ACT OF INCORPORATION. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Andrew D. White, of Ithaca, in the State of New York; George Bancroft, of Washington, in the District of Columbia; Justin Winsor, of Cambridge, in the State of Massachusetts; William F. Poole, of Chicago, in the State of Illinois; Herbert B. Adams, of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland; Clarence W. Bowen, of Brooklyn, in the State of New York, their associates and successors, are hereby created, in the District of Columbia, a body corporate and politic by the name of the American Historical Association, for the promotion of historical studies, the collection and preservation of historical manuscripts, and for kindred purposes in the interest of American history and of history in America. Said association is authorized to hold real and personal estate in the District of Columbia so far only as may be necessary to its lawful ends to an amount not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars, to adopt a constitution, and make by-laws not inconsistent with law. Said association shall have its principal office at Washington, in the District of Columbia, and may hold its annual meetings in such places as the said incorporators shall determine. Said association shall report annually to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution concerning its proceedings and the condition of historical study in America. Said secretary shall communicate to Congress the whole of such reports, or such portions thereof as he shall see fit. The Regents of the Smithsonian Institution are authorized to permit said association to deposit its collections, manuscripts, books, pamphlets, and other material for history in the Smithsonian Institution or in the National Museum at their discretion, upon such conditions and under such rules as they shall prescribe. [Approved, January 4, 1889.] LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, Washington, D. C., January 28, 1914. SIR: In accordance with the act of incorporation of the American Historical Association, approved January 4, 1889, I have the honor to transmit herewith the annual report of the association for the year 1912. The report contains the proceedings of the association at its twenty-eighth annual meeting held in Boston in December, 1912, and the reports of the public archives commission and the historical manuscripts commission. I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, yours, Dr. CHARLES D. WALCOTT, WALDO G. LELAND, Secretary. Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. CONTENTS. I. Report of the proceedings of the twenty-eighth annual meeting of the American Historical Association... II. Report of the proceedings of the ninth annual meeting of the Pacific Page. E. On the economics of slavery, 1815-1860, by Ulrich B. Phillips.. F. On the history of Pennsylvania, 1815-1860, by P. Orman Ray.. G. Historical research in the far West, by Katharine Coman.. X. Proceedings of the conference on military history... XI. Proceedings of the ninth annual conference of historical societies... Genealogy and history, by Charles K. Bolton... The Massachusetts Historical Society, by Worthington C. Ford.. Plan and scope of a "Manual of Archival Economy for the use of American Archivists," by Victor H. Paltsits..... Some fundamental principles in relation to archives, by Waldo |