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whole. I, therefore, venture again to bring to the attention of the 

 Trustees the question of the reorganization of the Department which 

 was referred to in the reports for 1911, 1912, and 1913. The work 

 thus far accomphshed in the economic history of the United States 

 has been done by a group of men working in most cases either without 

 pecuniary compensation, or with a very small indemnity for such time 

 as they have been able to take from their vacations or their leisure 

 hours, actuated by the desire to put the work through and to present 

 the results for the benefit of scholars. As one division after another is 

 completed, the group of collaborators automatically shrinks. This 

 method of work has proved to be economical, even if slow, and is per- 

 haps the best that could have been adopted for the particular kind of 

 study that we have been undertaking, but it is unsuitable for a perma- 

 nent organization. 



Miss A. R. Hasse reports as follows regarding the Index of State 

 Documents : 



"The New Jersey volume of 705 pages was issued during the year. The 

 next volume, Pennsylvania, has been completed and is in press. The volume 

 to follow Pennsylvania, South Carohna, is well under way. The Pennsylvania 

 volume promises to be very bulky. The increased size is due to the exception- 

 ally large number of documents included in the 'Collected Documents' and to 

 the great quantity of railroad material." 



The complete hst of indices published (with the years in which they 

 were issued) and in preparation now includes the following States : 



California 1908 ■ New Jersey 1915 



Delaware 1910 : New York 1907 



Illinois 1909 Ohio 1912 



Kentucky 1910 Rhode Island 1908 



Maine 1907 j Vermont 1907 



Massachusetts 1908 Pennsylvania (in press). 



New Hampshire 1907 South Carolina (in preparation). 



I respectfully recommend that the Department be reorganized under 

 a salaried head, and that it be given a sufficient income to carry on a 

 consecutive series of studies on some of the lines outhned in a special 

 report made in 1913. 



In the meantime, the various divisions of our work in economic 

 history which are well advanced can be carried on to completion with 

 shght additions to the appropriation aheady made, and if, in the 

 course of a few years, it turns out to be impossible to procure the com- 

 pletion of those divisions which are still in arrears, we shall yet have the 

 satisfaction of turning out a well-rounded group of contributions to 

 the economic history of the United States which wiU serve as a basis 

 for future study and will, it is hoped, inspire other individuals or other 

 organizations to fill in the gaps which we have been obliged to leave. 



