MINUTES OF ELEVENTH ANNUAL MERTING 13 
Since we thus believed that we were assured of $2,000.00 for 
the biennium, and in that time would have three volumes to 
publish, I thought it best not to attempt to publish the two 
volumes already in hand with the $750.00 available for print- 
ing the first year, but to borrow a little from the amount avail- 
able the second year, when only ove volume would be published. 
I also felt that one of the surest ways of guaranteeing State 
aid in the future was to make the publications of this year as 
valuable as possible, so as to be able to convince the State 
authorities that our publications are worthy of the aid granted. 
Consequently I made a special effort to make the volumes as 
complete as possible. 
Karly in August a contract was made with the Miller Print- 
ing Company, of Bloomington, for the publication of the two 
volumes in editions of 2,000 copies each. When the galley 
proofs were ready they were sent to the contributors for cor- 
rection, with the statement that the Academy would furnish 
each contributor with fifty free reprint copies of his article, 
and that additional copies, in lots of fifty, might be had at a 
cost of eight cents per page. According to our contract with 
the printer, the first set of fifty reprints were to cost the Acad- 
emy thirty cents per page. All contributors, except Dr. 
Hessler, accepted the offer. Perhaps the offer should now be 
recalled. 
I favored offering the free reprints, first because it would 
lead to a much wider dissemination of the papers, second 
because it would attract better papers to our programs, and 
third because I felt that} it was due the contributors. 
So matters proceeded until the last week of last December, 
when Volume IX was about ready for distribution and would 
soon need to be paid for. Professor Hankinson, the Treasurer, 
wrote to the Auditor of Public Accounts, asking about the pro- 
ceedure necessary in order to make payments out of the fund 
provided by the State. We were all astounded by the reply, 
which was to the effect that no such fund existed; that the 
governor had vetoed the Academy item in the bill. 
The 2,000 copies of Volume IX were printed when this dis- 
covery was made, and Volume X was all up in type. Volume 
TX consists of 262 pages and will cost, in the 2,000 edition, 
$660.65. Volume X will consist of 358 pages and in a 2,000 
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