reach the goal desired, though one must confess that the task assigned us is not easy of accomplishment. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION The Committee on Publication respectfully reports that during the year 1920 four numbers of the Maryland Historical Magazine have appeared under the skilful editorship of Mr. Louis H. Dielman. The articles contained in the numbers have covered various periods in the history of the State and Province and have furnished valuable information to all students of our history. The magazine is also of value inasmuch as it keeps the members of the Society informed as to our activities. No volume has appeared in the series of the Archives of Maryland during the year. The appropriation was increased by the Governor from two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) to three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) a year. This amount will hardly be sufficient to enable us to issue a volume every year but we shall be glad to distribute one during 1921. In this volume, no. 40 of the series, we expect to continue the Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of Maryland from 1737 to 1740. We respectfully propose the adoption of the following resolution: Resolved, That the Magazine Account be credited with the sum of $166.25 for the cost of printing the annual report of the Society and the list of members, and that the amount be charged to General Expenses; and that it be also credited, in accordance with the terms of the deed of gift of the late Mr. George Peabody, and of the resolution of the Society adopted January 3, 1867, with the sum of $407.50, being one-half of the income for the current year from the investments of the Peabody Fund; and that the Magazine Account be then closed by appropriate entries in the usual manner. The receipts and disbursements on Magazine Account, as exhibited to this Committee by the Treasurer of the Society, were as follows: EXPENDITURES. Vol. XIV: Cost of printing No. 4 (December No., 1919, in cluding index) No. 2 (June, 1920) 66 $ 442 50 559 75 462 05 465 70 511 50 $2,481 50 Cost of Editing .. Copying $150 00 45 00 242 32 66 $2,723 82 RECEIPTS. Vol. XV: From sales..... $ 95 42 subscriptions 62 00 157 42 Debit balance $2,566 40 Against which is to be credited cost of printing Annual Report and list of members in March issues, 35 pages at $4.75 166 25 $2,400 15 And one-half the income from the Peabody Fund... 407 50 Leaving the sum of..... $1,992 65 (To be charged off in order to close this account as of Dec. 31, 1920.) The expenditure of the annual appropriation for the publication of the Archives, in accordance with the Law passed at the January Session of the General Assembly in 1920, was as follows: RECEIPTS. Balance on hand, December 31, 1919...... Interest on balance in bank. $ 345 44 6 83 66 $1,610 35 EXPENDITURES. “ copying manuscripts.. $1,105 55 3 50 42 67 Balance on hand, December 31, 1920..... $1,151 72 458 63 $1,610 35 REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON MEMBERSHIP а The By-Laws require that the annual report of the Council shall contain a statement of the membership of the Society and it need not be repeated here. But it is gratifying to note that the membership is now larger than at any time in the Society's existence. Only in the Corresponding Members there is a de crease of two, which is not to be regarded as a lass, as this class of free membership was provided for at a time when only residents of Baltimore were eligible to be active members and since that restriction has been removed the Society has seen no reason to continue to elect such non-contributing members; this Committeo may be permitted to suggest to those who are still on the list to such as are residents of Maryland at least that they change their status to Life, Active or Associate Membership. It is hoped that the present members of the Society will continue to make nominations for election—the only Constitutional way of adding to the membership or even preventing a loss by deaths and other causes. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON GENEALOGY AND HERALDRY The Committee met on January 29, 1920, and appointed Dr. B. Bernard Browne to represent the Committee in the Council. The following Church Records have been copied and indexed : Methodist Burial Ground-indexed. St. Peter's P. E. Church, Baltimore-indexed. Several meetings were held during the year and many manuscripts and works on Genealogy and Heraldry were presented to the Library. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON ADDRESSES AND LITERARY ENTERTAINMENTS Your Committee on addresses report and append a list of papers read before the Society at its monthly meetings: January 8-"Chapters from a History of Printing in Colonial Maryland.” March 8-"Radicalism and its Cure." By Raymond E. Kennedy. May 10-"Thomas Bacon and his Laws of Maryland." By Lawrence C. Wroth. October 11-"Some Notes on William Goddard, Journalist and Printer, of Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and Maryland." By Lawrence C. Wroth. November 8-" Biographical Sketches": 1-Colonel Thomas Smith, 1648-1719. 2-Thomas Smyth, 1710-1741. 3-Hon. Thomas Smyth, 1729-1741. 4-Major Thomas Smyth, 1757-1806. By Dr. B. Bernard Browne. December 13—“The History of Chancellor's Point." By Dr. James W. Thomas. The annual election of officers was duly held, whereupon the tellers declared that except in the case of the Trustees of the Athenaeum, the entire ticket as printed on page 65, was elected. Seven names having been put in nomination for the Trustees of the Athenaeum, the following were declared elected: THE CORRESPONDENCE OF ANDREW JACKSON The Department of Historical Research in the Carnegie Institution of Washington, is collecting the material for an edition, in several volumes, of the Correspondence of Andrew Jackson, to be edited by Professor John S. Bassett of Smith College, Jackson's biographer. All persons who possess letters of General Jackson or important letters to him, or who know where there are collections of his correspondence, or even single letters, would confer a favor by writing to Dr. J. F. Jameson, director of the department named, 1140 Woodward Building, Washington, D. C. |