Annual Reports 



Report of the Board of Trustees for 1910-1911 



The Board of Trustees held eight meetings, as follows: the annual 

 meeting, May 28, 1910; stated meetings on October i and December 3, 

 1910, February i and April i, 191 1; and special meetings on November 11, 

 1910, February 11 and March 11, 191 1. 



At the annual meeting the officers of the preceding year were reelected 

 unanimously. The rules of the Board were amended so as to provide four 

 instead of three stated meetings during the year, to be held on the first 

 Saturdays in October, December, February, and April. 



The following active members have been elected by the Board during 

 the year: Ralph Bainbridge, Dr. C. W. Bliss, Mrs. C. W. Bliss, Mrs. 

 Willard A. Boyd, James W. Clawson, Mrs. L. A. Dreyfus, C. S. Egbert, 

 Mrs. Eleanor C. Gardner, Charles G. Hine, Dr. William R. Janeway, 

 Edward W. Lemon, Walter S. Mayer, Mrs. Charles ^Metcalfe, ^Mrs. A. J. 

 Newbury, Miss Helen I\I. Oakley, John B. Pearson. 



The Board records with regret the death ,of the following active mem- 

 bers : John M. Carrere, Rev. Hobart Clark, Thomas O. Horton, Charles 

 W. Hunt, Dr. Horace Patterson. 



Early in June a petition signed by many prominent members of the 

 bench and bar of Richmond Count}-, was transmitted to the Board of 

 Estimate and Apportionment requesting that Room 309 in Borough 

 Hall, then occupied by our museum, be turned over to the use of the 

 Supreme Court, and that the house at 154 Stuyvesant Place, St. George, be 

 leased for the Association. The Board of Trustees deemed it a wise 

 policy to take no active part in furthering this petition, but at the sugges- 

 tion of various officials made application, through Borough President 

 Cromwell, for an issue of revenue bonds in the sum of $2,625 to cover 

 moving, repairs, and operating expenses, on the assumption that the 

 museum would be able to occupy the new quarters on October i, 1910. 

 Application was later made for a budget appropriation of $10,020. This 

 was referred to the budget committee of the Board of Estimate and 

 again referred to Borough President McAneny as a subcommittee for 

 report. A hearing was given in Mr. McAneny's office, at which the Asso- 

 ciation was represented by the president. Senator Bayne, the acting secre- 

 tary. Dr. Adams, and the curator-in-chief, Mr. Pollard. The Bar Asso- 

 ciation was represented by Mr. Eugene Lamb Richards. As a result of 

 this hearing the amount finally settled upon was $9,000, and this sum was 

 approved by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment. The budget was 

 adopted by the Board of Aldermen on November 27, and negotiations for 

 the lease of the property were then carried forward. The Association 



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