22 OFFICIAL BULLETIN New Hampshire Reg!.; great2·grandson of Charles Glidden, Sergeant, Capt. Jeremiah Clough's Company New Hampshire troops. THE NATIONAL SOCIETY ALEXANDER REED WILSON, Brooklyn. N. Y. (18707). Son of Robert and OF TilE Ida Maria (Reed) Wilson; grandson of James Hamilton and Christina (Von Hamburg) Reed; great·grandson of Myron and Belinda (Swift) Reed; great'· grandson of Reuben and Hannah (Rose) Reed; great•-grandson of lames SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Reed, Read, Second Major First Dutchess County Regt. New York Minute Men. OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY GENERAL AUGUSTUS HENRY WITHINGTON, Boston, Mass. (16563). Supplementals. Son of James H. and Alfreda (Bosworth) Withington; grandson of Rodol­ President General phus H. W. and Abagail (Whipple) Bosworth; great-grandson of Eleazer and Nelson A. McClary Alice (Pierce) Whipple; great2·grandson of David Pierce, private, Col. 184 La Salle St., Chicago, Illinois WAsHINGTON, D. C., July 8, 1907. Alexander Scammel's New Hampshire Reg!.; grandson of James H. and ----- Sarah (Adams) Withington; great-grandson of Ebenezer and Mary (Preston) Withington; great•-grandson of Edward Preston, private, Capt. \Villiam Holden's Company Colonel Robinson's Mass. Regt., Lexington Alarm. OFFICIAL BULLETIN CLEMENT HIESTER YOST, Little Rock, Ark. (11799). Son of Ezekiel B. and Anna l\fay (Paul) Yost; grandson of John and Mary (Hiester) Paul; great­ grandson of John and Mary (Titlow) Hiester; great2-grandson of John The OFFICIAL BULLETIN, issued from time to time as may seem Hiester, Captain Chester County Militia Regt. of Penna. Foot. expedient, records action by the General Officer , the Board of Trustees, HENRY YOUNGS, JR., Denver, Colo. (18730). Son of Henry and :Marian the Executive and other National Committees, lists of members deceased (Hart) Youngs; grandson of Oliver and Maria (de Yong) Youngs; great· and of new members, and important doings of State Societies. State grandson of Henry Youngs, private First Regt. Orange County Militia and Secretaries are requested to communicate to the Secretary General ac­ Fifth New York Line. counts of meetings or celebrations by their Societies. The Bur.LETIN is sent to the General Officers and Trustees and the National Committees, to new members whose records are printed therein, to a number of newspapers, and a moderate supply to State Secretaries for general dis­ tribution. Additional copies will be furnished to State Societies, in any number desired, at three cents each. GENERAL OFFICERS ELECTED JUNE 4, 1907 President General Secretary General and Registrar General NELSON A. McCLARY A. HOWARD CLARK 184 La Salle St., Chicago, Illinois Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. Vice-Presidents General Treasurer General WILLARD SECOR Forest City, Iowa WILLIAM H. BAYLY 2125 N St., Washington, D. C. PELHAM W. AMES Historian General Lyon St., San Francisco, Cal. WILLIAM FREDERICK SLOCUM, LL.D. Colorado Springs, Colo. Gen. J. W. WHITING Chaplain General Rev. J. HERMAN RANDALL 60 West 1 30th St., New York, N Y. 2 OFFTCIAT. UULLETIN NATIONAL SOCIETY, S. A. R. 3 The Nineteenth Annual Congress will be held at Buffalo, N. Y., :tlfr. Beardsley further reported that the granting of the charter April 30, rgoS. rendered necessary certain amendments to the Constitution and By­ Laws. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS Ol' DENVER CONGRESS By unanimous consent the regular order of business was further The Eighteenth Annual Congress was called to order in regular ses­ suspended to receive the report of the Revision Committee, which was sion at the Brown Palace Hotel, Denver, Colo., at IO A. M., June 3. read in full, and Chairman Beardsley explained in detail the reasons for I9<J7, by President General C. A. Pugsley. The Rev. R. W. Clark, of the few variations from the old Constitution and By-Laws. Michigan, led the Congress in prayer. T he Congress thereupon considered the new Constitution by articles The President General appointed Mr. Vandercook, of Illinois, Mr. and sections, and certain amendments were agreed to, full discussion Pierce, of Wisconsin, and Mr. Burgess, of Connecticut, a committee on being given to objections. The Congress then adopted the entire Con­ credentials. The total number of members of the Congress present was stitution, but the motion was reconsidered to allow further discussion 92, including the President General, the Secretary General, Vice-Presi­ by th e California delegates and others. Mr. Beardsley then moved that dent General Bray, and delegates as follows: Alabama, I; California, 2; the report of the Revision Committee be adopted; that the entire Colorado, 6; Connecticut, 2; District of Columbia, 6; Illinois, 7; In­ present Constitution be repealed, and that the new Constitution as diana, I; Iowa, I; Maine, I; Maryland, 2, and