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 Legislation 229 complete order and is now occupied by these wards of the Association. The total cost of this property was $14.99.08, leaving a balance of $374.32, which is now at interest for the benefit of the family. This balance should be increased by further subscriptions to an amount sufficiently large to produce, at 5 per cent interest, an annual income that will feed and clothe the two orphan children, thus relieving the mother of this responsibility. There is HOUSE AT KEY WEST, FLORIDA, PURCHASED BY NATIONAL ASSOCIATION WITH CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE BRADLEY FUND, FOR THE WIDOW AND CHILDREN OF WARDEN BRADLEY stili another duty to perform in this connection. Guy Bradley's grave is at East Cape Sable, on a high ridge of snow-white sea-shells, shaded by cocoa- nut palms and overlooking the sea. It is a beautiful and most appropriate locality, but the lonely grave is unenclosed and unmarked. It should be considered a privilege as well as a duty by this Association to erect a suitable stone over the remains of one who so faithfully performed his duty, even to the extent of giving up his life. LEGISLATION A whole report could be written on this subject alone, for the question of laws is almost always before the Association. It is true that every alter- nate year the question is not quite so absorbing as it was the previous year; for instance, in 1906 legislative sessions were held in only fourteen states and the District of Columbia, while, during the coming year (1907) sessions