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of pleading and procedure amongst the States as well as its simplification; and,

WHEREAS, It is believed that, having the macter brought to attention, the various State Bar Associations will gladly co-operate in an effort to that end;

Be It Resolved, That there shall be appointed from the members of the Virginia State Bar Association, a Committee to be known as the Committee on Uniformity in Pleading and Procedure amongst the States, to be composed of five members to be appointed by the President, the duty of which shall be to promote uniformity in pleading and procedure amongst the States through all such proper and legitimate efforts as in the judgment of the said Committee, in keeping with the customs of this Association, may bring about the desired end.

I have already read to the Association Mr. Shelton's letter. I offer that resolution.

Mr. Frick: Mr. President, we have a Committee on Uniform Legislation between the States. I do not see any necessity for this Committee.

Mr. Patteson: Mr. President, I would just like to say a word. I hope that resolution will not be passed. I think it is wholly impracticable to reform the procedure of forty-eight States by any such method as that. I move that the resolution be laid upon the table.

Mr. Patteson's motion was seconded and adopted.

Secretary Minor: Mr. President, I have a letter in my hand from Mr. Bullitt, the recently elected President of this Association, received several days ago, in which he asks me to lay before the Association the following resolution, and I shall do so with the request that it be referred to the Executive Committee for action.

Resolved, That the

Committee be and.

is hereby directed to select and report to the Secretary, six months prior to its annual meeting some one subject of general and current interest for discussion at such meeting, and that the Secretary shall, upon receipt of such report, at once notify all the members of the subject selected; that the subject so selected shall be known as "The Chief Subject for Debate," and that debate shall, as far as practicable, be confined thereto; and that the

Committee shall arrange the program for the annual meeting so as to devote as much time as possible to such debate; that all members present, and such distinguished guests as may be invited by the President shall have the right to take part in such discussion, provided that no one, except by permission of the meeting, shall be allowed to speak longer than twenty minutes thereon.

I desire to introduce it by request, and on my own motion to ask that it be referred to the Executive Committee.

Adopted and so referred.

Mr. Hill Montague: Mr. Chairman, the Special Committee on John Marshall Memorial, of which Mr. Eugene C. Massie was Chairman, have sent in their report. No member of their Committee being present, I think I had better read it, as action should be taken now.

REPORT OF JOHN MARSHALL MEMORIAL
COMMITTEE.

To the Virginia State Bar Association:

August 4, 1911.

John Marshall Memorial Committee is gratified to report that an opportunity has at last presented itself of obtaining and preserving the residence of the Great Chief Justice in Richmond in memorial of his life and services to the Commonwealth and the country at large. It has long been desired that the title to this residence might be acquired by this Association and the residence itself maintained as a Mecca for lawyers. It was at one time hoped that it might be made the permanent home of this Association and be used as a lawyers' club. In 1907 this proposition was presented to the American Bar Association by a special committee having the same chairman as this committee and the endeavor was made to raise a fund of One Hundred Thousand ($100,000.00) Dollars for the purchase and maintenance of the property, but the proposition was defeated, and your committee has realized that it was practically impossible for this Association to have carried out the plan. But now the ladies of Virginia have determined to preserve the building, and the property is about to be turned over by the City of Richmond to the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. The special nature of the work done by this Association is known to all of us. In its petition to the City Council of Richmond the Association says: "Should this petition be granted, this Association pledging its ability to justify a trust committed to it, will undertake to restore and furnish

the building, as nearly as possible, as it was when occupied by its builder and owner, to collect books and manuscripts relating to Marshall's life and period, and to accumulate portraits and relics valuable through their perpetuation of his memory. The Association will, if given the opportunity, keep the doors of the Marshall Home open to Richmond visitors and all others, and will arrange to receive as free guests the school children of the City, thus affording them an opportunity to study the character of a great statesman and citizen and gain an incentive for emulating his virtues." In order to carry out these plans, the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, through its President, Mrs. J. Taylor Ellyson, is making an appeal to the lawyers of the United States for financial aid. The Bar Association of the City of Richmond has contributed the sum of $500.00, and the State Bar Association is asked to contribute $1,000.00, to be paid in one, two, three, or four years as may be most convenient. The Association does not intend to confine its appeal to Virginia, and in a letter to the Chairman of this Committee Mrs. Ellyson says: "Upon the generous action and interest of the Virginia Bar Association will depend our appeal for assistance to the National and State Associations. Many of the prominent lawyers outside of Virginia are deeply interested in the preservation of the John Marshall House, and I am quite sure that the Bar Associations throughout the country will follow in the lead of Virginia." Your committee earnestly endorses the appeal of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, and recommends that this Association contribute the sum of $1,000.00 for the acquisition of the John Marshall House as aforesaid, to be made in four annual payments of $250.00 each. Respectfully submitted,

EUGENE C. MASSIE,
JOHN RUTHERFORD,
A. W. PATTERSON,

Per E. C. M.

Mr. Montague: Mr. President, I do not think that the mere adoption of this report as it is drawn will, strictly speaking, will carry an appropriation, so I offer this motion, asking you to remember that it is in line with the recommendation of the Executive Committee also-that the report of the John Marshall Memorial Committee be received and filed, and that the sum of One Thousand Dollars be and is hereby appropriated to the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, for the purposes stated in the report of said John Marshall Memorial Committee, said amount to be paid in four equal annual payments, the first payment to be made as soon as conveniently may be after the Secretary of this Association shall have been officially advised by the other Association that the building has been taken over.

Judge Graham: In whom will the title to that property be vested?

Mr. Montague: In the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.

Judge Graham: Exactly. What control or interest will the Virginia State Bar Association have in it? I want to know, because I am talking as a lawyer now.

Mr. Montague: Mr. President, we will have no control over the legal title. But this matter was presented to the Richmond Bar Association a few months ago, five hundred dollars was asked for and was promptly and unanimously appropriated. We know something about what the ladies of this Association have done in recent years for the preservation of Virginia Antiquities, a movement much too long delayed, and I think that the Bar Association of Virginia may trust the ladies not to impair the property or otherwise manage it in a way that we would not approve of.

The President: In addition to what Mr. Montague has said, any member of this Association can become a member of that

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