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 BAE ASSOCIATION 
 
 CITY OF NEW YORK. 
 
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 COB. PULTON AND NASSAU STREETS. 
 
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BAE ASSOCIATIOE" 
 
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 CITY OF NEW YORK, 
 
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 DOUGLAS TAYLOR'S COMMERCU.L PRINTING HOUSE, 
 COB. FULTON AND NASSAU STREETS. 
 
 1870. 
 
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE BAR OF THE 
 CITY OF NEW YORK. 
 
 Some of our number who were strongly impressed with 
 the importance in many ways of having our profession in 
 this city organized into an association, having conferred to- 
 gether at intervals during the past year, resolved to make a 
 beginning towards accomplishing this object. A short form 
 of pledge was prepared and sent to a number of gentlemen 
 for signature. When about two hundred names had been 
 secured, it was thought proper to call the signers together 
 for conference, and the result of their meeting was the ap- 
 pointment of committees to draft a constitution and to 
 nominate oflBcers. The constitution has been adopted, and 
 the officers provided for in it have been chosen, and what 
 has so far been done is now submitted to the profession at 
 large, with the earnest hope that the project will receive 
 the approval of every lawyer who has the dignity and honor 
 of his calling at heart, and who feels the necessity of the 
 harmonious co-operation of an upright Bar and a pure 
 judiciary in the administration of justice. 
 
 It may be asked, why was not the whole body of the pro- 
 fession consulted ? Our answer is that such a course seemed 
 impracticable. No one had authority to convene a gen- 
 eral meeting of the Bar. Had such a meeting been called, 
 
those who might have aspembled would have had no 
 more authority than any self-constituted committee. It is 
 always necessary in such enterprises for a few to take the 
 first steps. They naturally, in so doing, expose themselves to 
 criticism, and must rely upon the integrity of their motives 
 and the wisdom of their plans for their justification. The 
 circular was sent to many besides those who signed it. 
 Some delayed, others were absent, but we wish to assure all 
 that there was no intentional avoidance of those who it was 
 thought would unite with us. It is hoped, therefore, that 
 any who may feel that they were justly entitled to be con- 
 sulted, will consider the labor of seeing personally a large 
 number of individuals, and explaining to each the details of 
 unmatured plans, and will generously overlook any apparent 
 assumption of authority on our part in view of the import- 
 ance of the object proposed, and of the obvious difficulties 
 of any plan. 
 
 In this spirit it is also hoped that they will accept for the 
 present the constitution now submitted. It is the result of 
 much discussion and consideration, and yet may seem to 
 many quite defective. When the Association shall embrace 
 a larger proportion of the profession, a review of the work 
 will naturally take place. 
 
 It may seem invidious to require that any member of the 
 Bar should submit to scrutiny his claims to membership in 
 such an association, but as some selection is indispensa- 
 ble, no other plan seemed on the whole so unobjectionable 
 as to constitute a committee to pass upon all applications. 
 It is hoped that the character of the gentlemen who com- 
 pose this committee, and the large number of negative votes 
 
required to exclude an applicant, will furnish an assurance 
 against any caprice or injustice in their action. 
 
 The question has been frequently asked, what do you pro- 
 pose, what is to be gained by joining this association ? We 
 answer that our immediate object is simply organization. 
 
 It seems like an abdication of its legitimate position, that 
 the Bar of the City of New York, numbering its members 
 by thousands, should have absolutely no organization what- 
 ever ; that its influence in all matters affecting either its 
 own dignity and interests as a profession, or the general 
 good as connected with the advancement of jurisprudence or 
 reforms in the administration of justice, should be only that 
 divided and dispersed influence of its members, which from 
 being divided and dispersed, goes for nothing. When its 
 members were fewer and a longer probation was required 
 for admission to its ranks, the traditions of the profession 
 served, to some extent, to answer the purpose of a corporate 
 organization. But since 1846, the era of our present State 
 Constitution, events affecting, not the Bar only, but the 
 whole fabric of public and social life, have succeeded each 
 other with unparalleled rapidity. The barriers to admis- 
 sion to the Bar have been substantially removed ; the dis- 
 tinctions between attorney, solicitor and counsellor, have 
 been obliterated ; the judges have been made elective by the 
 popular voice for a short term only, and a system thus intro- 
 duced which has necessarily exposed them to partizan 
 influences. 
 
 During the same period has come into operation a new 
 system of procedure, which gives to the judges so elected 
 larger discretionary powers than ever before, and a patro- 
 nage in the appointment of receivers and referees, and in the 
 
granting of commissions and allowances, the exercise of 
 which is at least dangerous. 
 
 With these changes, more immediately affecting our pro- 
 fession, have come during the same period the discovery of 
 new gold fields, the immense issues of paper currency during 
 our civil war, the excitements, the social vicissitudes pro- 
 duced by that conflict, the changes in measures of value, the 
 growth of corporate enterprise, the increase of luxury and 
 the social demoralization which confront us on every side. 
 
 What has been the effect of all these things on the Bar ? 
 Many say, its glory and dignity are gone, that it has ceased 
 to be a noble profession and is merely a trade with the rest. 
 We do not admit this charge. But we mean to come together 
 as a body, to look the question fairly in the face, and if we 
 find that we have been tainted by the influence of the times 
 to undertake ourselves the work of purification, to revive a 
 past renown, and give new life to traditions which we be- 
 lieve to be only dormant, not extinct. What specially is 
 to be undertaken ought not to be determined by the few who 
 have taken the lead in the enterprise. The association will 
 itself, after mature consideration, decide upon its own action; 
 but lest the feeling which has prompted the present move- 
 ment should, after its first impulse, flicker and die out, it is 
 proposed to make our association a permanent institution, 
 to procure a commodious building up town, and to establish 
 in it a well-appointed law library. Having, besides this, 
 rooms for consultation and social intercourse, we feel that 
 we shall offer, especially to the younger members of the Bar, 
 an equivalent at least for the expense of membership. The 
 larger our numbers, tlie more readily and speedily will our 
 purposes be accomplished. With five hundred members our 
 
pecuniary success would be assured, and we have encoui*age- 
 ments that voluntary donations will at once enable us to lay 
 the foundation of a library that will soon become the pride 
 of our Bar. We work not for ourselves only, but for those 
 who are to come after us, and we are confident that the 
 spirit of our profession once aroused, we can do all that we 
 require. 
 
 We have not been unmindful of our brethren in the other 
 portions of the State. We could not imperil our own immediate 
 objects by undertaking a more general organization, but we 
 look forward to the forming of similar associations in other 
 cities and counties, with which we hope to be affiliated, and 
 if from them may grow an Association of the Bar of the 
 State of New York, worthy of the past history of that Bar, 
 powerful by its intelligence and learning, and influential by 
 its integrity and patriotism, the benefits of such an associa- 
 tion, not only to ourselves, but to the entire commonwealth, 
 can hardly be overestimated. 
 
 WILLIAM M. EVARTS, 
 HENRY NICOLL, 
 HAMILTON W. ROBINSON, 
 AUGUSTUS P. SMITH, 
 WILLIAM E. CURTIS, 
 WILLIAM C. BARRETT, 
 JAMES EMOTT, 
 CHARLES A. RAPALLO, 
 
 HENRY A. TAILBR, 
 STEPHEN P. NASH, 
 SAMUEL B. GARVIN, 
 SIDNEY WEBSTER, 
 JAMES C. CARTER, 
 JOHN E. PARSONS, 
 WILLIAM G. CHOATE, 
 FRANCIS C. BARLOW, 
 
 Executive Committee. 
 
(As adopted Feb. 15. 1870.) 
 
 ARTICLE I. 
 
 This Association shall be called the " The Bai- Association of 
 the City of New York." 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 
 The Association is established to maintain the honor and 
 dignity of the profession of the law, to cultivate social inter- 
 course among its members and to increase its usefulness in pro- 
 moting the due administration of justice. 
 
 ARTICLE IIL 
 
 SECTION I. 
 
 The members of the Bar who signed the preliminary articles 
 are hereby declared to be members of this Association, but such 
 of them as shaU omit to subscribe to this Constitution, and pay 
 the admission fee, on or before the 15th day of March next, 
 shall cease to be members, and can only become such by subse- 
 quent admission. 
 
 Any member of the profession, in good standing, residing or 
 practising in the City of New York, may become a member, by 
 vote of the Association, on recommendation of the Committee 
 on Admissions as hereinafter provided, and on subscribing to 
 this Constitution and paying the admission fee. 
 
 SECTION n. 
 
 The Committee on Admissions shall have power to make 
 such regulations in relation to proposals for membership and 
 notice thereof, and as they may, from time to time deem need- 
 
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 ful. Candidates against whom there shall be five negative votes 
 in the Committee shall not be recommended for admission. 
 Upon being recommended, a vote by ballot shall be taken in the 
 Association, and one negative vote in every five shall exclude 
 the candidate. 
 
 ARTICLE IV. 
 
 OFFICEES. 
 
 The Officers of the Association shall be a President, five Vice- 
 Presidents, a Recording Secretary, a Corresponding Secretary 
 and a Treasm'er. There shall also be an Executive Committee of 
 fifteen members, of which Committee the President shall, ex 
 officio, be a member ; and a Committee on Admissions, to con- 
 sist of twenty members. These Officers and Committees shall be 
 elected at the Annual Meeting to be held on the second Tuesday 
 of January in each year. The Association may provide by its 
 By-laws for such other Standing Committees as it may deem 
 necessary. 
 
 ARTICLE V. 
 
 The Executive Committee shall be vested with the title to all 
 the property of the Association until it may be incorporated, as 
 Trustees thereof, and shall manage its affaks, subject to the 
 Constitution and By-laws ; they shall provide a permanent place 
 for the use of the Association, and shall appropriate such sums 
 as they may deem fit for a Library and Reading Room. 
 
 ARTICLE VI. 
 
 A Library Committee, to consist of five members, shall be 
 appointed by the Executive Committee, to hold office during 
 their pleasure, and, subject to thek directions, shall have chai'ge 
 of the Library and Reading Room, with power to expend upon 
 the same such moneys as may be appropriated by the Execu- 
 tive Committee, or procm'ed by voluntary subscription. 
 
 ARTICLE VII. 
 
 The Judges of the Courts of the United States, of the Court 
 of Appeals, of the Supreme Com-t, and of all other Com-ts of 
 Record of the State of New York, shall have the use of the 
 Library and Reading Room of this Association, without the 
 payment of fees. 
 
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 ARTICLE VIII. 
 
 MEETINGS OF THE ASSOCIATION. 
 
 There shall be an annual meeting of the Association on the 
 second Tuesday of January, and other stated meetings on the 
 second Tuesdays of March, June and November in each year. 
 At these stated meetings, and at any regular adjom-ned meeting 
 thereof, all the powers of the Association may be exercised. 
 Special meetings may be called at any time by the Executive 
 Committee, and shall be called upon the wiitten request of 
 twenty members. 
 
 At such special meetings no business shall be ti-ansacted ex- 
 cept such as shall be specified in the call thereof. The presence 
 of fifty members, iu addition to such members of the Executive 
 Committee as may be present, shall be necessary to constitute a 
 quorum at any meeting of the Association. 
 
 ARTICLE IX. 
 
 ADMISSION AND ANNUAL FEES. 
 
 The admission fee shall be Fifty Dollars, to be paid on signing 
 the Constitution. 
 
 The annual dues shall be Forty Dollars, payable half-yeai-ly, on 
 the first days of May and November, each year ; and any mem- 
 ber in default, after thirty days notice, shall cease to be a mem- 
 ber, unless excused by order of the Executive Committee. 
 
 In case of members of less than six years standing at the Bar, 
 the Executive Committee may, until they shall have attained 
 that standing, give them a credit for one-half then- initiation 
 fee, and remit one-half then- annual dues. 
 
 ARTICLE X. 
 
 Any member of the Association may be suspended or expelled 
 for misconduct in his relations to this Association or in his pro- 
 fession, on conviction thereof in such manner as may be pre- 
 scribed by the By-laws, and all interest in the property of the 
 Association, of persons resigning or otherwise ceasing to be 
 members, shall vest ia the Association. 
 
 ARTICLE XI 
 This Constitution shall go into immediate efiect and an elec- 
 
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 tion of Officers and Committees, herein provided for, shall forth- 
 with be had. They shall hold theii- offices until theii- successors 
 are elected at the annual meeting, on the Second Tuesday in 
 January, 1871. 
 
 AETICLE XII. 
 
 All elections shall be by ballot. The Officers elected shall 
 enter upon then- duties immediately upon then- election, and 
 shall hold office untU. thek successors are elected or ap- 
 pointed. 
 
 In case of a vacancy in any office, it shall be filled by appoint- 
 ment of the Executive Committee, untU the next annual elec- 
 tion. 
 
 ARTICLE XIII. 
 
 This Constitution may be amended by a two-third vote of the 
 members present at any stated meeting of the Association, pro- 
 vided that notice of the proposed amendment, subscribed by ten 
 members, be given at a previous meeting. 
 
Bir-L.^^W"S. 
 
 I. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT AND VICE-PEESIDENTS. 
 
 The President shall preside at all meetings of the Association, 
 and in case of his absence, any one of the Vice-Presidents, who 
 shall be then chosen without ballot, shall preside. 
 
 II. 
 
 THE RECOEDING SECEETART. 
 
 The Recording Secretary shall keep a record of the proceed- 
 ings of all meetings and of all other matters of which a record 
 shaU be deemed advisable by the Association. 
 
 He shall notify the Officers and members of thek election, and 
 shall keep a roll of the members, and shall issue notices of all 
 meetings. 
 
 III. 
 
 ' THE COEEESPONDING SECEETAET. 
 
 The Corresponding Secretary shall conduct the correspondence 
 of the Association with the concm-rence of the President. 
 
 IV. 
 
 THE TEEASDEEE. 
 
 The Treasurer shall collect, and, under the du-ection of the 
 Executive Committee, disburse, aU funds of the Association ; he 
 shall report annually and oftener, if required ; he shall keep 
 regular accounts, which shall be, at all times, open to the inspec- 
 tion of any member of the Executive Conmiittee. His accounts 
 shall be audited by a Committee of three members of the Associ- 
 ation to be elected by ballot, at the stated meeting preceding 
 the annual meeting in each year. 
 
 V. 
 
 MEETINGS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. ' 
 
 The Executive Committee shall meet at least once a month, 
 except in July, August and September. They shall have power 
 
16 
 
 to make such regulations not inconsistent with the Constitution 
 and By-Laws, as shall be necessary for the protection of the pro- 
 perty of the Association, and for the preservation of good oi-der 
 in the conduct of its aiFairs. 
 
 They shall keep a record of their proceedings, which shall be 
 read at the ensuing meeting of the Association ; and it shall be 
 their duty to present business for the action of the Association. 
 They shall have no power to make the Association liable for 
 any debts amounting to more than half of the amount in the 
 Treasurer's hands, in cash, and not subject to prior liabilities ; 
 nor shall they have power to make any contract binding per- 
 sonally upon members of the Association. 
 
 VI. 
 
 At each stated meeting of the Association, the order of busi- 
 ness shall be as follows : 
 
 1. Reading of minutes of preceding meeting 
 
 2. Report of Executive Committee. 
 
 3. Report of the Treasm-er. 
 
 4. Reports of Special Committees. 
 
 5. Miscellaneous business. 
 
 This order of business may be changed by a vote of the ma- 
 jority of the members present. 
 
 The usual j>arliamentaiy rules and orders otherwise than are 
 herein provided, shall govern all meetings of the Association. 
 
 VII. 
 
 If any person elected does not, within one month after notice 
 of his election, signify his acceptance by signing the Constitu- 
 tion and By-Laws, and payment of his admission fee, he shall 
 be deemed to have declined to become a member. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 These By-Laws may be amended, at any stated meeting of 
 the Association, by vote of two-thu-ds of those present ; pro- 
 vided that ten days' notice, in wi-iting, of the proposed amend- 
 ment has been given to the Executive Committee. 
 
^tpxt of f taa^dittjjS 
 
 BAR ASSOCIATIOS 
 
 CITY OF NEW YORK. 
 
 NciB ^ork : 
 
 DOUGLAS TAYLOR'S COMMERCIAL PRINTING HOUSE, 
 COR. FULTON AND NASSAU SPKEBTS. 
 
 1870. 
 
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 BAR ASSOCIAIIOS 
 
 CITY OF NEW YOKK. 
 
 New f otk : 
 
 DOUGLAS TAYLOR'S COMMERCIAL PRINTING HOUSE, 
 COE. FULTON AND NASSAU STKBETS. 
 
 1870. 
 
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE BAR OF THE 
 CITY OP NEW YORK. 
 
 Some of our number who were strongly impressed with 
 the importance in many ways of having our profession in 
 this city organized into an association, having conferred to- 
 gether at intervals during the past year, resolved to make a 
 beginning towards accomplishing this object. A short form 
 of pledge was prepared and sent to a number of gentlemen 
 for signature. When about two hundred names had been 
 secured, it was thought proper to call the signers together 
 for conference, and the result of their meeting was the ap- 
 pointment of committees to draft a constitution and to 
 nominate officers. The constitution has been adopted, and 
 the officers provided for in it have been chosen, and what 
 has so far been done is now submitted to the profession at 
 large, with the earnest hope that the project will receive 
 the approval of every lawyer who has the dignity and honor 
 of his calling at heart, and who feels the necessity of the 
 harmonious co-operation of an upright Bar and a pure 
 judiciary in the administration of justice. 
 
 It may be asked, why was not the whole body of the pro- 
 fession consulted ? Our answer is that such a course seemed 
 impracticable. No one had authority to convene a gen- 
 eral meeting of the Bar. Had such a meeting been called, 
 
IV 
 
 those who might have assembled would have had no 
 more authority than any self-constituted committee. It is 
 always necessary in such enterprises for a few to take the 
 first steps. They naturally, in so doing, expose themselves to 
 criticism, and must rely upon the integrity of their motives 
 and the wisdom of their plans for their justification. The 
 circular was sent to many besides those who signed it. 
 Some delayed, others were absent, but we wish to assure all 
 that there was no intentional avoidance of those who it was 
 thought would unite with us. It is hoped, therefore, that 
 any who may feel that they were justly entitled to be con- 
 sulted, will consider the labor of seeing personally a large 
 number of individuals, and explaining to each the details of 
 unmatured plans, and will generously overlook any apparent 
 assumption of authority on our part in view of the import- 
 ance of the object proposed, and of the obvious difiiculties 
 of any plan. 
 
 In this spirit it is also hoped that they will accept for the 
 present the constitution now submitted. It is the result of 
 much discussion and consideration, and yet may seem to 
 many quite defective. When the Association shall embrace 
 a larger proportion of the profession, a review of the work 
 will naturally take place. 
 
 It may seem invidious to require that any member of the 
 Bar should submit to scrutiny his claims to membership in 
 such an association, but as some selection is indispensa- 
 ble, no other plan seemed on the whole so unobjectionable 
 as to constitute a committee to pass upon all applications. 
 It is hoped that the character of the gentlemen who com- 
 pose this committee, and the large number of negative votes 
 
required to exclude an applicant, will furnish an assurance 
 against any caprice or injustice in their action. 
 
 The question has been frequently asked, what do you pro- 
 pose, what is to be gained by joining this association ? We 
 answer that our immediate object is simply organization. 
 
 It seems like an abdication of its legitimate position, that 
 the Bar of the City of New York, numbering its members 
 by thousands, should have absolutely no organization what- 
 ever ; that its influence in all matters affecting either its 
 own dignity and interests as a profession, or the general 
 good as connected with the advancement of jurisprudence or 
 reforms in the administration of justice, should be only that 
 divided and dispersed influence of its members, which from 
 being divided and dispersed, goes for nothing. When its 
 members were fewer and a longer probation was required 
 for admission to its ranks, the traditions of the profession 
 served, to some extent, to answer the purpose of a corporate 
 organization. But since 1846, the era of our present State 
 Constitution, events affecting, not the Bar only, but the 
 whole fabric of public and social life, have succeeded each 
 other with unparalleled rapidity. The barriers to admis- 
 sion to the Bar have been substantially removed ; the dis- 
 tinctions between attorney, solicitor and counsellor, have 
 been obliterated ; the judges have been made elective by the 
 popular voice for a short term only, and a system thus intro- 
 duced which has necessarily exposed them to partizan 
 influences. 
 
 During the same period has come into operation a new 
 system of procedure, which gives to the judges so elected 
 larger discretionary powers than ever before, and a patro- 
 nage in the appointment of receivers and referees, and in the 
 
VI 
 
 granting of commissions and allowances, the exercise of 
 which is at least dangerous. 
 
 With these changes, more immediately affecting our pro- 
 fession, have come during the same period the discovery of 
 new gold fields, the immense issues of paper currency during 
 our civil war, the excitements, the social vicissitudes pro- 
 duced by that conflict, the changes in measures of value, the 
 growth of corporate enterprise, the increase of luxury and 
 the social demoralization which confront us on every side. 
 
 What has been the effect of all these things on the Bar ? 
 Many say, its glory and dignity are gone, that it has ceased 
 to be a noble profession and is merely a trade with the rest. 
 We do not admit this charge. But we mean to come together 
 as a body, to look the question fairly in the face, and if we 
 find that we have been tainted by the influence of the times 
 to undertake ourselves the work of purification, to revive a 
 past renown, and give new life to traditions which we be- 
 lieve to be only dormant, not extinct. What specially is 
 to be undertaken ought not to be determined by the few who 
 have taken the lead in the enterprise. The association will 
 itself, after mature consideration, decide upon its own action; 
 but lest the feeling which has prompted the present move- 
 ment should, after its first impulse, flicker and die out, it is 
 proposed to make our association a permanent institution, 
 to procure a commodious building up town, and to establish 
 in it a well-appointed law library. Having, besides this, 
 rooms for consultation and social intercourse, we feel that 
 we shall offer, especially to the younger members of the Bar, 
 an equivalent at least for the expense of membership. The 
 larger our numbers, the more I'eadily and speedily will our 
 purposes be accomplished. With five hundred members our 
 
vu 
 
 pecuniary success would be assured, and we have encourage- 
 ments that voluntary donations will at once enable us to lay 
 the foundation of a library that will soon become the pride 
 of our Bar. We work not for ourselves only, but for those 
 who are to come after us, and we are confident that the 
 spirit of our profession once aroused, we can do all that we 
 require. 
 
 We have not been unmindful of our brethren in the other 
 portions of the State. We could not imperil our own immediate 
 objects by undertaking a more general organization, but we 
 look forward to the forming of similar associations in other 
 cities and counties, with which we hope to be affiliated, and 
 if from them may grow an Association of the Bar of the 
 State of New York, worthy of. the past history of that Bar, 
 powerful by its intelligence and learning, and influential by 
 its integrity and patriotism, the benefits of such an associa- 
 tion, not only to ourselves, but to the entire commonwealth, 
 can hardly be overestimated. 
 
 WnXIAM M. EVARTS, 
 HENRY NICOLL, 
 HAMILTON W. ROBINSON, 
 AUGUSTUS F. SMITH, 
 WILLIAM E. CURTIS, 
 WILLIAM C. BARRETT, 
 JAMES EMOTT, 
 CHARLES A. RAPALLO, 
 
 HENRY A. TAJLBR, 
 STEPHEN P. NASH, 
 SAMUEL B. GARVIN, 
 SIDNEY WEBSTER, 
 JAMES C. CARTER, 
 JOHN B. PARSONS, 
 WILLIAM G. CHOATE, 
 FRANCIS C. BARLOW, 
 
 Executive Oommiitee. 
 
BAR MEETIJSTG 
 
 Tuesday, February 1, 1870- 
 
 At 8 o'clock, Mr. Albert Matthews called the meeting 
 to order and said : 
 
 Kemarks op Albert Matthews, Esq. 
 The Bar of this City, by the last printed list (which is 
 contained in Gould's Lawyer's Diary of the present year), 
 is composed of about four thousand members. Except the 
 " Law Institute," which is, practically, nothing but a con- 
 sulting library, open during the business hours of the day, 
 there is no organization in the legal profession ; or, at least, 
 none which is generally known. During the last year, 
 however, about two hundred members of the New York 
 Bar (.most of whom are now present), have united in forming 
 an Association, by written articles (which I have before 
 me), united, I say, for the purpose of oi*ganizing the legal 
 profession in this City. 
 
 As I understand it, the object of this New York Bar 
 Association is, by the cultivation of more intimate relations 
 among its members, to put and maintain the legal profession 
 in its proper position in this community, and thereby to 
 promote those public interests with which it is closely allied. 
 Having that object in view, we confidently hope and believe 
 that all right-minded men, both in the profession and out of 
 it, will rejoice to see this organization perfected and in suc- 
 cessful operation. 
 
 The members of this Association have requested Messrs. 
 
Carter, Robinson, and myself to call you together, for 
 the purpose of enabling you to take such measures as 
 you may think proper for perfecting this organization, in 
 order to carry out the design expressed in these articles, 
 which we have all signed. To that end we have called you 
 together to-night; and, in order to put this matter in 
 motion, I will now nominate Mr. Edgar S. Van Winkle 
 as Chairman of this meeting. 
 
 Mr. Henet Nicoll seconded the motion, which was car- 
 ried unanimously. 
 
 Mr. S. P. Nash nominated for Secretaries of the meeting 
 Messrs. Grosvenor, P. Lowry and John B. Parsons ; who 
 were also elected unanimously. 
 
 Mr. LowRT read the call for the meeting, as follows : 
 
 The undersigned Members of the Bar of the City of New 
 York, believing that the organized action and influence of the 
 Legal Profession, properly exerted, would lead to the creation 
 of more intimate relations between its members than now exist, 
 and would, at the same time, sustain the profession in its proper 
 position in the community, and thereby enable it, in many 
 ways, to promote the interests of the public, do hereby mutually 
 agree to unite in forming an Association for such purposes. 
 
 And we do hereby appoint Messrs. James C. Carter, Albert 
 Matthews and Edmund Randolph Robinson, a committee to call 
 a meeting of the subscribers at such time and place as may be 
 designated by said committee, at which meeting measm-es shall 
 be taken for tbe organization of the proposed Association. 
 
 New York, December, 1869. 
 
 Wm. M. Evarts. Waldo Hutchins. 
 
 Henry Nicoll. Lucien Bu'dseye. 
 
 William Allen Butler. Charles P Crosby. 
 
 John K. Porter. Benjamin K. Phelps. 
 
 A. J. Vanderpoel. Abm. R. Lawi-ence, Jr. 
 
 C. Van Santvoord. Charles Coudert, Jr. 
 Thos. C. T. Buckley. L. L. Coudert. 
 
 D. P. Eaton. John Erving. 
 A. Underbill. John H. Piatt. 
 D. D. Lord. S. J. Tilden. 
 
3 
 
 F. N. Bangs. 
 Henry H. Anderson. 
 Edwards Pierrepont. 
 E. H. Owen. 
 
 H. M. Alexander. 
 Ashbel Green. 
 Wm. M. Prichard. 
 Wm. G. Choate. 
 Rich. S. Emmet. 
 Clarkson N. Potter. 
 Thos, H. Rodman. 
 
 B. F. Dunning. 
 John J. Town send. 
 Sidney Webster. 
 
 C. A. Seward. 
 Charles M. Da Costa. 
 Aug. F. Smith. 
 Luther R. Marsh. 
 Joseph H. Choate. 
 Chs. F. Southmayd. 
 Charles E. Butler. 
 
 S. P. Nash. 
 Samuel E. Lyon. 
 Alexander Hamilton, Jr. 
 David Dudley Field. 
 E. W. Stoughton. 
 James Emott. 
 Benj. D. Silliman. 
 John Slosson. 
 Charles A. Peabody. 
 E. Louis Lowe. 
 George IST. Titus. 
 John P. Crosby. 
 Albon P. Man. 
 John E. Parsons. 
 
 E. C. Benedict. 
 J. S. Bosworth. 
 Edgar S. Van Winkle. 
 
 G. M. Speu-. 
 Henry A. Cram. 
 
 F. F. Marbmy. 
 Wm. E. Curtis. 
 MmTay Hoffman. 
 Hamilton W. Robinson. 
 J. E. Bun-ill. 
 
 J. W. Gerard, Jr. 
 Alvin C. Bradley. 
 George T. Strong. 
 William Betts. 
 
 H. M. Ruggles. 
 
 Everett P. Wheeler. 
 
