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23-To cash paid for picture frames for photographs of
Presidents, &c.

To cash paid for framing Association Group of 1897 .
31-To cash paid H. Huber for sign on Directory Board .
Feb. 17-To cash paid Everett Waddey Co. for section of Wer-
nicke book-case
March 1-To cash paid on account of rent for 6 months, at
$125.00, one-half.

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22-To cash paid Everett Waddey Co. for stamped enve-
lopes

12 90

28—To cash paid for stamps for Vol. XI.

1 12

April 1-To cash paid for salary of Secretary and Treasurer, 3 months, to date.

75 00

11-To cash paid Everett Waddey Co. for stamped enve-
lopes, &c

To cash paid for framing photographs

June 30-To cash paid for rent balance in full for year ending
July 1, 1899

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To cash paid Everett Waddey Co. for stamped enve-
lopes, &c

26 35

To cash paid James E. Goode Printing Co. for Pro-
grammes of Eleventh Annual Meeting, &c.
To cash paid for salary of Secretary and Treasurer, 3
months, to date

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To amount to balance

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June 30-By annual dues for year ending June 30, 1899, and dues received from delinquent members, sale of reports, &c.

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July 1-By amount on deposit in the State Bank of Virginia, $ 980 02

HOT SPRINGS OF VIRGINIA, July 31, 1899.

Audited and approved :

MARSHALL HANGER.
R. CARTER SCOTT.
GEO. L. BROWNING.

Committee.

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REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

To the Virginia State Bar Association:

Your committee respectfully report that at a session of the committee held on January 7, 1899, at the Westmoreland Club, in the city of Richmond, it was decided to hold the next meeting of the Association at this place, it being in accordance with the custom established in the Association to hold a meeting one year at some resort at the seashore and the next year in the mountains. Your committee have to announce to you that since the last meeting of the Association twelve members have died-Mr. James Pleasants, Mr. James V. Brooke, Mr. Maury J. Coleman, Judge William McLaughlin, Mr. Hobart Miller, Mr. F. S. Blair, Mr. William B. Compton, Mr. Barton H. Wise, Mr. William A. Fentress, Judge C. W. Murdaugh, Professor W. D. Dabney, and Mr. John Howard. The committee have endeavored to have memorials of these members prepared for this meeting and for publication in the reports.

As you will see from the printed programme, the committee have succeeded in securing the Hon. Alexander Pope Humphrey, of Kentucky, to make the annual address, and Messrs. James P. Harrison, Marshall McCormick, and R. Tate Irvine to read papers on this occasion.

Under the three-years' limit, Mr. William B. McIlwaine and myself will retire from service on this committee, and our places should be filled at this meeting.

The reports of your Secretary and Treasurer, and the accounts of the Treasurer, which have been duly audited and approved, have been just presented to you. They shew that your membership is keeping up, and that gains have been made for the treasury, and that the Association is in a healthful state of growth and prosperity.

Respectfully submitted,

JACKSON GUY,
Chairman.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON ADMISSIONS.

To the Virginia State Bar Association:

Your Committee on Admissions have the honor and beg leave to submit the following report:

By virtue of the authority vested in this committee under the Constitution and By-Laws of this Association, empowering them to act in vacation, the following gentlemen were, upon applications properly authenticated, elected members of the Virginia State Bar Association, to-wit: On the 4th day of March, 1899, Charles M. Broun, Berryville, Va.; on the 10th day of March, 1899, Blackbourne Smith, Berryville, Va., and on March 13, 1899, U. Lawrence Boyce, Berryville, Va., and in July, 1899, Paul Pettit, Palmyra, Va., and J. S. Harnsberger, Harrisonburg, Va.

Your committee further report that at a meeting held July 31, 1899, at the Homestead Hotel, Hot Springs, Va., pursuant to published call, a quorum was found present, when and where the following gentlemen, upon application properly endorsed, were unamiously elected members of this Association, to-wit: Fred. Harper, Lynchburg, Va.; George A. Frick, Norfolk; Henry W. Anderson, Richmond; Henry Carrington Riely, Richmond; David H. Leake, Licking; Robert R. Kane, Gate City; and Charles C. Carlin, Alexandria.

And they further report that at their first adjourned meeting held August 1, 1899, at the Homestead, a quorum noted present, the following gentlemen were elected members of this assocjation, viz.: O. D. Batchelor, Newport News; C. B. Guyer, Buena Vista; H. L. Garrett, Covington; C. F. Moore, Covington; W. R. Vance, Lexington; E. Hilton Jackson, Front Royal; Lyman Chalkley, Staunton; John A. Coke, Jr., Richmond; Charles Curry, Staunton.

All of which is respectfully submitted and recommended to the Association for approval and confirmation.

August 1, 1899.

E. E. STICKLEY,

Chairman.

To the Virginia State Bar Association:

At an adjourned meeting of the Committee on Admissions held at the Homestead Hotel, this morning at 10 o'clock, upon his application, properly endorsed, George Bryan, of Richmond, Va., was unanimously elected a member of the Virginia State Bar Association, which is respectfully submitted for confirmation. E. E. STICKLEY,

Chairman.

August 3, 1899.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION AND LAW REFORM.

To the Virginia State Bar Association:

Your Committee on Legislation and Law Reform begs leave to submit the following report:

There has been no session of the General Assembly of Virginia since the last meeting of this Association, and your committee, therefore, has no report to make upon the action of that body.

Among the duties imposed on your committee by the by-laws is that of considering and recommending to the Association such amendments of the law and of judicial procedure as will facilitate the administration of justice.

In this connection your committee has been fortunate enough to procure from Mr. William B. Pettit, of Fluvanna, a distinguished member of this Association, and recently its President, some comments upon the property and contractual rights and powers of married women under our present laws, containing some suggestions of amendments thereof in respects wherein they are not now clear in their meaning, and are somewhat anomalous and not homogeneous. Anything from the pen of Mr. Pettit will be heard, we are sure, with respect and interest by the members of this Association.

*Mr. Pettit's paper is submitted as a part of this report, and, at the request of the committee, he will read the same before the Association.

*See Appendix.

W. P. MCRAE,

Chairman.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON LIBRARY AND LEGAL
LITERATURE.

To the Virginia State Bar Association:

At the last meeting of this Association the Committee on Library and Legal Literature reported on the Editions of the Code from 1661 (the first Code) to that of 1792. This year your committee will catalogue the Codes from the beginning of this century until the present day. It is not to, be thought that there will be any field for the narration of the quaint language of the laws of "out-worn buried age " in this address, for we have this time to tell only the plain, unvarnished tale that may be briefly comprehended in the list of the Codes for this nineteenth century.

The first Code after that of 1792 was that of 1803, which was published in April of that year, pursuant to an act of the General Assembly passed on January 26, 1802. This Code, which was printed by Samuel Pleasants, Jr., and Henry Pace, was known as the first volume of the Revised Code.

This volume was really a reprint of the "Revised Code of 1792," and contained, in addition, the acts of a general nature passed prior to February 2, 1802. The preface to this volume, after pointing out the state of confusion in which the law was thrown by having to compare the Code of 1792 with all of the succeeding acts of a general nature, goes on to give some very practical reasons for desiring a new edition. Not only had the last edition become very rare, for if we may believe Messrs.

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