Report of Committee on Legal Biography (list of members whose deaths have been reported since last annual meeting)..... Presentation of report of Committee to Examine the Practice Act prepared by the Board of Statutory Consolidation and the Joint Legislative Committee.. Report of Committee to Examine the Practice Act prepared by Presentation of the Report of the Committee on Law Reform... Report of the Committee on Law Reform.. Adoption of Report and Resolution presented by the Committee to Examine the Practice Act prepared by the Board of Report of Committee on the Revision of the Civil Practice.... Presentation of Report of Committee on International Arbitra- Notice of Amendment to the Constitution of the Association...... Resolution relative to the Report of the Reconstruction Commis- ship of the Wives of Applicants for Citizenship.......... Resolution relative to proposed legislation concerning the Citizen- Report of the Committee to Confer with the Court of Appeals and Recommend Measures for the Relief of the Congested Discussion on the resolution presented by the Committee on the Report of Committee on the Salary of the Judges of the Court Election of applicants for membership.. Resolution relative to amendment of the Election Law concerning Nomination of Judicial Officers.... Resolution relative to the consideration of the Correction of Judicial Errors, especially in the Courts of Last Resort.. Resolution relative to Chapters 419 and 441, Laws of 1919, amend- Report of the Committee on Law Reform relative to the resolu- Recommendations made by the Committee on Law Reform...... Motion relative to the distribution of the Report of the Com- Report of the Committee on International Arbitration.. Resolution presented by the Committee on International Arbi- LAWS OF NEW YORK-1877 CHAPTER 210. "AN ACT to incorporate the New York State Bar Association.” PASSED May 2, 1877. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The members of the voluntary association, which was formed in the city of Albany, November twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, under the name of the New York State Bar Association, of which association John K. Porter, of the first judicial district, is president, and Charles W. Sanford, of the first judicial district; John J. Armstrong, of the second judicial district; Samuel Hand, of the third judicial district; Platt Potter, of the fourth judicial district; William C. Ruger, of the fifth judicial district; Horatio Ballard, of the sixth judicial district; James L. Angle, of the seventh judicial district. and Myron H. Peck, of the eighth judicial district, are vice-presidents, and of which the judges of the United States Courts, residing in this State, the judges of the Court of Appeals, and justices of the Supreme Court of this State are honorary members, and all persons who shall hereafter be associated with them are hereby created a body corporate, under the name of the "New York State Bar Association." And the said association is formed to cultivate the science of jurisprudence, to promote reform in the law, to facilitate the administration of justice, to elevate the standard of integrity, honor and courtesy in the legal profession, and to cherish the spirit of brotherhood among the members thereof. SEC. 2. Said corporation shall have power to acquire by lease or purchase, suitable buildings, library and furniture for the use of the corporation; to borrow money for such purposes and issue bonds therefor, and to secure the same by mortgage, and generally to acquire and take by purchase, gift, devise, bequest, subject to the provisions of law relating to devises and bequests by last will and testament or otherwise, and to hold, transfer and convey all or any such real and personal property as may be necessary for attaining the objects, and carrying into effect the purposes of such corporation. SEC. 3. The constitution, by-laws, rules and regulations originally adopted by said voluntary association shall be the constitution, by-laws, rules and regulations of the corporation hereby created, which shall have power from time to time to alter, modify and change the same; and the member of the executive committee of said association shall be the first trustees of the corporation hereby created, and continue to be such trustees until others are elected in their places as prescribed by sad constitution and by-laws, and the several officers and commit.tees of said association shall be the officers and committees of the corporation hereby created with the powers and duties prescribed by said constitution and by-laws, rules and regulations, until their suc cessors shall be similarly duly elected and installed. SEC. 4. All property. rights and interests of the said association now held by any or either of the officers thereof, or by any person or persons for its use and benefit shall, by virtue of this act, vest in and become the property of the corporation hereby created, subject to the payment of the debts of said association, if any; all interest of any member of said association, and of the corporation hereby created, in such property, shall terminate and vest in the corporations upon his ceasing to be a member thereof. SEC. 5. This corporation shall possess the powers and be subject to the liabilities prescribed by the third title of the eighteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes. This corporation shall deposit a copy of its charter, constitution and by-laws, and of each of its annual reports, in the State Library at Albany, and each of the libraries provided for the use of the justices of the Supreme Court in the several counties of the State. It shall be the duty of every local bar association to deposit with the New York State Bar Association, a copy of its act or certificate of incorporation, or its articles of asso ciation, and its constitution and by-laws and its annual report. SEC. 6. This act shall take effect immediately. |