ÆäÀÌÁö À̹ÌÁö
PDF
ePub

The President:

It was rendered necessary by the fact that Mr. Voorhees has been elected a member of the Executive Committee. Has South Dakota any nomination to make to fill the vacancy?

Tore Teigen, of South Dakota:

Yes, sir. South Dakota nominates Mr. U. S. G. Cherry of Sioux Falls.

The President:

The nomination is ratified, there being no objection.

E. T. Florance, of Louisiana:

I move that the Assistant Secretary cast the ballot of the Association for the election of the nominees recommended by the General Council as the unanimous choice of the American Bar Association for the respective offices for which they are named. Henry Stockbridge, of Maryland :

I second that motion.

The President:

All in favor of the motion will say aye; opposed, no. The motion is unanimously carried.

The Assistant Secretary:

I have cast the ballot of the Association as directed.

The President:

I declare the nominees duly and regularly elected officers of the Association for the ensuing year.

I will ask Mr. Frank B. Kellogg to step to the platform.

The newly elected President, Frank B. Kellogg, of Minnesota, was then escorted to the President's chair.

The President:

I take great pleasure in presenting the President-elect, Mr. Kellogg. I will only say that in my opinion the Presidency of this Association is a very great distinction and in this instance it has been most worthily bestowed.

President-elect Kellogg:

I fully realize the great distinction, and I thank you heartily for the honor. I hope I may maintain the high standard set by the distinguished Presidents who have preceded me.

The Association then adjourned sine die.

GEORGE WHITELOCK,

Secretary.

SECRETARY'S REPORT

MILWAUKEE, WIS., August 27, 1912.

To the American Bar Association:

The report of the proceedings of the last annual meeting held at Boston, Mass., August, 1911, has been printed and distributed to all the members of the Association, to all State Bar Associations and legal journals, and to a large number of libraries in the United States and abroad. For the purpose of keeping the size of the report within reasonable limits, the lists of members were printed in smaller type and in double columns and the special list of new members was omitted, and, as a substitute therefor, appropriate marks and explanatory notes were inserted in the state list of members. The space thus saved was 159 printed pages, and the cost of printing the report was likewise reduced.

There were 4639 members of the Association at the close of the last meeting. A special committee on increase of membership has been since constituted with Mr. Charles J. O'Connor of Illinois as Chairman. The Executive Committee has elected 564 new members in the interval between the meeting of 1911 and the meeting of 1912.

The membership of the Association now includes representatives of all the states, the District of Columbia, the insular possessions of Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands.

Invitations were sent to all State Bar Associations to send three delegates to the present meeting. There are in existence 46 State Bar Associations; and also the Bar Association of the District of Columbia, the Bar Association of the Hawaiian Islands, and about 506 local Bar Associations.

The reports for this year of the Committees on Judicial Administration and Remedial Procedure; Commercial Law; Law Reporting and Digesting; Patent, Trade Mark and Copyright Law; Insurance Law; Uniform State Laws; Special Com

mittee on Government Liens on Real Estate; the Committee to Suggest Remedies and Formulate Proposed Laws to Prevent Delay and Unnecessary Cost of Litigation; the Special Committee to Present to Congress Bills Relating to Courts of Admiralty; the Committee on Compensation for Industrial Accidents and their Prevention; the Committee on Publicity; the report of the Comparative Law Bureau and the special report of the Executive Committee were all printed and distributed by mail to the members of the Association fifteen days before this meeting.

Under the direction of the newly constituted Committee on Publicity, of which Mr. Charles A. Boston of New York is Chairman, synopses of the various addresses and committee reports of the present meeting were printed and copies sent to all of the press associations for release on appropriate dates.

The Secretary's office has continued to supply upon request copies of the Code of Professional Ethics adopted by the Association.

Notices were duly sent by the Secretary to all standing and special committees, requesting their attention to such matters as were particularly referred to them.

A register of those in attendance is kept in the corner store on the main floor of the Hotel Pfister, except during the sessions of the Association when the register is kept at the place of meeting. Every member and delegate is requested to sign it as early as convenient. A list of those present will be printed for distribution at the meetings, and will also be included in the report of the proceedings. Copies of the Constitution and By-Laws, lists of officers, and members of committees, copies of committee reports and forms of nominations can be had at the Hotel Pfister, or at the place of meeting.

The Secretary endeavors to keep the street address of each member, and notification of change of address is requested. Respectfully submitted,

August 27, 1912.

GEO. WHITELOCK,
Secretary.

TREASURER'S REPORT

1912-1913.

Dr.

To cash on hand at date of last report......
To cash received subscriptions to annual dinner
at Boston, Mass., August, 1911

To cash received rebate on wine used at annual dinner

To cash received from the sale of copies of the annual reports of the Association, by Secretary Whitelock, during the year 1911-1912.. To cash received from express companies being amounts overcharged on shipments made by Secretary in February, March and April, 1912

To interest on funds deposited in Albany Trust
Company, Albany, N. Y., special interest
account to July 1, 1912

To cash received dues of members for 1908 (1)
To cash received dues of members for 1909 (3)
To cash received dues of members for 1910 (10)
To cash received dues of members for 1911 (229)
To cash received dues of members for 1912 (3449)
To cash received dues of members for 1913 (57)

[blocks in formation]

Total receipts

1911.

Credit by Disbursements as follows:

Sept. 1. By cash paid Benjamin F. Teel, Boston, for music furnished at annual dinner at Boston, August 31, 1911

1. By cash paid Hotel Somerset, Boston,
for annual dinner, wine, etc.,

August 31, 1911

Carried forward

80.00

18,745.00

$30,817.68

2,982.05

$3,062.05 $30,817.68

« ÀÌÀü°è¼Ó »