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Division XI. — Federal and State Finance, Including Taxation. 



Professor Gardner has again been prevented by illness in his family 

 from doing much writing during the past year. He reports as follows 

 on the monographic work : The following have been published since 

 September 1, 1912: 



The finances of Vermont. By Dr. Frederick A. Wood. Studies in History, 

 Economics, and Public Law, edited by the Faculty of Political Science of 

 Columbia University, vol. lii, No. 3, pp. 147, 1913. 



Repudiation of State debt in Texas since 1861. By Professor E. T. Miller, of 

 the University of Texas. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, October 

 1912. (This is a portion of Professor Miller's study of the financial history 

 of Texas, the publication of other portions of which was noted in the report 

 for 1911.) 



Financial history of California. By Mr. W. C. Fankhauser. (This monograph, 

 noted as completed in manuscript in the report for 1912, is now in press.) 



The following monograph has been completed since the last report, 

 but has not been published : 



Financial liistory of New York. By Mr. Don C. Sowers. To be published by 

 Columbia University. 



The following monographs are substantially completed : 



Financial history of Illinois. By Mr. Robert M. Haig. To be published by 



Columbia University. 

 Financial history of Texas. By Professor E. T. Miller, of the University of 



Texas. (For portions published, see above and the Report of 1911.) 

 Financial historj- of Virginia. By Mr. Edgar Sydenstricker. 



Studies upon which substantial progress has been made and which 

 are now being carried through to completion: 



Financial history of North Carolina. By Professor W. K. Boyd, of Trinity 

 College, Durham, N. C. (Substantially complete to 1860.) 



Financial history of Pennsylvania. By Dr. Clyde L. Iving, of the University of 

 Pennsylvania, and Dr. Ralph E. George, of Lehigh University. 



Studies, portions of which have been completed but upon which 

 nothing has been done during the past year, and of the completion 

 of which there is no immediate prospect : 



Financial history of Tennessee. By Professor St. George L. Sioussat, of Vander- 



bilt University. 

 Financial history of New Jersey. By Professor Edgar M. Dawson, of the Normal 



College of the City of New York. (Professor Dawson has been compelled 



to abandon this work.) 

 Comparative study of the financial development of certain of the larger cities of 



the United States. Bv Professor Oliver C. Lockhart, of the State Universitv 



of Ohio. 

 Financial history of Michigan. By Professor Wilbur O. Hedrick, of the Michigan 



Agricultural College. 



Dr. Clyde L. Eling has during the past year associated with him- 

 self in the study of the financial history of Pennsylvania Dr. Ralph 

 E. George, of Lehigh University. 



Division XII. — The Negro in Sl.wert and Freedom. 



Mr. Alfred Holt Stone reports from his plantation in Dunleith, 

 Mississippi, that while he is still obliged to stay in the South in order 

 to look after his property interests, the prospects of his resuming 



