beginning, and my name fills up the last space upon the first rim, thus finishing the first cycle in the history of this Association. The name of the gentleman who has been elected to succeed me will be the first name upon the new cycle, and I am sure that the new cycle will be by him worthily begun. I wish to express to the members of the Association the very deep sense of obligation that I feel for the honor conferred upon me, and I hope that I have in some measure justified it by a conscientious endeavor to discharge the duties of the office. With this, gentlemen, I declare the Association adjourned. The Association then adjourned sine die. JOHN HINKLEY, Secretary. MINUTE RELATING TO THE SERVICES OF JOHN HINKLEY The resolution referred to in the aforegoing minutes in recognition of the services of the retiring Secretary is as follows: John Hinkley, of Baltimore, Maryland, having been for sixteen years the Secretary of the American Bar Association in succession to his father, Edward Otis Hinkley, who held the same office from the beginning of the organization until the year 1893, has declined a re-election. The Association feels that a special minute should be entered upon its records to express its appreciation of Mr. Hinkley's services in the past and its regret at his retirement from office. Both by the tradition received from his distinguished father, by education and by temperament, John Hinkley has sustained during his long term of office the highest standard of professional excellence in this Association and in all his relations towards it. By his devotion, his industry, his legal knowledge, added to a genial and tactful nature, he has won a place in the estimation of the members of this Association peculiar to himself. During all the years of this work, conducted without ostentation and without the slightest touch of egotism, he has so thoroughly gained our confidence that we are at a loss to know how to make up the void he leaves in our official ranks. While we feel confident that the work of the American Bar Association will always find competent men with lofty ideals to forward it with continued usefulness to the community and to the profession, we realize how difficult it will be to find a successor to Mr. Hinkley so well fitted by character and education for the onerous duties of the secretaryship. The By-laws of this Association forbid votes of thanks to any member or official, but we desire that this minute shall remain to testify to those who join hereafter in the work of the Association that we have given the only reward in our power and the only reward our retiring Secretary would desire, conveying as it does to him our profound appreciation of his work for the Association and our affection and esteem for him as a lawyer and as a friend. GEORGE WHITELOCK, SECRETARY'S REPORT DETROIT, MICHIGAN, August 24, 1909. The report of the proceedings of our last meeting at Seattle, Washington, in August, 1908, has been printed and distributed to all members, and also to all State Bar Associations and legal journals, and to a large number of libraries in the United States and abroad on our mailing-list. There were 3585 members at the close of the last meeting. One hundred and seventy-three members were elected by the Executive Committee between meetings. The membership of the Association includes representatives from all of the states and the territories of Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, New Mexico and the Philippine Islands. Invitations were sent to all State Bar Associations to send three delegates to this meeting, and to all City and County Bar Associations in states having no State Bar Association, to send two delegates. There are 43 State Bar Associations, 3 Territorial Bar Associations, the Bar Association of the District of Columbia and about 484 Local Bar Associations. The reports for this year of the Committee on Judicial Administration and Remedial Procedure, the Committee on Commercial Law, the Committee on Patent, Trade-Mark and Copyright Law Relating to Court of Patent Appeals and relating to additional protection of the owners of patents, the Committee on Insurance Law, the Committee on Taxation and the Committee to Suggest Remedies and Formulate Proposed Laws to Prevent Delay and Unnecessary Cost in Litigation, have been printed and distributed to the members by mail, fifteen days before the meeting. The report of the Comparative Law Bureau has been printed for use at the meeting. A large edition of the Code of Professional Ethics as adopted by this Association was printed after the close of the last meeting, and supplied without cost, in such quantities as were requested, to all State Bar Associations, and reports received show that the Code of Ethics was adopted by a number of the State Associations. Notices were sent to all members of standing and special committees, requesting their attention to matters referred to such committees. A register of those in attendance is kept in the reception room. Every member and delegate is requested to sign it as early as convenient. A list of those present will be printed for distribution at the meeting and will also be included in the report of the proceedings. There are copies of the Constitution and By-laws, lists of officers and members of committees, copies of committee reports and forms of nominations for distribution. The Secretary endeavors to keep the street addresses of all members, and members changing their addresses are requested to notify the Secretary. Respectfully submitted, JOHN HINKLEY, TREASURER'S REPORT 1908-1909. Dr. To cash on hand date of last report..... ..... To cash received, part of moneys appropriated to Committee on Code of Professional Ethics, not used .... $2,882.58 1,130.00 64.50 60.50 19.25 5.00 $5.00 40.00 620.00 To cash received dues of members for 1906 (1).. Total Receipts 15,915.00 $20,076.83 1908. Credit by Disbursements as Follows: Aug. 27. By cash paid Charles A. Morrison, New York, stenographer, balance 28. By cash paid Everett P. Wheeler, New Carried forward $125.00 18.46 $143.46 $20,076.83 |