Secretary Minor: It will have to lie on the table for the present. I will read the proposed amendment. Resolved, That the first paragraph of Article VII of the Constitution of this Association be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows: "This Association shall meet annually at such time and place as the Executive Committee may select, and those present at such meetings shall constitute a quorum. Such notice of the meeting shall be given as may be prescribed in the by-laws." ROBERT M. HUGHES, GEO. BRYAN, GEO. S. HARNSBERGER, LEWIS C. WILLIAMS. The Association then took a recess until 8:30 o'clock P. M. EVENING SESSION. HOT SPRINGS, VA., Tuesday, August 4, 1914. The Association was called to order by the President at 8:30 o'clock P. M. The President: Ladies and Gentlemen-I have the pleasure of presenting to-night Mr. Lewis C. Williams, of the city of Richmond, who has kindly consented to read a paper on the subject of "Employers' Liability and Workmen's Compensation Law." Mr. Williams then read his paper. (See Appendix.) The President: I am sure that I only express the wishes of the Association in extending to Mr. Williams its thanks for the very interesting and instructive paper he has just read. The next business of the Association is the report of the Committee to Recommend Officers. Judge L. L. Lewis, of Richmond: Mr. President, I was under the impression that that Committee was to report to-morrow morning; I ask that that be done. Secretary Minor: I move that the time of the committee be extended. (Seconded and adopted.) . The President: The next business is the report of the Committee on Legislation and Law Reform; Mr. Machen is the chairman of that committee. Mr. Machen: Mr. President, our committee has met with the same difficulty this year as last year, the difficulty of getting together and making a report. I ask that the committee be given further time. On motion, the committee's time was extended. Secretary Minor: Mr. President, I have in my hand a report from the Committee on the Reform of our Judicial Procedure, which has been handed me by a member of the committee with the request that I read the report, which I will do. (See report at end of minutes.) Secretary Minor: Mr. President, I move that the report be received and filed and the committee authorized to appoint such sub-committees outside of its own membership for the purpose of carrying out the objects in view, as they deem necessary. (Seconded and adopted.) Secretary Minor: Mr. President, I have a couple of motions to make. One is that action on the Constitutional Amendment which was offered this morning be made the special order for to-morrow morning immediately after the reading of the paper. I think it is desirable that the members should know at what time that will come up. The President: If there is no objection, it will be so ordered. Secretary Minor: The Executive Committee in its report this morning referred to a communication from Mr. Preston Cocke, in which he suggests that the members of the Association individually unite to aid the revisors of the Code in the way of suggesting to them amendments to cure defects in existing statutes. The idea appeals to me, and I have prepared a resolution which I desire to submit along that line. WHEREAS, The last General Assembly, in response to the insistent recommendation of this Association, made provision for a full and complete revision of the Code; and, WHEREAS, The Governor has selected for this important work men whose ability, character, and general qualifications insure the successful performance of their great task; and, WHEREAS, This Association desires to evidence its great interest and sympathy in the work of this commission: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That each member of this Association be requested to report to the Revision Commission such statutes as in his judgment should be repealed or amended, with the reasons therefore, accompanied by a draft of the proposed amending act. Mr. A. W. Patterson, of Richmond: Mr. President, may I ask if there has been any suggestion coming from the revisors themselves as to such action? Mr. Secretary Minor: The same thing occurred to me. Cocke says, "The writer has reason to believe that the revisors will welcome the suggestions, provided they are concisely stated and practical." I wrote to Mr. Cocke and said that I thought the best way to get at this was for the revisors to request the Association to take such action; and he replied to me that he had consulted with one of the revisors who said they would welcome the suggestions of the Association, but for some reason the revisors did not want to ask the Association to take action. I do not know the reason. This is a matter in which the Association has been deeply interested for several years and has fought for very persistently; and now that we have a Code Revision Commission, I think a large number of the lawyers of the State would, voluntarily, in order to aid them, call their attention to any particular statutes which have come under their observation which seem to need amendment or repeal. But I do believe that action taken by the Association in this connection would call their attention more particularly to it and cause them to do it when otherwise they would not. I think that outside of our individual interest, as an Association, we are deeply interested in having this work done as thoroughly and as expeditiously as possible. Judge A. W. Wallace, of Fredericksburg: Mr. President, is it in order to present the report of the Committee on Memorials? The President: I suppose so. Yes, sir. Judge Wallace: The committee held its meeting this morning, and I, as chairman, have the solemn duty of reading the list of brethren who have passed away since our last meeting, with the request that the committee be allowed to obtain memorials in memory of those of our brethren and have them recorded in the reports of our Association. I will read the list to the Association, and it contains the names which have been mentioned of members of our body and honored and dear friends of my own. 1. A. P. Gillespie, Tazewell, August 5, 1913. 3. P. P. Barbour, Gordonsville, January 26, 1914. 4. Chas. P. Jones, Highland county, February 22, 1914. 5. Thos. Lee Moore, Roanoke, March 11, 1913. 6. Allen Caperton Braxton, Richmond, March 22, 1914. 7. Richard C. Marshall, Portsmouth, April 5, 1914. 8. Thos. J. Watkins, Charlotte county, April 1, 1914. 9. Judge T. R. B. Wright, Tappahannock, April 20, 1914. 10. Judge J. Lawrence Campbell, Bedford, May, 1914. 11. Maurice A. Powers, Richmond, May 31, 1914. 12. Marvin H. Altizer, Roanoke. Mr. President, I desire to supplement this formal report by adding one laurel wreath as my tribute to the memory of some of those whose lives I know, men who fought as soldiers in defense of their country, men who adorned their profession as lawyers, men who ennobled their lives as good citizens, men who I may even say decorated the precincts of religion by their spiritual lives. I feel, sir, as the shadows of my own life are lengthening, as it approaches its sunset, the peculiar value of a well-spent life. The happiness of my own life now is largely in the memory of the good deeds I have been able to do in the past. Some years ago I stood on that great boulder of northernmost Europe which raises its adamantine beak high out of the sea as if to defy all the ice-towers of the Arctic Ocean, and there I witnessed at midnight the golden grandeurs of the setting sun mingled with the soft, silvery shadows of the morning sky; and as I stood, at that weird hour, wrapped in silent admiration and awe, there was nothing in human affairs to which I could compare this scene save the well-spent life of the good man, who on his pathway has shed peace and happiness and joy and beneficence, whose patriotism, whose conservatism, whose charity and whose religion have left halos of glory behind them, and now, as he approaches the allotted time, the radiance of the eternal morning is unveiled to his illumined eyes. Our brethren have passed over the river, but those that I know on this list have only exchanged their mortal vesture for |