An Act to Amend and Re-enact Section 206 of the Code of 1887. In addition to such duties as may be prescribed by the rules of the House, the Clerk of the House of Delegates shall, at the end of each session of the Assembly, prepare an index to the journal of the House and the documents printed during the session by order of the House, and deliver the same to the Superintendent of Public Printing. The said clerk shall, at the commencement of each session, make out and report to the General Assembly a condensed abstract from the reports made to him by the clerks of courts. And to the acts and resolutions of each session there shall be attached tables showing the times for the commencement of the regular terms of each circuit, county, or corporation court, and of the Supreme Court of Appeals, and the places at which separate polls have been established in each county, and of the wards in the several cities; also the names of the several magisterial districts in each county; and the names and numbers of the several wards in each city; list of commissioners in other states, appointed by the Governor; and a full account of the State indebtedness and an accurate statement of the receipts and expenditures of the public money of Virginia. An Act to Amend and Re-enact Section 207 of the Code of 1887. The Clerk of the House of Delegates shall be the keeper of the rolls. As such, he shall cause all the acts and joint resolutions of the General Assembly to be enrolled on substantial paper, of uniform size; and after they shall have been examined by the committees on enrolled bills, and signed by the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Deledates, he shall cause the same to be bound in one volume, in durable style. He shall have the custody of the acts and resolutions of the General Assembly, and the record and papers of the House of Delegates; and, when required, shall furnish a copy of any of them; which copy, being certified by him, shall be evidence for any purpose for which the original would be received, and with as much effect. An Act to Amend and Re-enact Section 278, in Chapter 532 of the Acts of Assembly of 1902-4, on Page 849. He shall cause to be printed in octavo form, 250 copies of every bill, joint resolution, or other matter ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate or House of Delegates, and intended for temporary use, and in all fugitive work, such as resolutions, joint resolutions, House or Senate bills making more than one page, there shall not be allowed on the first page thereof, between the folio line and the first line of the enacting clause, a space in excess of 21⁄2 inches, which shall include the heading "a bill,” or "resolution," or "joint resolution," the title to the same, the name of the patron, the report of the committee or committal thereto, unless the title thereto be in excess of three lines, in which case the space in excess of 21⁄2 inches shall be no more than is necessary to contain the additional lines contained in the title; and in all book or pamphlet printing, except bills, there shall not be allowed thicker leads or spaces than five to pica. In bills and resolutions the space between lines shall not be greater than small pica slugs. Within ten days after the signing of any bill by the Governor, whereby it becomes a law, he shall transmit by mail, during any legislative session, one copy of said law to any person applying in writing therefor, provided that before any person shall be entitled to receive the same he shall have paid to the Treasurer of the State, for the use of the State, the sum of $2.00, which said payment shall entitle such person to one copy of each law passed during any one session of the General Assembly. Report of Committee on Presentments To the Virginia State Bar Association: It is to be regretted that the 'Committee on Presentments had no opportunity for meeting immediately upon their appointment or soon thereafter, for the purpose of organization, etc. About July 15th, attention was called by our efficient Secretary to the fact that no organization of this Committee had been effected as provided by Article XIII of the By-laws of the Association. Letters were at once written to each member of the Committee, requesting them to advise promptly, touching "any and all such matters as may have come to their knowledge apparently offending against the ethics of the profession." To most of these letters, a prompt and full reply was made, and the reports are gratifying in that they indicate that no matters have come to the knowledge of the writers "apparently offending against the ethics of the profession." There is, however, an exception in the advices received from the Twenty-second Judicial Circuit. It is reported that in certain of the counties of that circuit, parties are offering to practice law without having passed the necessary examination or obtained a certificate from the Supreme Court of Appeals authorizing them to practice without such examination, as required by Section 3192 of the Code of 1904. The parties charged are not members of the Bar Association—their names do not appear in the roll of members as published in the proceedings of the Annual Session of 1904. The Statute requires that all persons desiring to qualify to practice law in this Commonwealth, produce before each Court in which he intends to practice, satisfactory evidence of his being licensed or authorized to practice and take an oath that he will honestly demean himself, etc. It is thus clearly made the duty of the Judge to see that every applicant asking to qualify in his Court produce satisfactory evidence that he is licensed or authorized to practice, and if the Judges complied with the requirements of the Statute, the condition referred to would be impossible. Two cases of this character have been reported to the Committee, and each involve a distinct violation of the Statute above referred to. The penalty for such violation is prescribed by Section 3194 of the Code, which provides: "If any person shall practice law in any Court of this State, without being so licensed or authorized, or without taking the oaths required, he shall forfeit One Hundred and Fifty Dollars for each case in which he shall appear as attorney." It would therefore appear to your Committee that the action complained of should be dealt with by the local Courts and authorities, whose duty it is to see that the laws of the Commonwealth are rigidly and impartially enforced. The parties charged are, as we have seen, not members of the Association, nor are they members of the Bar of this Commonwealth; they can not be members of its Bar unless they have been duly licensed and authorized to practice law in the Courts of the State; they are persons pretending to be attorneys or counsellors-at-law, practicing in this State, and can be proceeded against as such, in the manner prescribed by the By-laws, but the charges are not so formulated and authenticated as to authorize this Committee to present the same to the Committee on Grievances, as provided in Article IX of the By-laws; they, therefore, submit the original papers as a part of this report, for such action as the Association may see fit to take in the premises. All of which is respectfully submitted. LEGH R. WATTS, For Committee. Since formulating the above report it has come to the knowledge of your Committee, that a rule is now pending in the Circuit Court of Buchanan County against W. A. 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