I substitute; Massa­ amended be adopted as a whole. chusetts, 5, and I9 ·substitutes; Michigan, 4, and 5 substitutes; Minne­ The motion was seconded, put by the President General, and carried. sota, I; Nebraska, 2; New Jersey, 7; Empire State, 5, and I substitute; A recess of five minutes was then taken, during which time a meeting Ohio, I; Pennsylvania, I; Rhode Island, I; South Dakota, 2; Vermont, of the General Board was held, and the new By-Laws were duly I; Washington, I; Wisconsin, 3· adopted. Addresses of welcome to Colorado were delivered by Lieutenant The Congress being called to order, Mr. Beardsley announced that the Governor E. R. Parker, Acting Mayor A. J Spengel, of Denver, and Society had adopted a Constitution not repugnant to the National Dr. William F. Slocum, President of the Colorado Society. The Presi­ Charter, and that the Board had adopted a set of By-Laws so amended dent General responded to the words of welcome, and reviewed the as to be in accordance with it. He thereupon submitted a certificate, work of the Society during the year, particularly in the line of patriotic signed by the President General, the Secreta£y General, and the Chair­ education of our foreign born population. man of the Charter Committee, setting forth these ~acts. Col. A. S. Hubbard was introduced as one of the founders of the Mr. Beardsley then submitted, for adoption by the Congress, the Sons of Revolutionary Sires in California in I875, the basis of the pres­ followi ng resolutions, preceded by a preamble, reciting the action of the ent organization. Corporators in organizing under the charter, etc.: The regular order of business was then taken up. The report of the General Board of Managers reviewed the business [?esolved, That each and every, the acts so made and done by the ~a1d persons named as incorporators in said act, and such other persons, of the year, concluding with the action of the Executive Committee on 1f an y, as they may have associated with them, be and the same are February IQ, in recommending a new Constitution and new By-Laws, hereby affirmed, adopted, ratified, and approved by this Congress, to proposed by the Revision Committee appointed by authority of the have the same effect as if the same had been made and done by this Boston Congress. Congress, or by and in pursuance of its sanction and authority previ- By unanimous consent the regular order of business was suspended ously given. J Resolved, That the National Society of the Sons of the American and the Congress considered the final report of the special committee on Revolution, as the same has heretofore existed, hereby accepts, ratifies the ational Charter. Mr. Beardsley, chairman· of the committee, an­ and adopts the charter granted by an Act of Congress, approved J une nounced that the Act of Incorporation had been approved by President 9, 1_906, as and for the charter of this Society, to the end that this Soc1ety may be merged in, and be and become the body politic and Roosevelt on June 9, I9<J6. The committee submitted an engrossed corporate created by the said act. copy of the charter, certified to by the Secretary of State, Compatriot Elihu Root. The report was accepted, and to the Charter Committee On motion, duly seconded, the preamble and resolutions above cited was voted the thanks of the National Society. Were unanimously adopted, and the entire organization was declared to O:rtFICIAL BULLETIN 4 N \'1'10, T. \L SOC!BTY' s. A. R. 5 be an incorporated Society under the provisions of the Act of Congress hea lth, his report was read by Mr. Beardsley. ~he rep~rt showed a of June 9, IgOO. cash balance on April 27, I go6, of $6,997.99; rece1pts dunng the year, The amendments to the Constitution as printed in the OFFICIAL $(),5I7.62; total receipts, $r3,515.6r. The disbursements aggregated BuLLETIN are: (r) The modification of Art. IV, Sec. 2, so that appli­ ~ ,or6.36, and the balance of cash on hand, May 24, 1907, was $9,499.25. cants may continue, as heretofore, to join any State Society they On motion by Commander Moore, seconded by Colonel Lyman and desire; (2) Art. VII, Sec. 4, was made effective after the adjournment Colonel Armes, of the District of Columbia, a resolution, recommended of the Denver Congres , and (3) Art. IX was added: "This Constitu­ by the Naval Records Committee and approved by the Genera~ ~oar.d tion shl!ll take effect upon its adoption." of Managers, was adopted favoring the passage of a law establ!shmg a The Constitution now in force omits the words "civil officer" as a Record and Pension Office in the Navy Department, where the Naval basis for eligibility. By Art. III, Sec. 2, names shall not be placed records of the United States may be permanently preserved, carded, and on the roll of membership of State Societies until the application papers indexed. have been approved by the Registrar General.