Mr. E. Randolph Williams: The next is a harmless suggested amendment to the Constitution, notice of which has been given as required: Resolved, That Article V of the Constitution be amended by the elimination of the provision for a Committee on International Arbitration." Seconded and adopted. Mr. E. Randolph Williams: The next resolution reported and recommended by the Committee is one suggesting an amendment to the By-Laws, notice of which has been given: Resolved, That Article X-a of the By-Laws, providing for a Committee on American Citizenship be, and it hereby is, repealed. Seconded and adopted. Mr. E. Randolph Williams: The next resolution reported and recommended for adopton by the Committee, dealing with a subject presented in the report of the Executive Committee, is simply a resolution of approval. Resolved, That this Association approves the action of the Executive Committee in establishing the Virginia Law Digest and arranging for its continuance. Seconded and adopted. Mr. E. Randolph Williams: The next resolution reported and recommended for adoption is as follows: Be it Resolved, That a Committee of seven, to consist of the President, Secretary-Treasurer, and Chairman of the Executive Committee, ex-officio, and four others to be appointed by the President from among the members of the Association, be, and hereby is, created and authorized and directed to consider the matter of a general revision or other amendment of the Constitution and/or By-Laws of the Association, and to make a report, together with its recommendations, if any be determined upon, for revision and/or amendment of either or both, to the Executive Committee at least three months before the date which may be hereafter fixed for the next annual meeting of the Association; and that the Executive Committee be, and hereby is, directed to consider such report and recommendations, if any, and report its recommendations to the next annual meeting for the action of the Association at a time specially fixed therefor in the program of the next annual meeting. Seconded and adopted. Mr. E. Randolph Williams: The Committee also reports and recommends the following: Be it Resolved, That it is the sense of the Association that every Committee should have a report at every meeting, which should be filed with the Secretary at least fortyfive days before the meeting; that appointments to committees should be considered an honor and also a call to duty, and that acceptance of such appointment should constitute an undertaking to co-operate in the performance of the functions of such committee as outlined in the Constitution, By-Laws, or resolution creating the particular committee. Mr. O. B. Harvey, of Clifton Forge: Mr. President, I suggest that the Committee on Admissions be excepted from that. Mr. E. Randolph Williams: I think there is reason for that, and other committees might also be excepted; but if we fix forty-five days the Secretary would either have something from the Committee or he may call the failure to report to the attention of the Committee. We realize that the Committee on Ad missions will not be able to make its report until the annual meeting. Colonel James P. Woods, of Roanoke: Mr. President, I ask that the Committee on Admissions be excepted. It can be done by unanimous consent. Mr. E. Randolph Williams: We have no objection to that. Mr. J. Jordan Leake, of Richmond: To be exact, we will have ́ to except the Committee on Obituaries. Mr. E. Randolph Williams: I assume, to meet the objections, that the resolution should read "except such committees as to which the requirement is not practical." Seconded and adopted. Mr. E. Randolph Williams: The next resolution reported and recommended for adoption by the Committee is as follows: Be it Resolved, That a Special Committee of the Virginia State Bar Association, of from five to seven, be appointed by the President, to be known as the Special Committee on Portraits of and Memorials to Judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals, whose duty it shall be to investigate the situation as to portraits of and memorials to judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals, in the courtrooms of the Supreme Court of Appeals, State Library Building, Richmond, Wytheville and Staunton, and to investigate and consider plans for securing the placing in the courtroom of the State Library Building, Richmond, and in the courtrooms at Wytheville and Staunton and/or in other appropriate places, suitable portraits of and memorials to judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals, and/or for co-operating with the families and friends and/or with patriotic organizations or societies to such end, and to report its findings and recommendations to the Association at its next annual meeting, or, if sooner prepared to do so, to the Executive Committee, but no expenditures shall be made or pecuniary obligations incurred unless by expressed directions of the Executive Committee, which is hereby authorized to permit reasonable outlays incident to investigation, in its discretion. Seconded and adopted. Mr. E. Randolph Williams: The Committee also reports and recommends the adoption of this resolution: Resolved, That the Special Committee to Co-operate with the American Law Institute be requested to consider and report to the next meeting of the Association a plan whereby the work and publications of the institute may be made more available and useful to the bar of Virginia. Seconded and adopted. Mr. E. Randolph Williams: The following resolution was presented to us as a recommendation of the Special Committee to co-operate with the Library Board. It is presented by the Committee on Resolutions and recommended for adoption substantially in the form in which it was presented by the special committee. Resolved: (1) That the membership of the Special Committee to Co-operate with the Library Board be increased to five. (2) That the Committee be instructed to report to the 1929 meeting the condition of public records in the State, both State and local, especially as to housing, physical conditions, indexing and inks, papers and typewriter ribbons. (3) That the Committee also report a resolution to be presented to the following General Assembly recommending such legislation as the situation requires. That seems to us quite a hard proposition or undertaking for the Committee, but we were advised that Dr. McIlwaine, State Librarian, had made a full investigation of the matter and is ready to co-operate fully with the Committee. The recommendation has the endorsement of the Chairman of that Committee, Mr. Morgan P. Robinson, who is associated with the State Library and who thinks it is a very appropriate action. Seconded and adopted. Mr. E. Randolph Williams: The following resolutions are substantially the recommendations of the Committee appointed by the Association, which acted in conjunction with a Committee of the Convention of the Bar of the State, to present the Bar Organization Bill to the General Assembly of 1928, made by Mr. Gordon, Chairman of the Committee of the Association, on yesterday. Our Committee has made some slight changes in the resolutions, and we now present them in the following form and recommend their adoption: Resolved: (1) That the Association reaffirm its desire for the enactment of the proposed Bar Organization Bill. (2) That a campaign of education on the purposes and advantages of the bill be instituted and prosecuted in each of the judicial circuits of the State in an effort to secure the indorsement of the measure by the members of their respective bars. (3) That an effort be made to present the bill and the arguments in its favor to each member of the next General Assembly, together with such indorsements of the same as may be secured from the members of the bar in the several judicial circuits. (4) That the Association respectfully solicits the interest and co-operation of the judges of the State in our efforts to secure the adoption of the bill. (5) That a committee, consisting of one member from each judicial circuit and five members at large to constitute an Executive Committee, be appointed by the |