PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION, HELD IN PUTNAM HALL, SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., August 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th, 1882. L. P. POLAND, of Vermont, Chairman of the Executive Committee, called the meeting to order at a quarter of nine o'clock on Tuesday evening, August 8th. Mr. Poland said: Since our last meeting, the President of this Association, Mr. Clarkson N. Potter, has died-a great loss to us as a body, and a loss to the country at large. In this condition. of affairs the Executive Committee deemed it proper to invite the Vice-President of the Association for the state of New York to officiate, during the sessions of our Fifth Annual Meeting, as President of the Association, and I take pleasure in introducing that gentleman to you-Francis Kernan, of New York. Mr. Kernan said: GENTLEMEN OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION:-I could not properly decline the invitation of your committee to act as your President at this meeting, although I did then, and do now, deeply deplore the sorrowful cause which made it necessary to invite any one to act as President in place of our lamented presiding officer, Mr. Potter. He was an able and accomplished lawyer, an honorable and high-toned gentleman. He served his state in the Congress of the United States with usefulness and distinction. We in this state of New York feel that his death is a great loss to us, as a citizen and as a member of this Association. It has been deemed fit and proper, before entering upon the orderly proceedings of our Association, that there should be some mark of our respect for the memory of our deceased brother, and our sorrow for his loss. I therefore ask your attention to the delivery of an address prepared by Mr. Everett P. Wheeler, of New York, who will speak to us of our lamented President and friend. Mr. Wheeler then read his address. (See Appendix.) The President's Address was then delivered by Francis. Kernan. (See Appendix.) On motion of Simeon E. Baldwin, of Connecticut, the meeting then adjourned until Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. Wednesday Morning, August 9. The meeting was called to order at 10 o'clock. The President announced the appointment of the Committee on Publications as follows: A. Q. Keasbey, Newark, N. J.; Charles S. Bradley, Providence, R. I.; Francis Rawle, Philadelphia, Pa.; Isaac D. Jones, Baltimore, Md.; W. P. Wells, Detroit, Mich. Alexander R. Lawton, of Georgia, then delivered the Annual Address. (See Appendix.) A vote of thanks to Mr. Lawton for his address was then passed. Luke P. Poland, on behalf of the General Council, stated that they were not prepared to offer the list of new members, but would do so at the evening session. The meeting then proceeded to elect the General Council, and the following named gentlemen were elected for their respective states: Alabama, David Clopton, Montgomery. Arkansas, M. M. Cohn, Little Rock. At this stage of the proceedings Mr. Poland, on behalf of the General Council, presented a list of names of new members, all of whom were elected. (See List of New Members at the end of the Minutes.) On motion of W. H. H. Russell, of Missouri, the election of the General Council was deferred until Thursday morning, in order to enable the members from different states to confer with each other. John W. Stevenson, of Kentucky, offered the following resolution, to be laid on the table until it should be reached in the regular order of business: Resolved, That the next meeting of the American Bar Association be held on the 8th of August, 1883, and the days following, at the Green Brier, White Sulphur Springs, Green Brier County, West Virginia. The resolution was seconded by Charles A. Peabody, of New York, and ordered to lie on the table. T. N. Waul, of Texas, and C. C. Bonney, of Illinois, called the attention of the Association to the presence of delegates from the Bar Association of those states respectively, and moved that such delegates be invited to take seats with the members of the Association. Henry Hitchcock, of Missouri, suggested that provision was made for such delegates as might be present in the fourth by-law of the Association, which he asked might be read by the Secretary. The Secretary read the fourth by-law, and stated that the credentials and names of the delegates present had been handed to him, and would be referred to in his report. The Secretary then made his report as follows: The Secretary's Report. MR. PRESIDENT:-I have usually made a very brief and oral report, and will adopt the same course this time. A few statistics of our Association in its early youth may be interesting. The number of members contained in the printed report for 1878 was 289, and the Treasurer's Report for the first year showed there had been $1,065 collected for dues. In 1879 there were 524 members, and $1,575 collected; in 1880, 552 members, and $2,065; in 1881, 556 members, and $2,465 collected, thus showing a gradual increase in membership and a decided increase in the financial part of our work. Last year 142 members were elected. There are yet three states unrepresented in this body-Oregon, Nevada, and Colorado; thirty-five are represented, and the District of Columbia, making thirty-six. I have received credentials of the following delegates: Maryland, John H. B. Latrobe. Michigan (where there appear to be two local Bar Associations), Mitchell J. Smiley, of Grand Rapids; John W. Champlin, of Grand Rapids; Theodore Romeyn, of Detroit. Kentucky, William Preston, John W. Stevenson, and B. F. Buckner. Tennessee, John L. T. Sneed and L. B. McFarland. On page 47 of the record of our last meeting will be found a resolution offered by Mr. Stockbridge. A report upon the |