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Adjourned Stated Meeting. January 19, 1900, 
February 2, 1900. 
Vice-President BARKER in the Chair. 
Present, 14 members. 
A communication was read from President Fraley, making 
the following nominations for the Standing Committees for 
1900: 
Finance.—Philip C. Garrett, William V. McKean, Joel 
Cook. 
Hall.—Horace Jayne, Joseph M. Wilson, Harold Goodwin. 
Publication.—Uenry Carey Baird, Patterson DuBois, I. 
Minis Hays, Joseph Willcox, Morris Jastrow, Jr. 
Michaux Legacy.—Thomas Meehan, Angelo Heilprin, 
William P. Wilson, Burnet Landreth, Joseph T. Rothrock. 
LInbrary.—George IF. Barker, T. Hewson Bache, Albert H. 
Smyth, Joseph G. Rosengarten, Edwin G. Conklin. 
On motion, these nominations were received and the Soci- 
ety chose those named for membership in the Committees as 
stated. 
The meeting was then adjourned by the presiding officer. 
A CONTRIBUTION TO THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. 
(Plate V.) 
BY I. MINIS HAYS, M.D. 
(Read January 19, 1900.) 
When the Declaration of Independence was agreed to by the Con- 
gress on the afternoon of Thursday, July 4, 1776, it was thereupon 
“‘ Ordered, That the Declaration be authenticated and printed. 
‘‘That the Committee appointed to prepare the Declaration 
superintend and correct the press. 
“© Resolved, That copies of the Declaration be sent to the several 