 Charles A. Rapallo. 
 
 Charles P. Kirkland. 
 
 W. W. Macfarlane. 
 
 Charles A. Davison. 
 
 F. R. Coudert. 
 
 Charles Jones. 
 
 C. J. DeWitt. 
 
 J. Frederic Kernochan. 
 
 J. W. Edmonds. 
 
 WUliam Hildi-edth Field. 
 
 Charles H. Glover. 
 
 Buchanan Winthrop. 
 
 Frank E. Kernochan. 
 
 Elial F. Hall. 
 
 John M. Knox. 
 
 Herbert B. Turner. 
 
 Charles P. Kkkland, Jr. 
 
 John McKeon. 
 
 J. W. Ostrander. 
 
 W. A. Ogden Hegeman. 
 
 William Barrett. 
 
 David Thurston. 
 
 William Henry Arnoux. 
 
 Charles C. Jones, Jr. 
 
 Franklin A. Wilcox. 
 
 Theodore M. Davis. 
 
 Charles D. Ingersoll. 
 
 Edmund Randolph Robinson. 
 
 Henry R. Winthi-op. 
 
 Henry Hilton. 
 
 John S. Jenness. 
 
 M. Van Buren Wilcoxson. 
 
 E. L. Fancher. 
 Charles F. Sandford. 
 John Whipple. 
 
 F. S. Stallknecht. 
 Grosvenor P. Lowi'ey. 
 Andrew Stewart. 
 Edward Holland NicoU. 
 Frederick Smyth. 
 Lyman W. Bates. 
 James S. Huggins. 
 John Berry. 
 
 F. J. Fithian. 
 Edward Patterson. 
 E. Ellery Anderson. 
 Jos. B. Lawrence. 
 
Charles E. Strong. 
 
 A. P. Whitehead. 
 T. R. Strong. 
 Wm. J. Hoppin. 
 Lews L. Delafield. 
 Charles F. Blake. 
 Livingston K. Millei\ 
 Wm. S. Opdyke. 
 John E. Ward. 
 Charles B. Stoughton. 
 Albert Matthews. 
 Flamen B. Candler. 
 Philo T. Ruggles. 
 
 B. Roelker. 
 WilUam Tracy. 
 Ch. Francis Stone. 
 George Wales Soren. 
 George M. Miller. 
 Wheeler H. Peckham. 
 Theodore W. Dwight. 
 Oscar Smedberg. 
 Henry J. Scudder. 
 Townsend Scudder. 
 James P. Lowrey. 
 Henry D. Sedgwick. 
 Richard H. Bowne. 
 Smith Clift. 
 
 6. W. Watson. 
 Charles D. Bmi-ill. 
 Elbridge T. Gerry. 
 Charles Tracy. 
 Charles Edward Tracy. 
 J. Evarts Tracy. 
 George De Forest Lord. 
 John C. Dimmick. 
 J. S. Winter. 
 Joshua M. Van Cott. 
 George W. Parsons. 
 Hu'am Barney. 
 John Sherwood. 
 Walter L. Livingston. 
 Albert Stickney. 
 Henry A. Taller. 
 Alfred L. Edwards. 
 Aug. R. Macdonough. 
 W. W. Goodrich. 
 S. Merrihew. 
 D. C. Van Cott. 
 Beverly Robinson. 
 
 George C. BaiTett. 
 Henry R. Beekman. 
 Charles B. Moore. 
 Noah Davis. 
 Julien T. Davies. 
 Gerard Beekman. 
 J. Slosson. 
 
 Eugene H Pomeroy. 
 Hamilton Morton. 
 Thomas 0. Ingersoll. 
 Richard H. Clarke. 
 Frederick Kapp. 
 Edmund Whetmore. 
 C. A. Hand. 
 
 F. H. Churchm. 
 Henry E. Davies. 
 R. M. Harrison. 
 Robert Sewell. 
 E. G. Drake, Jr. 
 Hem-y B. Hammond. 
 W. Q. Morton. 
 Hem-y Whittaker. 
 Thomas M. Wheeler. 
 Charles E. Whitehead. 
 John N. Whiting. 
 
 G. M. Ogden. 
 Cadwallader E. Ogden. 
 Robert Benner. 
 William Betts. 
 
 John J. Townsend. 
 John S. Davenport. 
 John J. Latting. 
 John L. Cadwallader. 
 Edward H. Anderson. 
 Charles Nettleton. 
 John A. Foster. 
 Smith E. Lane. 
 Thomas E. Stillman. 
 Thomas H. Hubbard. 
 Morris S. Miller. 
 John G. Vose. 
 Dwight H. Olmsted. 
 James J. Roosevelt. 
 Frederick E. Mather. 
 William Watson. 
 John H. Risley. 
 C. B. Wheeler. 
 E. S. Ketchum. 
 J. P. Ketchum. 
 
William Jay. E. Ketchum, Jr. 
 
 John A. Weeks. John Fitch. 
 
 Hooper C. Van Vorst. Samuel G. Glassey. 
 
 George H. Forster. James R. Jessup. 
 
 James F. Dwight. Joseph B. Varnum. 
 
 James C. Carter. P. W. Tm-ney. 
 
 Jos. Larocque. Osborn E. Bright. 
 
 W. Stanley. Benjamin T. Kissam. 
 
 Francis C. Barlow. Henry P. Townsend. 
 Charles H. Hmit. 
 
 Remaeks op Edgar S. Van Winkle, Esq., the Chairman. 
 
 Gentlemen and Fellow Members of the Bar, — We 
 have met this evening in pursuance of the call which has 
 just been read to you. I thank you for the honor which 
 you have done me in appointing me to preside over your 
 deliberations this evening. It is an honor which is peculi- 
 arly gratifying to one who, like myself, has never sought 
 for distinction outside the ranks of his profession. The 
 paper to which we have subscribed our names expresses, as 
 I understand it, the motive which has actuated us in coming 
 together, and the objects which we desire to attain. The 
 motive is found in " the belief that the organized action, 
 and influence of the legal profession, properly exerted, 
 would lead to the creation of more intimate relations be- 
 tween its members than now exist." The objects sought to 
 be attained are also expressed in the call in a concise yet 
 comprehensive manner, namely : " sustaining the profession 
 in its proper position in the community, and thereby enabling 
 it in many ways to promote the interests of the public." 
 
 First, then, gentlemen, let me say a word or two upon the 
 organization of the members of the Bar into an association, 
 in respect to which the Bar of New York has hitherto been 
 sadly deficient. Some of the public papers I notice have 
 put the inquiry, with much point, why the members of the 
 Bar are forming an organization just now, — as if there was 
 some peculiarity, something extraordinary, something mys- 
 terious in the proposed organization. If they had asked us, 
 gentlemen, why the Bar had not done this thing long ago. 
 
it would be more difficult to reply to the question. The 
 Bar of New York owes to itself, and has for many years 
 owed to itself, an organization similar to that which I un- 
 derstand is now contemplated. In organization we shall 
 find strength and a force and power which no individual 
 action, however capable, could ever attain. It seems to 
 me, gentlemen, that while we are entitled to this organiza- 
 tion, and while we must derive from it a great strength and 
 a concentrated power, there will not be any need of ag- 
 gressiveness of action on our part towards any body or any 
 person, unless it be that passive aggressiveness which a 
 good example always exercises against an evil example, and 
 that silent aggressiveness which a principle of right will 
 exercise over a principle that is wrong. [Applause.] There 
 will, however, be in such an organization as this, when pro- 
 perly formed, a power of aggressiveness, if the occasion 
 arrives ; and at all times the organization, if not aggressive, 
 will at least be defensive. Its numbers will give it sti-ength, 
 and their united opinions and influence will, I am sure, be 
 able to shield its members individually and collectively from 
 all wrong, injury, and oppression. [Applause.] 
 
 Association will as a matter of course produce the more 
 intimate relations between the members of the profession 
 alluded to in the call ; and if among our objects there shall 
 be, as I know there must be, a desire to maintain a high 
 tone in the legal profession, to repress all dishonorable 
 practices, and to cultivate a laudable ambition and emula- 
 tion among lawyers ; if successful in attaining these objects, 
 then I am sure we shall be able to restore the legal profes- 
 sion to its proper position in the community — in that com- 
 munity, of which we are the advisers and the counsellors; 
 we can restore it to the position which it has occupied in 
 the past, which it is clearly entitled to occupy in the future, 
 and which it ought to occupy in the present. 
 
 I will not, gentlemen, detain you longer from the business 
 of the evening except by a few words. Upon our action 
 and deliberation, upon what we do or resolve to do this 
 
evening, will depend the success or failure of this organiza- 
 tion. I hope, then, that in laying the foundation we shall 
 exercise intelligence, discretion, moderation, and, above all, 
 the utmost forecast, in the provisions which we may adopt. 
 If we do this we can erect a solid, a stately, and a useful 
 edifice, from which I trust we shall be able to send forth a 
 powerful influence in favor of whatever is good, of whatever 
 is right, of whatever is honest, and of whatever is honor- 
 able. [Applause.] 
 
 The meeting is now ready to proceed to business. 
 
 Mr. Henry Nicoli. : I beg leave, sir, to offer the follow- 
 ing resolution : 
 
 Resolved, That a Committee of nine be appointed by the 
 Chair for the purpose of preparing a suitable Constitution 
 and By-laws for this Association, and that such Committee 
 report at the next meeting. 
 
 The resolution was seconded, and Mr. Nicoll spoke upon 
 it as follows : 
 
 Remarks of Henry Nicoll, Esq. 
 
 Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen — I desire to address a few 
 words to this meeting in explanation of the motives and ob- 
 jects which have influenced those of us who set on foot the 
 movement for this organization, which it is proposed this 
 night to establish. 
 
 It will not be denied that there is a common belief, not 
 only among ourselves, but among all classes of our citizens, 
 that the bar of this city fails to exercise that influence which 
 is justly due to it. This is a melancholy fact ; we look for 
 the causes of this decline. Where are they to be found ? 
 Some of us who, perhaps, are of a more despondent nature, 
 may be inclined to attribute this decline of the profession 
 to a general demoralization which is permeating, as they 
 fancy, the very vitals of society. But I do not belong to 
 that class. I believe that the causes of this decline are 
 
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 nearer to the surface. In my opinion they are to be found 
 among ourselves. I believe that if the bar should be anima- 
 ted by proper sentiment it would soon regain that influence 
 which, it is painful to acknowledge, has been lost. [Ap- 
 plause.] This decline, gentlemen, has been insidious, it has 
 been steadily going on for more than twenty years ; it has at 
 last become so marked that we cannot become indifferent to 
 it. The best evidence that the time has arrived when an 
 effort should be made to arrest the disease, is the fact that 
 there is such an assembly as this here to-night. [Applause.] 
 
 The most prominent of the causes of this decline is to be 
 found in the revolutionary changes made in our condition 
 by the Constitution of 1846 ! That Constitution, under 
 which we still live, gave almost a death blow to the legal 
 profession. Disastrous effects could not but flow from 
 the organic changes made by that instrument. It is true 
 they were not at first realized. We went along submitting 
 to the inevitable tendency of things without perhaps appre- 
 ciating how rapidly we were drifting down the current ; bat, 
 gentlemen, when the gates of the Bar were thrown entirely 
 open ; when those honorable distinctions which formerly ex- 
 isted in the profession were abolished ; when the name of 
 counsellor ceased to be heard in the land, and when every 
 man, from the merest tyro to the greatest and most renowned 
 amongst us, was put upon the same footing, it became a ne- 
 cesary result that without some link which should connect 
 and bind the more worthy of the profession together, it must 
 accept its destiny and be eventually destroyed. [Ap- 
 plause.] 
 
 The diminished influence of the Bar, it is true, may be 
 due also in some measure to the radical change which has 
 been made in our Judicial System, but it is unnecessary and 
 it may be improper to speak of that now. 
 
 We are here simply concerned with ourselves, and not 
 with the Judiciary. The more you reflect on this subject the 
 more will you have reason to believe that the great evil 
 exists in the fact that this Bar has been reduced to a mere 
 
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 collection of individuals without class or rank — a dull 
 dreary level of enforced equality ; perhaps it may sound 
 strange in a democratic community to talk in this way, 
 but I apprehend that, outside of political rights and rela- 
 tions, distinctions must exist everywhere — they are necessary 
 for the very welfare of society. [Applause.] 
 
 We have come together to-night to endeavor to correct 
 this evil, and to form an association by which a freer inter- 
 change of ideas and more intimate relations with each other 
 may be promoted among the Members of this Bar, and to 
 supply, to some extent at least, the great defect in our 
 system of which I have spoken. It is in that spirit that the 
 gentlemen who have undertaken to organize this associa- 
 tion are here, and they rely upon your active co-operation 
 and assistance in the business. [Applause.] 
 
 Need I say to you that one of the most important features 
 of this remarkable age is the power attained and the great 
 results effected by association. You have only to look at 
 our telegraph across the ocean and at our great railroads 
 which span the continent, to see what may be accomplished 
 by combination. You will find that the great Law which 
 originated the organizations which have effected such as- 
 tounding results is the principal of association. 
 
 All classes, all professions, save that of the Lawyer have 
 their associations. The humblest artizan in the land falls 
 back upon his trades-union and too often is enabled for the 
 time to bid defiance to capital. Why is it that we, the 
 most important class in the community, conservators as we 
 are of Justice, sworn officers of the Courts, — why is it that 
 we are as incohesive as the shifting sands of the ocean 
 beach ? Shall this be permitted to continue ? Can we not 
 in some way infuse among our members a better idea of their 
 high and lofty calling ? Can we not create an organization 
 through which the profession may be educated up to a fitting 
 sense of its grave and elevating responsibilities, and of the 
 position which it ought to occupy in this community. I 
 need not dwell upon the importance and dignity of the 
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 legal profession ; we all know that there can be no more 
 responsible office than that of a Lawyer, and that if you have 
 not a Bar, and let me say, an independent Bar, that will 
 stand up against oppression and can protect the weak and 
 the defenceless, society will dissolve itself. 
 
 Now, gentlemen, I know that there may be much differ- 
 ence of opinion as to the special objects of this association; 
 I fancy that there are not a few who will perhaps think that 
 it is formed in a spirit of hostility — that its object is attack. 
 I hasten, for myself and every other gentleman associated 
 with me, to deprecate any such idea, and to disavow any 
 such intent. This Association is in an embryonic state. We 
 are weak. We associate for mutual protection and assis- 
 tance ; we are not in a position to assume offensive opera- 
 tions. What we want is to create a spirit of professional 
 brotherhood, to create in the members of our profession a 
 regard for the profession. [Applause.] When we shall 
 have done that we shall have accomplished everything. 
 When we shall have brought within our ranks, as I confi- 
 dently hope we shall do, all that is intelligent, all that is 
 honest, all that is honorable in this Profession, when we shall 
 number our members by thousands, do you think we shall 
 need to concern ourselves about the influence which this As- 
 sociation must inevitably acquire ? Fancy all the intellect 
 and respectability of the Bar enrolled, united and actuated 
 by a common purpose. Who can limit its influence,— who 
 will dare to say what it may not accomplish ? Let me tell 
 you that this profession, when thus united, thus animated, 
 will be able at least to protect itself from aggression come 
 from what quarter it may. [Applause.] The time will 
 assuredly arrive when this will be so ; but we are not 
 here to-night to speak of what may hereafter be done: 
 we are simply making a beginning. If we can but induce 
 our brethren to enter this organization and to co-operate 
 zealously in building it up, the future will take care of 
 itself. 
 Gentlemen, it is singular that there never should have 
 
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 been any association of this Bar within the memory of its 
 living members. Even in the days when Kent and Spencer 
 and the other illustrious men who adorned our Bench were 
 living; when the great names of Wells and Emmet, and 
 Ogden and Slosson, and the many others which will readily 
 occur to you, shone as the brilliant lights of this Bar, there 
 was no organized Association of its members ; but we know 
 that in those days the Bar in this State stood as high as the 
 Bar of any other State or Country, And why ? Because the 
 individual lustre of its leaders gave to it a power which 
 was irresistible. Perhaps, if an institution like this which 
 we now propose to form had existed at an earlier day, it 
 might have done much in arresting the decline which we all 
 see and which we have so much cause to deplore. 
 
 It is a curious fact, and it may not be known to you all, 
 that more than a century and a quarter ago there was a Bar 
 Association existing in full vigor in this City of New York. 
 We have no trace of the nature of that organization. His- 
 tory has not busied itself with what perhaps was then con- 
 sidered a little thing. We know not who were the members 
 of that Association, or what was its constitution ; but one 
 thing we do know — we know what it did. 
 
 In the year 1763, when Lieutenant-Governor Golden was 
 administering the affairs of this colony, being ambitious of ex- 
 tending the prerogatives of the Crown, he fancied that under 
 the instructions he had received from the Home Government, 
 a right was given to him, with his council, to review upon 
 appeal the findings of a jury upon questions of fact. Before 
 that time the same rule prevailed here which obtained in the 
 parent country, that is, that a writ of error was the only 
 way of reviewing a common law judgment, and that upon 
 that writ no questions but those of law could be brought 
 up. But the Governor, ambitious of exercising this con- 
 trol, determined to issue a writ of appeal upon a common 
 law judgment, for the purpose of reviewing the decision of 
 a jury. The writ was sealed by him ; but, gentlemen, to 
 the credit of the legal profession of that day, not one soli- 
 
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 tary lawyer could be found who would argue that appeal ! 
 [Applause.] The Colonial Governor, as you may suppose, 
 denounced the New York Bar, and in a letter to the Home 
 GoYernment he speaks of this Bar Association, which, as he 
 said, had been formed about 1747, as exercising a most dan- 
 gerous control and influence in the City of New York. 
 That was the New York Bar of a hundred and twenty-five 
 years ago ! Gentlemen, have we lost all the spirit of our 
 forefathers ? Now come down with me three years further. 
 In the year 1766, as you all know, the British Government 
 commenced its course of tyranny over this country by its 
 first Stamp Act. You know, as a matter of history, that the 
 passage of that act was received with a storm of indignation 
 in every one of these thirteen Colonies ; but, gentlemen, do 
 you know that there was no place in the whole country 
 where the resistance to this odious measure was more 
 determined and effectual than in this city of New York ? 
 "When the vessel, which brought the stamped paper here, ar- 
 rived, such was the excitement of the people that her officers 
 were obliged to anchor her under the guns of a frigate ; 
 when the packages of stamped paper were taken from the 
 vessel, the demonstrations of hostility were so great that the 
 Governor was forced to consent that he would not put the 
 law in operation, and he deemed it prudent to surrender the 
 stamped paper to the Mayor and Corporation of this city. 
 Now, gentlemen, who was it who organized and mai'shalled 
 this resistance ? I am proud to say it was this same Bar As- 
 sociation. The Governor had denounced it in vain three 
 years before, but now on a vastly larger theatre of action, 
 it proved itself to be equal to the emergency. Yon know, 
 as matter of history, that the Crown was foiled in this its 
 first attempt, and reluctantly repealed the stamp law, but 
 the Governor, disheartened by failure, demanded of the 
 Home Government that measures should be at once taken to 
 diminish the influence of the lawyers in the affairs of this 
 Colony. What comfort should this be to all of us in look- 
 ing back upon what our forefathers did ; and when any of 
 
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 my friends — as too many of them do — shrug their shoulders 
 in the very bitterness of despair, and say that nothing can 
 be done but turn on our backs and die, I ask them to re- 
 member what the Bar of these early days achieved. What 
 they did, we, too, may do. And when this organization, 
 which we are now seeking to form, shall grow in strength, — 
 when it shall become a body all compact, when its muscles, 
 and sinews, and nerves shall have attained their full vigor, 
 — it will be able to do great things for the profession and 
 for the community. 
 
 Now, gentlemen, I have perhaps detained you too long 
 with these general remarks. You will be more interested 
 to hear something from me of what we, who have cheerfully 
 undertaken the business of bringing you together, have con- 
 sidered the objects to be attained by this organization. 
 
 We desire to make this organization such that every 
 lawyer in this city, of respectability, who desires to do so, 
 may join its ranks. We propose to open rooms in some 
 convenient locality, and to supply them with as good a 
 library as our funds will allow, so that there the elder and 
 younger members of the profession may meet during the 
 evenings, and at other times, to take counsel together and 
 talk over the wants of the profession, and where, if they 
 have occasion to study their causes, they shall find a con- 
 venient working library. Beyond that, we have not yet 
 ventured to advance a step. Doubtless many of you here 
 have your views on the subject. You will be able to aid 
 us greatly by the expression of your ideas as to the manner 
 in which the Institution should be established and carried 
 on. For myself, however, I confess that I think the great 
 object that overrides every other is to get our organization. 
 I am for organization, organization ; convinced, that with 
 that once achieved, we may safely trust that all that we 
 hope to accomplish will be fulfilled in the not distant 
 future. [Great applause.] 
 
 The Chair then offered Mr. NicoU's resolutioa and it was 
 adopted unanimously. 
 
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 Remarks op Hon. Edwards Piebrepont. 
 
 I think we shall find, gentlemen, that our success in this 
 movement will depend entirely upon what my friend has 
 just urged — organization ; and the kind of organization 
 that we make is of the utmost consequence. If we start in 
 this organization wrong, wc shall be likely to fail, just as 
 a government that starts with a wrong basis of government 
 is likely to fail ; and if we start right, we shall be likely to 
 succeed. I do not believe that an organization of this kind 
 will amount to anything if it is formed merely for the pur- 
 pose of meeting socially, or for the purpose of having an 
 occasional dinner. Unless the plan which this committee 
 shall propose shall present something worthy of being en- 
 during, the organization will not endure ; and 1 think it 
 will depend, more than would at first seem, upon the mode 
 in which the organization is formed. I do not believe that 
 anyone who has never thought of it is very well aware of 
 the power which grows out of combination. If you will 
 take three men combined together and go across the Atlan- 
 tic and put them in some strange place in Europe, you will 
 find that those three men have each a very far increased 
 influence and power, more than the three would have sepa- 
 rately. If you find half a dozen men in any body of men, 
 and those half dozen have agreed upon anything, they will 
 have more power to advance their plan than an hundred 
 would have without organization. It is just as true in our 
 profession as it is true in war, in social life, and in politics. 
 Such was the power which the South had at one time in the 
 control of the government. Small as it was, yet there was 
 a perfect and complete organization, which grew out of 
 caste — a class, all the members of which agreed, and in 
 consequence of which agreement, they were able to control 
 the nation. 
 
 If the organization is so framed, that its first business is 
 to control itself, and allow no man to enter or remain whose 
 conduct is not that of a lawyer and a gentleman, we shall 
 
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 Succeed. Courage will be required, and vigor will need to 
 be exercised, and unworthy men must be excluded, and, if 
 need be, ejected. But, if it is an organization in which a 
 man may remain and do those things which no lawyer ought 
 to do, and which no man of honor would do, the organiza- 
 tion Avill fail, and it ought to fail. 
 
 The Bar of this city numbers some four thousand 
 members. 
 
 Many of middle age and past are rich. No combina- 
 tion of property has ever been made by the Bar, no influence 
 has ever been attempted for good in that direction. What- 
 ever of Law there is, has been scattered, and there are few 
 lawyers who, at some time in their lives, have not felt un- 
 pleasantly at the way in which they were put off by the 
 clerks in Banks, when they needed some temporary accom- 
 modations. If the capital of lawyers were combined and 
 organized as is that of other classes of men, the young law- 
 yer might better reap the reward of his good character, his 
 uprightness, and his industry. 
 
 Does any man doubt that if you combine a thousand law- 
 yers of respectable character and positio/i, who shall meet 
 together frequently, who have a sentiment in common, who 
 have a desire to stand well with the organization, and who 
 feel the influence of its frown and the pleasure of its appro- 
 val, they will have a power that would exercise an influence 
 in Albany, that would exercise an influence in this city, that 
 would exercise an influence in Washington, that would ex- 
 ercise an influence everywhere over the entire country ? 
 This profession of ours does not tolerate idiots in its ranks. 
 The successful men of our brotherhood are men of intelli- 
 gence. They are men of character, if they are successful. 
 Without these they cannot succeed ; and if there is an or- 
 ganization that will be determined to protect the profession 
 against itself, and thus command the respect of the commu- 
 nity — an organization which shall place its condemnation 
 upon those of its members who misbehave, it certainly will 
 be able to exercise a very powerful influence in correcting 
 
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 others. I have not any doubt that this organization which 
 is proposed, will be able to bring into it certainly one-fourth 
 of the Bar, and if you have one-fourth of the entire Bar of 
 New York organized together in this way, they will form so 
 large and influential a body as to awaken a desire in all 
 worthy members of the profession to join us. I am quite 
 sure that all who are in it would be desirous to bring in ev- 
 ery younger man who is a fit associate for them, and would 
 do what they could to encourage him in the course of honor 
 and success in that noble profession to which we are all so 
 proud to belong. The time was in this country when law- 
 yers were by far the most powerful class. For a long time 
 they ruled this country. That was well understood. They 
 ruled the Senate at Washington. They ruled the Cabinet at 
 Washington. They made the laws which governed the na- 
 tion. They were at that time a powerful and honorable 
 and a most useful and influential body of men. They ruled 
 the nation well. For some reason, however, other organi- 
 zations or associations, or other classes of people, who some- 
 how combine more thoroughly than we combine, have been 
 able to take our place, and it is certainly well known that 
 at present lawyers do not, relatively, exercise that power 
 in the making of laws or in the government of society which 
 they once did ; and, therefore, so far as that goes, they are 
 not as useful a body as they once were. The fault is our 
 own ; we have been found wanting. 
 
 Now, there is something very remarkable in the action of 
 this association. When it was started I have no doubt that 
 many said, as my friend Nicoll has remarked, " Nothing can 
 be done ; how is it possible to accomplish anything ? How 
 can you make a stand against this tide that is rolling over 
 the country ?" 1 know there was much of that feeling. I 
 was a sharer in it myself. 
 
 The fact that the feeling was so general, the fact that 
 every man felt that there was danger, the fact that every 
 honorable member of the Bar was beginning to feel that the 
 honor and the glory and the power and the good influence 
 
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 of the Bar was departing, explains the reason why there 
 was such a ready response to this call, which has brought 
 nearly every one of the two hundred to this meeting to- 
 night. In this respect I have never known a meeting so re- 
 markable, where on a single notice, they all appeared and 
 took part in it. [Applause.] 
 
 Remarks of Me. James Bmott. 
 
 Mr. Chairman, — I am not prepared to say anyth'ng 
 which will really add to what has been already said. But 
 I am ready to express my concurrence in the spirit of the 
 remarks which have been made, and my strong sense of the 
 importance of the object for which we have been called to- 
 gether. I think, however, that this is not the time for 
 us to consider or at least to discuss what are to be the 
 ultimate results of such an association as we propose to 
 form. It is not to be concealed that there is a deep 
 undercurrent of feeling among the lawyers who have 
 signed this call, and who make up this significant meet- 
 ing, upon certain subjects. There is an undertone in what 
 has been said which it would require but little to bring 
 into distinct utterance. We as lawyers feel deeply the 
 complaints which are rife of abuses in the practice of 
 lawyers and in the administration of the law. But I do 
 not think that we are ready now and here to give utterance 
 to our wishes. There may be differences of opinion whether 
 our course should be defensive or aggressive, whether we 
 are to be passive or active. But this assemblage indicates 
 our agreement that we ought to associate, to organize, in 
 order to obtain power, — the power which comes from organ- 
 izations. Power is the thing we are first to aim at. The 
 use of it we are to determine afterwards. 
 
 I think I can express the idea of this association, and the 
 purposes for which it is to be formed, by saying that we 
 shall aim to make ourselves once more a profession. [Ap- 
 plause] Twenty-five years ago a series of changes were 
 brought in, or at least begun by the Constitution of 1846, 
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 of which my friend, Mr. Nicoll, speaks feelingly, because 
 he was one of its fathers. 
 
 Mr. Henry Nicoll — Spare me that. [Laughter.] 
 
