Report of Executive Committee To the Virginia State Bar Association: In compliance with the wishes of this Association so unmistakably expressed at its last meeting, your Committee has brought you once more to the seashore. The question of chartering a Boston steamboat and holding our sessions on the water was first taken up and referred to a sub-committee, who investigated the matter. The scheme proved to be impracticable, and was abandoned at an early date. The old Hygeia having disappeared, to the regret of many who were attached to it by delightful memories of the past, your Committee found itself practically shut up to the Chamberlin as the only available place of meeting. Notwithstanding this fact, the proprietor, Mr. Adams, met us in a liberal spirit, and the arrangements made for your entertainment are all that we could wish under the circumstances. It is gratifying to realize here in so large a measure the assurances of Brother Old and other salt-water members, who told us that this section of the State was cooler and freer from mosquitoes in August than in July. A long and deep-seated prejudice has thus been removed, to the infinite advantage of Old Point Comfort, and to the everlasting credit of those who made the discovery. As appears from the Treasurer's report, our financial condition is excellent, there being a balance on hand of $642.68 as against $389.16 last year. But this does not tell the whole story. You ought to know that your Committee, after many tender appeals and vain remonstrances, has recently been compelled to drop 28 of our members for non-payment of dues. The amount owing by them was $550.00, and there remains in addition a delinquent list of those now in arrears from $5.00 to $15.00, aggregating $655.00, making a total of $1,205 which should be, but is not, in your treasury; and most of this is due by people who could easily pay if they would. All of which indicates that there is somehow lacking a proper sense of our obligations to the Association. REPORT OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE con Your Committee received not long since the resignation of your most efficient Secretary and Treasurer, Mr. Eugene C. Massie. Owing to the pressure of other business, Mr. Massie wished to be relieved of this office at once, which was accordingly done. Your Committee had the power to fill the vacancy by election of a successor to the retiring Secretary, but inasmuch as the next meeting of this body was so near at hand, your Committee preferred not to take action in the premises, but leave the Association free to make its own choice. In the meanwhile, your Committee requested Mr. John B. Minor to assume the duties of Secretary and Treasurer, and he sented to do so with the understanding that Mr. Massie would instruct him in all necessary details. The Committee is under obligations to Mr. Minor for his timely assistance. In this connection your Committee can not refrain from expressing its high appreciation of the services rendered this Association by Mr. Massie in his most responsible and important office. Having filled the position for a period of nine years (more than twice as long as either of his predecessors), discharging his difficult duties with painstaking care, with singular tact and fine ability, and ever planning for the good of this Association with a zeal born of devotion to its interests, he takes with him in his retirement the esteem and best wishes of his brethren. Since our last meeting the following members have departed this life: Nov. 21, 1904, Thomas C. Elder, Staunton, Virginia. Nov. 22, 1904, John G. Guerrant, Christiansburg, Virginia. Nov. 26, 1904, James R. V. Daniel, Richmond, Virginia. Dec. 21, 1904, Lloyd T. Smith, Heathsville, Virginia. Dec. 28, 1904, Walter B. Richards, Front Royal, Virginia. Jan. 11, 1905, William B. Pettit, Palmyra, Virginia. Mch. 30, 1905, John Baldwin Ranson, Staunton, Virginia. Your Committee acknowledges itself under renewed obligations to Mr. W. H. Fitzgerald, of the Associated Railways; Mr. W. H. Callahan, of the Norfolk & Washington Steamboat Company, and Messrs. H. W. Fuller and W. O. Warthen, of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, for their kindness in securing special rates to our members and their families and friends at tending this meeting. Ohio, which makes no The railways (except the Baltimore & concession), charge a single fare plus twenty-five cents, and the Washington Steamboat line makes a one and one-third fare rate. The program of our exercises for this occasion is complete, except in one particular. We are accustomed to have papers read by three of our members, whereas only two of the writers engaged for this service will favor us, viz., the Hon. Archer A. Phlegar and Col. William L. Royall. Hon. Micajah Woods, of Charlottesville, who was to present the third paper, is unavoidably absent. Your Committee feels that the high standard which this Association has set for itself in the past will be well maintained, if not raised a little higher, by the distinguished gentlemen who are to address us. Your Committee counts itself especially happy in having secured the Hon. Hannis Taylor, of Alabama, as the Annual Orator. Some of us have heard him at other times, some have known him through his luminous legal treatises, and others by his reputation as a jurist and diplomat. All of us are proud of his fame, and extend to him a hearty welcome as our special guest. Three vacancies on the Executive Committee need to be filled at this time. Messrs. Wyndham R. Meredith and A. W. Patterson retire under the three-year limit, and Mr. M. P. Burks has resigned because of his inability to attend meetings. His successor will be elected for the unexpired term of two years. The other two members for the full term of three years each. Respectfully submitted, A. W. PATTERSON, Chairman. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON ADMISSIONS Report of Committee on Admissions REPORT NO. 1. THE CHAMBERLIN, OLD POINT COMFORT, VA. To the Virginia State Bar Association: Your Committee on the Admission of Members have the honor and beg leave to report as follows: That, pursuant to the published call of the Committee, they met at this place on the evening of the seventh day of August, 1905, and it appearing that G. D. Letcher, a member of the Committee for the 18th Judicial Circuit, was absent, under the by-law providing for such contingency, the President of the Association appointed T. N. Haas, of the same circuit, to act in his place, and George St. Claire, member for the 22nd Circuit being absent, Judge S. C. Graham, of Tazewell Bar, was appointed in his stead, and Preston W. Campbell, member for the 23rd Circuit, Jos. L. Kelly, of the Bristol Bar, was appointed to fill his place; and the Secretary of the Committee being also absent, Otho Mears, Eastville, Va., was elected Secretary pro tempore; and the Committee as constituted, to wit: Present, E. E. Stickley, Otho Mears, Robert B. Mumford, Jr., Judge S. C. Graham, T. N. Haas and Joseph L. Kelly, a quorum, proceeded to the business before it. Upon their respective applications properly authenticated, the following gentlemen were unanimously elected members of the Virginia State Bar Association: 7. John S. Parsons 8. Hugh Glen Morison 9. S. G. Hamner 10. Warner Ames 11. J. U. Burges 12. Charles E. Plummer 13. Edwin Enoch Garrett 14. G. W. Wingfield 15. John Weymouth 16. J. Norman Powell Accomac . Bristol Lynchburg Onancock .. Suffolk Petersburg Leesburg Roanoke Hampton Bristol All which action of your Committee is respectfully submitted to the Association and reported for confirmation. REPORT NO. 2. E. E. STICKLEY, Chairman. OLD POINT COMFORT, To the Virginia State Bar Association: Your Committee on the Admission of Members have the honor to report, that at the first adjourned meeting of the Committee, a quorum being present, upon their applications, properly and regularly endorsed, the following gentlemen were unanimously elected members of the Association: All the above action is respectfully submitted to the Associa tion for confirmation. E. E. STICKLEY, Chairman. |