ARTICLE XIV. TRUSTEES' MEETINGS. The Board of Trustees shall hold at least three meetings each year upon the first day of each term of the Supreme Court at Trenton. ARTICLE XV. AMENDMENTS. These By-Laws may be added to or amended at any regular or special meeting upon a two-thirds vote of the members of the Association present, provided the proposed amendment shall have been submitted to the Secretary of the Association and mailed by him with the notice of the meeting to each member of the Association. ARTICLE XVI. ADMISSION FEE AND dues. Each member shall pay on admission a fee of five dollars ($5.00) and five dollars ($5.00) annual dues. Such dues shall be payable in advance on the first day of January in each year. ARTICLE XVII. ASSOCIATION SEAL. The seal of this Association shall be "THE NEW JERSEY STATE BAR ASSOCIATION, 1899." ARTICLE XVIII. ORDER OF BUSINESS. The Order of Business at the meetings of the Association shall be as follows: 1. Reading minutes of preceding meeting. 2. Nominations for membership. 3. Report of Treasurer. ANNUAL MEETING. The annual meeting of the New Jersey State Bar Association was held June 16th, 1905, at 2 P. M. in the afternoon at the Hotel Chelsea, Atlantic City, N. J. The meeting was called to order, and on motion the reading of the minutes of the preceding meeting was dispensed with. The following nominations for membership were made: The Treasurer submitted the following report which was approved and ordered to be entered at length upon the minutes: TREASURER'S REPORT. RECEIPTS. Balance as shown by previous report, June 17, 1904...... $1,866.84 June 15-Black & Drayton, disbursements,... 15-A. J. Doan, printing notices. Dec. 17-John C. Rankin Co., bill to July 30, 1905 1904.... Feb. 20-A. J. Doan, printing notices... . . SUMMARY. $3,224.31 1,256.78 Balance in N. J. Title Guarantee & Trust Co. to credit of N. J. State $1,967.53 Books and vouchers present, subject to order of the Asso ciation. Respectfully submitted, CHAS. C. BLACK, Treasurer. The annual dues for the year 1905 are due and payable to the Treasurer. Annexed hereto is a list of the members in arrears for dues for more than thirty days, which is hereby submitted to the Trustees, in accordance with the by-laws. For the year 1902 there are delinquents making the total sum due the Association $450. 4 13 26 47 All the members have been notified by the Treasurer to pay their dues, in accordance with the provisions of the by-laws. On motion duly seconded, put to vote and carried, it was ordered that the members in arrears for dues for the year 1902 be dropped from the roll of membership. The Committee on Admissions reported favorably on the gentlemen nominated for membership. An election was thereupon held and the nominees were duly elected to membership. The resignations of Mr. Harry E. Richards and Mr. George H. Large as members of the Association, were thereupon accepted. Mr. Edward M. Colie, Chairman of the Committee on Grievances, presented orally the report of that committee. The Committees on Prosecutions, Law Reform, Legal Education and Legal Biography presented no reports. Mr. Charles W. Fuller, Chairman of the Committee on Legislation, presented the report of that committee. It was received and ordered placed on file. (See Appendix I.) The Honorable Charles W. Parker, Chairman of the Special Committee on Judicial Sales, presented the report of that committee. It was received and ordered placed on file. (See Appendix II.) Mr. Fuller moved that the proposed statute recommended by the Committee on Judicial Sales be endorsed in its entirety. Motion seconded. After discussion Mr. Fuller withdrew his motion and Judge Armstrong moved that the Chair appoint three members to examine the proposed statute and report their suggestions at the meeting on the following day. The motion being put to vote, it was carried. The Chair thereupon appointed Burrows C. Godfrey, Charles H. Hartshorne and Edward M. Colie. On motion duly seconded, put to vote and carried, it was ordered that the Chair appoint three gentlemen to examine the proposed statutes annexed to the report of the Committee on Legislation, to report to the Association on the following day. The President thereupon appointed James E. Howell, Edwin A. S. Lewis and Theodore Booraem. Mr. Charles H. Hartshorne, Chairman of the Special Committee on the Improvement of the Judicial System, presented the report of that committee, which was duly received and ordered to be filed. (See Appendix III.) The several reports submitted were ordered to be published in the year book. The President then announced that the next business before the meeting was the election of Trustees, Officers and Directors of the Association for the ensuing year and appointed a nominating committee as follows: SAMUEL W. BELDON, NELSON Y. DUNGAN, GEORGE A. BOURGEOIS, LEWIS STARR. Halsey M. Barrett presented the following resolutions: Resolved, That a standing committee be appointed by the President, such committee to consist of two or more members of the bar of each county, whose duty it shall be to endeavor to secure as members of this association such members of the bar of the state as shall be eligible to membership, and also to endeavor to secure a larger attendance at the annual meetings of the association. The resolution being duly seconded, it was put to vote and carried. The Committee on Nominations made the following nominations: GEORGE J. BERGEN, ERWIN E. MARSHALL, For Directors: WILLIAM T. HILLIARD, CHAUNCEY G. PArker, FREDERICK PARKER, JOHN B. VREELAND, WILLIAM I. Lewis, CHARLES W. FULLER. For Treasurer: CHARLES C. BLACK, "Secretary: ALBERT C. WALL. There being no further business before the meeting, it was thereupon adjourned to ten A. M. on the following day. ALBERT C. WALL, Secretary. |