be tendered to our distinguished friend and guest for his very able, interesting and instructive address upon a subject that now engages the best thought of the best people of the world.

Unanimously adopted by a rising vote.

The President: Gentlemen, the next thing in order is unfinished business. If there is no unfinished business, the next in order is the announcement of the Standing Committees for the ensuing year.

The Secretary then read the list of Standing Committees. (See Appendix.)

Mr. Machen: Mr. President, there is one matter that I think might be brought to the attention of the Association this morning. There was a committee of fifteen Commonwealth Attorneys appointed to revise the Criminal Laws, and they in turn elected a sub-committee of five who have done a great deal of work and have submitted to the Committee on Legislation and Law Reform a report which is too voluminous to be presented here in detail, covering some one hundred pages of typewritten matter and covering about one-half of the ground that the committee is supposed to cover. Judge Duke suggested to me that this report ought to be printed and circulated among the members, if it is feasible to do so out of the funds of the Association. Some of these recommendations are very important, and in order that the Association may be in a position to discuss them so far as made, I think it would be a good idea for the Association to authorize their publication.

While I am on my feet, I will say that I regret that no other members of the Committee on Legislation and Law Reform have appeared at this meeting, and therefore I do not feel that I am at liberty to present a report which I have in part prepared. But I hope that at the next meeting we will be able to get a report, which, if it does not meet the approval of the members

of this Association, will at least provoke some discussion on the substantive law. I make the motion that the report of the Committee on Criminal Laws be printed.

The Secretary: Should not that have been referred to the Committee on Publications?

Mr. Machen: How many members are on that Committee?

The Secretary: Three.

Mr. Machen: Judge Duke and I constitute a majority of that Committee and we agreed that the report ought to be published.

Judge Duke: Mr. President, I think the report ought to be printed. This Association of Commonwealth Attorneys has no means to print it. The cursory examination I have given it has convinced me that the profession ought to have it. These gentlemen have had great experience as Commonwealth's Attorneys. I second Mr. Machen's motion, and if he hesitates to take the initiative I will say that the Committee on Publication reports that it thinks it advisable.

The Secretary: Mr. President, I think we are not in a position to direct it printed now; these gentlemen do not know the resources of the Association, or how much it would cost.

Mr. Sipe: Mr. President, may I not be permitted to ask if that publication may not be abridged by simply publishing the statutes that ought to be amended without the reasoning of the committee in support of the changes? It seems to me that that is all that the profession would care to have.

Mr. Machen: Answering your question, I will say that it can be very much abridged.

The President:

How would it do to refer the matter to that committee, with power to publish such parts of that report as may be necessary?

The Secretary: Mr. President, I suggest that we should give that committee power to act, that is, to have it printed, if, after consideration, they think it advisable.

Mr. Machen: Then I will put the motion in this form, that the Committee on Publications be authorized to publish so much of this report of the Committee of Fifteen Commonwealth Attorneys as may seem valuable to the profession, provided the funds of the Association will justify the publication.

Adopted.

The Association then adjourned subject to the call of the Executive Committee.

ANNUAL REPORTS

1911

REPORT OF SECRETARY.

To the Virginia State Bar Association:

During the past year I have had the proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting printed and bound in a book of 362 pages, entitled "Report of the Virginia State Bar Association, Volume XXIII., 1910." The edition comprised eight hundred copies, which have been distributed amongst the active and honorary members of the Association. Copies have also been sent to each of the State and Public Law Libraries in the United States, and to the leading Law Journals of this country. Copies have also been exchanged with all other State Bar Associations and many City Bar Associations. In this way the work of our Association and the names and addresses of its members have been extensively advertised, as usual.

At the close of our last meeting we had upon our roll 528 active, and 67 honorary members. Since then we have lost from our active list forty-six, five by death, three by resignation, and thirty-eight for persistent non-payment of dues; from our honorary list we have lost three, two by death and one by resignation. Our honorary list has regained the three lost, by election to the bench of members of the Bar outside of the Association in place of those dead and resigned. We therefore now have on our active list four hundred and eighty-two, and on our honorary list sixty-seven.

There has been considerable demand from individuals and public institutions all over the country for the publications of this Association, which ought to encourage us to maintain the high standard of its work.

This Association does not have the weight and influence with the Legislature which it ought to have in all matters of remedial legislation, which I think is due to the current opinion in the minds of the Legislators that measures recommended by this Association do not receive from the body as a whole its careful and mature consideration. I would earnestly urge that this Association devote itself energetically to removing this impression, and to secure for measures recommended by this Association the favorable consideration which they should deserve.

The Secretary would also urge every member of the Association to take an active interest in enlarging the membership, as otherwise the Association will lose much of the prestige and influence which it now possesses.

Respectfully submitted,

August 8th, 1911.

JOHN B. MINOR,

Secretary.

REPORT OF TREASURER.

To the Virginia State Bar Association:

I herewith submit, as prescribed by Article II. of the By-Laws, a report of the transactions of this office from July 1, 1910, until June 30, 1911.

We began the year with a balance of $1,148.00, and ended with a balance of $1,219.18, in the treasury. Our financial history is summarized in the following table: