of one hundred years— the constitution of 1816 and that of 1857. Two additional volumes are planned to include the message of the governors from territorial days to 1851.
Plans for the Illinois Centennial Celebration—Three historical agencies in Illinois are concentrating their energies on the preparation for the celebration of the statehood centennial anniversary in 1918. A general state-wide and local celebrations are planned. Episodes in Illinois history will be staged by suitable pageantry. A centennial history of five volumes has been contracted for. The preliminary volume surveying Illinois conditions in 1818 is published. The centemfial memo- rial building commission has raised the $100,000 to be added to the $125,000 appropriated by the geneial assembly Idr the erection of a montmient to the state's progress in tl^ la^ one hundred years.
