DSPARTM^NT OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY. 'jy 



INDEX OF STATE DOCUMENTS. 



Miss Adelaide R. Hasse makes the following report of her work on the 

 Index of State Documents : 



Work on the "Index of economic material in documents of the States of 

 the United States" was unfortunately retarded during the past year, owing to 

 the removal of the New York Public Library into its new building. Through 

 the courtesy of the director of that institution, desk-room and the use of its 

 collection of State documents are tendered the Department, as well as such 

 services of the compiler as do not conflict with her duties as an employee of 

 the library. For many months previous to the removal of the library, Miss 

 Hasse was entirely occupied with preparations for the transfer of the De- 

 partment under her charge. This explanation is made to account, in part, 

 for the delay in the appearance of the Ohio index. 



A further cause of delay was a change in the construction of the index. 

 On the request of Miss Hasse, she was allowed to introduce, as an experi- 

 ment, the personal names of authors of articles, reports, etc. Some progress 

 had been made on the index before this additional feature was undertaken, 

 the work already done having therefore to be gone over again. It is believed 

 that this identification of the names of men such as Thomas Worthington, 

 Peter Hitchcock, /Alfred Kelly, Charles Reemelin, Charles Hammond, John 

 Brough, John Klippart, and Norton S. Townshend with the several public 

 services rendered by them, will add enough to the value of the index to have 

 justified the delay referred to. A peculiar source of gratification connected 

 with the Ohio index is the large number of early and unrecorded documents 

 found by the compiler, as well as the recording of the unrecognized fact that 

 for several years during the early fifties all of the State documents were 

 printed in two editions. Of the 1850 report of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture the compiler found five editions. All of these variants are carefully 

 described in the index. 



The volume to follow Ohio is Pennsylvania, fair progress on which has 

 been made. Probably one of the completest available files of the Pennsyl- 

 vania House and Senate Journals in German was destroyed in the burning 

 of the State Library at Albany. 



The following is a complete list of States published, with the year of 

 publication : 



California iQoS [ New Hampshire 1907 



Delaware iQio 



Illinois 1909 



Kentucky 1910 



Maine 1907 



Massachusetts 1908 



New York 1907 



Rhode Island 1908 



Vermont 1907 



Ohio (in press). 



