proved by the Executive Council may become a
member by paying $1.00 and after the first year may continue a
member by paying an annual fee of one dollar. Persons paying
$2.00 annually become both members of the Association and
subscribers to the JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY. On the payment of
$30.00 any person may become a life member, exempt from
assessments. Persons not resident in the United States may be
elected honorary members and shall be exempt from any payment of
assessments. Members organized as clubs for the study of the
Negro shall gratuitously receive from the Director such
instruction in this field as may be given by mail.

IV. The Officers of this Association shall be a President, a
Secretary-Treasurer, a Director of Research and Editor, and an
Executive Council, consisting of the free foregoing officers and
twelve other members elected by the Association. The Association
shall elect three members of the Executive Council as trustees.
It shall also appoint a business committee to certify bills and
to advise the Director in matters of administrative nature. These
officers shall be elected by ballot through the mail or at each
annual meeting of the Association.

V. The President and Secretary-Treasurer shall perform the duties
usually devolving on such officers. The Director of Research and
Editor shall devise plans for the collection of documents, direct
the studies of members and determine what matter shall be
published in the JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY. The Executive Council
shall have charge of the general interests of the Association;
including the election of members, the calling of meetings, the
collection, and disposition of funds.

VI. This Constitution may be amended at any biennial meeting,
notice of such amendment having been given at the previous
biennial meeting or the proposed amendment having received the
approval of the Executive Council.

The last session of the Association was held Wednesday evening at the
Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church. In the absence of Dr. J. E.
Moorland, Professor John R. Hawkins presided. The first address was
delivered by Mr. Charles H. Wesley on "The Negro Soldier in the
Confederate Army." Mr. Wesley's address was scholarly and
illuminating. He showed that he had made extensive research in this
field in that