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COMMITTEE ON LEGAL EDUCATION.

ARTICLE XI.-It shall be the duty of this Committee to examine and report upon any proposed changes in the system of legal education, and make such suggestions as may seem pertinent thereto, and also to examine the practical workings of the present law in relation to the adminission of members of the Bar to practice in this State, and to make such suggestions in relation to the same as the Committee shall deem advisable.

The Committee on Education may cause exceptions to be filed, and prosecute, at the expense of the Association, to the admission of the Bar of all persons whom the said Committee believes are not qualified to be admitted. In all cases where the State Board of Law Examiners shall recommend that an applicant be not admitted to the Bar, and exceptions shall be filed by such applicant to the ratification of the report of said Board, the Committee may in every case, where they think such action proper, ask leave of the Court of Appeals to be heard in support of the decision of the Board.

COMMITTEE ON GRIEVANCES.

ARTICLE XII.-This Committee shall receive and hear all complaints preferred by any member of this Association against any other member for misconduct in his relations to the Association, or in his profession, or affecting interests of the legal profession, the practice of the Law and the administration of justice; provided that said complaints shall be in writing, plainly and specifically stating the matter complained of, and subscribed by the complainant.

All complaints so made shall be considered and disposed of by this Committee in the manner provided in the ByLaws.

The proceedings of this Committee shall be deemed confidential and kept secret, except so far as written or printed reports of the same shall be necessarily and officially made to the Association.

COMMITTEE ON LEGAL BIOGRAPHY.

(As amended in 1909.)

ARTICLE XIII.-The Committee on Legal Biography shall provide for the preservation, among the archives of the Association, of suitable written or printed memorials of the lives and characters of deceased members of this Association, and the same shall, without being read, at the annual meeting of the Association, be referred to the Executive Council for the purpose of being published in the Annual Report of the Association.

SECRETARY.

ARTICLE XIV.-The Secretary shall keep a record, and conduct the correspondence of the Association, and perform the usual duties of such office.

TREASURER.

ARTICLE XV.-The Treasurer shall collect, by order of the Executive Council disburse all funds of the Association, keep regular accounts, which at all times shall be open to the inspection of any member of the Executive Council, and shall make annual reports of all the same to this Association. The Treasurer shall give bond in such

sum as the Executive Council shall decide, the cost of suretyship to be paid by the Association. All funds of the Association shall be deposited in its name in such bank or other financial institution as the Executive Council shall select.

DUES.

(As amended in 1902.)

ARTICLE XVI.—The annual dues of members shall be five dollars, to be paid yearly in advance, and no person shall be qualified to exercise any privilege of membership who is in default.

EXPULSION.

ARTICLE XVII.-Any member may be suspended or expelled by a two-thirds vote of this Association, at any Annual Meeting, for misconduct in relation to the Association or in his profession, after conviction thereof by such method of procedure as may be prescribed by the By-Laws.

FINAL ACTION.

ARTICLE XVIII.-No action of this Association, of a permanent nature or recommending changes in the Law or the administration of justice, shall be had until the subject matter thereof shall have been reported upon by the appropriate committee, to which the same shall have been referred, unless this regulation shall be suspended by a two-thirds vote of the members voting thereon.

ANNUAL MEETING.

(As amended in 1903.)

ARTICLE XIX.-This Association shall meet annually, at such time and place as the Executive Council may select, and at such other times and places in accordance with the By-Laws. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to mail to each member a written or printed notice of the time and place of each Annual or Special Meeting at least ten days in advance of such meeting. Those present at such meetings shall constitute a quorum.

AMENDMENTS.

ARTICLE XX.-This Constitution may be altered or amended at any Annual Meeting, on recommendation of the Executive Council, by a vote of the majority of the members present, or without such recommendation by a vote of two-thirds of the members present.

BY-LAWS

MEETINGS OF THE ASSOCIATION.

(As amended in 1907.)

I. The Executive Council, at its first meeting after each Annual Meeting of the Association, shall select some person to make an address at the next Annual Meeting on some subject, to be selected by said person, pertinent to the objects of this Association; and also not exceeding five members of the Association who shall be requested to prepare and read papers at such meetings.

II. The Order of Business of the Annual Meeting shall be as follows:

(a) Annual Address of the President.

(b) Report of Committee on Admissions and Election. of Members.

(c) Report of the Secretary.

(d) Report of the Treasurer.

(e) Report of Standing Committees, as follows:

Executive Council;

On Laws;

On Legal Education;

On Grievances;

On Legal Biography.

(f) Reports of Special Committees.

(g) The Appointment of Standing Committees. (h) Miscellaneous Business.

(i) The Nomination and Election of Officers.

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