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A considerable number of members are one or more years behind in their dues, and they are urgently requested to pay these arrears as soon as possible, not only because the treasury is in need of the money, but because they will otherwise lose interest in the Association and ultimately be dropped for delinquency. On June 30, 1914, the delinquency was as follows:

One hundred and seven members owed $5.00 each..
Forty-five members owed $10.00 each...
Twenty-eight members owed $15.00 each..
Twenty-one members owed $20.00 each.

Eighteen members owed $25.00 each..

Total delinquency as of June 30, 1914.

$ 535.00

450.00

420.00

420.00

450.00

$2,275.00

SUMMARIZED STATEMENT.

The following is a summarized statement of my transactions as Treasurer from July 1, 1913, to July 1, 1914.

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As will appear from my detailed accounts as Treasurer, which have been examined and certified by the Auditing Committee, the total receipts from July 1, 1913, to July 1, 1914, including the balance of $966.54 on hand July 1, 1913, have been $3,071.54, and the total expenditures have been $2,359.61, leaving a balance in the treasury of $711.93. These receipts and disbursements are classified as follows:

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Expenses incident to preparation for meeting of 1913..$ 67.49

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pamphlet copies of addresses, with expenses incident
thereto...

680.02

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II. OUTSIDE OBLIGATIONS.

There are at present no outstanding obligations.

III. RESOURCES AND PROBABLE EXPENSES.

The resources of the Association for the year beginning July 1, 1914, are estimated at $3,211.93, as follows:

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The probable expenses of the Association for the year are estimated at $3,025.00 as follows:

Printing and distributing Annual Report for 1914.

Stenographer at Annual Meeting, 1914...

Banquet, and expenses incident to Annual Meeting..

Contribution to Association for Preservation of Virginia An

tiquities, for preservation of home of Chief Justice Marshall..

Salary of Secretary-Treasurer.

$ 700.00

75.00

1,000.00

250.00

300.00

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To the Executive Committee of the Virginia State Bar Association:

We have examined the accounts of Mr. John B. Minor, Treasurer, for the year ending June 30, 1914, and find the same correct and supported by proper vouchers.

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TIVE

REPORT OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

To the Virginia State Bar Association:

The Executive Committee respectfully submits its annual report as follows:

At a meeting held in Richmond in October, 1913, arrangements were made for the present meeting. The place selected was the White Sulphur Springs. Subsequent developments, however, induced your committee at a later conference to change the place to the Hot Springs, which pleasant experience has demonstrated to be capable of furnishing entertainment to the members of the Association of an abundance and variety which permits of no just exception.

The report of this committee to the meeting held here a year ago, spoke of the question of time and place as "a recurring problem, in the solution of which the committee is able to meet the wishes of the Association only so far as is possible within a very limited range of selection." The suggestion has taken definite shape in a resolution drawn by Mr. Robert M. Hughes, of Norfolk, which will be presented at this session, amending the Constitution so as to permit the holding of the annual meetings at other times than in July and August. The object of the resolution is to authorize the Association to meet during the fall, winter or spring. Our annual sessions could then be held in Norfolk, Lynchburg, Richmond, Roanoke, Charlottesville, Lexington or other places, thus bringing the Association in closer touch with the local bar, with the probability of increasing at once its membership and usefulness.

The committee announces with pleasure that papers will be read at this meeting by Hon. Samuel J. Graham, Assistant Attorney-General of the United States; Prof. Charles A. Graves, of the University of Virginia; Mr. Lewis C. Williams, of the Richmond Bar, and Hon. Charles E. Littlefield, of the New York Bar.

Your committee has received from Mr. Preston Cocke, of the Richmond Bar, his written suggestion that each member of the

Association bring to the attention of the revisors of the Code of Virginia the repeal or amendment of any particular law, with his reasons stated concisely, but that he confine each recommendation to a single subject, thus saving an avalanche of such suggestions and the possible disregard by the revisors of many, if not all of them.

The annual meeting of the American Bar Association will be held in Washington, October 20, 21, and 22, 1914. One of the features of the meeting will be an excursion to Mount Vernon on Wednesday, October 21st, where President Keith, of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, will deliver an address of welcome. It has been suggested that the Virginia Bar Association appoint a committee to assist in arranging for the occasion. and to co-operate with the members of the committee of the American Bar Association in the matter, and your Executive Committee cordially endorses the suggestion.

Your committee has increased the annual allowance to the Secretary for expenses from $300 to $400.

The names of the eleven members of the Association who have died since the last meeting will be presented by the Committee on Obituaries.

The expiration of the terms of J. J. Leake and of George Bryan creates two vacancies in the Executive Committee to be filled at the meeting.

All of which is respectfully submitted,

GEORGE BRYAN, Chairman.

REPORTS OF COMMITTEE ON ADMISSIONS.

REPORT No. 1.

THE HOMESTEAD, HOT SPRINGS,
August 3, 1914.

To the Virginia State Bar Association:

After the passing of another year, under favor of a kind Providence, we are again permitted to meet and greet one another with the usual word of welcome, manifesting that fraternity of feeling common among the members of our profession.

Your committee has the honor to report: First-That since the last meeting of the Association in vacation, upon their applications duly approved by five members of your committee as provided by the Constitution and By-Laws, the following gentlemen were elected members of the Association:

1. R. B. Stephenson 2. William F. Clark.

Covington, Va. .Norfolk, Va.

Second-That, pursuant to the usual published call, your committee held its first meeting here at this date, and it appearing that M. W. Talbot, member of the Committee for the Second Judicial Circuit was absent, Jas. H. Corbitt, of the Suffolk Bar, was appointed in his place, and in the absence of W. T. Shields, of the Eighteenth Circuit, H. St. Geo. Tucker, of the Lexington Bar, was appointed in his stead. A quorum then being present, the committee proceeded with the work before it-after first re-electing Morgan P. Robinson, of Richmond, as Secretary.

Thereupon, upon their respective applications, properly authenticated, the following gentlemen were unanimously elected members of this Association:

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