that the reception accorded to our distinguished visitors will be in every respect worthy of our best traditions.

Your committee regrets to report that since the last meeting, a useful member of this committee, Mr. George McIntosh, of Norfolk, Va., has departed this life. His death creates a vacancy in the Executive Committee, which should be filled at this session by electing his successor for the unexpired term of one year. Two other members of this committee, to-wit: Messrs. Alfred P. Thom, and Claggett B. Jones, whose terms expire by limitation, will now retire from office and their successors should be elected for the full term of three years each.

Your Executive Committee ask particular attention to a resolution which has been adopted after mature consideration, as follows:

Resolved, That no complimentary banquet tickets be issued to members for residents of Virginia, but that for all such, when granted by the Executive Committee to applicants, the price shall be five dollars ($5.00) each.

This action was made necessary by a demand for complimentary tickets which threatened serious embarrassment to our treasury. It would seem to be only fair, that a member wishing to extend an invitation to his friends should pay the cost of their entertainment. At any rate, this is now the law of the case until reversed on appeal, and members are requested to govern themselves accordingly.

Your committee desires to make due acknowledgment of the kindness shown this Association by the C. & O. R. R. officials, in granting a single fare rate, and by Mr. W. H. Fitzgerald, Commissioner of the Associated Railways of Virginia, for the same rate upon all the railways represented by him. The B. & O. R. R., not being a member of said Association, granted a one and one-third fare rate.

Your Executive Committee report a loss by death of the following members since the last meeting, to-wit:

Active: George D. Gray, Culpeper; Thomas Tabb, Hampton; George McIntosh, Norfolk; Charles M. Blackford, Lynchburg.

Honorary: James C. Lamb, Judge of the Chancery Court of the City of Richmond.

Suitable tributes to the life and character of these brethren will be prepared and spread upon the records of the Association.

Your committee has been fortunate in securing the attendance of the Honorable Walter Clark, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, as annual orator. The other speakers on the program are gentlemen whose reputations insure for us addresses of an exceptionally high order.

Your Executive Committee takes pleasure in testifying to the faithful service rendered the Association by its Secretary and Treasurer, whose time and talents are unsparingly dedicated to the advancement of our common interests.

Your attention is called to the Treasurer's Report, which shows the affairs of this Association to be in excellent condition, though a number of our members are in arrears in the payment of their dues. These delinquencies foot up nearly $700 and your committee is not a little embarrassed in considering what should be done about it.

A movement is now on foot to purchase the old John Marshall residence in the City of Richmond, the Richmond City Bar Association having secured an option on same at a very reasonable figure. The idea is to preserve this historic building as a memorial of the great jurist who once occupied it, and at the same time to provide a home for the law Associations. In this movement the American Bar Association, or leading members of that body, have expressed a deep interest, and, of course, it behooves us, as a State organization, to take an active part in carrying through such project. The treasury is now in a position to make some contribution on this account, and it is hoped, that we shall be able to do even better in the near future. Your committee recommends a hearty co-operation in said undertaking by this Association.

Respectfully submitted,

A. W. PATTERSON,

Chairman.

Report of Committee on Admissions.

To the Virginia State Bar Association:

The increasing interest in our wide-awake Association is clearly manifest in the unusual number of members received and elected during the vacation just closed. Not in its history has there been such a number gathered into its folds during the vacation period. And your committee have the honor and ask leave to submit the following report, in form and manner following:

In pursuance of and in virtue of the authority vested in this Committee, under the Constitution and By-Laws of the Association, empowering them in vacation to discharge the duty of electing new members, with the same effect as if done at the time of the annual meetings,

The following named gentlemen from different parts of the State of Virginia, upon their applications properly avouched and authenticated, at the times respectively indicated, were duly elected members of the Virginia State Bar Association, to-wit:

1. On 22nd day of November, 1902, elected, William A. Pratt, Staunton.

2. On 2nd day of December, 1902, elected, George M. Edmonds, Gate City.

3. On the 5th day of December, 1902, elected, Edward Calohill Burks, Bedford City.

4. On the 6th day of December, 1902, elected, Wm. Crump Tucker, Richmond.

5. On the 13th day of December, 1902, elected, Robert B. Munford, Jr., Richmond.

6. On the 20th day of December, 1902, elected, Jos. W. Chinn, Jr., Warsaw.

7. On the 5th day of January, 1903, elected, John G. Guerrant, Christiansburg.

8. On the 8th day of January, 1903, elected, Robert L. Pennington, Jonesville.

9. .On the 7th day of February, 1903, elected, John W. Chalkley, Big Stone Gap.

10. On the 2nd day of March, 1903, elected, John S. Draper, Jr., Pulaski City.

11. On the 31st day of March, 1903, elected, F. S. Tavenner, Woodstock.

12. On the 13th day of May, 1903, elected, Camm H. Patteson, Wise.

13. On 27th day of June, 1903, elected, Don P. Halsey, Lynchburg.

14. On July 4, 1903, elected, Jos. C. Wysor, Pulaski.

All the papers pertaining to the election of the same were duly returned to and filed with the Secretary of the Association, which action of your committee is now respectfully submitted to this body for confirmation, this 21st day of August, 1903. E. E. STICKLEY,

Chairman.

To the Virginia State Bar Association:

Your Committee on Admissions have the honor, and beg leave to report further:

That, at the meeting of the committee, held this evening, at the Homestead Hotel, pursuant to published call of the Secretary of this Association, a quorum found present, Mr. Gardner L. Boothe, of Alexandria, Va., the Secretary of this committee, being unavoidably absent, upon nomination, Judge J. W. Fleet, a member of the committee, was elected secretary in his stead, and Mr. George A. Frick, member of committee for First Circuit, being absent, Judge W. J. Kilby, of Suffolk, Va., by virtue of a By-law of the Association, providing for such contingency, was appointed by the President to act on the committee in his place, and Jas. E. Cannon, member for the

Seventh Circuit, being absent, the President appointed J. Garland Pollard, of Richmond, to act in his stead during such absence, and J. Lawrence Campbell, of the Eighteenth Circuit, committeeman, being also absent, Mr. Roy B. Smith, of Roanoke, was appointed a member of the committee to act in his place and Fitzhugh Elder, member for Thirteenth Circuit being absent, J. T. McAllister, of Hot Springs, Va., was appointed in his place. And the committee being now thus duly organized, then proceeded to the business of the election of new members. And upon their respective applications duly and properly authenticated, the following named gentlemen, were unanimously elected members of this Association.