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Jenks's immediate supervision. None of the work under this division has 

 been published. 



The number of persons engaged on that work during the past year is ii. 



Division 10. — Social Legislation. 

 Prof. Henry W. Farnam, Yale University, in charge of this division, in- 

 forms the Director of the Department that since the report made last spring 

 the following monographs have been completed and are now in hand : 



Factory legislation of Rhode Island, by John Ker Towles, Ph. D. 



The origin of the population of the South, by Prof. G. W. Dj-er. 



The administration of public poor relief in Wisconsin, by Thomas Crafer. 



Trade unions and the law in Wisconsin, by Thomas Crafer. 



The mining laws of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, by Nathan T. Isaacs, M. A. 



Professor Farnam also reports that the monograph on the "Labor legisla- 

 tion of Kansas," by S. E. W. Bedford, is practically finished and is now being 

 revised by the author. 



An outline of an unfinished monograph, by H. Wirt Steele, on the "Labor 

 laws of Maryland," has been published in the Johns Hopkins University Cir- 

 cular for May, 1908. 



During the past year Professor Farnam has been absent in Europe, and Dr. 

 Clive Day, of Yale University, took charge of the general work of the division. 

 Professor Farnam desires to record his appreciation of the fidelity and judg- 

 ment with which Dr. Day accomplished his task. Dr. Day is preparing a 

 study of the social legislation of the Colonial period, which is to form an 

 introductory section to the volume on social legislation of the United States. 



Monographs originating in this division which have been published are : 



Trade unions and the law in New York, by George G. Groat, Ph. D. (Columbia Uni- 

 versity Studies.) 



History of labor legislation in New York, by Fred R. Fairchild, Ph.D. (Pub. Am. 

 Economic Association, 1905.) 



Factory legislation in Pennsylvania, by J. Lynn Barnard, Ph. D. (Vol. 19, Pub. Univ. 

 of Penna., 1907.) 



The following persons are still at work under Prof. Farnam's direction : 



The labor legislation of Indiana : Charles F. Austin. 



Recent labor legislation in Massachusetts : Prof. F. S. Baldwin. 



The labor legislation of Kansas : S. E. W. Bedford. 



Educational land grants of Wisconsin, North and South Dakota: John L. Coulter. 



Social legislation of the Colonies : Prof. Clive Day. 



The labor legislation of Iowa : E. H. Downey. 



The mountain whites and social legislation : Prof. G. W. Dyer. 



The labor legislation of California : Miss Lvicile Eaves. 



The labor legislation of New Jersey : Arthur S. Field. 



The poor law of Ohio : Prof. J. E. Hagerty. 



Land legislation of Texas : R. McKitrick. 



The mining laws of Pennsylvania : Blaine F. Moore. 



The labor legislation of Michigan: Carl E. Parry. 



Social legislation in the Southern States : D. L. Peacock. 



The poor lav/ and public relief in Missouri : Prof. T. J. Riley. 



The labor legislation of Maryland : H. Wirt Steele. 



The labor legislation of Rhode Island: John K. Towles. 



Homestead and exemption laws in the Northern States : Prof. J. H. Underwood. 



Anti-trust legislation in Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa, and Minnesota : C. L. Waldron. 



There are now 19 persons engaged in this division. 



