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Secretary Woods: May I suggest that we do away with the 

 name "Recording Secretary." In New York, at the solicitation 

 of your Nominating Committee, I was induced to accept that 

 position for one year. I am able to state, as my excuse, that 

 I had an interest in the Society in that I had an opportunity to 

 do in it very much good work. Now, there should be no delicacy 

 about doing away with the office of Recording Secretary in order 

 to have a Permanent Secretary, and if, by chance, you have in 

 any manner considered me personally in the matter as an officer, 

 I suggest that you overlook that entirely. 



President Alexander: ' Gentlemen, I want to have publicly 

 expressed my great appreciation of the very thorough and pains- 

 taking service of the Recording Secretary, Mr. Woods, during 

 the past year. His services have been invaluable to the Society. 



Mr. Graham's motion to combine the offices of Corresponding 

 Secretary and Editor under some designated name and pay the 

 officer $300.00 for the first year, being seconded, was unanimously 

 carried. 



President Alexander suggested leaving to the Nominating 

 Committee the designation of the office. 



Mr. Titcomb suggested that the Nominating Committee make 

 provision for a Local Secretary, to attend to the secretarial work 

 during the meeting. President Alexander spoke in approval of 

 this suggestion. 



Mr. Carlos Avery, of Minnesota: I would like to move also 

 that the Committee be instructed to bring in a recommendation 

 amending the by-laws as to membership dues. In order to pay 

 this salary the money must be forthcoming, and there should be 

 some different arrangement, as Mr. Graham suggests. 



Personally, it appears to me that the regular dues might 

 very well be raised. The value of a dollar is only about half 

 what it used to be, and those who are paying $2.00 a year are 

 really paying half what they used to pay. It seems to me there 

 might be no serious objection to raising the dues to $4.00 or $5.00 

 a year, which would be a wonderful help in raising this additional 

 money. The Permanent or General Secretary who may be 



