about 250 pages of the magazine. were also ready, they would fill the year. After that, genealogies of the

about half the magazine.

If the remaining books whole magazine for one new members would fill

Having placed the facts before you, as is necessary before a decision can be reached, your committee recommends that the Board rescind its order that the "Year Books," socalled, be be published in the magazine. What relation, if any, they should bear to the magazine, is for you to decide.

The question of the Year Books was laid on the table.

III.-Historical Contents.

The historical contents should include articles relating to American history previous to 1850. In addition to general articles, we should include biographies, local histories, traditions, old manuscripts and letters, notes and queries, and in general anything which will add to our knowledge of American history previous to 1850. In accepting such material, preference should be given to that which is written or contributed by Daughters. Reprints should be excluded.

Your committee recommends that the publication of the personal genealogy, as distinguished from history or biography, be allowed on condition that the person who wishes her genealogy printed shall pay the actual cost of the same. Such matter should not be included in the average of 100 pages a month, but should appear as if it had been accepted in the usual way. The suggestion is offered that if each article were accompanied by footnotes stating the sources from which it is drawn, it would add greatly to the value of the magazine. An important addition to the magazine is a complete index for each volume. Every student knows how essential this is. Hitherto the magazine has supplied a table of contents, but has not attempted an index. Articles not coming under the heads mentioned, that is, having no relation to the Daughters of the American Revolution or to American history, should be excluded.

Regarding illustrations it is recommended that each number have a frontispiece, at least; that the plates of all portraits be paid for by the person inserting them; that the same rule Le

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that public and other libraries throughout the country should be asked to subscribe; that all State and Chapter officers should be urged to increase the subscription lists, and that the subscription price should be $2 a year until an increased edition shall warrant a reduction.

A circular should be prepared by the Magazine Committee stating such facts concerning the magazine as will arouse interest therein and lead the recipients to subscribe, and perhaps contribute articles to it.

[The Board ordered an edition of 6,000 of these circulars; those intended for Chapter members to be sent in bulk to Chapter Regents, each Chapter to be asked to appoint an agent to obtain subscriptions.]

The advertising rates should be made uniform and somewhat higher than at present. The following is suggested for the consideration of the new Business Manager: For second and fourth pages of cover, $100 a year; for third page of cover, $75 a year; all other pages at the rate of $50 a year per page. It should be remembered that each page costs us $20 a year, and that the price we can obtain from advertising depends absolutely upon our circulation. In the business world circulation means number of subscribers, of which we have some 700. Even with a circulation of 1,000 or 1,500, that figure is so small that we shall have great difficulty in obtaining any considerable number of advertisers at the high rates which are necessary to cover our expenses. The entire net income from advertisements in Vols. III and IV is $66 for the year, or $5.50 per month. Your committee, therefore, recommends that the Society for the present concentrate its efforts on increasing the subscription lists, for every subscriber is so much clear gain to our income, and is a real help toward an increase in advertisements.

With one exception, your committee is unanimously in favor of printing the magazine in the city where the editor, business manager, and headquarters of the Society are located.

A carefully drawn and detailed contract with a printing firm for one year should be made. The following questions are submitted to the Poard:

Ist. Shall the work be done in Washington? [Question left open by Board.]

2d. Shall the Magazine Committee draw up a contract and get estimates from any printers who desire to bid and submit the same to the Board, or shall this be left to the new Business Manager?

[The Magazine Committee was ordered to do this.]

V.-Management.

The management of the magazine is a most important question. The National Society is its financial supporter, acting through the Board of Management, and the same body acting in the same way must therefore have a general control over it. The management of the magazine should be in the hands of persons selected by the Board. but the ultimate authority should be the same in this case as in other cases, viz, the officers of the Society, subject always to the Continental Congress. With this understanding, your committee recommends the selection of an editorial staff, to consist of an editor-inchief, a business manager, and as many subeditors as are necessary, the editor-in-chief and business manager to be elected by the Board of Management for the term of one year; to conduct the magazine according to the directions of the Board; to report to it at least once every two months; and if they should not be selected from the officers of the Society they should have the privilege of addressing the Board on the subject of the magazine, but not of voting thereon. Should they wish at any time to depart from the directions of the Board they should first consult with the Board, the Magazine Committee, or Executive Committee. They should be elected each year on or before May 7.

The subeditors to be members of the Society, appointed by the editor and business manager to act as their assistants, relieving them of much of the labor, but leaving them as the responsible heads of the magazine work. For example, it might be desirable to select a sub-editor to attend to the printing of official proceedings; another to prepare the supplement and index; another for ordinary proof-reading; another to have charge of subscriptions and mailing departments, etc. By this division of labor it is believed that we can obtain the services of ladies who are thoroughly competent, but who could

not give the time required if the whole work were attempted by one or two persons.

If the above report is accepted, the magazine committee will ⚫ complete its work by the end of this month, and will thereafter have only such duties as are assigned to it by the Board of Management. Respectfully submitted,

ANITA NEWCOMB MCGEE, M. D., Chairman.
LUCIA E. BLOUNT.

KATE KEARNEY HENRY.

ELLA LORAINE DORSEY.

BETTY M. RITCHIE.

APRIL 5, 1894.

It was moved and carried that this report be accepted and spread in full on the Minutes.

Mrs. Walworth reported that the April number of the magazine was now in type, and should be published at once, it containing, as usual, the Minutes of the meetings of the Board of Management, but not the Proceedings of the Continental Congress.

Mrs. Brackett moved a reconsideration of the motion passed at the last meeting relative to publishing the Proceedings of Congress in the April number of the magazine.

Motion carried.

Mrs. Geer moved that everything relating to the present volume of the magazine be left in the hands of the present edi tor, Mrs. Walworth.

Motion carried.

It was moved and carried that the Proceedings of the Congress be published in the May and June numbers, with an edition of 2,000 copies of the same, and that the proof be sent to the Committee on Proceedings of the Congress.

Dr. McGee changed the wording of her amendment to the By-laws, offered at the previous meeting, and it was passed as follows:

Strike out Article X, and substitute: 'The SurgeonGeneral shall examine into the sanitary condition of the place selected for the Continental Congress and report on the same before Congress convenes, and she shall provide medical at