 Mr. Bmott — That Constitution gave us the elective ju- 
 diciary, of which I am not even to speak. But it brought 
 another change quite as serious. It broke down the Bar, 
 and destroyed in effect, so far as the courts and the laws 
 were concerned, what was then the profession of the law, 
 "We have become simply a multitude of individuals, engaged 
 in the same business. And the objects and the methods of 
 those engaged in that business are very much dictated hy 
 those who employ them. It is not altogether just to hold 
 lawyers responsible for the evils in the administration of 
 law of which the public complain. They are and do simply 
 what their employers desire, and they will rise no higher, if 
 they have no higher standard. So the judges are and will 
 be just what those who really make them wish them to be. 
 [Applause.] 
 
 How great a power this power to make the Judges of a 
 country is, whether in responsible or irresponsible hands, 
 no man who has thought at all upon the history of the past, 
 or the conditions of the present, is ignorant. In this country 
 there are three great questions looming up with fearful im- 
 portance. One is the Government of Municipalities. Another 
 is the question of Popular Education. With these we have 
 only the concern of all citizens. But the third is the Judi- 
 cial Administration of the Country. That is a subject in res- 
 pect to which we shall be expected and required, from our 
 training and our pursuits, to think and to act. How, as 
 well as for what we are to act, are matters to come up here- 
 after. I think we are not ready to discuss them now. 
 
 There is one reason, to which I will refer, why this present 
 time is very opportune and proper for the organization of 
 the Bar. The people have recently adopted a modification 
 or amendment of the judicial system of the State. Of the 
 wisdom of this partial change it is too late to speak. It has 
 
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 been made and under it questions are rapidly arising, not 
 merely as to the selection of men for the important offices to 
 be filled, but in respect to the organization and working of the 
 system itself. Upon these questions, we not only have a 
 right, but we shall be expected to be heard. In order to 
 speak, to exert proper influence, we need to be organized. 
 We want power at this juncture, and we can only have it 
 by association. As a profession we may make ourselves felt 
 even now in the settlement of the question which this crisis 
 brings upon us, and upon the State, 
 
 I do not mean that we are prepared this evening to enter 
 upon any discussion of any proposed reforms or reconstruc- 
 tion. It will be time for that, so far as we personally are 
 concerned, when an organization has been completed, and 
 our association has assumed its permanent form. When we 
 have an organized Society representing the profession of the 
 law, affording advantages and possessing a character, which 
 will make it desirable, if not necessary, for every worthy 
 lawyer in this City to belong to it, we shall possess a power 
 which I trust will be feltj and not a tithe of which can be 
 wielded by the same number of separate individuals. 
 
 It will not involve very long delay to await such an or- 
 ganization, for I am confident that the gentlemen who have 
 conducted this movement so successfully to its present point, 
 will speedily develop its completion in outline, if not in de- 
 tails That will enable us to do our duty and contribute 
 our aid to the settlement of great public questions, not only 
 as men and citizens, but as members of a profession which 
 we all delight to forward and to advance. [Applause.J 
 
 Rbmaeks op Samuel J. Tilden, Esq. 
 
 My friend Mr. NicoU has just come across to me to insist 
 that I should say something here to-night. I presume his 
 object is that I should say something in defence of that judi- 
 cial article of the Constitution of 1846. He probably thinks 
 that I have, with him, a common interest and a common duty 
 
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 in that respect ; but, sir, I disclaim every interest and every 
 duty in that connection. I remember, with the utmost satis- 
 faction that, section by section, in every part and in the 
 aggregate, I recorded myself against the whole thing. 
 [Applause.] 
 
 Mr. NicoLL — Do me the same justice. 
 
 Mr. TiLDBN— I don't remember what my friend did. I 
 presume he did what was right. He asks me to do him 
 the same justice, which I most cheerfully do. 
 
 Sir, I came here to-night, simply because when this call 
 was tendered to me I signed it, and thought it a duty, hum- 
 ble as I am, to testify by my presence here my sympathy 
 and my approval of the general objects for which we have 
 assembled. I do not quite concur, however, in some of the 
 suggestions that have been made here. I do not, I mean, 
 quite concur in them in this — that they do not quite express 
 the ideas of their authors, or of any of us. 
 
 Sir, I should be not unwilling that the Bar should com- 
 bine to restore any power or influence which it has lost, ex- 
 cept such power and influence as it may have deservedly 
 lost. As a class, as a portion of a community, I do not de- 
 sire to see the Bar combined, except for two objects. The 
 one is to elevate itself — to elevate its own standards ; the 
 other object is for the common and public good, [Applause.] 
 For itself, nothing ; for that noble and generous and ele- 
 vated profession of which it is the representative, every- 
 thing. [Great applause.] 
 
 Sir, it cannot be doubted — we can none of us shut our 
 eyes to the fact — that there has been, in the last quarter of 
 a century, a serious decline in the character, in the training, 
 in the education, and in the morality of our Bar ; and the 
 first work for this Association to do is to elevate the pro- 
 fession to a higher and a better standard. [Applause.] If 
 the Bar is to become merely a method of making money, 
 making it in the most convenient way possible, but making 
 it at all hazards, then the Bar is degraded. [Applause.] If 
 
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 the Bar is to be merely an institution that seeks to win 
 causes and to win them by back-door access to the judiciary, 
 then it is not only degraded, but it is corrupt. [Great ap- 
 plause.] 
 
 Sir, I am as peaceable a man as my friend Nicoll, yet I 
 confess that his words of peace sounded a little too strongly 
 in my ears. The Bar, if it is to continue to exist— if it 
 would restore itself to the dignity and honor which it once 
 possessed — must be bold in defence, and if need be, bold in 
 aggression. [Great applause.] If it will do its duty to 
 itself, if it will do its duty to the profession which it fol- 
 lows, and to which it is devoted, the Bar can do everything 
 else. It can have reformed constitutions, it can have a re- 
 formed judiciary, it can have the administration of justice 
 made pure and honorable, and can restore both the judiciary 
 and the Bar, until it shall be once more, as it formerly was, 
 an honorable and an elevated calling. [Applause.] I do 
 not know, sir, in what form this is to be done. I do not 
 know in what form this institution, which you are now 
 initiating, is to establish itself. I have had no part in any 
 preliminary consultation, but I am sure that you are right 
 in taking the first step to-night, which is, to organize your- 
 selves into a body, and then, without passion, without pre- 
 conception, with deliberation, with fixed purpose, with 
 settled design, I believe that you may go forward step by 
 step, through the days and years that are in the future, and 
 become a blessing to this great community of which you are 
 a part. [Applause.] 
 
 Sir, the City of New York is the commercial and mone- 
 tary capital of this continent. If it would remain so, it 
 must establish an elevated character for its Bar, and a repu- 
 tation throughout the whole country for purity in the 
 administration of justice. [Applause.] I had lately occa- 
 sion to express the opinion in private which I now repeat 
 here to-night, that it is impossible for New York to remain 
 the centre of commerce and capital for this continent, unless 
 it has an independent Bar and an honest Judiciary. [Great 
 
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 Applause.J I do not mean, by this observation, to allude 
 to any particular individuals ; still less do I mean to cast 
 any reflection upon the general character of the Judiciary of 
 this State. But I felt, in 1846, when we embarked in that 
 great revolutionary change in the Judicial system, which 
 was made by the constitution of that year, that it was ex- 
 tremely likely that the system itself would develop evils 
 under which human society could not well get along. I 
 had great doubt last year about what ought to be done 
 in regard to the Judicial amendment that was adopted. 
 Considering it a decided and valuable improvement as to 
 the constitution of the Court of Appeals, I yet reflected that 
 it not only left most of the practical evils and abuses of the 
 Judicial system untouched, but, perhaps, to some extent 
 confirmed them in existence, and that there was great 
 danger in the adoption of it, that the public sentiment, 
 especially of the rural districts, would be satisfied to such 
 an extent that we should be compelled to live under this 
 Judicial system another quarter of a century, which for you 
 Mr. Chairman, and me, will probably be the most part of 
 the residue of our lives. [Laughter.] Sir, I believe that this 
 country is to-night at about the lowest point in the great cycle 
 which we have occasionally to traverse. I believe that there 
 will come a sounder and a better public sentiment, in which 
 speculation, and gambling, and jobbing and corruption will 
 lose their power, and in which free government will vindi- 
 cate its right to the confidence of mankind. If I did not 
 believe this, I should think that a very great part of my 
 own life was lost, and all the traditions I have derived from 
 my ancestors. Sir, I hope that the society which you 
 organize to-night will be an institution that shall do much 
 valuable service towards hastening this consummation, so 
 far as the Bar is concerned. [Renewed applause.] 
 
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 Eemaeks of B. W. Stodghton, Esq. 
 
 I did not come here to-night intending to say a single 
 word, for I had supposed that this meeting would devote 
 itself to the business, simply, of preparing, considering and 
 passing the resolutions which I have heard read ; and it 
 seemed to me that a more proper time to consider somewhat 
 at large the matters in which we are all interested, would 
 be when we come together for the purpose of finally con- 
 summating and forming the organization which it is the 
 purpose of this meeting finally to establish. 
 
 Now, I have heard it said here that the ultimate purpose 
 of this organization will be to make us a profession ; but 
 let me tell the gentlemen who are present — most of whom 
 I know, many of whom I regard with affection, and all of 
 whom I respect — that to make ours a profession in the true 
 sense, they must disenthral the Bar from the law which per- 
 mits, nay enforces, the admission as members of persons who 
 are not, by the length or character of their studies, fitted 
 for it. 
 
 This is done under a law of the land — unknown until 
 within the last few years ; for we remember that twenty- 
 five or thirty years ago — during that period in the history 
 of our profession which made it so illustrious — students 
 were required to pursue their legal studies in all cases for a 
 stated period of years, before being admitted as attorneys, 
 and were not then permitted to open their mouths in court, 
 until they had practised as such during three years ; but now I 
 believe— we see it so advertised upon the leaves of our legal 
 periodicals — that persons may be admitted, in one law school, 
 not very far distant from our city, without previous exami- 
 nation, and after passing four terms— in all somewhat less 
 than a year within the institution — are entitled to admission, 
 as a matter of course, under the laws of our State. Now, 
 gentlemen, if we are to be held responsible for the qualifi- 
 cations and fitness of members of our profession we should 
 be able to control their admission to our Bar— a right which 
 
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 substantially existed in this State, under the rules of court, 
 before the change I have mentioned,— a right which exists 
 in Great Britain at this day, and one which exists, and is 
 recognized in most if not all of the New England States— 
 a right to determine who shall be admitted and who shall 
 be expelled, and for what. If we secure this, gentlemen, 
 then we shall indeed become a profession, as the practition- 
 ers of medicine and of theology are a profession — for I be- 
 lieve they control the admission of their members, deter- 
 mine what their qualifications shall be, how long they shall 
 study, and on what conditions they shall be admitted. 
 
 Further, it seems to me, Mr. Chairman, that we should 
 practically consider another question. We need a library. 
 The younger members of our Bar especially, need a library 
 in a place where it shall be easily accessible ; and I believe 
 that those of us who take an interest in that subject will be 
 quick upon the formation of this organization, to provide a 
 building and a library where gentlemen of our profession 
 may meet labor, and associate together and come to know 
 each other better than they now do ; and I for one shall 
 rejoice to see that brought about. But I confess, that in my 
 judgment, the time for talking about determining what is 
 to be accomplished by this organization is yet some little 
 distance in the future. In respect, however, to the practice 
 of our Courts and Judges, to which reference has been made, 
 let me say this. Judges should be protected by the law. 
 They should be protected by the law so that no Judge, 
 under any circumstances, can be required to grant an ex 
 parte injunction ; they should be protected under the law so 
 that under no circumstances shall they be required to appoint 
 receivers ex parie. [Applause.] 
 
 Now, I have heard it said that a general rule like that 
 would breed mischiefs. I agree to it, but they would be 
 trifles in comparison with the great mischiefs which exist 
 under a practice which sanctions the granting of injunctions 
 and the appointing of receivers by the hundred and the thou- 
 sand — in substance, levying black mail upon parties who pre- 
 
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 fer, rather than have their property tied up by injunctions and 
 receivers, to yield to demands which are neither just nor 
 maintainable. [Applause.] Now, I make these remarks 
 in kindness to our Judges. The Federal Judges are pro- 
 tected in that way. Since 1791 no Federal Judge has 
 been permitted, within this broad land, to grant an injunc- 
 tion ex parte ; and 1 hope the day will come when we shall 
 protect our State Judges against false and sinister affidavits 
 and applications, so that when thus applied to they may be 
 able to say : " The Law forbids this and we refuse it." 
 But until that time comes it is the right of the party to have 
 his ex parte injunction, and it is the duty of the Judge to 
 grant it, and I leave it to my brethren to say how many 
 injunctions thus obtained stand the test of opposing affidavits 
 and resisting arguments. [Applause.] 
 
 Remarks of William M. Evaets, Esq. 
 
 I suppose, Mr. Chairman, that every one of the gentlemen 
 here to-night is as much a mover in this effort to combine 
 the Bar for useful purposes of interest, as any other. So 
 far as I have made the subject a matter of conversation 
 with my brethren of the Bar, with more or less of point in 
 the conversation, during the last seven or eight years, I have 
 found no difference of feeling and none of purpose ; and I 
 believe all that has been needed has been that some should 
 take the responsibility and labor of collecting the sentiment 
 of their brethren, as has been done by those who have signed 
 the call for this meeting, to ensure an honest, a sincere, a 
 brave, a considerate, a determined, a persistent, and an ab- 
 solutely fearless, organization of the Bar of New York. 
 [Applause.] I think there is nowhere in this matter to be 
 seen, feared or suspected, a sinister, a selfish, a personal ob- 
 ject either in respect to protection, defence, elevation, or 
 attack ; it is all public, all general, all noble and useful. 
 Now, there have been felt, I think, to be several considera- 
 tions which should induce the Bar, as scholars, as gentlemen 
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 in a common pursuit of life, to combine their influence and 
 the contributions of their resources, in a way which will 
 afford us opportunities for the research and study which our 
 profession requires, and for the consultation and communion 
 with each other so important to it. I think we have all 
 felt that to be a great, a numerous, a wealthy Bar, without 
 a library adequate to our name, and suitable to our credit, 
 without the means of association in the ordinary forms of 
 intercourse on common grounds, during the hours of the day 
 when we have any leisure or opportunity for such inter- 
 course, was not only a reproach to us, but an injury to us. 
 Without any special moral occasion, or any particular incen- 
 tive of public duty in the public need, I think that in the 
 minds of many there has been a purpose, whenever oppor- 
 tunity should serve or attention could be commanded, to 
 induce a combination of the profession with such an object. 
 I hope, sir, that this committee will consider these objects 
 as a part of the organization proposed, and which must have 
 sufficient of a substantial and acceptable interest to its mem- 
 bers to keep us closely and permanently connected. [Ap- 
 plause.] With this general object and motive for combina- 
 tion, there is a more powerful and deeper, a more responsible 
 and a more active sentiment, growing out of the condition 
 of our profession and of the judiciary, and of the sentiments 
 of this community towards both. Careless we have been, 
 careless almost all the interests of society have been, of 
 the great and perpetual trust which rests upon every 
 generation in a free and equal community to see that 
 they bear their share ever, not only in the enjoyment of the 
 noble heritage that has come to us, but in its maintenance, 
 its protection and its defence, and that they shall transmit 
 it ever, not only unimpaired, but amplified — not only unpol- 
 luted, but ever brighter and fairer, to every succeeding 
 generation. [Applause.] And we must not lose sight of 
 this fact, that just in proportion as a society is free and 
 equal in its constitution, just as there are no artificial and 
 no permanent gradations in it, just as there are no rulers 
 
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 and no captains, just so is it the more incumbent upon all in 
 the only rank there is— the common rank— to see that they 
 do not become selfish and isolated and envious and injuri- 
 ous, but that they cultivate sentiments of common purpose 
 for the common interests. In institutions framed in this 
 spirit must ever be the only form of power that an eqaal 
 and free community can tolerate; and every institution 
 must take care of itself, and not leave to the enterprise of 
 its competitors and rivals the building up of itself. 
 
 Now, with these general observations, let us see how 
 much the Bar can do for its own crLdit, its own power and 
 the service of the community, and how much it can do 
 towards maintaining the credit and character of the 'Judi- 
 ciary — that weakest portion of our political system, that 
 portion that has, or should have, no patronage or influence 
 and no political authority, which is dependent upon its in- 
 tegrity, its learning, its capacity, its public spirit, and 
 which must ever rest upon the Bar, as the chief interpreters 
 to the people at large of its relation to the community, and 
 as the principal means and agency by which it discharges 
 its judicial duties in all its obligations to that community. 
 For the Judiciary is not a spontaneous agency in the ad- 
 ministration of justice. It never does anything solemn or 
 ex parte, except by the invitation — the instigation, if it be 
 evil — of a lawyer. [Laughter and applause.] Now, is it 
 fair that the Judiciary of this State should stand in the 
 general doubt, or general discontent, or general disregard 
 of the community ? that it should be subject to aspersion 
 and to suspicion, and not feel, or be permitted to plead, 
 that some lawyer was the first mover in every wrongful 
 act of that Judiciary that brought it thus into contempt ? 
 Who does not reverence the Judiciary ? Who does not, 
 in the midst of the pressure, the excitement, the credit, 
 the honor, the emoluments — opened so richly to prosper- 
 ous lawyers here — respect every man who takes a place 
 upon the Bench, and foregoes these bright and alluring 
 invitations to fame and wealth ? And who but feels struck, 
 
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 in his own sense of manhood and of dignity, when the Judi 
 ciary, which is the crown and honor of his profession, i 
 brought into disrepute? And who, when he reflects tha 
 his own profession are the moving parties in everything tha 
 is done by a Judge, good or ill, but feels that it is tim 
 for him to collect the honorable and upright and worth 
 men of his profession together, that they may put thei 
 finger upon the unworthy who take the lead, under what 
 ever motives, in these injurious and weakening courses o 
 pi'oceedings ? [Applause.] Why, Mr. Chairman, you an 
 I can remember perfectly well (and we are not very ol 
 men), when, for a lawyer to come out from the chambers c 
 a Judge with an ex parte writ that he could not defend be 
 fore the public, before the profession and before the Cour 
 would have occasioned the same sentiment toward him as i 
 he came out with a stolen pocket-book. [Great applause. 
 Our knowledge of the profession and of the affairs of Ml 
 teach us that from the other side we get new light and ne' 
 wisdom, and then comes the solemn action of the Court, an 
 we meet our adversaries, our brethren, face to face befor 
 the Judge ; but as to what passes between the Judge an 
 us ex parte, it is upon honor. [Applause.] Sir Jonah Bat 
 rington, in his Recollections of the Irish Bar, tells us, tha 
 this sense of honor and right, so far as depended upon th 
 personal knowledge and skill of the lawyers engaged in an 
 cause, was carried to such an extreme, that if a man de 
 murred to a pleading at that Bar, it was considered a goo 
 ground for a challenge, as being an imputation upon th 
 ability or the integrity of the pleader, and he says tk 
 many duels were fought upon that ground. But, withoi 
 sharing this extravagance, really, Mr. Chairman, I think 
 have not exaggerated this matter of the duty and responsi 
 bility of the Bar in its dealings with the Bench. 
 
 Now, perhaps, I have said enough, but I will add thE 
 the situation is an extremely serious one. It is very difficu' 
 to make people believe, but still it is true, that if an institi 
 tiou contains corruption, and the line is not drawn closed 
 
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 to sever it at once from the sound body, however honest, 
 however earnest may be the purpose of the Worthy members, 
 the plague-spot is in the body, and the whole is sick. The 
 disease is not local. It may be cured ; but while the plague- 
 spot lasts, tlie whole body suffers. The institution is sus- 
 pected, the distinction between the members is not and 
 cannot be known. I speak now of the Bar quite as much 
 as I do of the Judiciary, and it is only when you attempt to 
 make a rally of the powers left, to make the issue, that 
 there shall be no disease, no corruption and no base asper- 
 sions without foundation, and that it shall not be permitted 
 for men to scoff without cause at the administration of jus- 
 tice, either through the Bench or by the Bar, and make it 
 plain, one way or the other, that the institutions are pure 
 and strong, or, that they are vicious and corrupt — it is only 
 by that rally, that we can restore health and streogth, and 
 confidence. And that is the purpose of this rally to-night. 
 — [Applause.] It is aimed at no other object than the evil 
 itself — to ascertain it, to measure it, to correct it, and re- 
 store the honor, integrity and fame of the profession in its 
 two manifestations of the Bench and of the Bar — -[Prolong- 
 ed applause.] 
 
 Remarks op D. B. Baton, Esq. 
 
 It is not my purpose, Mr. Chairman, to submit any ob- 
 servations upon the general subject which has called us 
 together. No one can take a deeper interest than I do in 
 the results of this meeting, or feel more gratified at the 
 spirit of earnestness, conciliation and harmony which has 
 been so strikingly and hopefully exhibited. I have been 
 requested, by the gentlemen who have devoted themselves 
 with so much self-sacrifice to bring about this meeting, to 
 offer a resolution, which is in consonance with what we 
 have done, and which, as I trust, will contribute to secure 
 the results which I am sure we all seek. "While I am cer- 
 tain that the sentiment pervading this gathering is so har- 
 
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 monious that if each person present should state in writing 
 for what reason he came here, and what are the leading 
 objects he wishes to accomplish, we should find no very 
 material differences in these statements, it would yet 
 doubtless be found that there is much diversity in details, 
 that there are different theories as to the best method of 
 organization. 
 
 It must also be apparent that the early stages of an or- 
 ganization such as we propose are likely to be the most 
 difiicult, and we do not start with the benefit of any expe- 
 rience in organized action on the part of the members of 
 this Bar. This generation, at least, of New York Lawyers 
 has not been in the habit of acting in common in reference 
 to such matters as are now likely to engage our attention. 
 
 Our habits and relations have mostly been those of oppo- 
 sition to each other in representing the conflicting interests 
 of our clients. We now, for the first time, propose to 
 cooperate together in elevating our profession to the position 
 which it should occupy to best enable us to promote ahke 
 the private interests of those who employ us, and the public 
 interests of the whole community. And it is one of the 
 happy features of our enterprise that the organization and 
 action which will enable us to attain these ends will con- 
 tribute to our personal consideration and to our usefulness 
 in the administration of justice in our capacities as ofiScers 
 of the Court. It is one of the felicities on which we may 
 congratulate each other, that the discharge of our duty to 
 ourselves will be in great measure the discharge of our duty 
 to the judicial tribunals, to the State, and to our clients. 
 
 The resolution already adopted will give us a Committee 
 to frame the Constitution and By-Laws under which we 
 shall act. But we need officers to fill the official places and 
 committees under the Constitution. We need men, carefully 
 selected, who will be willing to give us the time, the labor, 
 the patience, the spirit of conciliation, and who will make 
 for us the generous self-sacrifices, which the first year of 
 this new experiment in organized action cannot fail to de- 
 mand. We want men who have faith in our work, who 
 
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 will bring courage to its execution, and who, at the same 
 time, fairly represent the wishes, the opinions, the ability, 
 and the character of the profession, on which we must rely to 
 sustain this organization. Delicate duties must be performed 
 in respect of membership, contributions, and other matters. 
 Wisdom, confidence, justice, and courage will all be de- 
 manded. There must be confidence on the part of the 
 managers, and confidence in the managers. The selection 
 of our first official force should be a deliberate, well consi- 
 dered act, and cannot well be performed in a large gathering 
 like this. But the Chair, if we authorise him, can select 
 some gentlemen from this gathering, who will wisely do it 
 for us ; and I beg, therefore, to offer the following 
 resolution : 
 
 " Resolved, That a Committee of nine be named by the 
 " Chairman, whose duty it shall be to report to an adjourned 
 " meeting the names of suitable persons to be elected as the 
 " first ofiicers of this organization, and that this Committee 
 " confer with the Committee on the Constitution." 
 
 This resolution was seconded and carried unanimously. 
 
 The Chair announced the appointment of the following 
 Committees, in pursuance of the resolutions already adopt- 
 ed :— 
 
 Committee on Constitution and By-Laws. 
 
 HAMILTON W. ROBINSON 
 JAMES C. CARTER, 
 CHARLES A. RAPALLO, 
 AUGUSTUS F. SMITH. 
 STEPHEN P. NASH. 
 
 Committee on Nomination of Officers. 
 
 JOSEPH H. CHOATE, 
 EDMUND R. ROBINSON, 
 ABRAHAM R. LAWRENCE, 
 
 HENRY NICOLL, 
 SAMUEL J. TILDEN, 
 JAMES EMOTT, 
 ALBERT MATHEWS, 
 
 DORMAN B. EATON, 
 WILLIAM H. PRITCHARD, 
 GILBERT M. SPIER, 
 E. L. FANCHER, 
 
 ALBERT STICKNEY, 
 
 •CHARLES F. BLAKE. 
 
 In pursuance of a resolution offered and adopted, the 
 Chair then declared the meeting adjourned. 
 
REPOET OF FURTHER PROCEEDINGS. 
 
 At an adjourned meeting, held on Tuesday evening, Feb. 
 15th, 1870, the Committee on the Constitution reported a 
 draft Constitution and By-laws. A motion was made and 
 carried that the meeting proceed immediately to debate and 
 vote seriatim upon each article of the Constitution reported 
 by the Committee. After a prolonged debate upon the 
 various articles, the Constitution and By-laws, as subjoined, 
 and substantially as reported by the Committee, were 
 adopted. 
 
 The Committee on Nominations then made its report, and 
 the meeting having proceeded to ballot, the following ofScers 
 were elected : 
 
 ^xtMui : 
 
 WILLIAM M. EVARTS. 
 
 SAMUEL J. TILDEN, I JOS. S. BOSWORTH, 
 
 JAMES W. GEEARD, I JOHN SLOSSON, 
 
 EDGAR S. VAN WINKLE. 
 
 ^xmMut : 
 
 ALBON P. MAN. 
 
 JOHN BIGELOW. 
 
 AUGUSTUS R. MACDONOUGH. 
 
 HENRY NICOLL, 
 HAMILTON W. ROBINSON, 
 AUGUSTUS F. SMITH, 
 WILLIAM E. CURTIS, 
 WILLIAM C. BARRETT, 
 JAMES EMOTT, 
 CHAS. A. RAPALLO, 
 
 STEPHEN P. NASH, 
 SAMUEL B. GARVIN, 
 SIDNEY WEBSTER, 
 JAMES C. CARTER, 
 JOHN E. PARSONS, 
 WILLIAM G. CHOATE, 
 FRANCIS C. BARLOW, 
 
 HENRY A, TAILER. 
 
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 (HiOtAmtUte m '§,&Mig^ian^ : 
 
 HENRY A. CRAM, 
 CHARLES F. SOUTHMAYD, 
 SAMUEL E. LYON, 
 JOHN E. BURRILL, 
 RICHARD H. BOWNE, 
 THEODORE W. DWIGHT, 
 HOOPER C. VAN VORST, 
 JOHN C. DIMMICK, 
 JOHN M. KNOX, 
 GROSVENOR P. LOWREY, 
 
 FREDERICK KAPP, 
 WHEELER H. PECKHAM, 
 C. A. HAND, 
 FREDERICK SMYTH, 
 JAMES W. GERARD, Jr., 
 JOSEPH LAROCQUE, 
 
 GEORGE Deforest lord, 
 
 CHARLES M. DA COSTA, 
 EDMUND WETMORE, 
 ELBRIDGE T. GERRY. 
 
 Mr. E. R. Robinson offered the following resolution, 
 which was adopted, stating at the same time that the money 
 mentioned therein had been provided for : 
 
 Whereas, On Saturday, Feb. 12, an attempt was made 
 upon the life of Dorman B. Eaton, under circumstances 
 which lead to the belief that the attempt was instigated by 
 private malice: 
 
 Resolved, That the Executive Committee of this Associa- 
 tion be instructed to offer through the proper authorities a 
 reward of |5,000 for the apprehension and conviction of the 
 person or persons engaged in such attempt, to be paid on 
 conviction. 
 
 Judge Slosson next offered the following, which were 
 likewise adopted : 
 
 Resolved, That the Executive Committee be instructed to 
 prepare a suitable address to the members of the Bar of the 
 City and State of New York, stating the formation and ob- 
 jects of this Association, and requesting their co-operation 
 and suggesting the formation of similar associations thi-ough- 
 out the State. 
 
 Resolved, That the Executive Committee be instructed to 
 have the proceedings of the first meeting printed in pamphlet 
 form, together with the Constitution and By-laws adopted, 
 and the names of the officers elected, and to send a copy to 
 each member of this Association and to such members of the 
 Bar in this and the other States of the Union as may seem 
 expedient. 
 
