CONTENTS. Page. II. Report of the proceedings of the fourteenth annual meeting of the Pacific coast branch of the American Historical Association.. III. Eighteenth report of the public archives commission...... VI. The editorial function in United States history, by Worthington C. Ford. VII. Early assessments for papal taxation of English clerical incomes, by VIII. The assessment of lay subsidies, 1290-1332, by James F. Willard. IX. English customs revenue up to 1275, by Norman S. B. Gras......... XI. To what extent was George Rogers Clark in military control of the Northwest at the close of the American Revolution? by James A.. XII. Separatism in Utah, 1847-1870, by Franklin D. Daines. XIII. A generation of American historiography, by William A. Dunning................. XIV. Thirteenth report of the historical manuscripts commission: Letters CONSTITUTION. I. The name of this society shall be The American Historical Association. II. Its object shall be the promotion of historical studies. III. Any person approved by the executive council may become a member by paying $3, and after the first year may continue a member by paying an annual fee of $3. On payment of $50 any person may become a life member, exempt from fees. Persons not resident in the United States may be elected as honorary or corresponding members and be exempt from the payment of fees. IV. The officers shall be a president, two vice presidents, a secretary, a secretary of the council, a curator, and a treasurer. These officers shall be elected by ballot at each regular annual meeting in the manner provided in the by-laws. V. There shall be an executive council constituted as follows: 1. The officers named in Article IV. 2. Elected members, eight in number, to be chosen annually in the same manner as the officers of the association. 3. The former presidents, but a former president shall be entitled to vote for the three years succeeding the expiration of his term as president, and no longer. VI. The executive council shall conduct the business, manage the property, and care for the general interests of the association. In the exercise of its proper functions, the council may appoint such committees, commissions, and boards as it may deem necessary. The council shall make a full report of its activities to the annual meet ing of the association. The association may by vote at any annual meeting instruct the executive council to discontinue or enter upon any activity, and may take such other action in directing the affairs of the association as it may deem necessary and proper. VII. This constitution may be amended at any annual meeting, notice of such amendment having been given at the previous annual meeting or the proposed amendment having received the approval of the executive council. BY-LAWS. I. The officers provided for by the constitution shall have the duties and perform the functions customarily attached to their respective offices with such others as may from time to time be prescribed. II. A nomination committee of five members shall be chosen at each annual business meeting in the manner hereafter provided for the election of officers of the association. At such convenient time prior to the 15th of September as it may determine it shall invite every member to express to it his preference regarding every office to be filled by election at the ensuing annual business meeting and regarding the composition of the new nominating committee then to be chosen. It shall publish and mail to each member at least one month prior to the annual business meeting such nominations as it may determine upon for each elective office and for the next nominating committee. It shall prepare for use at the annual business meeting an official ballot containing, as candidates for each office or committee membership to be filled thereat, the names of its nominees and also the names of any other nominees which may be proposed to the chairman of the committee in writing by twenty or more members of the association at least one day before the annual business meeting, but such nominations by petition shall not be presented until after the committee shall have reported its nominations to the association as provided for in the present by-law. The official ballot shall also provide, under each office, a blank space for voting for such further nominees as any member may present from the floor at the time of the election. III. The annual election of officers and the choice of a nominating committee for the ensuing year shall be conducted by the use of an official ballot prepared as described in by-law II. IV. The association authorizes the payment of traveling expenses incurred by the voting members of the council attending one meeting of that body a year, this meeting to be other than that held in connection with the annual meeting of the association. |