ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE BOARD. 
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Department and bureau. 
Name of member. 
From 
To 
Tieasury Department: 
Coast and Geodetic Survey 
T. C. Mendenhall 
Sept. 4,1890 
June, 1894 
H G Ogden 
do 
Light-House Board 
H. L. Howison 
do. 
Oct. 4 1892 
A B Johnson 
Dec 22 1892 
Interior Department: 
Henry Gannett 
Sept 4 1890 
do 
General Land Office 
Harry King 
June 21 1893 
State Department 
Andrew H. Allen 
Sept 4 1890 
Navy Department: 
Hydrographic Office 
Richardson Clover 
do 
June 1893 
C. D. Sigsbee 
J. E. Craig 
June 20, 1893 
May 15,1897 
Apr. 6, 1897 
Jan., 1900 
Chapman C Todd 
Feb 5 1900 
War Department: 
Corps of Engineers 
Thonms Turtle a 
Sept 4 1890 
Sept 19 1894 
John G. D. Knight 
Dec. 12,1894 
Apr 2, 1895 
George W Goethals 
Apr 2 1895 
Mar 21 1899 
Mar 21 1899 
Smithsonian Institution . . 
Otis T. Mason 
Sept. 4, 1890 
Post-Office Department 
Pierson H Bristow 
do 
Feb 7 1893 
George G. Fen ton 
Feb. 9, 1893 
May 24,1895 
A Von Haake 
Apr 15 1897 
H T Brian 
Nov 18 1899 
Department of Agriculture 
John Hyde 
Nov. 20,1899 
a Deceased September 19, 1894. 
The officers of the Board are a chairman, a secretary, and an execu- 
tive committee of three. Mr. T. C. Mendenhall served as chairman 
from the creation of the Board, in 1890, till his departure from Wash- 
ington, in June, 1894, since which time Mr. Gannett has served con- 
tinuously as chairman. Mr. Clover served as secretary from the 
beginning till October 6, 1891, and Mr. Baker has served from that 
date to the present. The present executive committee is Messrs. 
Allen, Baker, and Ogden. 
The Board holds monthly meetings from October to June, both 
inclusive. It has held 80 meetings, the first on March 18, 1890, the 
last (at date of this writing) on April 4, 1900. Of these meetings 
four were held prior to the Executive order constituting the official 
Board. It has decided 4,157 cases. It has also, after an examination 
of the disputed cases, approved a certain form of spelling for the 
names of the counties of the United States, numbering 2803. It has 
published and distributed a first report, three bulletins, and several 
leaflets and pamphlets containing decisions. All of the decisions con- 
tained in all of these publications are here reprinted, with the addition 
of new decisions, and with revision and correction of such omissions 
and errors as have been detected. 
In connection with the work of the Eleventh Census several hun- 
dred names of minor civil divisions were brought to the Board for 