 The meeting was then adjourned to the first quarterly 
 meeting as provided, by the Constitution, viz. : the second 
 Tuesday of March, next following. 
 
OOITSTIT UTIOIsr, 
 
 (As adopted Feb. 15. 1870.) 
 
 ARTICLE I. 
 
 This Association shall be called the " The Bar Association of 
 the City of New York." 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 
 The Association is established to maintain the honor and 
 dignity of the profession of the law, to cultivate socijil inter- 
 course among its members and to increase its usefulness in pro- 
 moting the due administration of justice. 
 
 ARTICLE III. 
 
 SECTION I. 
 
 The members of the Bar who signed the preliminary articles 
 are hereby declared to be members of this Association, but such 
 of them as shall omit to subscribe to this Constitution, and pay 
 the admission fee, on or before the 15th day of March next, 
 shall cease to be members, and can only become such by subse- 
 quent admission. 
 
 Any member of the profession, in good standing, residing or 
 practising in the City of New York, may become a member, by 
 vote of the Association, on recommendation of the Committee 
 on Admissions as hereinafter provided, and on subscribing to 
 this Constitution and paying the admission fee. 
 
 SECTION n. 
 
 The Committee on Admissions shall have power to make 
 such regulations in relation to proposals for membership and 
 notice thereof, and as they may, from time to time deem need- 
 
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 ful. Candidates against whom there shall be five negative votes 
 in the Committee shall not be recommended for admission. 
 Upon being recommended, a vote by ballot shall be taken in the 
 Association, and one negative vote in every five shall exclude 
 the candidate. 
 
 ARTICLE IV. 
 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 The Officers of the Association shall be a President, five Vice- 
 Presidents, a Recording Secretary, a Corresponding Secretaiy 
 and a Treasurer. There shall also be an Executive Committee of 
 fifteen members, of which Committee the President shall, ex 
 officio, be a member ; and a Committee on Admissions, to con- 
 sist of twenty members. These Oflicers and Committees shall be 
 elected at the Annual Meeting to be held on the second Tuesday 
 of January in each year. The Association may provide by its 
 By-laws for such other Standing Committees as it may deem 
 necessary. 
 
 ARTICLE V. 
 
 The Executive Committee shall be vested with the title to all 
 the property of the Association until it may be incorporated, as 
 Trustees thereof, and shall manage its affairs, subject to the 
 Constitution and By-laws ; they shall provide a permanent place 
 for the use of the Association, and shall appropriate such sums 
 as they may deem fit for a Library and Reading Room. 
 
 ARTICLE VI. 
 
 A Library Committee, to consist of five members, shall be 
 appointed by the Executive Committee, to hold office during 
 their pleasure, and, subject to their directions, shall have chai-ge 
 of the Library and Reading Room, with power to expend upon 
 the same such moneys as may be appropriated by the Execu- 
 tive Committee, or procured by voluntary subscription. 
 
 ARTICLE VII. 
 
 The Judges of the Courts of the United States, of the Court 
 of Appeals, of the Supreme Court, and of all other Coui-ts of 
 Record of the State of New York, shall have the use of the 
 Library and Reading Room of this Association, without the 
 pjlf ment of fees. 
 
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 ARTICLE VIII. 
 
 MEETINGS OF THE ASSOCIATION. 
 
 There shall be an annual meeting of the Association on the 
 second Tuesday of Janiiaiy, and other stated meetings on the 
 second Tuesdays of March, June and November in each year. 
 At these stated meetings, and at any regulai- adjom-ned meeting 
 thereof, all the powers of the Association may be exercised. 
 Special meetings may be called at any time by the Executive 
 Committee, and shall be called upon the written request of 
 twenty members. 
 
 At such special meetings no business shall be transacted ex- 
 cept such as shall be specified in the call thereof. The presence 
 of fifty members, in addition to such members of the Executive 
 Committee as may be present, shall be necessary to constitute a 
 quorum at any meeting of the Association. 
 
 ARTICLE IX. 
 
 ' ADMISSION AND AlOnjAL FEES. 
 
 The admission fee shall be Fifty Dollai's, to be paid on signing 
 the Constitution. 
 
 The annual dues shall be Forty Dollars, payable half-yearly, on 
 the first days of May and November, each year ; and any mem- 
 ber in default, after thu-ty days notice, shall cease to be a mem- 
 ber, unless excused by order of the Executive Committee. 
 
 In case of members of less than six years standing at the Bar, 
 the Executive Committee may, until they shall have attained 
 that standing, give them a credit for one-half theii- initiation 
 fee, and remit one-half then- annual dues. 
 
 ARTICLE X. 
 
 Any member of the Association may be suspended or expelled 
 for misconduct in his relations to this Association or in his pro- 
 fession, on conviction thereof in such manner as may be pre- 
 scribed by the By-laws, and all interest in the property of the 
 Association, of persons resigning or otherwise ceasing to be 
 members, shall vest in the Association. 
 
 ARTICLE XI. 
 This Constitution shall go into immediate efiect and an elec- 
 
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 tion of Officers and Committees, herein provided for, shall forth- 
 with be had. They shall hold their offices until their successors 
 are elected at the annual meeting, on the Second Tuesday in 
 January, 1871. 
 
 ARTICLE XII. 
 
 All elections shall be by ballot. The Officers elected shall 
 enter upon their duties immediately upon their election, and 
 shall hold office until theii- successors are elected or ap- 
 pointed. 
 
 In case of a vacancy in any office, it shall be filled by appoint 
 ment of the Executive Committee, until the next annual elec- 
 tion. 
 
 ARTICLE XIII. 
 
 This Constitution may be amended by a two-third vote of the 
 members present at any stated meeting of the Association, pro- 
 vided that notice of the j)roposed amendment, subscribed by ten 
 members, be given at a previous meeting. 
 
B"2"-L^-vsrs. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT ANB VICE-PEESIDENTS. 
 
 The President shall preside at all meetings of the Association, 
 and in case of his absence, any one of the Vice-Presidents, who 
 shall be then chosen without ballot, shall preside. 
 
 II. 
 
 THE EECOEDING SECRETARY. 
 
 The Eecording Secretary shall keep a record of the proceed- 
 ings of all meetings and of all other matters of which a record 
 shall be deemed advisable by the Association. 
 
 He shall notify the Officers and members of their election, and 
 shall keep a roll of the members, and shall issue notices of all 
 
 meetmgs. 
 
 in. 
 
 THE CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. 
 
 The Corresponding Secretary shall conduct the correspondence 
 of the Association with the concm-rence of the President. 
 
 IV. 
 
 THE TREASURER. 
 
 The Treasurer shall collect, and, under the du'ection of the 
 Executive Committee, disburse, all funds of the Association ; he 
 shall report annually and oftener, if required ; he shall keep 
 regular accounts, which shall be, at all times, open to the inspec- 
 tion of any member of the Executive Committee. His accounts 
 shall be audited by a Committee of three members of the Associ- 
 ation to be elected by ballot, at the stated meeting preceding 
 the annual meeting in each year. 
 
 V. 
 
 MEETINGS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMmTTEE. 
 
 The Executive Committee shall meet at least once a month, 
 except in July, August and September. They shall have power 
 
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 to make such regulations not inconsistent with the Constitution 
 and By-Laws, as shall be necessary for the protection of the pro- 
 perty of the Association, and for the preservation of good order 
 in the conduct of its affaks. 
 
 They shall keep a record of their proceedings, which shall be 
 read at the ensuing meeting of the Association ; and it shall be 
 their duty to present business for the action of the Association. 
 They shall have no power to make the Association Uable for 
 any debts amounting to more than half of the amount in the 
 Treasurer's hands, in cash, and not subject to prior habUities ; 
 nor shall they have power to make any contract binding per- 
 sonally upon members of the Association. 
 
 VI. 
 
 At each stated meeting of the Association, the order of busi- 
 ness shall be as follows : 
 
 1. Reading of minutes of preceding meeting 
 
 2. Report of Executive Committee. 
 
 3. Report of the Treasurer. 
 
 4. Reports of Special Committees. 
 
 5. Miscellaneous business. 
 
 This order of business may be changed by a vote of the ma- 
 jority of the members present. 
 
 The usual parliamentary rules and orders otherwise than are 
 herein provided, shall govern all meetings of the Association. 
 
 VII. 
 
 If any person elected does not, within one month after notice 
 of his election, signify his acceptance by signing the Constitu- 
 tion and By-Laws, and payment of his admission fee, he shall 
 be deemed to have declined to become a member. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 These By-Laws may be amended, at any stated meeting of 
 the Association, by vote of two-thii-ds of those present ; pro- 
 vided that ten days' notice, in writing, of the proposed amend- 
 ment has been given to the Executive Committee. 
 
CONSTITUTION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 BAR ASSOCIATION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CITY OF NEW- YORK. 
 
 NEW-YORK: 
 
 «EOKGE F. NESBI'J'T & CO , PKINTERS AND STATIONEKS, 
 
 CouKEii OF Peakl and Pi.ne Strekts. 
 
 ■P 1871. 
 
CONSTITUTION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 BAE ASSOCIATION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CITY OF NEW- YORK. 
 
 NEW-YOEK: 
 
 GEOReE F. NESBITT & CO., PBINTEES AND STATIONEBS>. 
 
 / CORNKB 07 FbABL AND PiNB STBEETB. 
 
 TstT. 
 
coisrsTiTUTioisr, 
 
 (As Adopted February 15, 1870,) 
 
 (amended JUNE 14th, 1S70, april 11th. 1871.) 
 
 AETIOLE I. 
 
 This Association shall be called " The Bar AasociatioB 
 of the City of New York." 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 
 The Association is established to maintain the honor and 
 dignity of the profession of the law, to cultivate social in- 
 tercourse among its members, and to increase its usefulness 
 in promoting the due administration of justice. 
 
 ARTICLE IIL 
 
 SECTioiir 1. The members of the Bar who signed the pre' 
 liminary articles are hereby declared to be members of this 
 Association ; but such of them as shall omit to subscribe to 
 this Constitution, and pay the admission fee, on or before 
 the 15th day of March next, shall cease to be members, 
 and can only become such by subsequent admission. 
 
 Any member of the profession in good standing, residing 
 or practising in the City of New- York, may become a 
 
member, by vote of the Association, on recommendation of 
 the Committee on Admissions as hereinafter provided, and 
 on subscribing to this Constitution, and paying the admis- 
 sion fee. 
 
 Members of the profession, of the State of New- York, in 
 good standing, neither residing nor practising in the City 
 of, New-York, may in like manner become members of 
 this Association, having all the privileges of the same, ex- 
 cept that of voting. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Committee on Admissions shall have power* 
 to make such regulations in relation to proposals for mem- 
 bership and notice thereof, as they may, from time to 
 time, deem needful. Candidates against whom there shall 
 be five negative votes in the Committee shall not be recom- 
 mended for admission. Upon being recommended, a vote 
 by ballot shall be taken in the Association, and one nega- 
 tive vote in every five shall exclude the candidate. 
 
 AETICLB IV. 
 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 The Officers of the Association shall be a President, five 
 Vice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, a Corresponding 
 Secretary and a Treasurer. There shall also be an Execu- 
 tive Committee of fifteen members, of which Committee 
 the President shall, ex officio^ be a member ; and a Com- 
 mittee on Admissions, to consist of twenty membera 
 These Officers and Committees shall be elected at the Annual 
 Meeting to be held on the second Tuesday of January in 
 each year. The Association may provide by its By-Laws 
 for such other Standing Committees as it may 
 necessary. 
 
AETICLE V. 
 
 The Executive Committee shall be vested with the title 
 to all the property of the Association until it may be incor- 
 porated, as Trustees thereof, and shall manage its affairs, 
 subject to the Constitution and By-Laws; they shall pro- 
 vide a permanent place for the use of the Association, and 
 shall appropriate such sums as they may deem fit for a 
 Library and Eeading Eoom. 
 
 AETICLE VL 
 
 A Library Committee, to consist of five members, shall 
 be appointed by the Executive Committee, to hold office 
 during their pleasure, and, subject to their directions, shall 
 have charge of the Library and Eeading Eoom, with power 
 to expend upon.lhe .same such moneys as may be appropri- 
 ated by the Executive Committee, or procured by voluntary 
 subscription. 
 
 AETICLE VIL 
 
 The Judges of the Courts of the United States, of the 
 Court of Appeals, of the Supreme Court, and of all other 
 Courts of Eecord of the State of New- York, shall have the 
 use of the Library and Eeading Eoom of this Association, 
 without the payment of fees. 
 
 Any member of the Association who may become a 
 member of any Court of Eecord, shall be, and while he 
 shall hold such office shall continue, an honorary member 
 thereof, and shall be entitled to all its privileges, except 
 that of voting, without payment of dues. 
 
AETICLE VIII. 
 
 MEETINGS OF THE ASSOCIATION. 
 
 There shall be an annual meeting of the Association on 
 the second Tuesday of January, and other stated meetings 
 on the second Tuesdays of March, June and November in 
 each year. At these stated meetings, and at any regular 
 adjourned meeting thereof, all the powers of the Associa- 
 tion may be exercised. Special meetings may be called at 
 any time by the Executive Committee, and shall be called 
 upon the written request of twenty members. 
 
 At such special meetings no business shall be transacted 
 except such as shall be specified in the call thereof The 
 presence of fifty members, in addition to such members of 
 the Executive Committee as may be present, shall be 
 necessary to constitute a quorum at any meeting of the 
 Association. 
 
 AETICLE IX. 
 
 ADMISSION AND ANNUAL FEES. 
 
 The admission fee shall in all cases be Fifty Dollars, to 
 be paid on signing the Constitution. 
 
 The annual dues shall, in the case of members both re- 
 siding and practising in the City of JSTew-York, be Forty 
 Dollars, and in the case of members residing elsewhere, but 
 having offices in the City of New- York, Twenty Dollars. 
 Such dues shall be payable half-yearly, on the first days of 
 May and November in each year ; and any member in de- 
 fault, after thirty days' notice, shall cease to be a member, 
 unless excused by order of the ■ Executive Committee. 
 Members neither residing nor having offices in the City of 
 New-York shall be exempt from ,the payment of annual 
 dues. 
 
In case of members belonging to either of the abov€ 
 classes, of less than six years' standing at the Bar, the Ex- 
 ecutive Committee may, until they shall have attained that 
 standing, give them a credit for one-half their initiation fee, 
 and remit one-half of the annual dues of members who 
 are liable to annual dues. 
 
 AETIOLE X. 
 
 Any member of th« Association may be suspended or 
 expelled for misconduct in his relations to this Association 
 or in his profession, on conviction thereof in such manner 
 as may be prescribed by the By-Laws, and all interest in 
 the property of the Association of persons resigning or 
 otherwise ceasing to be members, shall vest in the Associ- 
 ation. 
 
 AETIOLE XL 
 
 This Constitution shall go into immediate effect and an 
 election of Officers and Committees, herein provided for 
 shall forthwith be had. They shall hold their of&ces until 
 their successors are elected at the annual meeting, on the 
 second Tuesday in January, 1871. 
 
 AETICLE XIL 
 
 All elections shall be by ballot. The Officers elected 
 shall enter upon their duties immediately upon their elec- 
 
tion, and sliall hold office until their successors are elected 
 or appointed. 
 
 In case of a vacancy in any office, it shall be filled by ap- 
 pointment of the Executive Committee, until the next an- 
 nual election. 
 
 AETICLE XIII. 
 
 This Constitution may be amended by a two-third vote of 
 the members present at any stated meeting of the Associa- 
 tion, provided that notice of the proposed amendment, sub- 
 scribed by ten members, be given at a previous meeting. 
 
BY-LA^WS. 
 
 I. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENTS. 
 
 The President shall preside at all meetings of the Asso- 
 ciation, and in case of his absence, any one of the Vice- 
 Presidents, who shall be then chosen without ballot, shall 
 preside. 
 
 II. 
 
 THE RECORDING SECRETARY. 
 
 The Eecording Secretary shall keep a record of the pro- 
 ceedings of all meetings and of all other matters pf which 
 a record shall be deemed advisable by the Association. 
 
 He shall notify the Officers and members of their elec- 
 tion, and shall keep a roll of the members, and shall issue 
 notices of all meetings. 
 
 IIL 
 
 THE CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. 
 
 The Corresponding Secretary shall conduct the corres- 
 pondence of the Association, with the concurrence of the 
 President. 
 
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 IV. 
 
 THE TREASUBER. 
 
 The Treasurer shall collect, and, under the direction of 
 the Executive Committee, disburse, all funds of the Asso- 
 ciation ; he shall report annually, and offcener, if required ; 
 he shall keep regular accounts, which shall be, at all 
 times, open to the inspection of any member of the Exec- 
 utive Committee. His accounts shall be audited by a 
 Committee of three members of the Association, to be 
 elected by ballot at the stated meeting preceding the 
 annual meeting in each year. 
 
 V. 
 
 MEETINGS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
 
 The Executive Committee shall meet at least once a 
 month, except in July, August and September. They shall 
 have power to make such regulations not inconsistent with 
 the Constitution and By-Laws, as shall be necessary for the 
 protection of the property of the Association, and for the 
 preservation of good order in the conduct of its affairs. 
 
 They shall keep a record of their proceedings, which shall 
 be read at the ensuing meeting of the Association ; and it 
 shall be their duty to present business for the action of the 
 Association. They shall have no power to make the Asso- 
 ciation liable for any debts amounting to more than half of 
 the amount in the Treasurer's hands, in cash, and not sub- 
 ject to prior liabilities ; nor shall they have power to make 
 any contract binding personally upon members of the As- 
 sociation. 
 
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 VI. 
 
 At eacli stated meeting of the Association, the order of 
 business shall be as follows : 
 
 1. Reading of Minutes of preceding meeting. 
 
 2. Eeport of Executive Committee. 
 
 3. Eeport of the Treasurer. 
 
 4. Reports of Special Committees. 
 
 5. Miscellaneous Business. 
 
 This order of business may be changed by a vote of the 
 majority of the members present 
 
 The usual parliamentary rules and orders otherwise than 
 are herein provided, shall govern all meetings of the Asso- 
 ciation. 
 
 VII. 
 
 If any person elected does not, within one month after 
 notice of his election, signify his acceptance by signing the 
 Constitution and By-Laws, and payment of his admission 
 fee, he shall be deemed to have declined to become a 
 member. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 In pursuance of Article IV. of the Constitution, there 
 shall be the following Standing Committees : 
 
 a. A Committee on the Amendment of the Law, who 
 shall be charged with the duty of attention to all proposed 
 changes in the law, and of recommending such as in their 
 opinion may be entitled to the favorable influence of this 
 Association. 
 
 b. A Judiciary Committee, who shall be charged with the 
 duty of the observation of the working of our judicial sys- 
 
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 tern, the collection of information, tlie entertaining and ex- 
 amination of projects for a change or reform in the system, 
 and of recommending from time to time to the Association 
 such action as they may deem expedient. 
 
 c. A Committee on Grievances, who shall be charged 
 ■with the hearing of all complaints against members of the 
 Association, and also all complaints which may be made in 
 matters affecting the interests of the legal profession, and 
 the practice of the law, and the administration of justice, 
 and to report the same to this Association, with such 
 recommendations as they may deem advisable. 
 
 d. A Committee on Legal Education, who shall be 
 charged with the duty of examining and reporting what 
 changes it is expedient to propose in the system of legal 
 education and of admission to the practice of the profession 
 in the State of New- York. 
 
 IX. 
 
 Each of the Committees named in the foregoing By-Law 
 shall be a Committee of Ten, and shall be appointed an- 
 nually by the President of the Association, and shall con- 
 tinue in office until the annual meeting of the Association 
 next after their appointment, and until their successors are 
 appointed, with power to fill vacancies and to' adopt rales 
 for their own government 
 
 X. 
 
 Whenever any complaint shall be preferred against a 
 member of the Association, for misconduct in his relation 
 to this Association or in his profession, the member or 
 members preferring such complaint shall present it to the 
 Committee on Grievances, in writing, and subscribed by 
 him or them, plainly stating the matter complained of, with 
 particulars of time, place and circumstances. 
 
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 The Committee shall thereupon examine the complaint, 
 and if they are of the opinion that the matters therein 
 alleged are of sufficient importance, shall cause a copy of 
 the complaint, together with a notice of not less than five 
 days of the time and place when the Committee will meet 
 for the consideration thereof, to be served on the member 
 complained of, either personally, or by leaving the same at 
 his place of business during office hours, properly addressed 
 to him. If, after hearing his explanation, the Committee 
 shall deem it proper that there should be a trial of the 
 charge, they shall cause a similar notice of five days of the 
 time and place of trial to be served on the party complained 
 of At the time and place appointed, or at such other time 
 as may be granted by the Committee, the member com- 
 plained of shall file a written answer or defence ; or should 
 he fail to do so, the Committee may proceed thereupon to 
 the consideration of the complaint 
 
 The Committee shall thereupon, and at such other times 
 and place as they may adjourn to, proceed to try the said 
 complaint, and shall determine all questions of evidence. 
 
 The complainant and the member complained of shall 
 each be allowed to appear personally and by counsel, who 
 must be members of the Association. The witnesses shall 
 vouch for the truth of their statements on their word of 
 honor. The Committee shall have power to summon wit- 
 nesses, and if members of the Association, a neglect or re- 
 fusal to appear may be reported to the Association, and 
 treated as misconduct. 
 
 The Committee, of whom at least seven must be present 
 at the trial, except that a less number may adjourn from 
 time to time, shall hear and decide the allegations and 
 proofs thus submitted to them ; and if they find the com- 
 plaint, or any part of it to be true, they shall so report to 
 the Association, with their recommendation as to the action 
 to be taken thereon. 
 
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 The decision of the committee shall be served on the 
 member complained of; and if the decision be that the 
 complaint, or any part thereof is true, and in that case only, 
 > the Committee shall also serve a copy of the complaint, 
 answer and decision on the President of the Association; 
 and if requested by either the member or members com- 
 plaining, or the member complained of, shall annex thereto 
 a copy of the evidence taken, which said documents shall 
 be regarded as a report of the Committee to the Associa- 
 tion. 
 
 The President shall thereupon call a Special Meeting of 
 the Association, on a notice of not less than ten days, for 
 the consideration of the report, specifying in the pall the 
 object thereof; and of which Special Meeting the member 
 complained of shall have due notice. 
 
 The Association shall thereupon proceed to take such 
 action on said report as they may see fit, provided only 
 that no member shall be expelled unless by the vote of two- 
 thirds of the members present and voting. 
 
 Whenever a trial shall be determined on, the member 
 complained of may object peremptorily to any one or more 
 of the Committee, not exceeding three ; and the places of 
 those objected to shall be supplied by the remaining mem- 
 bers of the Committee for the purposes of the trial. 
 
 All the foregoing proceedings shall be secret, except as 
 their publication is hereinbefore provided for. 
 
 XI. 
 
 These By-Laws may be amended, at any stated meeting 
 of the Association, by a vote of two-thirds of those present; 
 provided that ten days' notice, in writing, of the proposed 
 amendment has been given to the Executive Committee. 
 
OF-ITIOEPLS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 BAR' ASSOCIATION 
 
 For 1871. 
 
 "WILLIAM M. EVARTS. 
 
 V(ce=J|rtstlients ; 
 
 SAMUEL J. TILDEN, JOHN SLOSSON, 
 
 JAMES W. GERABD, EDGAR S. VAN WINKLE, 
 
 WILLIAM E. CURTIS. 
 
 3Sxetuti\n Commtttee ; 
 
 HENRY NICOLL, WILLIAM G. CHOATE, 
 
 AUGUSTUS F. SMITH, FRANCIS C. BARLOW, 
 
 WILLIAM C. BARRETT, HENRY A. TAILER, 
 
 JAMES EMOTT, E. RANDOLPH ROBINSON, 
 
 STEPHEN P. NASH, WHEELER H. PECKHAM, 
 
 JAMES C. CARTER, ALBERT MATHEWS, 
 
 JOHN E. PARSONS, ABRAHAM R. LAWRENCE, 
 JOHN L. SUTHERLAND. 
 
 ©orresponlrinB Sccretarn : 
 WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER. 
 
 llecorlrtna Secrftats : 
 AUGUSTUS R. MACDONOUQH. 
 
 atrrasurer s 
 ALBON P. MAN. 
 
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 JLiJicarB ffiommttte« : 
 JAMES EMOTT, ELDRIDGE T. GERRY, 
 
 THEODORE W. DWIGHT, ALBERT MATHEWS, 
 
 AARON J. VANDBRPOEL. 
 
 ffiommtttee 
 
 HENRY A. CRAM. 
 CHARLES F. SOUTHMAYD, 
 JOHN E. BURRILL, 
 RICHARD H. BOWNB, 
 HOOPER C. VAN VORST, 
 JOHN C. DIMMICK, 
 JOHN M. KNOX, 
 GROSVENOR P. LOWREY. 
 CLIFFORD A. HAND, 
 FREDERICK SMYTH, 
 
 StanlrlnB 
 
 On Amendment of the Law. 
 CHARLES O'CONOR, 
 HENRY E. DA VIES, 
 JOSEPH S. BOSWORTH, 
 THEODORE W. DWIGHT, 
 JOHN K. PORTER, 
 CHARLES TRACY, 
 JOHN E. BURRILL, 
 THERON R. STRONG, 
 CHARLES M. DA COSTA. 
 
 On Grievances. 
 EDGAR S. VAN WINKLE. 
 THERON R. STRONG, 
 BENJAMIN K. PHELPS, 
 WILLIAM W. MACFARLAND, 
 JOHN M. KNOX, 
 CLIFFORD A. HAND, 
 HENRY H. ANDERSON, 
 JOHN L. CADWALADER, 
 GEORGE H. FORSTER, 
 GEORGE D. F. LORD. 
 
 on 0timts0ionn : 
 
 JAMES W. GERARD, Jr., 
 JOSEPH LAROCQUB, 
 GEORGE DB FOREST LOED, 
 CHARLES M. DA COSTA, 
 EDMUND WBTMORB, 
 BENJAMIN F. DUNNING, 
 FREDERICK S. TALMADGE, 
 THOMAS M. NORTH, 
 ALBERT STICKNBY, 
 EDWARD MITCHELL. 
 
 ©ommttteeB : 
 
 On the Judiciary. 
 WHEELER H. PBCKHAM, 
 NOAH DAVIS, 
 JOHN SLOSSON, 
 GILBERT M. SPIER, 
 JOSHUA M. VAN COTT, 
 WILLIAM M. PRICHARD, 
 JAMES C. CARTER, 
 FRANCIS C. BARLOW, 
 WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER, 
 CHARLES P. CROSBY. 
 
 On Legal Education. 
 THEODORE' W. DWIGHT, 
 EDWIN W. STOUGHTON, 
 CLARKSON N. POTTER, . 
 CHARLES A. PEABODY, 
 LUTHER R. MARSH, 
 AUG. R. MACDONOUGH, 
 CLARENCE A. SEWARD, 
 GEORGE C. BARRETT, 
 HENRY M. ALEXANDER. 
 
 Jl^otiBe ffiommtttee: 
 
 AUGUSTUS P. SMITH, JOHN E. PARSONS, 
 
 HENRY A. TAILER. 
 
List of Members. 
 
 Abbott, Attstin 
 Adams, Thatchek M. 
 Addoms, Mobtimbr C. 
 Adkiance, John 
 Alexander, Henry M. 
 Alexander, James W. 
 Alexander, Thomas S. 
 Abnold, John H. V. 
 AxLEN, Ethan 
 Alvord, a. a. 
 Anderson, E. Ellebt 
 Anderson, Hbnrt H. 
 Andrews, Edward L. 
 Aenoux, William H. 
 Arthur, Chester A. 
 Baldwin, George V. N. 
 Balestier, Joseph N. 
 Bangs, Charles W. 
 Bangs, Fbancis N. 
 Bargeb, Samuel F. 
 Barker, Smith 
 Barlow, Francis C. 
 Barlow, Samuel L. M. 
 Barnabd, Hobace 
 Barney, Hiram 
 Barrett, George C. 
 Barrett, William C. 
 Bartlett, Edward T. 
 Beach, William A. 
 Beaman, Charles C. Jr. 
 Bbardslbe, Rufus G. 
 Beekman, Geeabd 
 Beekman, Henby R. 
 Belknap, Aaron B. 
 Bell, Joseph 
 Betts, Frederick H. 
 Billings, O. P. C. 
 Bird, John H. 
 
