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administration purposes. After careful consideration and consultation 

 with the City authorities, it seemed best to confine our efforts for the 

 present to securing quarters in the Municipal Building-. Your Presi- 

 dent was accordingly authorized to take such steps on this account as 

 he mig-ht see fit. In this direction, I have had correspondence and in- 

 terviews with Hon. George Cromwell, President of the Borough, Hon. 

 John J. Delany, Corporation Counsel, and with other City officials. I 

 am glad to say that Mr. Cromwell has evinced a commendable interest 

 and desire to help us in securing such quarters, and that we have had 

 encouragement also from the friendly attitude of Mr. Delany and other 

 officials. 



Dr. Hollick and myself have inspected the room which Mr. Crorn- 

 well wished to assign to us upon getting the requisite authority. The 

 dimensions of this room have been taken and those for show cases and 

 other furniture have been prepared and submitted to the architect of 

 the building for plans and specifications. I have on behalf of the As- 

 sociation, filed a petition with the Sinking Fund Commissioners for 

 this room, to be leased to the Association at a nominal rental, as au- 

 thorized by the law of incorporation. The real estate expert of the 

 Comptroller, to whom the matter was referred by the Sinking Fund 

 Commissioners reported back that in his judgment the application 

 should stand over until after all the different departments of the City 

 Government have found sufficient room in the Borough Hall for their 

 needs, which will be about July ist, igo6- This recommendation was 

 approved by the Comptroller, and the report was accepted and action 

 deferred as recommended. This report dated April 21st, 1906, may be 

 found in the City Record for Monday, May 7th, igo6, where it is 

 printed at length. 



I have received a letter from the President of the Borough, request- 

 ing this Association to suggest historical rnatter for a tablet to be 

 erected in the Municipal. Building, memorializing important events in 

 the history of Staten Island. I have assured Mr. Cromwell of the wish 

 of the Association to aid in this matter, and I have appointed for this 

 purpose, a committee consisting of Mr. Ira K. Morris, Mr. William^T. 

 Davis and Dr. Arthur Hollick, with the President as ex-officio member 

 under the By-Laws. This committee has met and 'has requested its 

 chairmari, Mr. Morris, to make a report to the Association to-night. . 



In aid of our local histQry, I recommend that an additional standing 

 committee be appointed for the purpose of accumulating historical doc- 

 uments, perpetuating the memory of historical events, acquiring me- 

 mentoes of the past, and generally aiding in the preservation of land- 



