COLONEL HENRY STONE, Chairman.

COLONEL M. D. WICKERSHAM, LIEUTENANT JOHN RUHM,

MAJOR W. J. COLBURN,

SERGEANT H. J. ATEN.

Committee on Time and Place of the next Meeting.

GENERAL MORGAN:

When GENERAL BAIRD was appointed Chairman of the Committee on Nomination of Officers last year, he made a very good suggestion, and I want to renew it right here. It is this: He thought it best always in the selection of the Vice-President of this Society to select those men who have interest enough in it to appear at our annual meetings. I know of my own knowledge that there are VicePresidents on our list who have never been to our meetings. I think the suggestion is a good one. I think men that have not interest enough in the Society to appear at least once in five years ought never to appear on our list as a Vice-President of this Society.

I, as Chairman of this Committee, say that if any member present here wants to notify the Committee of the fact, or desirability of appointing certain members Vice-Presidents, I hope he will do so. If that is not done, we merely select the old list and let it stand. It is a matter of some importance; let us get our Vice-Presidents from those men who come here with us and take an interest in us.

I wish the Secretary of the Society would furnish the Chairman with a list of that Committee, and I would say further, if it is agreeable to the Committee, I would like them to meet this afternoon in the corner room at the hotel, and we will settle the matter.

THE PRESIDENT:

The Chair thinks that suggestion of GENERAL MORGAN is very pertinent. Naturally the Society is becoming depleted by death and otherwise, and it is desirable that as many active members as possible be chosen Vice-Presidents. We are spread all over the Union, and we should make some little effort to recruit our ranks, and to do that, we must get those for officers whose interest in the life of the Society is sufficient to enable them to make some effort to bring other members in and to attend themselves.

Of course we know there are lots of comrades who do take an interest in our welfare, and are glad to hear that we are alive, who are

not able to do any thing else, because they are attending to their business and busily engaged and can not afford to give the time and attention to it, and it is those we look to for an increase of membership.

I was very much pleased to hear COLONEL LEVERING make the suggestion about the reduction of dues, and that it would depend upon our having sufficient membership to enable us to pay expenses. It is a very pertinent idea, and I am glad the Society agreed to it at Now, therefore, my purpose in saying these words here was to suggest that the members from all the states bestir themselves to pick out officers who are live men and let the Committee have them.

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GENERAL WOOD:

I want to ask the Secretary to read out the list of the names of the members of the Committee on Orators. I did not hear the

names.

GENERAL PARKHURST:

I would suggest that the Secretary read the names of all the Committees.

GENERAL CIST here read out all the Committees.

GENERAL BARNETT:

I would suggest that if any members of the Society have any names to suggest as the place of the next meeting, our Committee would be glad to receive them.

GENERAL MORGAN:

Will all the members on the Committee on Nomination of Officers be kind enough to meet me in this room, at the side here, after this meeting?

THE PRESIDENT:

If there is any other business-miscellaneous business, that is-to be submitted to the Society, now is the opportunity to do so. There are some announcements to be made by the chairman of the Local Committee here before we adjourn.

COLONEL STONE:

I wish to bring up a matter. You remember, Mr. President, that it has been pronounced by some authority that the fame of the soldier is to be killed on the battle field, and have his name printed on the list in a newspaper. In looking over the list of the members of the Society as published in the volume, I was attracted by an error in one of the names, and it led me to looking over the list, and I took the pains to compare the members of the Society from the State of Ohio with the official report as published, and I found that there are thirty-seven errors, some of them pretty serious ones, in the membership list of the Society-names wrongly spelled, wrong regiments or wrong commands given.

It seems to me a matter that ought to be corrected. I, for one, feel enough pride in the Society to feel that our record should be as perfect as possible, and I therefore move that the Treasurer and the Recording Secretary be appointed a Committee to revise the list of the members of the Society, to see that the names, rank, title, and commands to which they belong, are properly printed in the list of

names.

GENERAL FULLERTON:

I would suggest that COLONEL STONE should be added to that Committee.

COLONEL STONE:

I am ready to co-operate with that Committee, as I am Committees to which I am assigned.

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GENERAL THRUSTON:

I move that Colonel Stone and GENERAL CIST be added to that Committee.

GENERAL CIST:

Mr. President-As far is the motion is concerned, I would say that COLONEL STONE was appointed a member of the Committee on Publication, last year, for the sole purpose of correcting the proof of our last volume, and if these errors which he now complains of appear in the list of members, he is responsible for them, as he had the last say in correcting the list. If the errors are there, he should have corrected them when he read the proof.

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COLONEL STONE is a member of the Committee on Publication year, and if he will be kind enough to correct those errors that. appear in the list, that is all that is necessary to be done.

THE PRESIDENT :

The motion put, I think, includes three members. Is there any desire to amend that according to the suggestion of GENERAL CIST? If not, I will put directly the resolution offered by COLONEL STONE, to appoint a Committee consisting of the Treasurer, the Recording Secretary, and amended by adding COLONEL STONE to it, to make the corrrections in the names on the membership list.

COLONEL STONE:

I would most urgently appeal to all the members of the Society to look at the list which is annually published, and see if any name is incorrectly given, the name, the rank or command to which the member belonged, and his place of residence. In that way we can get a correct list, and I don't see how we can in any other way. I find in looking it all over, that there are several names of which we have no