 BiRDSEYB, LUCIEN 
 
 Black, Charles N. 
 Blair, Benjamin F. 
 BOARDMAN, Andrew 
 BoARDMAN, Samuel 
 BoLLiNG, John M. 
 booraem, h. toler 
 Booth, William D. 
 BoswoRTH, Joseph S. 
 Bowne, Richard H. 
 
 Brady, James M. 
 Bbainerd, Cephas 
 Bright, Osborn E. 
 Brinbmade, James B. 
 Bronson, Willett 
 Brooks, John E. 
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 Bbownell, Silas B. 
 Buckingham, John M. 
 Buckley, Thomas 0. T. 
 Buel, Oliver P. 
 
 BUBRILL, CHABLKS D. 
 
 Burbill, John E. 
 Butleb, Charles E. 
 Butlee, Willam Allen 
 Butteewoeth, William H. 
 Byrne, Francis 
 Cadwalader, John L. 
 Campbell, Douglas 
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 Campbell, Thomas Cooper 
 Candler, Flamen B. 
 Carter, James C. 
 Chambers, William P. 
 Chandleb, James E. 
 Chapman, Lbbbeus, Jb. 
 Chittenden, Simeon B, Jr. 
 Choate, Joseph H. 
 Choate, William G. 
 Chuechill, Feanklin H. 
 Clarke, Richard H. 
 Clift, Smith 
 Clinton, Henry L. 
 Coddington, Henry K. 
 Coffin, Edmund, Je. 
 CoLLES, George W. 
 CooPEE, Stephen V. R. 
 CouDEET, Charles Jr, 
 
 COUDERT, F. R. 
 COUDEET, L. L. 
 
 Cram, Heney A. 
 Ceosby, Charles P. 
 Ceosby, John P. 
 Ceowell, Edwaed B. 
 Cummings, Heney R. 
 
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 Curtis, William E. 
 Cutting, William 
 Da Costa, Charlks M. 
 Daly, Eugene P. 
 Daly, Joseph F. 
 Davenport, John A. 
 Davenport, John S. Jr. 
 Da VIES, Henry E. 
 Davies, Julien T. 
 Davis, Noah 
 Davis, Theodore M, 
 Davison, Charles A. 
 Day, Albert 
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 Delapield, Lewis L. 
 De Lancey, E. F. 
 De Witt, Cornelius J. 
 De Witt, Edward 
 DiCKERSON, Edward N. 
 Dickinson, Alfred 
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 DlEPENDOKF, MBSZO 
 
 DiLLAWAY, George W. 
 
 DiMMICK, J OHN C. 
 
 Dixon, William P. 
 DOOLITTLB, Edwin A. 
 Drake, E. G. Jr. 
 Dunning, B. F. 
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 DwiQHT, Theodore W. 
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 Edmonds, John W. 
 Edwards, Walter Jr. 
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 Evarts, William M. 
 Fancher, Enoch L. 
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 Fblt, Edwin M. 
 Fettrbtch, Joseph 
 Field, David Dudley 
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 Fitch, John 
 FiTHiAN, Freeman J. 
 Flanagan, John R. 
 Foot, Robert E. 
 FoRSTER, George H. 
 Foster, John A. 
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 Frbeland, Henry Rankin 
 French, Isaac V. 
 Fuller, Paul P. 
 Gallatin, Frederick 
 Gabrettson, Francis T. 
 Garvin, Samuel U. 
 
 Gerard, James W. 
 Gerard, James W. Jr. 
 Gerry, Blbridge T. 
 Gilhooly, Andrew 
 GiLLEN, Robert 
 
 GiLLENDER. AUG. T. 
 
 Glassby, Samuel J. 
 Glover, Charles H. 
 Glover, Thomas J. 
 GoEPP, Max 
 
 Goldschmidt, George B. 
 Gray, John Clinton 
 Gray, John F. 
 Gray, Levi 
 Green, Adolphus W. 
 Green, Ashbel 
 Grimball, John 
 Griswold, Burr W. 
 Hall, David P. Jr. 
 Hall, Elial P. 
 Hall, Thomas D. 
 Halsey, Frederick R. 
 Hamerslby, J. Hooker 
 Hamilton, Alexander, Jr. 
 Hamilton, E. Luther 
 Hammond, Henry B. 
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 Harison, G. D. L. 
 Hahison, Richard M. 
 Harnett, John H. 
 Harrison, Burton N. 
 Hartnagle, Edward 
 Hatch, Hiram F. 
 Hatch, Roswell D. 
 Hawley, David 
 Hegeman, W. a. Ogden 
 Henderson, Robert J. 
 Henry, Charles T. 
 Hilton, Henry 
 Hinsdale, Elizur B. 
 Hoes, William M. 
 HOLBROOK, William C. 
 HoLDEN, Daniel J. 
 Holt, George C. 
 HoppiN, William J. 
 HoppiN, William W. Je. 
 HowLAND, Henry E. 
 HoYT, William A. 
 Hubbard, Grosvenor S. 
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 Hull, Amos G. 
 Hunt, Charles H. 
 HuTCHiNS, Waldo 
 Hyslop, Thomas 
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 Ingersoll, Thomas C. 
 Irwin, William 
 Jackson, C. A. 
 Jackson, Thbo. F. 
 
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 Martin, Isaac P. 
 Martin, William R. 
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 Mathews, Albert 
 Meeks, Joseph 
 Melville, Allan 
 Merrihew, Stephen 
 Metcalp, James B. 
 Meyer, Theo. F. H, 
 Miller, Charles E. 
 Miller, George M. 
 Miller, Livingston K. 
 Miller, Morris S. 
 Mitchell, Edward 
 Mitchell, William 
 Montgomery, William Jr. 
 Moore, Charles B. 
 Morgan, Jas. Appleton. 
 Morris, Coles 
 Morris, Fordham 
 Morris, Henry L. 
 Morris, Jambs 
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 McCarthy, Edward D. 
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 O'CoNOR, Charles 
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 Ogdbn, Cadwaladee E. 
 Ogdbn, Gouveenbur M. 
 Ogden, Thomas L. 
 Olin, Stephen H. 
 Olmstead, Dwight H. 
 Olney, Petee B. 
 Opdyke, William S. 
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 Parsons, George W. 
 Parsons, John E. 
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 Pbckham, Wheelee H. 
 Phelps, Benjamin K. 
 
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 PntssoN, John W. 
 Platt, John H. 
 Plympton, Gilbert M. 
 POMBBOT, Eugene H. 
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 Porter, Mortimer 
 Post, Charles A. 
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 KiCE, Charles B. 
 EiDGWAY, James 
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 SCRiBNER, John M. Jr. 
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 Van Wyck, William 
 
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 Willett, Edward M. 
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 WooDBORY, Charles H. 
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'^T^- 
 
 CHAETEE AID COISTITUTIOI 
 
 ASSOCIATIOI OF THE BAR 
 
 ,v 
 
 op, THE 
 
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 City oF^NE^v York. 
 
 Weto York i 
 
 ^GEOKGE F. NESBITT & CO;, PEI3STERS, 
 Cor. of Pearl and Pine Streets. 
 
 .1873., 
 
CHARTER im COISTITUTIOI 
 
 OF THE 
 
 ASSOCIATIOI OF THE BAR 
 
 City of New York. 
 
 GEORGE F. NESBITT & CO., PKINTEES, 
 Cor. Pearl and Pine Streets. 
 
 1873. 
 
CHARTER. 
 
 An Act to Incorporate the Association of the Bab 
 OF THE City of New York. Passed April 28th, 1871. 
 
 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate 
 and Assembly, do enact as follows : 
 
 Section 1. The members of the Bar Association of the 
 City of New York, of which "William M. Evarts is President, 
 James W. Gerard, Samuel J. Tilden, Joseph S. Bosworth, 
 John Slosson, and Edward S. Van Winkle, are' Vice-Presi- 
 dents, and all persons who shall hereafter be associated with 
 them, are hereby created a body corporate, under the name 
 of " The Association of the Bar of the City of New 
 York," for the purpose of maintaining the honor and dig- 
 nity of the Profession of the Law, of cultivating social rela- 
 tions among its members, and increasing its usefulness in 
 promoting the due administration of justice. 
 
 Sec. 2. Said corporation shall have power to acquire, by 
 lease or purchase, a suitable building, library, and furniture 
 for the use of the corporation ; to borrow money for such 
 purposes and issue bonds therefor, and to secure the same 
 by mortgage ; and generally to acquire and take by pur- 
 chase, gift, devise, bequest, subject to the provisions of law 
 relating to devises and bequests by last will and testament, 
 or otherwise, and to hold, transfer and convey all or any 
 such real and personal property as may be necessary for 
 attaining the objects and carrying into effect the purposes of 
 such corporation ; provided, it shall not hold any real estate 
 the value of which shall exceed in the aggregate two hundred 
 thousand dollars. 
 
 Sec. 3. Such corporation shall have power to make and 
 adopt a Constitution, By-Laws, Eules and Eegulations, for 
 the admission, government, suspension and expulsion of its 
 
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 members, the collection of fees and dues, tbe number and 
 election of its officers, and to define their duties, and for the 
 safe keeping of its property and management of its affairs, 
 and from time to time to alter, modify and change such 
 Constitution, By-Laws, Rules and Regulations. 
 
 Sec. 4. All interest of any member of said coi-poration 
 in its property, shall terminate and vest in the corporation 
 upon his ceasing to be a member thereof by death, resigna- 
 tion, expulsion, or otherwise. 
 
 Sec. 5. The several officers of said Association, at the 
 time of the passage of this Act, shall continue to hold their 
 respective offices as officers of this corporation, with the 
 powers and duties prescribed by the Constitution and By- 
 Laws of said Association, until their successors shall be 
 elected and iiistalled ; and in case of any previous vacancy 
 among such officers, it shall be filled , in the manner pre- 
 scribed by the Constitution and By-Laws already adopted 
 by said Association, or as the same may, in conformity 
 therewith, be altered or amended by this corporation ; and 
 the present Constitution and By-Laws of the said Association 
 shall be the Constitution and By-Laws of said corporation, 
 until so altered or amended by said corporation ; and all 
 property, rights and interests of said Association now held 
 by any or either of the officers thereof, or any person or 
 persons for its use and benefit, shall, by virtue of this Act, 
 vest ill and become the property of the corporation hereby 
 created, subject to the payment of the debts of said Asso- 
 ciation. 
 
 Sec. 6. Such corporation shall possess the powers, and 
 be subject to the liabilities, prescribed by the Third Title 
 of the Eighteenth Chapter of the First Part of the Revised 
 Statutes. 
 
 Sec. 7. The Legislature may at any time alter, modify, 
 or repeal this Act. 
 
 Sec. 8. This Act shall take effect immediately. 
 
CONSTITUTION, 
 
 (As Adopted February 15, i870.) 
 
 (AMENDED JUNE 14TH, 1870 ; APRIL IIth, 1871 ; 
 
 NOT. 13th, 1873 ; DEC. 10th, 1873. ) 
 
 AETIOLE I. 
 
 This Association shall be called " The Associatiok of 
 THE Bab of the City of New York." 
 
 AETICLE II. 
 
 The Association is established to maintain the honor and 
 dignity of the profession of the law, to cultivate social in- 
 tercourse among its members, and to increase its usefulness 
 in promoting the due administration of justice. 
 
 AETICLE III. 
 
 Section 1. The members of the Bar who signed the pre- 
 liminary articles, are hereby declared to be members of this 
 Association ; but such of them as shall omit to subscribe to 
 this Constitution, and pay the admission fee, on or before 
 the loth day of March next, shall cease to be members, 
 and can only become such by subsequent admission. 
 
 Any member of the profession in good standing, residing 
 or practising in the City of New York, may become a 
 member, by vote of the Association, on tecommendation of 
 the Committee on Admissions as hereinafter provided, and 
 on subscribing to this Constitution and paying the admis- 
 sion fee. 
 
 Members of the profession, of the State of New York, in 
 good standing, neither residing nor practising in the City 
 
of New York, may in like manner become members of 
 this Association, having all the privileges of the same, ex- 
 cept that of voting. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Committee on Admissions shall have power 
 to make such regulations in relation to proposals for 
 membership and notice thereof, as they may, from time to 
 time, deem needful. Subject to revision and alteration from 
 time to time by the Association. Candidates against whom 
 there shall be five negative votes in the Committee, shall not 
 be recommended for admission. Upon being recommended, 
 a vote by ballot shall be taken in the Association, and one 
 negative vote in every five shall exclude the candidate. 
 
 ARTICLE lY. 
 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 The Officers of the Association shall be a President, five 
 Yice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, a CoiTcsponding , 
 Secretary, a Treasurer, an Executive Committee of fifteen 
 members, of which Committee the President and Treasurer 
 shall, ex officio^ be members, and a Committee on Admissions, 
 to consist of twenty-one members. These Officers shall be 
 elected at the Anniial Meeting to be held on the second 
 Tuesday of January in each year. The Association may 
 provide by its By-Laws for such other Standing Committees 
 as it may deem necessary. The Executive Committee and 
 the Committee on Admissions chosen at the next Annual 
 Election (that of 1873), shall divide themselves into three 
 classes of equal numbers each. The first class of each Com- 
 mittee shall hold office for three years ; the second class two 
 years and the third class one year, and "thereafter, each 
 annual election shall be for five members of the Executive 
 Committee, and seven members of the Committee on Ad- 
 missions, to hold ofiice three years, and for such additional 
 number, if any, as may be necessary to fill vacancies, to hold 
 office during the remainder of the terms of the members 
 
whose places they fill. No member of either of those Com- 
 mittees shall be re-ehgible to the Committee of which he 
 may be a member, for one year after the termination of his 
 term of office. 
 
 AKTICLE Y. 
 The Executive Committee shall manage the affairs of the 
 Association, subject to the Constitution and By-LawS ; they 
 shall provide a permanent place for the nse of the Associa- 
 tion, and shall appropriate such sums as they may deem fit 
 for a Library and Reading Room. 
 
 ARTICLE VI. 
 A Library Committee, to consist of five members, shall 
 be appointed by the Executive Committee, to hold office 
 during their pleasure, and, subject to their directions, shall 
 have charge of the Library and Reading Room, with power 
 to expend upon the same such moneys as may be appropri- 
 ated by the Executive Committee, or procured by voluntary 
 subscription. 
 
 ARTICLE VII. 
 
 The Judges of the Courts of the United States, of the 
 Court of Appeals, of the Supreme Court, and of all other 
 Courts of Record of the State of New York, shall have the 
 use of the Library ^nd Reading Room of this Association, 
 without the payment of fees. 
 
 Any member of the Association who may become a Judge 
 or Justice of any Court of Record, shall be, and while he 
 shall hold such office shall continue, an honorary member 
 thereof, and shall be entitled to all its privileges, except that 
 of voting, without payment of dues. 
 
 ARTICLE VIII. 
 
 MEETINGS OF THE ASSOCIATION". 
 
 There shall be an Annual Meeting of the Association on 
 the second Tuesday of January, and a stated meeting on the 
 
second Tuesday of eacli of the other months, except July, 
 August and September in each year. At these stated meet- 
 ings, and at any regular adjourned meeting thereof, all the 
 powers of the Association may be exercised. Special Meet- 
 ings may be called at any time by the Executive Commit- 
 tee, and shall be called upon the written request of twenty 
 members. 
 
 At such special meetings no business shall be transacted 
 except such as shall be specified in the call thereof. The 
 presence of fifty members, iir addition to such members of 
 the Executive Committee as may be present, shall be neces- 
 sary to constitute a quorum at any meeting of the Associa- 
 tion. 
 
 AETICLE IX. 
 
 ADMISSION AND ANNUAL FEES. 
 
 The admission fee shall in all cases be Fifty Dollars, to 
 be paid on signing the Constitution. 
 
 The annual dues shall, in the case of members both re- 
 siding and practising in the City of New York, be Forty 
 Dollars, and in the case of members residing elsewhere, but 
 having offices in the City of New York, Twenty Dollars. 
 Such dues shall be payable half-yearly, on the first days of 
 May and November in each year ; and any member in de- 
 fault, after thirty days' notice, shall cease to be a member, 
 unless excused by order of the Executive Committee. Mem- 
 bers neither residing nor having offices in the City of New 
 York shall be exempt from the payment of annual dues. 
 
 In case of members belonging to either of the above 
 classes, of less than six years' standing at the Bar, the Ex- 
 ecutive Committee may, until they shall have attained that 
 standing, give them a credit for one-half their initiation fee, 
 and remit one-half of the annual dues of members who 
 are liable to annual dues. 
 
AETICLE X. 
 
 Any member of the Association may be suspended or 
 expelled for misconduct in his relations to this Association 
 or in his profession, on conviction thereof, in such manner 
 as may be prescribed by the By-Laws, and all interest in 
 the property of the Association of persons resigning or 
 otherwise ceasing to be members, shall vest in the Associ- 
 ation. 
 
 AETICLE XL 
 
 This Constitution shall go into immediate effect and an 
 election of Officers and Committees, herein provided for, 
 shall forthwith be had. They shall hold their offices until 
 their successors are elected at the annual meeting, on the 
 second Tuesday in January, 1871. 
 
 AETICLE XIL 
 
 All elections shall be by ballot. The Officers elected 
 shall enter upon their duties immediately upon their elec- 
 tion, and shall hold office until their successors are elected 
 or appointed. 
 
 In case of a vacancy in any office, it shall be filled by ap- 
 pointment of the Executive Committee, until the next an- 
 nual election, except in the case of a vacancy occurring in 
 the office, of President, which shall be filled by the Associa- 
 tion, at its first stated meeting occurring more than ten days 
 after the happening of such vacancy. 
 
 AETICLE XIIL 
 
 This Constitution may be amended by a two-third vote of 
 the members present at any stated meeting of the Associa- 
 tion, provided that notice of the proposed amendment, sub- 
 scribed by ten members, be given at a previous meeting. 
 
BY-LAAVS. 
 
 As Amended Maech 12, Sept. 24 Nov. 12, Dec. 10, 1872. 
 
 I. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT. 
 
 The President sliall preside at all meetings of ttie Asso- 
 ciation, and in case of liis absence, any one of the Vice-Presi- 
 dents, who shall be then chosen without ballot, shall preside. 
 
 II 
 
 THE RECORDING SECRETARY. 
 
 The Eecording Secretary shall keep a record of the pro- 
 ceedings of all meetings and of all other matters of which a 
 record shall be deemed advisable by the Association. 
 
 He shall notify the Ofhcers and members of their election, 
 
 and shall keep a roll of the members, and shall issue notices 
 
 of all meetings. 
 
 III. 
 
 THE CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. 
 
 The Corresponding Secretary shall conduct the corres- 
 pondence of the Association, with the concurrence of the 
 
 President. 
 
 IV. 
 
 THE TREASURER. 
 
 The Treasurer shall collect, and, under the direction of 
 the Executive Committee, disburse, all funds of the Asso- 
 ciation ; he shall report annually, and of tener, if required ; 
 he shall keej) regular accounts, which shall be, at all times, 
 open to the inspection of any member of the Executive 
 Committee. His accounts shall be audited by a Committee 
 of three members of the Association, to be elected by ballot 
 
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 at the stated meeting preceding tiie annual meeting in each 
 year. 
 
 V. 
 
 MEETINGS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
 
 The Executive Committee shall meet at least once a 
 month, except in July, August and September. They shall 
 have power to make such regulations not inconsistent with 
 the Constitution and By-laws, as shall be necessary for the 
 protection of the property of the Association, and for the 
 preservation of good order in the conduct of its affairs. 
 
 They shall keep a record of their proceedings, which shall 
 be read at the ensuing meeting of the Association ; and it 
 shall be their duty to present business for the action of the 
 Association. They shall have no power to make the Asso- 
 ciation liable for any debts amounting to more than half of 
 the amount in the Treasurer's hands, in cash, and not sub- 
 ject to prior liabilities ; nor shall they have power to make 
 any contract binding personally upon members of the Asso- 
 ciation. 
 
 VI. 
 
 At each stated meeting of the Association, the order of 
 business shall be as follows : 
 
 1. Reading of Minutes of preceding meeting. 
 
 2. Report of Executive Committee. 
 
 3. Report of Treasurer. 
 
 4. Reports of Committee on Admissions. 
 
 5. Elections, if any. 
 
 6. Reports of other Standing Committees. 
 
 7. Reports of Special Committees. 
 
 8. Miscellaneous Business. 
 
 This Order of Business may be changed by a vote of the 
 majority of the members present. 
 
 The usual parliamentary rules and orders otherwise than 
 
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 are herein provided, shall govern all meetings of the Asso- 
 ciation. 
 
 VII. 
 If anv person elected does not, within one month after 
 notice of his election, signify his acceptance by signing the 
 Constitution and By-Laws, and payment of his admission 
 fee, he shall be deemed to have declined to become a 
 member. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 In pursuance of Article IV. of the Constitution, there 
 shall be the following Standing Committees : 
 
 a. A Committee on the Amendment of the Law, who 
 shall be charged with the duty of attention to all proposed 
 changes in the law, and of recommending such as in their 
 opinion may be entitled to the favorable influence of this 
 Association. 
 
 i. A Judiciary Committee, who shall be charged with the 
 duty of the observation of the working of our judicial sys- 
 tem, the collection of information, the entertaining and ex- 
 amination of projects for a change or reform in the system, 
 and of recommending from time to time to the Association 
 such action as they may deem expedient. 
 
 c. A Committee on Grievances, who shall be charged 
 with the hearing of all complaints agairist members of the 
 Association, and also all complaints which may be made in 
 matters affecting the interests of the legal profession, and 
 the practice of the law, and the administration of justice, 
 and to report the same to this Association, with such 
 recommendations as they may deem advisable. 
 
 d. A Committee on Legal Education, who shall be 
 charged with the duty of examining and reporting what 
 changes it is expedient to propose in the system of legal 
 
 -education and of admission to the practice of the profession 
 in the State of New York. 
 
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 IX. 
 
 Each of the Committees named in the foregoing By-Law 
 shall be a Committee of Ten, and shall be appointed an- 
 nually by the President of the Association, and shall con- 
 tinue in office until the annual meeting of the Association 
 next after their appointment, and until their successors are 
 appointed, with power to fill vacancies and to adopt rules 
 for their own government. 
 
 Any Standing Committee of the Association may by rule 
 provide that three successive absences from the meetings of 
 the Committee, unexcused, shall be deemed a resignation by 
 the member so absent of his place upon the Committee. 
 
 Any Standing Committee of the Association may, by rule, 
 impose upon its members a fine for non-attendance, and may 
 provide for the disposition of the fines collected under such 
 rule. 
 
 Whenever any complaint shall be preferred against a 
 member of the Association, for misconduct in his relation 
 to this Association or in his profession, the member or 
 members preferring such complaint shall present it to the 
 Committee on Grievances, in writing, and subscribed by 
 him or them, plainly stating the matter complained of, with 
 particulars of time, place and circumstances. 
 
 The Committee shall thereupon examine the complaint, 
 and if they are of the opinion that the matters therein 
 alleged are of sufficient importance, shall cause a copy of 
 the complaint, together with a notice of not less than five 
 days of the time and place when the Committee will meet 
 for the consideration thereof, to be served on the member 
 complained of, either personally, or by leaving the same at 
 his place of business during office hours, properly addressed 
 to him. If, after hearing his explanation, the Committee 
 shall deem it proper that there should be a trial of the 
 charge, they shall cause a similar notice of five days of the 
 time and place of trial to be served on the party complained 
 
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 of. At the time and place appointed, or at such other time 
 as may be granted by the Committee, the member com- 
 plained of shall file a written answer or defence ; or should 
 he fail to do so, the Committee may proceed thereupon to 
 the consideration of the complaint. 
 
 The Committee shall thereupon, and at such other times 
 and place as they may adjourn to, proceed to try the said 
 complaint, and shall determine all questions of evidence. 
 
 The complainant and the member complained of shall 
 each be allowed to appear personally and by counsel, who 
 must be members of the Association. The witnesses shall 
 vouch for the truth of their statements on their word of 
 honor. The Committee shall have power to summon wit- 
 nesses, and if members of the Association, a neglect or re- 
 fusal to appear may be reported to the Association, and 
 treated as misconduct. 
 
 The Committee, of whom at least seven must be present 
 at the trial, except that a less number may adjourn from 
 time to time, shall hear and decide the allegations and 
 proofs thus submitted to them ; and if they find the com- 
 plaint, or any part of it to be true, they shall so report to 
 the Association, with their recommendation as to the action 
 to be taken thereon. 
 
 The decision of the Committee shall be served on the 
 member complained of ; and if the decision be that the 
 complaint, or any part thereof is true, and in that case only, 
 the Committee shall also serve a copy of the complaint, 
 answer and decision on the President of the Association ; 
 and if requested by either the member or members com- 
 plaining, or the member complained of, shall annex thereto 
 a copy of the evidence taken, which said documents shall 
 be regarded as a report of the Committee to the Association. 
 
 The President shall thereupon call a Special Meeting of 
 the Association^ on a notice of not less than ten days, for 
 the consideration of the report, specifying in the call the 
 
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 object thereof ; and of which Special Meeting the member 
 complained of shall have due notice. 
 
 The Association shall thereupon proceed to take such 
 action on said report as they may see fit, provided only 
 that no member shall be expelled unless by the vote of two- 
 thirds of the members present and voting. 
 
 Whenever a trial shall be determined on, the member 
 complained of may object peremptorily to any one or more 
 of the Committee, not exceeding three; and the places of 
 those objected to shall be supplied by the remaining mem- 
 bers of the Committee for the purposes of the trial. 
 
 All the foregoing proceedings shall be secret, except as 
 their publication is hereinbefore provided for, unless other- 
 wise ordered by the Association. 
 
 XL 
 
 At the stated meeting in December, in each year, a Com- 
 mittee of nine shall be elected by ballot by the Association 
 at large. Each member of the Association shall be per- 
 mitted to vote for but three members of such Committee on 
 one ballot, and the nine persons having the largest number 
 of votes shall be such Committee. The Committee so 
 chosen shall prepare a list of candidates for the various 
 offices, to be voted for at the ensuing Annual Meeting, and 
 such list shall be posted in one or more conspicuous places 
 in the rooms of the Association, at least ten days before said 
 election. 
 
 xn. 
 
 These By-Laws may be amended, at any stated meeting 
 of the Association, by a vote of two-thirds of those present; 
 provided that ten days' notice, in writing, of the proposed 
 amendment has been given to the Executive Committee. 
 
OFFICERS 
 
 OP THE 
 
 ASSOCIATION OP THE BAR, 
 
 For 1873. 
 
 *t« K i . 
 
 WILLIAM M. EVARTS. 
 
 ■J^ice-Hfnesidents, 
 SAMUEL J. TILDEN, EDGAR S. VAN WINKLE, 
 
 JAMES W. GERARD, JOSHUA M. VAN COTT, 
 
 CHARLES TRACY. 
 
 (Jotitiesponding $eciietai|a, 
 WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER. 
 
 Becoijding $ectieta>ii), 
 AUGUSTUS R. MACDONOUGH. 
 
 ^rieasunet], 
 WILLIAM M. PRICHARD. 
 
 ;Sxecutive (Committee, 
 
 HENRY NICOLL, E. RANDOLPH ROBINSON, 
 
 AUGUSTUS F. SMITH, WHEELER H. PECKHAM, 
 
 JAMES EMOTT, FRANCIS N. BANGS, 
 
 STEPHEN P. NASH, DORMAN B. EATON, 
 
 JAMES C. CARTER, FRANCIS C. BARLOW, 
 
 JOHN E. PARSONS, GEORGE Db FOREST LORD, 
 
 WILLIAM G. CHOATE, WILLIAM C. WHITNEY, 
 CARLISLE NORWOOD, Jb. 
 
