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Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association (1887)
Report of the Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association - 1887 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: TRANSACTIONS TENTH ANNUAL MEETING American Bar Association, HELD IN Putnam Music Hall, SARATOGA SPRINGS, NEW YORK, August 17, 18, And 19, 1887. ... more » Wednesday, August 17, 10 A. M. C. C. Bonney, of Illinois : Gentlemen of the American Bar Association, in behalf of the Executive Committee, I ask you to come to order, and listen to the address of your President, Thomas J. Semmes, of Louisiana. The President of the Association, Thomas J. Semmes, of K'ew Orleans, La., then delivered the opening address. (See Appendix.) C. C. Bonney: Mr. President, the death of Judge Poland and the absence in Europe of Mr. Kawle, our Treasurer, and Professor Baldwin, another member of the Executive Committee, left but one elected and oneea; officio member of the Executive Committee to attend this present annual meeting. Under our Constitution three courses were open to us. We constitute a legalquorum for the transaction of business, and we have authority to proceed and fill the vacancies in this Committee, but we have felt unwilling to take either of those courses and have preferred rather to submit to you in the form which we have prepared the matter of filling the Executive Committee for present action. We were unwilling, after his long and faithful service, to treat the office of Professor Baldwin as vacated by his absence in Europe, where he and Mr. Rawle, with our former President, Mr. Phelps, and Mr. Field, Judge Pea- body, and perhaps some others, have been in attendance upon the International Law Association. We were unwilling to seem to forestall the action of the Association in reference to the filling of the vacancy created by Judge Poland's death. We invited our President to act with us, as he did on yesterday, and the result was an agreement to submit to you ...« less