As changed, I recommend that the resolution be adopted by the meeting as read.”
ThisMotionwas seconded, and carried.
CAPTAIN N. J. BLACKWOOD, U. S. N.:—The Committee on Forms has held two meetings at which the general subject of this work was discussed and plans agreed upon. This work is so great that your Committee finds it impossible to report more than progress at present. The whole matter must be gone into carefully and thoroughly in order to avoidmistakes and duplications of the past. The work, to be a success, will require frequent meetings, careful study and cooperation. Therefore, it seems wise that all members of the Committee be officers on duty in Washington, and I recommend that the present chairman, Captain Blackwood, be relieved, and that his place be filled by Captain M. S. Elliott, Commanding Officer of the Naval Hospital; also, that all Commanding Officers here present shall, as soon as possible after returning to their respective commands, take up the subject of forms and paper work regarding Veterans’ Bureau patients, and as soon thereafter as possible submit to the Veterans’ Bureau, Washington, recommendations and suggestions for the elimination, provision and simplification both of the forms themselves and their numbers.
Upon receipt of these letters, your Committee will then take up the whole subject in a more comprehensive way and will, as soon as possible, submit its recommendations for your consideration and approval.
TheMOTIONwas seconded and carried.
Meeting adjourned at 12:30 P. M.
Meeting adjourned at 12:30 P. M.
Meeting adjourned at 12:30 P. M.