 (Committee on JSJdmissions, 
 
 CHARLES F. SOUTHMAYD, 
 JOHN E. BURRILL, 
 RICHARD H. DOWNE, 
 CLIFFORD A. HAND, 
 FREDERICK SMYTH, 
 JOSEPH LAROCQUE, 
 EDMUND WETMORE, 
 BENJAMIN P. DUNNING, 
 THOMAS M. NORTH, 
 ALBERT STICKNEY, 
 
 EDWARD MITCHELL, 
 HENRY E. HOWLAND, 
 CHARLES H. WOODRUFF, 
 JAMES P. LOWREY, 
 BERNARD ROELKER, 
 HENRY E. KNOX, 
 DAVID B. WILLIAMSON, 
 SHERMAN W. KNEVALS, 
 OLIVER P. C. BILLINGS, 
 BURTON N. HARRISON, 
 
 FREDERICK H. MAN> 
 
STANDING COMMITTEES 
 
 IPOFL IS'ZS. 
 
 Comtnittee on Amendment of the Laws. 
 
 CHARLES O'COiSrOR, CHARLES M. DA COSTA, 
 
 VJOSEPH S. BOSWORTH, CHAS. C. BEAMAN, Jr., 
 
 >lCJOHN K. PORTER, JOHN L. CADWALADEU, 
 
 CHARLES TRACY, VGEORGE H. FORSTER, 
 
 XJOHN B. BURRILL, > FREDERICK H. BETTS. 
 
 Couiinittee on the Judiciary, 
 
 XJOSHUA M. VAX COTT, 
 >«iENRY E. DAVIES, 
 yGILBERT M. SPEIR, 
 
 ABRAHAM R. LAWRENCE, 
 WILLIAM MITCHELL, 
 
 ^MONT. H. THROOP, 
 CHARLES P. CROSBY, 
 LEWIS L. DELAFiELD, 
 OSBORN E. BRIGHT, 
 
 /^AMES C. SPENCER. 
 
 Committee on Grievances, 
 
 AflDGAR S. VAN WINKLE, 
 ^CHARLES W. SANDFORD, 
 
 THERON R. STRONG, 
 ^CLIFFORD A. HAND, 
 
 HENRY H. ANDERSON, 
 
 GEORGE W. PARSONS, 
 GEORGE N. TITUS, 
 XJNO. J. TOWNSEND, 
 JNO. J. McCOOK, 
 CHAS. H. WESSON. 
 
 Committee on LegaZ Education. 
 
 '^theodore w. dwight, 
 jfedwin w. stoughton, 
 A;larkson n. potter, 
 ><^charles a. peabody, 
 luther r. marsh, 
 
 XAUG. R. MACDONOUGH, 
 CLARENCE A. SEWARD, 
 SIMON STERNE, 
 HENRY M. ALEXANDER, 
 FRANK E. KERNOCHAN. 
 
 ^ M 
 
 J 
 
LIST OF MEMBERS 
 
 RESIDING OR PRACTISING IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 
 
 /Abbott, Austin 
 * Adams, Charles D. 
 
 Adams, Thatcher M. 
 
 Addoms, Mortimer C. 
 
 Adriancb, John 
 
 Alexander, Charles B. 
 
 Alexander, Henry M. 
 
 Alexander, James W. 
 
 Allen. Ethan 
 
 Altord, Alwtn a. 
 
 Anderson, E. Ellery 
 
 Anderson, Henry H. 
 
 Andrews, Edttard L. 
 
 Arnold, John H V. 
 
 Arnoux, William H. 
 .^rthur, Chester A. 
 
 Ashley. Lucius A. 
 
 Atwater, Henry G. 
 
 Baldwin, George V. N. 
 
 Balestier, Joseph N. 
 
 Ball, James M. 
 
 Bangs, Charles W. 
 ^ANGS, Francis N. 
 
 Barlow, Francis C. 
 j^ARLOw, Samuel L. M. 
 ■Barnard, Horace 
 
 Barnett, William E. 
 -Barney, Hiram 
 ^arowsky, Thomas H. 
 
 Barrett, George i",. 
 
 -Barrett, Wizxiam C. 
 ■^ARRT, Thomas G. 
 
 Bartlett, Edward T. 
 n^each, William A. 
 'Beall, John A. 
 
 Beaman, Charles C, Jb. 
 
 Beardslee, Rufus G. 
 
 Bbekman, Gerard 
 
 Bbekman, Henry R. 
 
 Belknap, Aaron B. 
 
 Bell, Clark 
 
 Bell, Joseph 
 
 Benetille, Emll J. 
 
 Berry, Joseph E. 
 
 Betts, Frederick H. 
 
 PiLLiNGS, Oliver P. C. 
 
 Bird, John H. 
 
 ^BlRDSEYB, LUCIEN 
 
 ^ Black, Charles N. 
 
 Blair, Benjamin F. 
 BoARDMAN, Andrew 
 Boardman, Samuel 
 BoLLiNG, John M. 
 
 BOORAEM, H. TOLBR 
 
 Booth, William D. 
 ^fBoswoRTH, Joseph S. 
 VBowNB, Richard H. 
 
 Brady, Jambs M. 
 
 Brainerd, Cephas 
 
 Bright, Osborn E. 
 
 Bbinsmade, Jambs B. 
 
 Bronson. Willett 
 
 Brooks, John E. 
 
 Brown, Augustus C. 
 
 Brown, Elias G. 
 
 Brown, Joseph O. 
 
 Brown, Warren G. 
 
 Brownell, Silas B. 
 
 Brownbll, T. Frank 
 
 Buckingham, John M. 
 jfBucKLBY Thomas C. T. 
 
 Budlong, Morris M. 
 
 BuEL, Oliver P. 
 
 Burnett, Henry L. 
 
 BuRBTLL, Charles D. 
 
 >^URRiLL, John E. 
 
 Butler, Charles E. 
 
 Butler, William Allen 
 
 Butter WORTH, William H. 
 |J3yrne, Francis 
 
 Cadwaladbr, John L. 
 
 Calvin, Delano C. 
 >Campbell, Douglas 
 
 Campbell, Robert B. 
 
 Campbell, Thomas Cooper 
 
 Candler, Flamen B. 
 
 Cardwell, Samuel, Jr. 
 
 Carter, Jambs C. 
 
 Gary, Clarence 
 
 Chambers, William P. 
 
 Chandler, Jambs B. 
 
 Chapman, Lebbeus, Jr 
 
 Chase, Philo 
 
 Chittenden, Simeon B., Jr. 
 
 Choate, Joseph H. 
 
 Choatb, Wu.liam G. 
 
 Churchill, Franklin H. 
 
 Clapp, Samuel H. 
 
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 Clinton, Henry L. 
 
 ^ODDINGTON, HENRT K. 
 
 " Coffin, Edmund, Jr. 
 
 COGGESHALL, EdWIN W. 
 
 Cole, Hugh L. 
 CoLLES, George W. 
 Connor, John C, Jr. 
 Cooper, Stephen V. R. 
 -"Coudeht, Charles, Jr. 
 
 CODDBRT, FkEDBRICK R. 
 
 CouDBRT, Louis L. 
 i('Cram, Henry A. 
 
 Crane, Alexander B. 
 ^RARY, Charles 
 
 Cropper, John 
 
 Crosby, Charles P. 
 
 Crosby, Hiram B. 
 
 Crosby, John P. 
 
 Crowell, Euwahd B. 
 
 CuMMiNGS, Henry R. 
 
 Curtis, William E. 
 
 Cutting, William 
 
 Da Costa, Charles M. 
 
 Daly, Eugene P. 
 
 Daly, Joseph P. 
 
 Darling, William R. 
 
 Davenport, John A. 
 
 Davenport, John S , Jr. 
 ^Davies, Henry E. 
 ' Da VIES, Jdhbn T. 
 
 Davis, Noah 
 
 Davis, Theodore M. 
 
 Davison, Charles A. 
 
 Day, Albert 
 
 Day, Henry 
 
 Dayton, Charles W. 
 
 Dayton, Isaac 
 
 Db Porest, Robert W. 
 
 Delafield, Lewis L. 
 
 De Kay, Sidney 
 
 De Lancey, P. Edward 
 
 Delavan, Edward C. 
 
 Db Witt, Cornelius J. 
 ^iCKERSON, Edward N. 
 
 Dickinson, Alfred 
 
 Dickinson, William H. 
 
 <^)lEPENDORF, MeNZO 
 
 DiLLAWAY, George W. 
 
 DiMMicK, John C. 
 
 Divine, Michael W. 
 
 Dixon, William P. 
 iJ)0UGLAs, George 
 
 Drake, Elias G., Jr. 
 Running, Benj. P. 
 ^Dwight, Jambs P. 
 ^wiGHT, Theodore W. 
 
 Eaton, Dorman B. 
 •^CCLBSINB, Thomas C. E. 
 
 Edgar, Jonathan 
 
 Edwards, Jonathah 
 
 Edwards, Walter, Jr. 
 
 Elliot, James H. 
 
 Ely, Moses 
 
 Emmet, Richard S. 
 ifEMOTT, Jambs 
 
 Evarts, William M. 
 VFanchbr, Enoch L. 
 "PParnam, Charles H. 
 
 Pay, Jambs H. 
 
 Feeter, Jacob W. 
 
 Pellows, Louis 
 
 Fellows, Richard C, 
 
 Felt, Edwin M. 
 
 Fesser, Francisco 
 
 Pettretch, Joseph 
 jj<<FiELD, David Dudley 
 
 Field, William H. 
 
 Fitch, John 
 
 .Fithian, Freeman J. 
 
 Vlammbr, Charles A, 
 
 Flanagan, John R. 
 
 Foot, Robert E. 
 
 Forbes, Francis 
 vLPorster, George H, 
 
 Foster, John A. 
 Roster, William R., Jr. 
 '^ FouLKB, William D. 
 
 Fox, Adsten G. 
 
 Freeland, Henry R. 
 
 French, Isaac V. 
 
 Fuller, Paul F. 
 
 Gallatin, Frederick 
 
 Garrbttson, Francis T. 
 J.GARVIN, Samuel B. 
 -Gerard, James W. 
 /TGfBRARD, Jambs W., Jr. 
 
 Gerry, Elbridge T. 
 
 Gilbert, Edward 
 
 Gilbert, James M. 
 
 Gilhooly, Andrew 
 
 Gillender, Aug. T. 
 
 Gillett, Daniel W. 
 
 Glassey, Samuel J. 
 
 Glover, Charles H. 
 
 Glover, Thomas J. 
 
 Goldschmidt, George B. 
 
 Gould, Charles W. 
 
 Gray, John C. 
 
 Gray, John F. 
 
 Gray, Levi 
 
 Green, Adolphus W. 
 ({Green, Ashbel 
 y Grimball, John 
 
 Qriswold, Burr W. 
 
 Hall, David P., Jr. 
 
 Hall, Elial P. 
 
 Hall, Thomas D. 
 
 Hall, William P. 
 
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 Halset, Frederick R. 
 
 Hamersley, J. Hooker 
 
 Hamilton, Alexander, Jr. 
 
 Hamilton, E. Luther 
 
 Hammond, Henry B. 
 "Hand, Clifford A. 
 
 Harison, George D. L. 
 
 Harison, Richard M. 
 ^Harnett, John H. 
 
 Harrison, Burton N. 
 
 Hartnagle, Edward 
 
 Hatch, Hieam F. 
 h^atch, Roswbll D. 
 
 Hawley, David 
 
 Hawley, Frank M. 
 
 Hegbman, W. a. Ogden 
 
 Henderson, Robert J. 
 
 Henry, Charles T. 
 
 Henry, Thomas S. 
 
 Hilton, Henry 
 
 Hinsdale, Elizub B. 
 
 Hoes, William M. 
 
 HoLBROOK, William C. 
 
 HOLDEN, Daniel J. 
 
 HoppiN, William J. 
 
 HoppiN, William W., Jr. 
 
 HowLAND, Henry E. 
 
 HoYT, William A. 
 
 Hubbard, Grostenoe S. 
 
 Hubbard, Thomas H. 
 .•Hull, Amos G. 
 i^HuTCHiNS, Waldo 
 
 Hyslop, Thomas 
 
 Ingersoll, Charles D. 
 
 Ingersoll, Thomas C. 
 
 Isaacs, Myeh S. 
 
 Jackson, Charles A. 
 
 Jackson, Joseph C. 
 
 Jaques, David R. 
 
 Jarvis, Nathaniel, Jr. 
 
 Jay, William 
 'Jblliffe, Samuel G. 
 
 Jennbr, William A. 
 
 Jesup, Jambs R. 
 
 Johnson, Henry W. 
 
 Johnson, Samuel W. 
 
 Jones, McKendree W. 
 
 Jones, Walter R. T. 
 
 Kane, John G. 
 
 Kaufman, Sigismund 
 
 Kei,lbr, Chas. M. 
 
 Kbrnan, Bernard P. 
 
 Kernochan, Frank E. 
 
 Kernochan, Jos. Fred. 
 
 Ketchum, Alex'r p. 
 •Ketchum, Edgar 
 
 KiLBRETH, James T. 
 
 King, William H. 
 
 KmcHEis, Alexander F. 
 
 KiRCHBis, William H. 
 
 y-KlRKLAND, CHARLES P. 
 
 ''KiRKLAND, Charles P., Jr. 
 
 KiSSAM, Benj. T. 
 
 KiTCHBL, Charles H. 
 
 Kittredgb, Edward C. D. 
 
 Knevals, Sherman W. 
 
 Knox, Henry E. 
 
 Knox, James 
 
 Knox, John M 
 
 Lane, Smith E. 
 jLIjarocque, Joseph 
 ' JjArremorb, Richard L. 
 
 "ysLATHROP, Wm. G., Jr. 
 
 Lawrence, Abraham R., Jr. 
 >.Lawrbncb, John S. 
 ^Lawrence, Joseph B. 
 
 Lbb, Benjamin F. 
 
 Lee, Henry T. 
 
 Lee, Robert P. 
 
 Lee, William H. L. 
 
 Lee, William P. 
 A^J-'EOnard, William H. 
 ^Lbveridge, John W. C. 
 
 Leyne, Maurice 
 
 ;ij'LlVINGSTON, JOHN H. 
 
 Livingston, Walter L. 
 
 Logan, Edgar 
 
 Loop, Francis E. 
 jLLord, Daniel D. 
 ■^jLORD, Daniel, Jr. 
 
 Lord, George De F. 
 
 LOWREY, GROSVENOR P. 
 
 LowREY, Jambs P. 
 
 Lyon, George W. 
 'ijLyon, Samuel E. 
 ■j JiIacdonough, Aug. R. 
 'YMacparland, William W. 
 
 Macklin, John J. 
 
 Man, Albon 
 »Man, Albon P. 
 '\Man, Frederick H. 
 
 Man, William 
 
 Manice, Wm. De F. 
 J,,Marbury, Francis F. 
 *^Marbury, Era's F., Jr. 
 
 Marsh, Charles M. 
 
 Marsh, Luther R. 
 
 Martin, Bradley 
 
 Martin, Isaac P. 
 
 Martin, William R. 
 
 Mason, John M. 
 
 Mathews, Albert 
 
 McAdam, Quentin 
 
 McCarthy, Edward D. 
 
 McCreery, James A. 
 
 McCooK, John J. 
 
 McCuRDY, Richard A. 
 JiilcDANiEL, William V. 
 
 ^^^ 
 
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 McDehmot, William 
 McDonald, John 
 j^^oKeon, John 
 
 MEEKS, JObEPH 
 
 Merbihew, Stephen" 
 Merrill, Patson 
 Meyer, Theo. F. H. 
 Miller, Charles E. 
 SIiLLBR, Charles P. 
 Miller, Livingston K. 
 
 MiLLEJl, MOKRIS S. 
 
 >f Minor, Israel, Jr. 
 
 Mitchell, Edward 
 ^.Mitchell, William 
 "^ Mitchell, William, Jr. 
 
 Montgomery, John H. 
 
 Montgomery, Vi''iLLiAM, Jr. 
 V- Moore, Charles B. 
 
 Moore, Thomas S. 
 
 Morgan, Jas. Appleton 
 
 Morris, Coles 
 
 Morris, Forbham 
 
 Morris, Henry L. 
 
 Morris, James 
 
 Moses, Raphael J. 
 
 Nash, John McLean 
 j^ash, Stephen P. 
 ■^Nassau, William B. 
 y^EHRBAS, Charles J. 
 ^^ELSON, Homer A. 
 XNettlbton, Charles 
 
 Newland, David J. 
 
 NicoLL, Edward H. 
 wNicoLL, Henry 
 •''^ North, Thomas M. 
 
 Norwood, Carlisle, Jr. 
 vO'CoNOR. Charles 
 
 Odell, Hamilton 
 
 Ogden, Cadwalader E. 
 
 Ogden, David B 
 
 Ogden, Godvbrnbur M. 
 
 Ogden, Thomas L. 
 
 Olin, Stephen H. 
 
 Oliver, Francis V. S. 
 
 Olmstbad, Dwight H. 
 
 Olney, Peter B. 
 
 Opdyke, William S. 
 
 Owen, Edward L. 
 
 Paddock, Franklin A. 
 
 Paine, Willis S. 
 
 Paris, Irving 
 
 Parker, Henry H. 
 
 Parsons, George W. 
 
 Parsons, John E. 
 
 Patterson, Chas. E. 
 
 Patterson, Edward 
 
 Pattison, Elias J. 
 s^Peabody, Charles A. 
 /^ Pbabody, Charles A., Jr. 
 
 Peabody, Duane L. 
 
 Pbckham, Wheeler H. 
 i^HELPs, Benjamin K. 
 [Phelps, Charles Harris 
 
 Phelps, William W. 
 
 I'iNCKNEY, Walter S. 
 
 f iRssoN, John W. 
 
 i'LATT, John H. 
 
 Plympton, Gilbert M. 
 
 PoMBROY, Eugene H. 
 
 Poor, Walter S. 
 UPortbr, John K. 
 
 Porter, Mortimer 
 
 Post, Charles A. 
 J)^otter, Clarkson N. 
 ' Powell, Wilson M. 
 
 Powers, William P. 
 
 Price, Charles 
 
 Prichard William M. 
 UPyne, John. 
 * JRapallo, Charles A. 
 •^ -Rbqhier, Aug. J. 
 -T^RiCE, Addison G. 
 
 Rice, Charles B. 
 
 Riddle, Daniel S. 
 
 RiDGWAY, James 
 
 Rikeb, John H. 
 
 EiKER Samuel 
 
 Rives, Charles B. 
 
 Rives, Francis R. 
 
 Robinson, E. Randolph 
 jj<il0BiNS0N, Hamilton W. 
 ^.Rodman, Thomas H. 
 ''^Rodman, Thomas H., Jr. 
 
 Roe, Alfred. 
 
 >R0BLKBR, Bernard 
 Rogers, Nathaniel P. 
 Roosevelt, Charles H. 
 Roosevelt, Robert B. 
 Root, Elihu 
 Ross, William B. 
 Ruggles, Horace M. 
 
 Jj^UGGLES, PhILO T. 
 
 KussELL, Horace 
 
 Salomon, Edward 
 'fSANDBORD, Charles W. 
 
 Sands, Andrew H. 
 ' rSANFORD, Charles F. 
 jJ^Sanger, Adolph L. 
 "^ Sargent, John 0. 
 
 Scott, Francis M. 
 
 Scott, William H. 
 
 Scribner, John M., Jr. 
 j^cuDDBR, Henry J. 
 
 Searing, Edward W. 
 
 Sedgwick, Henry D. 
 
 Sedgwick, John 
 
 Seward, Clarence A. 
 
 Sbwell, Robert 
 
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 ySHBPAKD, ElLIOT P. 
 
 ^ Shepakd, Francis N. 
 
 Shepaed, William P. 
 
 Sherman, Prederick R. 
 
 Sherwood, John 
 
 Shoudy, Joseph A. 
 
 SiLLiMAN, Benjamin D. 
 
 Skidmore, Lemuel 
 
 Skidmore, WillijVM B., Jr. 
 
 Slevin, James M. 
 
 Smedbehg, Oscar 
 vSmith, Augustus F. 
 /^ Smith, Charles H, 
 
 Smith, Duncan 
 
 Smith, Edmund H. 
 V^mith, E. Delapield 
 ■ Smith, Elliott 
 
 Smith, P. Sherman 
 
 Smith, Frbling H. 
 ^ Smith, James M. 
 
 Smith, Nelson 
 
 Smith, S. Sidney 
 
 Smyth, Pebderick 
 
 Snbad, Thomas L. 
 
 Solomon, Nathan 
 
 SORBN, George W. 
 
 SouLE, Charles E. 
 
 Souther, Charles E. 
 
 southmayd, charles f. 
 
 Speir, Archibald W. 
 y/SPEiR, Gilbert M. 
 ^^^PENCER, James C. 
 /^Stallknbcht, Pbbd. S. 
 
 Starr, George H. 
 
 Stabr, Peter 
 
 Stearns, James S. 
 
 Stephens, Benjamin, Jr. 
 
 Sterne, Simon 
 
 Stetson, Francis L. 
 jo'Stbwabt, Orlando L. 
 "^ Stickney, Albert 
 
 Stiger, William E. 
 
 Stillman, Granville S. P. 
 
 Stillman, Thomas E. 
 
 Stone, Charles P. 
 
 Storrs, James S. 
 
 Stoughton, Charles B. 
 c^Stoughton, Edwin W. 
 >^ Strong, Charles E. 
 
 Strong, George T. 
 
 Strong, Theron Geo. 
 
 Strong, Theron K. 
 
 Sutherland, John J. 
 ^ Sutherland, Josiah 
 
 Swan, Otis D. 
 
 Swan, William L. 
 
 Tailer, Henry A. 
 
 TAIiLMADGB, FREDERICK S. 
 
 Taylor, Alfred J. 
 
 ^': 
 
 yWTHAYER, Benjamin C. 
 *^ Thomas, Abnee C. 
 Thomasson, John J. 
 Thompson, Frank 
 Thomson, James J. 
 Thornton, David 
 'Throop, Montgomery H. 
 Thurston, David 
 /J-'iLDBN, Samuel J. 
 *^Tillotson, Gotjverneur 
 Titus, George N. 
 TowNSEND, Henry P. 
 TowNSEND, John J. 
 ^j»TowNSEND, Martin L. 
 
 ""^ ^ TowNSEND, KANDOLPH W. 
 
 , Tracy, Charles 
 ' Tracy, Charles Edward 
 Tracy, J. Evarts 
 Tracy, William 
 jLTremain, Henry E. 
 ■'^Turner, Herbert B. 
 TuRNEY, Paschal W. 
 Tweed, Charles H. 
 Ulshospfer, William G. 
 Underhill, Abraham 
 Underhill, Walter M. 
 Vail, Moses M. 
 Van Cott, Joshua M. 
 jI'Vandbrpoel, Aaron J. 
 ■"Van Namee, Jambs 
 Van Rensselaer, Philip 
 Van Santvoord, Abraham 
 Van Santvoord, Cornelius 
 Van Slyck, Geo. W. 
 Van Volkenburgh, Thos. S 
 ^ 'Van Vorst, Hooper C. 
 ''UiVan Winkle, Edgar S. 
 tVan Wyck, William 
 Varnum, James M. 
 \^osB, John G. 
 *0" Waddington, George 
 Wagstaff, Alfred, Jr. 
 Wait, W. Howard 
 ^Walker, Stephen A. 
 ^UWallis, Alexander H. 
 "f^VABD, Elijah 
 <T^Ward, John E. 
 Warren, Ira D. 
 Washburn, John S. 
 ■V /Waterbury, Nelson J. 
 -^ Watson, William 
 Webster, Sidney 
 Weed, John W. 
 
 /"beks, Francis H. 
 "Weeks, John A. 
 Wellbr, Augustus N. 
 Wesson, Charles H. 
 Wesson, Frederick 
 Westcott, Clarence L 
 
 
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 Wkstekvblt, Tompkins 
 Wetmore, Edmund 
 Wheeler, Everett P. 
 Whitehead, Aaron P. 
 Whitehead, Charles E. 
 Whitney, William C. 
 Wight, Amherst, Jr. 
 Wilcox, Franklin A. 
 WiLLETT, Edward M. 
 Williams, Stephen C. 
 Williamson, David B. 
 Willis, William H., Jr. 
 Wilson, Edward J. 
 
 Wilson, William G. 
 Winthrop, Buchanan 
 Winthrop, Henry E. 
 WiNTBRTON, William B. 
 Wood, Dennistoun 
 Wood, James H. 
 Work, James Henry 
 Woodbury, Charles H. 
 Woodford, Stewart L. 
 Woodruff, Charles H. 
 Wright, George W. 
 X^eaman, George H. 
 TouNG, Mason 
 
 NON-RESIDENT MEMBERS. 
 
 Brown, Dennis 
 
 y UORSHBIMER, WiLLIAM 
 
 Hale, Matthew 
 v-Hand, Samuel 
 Hunt, Ward, Jr. 
 Jackson, Theodore F. 
 ^ Johnson, Alexander S. 
 
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 Kernan, Francis 
 Smith, Gabriel L. 
 Woodwokth, Wm. a. 
 
 Buffalo. 
 
 do. 
 Albany. 
 
 do. 
 
 Utica. 
 
 Williamsburg, L. I. 
 
 Utica. 
 
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 Elmira. 
 
 Mount Vernon, Westell. Co. 
 
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 -=-«®i 
 
 CHARTER 
 
 CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS 
 
 The Association of the Bar of 
 the City of New York. 
 
 LIST OF OFFICERS AND MEMBERS, 
 
 DONATIONS &c. 
 
 No. r WEST TWENTY- tflNTH STREET 
 
 -1876, 
 
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CHARTER, 
 
 CONSTITUTIOiN AND BY-LAWS, 
 
 The Association of the Bar of 
 the City of New York, 
 
 LIST OF OFFICERS AND MEMBERS. 
 
 3m iotfe: 
 
 BBOWN & HEWITT, PRINTERS, 9 SPBUCE STREET. 
 
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CHARTER. 
 
 An Act to Incorporate the Association of the Bar op 
 THE City of New York. Passed April 28th, 1871. 
 
 The People of the State of Neiv York, represented in Senate 
 and Assemily, do enact as follows : 
 
 Section 1. The members of the Bar Association of the City 
 of New York, of which William M. Eyarts is President, James 
 W. Gerard, Samuel J. Tilden, Joseph S. Bosworth, John Slosson, 
 and Edward S. Van Winkle are Vice-Presidents, and all persons ■ 
 who shall hereafter be associated with them, are hereby created 
 a body corporate, under the name of " The Association of 
 the Bar of the City of New York," for the purpose of 
 maintaining the honor and dignity of the Profession of the 
 Law, of cultivating social relations among its members, and in- 
 creasing its usefulness in promoting the due administration of 
 justice. 
 
 Sec. 2. Said corporation shall have power to acquire, by lease 
 or purchase, a suitable building, library, and furniture for the 
 use of the corporation ; to borrow money for such purposes and 
 issue bonds therefor, and to secure the same by mortgage ; and 
 generally to acquire and take by purchase, gift, devise, bequest, 
 subject to the provisions of law relating to devises and bequests 
 by last will and testament, or otherwise, and to hold, transfer 
 and convey all or any such real and personal property as may 
 be necessary for attaining the objects and carrying into effect 
 the purposes of such corporation ; provided, it shall not hold 
 any real estate the value of which shall exceed in the aggregate 
 two hundred thousand dollars. 
 
 Sec. 3. Such corporation shall have power to make and adopt 
 a Constitution, By-Laws, Eules and Kegulations for the admis- 
 sion, government, suspension and expulsion of its members, 
 the collection of fees and dues, the number and election of its 
 
officers, and to define their duties, and for the safe keeping of 
 its property and management of its afiairs, and from time to 
 time to alter, modify, and change such Constitution, By-Laws, 
 Rules, and Eegulations. 
 
 Sec. 4. All interest of any member of said corporation in its 
 property shall terminate and vest in the corporation, upon his 
 ceasing to be a member thereof by death, resignation, expul- 
 sion, or otherwise. 
 
 Sec. 5. The several officers of said Association, at the time of 
 the passage of this Act, shall continue to hold their respective 
 offices as officers of this corporation, with the powers and duties 
 prescribed by the Constitution and By-Laws of said Association, 
 until their successors shall be elected and installed; and in case 
 of any previous vacancy among such officers, it shall be filled 
 in the manner prescribed by the Constitution and By-Laws 
 already adopted by said Association, or as the same may, in 
 conformity therewith, be altered or amended by this corpora- 
 tion ; and the present Constitution and By-Laws of said Asso- 
 ciation shall be the Constitution and By-Laws of said cor- 
 poration, until so altered or amended by said corporation ; and 
 all property, rights, and interests of said Association now held 
 by any or either of the officers thereof, or any person or persons, 
 for its use and benefit, shall, by virtue of this Act, vest in and 
 become the property of the corporation hereby created, subject 
 to the payment of the debts of said Association. 
 
