Excerpt from Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, 1919, Vol. 2 The Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania finding that its present building is entirely inadequate for its needs desires to make a large addition to the structure in accordance with the original plans. To that end it proposes to ask the present session of the legislature to appropriate a sufficient sum. The legislature of 1911 appropriated to the society for the erection of thelfront portion of its building with the understanding that a much larger sum would be appropriated later on to complete the structure in accordance with plans then submitted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.