a member in any of these classes upon payment of the dues hereinafter provided. Li |