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The plan adopted for the distributing of the Proceedings of 

 the Fourth Annual Meeting was first to send 50 copies to each 

 of the ten active commissions, then to follow them with enough 

 copies to furnish each member of the association living in each 

 particular county with a copy, furnishing a list of names and 

 asking the county commission to send out the booklets. 



For the purpose of setting before the Association the present 

 status of the supply of the proceedings the secretary would say : 



1. Of the 500 copies of the Proceedings of the First Annual 

 Meeting that were printed, there are yet in his possession 10 

 copies. 



2. Oif the 1000 copies of the Proceedings of the Second An- 

 nual Meeting that were printed, there are yet in his possession 

 36 copies. 



3. Of the 1000 copies of the Proceedings of the Third An- 

 nual Meeting that were printed there are yet in his possession 

 204 copies. 



4. Of the 1500 copies of the Proceedings of the Fourth An- 

 nual Meeting that were printed there are yet in his possession 

 1000 copies. 



The secretary has faithfully tried to follow out the suggestion 

 of the membership that the Proceedings of the Fourth Annual 

 Meeting be printed promptly and distributed among the member- 

 ship, but, as the membership realizes, has failed utterly in getting 

 the work done in the time desired. The volume of the regular 

 business which he is called on to transact in the course of the 

 year is such that he finds it utterly impossible to give the project 

 sufficient time. He desires to recommend that the president of 

 the association be given the power to appoint a Publishing Com- 

 mittee of four persons, one of whom shall be the secretary ex 

 officio, and that this committee shall be charged with the duty 

 of making arrangements to get out and distribute the proceed- 

 ings promptly. 



Thomas J. HiEadlee, 

 New Brunswick, N. J., Secretary. 

 January 30, 191 8. 



