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gratefully accepts the offer of the Daughters of the Revolution 

 to deposit a collection of colonial objects in a room in the 

 Museum at the Lorillarcl Mansion, Bronx Park, and to label 

 the collection as so deposited. It was voted that the Museum 

 Committee be empowered to extend at their discretion similar 

 permission to other patriotic societies. 



Mr. Davis then reported for the Committee on Historic 

 Sites that printings and drawings had been obtained for the 

 tablets commemorating the work of the Commission which 

 secured the present system of parks for the Bronx. It was 

 voted that this report be accepted. 



It was voted that suitable exercises be held at the time of the 

 erection of the tablets. 



JUNE i, 1912. 

 Annual Meeting of the Society. 

 The annual meeting of the Society was called to order at 

 5.15 o'clock on the grounds of the Lorillard Mansion. 



In the absence of the President and Vice President Mr. 

 Davis was elected Chairman. 



It was voted that the present officers of the Society be 

 re-elected. 



OCTOBER 10, 1912. 



Meeting of the Council. 



The resignation of the Secretary, Professor Arthur B. 

 Lamb, was accepted. Mr. Geo. E. Stonebridge was appointed 

 Secretary pro tern. Dr. Britton resigned as chairman of the 

 Council and Albert E. Davis was elected. 



On motion of Mr. Stoughton, Mrs. Wm. W. Niles was 

 requested to act as corresponding secretary. 



Mr. Davis showed a package of Confederate notes that were 

 sent to him for exhibition by the Secretary of the Treasury. 

 James McVeagh. The notes were dated 1861, 1862, 1863, 

 1864. 



The design of a tablet commemorating the acquisition of the 



