suggest that the committee he suggested report to-night, because to-morrow morning we are to have the address of our distinguished visitor and annual orator, and I think the whole morning should be devoted to this exercise. There is very little business to be done to-night, and I think this committee can make its report by that time.

Mr. Lile: I accept the amendment.

The President: How many should be on that committee?

Mr. Lile: Five.

The President: To be appointed by the Chair?

Mr. Lile: Yes.

Mr. Wilbur J. Kilby, of Suffolk: It strikes me that it would not be out of the way to suggest that the mode of procedure under section 3196 and section 3197 should be the same. Section 3196 says "the court shall issue a rule against said attorney to show cause why an information shall not be filed against him. If such information be ordered, a jury shall be impaneled, when required by the defendant," etc. I can see no good reason why he should be summoned to show cause why information should not be filed. Why not let the section provide that upon the return of the rule, the case should be tried without issuing information? Section 3197 provides that mode of procedure. I would suggest that we let section 3196 read the same way as section 3197; then, upon the return of the rule, the jury can try the case. I suggest uniformity of procedure under both

sections.

Mr. Patterson: I dislike to take issue with my friend, Mr. Massie, but it does seem to me that his suggestion that an order entered by one court may be adopted by another court does not meet the difficulty. For instance, if a lawyer is disbarred in Norfolk, and then goes to Southwest Virginia to practice, what

do they know about the order in Norfolk? Who brings it to their attention? The chances are that it would never be heard of. It is a local matter, and the courts would not take judicial notice of it. I do not think it will act in practice as supposed by my friend.

Mr. Lile's motion was then adopted.

The Chair appointed as the members of the committee to which the subject was referred Messrs. William A. Lile, William A. Anderson, E. C. Massie, Roy B. Smith, and R. T. Barton.

The President: It is understood that some of the younger members of this Association and some of our fair lady friends. here in attendance desire the use of this hall this evening for an exercise rather more interesting than this, and it is earnestly requested by the Chair that the members attend promptly at 8:30, so as to dispatch our business as speedily as possible.

Mr. Guy: Mr. President, I would like to make the request of the members that we assemble at 11 o'clock sharp at the meeting to-morrow. I will now state to you, in confidence, the reason why I make this request. We desire to have a good audience to hear our distinguished guest from a sister State; and one of the citizens resident of this place desires to extend to the gentlemen of the Association, upon the conclusion of Judge Humphrey's address, an invitation to come up to his cottage on the hill for a little social occasion there. I am sure any gentlemen here who have ever climbed that mountain and seen the dew will wish to go again.

We have had great difficulty in getting prompt meetings here. If as distinguished a body as the American Bar Association holds its morning session, and begins business at 10 o'clock every morning, I do think we can meet at 11 o'clock to-morrow morning. If we do not meet at 11, we will miss some of the good things in store for us.

Mr. Massie: I would like to say that the photographer will be here to-morrow morning, and be prepared to take a group of the whole Association upon this terrace, at half-past 10 o'clock. I hope all the members will be present.

Mr. Thomas D. Ranson, of Staunton: Within the last two or three years a custom has grown up which I think is so graceful and so eminently proper, between the Bar Association of this State and that of our sister State of West Virginia, that I do not want to see it discontinued. I refer to the practice of appointing at the meeting of the Bar Association of each State a fraternal committee of one or more members to attend the meeting of the sister Bar Association. I had that honor at our last meeting, though I did not know of it until I received a letter from the President of the West Virginia Bar Association, which is couched in such pleasant terms that, if you will allow me, I will read it.

MARTINSBURG, W. VA., December 20, 1898.

Thomas D. Ranson, Esq., Staunton, Va.:

My Dear Sir, I write to advise you that the next meeting of the West Virginia State Bar Association will be held in Charleston next January, on the 17th and 18th of the month. You have been appointed, so we have learned, as a delegate from the State Bar Association of Virginia to the State Bar Association of West Virginia, and we shall not only be delighted to see you at this meeting, but shall be greatly pained if we are deprived of the pleasure of seeing you there. At that time, our Supreme Court of Appeals will be in session in Charleston, the Legislature will also be in session, and probably balloting for United States Senator. A great gathering of lawyers from all parts of the State will also be in session, and, altogether, no better opportunity will be afforded you of becoming acquainted with the people and institutions of West Virginia, and having a thoroughly sociable time.

Yours very truly,

D. C. WESTENHAVER,
President.

It is a very courteous act in the President of the West Virginia Bar Association, and it should be recognized. He was appointed return delegate from that Association to this body, but, unfortunately, is not present. My object in calling the matter to the attention of the Association at present is to have the incoming President appoint a delegate and alternate to attend the next meeting of the West Virginia Bar Association, which will probably be held in January, to represent this body. Mr. Ranson's motion was adopted.

Mr. James P. Harrison: On yesterday I offered a resolution for which I now wish to offer a substitute in the name of Mr. B. B. Munford, in regard to John Marshall Day. I did not know Mr. Munford had prepared this resolution when I offered mine; and I desire now, in the name of Mr. Munford, to offer this as a substitute for the resolution I offered yesterday:

Resolved, That the Virginia State Bar Association regards with sentiments of earnest approval the movement recently inaugurated by the Illinois State Bar Association, upon the motion of Hon. Adolph Moses of the Chicago Bar, to celebrate in an appropriate manner the coming centennial anniversary of the elevation of John Marshall to the position of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. His exalted character as a man; his pre-eminence as a jurist, and his illustrious services in the making of the Union entitle him to the lasting veneration and affection of all his countrymen. The lawyers of Virginia, with peculiar pride, will cordially unite in any movement to commemorate his labors and exalt his fame.

Resolved, further, That a committee of five be appointed by the President to communicate to the American Bar Association at its approaching meeting the passage of the foregoing resolution, and to correspond with other Bar Associations and the Bar generally, looking to the accomplishment of the end in view, making a report of their action to this body at its next session.

The above substitute was unanimously adopted.

Mr. Guy: The next meeting of the Association will be at 8:45

to-night. The younger members of the Association with their lady friends, greatly desire this hall for dancing to-night, and we want to have a prompt meeting to close up any business of the Association, in order that we may turn this room over to the young people at half-past 9 o'clock.

The Association then took a recess to 8:45 P. M.

EVENING SESSION.

HOT SPRINGS, VIRGINIA,

WEDNESDAY, August 2d, 1899.

The Association was called to order at 8:45 P. M.

The President: Is the committee appointed to prepare Memorials to Deceased Members ready to report?

Judge L. L. Lewis, of Richmond: On behalf of that committee, I have to report that twelve members of our Association have died since our last annual meeting. A memorial paper has been prepared in each case, and has been passed upon by the committee, and I have been instructed to return them to this body. As there are a dozen of them, I hardly think we should read them, unless it is the pleasure of this body to have them read. I will file them with the Secretary to be printed in the minutes.

(See Memorials at end of Minutes.)

The President: I am requested by the chairman of the Committee on Admissions to give notice that the final meeting of that committee will be held to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock, and that all applications for membership must be in at that hour.