This Society could profitably take a day and an evening for its annual meeting. A morning session should be had, called to order at ten o’clock. Two or three papers could be read and discussion had upon each, followed by a recess from one to three p. m. Further papers and discussion might then be entertained and the meeting adjourned, with all the business completely transacted, in time for the dinner in the evening, at which short and interesting speeches, good music and general recreation after the day’s work would be in order.
These annual conventions should take place in different parts of the country, and those interested in our work will be sure to be on hand. In looking over some of our old records, it appears that requests have been made by members for meetings to take place in Richmond, Va., Charleston, S. C., and Detroit, Mich. In neither of these places has an annual meeting or a field day of the Society taken place.
Members of the Society are earnestly requested to furnish the Secretary-General with correct addresses. When a member removes or changes his address, the Secretary-General should be notified immediately, otherwise the publications and communications of the Society may be lost or fall into unauthorized hands.
The necessity for prompt payment of dues ought to be manifest to every member. The Society has no income except from the $5 a year contributed by the annual members. No officer or member receives any salary, and the finances are carefully and economically managed by the Executive Council. We have no expense for rental for the Society’s headquarters, and have no recent record of any officer of the Society accepting even his traveling expenses in matters connected with the Society. Nevertheless, the income is small, and our expenditures for printing the annual volume, gathering historical matter, postage, stationery and typewriting are large and do not leave the Society at the end of the year with any substantial balance in the Treasurer-General’s hands.
COL. C. C. SANDERS (Deceased).
Gainesville, Ga.
Late Member of the Executive Council.
Donations of money or bequests by will or otherwise are earnestly and respectfully solicited, and any member who will take the trouble to read the constitution and note the purposes for which the Society is incorporated can readily see the great and lasting service to our people and American history in general that could be made, in addition to what the Society is now doing, to make better known the Irish Chapter in American History.
Some members well able to pay are in arrears from two to four years in their dues, notwithstanding the fact that several tactful circulars and repeated statements have been forwarded them by committees and officers of the Society. The attention of members is called to section 8 of the by-laws, which reads as follows:
“8. A member neglecting for two years to pay his annual fee shall be notified of such omission by the Secretary-General. Still neglecting for three months to pay the dues, such delinquent member shall be dropped as no longer belonging to the Society.”
Many of our members belong to other historical associations, and, by keeping in touch with their works, become of greater service to us. The American Historical Association, the headquarters of which are at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D. C., and the leading state historical associations are cordially recommended to our members.