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completed, of the elections to membership in the Congress by the various 

 States and of the dates of attendance of the individual members. Meanwhile, 

 the index to the volume, of which the whole text is in page-proof, has been 

 prepared by Mr. Matteson. 



In the series which is being prepared by Dr. Stock, Proceedings and Debates 

 of the British Parliaments respecting North America, the work at present going 

 on is that of annotating the texts, gathered long since. During the year Dr. 

 Stock has carried this work of annotation, in respect to the parliaments of 

 England, from 1667 to 1689, the date with which the first volume is to end. 

 The small amount of material found in the records of the Scottish parliaments, 

 from the first references to America down to 1689, will need little time for 

 annotation. Annotation of proceedings and debates of the parliaments of 

 Ireland has been carried to 1650. This first volume is therefore nearly ready 

 for the press. 



It is understood that Miss Donnan, not now a member of the staff of the 

 Department but an assistant professor in Wellesley College, can devote little 

 more time than that of the summer vacations to the completion of the volumes 

 on which she was engaged when she resigned from the Institution, volumes 

 of documents illustrative of the history of the African slave trade, the sources 

 and methods of supply, and the transportation to the American colonies, and, 

 later, to the United States. Her work in the preceding summer having con- 

 sisted in searches for appropriate documents in London, among the papers 

 of the Royal African Company and elsewhere in the Public Record Office 

 and in the British Museum, the results have been arriving in the form of 

 transcripts during the year. The summer just ending has been spent in con- 

 tinuous labor upon the materials thus added and upon those previously 

 acquired. In the case of such a book, embracing documents of the most 

 various character — narratives, travelers' descriptions, minutes of the African 

 Company's actions, logs of slavers, manifests, accounts, agreements, captains' 

 letters, correspondence of merchants and factors, advertisements, papers in 

 legal suits — it is not easy to define the exact stage of progress reached at any 

 given date, but it may be said that most of the work of arrangement is done, 

 and most of the annotation of documents dating before 1700. It should be 

 mentioned that, in addition to sources of material already mentioned in 

 previous reports, several transcripts of valued documents have been received 

 from the library of the Duke of Portland at Welbeck Abbey, by the kindness 

 of the librarian, R. W. Goulden, esq. 



The work of Mrs. Catterall, in drawing off materials respecting the history 

 of slavery from the judicial reports of the American States, has during the 

 year been carried through the reports covering Virginia, West Virginia, the 

 District of Columbia, Vermont, Canada, Jamaica, and England. Matter 

 amounting to somewhat more than a volume has been accumulated, but 

 there is a small part lacking of what should go into volume I before com- 

 pletion of that volume can be reported. 



All the work of copying for the volumes of Correspondence of Andrew Jack- 

 son, and of collating the transcripts with their originals, has been completed. 

 The last year's work has embraced the material at the War Department and 

 that possessed by the Tennessee Historical Society, in addition to continuance 

 and completion of the main work at the Library of Congress, in the Jackson, 



