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Division XL— FEDERAL AND STATE FINANCE, INCLUDING TAXATION. 



According to the report of Prof. Henry B. Gardner, the following publi- 

 cations have been made during the past year in this division : 



The State debt of Ohio. By Prof. E. L. Bogart. Journal of Political Economy, 



April, May, and June 1911. 

 State finances of Texas during the civil war. By Mr. E. T. Miller. Texas State 



Historical Association Quarterly, vol. xiv, No. i. 

 State finances of Texas during reconstruction. By Mr. E. T. Miller. Texas State 



Historical Association Quarterly, vol. xiv. No. 2. 



The following monographs have been completed but not published : 



The financial history of Connecticut (First Part). By Dr. Henry F. Walradt. 

 The financial history of Ohio. By Prof. E. L. Bogart. (Published in part in the 



Journal of Political Economy, see above.) 

 The financial history of Alabama. By Prof. William O. Scroggs. 

 The financial history of Oregon. By Prof. F. G. Young. (Completed.) 



Professor Gardner furnishes the following list of studies still in progress. 



Studies partially completed : 



The financial history of California: By Prof. C. C. Plehn, University of 

 California, Berkeley, California. He has the work well advanced, but does 

 not promise completion at any definite time. 



Comparative study of the financial development of certain of the larger 

 cities of the country: By Mr. Oliver C. Lockhart, Ohio State University, 

 Columbus, Ohio. A part of the work has been submitted, and considerable 

 progress has been made. There were prospects that the work might be com- 

 pleted this fall, but Mr. Lockhart has been very ill this summer, and this 

 will delay completion. 



License taxes of Southern States : By Prof. H. A. Millis, Leland Stan- 

 ford, Jr., University, California. Discontinued for the time being. 



The financial history of Michigan : By Dr. Wilbur O. Hedrick, Michigan 

 Agricultural College. Work well advanced towards completion. 



The financial history of New Jersey: By Mr. Edgar Dawson, Normal 

 College of the City of New York, Park avenue and Sixty-eighth street, New 

 York. Interrupted by other work. No immediate prospect of completing it. 



The financial history of Tennessee : By Prof. St. George L. Sioussat, Uni- 

 versity of the South. Will have the study completed by fall. 



The financial history of Texas: By Mr. E. T. Miller, Instructor in the 

 University of Texas. Extracts published under the titles, "The State finances 

 of Texas during the civil Avar," and "The State finances of Texas during the 

 reconstruction," in the Texas State Historical Association Quarterly, vol. xiv, 

 Nos. I and 2. Expects to complete the work during the present year. 



The financial history of Virginia : By Mr. Edgar Sydenstricker, formerly 

 graduate student at the University of Chicago. Expects to submit the entire 

 work in the near future. 



