Sec. 31. The Executive Committee shall consist of seven members. The President and Secretary of the Association, and the chairman of each of the other standing committees, shall constitute the committee. They shall have general management of the affairs of the Association, make arrangements for meetings, including, as far as may be, the obtaining of reasonable accommodations at, and of reasonable transportation to and from, the place of meeting; shall order the disbursement of the funds of the Association, audit the accounts, and have such other powers as may be conferred on them by these By-Laws or by a vote of the Association.

Sec. 32. The Committee on Admissions shall consist of nine members. All applications for membership shall be referred to this committee. They shall report to the Association the names of such persons as they deem suitable for membership, and shall seek to bring in all the lawyers of the state fitted to become members. What occurs at the meetings of this committee shall be considered confidential, except such matters as shall be publicly reported to the Association. Any ten members may appeal, in writing, to the Association from the failure or refusal of this committee to report favorably any application for membership.

Sec. 33. The Committeee on Grievances shall consist of nine members. They shall hear all complaints preferred by one member against another for misconduct in his relations to the profession or to this Association, provided the same be in writing, particularly stating the matters complained of, and signed by the complainant. They may also hear any specific complaints made by any member, affecting the interest of the profession, the practice of law or the administration of justice; and may report thereon to the Association, with such recommendations as they deem advisable. No report shall be made adversely to any member until after notice to him, with full opportunity to defend and to meet his accusers and witnesses face to face. The adverse action of this committee must be approved by a vote of not less than two-thirds of the members present and voting. It shall also be the duty of this committee to institute and carry forward all

measures necessary for the maintenance of a high standard of professional integrity and honor, by opposing the admission to the bar of incompetent, dishonest and immoral persons, and by instituting proceedings for the expulsion from the bar of members thereof, guilty of improper, immoral or dishonest conduct. What occurs at the meetings of this committee shall be considered confidential, excepting such matters as shall be publicly reported to the Association.

Sec. 34. The Committee on Law Reform shall consist of seven members. They shall consider and report to the Association such amendments of the law as they shall deem beneficial, oppose such as they shall deem injurious, observe the practical working of the judicial system of the state, and recommend from time to time such action as they shall deem best.

Sec. 35. The Committee on Legal Education shall consist of five members. They shall report from time to time such changes as they shall deem it expedient to make in the system of legal education and of admission to the practice of law in the state.

Sec. 36. The Committee on Legal Biography shall consist of five members. They shall provide for the preservation, among the records of the Association, of such facts relating to the history of the profession as may be of interest, and of suitable memorials of the lives and characters of deceased members of the Association.

Sec. 37. All standing committees and vacancies therein shall be filled by appointment of the President, he designating the chairman, to serve until the expiration of the next annual meeting and the appointment of their successors. They shall make rules for their government, keep minutes of their proceedings, and make annual reports to the Association. They may provide, by rule, that formal matters requiring attention between meetings may be voted on by letter, and that a failure of any member to attend three successive meetings shall cause his membership in the committee to become vacant. The rules adopted by one committee shall govern the succeeding committees until altered.

Sec. 38. Such other committees may be appointed or elected from time to time as shall be deemed expedient; but, except by a

vote of the Association, no matter shall be referred to a special committee which is within the province of any of the standing committees.

Sec. 39. A majority of any committee shall constitute a quorum. In case of necessity, the annual report of the standing committees may be prepared and adopted by less than a quorum (the necessity therefor being shown, however, by the report).

VII. DUES.

Sec. 40. The current year of the Association shall commence on the first day of July, and the annual dues shall be payable on that date. Active members shall pay five dollars per year. The admission fee shall be five dollars, and shall include the first year's dues. Honorary members shall pay no admission fee or dues. Active members who become non-resident of Colorado shall thereafter pay no dues.

Sec. 41. The Treasurer shall, after diligently seeking to collect the same, and with notice to the member of this By-Law, report to the Executive Committee the names of all members who are one year in arrears for their dues, and that committee may, by rule or direct vote on that report, declare that, by reason thereof, such persons have ceased to be members of the Association.

Sec. 42. Any member may be suspended or expelled for misconduct in matters connected with the Association, or in his personal or professional relations, after conviction thereof by the Committee on Grievances, and the approval of such conviction by this Association.

Sec. 43. If any member is disbarred from practice in the Supreme Court, such disbarment shall work a forfeiture of his membership until the disbarment be set aside or reversed. Reinstatement to practice shall not reinstate to membership, unless by a vote of the Association upon recommendation of the Committeee on Admissions.

Sec. 44. A member's interest in the property of the Association shall cease with his membership.

IX. AMENDMENTS.

Sec. 45. Amendments may be made to these By-Laws only at an annual meeting, and by a vote of two-thirds of the members present; and no amendment shall be considered (except by unanimous consent of those present) unless a copy of the same shall have been sent to the Secretary, and notice of the intention to offer the same shall have been included in the call for the annual meeting.

CODE OF ETHICS.

The purity and efficiency of judicial administration which, under our system, is largely government itself, depend as much upon the character, conduct and demeanor of attorneys in this great trust, as upon the fidelity and learning of courts, or the honesty and intelligence of juries.

"There is, perhaps, no profession after that of the sacred ministry, in which a high-toned morality is more imperatively necessary than that of the law. There is certainly, without any exception, no profession in which so many temptations beset the path to swerve from the lines of strict integrity; in which so many delicate and difficult questions of duty are constantly arising. There are pitfalls and man-traps at every step, and the mere youth, at the very outset of his career, needs often the prudence and self-denial, as well as the moral courage, which belong commonly to riper years. High moral principle is his only safe guide; the only torch to light his way amidst darkness and obstruction."-Sharswood.

No rule will determine an attorney's duty in the varying phases of every case. What is right and proper must, in the absence of statutory rules and an authoritative code, be ascertained in view of the peculiar facts, in the light of conscience, and the conduct of honorable and distinguished attorneys in similar cases, and by analogy to the duties enjoined by the statute, and the rules of good neighborhood.

The following general rules are adopted by The Colorado Bar Association for the guidance of its members:

DUTY OF ATTORNEYS TO COURTS AND JUDICIAL OFFICERS.

1. The respect enjoined by law for courts and judicial officers is exacted for the sake of the office, and not for the individual who administers it. Bad opinion of the incumbent, however well founded, can not excuse the withholding of the respect due the office, while administering its functions.

2. The proprieties of the judicial station, in a great measure, disable the judge from defending himself against strictures upon his official conduct. For this reason, and because such criticisms tend to impair public confidence in the administration of justice, attorneys should, as a rule, refrain from published criticism of judicial conduct, especially in reference to causes in which they have been of counsel, otherwise than in courts of review, or when the conduct of a judge is necessarily involved in determining his removal from or continuance in office.