The President read a letter from Mrs. Mary A. Chapman, of Massachusetts. Past Second Vice-President-General, expressing her regret at her inability to be present, and sending her wishes for a pleasant and successful meeting. A communication was read from Miss Emma G. Page, Corresponding Secretary-General, from Bermuda, sending greetings and expressing her regret and disappointment that illness prevented her attendance at the meeting. On motion of Mrs. William Lee, of Massachusetts, seconded by Mrs. James M. Trimble, of New Jersey, a message of greeting and sympathy was sent to Miss Page from the meeting.

The Corresponding Secretary pro tem, Miss Florence O. Rand, gave the following brief report of her work:

Madame President and Daughters:

Since my appointment in January as Corresponding Secretary pro tem, I have received forty-five letters. I have sent out ninety-three notices for Board Meetings, and twenty-eight hundred circulars and notices of the Annual Meeting. I have written fifteen letters to secretaries of State Societies, twenty-two to State and Organizing Regents, and fifty-four other letters.

Respectfully submitted,

FLORENCE OSGOOD RAND.

The report was accepted with thanks and ordered on file.

In calling for the report of the Treasurer-General, the President spoke in compliment of the excellent work done by Mrs. Hodges in looking up the matter of back dues and making collection of same, and also of the fidelity with which she had discharged the duties of her office.

REPORT OF TREASURER-GENERAL FROM APRIL 19, 1902, TO APRIL 1, 1903.

Salary of Clerk.

Postage.

18.75

Stationery.

Application Blanks.

Office Expenses..

3.30

Telegrams..

The Committee on Finance and Audit reports that it has examined the Treasurer-General's books and accounts and compared vouchers, and finds the foregoing statement of receipts and disbursements correct. REBECCA D. W. PERRY,

Chairman.

The Treasurer's report as duly audited was on motion of Mrs. John E. Dix, of New Jersey seconded by Mrs. Frank H. Daniels of New York received and ordered placed on file. Mrs. Hodges stated that since the begining of the new fiscal year, April 1st, additional moneys had been received so that on May 1st the bank balance was $1,744.19. As this statement was given in the line of information and not as a report, no action was taken thereon.

The next report in order was that of the Registrar-General, Mrs. Joseph J. Casey, to whom the Pesident alluded as the watch dog of the organization whose vigilance rendered it impossible for any applicant to pass the gate of entrance of the Society without the undoubted Revolutionary credentials. Mrs. Casey's Report was read by Miss F. C. Casey as follows:

Madame President and Ladies:

Since my last report, April 23, 1902, one hundred and ninety-two members have been admitted to the Society distributed as follows: California, 2; Colorado, 15; Delaware, 2; Illinois, S; Indiana, 14; Iowa, 4; Kansas, 2; Kentucky, 2; Long Island, 18; Louisiana, 1; Maryland, 4; Missouri, I; Massachusetts, 55; Minnesota, 4; New Jersey, 11; New York, 16; North Carolina, 2; Ohio, 3; Pennsylvania, 6; Washington, 9; West Virginia, 12. To the Junior Sons and Daughters one hundred and eleven members have been added. During the past year the Society has lost the following members by death:

New Jersey Society:

Kentucky Society :

Utah Society:

Mrs. Caroline Long Bartlett, an Original Daughter.
Mrs. William S. Sampson,

Miss Gertrude Lydecker.

Mrs. Elizabeth Buford Parks, an Original Daughter.
Mrs. Clara C. Benedict.

For the benefit of the Registrars in the various State societies and chapters, I beg leave to report a few more Revolutionary records. There has been added to the two volumes, New York in the Revolution," a supplemental volume compiled by the Hon. Erastus C. Knight, Comptroller of the State. In this volume will be found a list of New York Revolutionary prisoners; a roll of honor of Long Island citizens and soldiers; a list of Long Island refugees in Connecticut; a list of names of captains of vessels of various kinds who took these people across the Sound to Connecticut; a list of persons who furnished window leads for bullets; a list of Tories and suspected persons, etc.

