departme:nt of economics and sociology. 8i 



Division X.— SOCIAL LEGISLATION. 



No monographs have been handed in since the last annual report, and 

 none published, though negotiations are pending for the printing of several 

 of those already accepted. The following studies are still unfinished : 



Anti-trust legislation of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska. By C. L. 



Waldron. 

 The labor legislation of Maryland. By H. Wirt Steele. 

 The labor and rural credit policy of the Southern States. By D. L- Peacock. 



Mr. Nathan Isaacs has undertaken, at his own expense, to revise and bring 

 down to date his study of the mining laws of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, 



The writer spent a good part of his time during the past winter in working 

 over the material already gathered, which he used in university lectures, and 

 has devoted most of the summer to the subject. He is planning his academic 

 work for the coming year with special reference to his work for the Car- 

 negie Institution of Washington, and as he has succeeded in finishing some 

 other tasks of long standing, he hopes to make substantial progress on the 

 study of social legislation during the coming winter. 



Division XL— FEDERAL AND STATE FINANCE, INCLUDING TAXATION. 



Prof. H. B. Gardner obtained a release from his academic duties during 

 the past year and devoted himself to the study of the Federal finances. The 

 work proved difficult, but he covered the first 25 years. He has been unfor- 

 tunately prevented by sickness in his family from giving much attention to 

 the work of the Carnegie Institution of Washington during the summer, but 

 expects to continue upon it during the coming winter. It is probable that 

 the results of last year's work will be published by the American Statistical 

 Association. 



The following publications have been made during the past year : 



Financial history of Ohio. By Prof. E. L. Bogart, University of Illinois. Vol. 

 I, Nos. I and 2, in University of Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences. 

 (Parts of this monograph have been published in periodicals as follows: 



Recent tax reforms in Ohio, The American Economic Review, pp. 505-518, 

 September 191 1. 



Taxation of the second Bank of the United States by Ohio, American Histori- 

 cal Review, vol. xvii. No. 2, pp. 312-331. January 1912.) 



Financial history of Connecticut, 1789-1861. By Dr. Henry C. Walradt. Trans- 

 actions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Science, vol. 17, pp. 1-139, 

 March 1912. 



The following monographs have been completed but not published : 



Financial history of California. By Mr. W. C. Fankhauser. To be published 

 by the University of California. (Mr. Fankhauser continued and com- 

 pleted the work originally undertaken by Prof. C. C. Plehn, of the Uni- 

 versity of California.) 



Financial history of Vermont. By Dr. Frederick A. Wood. 



Professor Gardner furnishes the following list of studies, upon which 

 substantial progress has been made and which should be completed during 

 the coming year : 



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