be entitled to all the privileges of membership at and during the said meeting. The proposed By-Law just quoted is modeled on the American Bar Association By-Law, and we believe it will have the effect of bringing in closer touch the Local Bar Associations with the State Bar Association. The Executive Committee selected Montgomery as the place for the Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Association, and fixed the date of the meeting for Friday and Saturday, July 12th and 13th, 1912. The Committee invited Hon. Alfred P. Thom, of Washington, D. C., an eminent lawyer, to deliver the Annual Address, and we congratulate the Association on his acceptance of the invitation. The committee also invited a number of prominent members of the Association to read papers at this meeting. The names of those accepting the invitation of the committee, with the subjects they will discuss, appear on the printed programs which have been distributed to the members of the Bar in advance of the meeting. Since the last annual meeting of the Association death has again entered our ranks and claimed as victims: Hon. D. P. Bestor, of Mobile; Hon. H. Austill, of Mobile; Hon. J. F. Sanders, of Elba; Hon. John W. Tomlinson, of Birmingham; Hon. C. C. Whitson, of Talladega; five useful and distinguished members of the Association. As is the custom, a committee will prepare suitable sketches of these deceased members. The committee is pleased to report the increased membership of the Association, and the general satisfactory condition of its affairs. The Executive Committee, as the disburser of the funds of the Association, has arranged to give a dinner to the members at Jackson's Lake on the 13th, inst., feeling assured that the funds could not be more judiciously expended than in promoting that provision of the Constitution, which declares that one of its objects is to establish cordial intercourse among the members of the Bar of Alabama. The President: Respectfully submitted, Wm. T. Seibels, Chairman, Leon McCord, Leon Weil, Robt. G. Arrington, Alexander Troy, Ex. Off. The report of the Executive Committee is before you for action. Mr. Brickell: I move that the report be received and filed. Mr. Sims: It has been suggested it would be well to have the formal adoption of those By-Laws recommended by the Executive Committee. The President: I will ask the Secretary to read the first By-Law referred to. The Secretary read as follows: "A Special Committee on Legislative Enactment shall be appointed by the President at the meeting next before each session of the Legislature, which shall be continued until the annual meeting after the next session of the Legislature, and it shall be the duty of said committee to present to the Legislature, all such bills, the enactment of which have been recommended by this Association. The President may, whenever he deems it advisable, appoint as many special committees as he thinks proper, whose duty it shall be to promote the enactment by the Legislature of any bill or bills which have received the approval of this Association. The Secretary of the Association, at the expense of the Association, shall furnish to each member of the Committee on Legislative Enactment and to each member of any Special Committee so appointed by the President, a copy of such bills as have been approved by the Association. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Legislative Enactment, and of the Special Committees, to report to the Association next after the meeting of the Legislature." The President: The proposition is to adopt this substitute by vote of the Association. On motion the substitute was adopted. The Secretary: The next By-Law proposed by the Executive Committee reads as follows: "Each Local Bar Association may annually appoint delegates, not exceeding one for every five members, to the next meeting of the Association. Such delegates shall be entitled to all the privileges of membership at and during said meeting." The President: The question is on the adoption of the By-Law suggested by the Executive Committee. On motion the By-Law was adopted. The President: The next order of business is a Paper by Virgil Bouldin, Esq., on "Law and Procedure." Mr. Bouldin then read his paper. The President: (Appendix.) Under the By-Laws of the Association the paper is open for discussion by the members. If no discussion is desired we will proceed to the next order of business. Mr. O'Neal: I move that papers not discussed when read, shall be considered open for discussion until the close of the sessions of the Association. Motion adopted. The President: We have so near reached the hour set for the Annual Address, that I think we had better take that matter up unless there is objection. The Secretary: I move the Association take a recess of five minutes. Motion adopted. The Association reconvened at 12 M. The President: I am requested by one of the members to announceand this will refute anything that has ever been said against members of the bar-that ten dollars has been found upon the floor of the Chamber here, and that the gentleman will be glad to turn it over to whoever lost it.. Mr. F. S. White: There is somebody else in here besides lawyers! It appears so. If the gentleman will report his loss the Secretary will see that he recovers it-although it did not get into the hands of the Secretary. I am requested to announce that the train that takes the members of the Association to Jackson's Lake tomorrow will leave the Union Station at 9:10 A. M., and that the Secretary has cards for the members, and desires. that you obtain these cards from him during the meeting today. Upon calling upon him he will furnish each member with a card. We have arrived at the hour set for the Annual Address, and I deem it to be fit and proper that the distinguished Virginia gentleman, scholar and lawyer who is to address you today, should be escorted to the platform by a committee, and I appoint on that committee the Hon. John P. Tillman, Hon. Thos. G. Jones and Hon. Frank S. White. The committee escorted Mr. Thom to the stand. Hon. Alfred P. Thom then delivered the Annual Address. (Appendix.) Mr. W. C. Fitts: I desire to offer the following resolution: "Resolved, That the Alabama State Bar Association expresses its appreciation of the visit of Col. Thom, its distinguished guest, and for the thoughtful and interesting arguments so eloquently advanced in his Address, and do hereby elect him an honorary member of this Association, without, however, committing ourselves one way or the other with respect to issues discussed." Motion adopted unanimously by a rising vote. At the expense of a few minutes of the time of this occasion, I want to say that while I think that the resolution of Mr. Fitts is proper that we do not commit ourselves one way or the other, yet I want to say that for me it gives me great hope in the ability of the bar of Alabama acting in this Association, and the Legislature, to accomplish a happy end to all the questions that are harrassing us in our meetings and throughout the State today. When I heard on yesterday at the meeting of the Judicial Commission the despair that hangs over many of us at our inability to solve many of the problems; when I hear the advocates of one system or the other worrying over the election |