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Annual Report of the American Bar Association
Annual Report of the American Bar Association Author:American Bar Association Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SECRETARY'S REPORT Boston, Mass., September 3, 1919. To the American Bar Association: The report of the proceedings of the last annual meeting of the Assoc... more »iation has been printed and distributed to all members, to all state bar associations and to legal journals and libraries, both in the United States and abroad. There were 10,995 active and 15 honorary members at the date of publication of the 1918 Report. There have since been 437 deaths and resignations, and the proposal of 465 new members, all of whom have been elected by the Executive Committee. The membership includes representatives of all the states, of the District of Columbia, and of the insular possessions of Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philippines. There are now in existence 47 State Bar Associations, and also the Bar Association of the District of Columbia, and the Bar Association of Hawaii, 38 of which are affiliated with the Amer- can Bar Association. In addition there are 899 local bar associations of which we have record. The Secretary has endeavored to keep in close touch with the state organizations during the year. In lieu of invitations as formerly issued to state bar associations for appointment of three delegates to the annual meeting, invitations are now issued by the committee in charge of the Conference of Bar Association Delegates to each state association to send three delegates and to each local association to send two delegates to the Conference, the delegates also to represent their respective associations at the meeting of the Association. The Secretary has continued to supply, upon request, copies of the Canons of Professional Ethics; 2369 copies have been distributed since the last annual meeting. Notices were duly sent by the Secretary to all standing and special committee...« less