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Mrs. Mayhew reported the names of the following as the duly elected members of the Board:

Mrs. Elvira E. Moffitt, North Carolina,

Mrs. Cara R. Bleakley, New York,

Mrs. Ellen M. Austen, Long Island,
Mrs. Susan A. Viles, Massachusetts,
Mrs. Louise K. Keay, Pennsylvania,
Mrs. Martha A. Kittredge, Massachusetts,
Mrs. Margaret M. Zane, West Virginia,
Mrs. Mary H. Bancroft, Colorado,
Mrs. Helen S. Hodges, New Jersey,

Mrs. Elizabeth A. Fitch, New York.

The place of the next annual meeting was then taken into consideration, letters were read from various sources, and the following one from the President of the Jamestown Exposition was especially considered.

TO THE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF The Daughters of the Revolu

TION:

LADIES:-On behalf of the Jamestown Exposition Company I desire to extend to the Daughters of the Revolution a cordial invitation to hold the annual meeting of the Society for 1907 in the city of Norfolk.

In that year a great International Naval, Military, Historical and Industrial Exposition will be held on and near the waters of Hampton Roads, Virginia, within twenty minutes' ride of the cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, Hampton and Old Point Comfort, in commemoration of the three hundredth anniversary of the first permanent English settlement in America, at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607.

This section is the most historic on the American Continent. In ordinary times the vicinity bordering on Hampton Roads possesses attractions to warrant its selection as a meeting place, while during the Exposition period the natural advantages will be augmented by many other attractions.

The Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition will differ from other expositions inasmuch as it will have a distinctive naval feature in a great international naval rendezvous, for which invitations have already been extended by the President of the United States to the nations of the world. The military and historical features will also be conducted on a surpassing scale.

The Exposition management will be prepared to furnish your Society with a commodious and satisfactory hall for convention purposes, and, if desired, will recognize your presence by setting apart a special day in honor of the occasion.

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Mrs. William Pfarr, of Wheeling, West Virginia, on behalf of the West Virginia Society, extended an invitation to the General Society to hold the next convention at Wheeling, promising a welcome sufficiently hearty to make up for the lack of neighboring excursions of Revolutionary associations. On motion of Miss Sterling, seconded by Mrs. Bonschur, of Pennsylvania, the invitation of the West Virginia Society was accepted.

On motion of Mrs. Smith, of Indiana, a letter of thanks was ordered sent to the President of the Jamestown Exposition Company for the kind invitation for next year.

Attention was called by the Treasurer, Miss Kent, to the fund for educational purposes which was lying idle. On motion of Mrs. Ormsbee, of Long Island, seconded by Mrs. Hodges, of New Jersey, the Board of Managers was authorized to use at its discretion a part of this fund for some specific work.

At this point Miss Voss, of Indiana, obtained the floor and spoke as follows:

The President General has delegated me to speak in her behalf and that of the Society in order to express our thanks to the Pennsylvania Society for their kind services as hostesses and our appreciation of their efforts in arranging this delightful convention.

Two years ago when our annual meeting was held in Boston, at that beautiful banquet at the Somerset, we found at our plates little cards with something upon them. No one (surely not one of the wild and woolly) knew what it was that was evidently typical either of Boston or of us. Some thought they were pictures of cats, but no, no one would think cats typical of Daughters of the Revolution. They looked awfully like mice; but upon looking at Miss Sterling, the President General, and the others and noticing that their feet were upon the floor I concluded they were not mice, and before the banquet ended I decided they were fairies, for I heard their voices.

When we met in Asheville I again heard voices. I asked Mrs. Smith, who takes the place of my ears for me, what it was that I heard. She replied that it was the "music of the pine trees," but when I had encountered the welcome of those North Carolina Daughters, which like the green of their trees is perennial, I recognized the voices of the Sirens. They had lured us to that beautiful place and would hold us, at least they would hold our hearts, forever.

To-day I am listening to sweet music, and I ask again, what do I hear. The answer is the Cradle Song of Liberty-sung by the descendants of the original rockers.

What we have seen and what we have been made to feel has filled our hearts anew with thankfulness and gratitude to those Pennsylvania ancestors and their descendants.

And so to you, Daughters of Quakers and of Patriots, it is my pleasant duty to tender our thanks. Your welcome has been so cordial, your arrangements for our comfort and convenience so perfect, we would

make our stay a blessing, our parting a benediction; and when we take leave of you it will be with wishes that you will bid us come again.

Madam President General, I move a rising vote of thanks be given the Pennsylvania Society for their hospitality.

This motion was unanimously carried.

Miss Hinton, of North Carolina, presented the following resolution deploring the desecration of the public buildings of the Revolutionary period:

Inasmuch as the patriotic hereditary societies of Massachusetts and others interested have made formal protest against the desecration of the Old State House of Boston, and inasmuch as the members of this Society would assist in safeguarding the few remaining public buildings of the Revolutionary period, in which they feel a sense of sentimental ownership, and for which they would help awaken a public spirit of appreciation and protection, be it

Resolved, That we, the General Society Daughters of the Revolution in convention assembled, in the city of Philadelphia, endorse the remonstrances made by the Massachusetts Society, Daughters of the Revolution, and others, against the reconstruction and commercial usage of the old colonial building, from the outer balcony of which the Declaration of Independence was officially read to the people of Boston.

On motion of Mrs. Smith, of Indiana, seconded by Mrs. Heath of Massachusetts, this resolution was adopted.

Miss Hinton, of North Carolina, then presented the fifth volume of the North Carolina Booklet to be placed in the Library of the General Society.

Mrs. Fitz, of Massachusetts, moved that a vote of thanks be tendered the North Carolina Society for this gift. This motion. was seconded by Mrs. Viles, of Massachusetts, and was unanimously carried.

There being no other business to be brought before the delegates, the Recording Secretary read the minutes of the session just passed and they were duly accepted.

The President General then spoke a few words of farewell and godspeed and, expressing hopes of meeting in Wheeling next year, declared the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the General Society Daughters of the Revolution closed.

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