North Carolina has added four volumes to her Colonial and State Records. Volume XVII contains "Abstracts of the Army Accounts of the North Carolina Line," settled by Commissioners after the war; lists of names of soldiers and their rank whose claims were paid and receipted for ; a list of prisoners from both South and North Carolina confined in Charlestown Harbor in 1781; a pay-roll of the 1st North Carolina Regiment of Militia in 1780. Volume XIX contains a list of all the allowances which originated in the House of Commons, and which were concurred in by the Senate from April 29, 1778 to May 8, 1783. I hope to have some very valuable records from Virginia and Connecticut before another year.

Massachusetts still remains the banner state in the matter of admissions, and I wish here to thank the Massachusetts State Registrar, Mrs. William F. Holbrook, for very efficient aid. Long Island follows next in number of applicants admitted, and it is encouraging to note the increase in admissions from our Western State Societies.

Respectfully submitted,

MARY C. MARTIN CASEY,
Registrar-General.

Mrs. Henry Sanger Show of Long Island moved that this report be accepted with a vote of thanks to Mrs. Casey for her services; Mrs. John Howard Abeel of New York seconded the motion and the report was unanimously accepted and placed on file.

The time for adjournment being close at hand, other reports went over to the afternoon session. Before declaring a recess, the President read to the meeting a circular received from the Cap Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association in reference to a proposed monument to be erected at Provincetown, Mass., in commemoration of the landing of the Pilgrims in 1620, Miss Sterling said: "I have been asked by one of the Massachusetts delegates, Mrs. William Lee, to present to your attention the object of the Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association, not that this convention should pledge itself as a convention to the futherance of the cause, but as a matter of general information and interest. The circular just read explains itself,

and it seems to me the object is one which should appeal to every patriotic man and woman. It is unnecessary to rehearse the result emanating from the emigration of that band of devoted men and women who crossed almost unknown seas, and sought in this country a place of refuge, a home, a place where they could put into active practice the religion in which they believed, the expression of which was denied them in their native land. That they landed in Massachusetts does not make them the property of Massachusetts alone, nor does this laudable project of commemoration belong to a single State. It belongs to every inhabitant of the United States of America from Maine to California, from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

It is true there were other distinguished bands of emigrants, the Dutch in New York and New Jersey: the Huguenots of South Carolina; the English of Virginia and Georgia; the Swedes of Delaware. Each band brought something of value to the general welfare of the land; but none brought to this country quite what the Pilgrim Fathers brought, and none of them brought to this country quite what the Pilgrim Mothers brought. We extol, and with reason, the Pilgrim Fathers, and in giving honor and commemoration I put in a plea for the Pilgrim Mothers. It was Dr. Holmes, was it not? who in rendering tribute to the women of the Mayflower, said in substance, “They not only braved the storms of the voyage and endured all the hardships of that winter, but they endured the Pilgrim Fathers as well."

I fancy this proposed monument will commemorate the Pilgrim Mothers as well as the Pilgrim Fathers, and therefore it will be a most fitting thing for the Daughters of the Revolution to give individual aid and support to this work.

In the Harbor of New York is a statue which France sent us, -Liberty enlightening the World. Cannot we do even better than that ourselves and place on the heights of Provincetown, on the spot first seen by the incoming voyagers, a suitable memorial to the men and women of 1620.”

Mrs. Lee who is one of the secretaries of this association may have the floor to say a few words on this project."

Mrs. Lee: "Our President-General has so ably presented the matter to you, that it almost seems as if words from me would be superfluous. I do repeat that the Society of the Cape Cod Pilgrims Memorial Association of which I am one of the secretaries needs assistance in raising this fund. You will be glad to hear that the United States give us some $40,000 and that Massachusetts gives $25,000, and we are to raise $25,000 more within three years. It is our desire to erect a memorial that shall be worthy of the United States, as the Statue of Liberty is representative of France. We want something quite as strong-quite as symbolic of the United States as that statue is of a country which sent it over to us. Provincetown has given a plot of land, a very large one, in the center of which this monument will be erected. It was the point that was first seen by our energetic forefathers when they came to this country, and we want this to act as a beacon, whose light can be seen by all those coming to these shores, who like our forefathers come here to enjoy and have the liberty of conscience and of rights that are denied them on the other side. The work is progressing very finely indeed, we wish to complete this sum