Report of Committee on Historical Tablet 3 



president announced that he had appointed a special committee, 

 consisting of Ira K. Morris, WilHam T. Davis, and Dr. Arthur 

 Hollick, to confer with Borough President George Cromwell, on 

 his request, in regard to historical dates and events to be placed 

 on a tablet in the Borough Hall. Mr. Morris at that meeting 

 read a tentative list of such events. The action of the president 

 was approved, and the committee was authorized to confer with 

 Mr. Cromwell with power to determine what events it would be 

 desirable to have inscribed on the tablet.^ 



A meeting was held by the committee at the borough president's 

 office on July 2, 1906, and on September 19, 1906, a meeting of 

 the committee was called to take action on the report in relation 

 to the tablet, at the borough president's office. 



At the regular meeting of the Association on November 17, 

 1906, Mr. Morris, on behalf of the committee, submitted a report 

 including a list of historical dates and events selected and ap- 

 proved for inscription on the tablet. This list was printed in the 

 Proceedings of the Association (i: 83. Oct.-Dec. 1906). In 

 the files of the Association, with other papers relating to the sub- 

 ject, are two typewritten lists prepared by the committee : one, a 

 preliminary list, has a great many more dates than those printed 

 in the Proceedings, and the other, selected and approved after 

 conference with the borough authorities, is in substantial agree- 

 ment with the list as printed in the Proceedings. (Several re- 

 cent dates, apparently not determined at the time when the type- 

 written copy was prepared, were fixed when printed, and two 

 slight changes were made in the text relating to two events.) 



It was ascertained by our committee that no supporting data or 

 explanatory remarks were filed with the report of the 1906 com- 

 mittee, and that the inscriptions on the tablet differed very ma- 

 terially from those approved in the report as printed. 



Twenty-six leading dates were given in the report and seven- 

 teen were placed on the tablet ; but only three precisely as recom- 

 mended. We are informed, however, that the list was forwarded 

 to the borough president as printed in the Proceedings. 



2 Prog. Staten Is. Assoc, i : 56. Jan.-May, 1906. 