 Sec. 6. Such corporation shall possess the powers, and be 
 subject to the liabilities, prescribed by the Third Title of the 
 Eighteenth Chapter of the First Part of the Revised Statutes. 
 
 Sec. 7. The Legislature may at any time alter, modify, or 
 repeal this Act. 
 
 Sec. 8. This Act shall take effect immediately. 
 
CONSTITUTION, 
 
 (Adopted February 15, 1870,) 
 (Revised and Amended March 14, 1876.) 
 
 ARTICLE I. 
 
 NAME. 
 
 This Association shall be called " The Association oe the 
 Bab of the City of New Yoek." 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 
 OBJECTS. 
 
 The Association is established to maintain the honor and 
 dignity of the profession of the law, to increase its usefulness 
 in promoting the due administration of justice, and to culti- 
 Tate social intercourse among its members. 
 
 ARTICLE III. 
 
 MEMBEES. 
 
 The members of the Bar who signed the preliminary articles 
 are hereby declared (Feb. 15, 1870,) to be members of this Asso- 
 ciation ; but such of them as shall omit to subscribe to this 
 Constitution, and pay the admission fee, on or before the 15th 
 day of March, 1870, shall cease to be members and can only be- 
 come such by subsequent admission. 
 
 Any member of the profession in good standing, residing or 
 practising in the City of New York, may become a member, by 
 vote of the Association, on recommendation of the Committee 
 on Admissions as hereinafter provided, and on subscribing to 
 this Constitution and paying the admission fee and the dues of 
 the current half year. 
 
Members of the profession of the State of New York, in good 
 standing, neither residing nor practising in the City of New 
 York, may in like manner become members of this Association, 
 having all the privileges of the same except that of voting. 
 
 ARTICLE IV. 
 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 The officers of the Association shall be a President, five Vice- 
 Presideiits, a Kecording Secretary, a Corresponding Secretary, 
 a Treasurer, an Executive Committee of fifteen members 
 besides the President and Treasurer who shall be ex-offim 
 members thereof, and a Committee on Admissions to consist of 
 twenty-one members. These officers shall be elected at the 
 Annual Meeting to be held on the second Tuesday of January 
 in each year. 
 
 The Executive Committee and the Committee on Admissions 
 chosen at the next Annual Election (that of 1873) shall divide 
 themselves into three classes of equal numbers each. The first 
 class of each Committee shall hold office for three years, the 
 second class two years, and the third class one year; andtheTe- 
 after each Annual Election shall be for five members of the 
 Executive Committee and seven members of the Committee on 
 Admissions, to hold office three years, and for such additional 
 number, if any, as may be necessary to fill vacancies, to hold 
 office during the remainder of the terms of the members whose 
 places they fill. No member elected to either of these com- 
 mittees shall be re-eligible to the committee of which he may 
 have been a member, until one year after the expiration of his 
 term of office. 
 
 ARTICLE V. 
 
 EXECUTTVE COMMITTEE. 
 
 The Executive Committee shall manage the affairs of the 
 Association, subject to the Constitution and By-Laws. All 
 appropriations of the funds of the Association must be made by 
 this Committee, unless ordered by the Association by a two- 
 thirds vote. 
 
AETICLB VI. 
 
 COMMITTEE ON ADMISSIONS. 
 
 No person shall be admitted to membership of the Associa- 
 tion unless he shall have been recommended by this Committee 
 in such manner as shall be provided by the By-Laws. 
 
 ARTICLE VII. 
 
 OTHER COMMITTEES. 
 
 The Association may provide by its By-Laws for such other 
 Standing Committees as it may deem necessary. 
 
 ARTICLE VIII. 
 
 HONORARY MEMBERS. 
 
 Any member of the Association who may become a Judge or 
 Justice of any Court of Record shall be, while he shall hold 
 such oflBce, an honorary member of the Association, and shall 
 be entitled to all its privileges, except that of voting, and shall 
 be exempt from payment of dues. 
 
 The Judges of the Courts of the United States, of the Court 
 of Appeals, of the Supreme Court, and of all other Courts of 
 Record of the State of New York, and the Consuls-General of 
 Foreign States resident in the City of New York, shall have 
 the free use of the Library and Reading Room of this Associa- 
 tion. 
 
 ARTICLE IX. 
 
 MEETINGS OF THE ASSOCIATION. 
 
 There shall be an Annual Meeting of the Association on the 
 second Tuesday of Januar}', and a stated meeting on the second 
 Tuesday of each of the other months, except July, August and 
 September, in each year. At these stated meetings, and at any 
 regular adjournment thereof, all the powers of the Association 
 may be exercised. 
 
 . Special meetings may be called at any time by the Executive 
 Committee, and shall be called by the Secretary upon the writ- 
 ten request of twenty members specifying the purpose of such 
 
call. At such special meetings no business shall be, transacted 
 except such as shall be specified in the call thereof. 
 
 At any meeting of the Association the presence of fifty mem- 
 bers shall be necessary to constitute a quorum. 
 
 ARTICLE X. 
 
 ADMISSION FEE AND ANNUAL DUES. 
 
 The admission fee shall in all cases be Fifty Dollars, to be 
 paid on signing the Constitution. 
 
 The annual dues of members residing in the City of New 
 York shall be Forty Dollars, and of members having ofBces in 
 the City of New York and residing elsewhere, Twenty Dollars. 
 Such dues shall be payable half-yearly on the first day of May 
 and of November in each year. 
 
 In case of members belonging to either of the above classes, 
 of less than six years' standing at the Bar, the Executive Com- 
 mittee may, until they shall have attained that standing, give 
 them a credit for one-half their initiation fee, and may also 
 remit one-half of their annual dues. 
 
 Members neither residing nor having ofiBces in the city 
 of New York shall be exempt from the payment of annual 
 dues. 
 
 ARTICLE XL 
 
 SUSPENSIONS AND EXPULSIONS. 
 
 Any member of the Association may be suspended or expelled 
 for misconduct in his relations to this Association or in his 
 profession, on conviction thereof in such manner as may be 
 prescribed by the By-Laws ; and all interest in the property of 
 the Association of persons resigning or otherwise ceasing to be 
 members shall vest in the Association. 
 
 ARTICLE XII. 
 
 ELECTIONS. 
 
 All elections shall be by ballot. The officers elected shall 
 enter upon their duties immediately upon their election, and 
 shall hold office until their successors are elected or appointed. 
 
In case of a vacancy in any office, it shall be filled by appoint- 
 ment of the Executive Committee until the next annual 
 election, except in the case of a vacancy occurring in the office 
 of President, which shall be filled by the Association at its first 
 stated meeting occurring more than ten days after the happen- 
 ing of such vacancy. 
 
 ARTICLE XIII. 
 This amended Constitution shall go into immediate effect, 
 bat no change made by this revision shall affect the terms of 
 office of the present oflRcers and committees. 
 
 AETIOLE XIV. 
 
 AMENDMENTS. 
 
 This Constitution may be amended, but only by a two-thirds 
 vote of the members present at any stated meeting of the Asso- 
 ciation, and provided notice of the proposed amendment, sub- 
 scribed by ten members, be given at a previous stated meeting, 
 and that notice of the same be also given by the Secretary in 
 the notices of the meeting, and that at least fifty members vote 
 for such amendment. 
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BY-LAAA/S, 
 
 (As Revised and Adopted March 14, ]H7tj.) 
 
 I. 
 
 PRESIDING OFFICBKS. 
 
 At all meetings of the Association the President, or iu his 
 absence one of the Vice-Presidents to be selected without 
 ballot, or in the absence of all of them, any member selected in 
 like manner, shall preside. 
 
 II. 
 
 OEDER OF BUSINESS. 
 
 At each stated meeting of the Association, the order of busi- 
 ness shall be as follows : 
 
 1. Beading of Minutes of preceding meeting. 
 
 2. Report of Executive Committee. 
 
 3. Report of Treasurer. 
 
 4. Report of Committee on Admissions. 
 
 5. Elections. 
 
 6. Reports of other Standing Committees. 
 
 7. Reports of Special Committees. 
 
 8. Special Orders. 
 
 9. Miscellaneous Business. 
 
 This Order of Business may be changed by vote of a ma- 
 jority of the members present. 
 
 The usual parliamentary rules and orders shall govern all 
 meetings of the Association, except in cases otherwise provided 
 for by the Constitution or By-LaM's. 
 
 III. 
 
 RECORDING SECRETARY. 
 
 The Recording Secretary shall keep a record of the proceed- 
 ings of all meetings of the Association, and of all other matters 
 of which a record shall be ordered by the Association. 
 
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 He shall notify the officers and all members of committees of 
 their election or appointment, shall issue notices of all meetings, 
 and in case of special meetings shall add a brief note of the ob- 
 ject of the call. 
 
 He shall furnish to the Treasurer the names of all persons 
 newly elected to membership. 
 
 He shall be the keeper of the Seal of the Association. 
 
 IV. 
 
 CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. 
 
 The Corresponding Secretary shall conduct the corre- 
 spondence of the Association with the concurrence of the 
 President. 
 
 V. 
 
 TREASURER. 
 
 The Treasurer shall keep at all times a complete roll of the 
 members, and shall notify new members of their election. He 
 shall collect, and under the direction of the Executive Commit- 
 tee, disburse all funds of the Association ; he shall keep regular 
 accounts in books belonging to the Association, which shall be 
 open to the inspection of any member of the Executive Com- 
 mittee. He shall report in writing, at each stated meeting of 
 the Association, and of the Executive Committee, the balance 
 of money on hand and any existing appropriations which may 
 affect the same. 
 
 At the Annual Meeting he shall make a full report of the 
 receipts and disbursements of the past year, suitably classified, 
 and of all outstanding obligations of the Association, with an 
 
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 estimate of the resources and probable expenses of the coming 
 year, and any suggestion he may think proper to make. 
 
 His accounts shall be audited by a committee of three mem- 
 bers of the Association, to be elected by ballot at the stated 
 meeting preceding the Annual Meeting in each year, who shall 
 report thereon at such Annual Meeting. 
 
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 VI. 
 
 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
 
 The Executive Committee shall meet at least once a month 
 except in July, August and September. Eight members, 
 whether elected or ex officio members, shall form a quorum. 
 They shall have power to make such regulations, and take such 
 action, not inconsistent with the Constitution and By-Laws, as 
 shall be necessary for the protection of the property of the 
 Association, and they shall have the general management of its 
 affairs. 
 
 They shall keep a record of their proceedings which shall be 
 read at the ensuing meeting of the Association; and shall 
 report at each meeting any business which, in their judgment, 
 requires the action of the Association. 
 
 They shall appoint a House Committee of three members, 
 and shall define their duties and powers. 
 
 VII. 
 
 LIBRARY COMMITTEE. 
 
 A. Library Committee, to consist of five members, shall be 
 appointed by the Executive Committee, to hold office during 
 their pleasure, and subject to their directions to have charge 
 of the Library and Eeading Room, with power to expend upon 
 the same such moneys as may be appropriated by the Executive 
 Committee or procured by voluntary subscription. 
 
 VIIL 
 
 COMMITTEE ON" ADMISSIOKS. 
 
 The Committee on Admissions shall meet at least once a 
 month, except in July and August. 
 
 Candidates for membership must be proposed by two mem- 
 bers of the Association, who shall send to the chairman of the 
 Committee the name of the candidate, together with the street 
 number of his place of business, and also sucli statement in 
 respect to his qualifications as the proposers may think proper. 
 
 No member of this Committee shall propose any candidate. 
 
 TSTo candidate shall be voted upon by the Committee, until 
 
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 his name, together with the names of the members proposing 
 him, and the date of posting, shall have been posted for at least 
 ten days in a conspicuous place in the House of the Associa- 
 tion. 
 
 The Committee shall receive and consider all communica- 
 tions respecting the candidate, and make diligent inquiry as to 
 his character and qualifications. 
 
 The proceedings of the Committee shall be secret and confi- 
 dential. 
 
 Candidates against whom there shall be five negative votes in 
 the Committee, shall not be recommended for admission. 
 
 IX. 
 
 ELECTIOI>r OF MEMBERS. 
 
 A vote by ballot upon those who are recommended shall be 
 taken in the Association, and one negative vote in every five 
 shall exclude the candidate. 
 
 No candidate who shall have been excluded upon such vote 
 shall be again proposed within one year thereafter. If any person 
 elected does not, within one month after notice of his election, 
 signify his acceptance by signing the Constitution and By-Laws 
 and by payment of his admission fee and half-yearly dues, he 
 shall be deemed to have declined to become a member. 
 
 X. 
 
 NON^-PAYMENT OP DUES. 
 
 If any member shall fail to pay the half-yearly dues within 
 thirty days after the first day of May or of November when 
 the same shall become payable, it shall be the duty of the 
 Treasurer to serve, in the manner in which notices in suits are 
 required to be served on attorneys, upon each member so in 
 default, a copy of this By-Law and a notice to the effect that ■ 
 unless such dues are paid within ten days thereafter, his name 
 and the amount due by him will be posted in a conspicuous 
 place in the House of the Association ; and if they are not so 
 paid the Treasurer shall post the same accordingly. 
 
 After thirty days from the date of such posting, the Execu- 
 tive Committee may, by order without further notice, strike 
 
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 from the roll the name of any member continuing in default, 
 and he shall thereupon cease to be a member of the Association, 
 provided that, iipon his written application satisfactorily 
 explaining such default, and the payment of all dues to the 
 date thereof, the Executive Committee shall have power to 
 remit the penalty of this By-Law. 
 
 It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to take a similar pro- 
 ceeding in the case of any member who shall have had credit for 
 a part of his initiation fee, and who shall fail to pay the same 
 within thirty days after demand thereof after he shall have 
 attained to six years' standing at the Bar ; and the terms of the 
 foregoing By-Law shall apply to the last-mentioned case, in all 
 respects. 
 
 XI. 
 
 ABSENT MEMBERS. 
 
 Any member who shall have paid an admission fee and all his 
 annual dues, and who may be absent from the City of JSTew 
 York for the continuous period of one year, shall be exempt 
 from payment of annual dues for the period of his absence, pro- 
 vided he shall give previous written notice to the Treasurer of 
 such intended absence. 
 
 XIL 
 
 OTHER STANDING COMMITTEES. 
 
 In pursuance of Article VII. of the Constitution, there shall 
 be the following Standing Committees : 
 
 1. A Committee on the Amendment of the Law, who shall be 
 charged with the duty of watching all proposed changes in 
 the law, and of proposing such amendments as in their opinion 
 should be recommended by this Association. 
 
 Members are invited to send to this Committee, at any time, 
 suggestions of existing defects in the law, and of any amend- 
 ment which they may think advisable. 
 
 2. A Judiciary Committee, who shall be charged with the 
 duty of observing the practical working of our judicial system, 
 of entertaining and examining projects for change or reform in 
 the system, and of recommending such action as they may deem 
 expedient. 
 
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 3. A Committee on Grrievances, who shall be charged with 
 the hearing of all complaints against members of the Associa- 
 tion, and also all complaints which may be made in matters 
 affecting the interests of the legal profession, the practice of 
 the law and the administration of justice, and who shall, from 
 time to time, report thereon to the Association, with such 
 recommendations as they may deem advisable. 
 
 XIII. 
 
 GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES OF COMMITTEES. 
 
 Each of the Committees named in the foregoing By-Law 
 shall consist of nine members, to be appointed annually by the 
 President of the Association, who shall continue in office until 
 the Annual Meeting next after their appointment and until 
 their successors are appointed ; and each ' of said Committees 
 shall have power to fill vacancies. 
 
 All Committees shall have power to fix their own time and 
 place of meeting, and to adopt regulations for their own govern- 
 ment and course of proceeding, not inconsistent with the 
 Constitution and By-Laws, and siibject to revision by the 
 Association. 
 
 Any Standing Committee may, by rule, provide that three 
 successive absences from the meetings of the Committee, 
 unexcused, shall be deemed a resignation by the member so 
 absent of his place upon the Committee. 
 
 Any Standing Committee may, by rule, impose upon its 
 members a fine for non-attendance, and may provide for the 
 disposal of the fines ccillected under such rule. 
 
 Every Standing Committee, elected or appointed under the 
 Constitution or By-Laws, shall, at the stated annual meeting, 
 report in writing a summary of all the proceedings of such 
 Committee since its last annual report (except such matters as 
 the By-Laws of the association require to be kept secret), to- 
 gether with any suggestions deemed suitable and appertaining 
 to its powers, duties or business. A general summary of all 
 such annual reports and of the annual reports of the officers, 
 shall be prepared and printed by and under the direction of 
 the Executive Committee, together with the Charter, Constitu- 
 
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 tion, By-Laws, and names of officers, Standing Committees, and 
 members of the Association, as soon as practicable after the 
 annual meeting. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 COMMITTEE OS GRIEVANCES. 
 
 Whenever any complaint shall be preferred against a member 
 of the Association, for misconduct in his relations to the Asso- 
 ciation, or in his profession, the member or members preferring 
 such complaint shall present it to the Committee on Griev- 
 ances in writing subscribed by him or them, plainly stating 
 the matter complained of. 
 
 If the Committee are of opinion that the matters therein 
 alleged are of sufficient importance, they shall cause a copy 
 of the complaint, together with a notice of not less than 
 five days of the time and place when the Committee will meet 
 for the consideration thereof, to be served upon the member 
 complained of, either personally or by leaving the same at his 
 place of business during office hours, properly addressed to him ; 
 and they shall cause a similar notice to be served on the party 
 presenting the complaint. At the time and place appointed 
 or at such other time as may be named by the Committee, the 
 member complained of may file a written answer or defence, 
 and the Committee shall proceed to the consideration of the 
 case upon such complaint and answer, or upon the complaint 
 alone if no answer is interposed. 
 
 The complainant and the member complained of shall each 
 be allowed to appear personally and by 6ounsel who must be 
 members of the Association. The witnesses shall vouch for the 
 truth of their statements on their word of honor. The Com- 
 mittee may summon witnesses, and, if such witnesses are mem- 
 bers of the Association, a neglect or refusal to appear may be 
 reported to the Association for its action. 
 
 The Committee, of whom at least five must be present at the 
 trial except that a less number may adjourn from time to 
 time, shall hear and decide the case thus submitted to them, 
 and shall determine all questions of evidence. 
 
 If they find the complaint or any material part of it, to be 
 true, they shall so report to the Association, with their recom- 
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 mendation as to the action to be taken thereon, and, if requested 
 by either party, may in their discretion also report the evidence 
 talien or any designated part thereof. 
 
 The Association shall thereupon proceed to take such action 
 on said report as they may see fit, provided only that no mem- 
 ber shall be expelled unless by the vote of two-thirds of the 
 members present and Yoting. 
 
 Before the trial shall commence, the member complained of 
 may object peremptorily to any one or more of the Committee, 
 not exceeding three ; and the places of those olyected to shall 
 be supplied by appointment by a majority of the remaining 
 members of the Committee, for the purposes of the trial. 
 
 All the foregoing proceedings shall be secret, except as their 
 publication is hereinbefore provided for, unless otherwise or- 
 dered by the Association by a two-thirds vote. 
 
 XV. 
 
 PRIVILEGES TO OTHERS THAN MEMBERS. 
 
 A member may personally introduce a non-resident to the 
 rooms of the Association for one day, recording his name and 
 the date in the Visitors' Book, with his own signature. 
 
 On written application of a member, the House Committee 
 may issue tickets admitting non-resident strangers for two 
 weeks to the privileges of the Association. 
 
 The Executive Committee may invite counsel not resident in 
 this State, persons from abroad engaged here in tlie discharge j 
 of public duties, or other distinguished strangers, who may be 
 temporarily in the city, to the free use of the Library and Bead- 
 ing Room, for a period not exceeding three months, and may also 
 extend the privileges of the library to any persons whose charac- 
 ter and attainments will in their opinion justify such action. 
 
 XVI. 
 
 BOOKS, ETC., NOT TO BE TAKEN" AW^AY. 
 
 JSTo book or other article belonging to the Association 
 be removed from the House. 
 
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 XVII. 
 
 NOMINATING COJIMITTEE. 
 
 At the stated meeting in December in each year, a Com- 
 mittee of nine shall be elected by ballot by the Association at 
 large. Each member of the Association shall be permitted to 
 vote for only five members of such Committee, to be named on 
 one ballot, and the nine persons having the largest number of 
 votes shall be such Committee. 
 
 The Committee so chosen shall nominate a list of candidates 
 for the various offices to be filled at the ensuing Annual 
 Meeting, and shall post such list in a conspicuous place in the 
 House of the Association, at least ten days before such Annual 
 Meeting. 
 
 XVIII. 
 
 AMENDMENT OE BY-LA VPS. 
 
 These By-Laws may be amended at any stated meeting of 
 the Association, but only by a vote of two-thirds of those pres- 
 ent, and provided that ten days' notice in writing of the pro- 
 posed amendment shall have been given to the Executive 
 Committee, and also that notice of the same shall have been 
 given by the Secretary in the notices of the meeting. 
 
OFFICERS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Association of the Bar, 
 
 FOR 1876. 
 
 WILLIAM M. EVAETS. 
 
 SAMUEL J. TILDEN, CHARLES W. SANDFORD, 
 
 EDGAR S. VAN WINKLE, STEPHEN P. NASH, 
 
 JAMES EMOTT. 
 
 WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER. 
 
 MASON YOUNG. 
 
 EDWARD MITCHELL. 
 
 (Bxuntm (Hammxtttt, 
 
 WILLIAM M. EVAETS, EDWARD MITCHELL, 
 
 President of the Association. Treasurer of the Association. 
 
 Class of 1876. 
 
 CHARLES TEACY, FRANCIS L. STETSON, 
 
 Ch'n of Executive Com. Sec'y of Executive Com. 
 
 BENJAMIN K. PHELPS, ANDREW BOAEDMAN, 
 
 HENEY H. ANDERSON. 
 
 Class of 1877. * 
 
 WILLIAM M. PEICHAED, ALBON P. MAN, 
 
 PETER B. OLNEY, JOHN J. MoCOOK, 
 
 THEEON GEO. STEONG. 
 Class of 1878. 
 AAEON J. VANDEEPOEL, EVERETT P. WHEELER, 
 
 FREDERICK SMYTH, lEA D. WARREN, 
 
 HORACE M. RUGGLES. 
 
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 JAMES EMOTT, IHA D. -WAREEN, 
 
 JAMES C. CARTEB, LEWIS L. DELAFIELB 
 
 iiouse aSiomwixiUe, 
 
 EBANCIS L. STETSON, THEBON GEORGE STRONG, 
 
 HORACE M. RUGGLES. 
 
 Class of 1876. 
 MARTIN L. TOWNSEND, HENRY E. HOWLAND, 
 
 HAMILTON ODELL, OSBORNE E. HEIGHT, 
 
 CADWALADEB E. OGDEN, LEWIS L. DELAEIELB, 
 
 JAMES M. VARNDM. 
 
 Class of 1S77. 
 THOMAS M. NOBTH, HENBY D. SEDGWICK, 
 
 JOHN H. PLATT, OLIVEE P. BDEL, 
 
 GEOSVENOB S. HUBBARD, STEPHEN H. OLIN, 
 
 FRANCIS P. MARBURY. 
 
 Class of 1878. 
 GEORGE H. YEAMAN, BERNARD ROELKER, 
 
 FREDERICK R. COUDEBT, JOHN A. DAVENPORT, 
 
 HENBY B. BEEKMAN, JAMES P. LOWBEY, 
 
 WILLIAM S. OPDYKE. 
 
 Chairman — F. F. Mareuhy, fi4 Wall St. 
 Secretary — Hamilton Odell, 54 William St. 
 
 On Amendment of the Law, 
 
 CHARLES O'CONOB, CHABLES M. DA COSTA, 
 
 JOSEPH S. BOSWOETH, CHABLES C. BEAMAN, JE., 
 
 JOHN K. POETEE, SIMON STEBNE, 
 
 CHARLES TRACY, GEORGE H. FOESTEE, 
 
 JOHN B. BUBBILL, FEEDEEICK H. BETTS. 
 
 On the Judiciary, 
 
 HENBY E. DAVIES, MONTGOMEBY H. THROOP, 
 
 CLAEKSON N. POTTEE, CHARLES A. PEABODY. 
 
 HENRY M. ALEXANDER, LEWIS L. DELAFIELD, 
 
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 Townsend, Henry P. 
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 Wood, James H. 
 Woodbury, Cha.s. H. 
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CHARTER. 
 
 CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS 
 
 OF 
 
 The Association of the Bar of 
 the City of New York. 
 
 LIST OF OFFICERS AND MEMBERS, 
 
 REPORTS AND MEMORANDA. 
 
 g^ssotiation of tl^e far ^uHbing : 
 
 No. 7 WEST TWENTY-NINTH STREET. 
 1879. 
 
CHARTER 
 
 CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS 
 
 The Association of the Bar of 
 the City of ?few York. 
 
 LIST OF OFFICERS AND MEMBERS, 
 
 REPORTS AND MEMORANDA. 
 
 NEW YORK : 
 
 Evening Posl Steam Presses, 208 Broadway, cor. Fulton Street. 
 
 1S19. 
 
CHARTER 
 
 CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS 
 
 The Association of the Bar of 
 the City of Jfew York. 
 
 LIST OF OFFICERS AND MEMBERS, 
 
 REPORTS AND MEMORANDA. 
 
 NEW YORK : 
 Evening Post Steam Presses, 208 Broadway, cor. Fulton Street. 
 
 1819. 
 
CHARTER 
 
 An Act to I]jcokpobate the AssociATiojf of the Bar of 
 THE City of New Yoe,k. Passed April 28th, 1871. 
 
 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate 
 and Assembly, do enact as follows : 
 
 Section 1. The members of the Bar Association of the City 
 of New York, of which "William M. Evarts is President, James 
 W. Gerard, Samuel J. Tildeu, Joseph S. Bosworth, John 
 Slosson, and Edvrard S. Van Winkle are Vice-Presidents, and 
 all persons who shall hereafter be associated with them, are 
 hereby created a body corporate, under the name of " The Asso- 
 ciation OF THE Bar of the City of New York," for the pur- 
 pose of maintaining the honor and dignity of the Profession of 
 the Law, of cultivating social relations among its members, and 
 increasing its usefulness in promoting the due administration 
 of justice. 
 
 Sec. 3. Said corporation shall have power to acquire, by lease 
 or purchase, a suitable bailding, library, and furniture for the 
 use of the corporation ; to borrow money for such purposes and 
 issue bonds therefor, and to secure the same by mortgage; and 
 generally to acquire and take by purchase, gift, devise, bequest, 
 subject to the provisions of law relating to devises and bequests 
 by last will and testament, or otherwise, and to hold, transfer 
 and convey all or any such real and personal property as may be 
 necessary for attaining the objects and carrying into effect the 
 purposes of such corporation ; provided, it shall not hold any 
 real estate the value of which shall exceed in the aggregate two 
 hundred thousand dollars. 
 
 Sec. 3. Such corporation shall have power to make and adopt 
 a Constitution, By-Laws, Rules and Regulations for the admis- 
 sion, government, suspension and expulsion of its members, the 
 
collection of fees and dues, the number and election of its offi- 
 cers, and to define their duties, and for the safe keeping of its 
 property and management of its affairs, and from time to time 
 to alter, modify, and change such Constitution, By-Laws, Eules, 
 and Regulations. 
 
 Sec. 4. All interest of any member of said corporation in its 
 property shall terminate and yest in the corporation, upon his 
 ceasing to be a member thereof by death, resignation, expulsion, 
 or otherwise. 
 
 Sec. 5. The several officers of said Association, at the time of 
 the passage of this Act, shall continue to hold their respective 
 offices as officers of this corporation, with the powers and duties 
 prescribed by the Constitution and By-Laws of said Association, 
 until their successors shall be elected and installed ; and in case 
 of any previous vacancy among such officers, it shall be filled in 
 the manner prescribed by the Constitution and By-Laws already 
 adopted by said Association, or as the same may, in conformity 
 therewith, be altered or amended by this corporation ; and the 
 present Constitution and By-Laws of said Association shall be 
 the Constitution and By-Laws of said corporation, until so al- 
 tered or amended by said corporation ; and all property, rights, 
 and interests of said Association now held by any or either of 
 the officers thereof, or any person or persons, for its use and 
 benefit, shall, by virtue of this Act, vest in and become the 
 property of the corporation hereby created, subject to the pay- 
 ment of the debts of said Association. 
 
