We fully realize the unprecedented privilege that has been accorded to us as an organization in serving the living heroes of one of the grandest struggles in the history of the Nation. Our hearts swell with pride when we witness their magnanimous spirit of forgiveness toward those who espoused the lost cause. This magnanimity has done much toward uniting this Nation, when the call came, into one solid battle-front. For this reason we feel that high above all others in the Temple of Fame should be inscribed the names of the veterans of "'61 to '65.”

We are deeply grateful for the honor of our adoption and for the strong bond of fraternity, charity and loyalty that binds us still closer as the years roll on, to the gallant remnant of that magnificent army of young manhood that marched away to battle for the right. When the last veteran has unbuckled his knapsack and laid down to rest beneath the bright stars and broad stripes of our glorious emblem of freedom, then the Woman's Relief Corps will mark his resting place with fragrant garlands and carry on the work of patriotic education so well founded by the Grand Army.

Respectfully submitted in F. C. and L.,

FLORENCE EARLE PAYNE,

FLORENCE BELLE PAYNE,

Department Secretary.

Department President.

The Committee to whom this report was referred, subsequently reported favorably thereon and recommended its adoption.

The report was thereupon adopted.

The Commander.-The next in order is the offering of resolutions:

Comrade Allan C. Blakewell, Post 140.-I wish to offer a resolution calling for some amendments to the Rules and Regulations regarding National patriotic instruction, which I will read. will just explain briefly, that as to the amendment of the Rules and Regulations which was proposed at the last Department Encampment along the line of patriotic instruction, the Committee of the National Encampment adopted all the recommendations of this Department except the one referring to Post patriotic instructors. They said to me that they would rather

have that lie over until the next National Encampment, as they would like to see the result of what they had adopted and approved of; and it was the tacit understanding that if the work as they had authorized it was successful, then if any State Department chose to have Post Instructors they might do so; so that it seems to be well at the National Encampment this year to have these amendments embodied in the Rules and Regulations.

Whereas, The Rules and Regulations of the Grand Army of the Republic were amended by the Thirty-ninth National Encampment so as to create the additional offices of National Patriotic Instructor and Department Patriotic Instructor, as recommended by the Department of New York, and

Whereas, The further recommendation of this Department, that there should be Post Patriotic Instructors, was modified to the extent of giving authority to appoint such assistants in patriotic instruction as may be deemed necessary to accomplish the best results, and

Whereas, By said authority several large Departments, to wit: Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Michigan, through their Department Patriotic Instructors did secure the appointment of Patriotic Instructors in the Posts of their respective Departments, and

Whereas, In the opinion of the National Patriotic Instructor the system of Post Patriotic Instructors, so successfully estab lished by the Woman's Relief Corps, is more effective, practicable and useful than the plan of appointing assistants in any other way, therefore, be it

Resolved, That this Department of New York recommend to the forthcoming National Encampment the following amendments to the Rules and Regulations, to wit:

Amend Section 1, Article VI, Chapter 11, by adding after Officer of the Day, a Patriotic Instructor.

Amend Section 1, Article VII, Chapter 11, by adding between the words Adjutant and Sergeant-Major in the first line, Patriotic Instructor, and before the word Sergeant-Major in the fourth line of the second paragraph of the same section, article and chapter, add Patriotic Instructor.

have that lie over until the next National Encampment, as they would like to see the result of what they had adopted and approved of; and it was the tacit understanding that if the work as they had authorized it was successful, then if any State Department chose to have Post Instructors they might do so; so that it seems to be well at the National Encampment this year to have these amendments embodied in the Rules and Regulations.

Whereas, The Rules and Regulations of the Grand Army of the Republic were amended by the Thirty-ninth National Encampment so as to create the additional offices of National Patriotic Instructor and Department Patriotic Instructor, as recommended by the Department of New York, and

Whereas, The further recommendation of this Department, that there should be Post Patriotic Instructors, was modified to the extent of giving authority to appoint such assistants in patriotic instruction as may be deemed necessary to accomplish the best results, and

Whereas, By said authority several large Departments, to wit: Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Michigan, through their Department Patriotic Instructors did secure the appointment of Patriotic Instructors in the Posts of their respective Departments, and

Whereas, In the opinion of the National Patriotic Instructor the system of Post Patriotic Instructors, so successfully estab lished by the Woman's Relief Corps, is more effective, practicable and useful than the plan of appointing assistants in any other way, therefore, be it

Resolved, That this Department of New York recommend to the forthcoming National Encampment the following amendments to the Rules and Regulations, to wit:

Amend Section 1, Article VI, Chapter 11, by adding after Officer of the Day, a Patriotic Instructor.

Amend Section 1, Article VII, Chapter 11, by adding between the words Adjutant and Sergeant-Major in the first line, Patriotic Instructor, and before the word Sergeant-Major in the fourth line of the second paragraph of the same section, article and chapter, add Patriotic Instructor.