The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-06
No. II.
 pEpARTMrNT NOTES.
Annual Meeting of the Department Trustees.


 Trustees.
 The regular annual meeting of the Board of Trustees. required by law. was held in the office of the Director on Tuesday, October l. with the following ton of Mobile. Jefferson M; Falkner of { Mcntgornery, Hon. W. D. Jelks of Eu- faula Dr. J. H. Johnson of Talladega and Colonel Sam Win John of Birming, i;, ham. A full account of the meeting VIII be found in The Montgomery Advertiser It is a pleasure to the Director to be able to note that the meeting & vas rtroeut m evt work was highly commended. and found to be in a most satisfactory condition. Resolutions on the Death of Cover
 nor wm. !. Sanford.
 The following Is copy of the preamble md resolutions introduced by Colonel 5: ". John. and adopted by the Board Q, O. Trustees on tho death of Governor Sam ford. President of the Board:
 ..The public records are enriched by va rious and timely official utterances or our 6arna. inc Honorable William J. Sam ford, who earnestly and dutifuiiy appear cd to the law-making power ana to pup lie opinion to create an organized agency Of the State. charged with the work ana the responsibility of collecting, protect ing and laying open to students the ma terfal facts underlying the history or our State. In his last act of advocacy m a tnls natter which, in the breadth of his own culture and the ardor of his devotion nc had come to regard with most Intense interest he urged the General Assembly that whatever Of truth the living genera ton could evolve from career of It's own, even this was not more essential to the honor of the living than Is knowledge of the truths which inspired our fathers: and that therefore the State should lose mo time in a systematiZed effort to collect data, correct transformation and make permanent record of its history;
 And whereas, to the active, intelligent and ardent sympathy of our late Cover nor. William J. Sanford the Alabama Department of Archives and History is essentially indebted for it's opportunity Whereas. had he survived he would have presided, in all human probability. as Chairman of the first annual meeting smpars M ae toths .sso Board wisdom from his own I great store and the spirit of achievement from the singleness of his own lofty ideals. be 1t therefore:
 of; the Alabama Department of Archives and History is painfully conscious of its great loss in the premature demise of it's
 Resolved, further. That the Secretary he instructed to record this preamble and resolutions on the journal of the proceed inss of the Board of Trustees. to publish them in the press. and to send a copy to the family of the deceased"
 Books.
 The principal donors of books for the month of September are the Alabama s. Reese, Rev. J. B. K. Spain. Dr. Wm. M. Polk. Georgia Historical Society, City of Charleston. South Carolina Sbate Li- esa sontE csrolina. Svdfnas pr. Dr. V. C. Richardson, Rev. T. H. Ball, Judge w.. H. Thomas, United States Chief of Engineers. Colonel J. W. DuBose and Robert H; Cochran.
 Particular mention should be made of the excellent biography of Leonidas Polk. Bishop and General uSSD. in two volumes, presented by the author, pr of the Year Books of tthe city oi Charleston. two volumes. and of two vol umes of "rhe Old Church Path" Decem Der 1878. to November, 1880 the or gan at that time of the Protestant Epis- popal Church in Alabama. presented by Robert H. Cochran. Esq. of Tuscaloosa Other important additions are Waddelii ens'' 'srsPD.' snsPeD. siaushters % .History of Bris tol Parish, Va.." Qs7g; Moore's .Sketche of the Pioneers of Methodism tlae s, in Nortl .o, Csro1ina and NS4tb cOses Ssro1s $ [1sSO; Dr. J. l.. M. Curry's Civil His tory of the Government of the Confeder ate States with Some Personal Reminis Pinckney. in the Women. of Colonial and Revolutionary Times series CS96); Rave nel's life and Times of William lIowndes of South Carolina, 17s2-1s22." Q90D: Scott'i l'Recollections'' QssD; Cox's Atlanta Campaign ): wise,s Life of Henry A Wise of Virginia" QS99) General Joseph Wheeler's Santiago Campaign. 1888 'dss9: Chapmans History of Edgefield County. South Carolina;' Landrum's 6 '.Colonial History of Upper South Caro- lina;" and Landrums History of Spar tanburg County" South Carolina Q900) Newspaper Files.
 The Selma Daily Messenger, Feb. 21 Ise6 to January g, 1867. (Vol 1. No. 243 to Vol. ?, No. 200, bound book: presented Dy Mrs. J. E. Golson, Selma, Ala.
 Manuscripts and Relics.
 Original letter, dated New Market. Oct s1. 1864. from Thomas c. Jones. to his fa- fher, descriptive of the battle of Cedar Creek. presented by Hon. Thomas G. Jones' Montgomery.
 The following Military Papers of Major