SEC. 2. The officers and Directors shall be elected by ballot at the annual meetings of the Society, unless such method is suspended by a majority vote.

ARTICLE V-BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND STANDING COMMITTEES

SECTION 1. The affairs of the Society shall be managed by the Board of Directors, subject to the provisions of the Constitution and By-laws. All appropriations of the funds of the Society shall be made by the Board of Directors.

SEC. 2. The Society may provide for such Standing Committees as may be deemed necessary, and assign to them such duties as may be expedient.

ARTICLE VI-MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY

SECTION 1. The annual meeting of this Society shall be held on the 11th day of August in each year.

SEC. 2. The special meetings may be held at the call of the President and Secretary.

SEC. 3. Five members shall constitute a quorum for the trans

action of business.

SEC. 4. No indebtedness shall be incurred by the Board of Directors in excess of the amount of funds in the hands of the Treasurer, not otherwise appropriated, unless by direction of a majority of the Society at a stated meeting, of which there shall have been due notice, as to time and purpose, given to all the members.

ARTICLE VII-AMENDMENTS

The Constitution may be amended by a majority vote of the members present at any stated meeting, provided a written notice of such amendment shall have been given at least thirty days previous to such meeting.

BY-LAWS

ARTICLE I-DUTIES OF OFFICERS

The duties of officers shall be such as indicated by their titles, and as may be provided by the Constitution and By-laws.

SECTION 1. Secretary. The Secretary shall keep a Record Book

in which shall be transcribed the Constitution and By-laws of the Society, the Records of Proceedings of all meetings of the Society, and all other matters of which a record shall be ordered by the Society.

SEC. 2. Curator. The Curator shall list and preserve the originals of all letters, papers, and addresses, and other material proper to be preserved, and shall have the care and charge of all books, papers, records, writings, and relics, or other collections of this Society; he shall make a catalog of all such documents, papers, relics, and collections of the Society (designating the same as property, loans, or deposits) as shall come into his hands; he shall be held responsible to the Society for the care and safe custody of all its properties, and under no circumstances shall any person, whether officer or member, be suffered or permitted to take from such place or places, as shall be designated by the Society as its repository, any item or article of its property of whatever kind or nature, except by resolution of its Board of Directors.

At each stated meeting of the Society the Curator shall report in writing a list of books, papers, relics, and so forth, that have been acquired by gift, loan, or purchase, by the Society since the last stated meeting, and a like list of same that may have been lost since the preceding stated meeting, with such information as he may have concerning the same.

SEC. 3. Treasurer. The Treasurer shall collect and safely keep all the funds belonging to the Society, and disburse the same only on the order of the Board of Directors, and he shall make a full report of the financial condition of the Society at each annual meeting.

SEC. 4. Duties of Directors. The Directors shall consider and determine what books, papers, records, writings, relics, and other historic material shall be purchased for the Society.

The Board of Directors shall have general management of the affairs of the Society.

At any meeting of the Board of Directors five members shall constitute a quorum to transact business.

The President of this Society shall be ex-officio Chairman of the

Board of Directors, and meetings of the Board shall be held subject to his call.

ARTICLE II-ORDER OF BUSINESS

At each meeting of the Society, or Board, the order of business shall be as follows:

1.

2.

Reading of minutes.

Presentation of petitions, letters, memorials or papers which require action, and may be referred to committees for report. Nomination and election of officers.

3.

The By-laws of this Society may be amended at any time by a majority vote of the members.

THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF IOWA

Mr. W. F. Main, of Iowa City, has been elected a Life Member of the Society.

The Executive Journal of Iowa, 1838-1841, was issued by the Society in September, 1906.

Curators L. G. Weld, B. F. Shambaugh, and J. W. Rich have been appointed to serve as a general committee on the Semi-Centennial Celebration of the Constitution of Iowa which will be held at Iowa City sometime in 1907.

At the September meeting of the Board of Curators Mr. Abraham Jacobson, of Decorah, Iowa, and Mr. H. A. Mueller, of St. Charles, Iowa, were elected members of the Society.

The following local historical societies have recently been enrolled as auxiliary members of The State Historical Society of Iowa: The Madrid Historical Society (Madrid, Iowa); the Webster County Historical Society (Fort Dodge, Iowa); and the Boone County Histori ical Society (Boone, Iowa).

NOTES AND COMMENT

The Iowa Library Association will hold its annual meeting, October 10-12, at Ottumwa. The Society of the Iowa Library School will hold its fourth annual reunion at the same place on Wednesday evening, October 10th.

At Fort Dodge, Iowa, on August 7, 1906, the United States flag was raised on a pole erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution on the spot where a half century before the United States flag had been raised by the U. S. troops.

The Scottish Historical Review completes the third volume with the July, 1906, number. Some of the contributions in this issue are: The Connexion Between Scotland and Man, by Arthur W. Moore; The Cardinal and the King's Will, by Andrew Lang; The 'Diary' of Sir Thomas Hope (1633-45) Lord Advocate (1616-46), by James Colville; The Early History of the Scots Darien Company, by Hiram Bingham; and The Reign of Edward II, as Recorded in 1356, by Sir Thomas Gray in the Scalacronica,' translated by Herbert Maxwell.

The report of the Trustees of the Newberry Library for 1905 gives the number of volumes in the library on January 1, 1906, as 283,458, an increase of 9,766 during the past year. The number of open days was 295; the number of visitors was 84, 141; and the number of books consulted aggregated 132,715. The commercial assets of the library are over three hundred thousand dollars; while the expenditure for books and fittings during the past fourteen years exceed a half million.

The earthquake which proved so disastrous to San Francisco occurred on April 18, 1906. On April 21st, Governor Pardee appointed a commission composed of experts to inquire into the earthquake phenomena in all parts of the State of California. The Com

The Com

mission met on April 24th and organized. The preliminary report was submitted May 31, 1906, and published soon after. mission will continue its inquiries by instituting a campaign for the collection of all data relating to the earthquake, the final discussion of which will appear in a later report.

Following the visit of President William McKinley at Boone, Iowa, in October, 1898, there was placed on Story street, near the C. & N. W. Ry. crossing, a stone bearing the following inscription:

PRESIDENT

WILLIAM MCKINLEY
Addressed the People

on this spot

Oct. 11, A. D., 1898

The marking of this historic spot was accomplished through popular subscription inspired by articles which appeared at the time in the Standard.

At St. Louis, Missouri, on September 22, 1906, there was unveiled, under the auspices of the Civic League of St. Louis and the Missouri Historical Society, a bronze tablet to the memory of General William Clark. The tablet, which is the gift of the National Bank of Commerce, bears the following inscription:

Here Lived and Died

WILLIAM CLARK

1770-1838

of the

LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION

Soldier, Explorer, Territorial Governor, Superintendent

of Indian Affairs

Erected September 23, 1906

The One Hundredth Anniversary of the

Return of the Expedition

Dr. Reuben Gold Thwaites, Superintendent of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, delivered the principal address, which was on "William Clark, Soldier, Explorer, Statesman."

A memorial stone has been erected in Nevada, Iowa, on the site of the first Nevada home, which was occupied on October 11, 1853,