Report of the Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association Vol. 42 - new book

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SECRETARY'S REPORT Saratoga Springs, N. Y., September 4, 1917. To the A merican Bar Association: The report of the proceedings of the last annual meeting of the Association has been printed and distributed to all of the members, to all state bar associations and to a large number of legal journals and libraries, both in the United States and abroad. There were 10,636 active and 15 honorary members at the date of the publication of the 1916 Eeport. There have been 250 deaths and resignations since the issuance of the Eeport, and the Membership Committee has since proposed 338 new members, all of whom have been elected by the Executive Committee. The Secretary reports the death during the year of Hon. Michel Mathieu, Dean of the Faculty of Law of Laval University, Montreal, and of Maitre Fernand Labori, of Paris, both elected to honorary membership in the Association in 1913. The number of persons now on the honorary list is 14. The membership of the Association includes representatives of all the states, of the District of Columbia, China (members of the Far Eastern American Bar Association), and of the Insular Possessions of Hawaii, Porto Eico and the Philippines. There are now in existence 47 state bar associations, and also the Bar Association of the District of Columbia, the Bar Association of Hawaii, and the Far Eastern American Bar Association; and in addition there are 660 local bar associations of which the Secretary has record. In lieu of invitations as formerly sent to state bar associations to appoint three delegates to the annual meeting, the committee in charge of the program for the Conference of Bar Association Delegates on September 3, issued invitations to each state association to send three delegates, and to each local association to send tw...