SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS Source: American Bar Association Journal, Vol. 3, No. 3 (JULY, 1917), pp. 320-326 Published by: American Bar Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25699867 . Accessed: 15/05/2014 08:39 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . American Bar Association is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to American Bar Association Journal. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 195.78.108.168 on Thu, 15 May 2014 08:39:44 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTSSource: American Bar Association Journal, Vol. 3, No. 3 (JULY, 1917), pp. 320-326Published by: American Bar AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25699867 .
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Annual Dinner The Annual Dinner will be given as above noted. A charge of
$4 for dinner ticket will be made to each member and delegate. As against this charge, quests of the Grand Union Hotel will receive a rebate of $1 on their current bills. A limited number of guest tickets will be furnished to members at a charge of
$6 each. Members are requested to apply promptly for dinner tickets.
They will be on sale at the Treasurer's office, Writing Room, Grand Union Hotel, on and after Monday, September 3, at 10 A. M. Positively no tickets will be sold after 12 o'clock noon
Thursday, September 6.
Mail for Members The Association will be provided with pigeon-hole furniture
for sorting mail, which will be placed in the office of the Secretary, Writing Room, Grand Union Hotel. To facilitate distribution the members are requested to have all mail (not otherwise specially directed) addressed in care of the " American Bar Association."
Nomination of General and Local Councils.
The members from each state will meet in the Casino imme
diately upon adjournment of the first business session (Tuesday, September 4, 10 A. M.) for the purpose of nominating a member of the General Council, and also to select a Vice-President and Local Council for the state. Delegations desiring to meet at a
place other than the Casino should notify the SecretaryK prior to thfr opening of the first business session, so that appropriate announcement may be made.
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No list should contain more than six names in all; one for General Council, one for Vice-President and, four for Local Council. All must be members of the Association.
Lists should be left at the Secretary's office, Grand Union
Hotel, not later than 4 P. M. on Tuesday, September 4, in order that they may be prepared for the printer and issued to members on Wednesday morning.
Election of the General Council will take place at the business session of Tuesday evening, September 4.
Meetings of Standing Committees The attention of standing committees is called to the provision
of the By-laws by which they are required to meet every year, at such hours as the respective Chairmen may appoint. All such committees will meet at the Grand Union Hotel on Tuesday
morning, September 4, at 9 o'clock, when a separate room for each committee will be assigned.
Reports of Committees The attention of all committees is called to the following pro
vision of the By-laws: " All Committees may have their reports printed by the
Secretary before the Annual Meeting of the Association; and any such report containing any recommendation for action on the part of the Association, shall be printed, together with a draft of bill embodying the views of the Committee, whenever legislation shall.be proposed. Such report shall be distributed by mail by the Secretary to all the members of the Association at least fifteen days before the Annual Meeting at which such report is proposed to be submitted. No legislation shall be recommended or approved unless there has been a report of a committee, either in favor of or against the same, and unless such legislation be approved by a two-thirds vote of the members of the Association present. Where the report of a committee has been printed it shall not be read before a meeting of the Association unless directed by a majority vote of those present at the meeting, but the chairman of the Committee shall state the purport and substance thereof to the. meeting."
In preparing for debate, members are requested to bear in mind the By-law that no person shall speak more than ten minutes at a
time, nor more than twice on one subject.
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President, GEORGE SUTHERLAND, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Secretary, GEORGE WHITELOCK, Baltimore, Md.
Treasubeb, FREDERICK E. WADHAMS, 78 Chapel Street, Albany, N. Y.
Assistant Secretaries, W. THOMAS KEMP, 1416 Munsey Building, Baltimore, Md. GAYLORD LEE CLARK, 14I6 Munsey Building, Baltimore, Md.
Executive Committee, ex-officio Selden P. Spencer, St. Louis, Mo.
The President, William P. Bynum, Greensboro, N. C. The Secretary, Chapin Brown, Washington, D. C. The Treasurer, Charles N. Potter, Cheyenne, Wyo. Elihu Root, Ex-President, John Lowell, Boston, Mass.
New York, N. Y. Charles Blood Smith, Topeka, Kan. George T. Page, Chairman Ashley Cockrill, Little Rock, Ark.
Gen'l Council, Peoria, 111. Walter Geo. Smith, Philadelphia, Pa.
SECTION OP LEGAL EDUCATION. Hampton L. Carson, Philadelphia, Pa., Chairman. Charles M. Hepburn, Bloomington, Ind., Secretary.
SECTION OF PATENT, TRADE-MARK AND COPYRIGHT LAW. Robert H. Parkinson, Chicago, 111., Chairman. Ernest W. Bradford, Washington, D. C, Secretary.
JUDICIAL SECTION. William C. Hook; Leavenworth, Kan., Chairman. Gaylord Lee Clark, Baltimore, Md., Secretary.
COMPARATIVE LAW BUREAU. Simeon E. Baldwin, New Haven, Conn., Director. Robert P. Shick, Philadelphia, Pa., Secretary. Axel Teisen, Philadelphia, Pa., Assistant Secretary. Eugene C. Massie, Richmond, Va., Treasurer.
NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF COMMISSIONERS ON UNIFORM STATE LAWS.
William H. Staake, Philadelphia, Pa., President. Stephen H. Allen, Topeka, Kan., Vice-President. George B. Young, Montpelier, Vt, Secretary. W. O. Hart, New Orleans, La., Treasurer.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY.
John P. Briscoe, Prince Frederick, Md., President. Edwin M. Abbott, Philadelphia, Pa., Secretary.
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