 Sec. 6. Such corporation shall possess the powers, and be 
 subject to the liabilities, prescribed by the Third Title of the 
 Eighteenth Chapter of the First Part of the Revised Statutes. 
 
 Sec. 7. The Legislature may at any time alter, modify, or 
 repeal this Act. 
 
 Sec. 8. This Act shall take effect immediately. 
 
CONSTITUTIO N, 
 
 (Adopted February 15, 1870,) 
 (Revised .\nd Amended March 14, 1876.) 
 
 ARTICLE I. 
 
 J\^AME. 
 
 This Association shall be called " The Association of the 
 Bar of the City of New York." 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 
 objects. 
 The Association is established to maintain the honor and 
 dignity of the profession of the law, to increase its usefulness 
 in promoting the due administration of justice, and to culti- 
 vate social intercourse among its members. 
 
 ARTICLE III. 
 
 MEIIBEES. 
 
 The members of the Bar who signed the preliminary articles 
 are hereby declared (Feb. 15, 1870) to be members of this Asso- 
 ciation; but such of them as shall omit to subscribe to this 
 Constitution, and pay the admission fee, on or before the loth 
 day of March, 1870, shall cease to be members and can only 
 become such by subsequent admission. 
 
 Any member of the profession in good standing, residing or 
 practising in the City of New York, may become a member, by 
 vote of the Association, on recommendation of the Committee 
 on Admissions as hereinafter provided, and on subscribing to 
 
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 this Constitution and paying the admission fee and the dues of 
 the current half year. 
 
 Members of the profession of the State of New York, in good 
 standing, neither residing nor practising in the City of New 
 York, may in like manner become members of this Association, 
 having all the privileges of the same except that of voting. 
 
 ARTICLE IV. 
 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 The officers of the Association shall be a President, five Vice- 
 Presidents, a Eecording Secretary, a Corresponding Secretary, 
 a Treasurer, an Executive Committee of fifteen members besides 
 the President and Treasurer who shall be ex-officio members 
 thereof, and a Committee on Admissions, to consist of twenty- 
 one members. These officers shall be elected at the Annual 
 Meeting to be held ou the second Tuesday of January in each 
 year. 
 
 The Executive Committee and the Committee on Admissions 
 chosen at the next Annual Election (that of 1873) shall divide 
 themselves into three classes of equal numbers each. The first 
 class of each Committee shall hold office for three years, the 
 second class two years, and the third class one year ; and there- 
 after each Annual Election shall be for five members of the 
 Executive Committee and seven members of the Committee on 
 Admissions, to hold office three years, and for such additional 
 number, if any, as may be necessary to fill vacancies, to hold 
 office during the remainder of the terms of the members whose 
 places they fill. No member elected to either of these com- 
 mittees shall be re-eligible to the committee of which he may 
 have been a member, until one year after the expiration of his 
 term of office. 
 
 AETICLE V. 
 
 EXECUTITE COMMITTEE. 
 
 The Executive Committee shall manage the affairs of the 
 Association, subject to the Constitution and By-Laws. All 
 appropriations of the funds of the Association must be made by 
 this Committee, unless ordered by the Association by a two- 
 thirds vote. 
 
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 ARTICLE VI. 
 
 COMMITTEE ON ADMISflOXS. 
 
 No person shall be admitted to membership of the Associa- 
 tion imless he shall have been recommended by this Committee 
 in siicli manner as shall be provided by the By-Laws. 
 
 AETICLE VII. 
 
 OTHER COMMITTEES. 
 
 The Association may provide by its By-Laws for such other 
 Standing Committees as it may deem necessary. 
 
 ARTICLE VIII. 
 
 HONOEARY MEMBERS. 
 
 Any member of the Association who may become a Judge or 
 Justice of any Court of Record shall be, while he shall hold 
 such office, an honorary member of the Association, and shall 
 be entitled to all its privileges, except that of voting, and shall 
 be exempt from payment of dues. 
 
 The Judges of the Courts of the United States, of the Court 
 of Appeals, of the Supreme Court, and of all other Courts of 
 Record of the State of New York, and the Consuls-General of 
 Foreign States resident in the City of New York, shall have 
 the free use of the Library and Reading Room of this Associa- 
 tion. 
 
 ARTICLE IX. 
 
 MEETINGS OF THE ASSOCIATION. 
 
 [as amended NOV. 12, 1878.] 
 
 There shall be an Annual Meeting of the Association on the 
 second Tuesday of January, and a stated meeting on the second 
 Tuesday of each of the months of March, May, October and 
 December in each year. At these stated meetings, and at any 
 regular adjournment thereof, all the powers of the Association 
 may be exercised. 
 
 Special meetings may be called at any time by the Executive 
 Committee, and shall be called by the Secretary upon the writ- 
 ten request of twenty members specifying the purpose of such 
 
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 call. At snoli special meetings no business shall be transacted 
 except such as shall be specified in the call thereof. 
 
 At any meeting of the Association the presence of fifty mem- 
 bers shall be necessary to constitute a quorum. 
 
 ARTICLE X. 
 
 ADMISSIOlir FEE AKD ANNUAL DUES. 
 
 The admission fee shall in all cases be Fifty Dollars, to be 
 paid on signing the Constitution. 
 
 The annual dues of members residing in the City of New 
 York shall be Porty Dollars, and of members having offices in 
 the City of New York and residing elsewhere, Twenty Dollars. 
 Sucli dues shall be payable half-yearly on the first day of May 
 and of November in each year. 
 
 In case of members belonging to either of the above classes, 
 of less than six years' standing at the Bar, the Executive Com- 
 mittee may, until they shall have attained that standing, give 
 them a credit for one-half their initiation fee, and may also 
 remit one-half of their annual dues. 
 
 Members neither residing nor having offices in the City of 
 New York shall be exempt from the payment of annual dues. 
 
 ARTICLE XL 
 
 SUSPENSIONS AND EXPULSIONS. 
 
 Any member of the Association may be suspended or expelled 
 for misconduct in his relations to this Association or in his 
 profession, on conviction thereof, in such manner as may be 
 prescribed by the By-Laws ; and all interest in the property of 
 the Association of persons resigning or otherwise ceasing to be 
 members shall vest in the Association. 
 
 ARTICLE XII. 
 
 ELECTIONS. 
 
 All elections shall be by ballot. The officers elected shall 
 enter upon their duties immediately upon their election, and 
 shall hold office Tintil their successors are elected or appointed. 
 
 In case of a vacancy in any office, it shall be filled by appoint- 
 ment of the Executive Committee until the next annual 
 
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 election, except in the case of a -vacancy occurring in the office 
 of President, which shall be filled by the Association at its first 
 stated meeting occurring more than ten days after the happen- 
 ing of such vacancy. 
 
 ARTICLE XIII. 
 
 This amended Constitution shall go into immediate effect, 
 but no change made by this revision shall aifect the terms of 
 office of the present officers and committees. 
 
 ARTICLE XIV. 
 
 AMENDMENTS. 
 
 This Constitution may be amended, but only by a two-thirds 
 vote of the members present at any stated meeting of the Asso- 
 ciation, and provided notice of the proposed amendment, sub- 
 scribed by ten members, be given at a previous stated meeting, 
 and that notice of the same be also given by the Secretary in 
 the notices of the meeting, and that at least fifty members vote 
 for such amendment.- 
 
BY-LAWS, 
 
 (As Revised and Adopted March 14, 1876.) 
 
 I. 
 
 PBESIDING OUFICEBS. 
 
 At all meetings of the Association the President, or in his 
 absence one of the Vice-Presidents to be selected witliout ballot, 
 or in the absence of all of them, any member selected in like 
 manner, shall preside. 
 
 11. 
 
 ORDER OF BUSINESS. 
 
 At each stated meeting of the Association the order of busi- 
 ness shall be as follows : 
 
 1. Eeading of Minutes of preceding meeting. 
 
 2. Keport of Executive Committee. 
 
 3. Eeport of Treasurer. 
 
 ■i. Eeport of Committee on Admissions. 
 
 5. Elections. 
 
 6. Eeports of other Standing Committees. 
 
 7. Eeports of Special Committees. 
 
 8. Special Orders. 
 
 9. Miscellaneous Business. 
 
 This Order of Business may be changed by vote of a majority 
 of the members present. 
 
 The usual parliamentary rules and orders shall govern all 
 meetings of the Association, except in cases otherwise provided 
 for by the Constitution or By-Laws. 
 
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 III. 
 
 EECORDING SECRETARY. 
 
 The Recording Secretary shall keep a record of the proceed- 
 ings of all meetings of the Association, and of all other matters 
 of which a record shall be ordered by the Association. 
 
 He shall notify the officers and all members of committes of 
 their election or appointment, shall issue notices of all meetings, 
 and in case of special meetings shall add a brief note of the 
 object of the call. 
 
 He shall fnrnish to the Treasurer the names of all persons 
 newly elected to membership. 
 
 He shall be the keeper of the Seal of the Association. 
 
 IV. 
 
 CORRESPONDING SECEETAR'X. 
 
 The Corresponding Secretary shall conduct the corre- 
 spondence of the Association with the concurrence of the 
 President. 
 
 V. 
 
 TREASURER. 
 
 The Treasurer shall keep at all times a complete roll of the 
 members, and shall notify new members of their election. He 
 shall collect, and under the direction of the Executive Commit- 
 tee, disburse all funds of the Association ; he shall keep regular 
 accounts in books belonging to the Association, which shall be 
 open to the inspection of any member of the Executive Com- 
 mittee. He shall report in writing, at each stated meeting of 
 the Association, and of the Executive Committee, the balance 
 of money on hand and any existing appropriations which may 
 affect the same. 
 
 At the Annual Meeting he shall make a full report of the 
 receipts and disbiirsements of the past year, suitably classified, 
 and of all outstanding obligations of the Association, with an 
 estimate of the resources and probable expenses of the coming 
 year, and any suggestion he may think proper to make. 
 
 His accounts shall be audited by a committee of three mem- 
 bers of the Association, to be elected by ballot at the stated 
 meeting preceding the Annual Meeting in each year, who shall 
 report thereon at such Annual Meeting. 
 
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 YI. 
 
 EXECUTITE COMMITTEE. 
 
 Tlie Executive Committee shall meet at least once in each 
 month except July, August and September. Eight members, 
 whether elected or ex officio members, shall form a qvonim. 
 They shall have power to make such regulations, and take such 
 action, not inconsistent with the Constitution and By-Laws, as 
 shall be necessary for the protection of the property of the 
 Associatiou, aud they shall have the general management of its 
 affairs. 
 
 They shall keep a record of their proceedings which shall be 
 read at the ensuing meeting of the Association ; and shall 
 report at each meeting any business which, in their judgment, 
 requires the action of the Association. 
 
 They shall appoint a House Committee of three members, 
 and shall define their duties and powers. 
 
 YII. 
 
 LIBKAEY COMMITTEE. 
 
 A Librai-y Committee, to consist of five members, shall be 
 appointed by the Executive Committee, to hold oflSce during 
 their pleasure, and subject to their directions, to have charge 
 of the Library and Reading Room, with power to expend upon 
 the same such moneys as may be appropriated by the Executive 
 Committee or procured by voluntary subscription. 
 
 VIIL 
 
 COMMITTEE OS ADMISSIONS. 
 
 The Committee on Admissions shall meet at least once in 
 each month, except July and August. 
 
 Candidates for membership must he proposed by two members 
 of the Association, who shall send to the chairman of the Com- 
 mittee the name of the candidate, together with the street 
 number of his place of business, and also such statement in 
 respect to his qualifications as the proposers may think proper. 
 
 No member of this Committee shall propose any candidate. 
 
 No candidate shall be voted upon by the Committee, until 
 
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 his name, together with the names of the members proposing 
 him, and the date of posting, shall have been posted for at least 
 ten days in a conspicuous place in the House of the Associa- 
 tion. 
 
 The Committee shall receive and consider all communications 
 respecting the candidate, and make diligent inquiry as to his 
 character and qualifications. 
 
 The proceedings of the Committee shall be secret and confi- 
 dential. 
 
 Candidates against whom there shall be five negative votes 
 in the Committee, shall not be recommended for admission. 
 
 IX. 
 
 ELECTION OF MEMBERS. 
 
 A vote by ballot upon those who are recommended shall be 
 taken in the Association, and one negative vote in every five 
 shall exclude the candidate. 
 
 No candidate who shall have been excluded upon such vote 
 shall be again proposed within one year thereafter. If any 
 person elected does not, within one month after notice of his 
 election, signify his acceptance by signing the Constitution and 
 By-Laws and by payment of his admission fee and half-yearly 
 dues, he shall be deemed to have declined to become a member. 
 
 X. 
 
 NOlSr-PAYMEXT OF DUES. 
 
 If any member shall fail to pay the half-yearly dues within 
 thirty days after the first day of May or of November when the 
 same shall become payable, it shall be the duty of the Treas- 
 urer to serve, in the manner in which notices in suits are re- 
 quired to be served on attorneys, upon each member so in 
 default, a copy of this By-Law and a notice to the eflTect that 
 unless such dues are paid within ten days thereafter, his name 
 and the amount due by him will be posted in a conspicuous 
 place in the House of the Association ; and if they are not so 
 paid, the Treasurer shall post the same accordingly. 
 
 After thirty days from the date of such posting, the Execu- 
 tive Committee may, by order, without further notice, strike 
 from the roll the name of any member continuing in default. 
 
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 and he shall thereupon cease to be a member of the Association, 
 provided that, upon his written application satisfactorily ex- 
 plaining such default, and the payment of all dues to the date 
 thereof, the Executive Committee shall have power to remit the 
 penalty of this By-Law. 
 
 It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to take a similar pro- 
 ceeding in the case of any member who shall have had credit 
 for a part of his initiation fee, and who shall fail to pay the 
 same within thirty days after demand thereof after he shall have 
 attained to six years' standing at the Bar; and the terms of the 
 foregoing By-Law shall apply to the last-mentioned case, in all 
 respects. 
 
 XL 
 
 ABSEN-T MEMBERS. 
 
 Any member who shall have paid an admission fee and all his 
 annual dues, and who maybe absent from the City of New York 
 for the continuous psriod of one year, shall be exempt from 
 payment of annual dues for the period of his absence, provided 
 he shall give previous written notice to the Treasurer of such 
 intended absence. 
 
 XIL 
 
 OTHER STANDING COMMITTEES. 
 
 In pursuance of Article VII. of the Constitution, there shall 
 be the following Standing Committees : 
 
 1. A Committee on the Amendment of the Law, who shall be 
 charged with the duty of watching all proposed changes in the 
 law, and of proposing such amendments as in their opinion 
 should be recommended by this Association. 
 
 Members are invited to send to this Committee, at any time, 
 suggestions of existing defects in the law, and of any amend- 
 ment which they may think advisable. 
 
 2. A Judiciary Committee, who shall be charged with the 
 duty of observing the practical working of our judicial system, 
 of entertaining and examining projects for change or reform in 
 the system, and of recgmmending such action as they may deem 
 expedient. 
 
 3. A Committee on Grievances, who shall be charged with 
 the hearing of all complaints against members of the Associa- 
 
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 tion, and also all complaints which may be made in matters 
 affecting the interests of the legal profession, the practice of the 
 law and the administration of justice, and who sliall, from time 
 to time, report thereon to the Association, with such recom- 
 mendations as they may deem advisable. 
 
 XIII. 
 
 CtEneeal powebs and duties of committees. 
 
 Each of the Committees named in the foregoing By Law shall 
 consist of nine members, to be appointed annually by the Pres- 
 ident of the Association, who shall continue in office until the 
 Annual Meeting next after their appointment and until their 
 successors are appointed; and each of said Committees shall 
 have power to fill vacancies. 
 
 All Committees shall have power to fix their own time and 
 place of meeting, and to adopt regulations for their own govern- 
 ment and course of proceeding, not inconsistent with the 
 Constitution and By-Laws, and subject to revision by the 
 Association. 
 
 Any Standing Committee may, by rule, provide that three 
 successive absences from the meetings of the Committee, unex- 
 cused, shall be deemed a resignation by the member so absent, 
 of his place upon the Committee. 
 
 Any Standing Committee may, by rule, impose upon its 
 members a fine for non-attendance, and may provide for the 
 disposal of the fines collected under such rule. 
 
 Every Standing Committee, elected or appointed under the 
 Constitution or By-Laws, shall, at the stated annual meeting, 
 report in writing a summary of all the proceedings of such 
 Committee since its last annual report (except such matters as 
 the By-Laws of the Association require to be kept secret), 
 together with any suggestions deemed suitable and appertaining 
 to its powers, duties or business. A general summary of all 
 such annual reports and of the annual reports of the officers, 
 shall be prepared and printed by and under the direction of 
 the Executive Committee, together with the Charter, Constitu- 
 tion, By-Laws, and names of ofiBcers, Standing Committees, and 
 ■members of the Association, as soon as practicable after the 
 annual meeting. 
 
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 XIV. 
 
 COMMITTEE ON" GRIEVANCES. 
 
 Whenever any complaint shall be preferred against a member 
 of the Association, for misconduct in his relations to the Asso- 
 ciation, or in his profession, the member or members preferring 
 such complaint shall present it to the Committee on Grievances 
 in writing subscribed by him or them, plainly stating the matter 
 complained of. 
 
 If the Committee are of opinion that the matters therein 
 alleged are of sufficient importance, thfey shall cause a copy of 
 the complaint, together with a notice of not less than five days 
 of the time and place when the Committee will meet for the 
 consideration thereof, to be served upon the member complained 
 of, either personally or by leaving the same at his place of busi- 
 ness during oflBce hours, properly addressed to him; and they 
 shall cause a similar notice to be served on the party presenting 
 the complaint. At the time and place appointed or at such 
 other time as may be named by the Committee, the member 
 complained of may file a written answer or defence, and the 
 Committee shall proceed to the consideration of the case upon 
 such complaint and answer, or upon the complaint alone, if no 
 answer is interposed. 
 
 The complainant and the member complained of shall each 
 be allowed to appear personally and by counsel, who must be 
 members of the Association. The witnesses shall vouch for the 
 truth of the statements on their word of honor. The Committee 
 may summon witnesses, and, if such witnesses are members of 
 the Association a neglect or refusal to appear may be reported to 
 the Association for its action. 
 
 The Committee, of whom at least five must be present at the 
 trial except that a less number may adjourn from time to time, 
 shall hear and decide the case thus submitted to them, and shall 
 determine all questions of evidence. 
 
 If they find the complaint or any material part of it, to be 
 true, they shall so report to the Association, with their recom- 
 mendation as to the action to be taken thereon, and, if requested 
 by either party, may in their discretion also report the evidence 
 taken or any designated part thereof. 
 
 The Association shall thereupon proceed to take such action 
 
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 on said report as they may see fit, provided only that no mem- 
 ber shall be expelled imless by the vote of two-thirds of the 
 members present and voting. 
 
 Before the trial shall commence, the member complained of 
 may object peremptorily to any one or more of the Committee, 
 not exceeding three ; and the places of those objected to shall 
 be supplied by appointment by a majority of the remaining 
 members of the Committee, for the purposes of the trial. 
 
 All the foregoing proceedings shall be secret, except as their 
 publication is hereinbefore provided for, unless otherwise or- 
 dered by the Association by a two-thirds vote. 
 
 XV. 
 
 PEIVILEGES TO OTHEKS THAN MEMBERS. 
 
 A member may personally introduce a non-resident to the 
 rooms of the Association for one day, recording his name and 
 the date in the Visitors' Book, with his own signature. 
 
 On written application of a member, the House Committee 
 may issue tickets admitting non-resident strangers for two weeks 
 to the privileges of the Association. 
 
 The Executive Committee may invite counsel not resident in 
 this State, persons from abroad engaged here in the discharge of 
 pubhc duties, or other distinguished strangers, who may be tem- 
 porarily in the City, to the free use of the Library and Eeading 
 Eoom, for a period not exceeding three months, and may also 
 extend the privileges of the library to any persons whose charac- 
 ter and attainments will in their opinion justify such action. 
 
 XVI. 
 
 BOOKS, ETC., NOT TO BE TAKEN AWAY. 
 
 No book or other article belonging to the Association shall be 
 removed from the House. 
 
 XVII. 
 
 NOMINATING COMMITTEE. 
 
 At the stated meetijig in December in each year, a Committee 
 of nine shall be elected by ballot by the Association at large. 
 
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 E'lch member of the Association shall be permitted to vote for 
 only fire members of such Committee, to be named on one ballot, 
 and the nine persons having the largest number of votes shall 
 be such Committee. 
 
 The Committee so chosen shall nominate a list of candidates 
 for the various offices to be filled at the ensuing Annual Meet- 
 ing, and shall post such list in a conspicuous place in the House 
 of the Association, at least ten days before such Annual Meeting. 
 
 xviri. 
 
 AMENDMENT OF BY-LAWS. 
 
 These By-Laws may be amended at any stated meeting of the 
 Association, but only by a vote of two-thirds of those present, 
 and provided that ten days' notice in writing of the proposed 
 amendment shall have been given to the Executive Committee, 
 and also that notice of the same shall have been given by the 
 Secretary in the notices of the meeting. 
 
1879. 
 OFFICERS 
 
 S^^odiktioii of tlie Sai^, 
 
 President, 
 
 WILLIAM M. EVARTS. 
 
 Vice-Presidents, 
 
 SAMUEL J. TILDEN, JAMES EMOTT, 
 
 WILLIAM MITCHELL, CHARLES TRACY, 
 
 JOSIAH SUTHERLAND. 
 
 -Eecording Secretary, 
 
 SILAS B. BROWJSTELL. 
 
 Corresponding Secretary, 
 
 WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER. 
 
 Treasurer, 
 
 EDWARD MITCHELL. 
 
 Executive Committee, 
 
 WILLIAM M. EVAETS, EDWAED MITCHELL, 
 
 President of the Association. Treasurer of tlie Association. 
 
 Class 0/1879. 
 STEPHEN P. NASH, Chairman, EDGAE S. YAN WINKLE, 
 
 JAMES C. CAETEE, JOSEPH LAEOCQUE, 
 
 JULIEN T. DAVIES. 
 
 Class of 1S80. 
 CLIFEOED A. HAND, CHAELES A. DAVISON, 
 
 CHAELES E. MILLEE, FEANKLIN A. PADDOCK, 
 
 JOHN A. BEALL, Secretary. 
 
 Class of 1881. 
 ALBON P. MAN, WM. M. PEICHAHD, 
 
 HENBY H. ANDERSON, ^ FEANCIS FOEBES, 
 
 JAMES H. FAY. 
 
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 Library Committee, 
 
 JAMES EMOTT, IRA D. WARREN, 
 
 WM. M. PEICHAED, JAMES H. FAT, 
 
 WALTER S. POOR. 
 
 House Committee, 
 
 CHAELES A. DAVISON, JOHN A. BEALL, 
 
 FRANCIS FORBES. 
 
 Committee on Admissions, 
 
 Class of 1879. 
 
 GEORGE W. SOREN, CHAELES C. BEAMAN, JK., 
 
 S. SIDNEY SMITH, EENEST G. STEDMAN, 
 
 THOMAS H. RODMAN, Jb., E. ELLEEY ANDERSON, 
 
 CHAELES H. TWEED. 
 
 Class of ISaO. 
 
 HAMILTON ODELL, EDWARD PATTERSON, 
 
 WILLIAM F. SHEPARD. STUEGES M. MOREHOUSE, 
 
 CHAELES E. SOUTHER, WILSON M. POWELL, 
 
 CHARLES P. MILLER. 
 
 Class of 1881. 
 
 CHARLES COUDEBT, Jb., JOHN L. CADWALADEB, 
 
 DOUGLAS CAMPBELL, EDWARD SALOMAN, 
 
 PETER B. OLNEY, ROBERT W. DE FOREST, 
 
 JOHN M. SCRIBNER, JE, 
 
 Chairman — Hamilton Odell. 
 Secrttary — Ebnest G. Stedsian. 
 
 Standing Committees. 
 
 On Amendment of the Law, 
 
 CHARLES O'CONOR, CHARLES M. DA COSTA, 
 
 JOSEPH S. BOSWORTH, SIMON STERNE, 
 
 JOHN K. PORTER, FREDERICK H. BETTS, 
 
 JOHN E. BURRILL, FEEDEEICK R. COUDEET, 
 
 AUSTIN ABBOTT. 
 
 On the Judiciary, 
 
 HENEY E. DAVIES, MONTGOMEEY H. THROOP, 
 
 CLARKSON N. POTTER, CHARLES A. PEABO;)Y, 
 
 HENRY M. ALEXANDER, LEWIS L. DELAFIELD, 
 
 JOHN E. PARSONS, OSBORNE E. BRIGHT, 
 
 AARON J. VANDERPOEL. 
 
 On Cr;e/ances, 
 
 ANDREW BOAEDMAN, GEORGE W. PARSONS, 
 
 E. RANDOLPH ROBINSON, JOHN J. TOWNSEND, 
 
 BENJ. F. DUNNING, HENRY E. HOWLAND, 
 
 FRANCIS L. STETSON, AAEON P. WHITEHEAD, 
 
 JOHN J. MoCOOK. 
 
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 The LiBEART of the Association now amounts to 14,365 volumes. It con- 
 tains a complete collection of the American Reports, including those of the 
 Federal Courts and of all the State Courts; also the English, Irish, Scotch 
 and Canadian Reports, with few exceptions. 
 
 We have also a collection of foreign text boolcs on International law (in- 
 tended to include all the standard writers on this subject), presented by Mr. 
 Charles C. Beaman, jr., and which were purchased by him in Paris, for this 
 purpose, under the advice of Hon. Caleb Gushing. 
 
 We have as the gift of Mr. Evarts, President of the Association, the follow- 
 ing very valuable books: the British and Foreign State Papers, 51 volumes; 
 the publications of the Record Commission, 128 volumes; Chronicles, &c., 
 of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages, 132 volumes; Cobbett's 
 Parliamentary History, 36 volumes; Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, 274 
 volumes; and a complete set of all the documents, papers, &c., connected 
 with the Geneva Arbitration, 31 volumes. 
 
 We have complete sets of the Statutes of more than half the States, and 
 others so nearly complete as to constitute the fullest and best collection of 
 State Laws in the country, with but two or three exceptions. Also the 
 English General Statutes, and a much enlarged collection of text books and 
 treatises, both English and American. 
 
 Of these books, 10,789 volumes have been purchased, at a total cost of 
 $47,550.13 ; and 3,576 volumes, including many of the most valuable, have 
 been contributed by members. Of the money so expended, $16,500 was 
 made up by voluntary contributious from members, and §31,000 appropriated 
 from the funds of the Association. 
 
 The subscriptions to the " Building Fund," for purchase of the present 
 commodious House of the Association, amount to. $45,650 ; and these dona- 
 tions, with the proceeds of sale of our Twenty-seventh Street house, and 
 the funds previously accumulated, have nearly paid for our present build- 
 ing. The remaining debt (|20,000), is mostly provided for, but the holder 
 of it will not accept payment until May, 1880, when it falls due. 
 
 During the years 1877 and 1878, numerous books have been presented 
 to the Library by members and others, and have been suitably acknowl- 
 edged by the Library Committee. 
 
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 The following valuable portraits have also been presented to the Asso- 
 ciation : 
 
 By Orlando B. Pottee, Esq. 
 
 Large portrait of Charles O'Conor. Painted by Reinhart. 
 
 By James Kent, Esq. 
 
 Portrait of his Grandfather, Chancellor James Kent. Painted by AYaldo <fe 
 
 Jewett. 
 By Hon. Samuel A. Foot. 
 Portrait of Thomas Addis Emmet. 
 The following letter from Mr. Foot, accompanied his gift: 
 
 Geneva, November 20th, )S11. 
 
 To the members of " The Association of the Bar 
 
 of the City of New York:" 
 
 Gentlemen,' — It gives me pleasure to present to your Association, through 
 the agency of our kind professional brother, Mr. Van Winkle, a portrait of 
 Thomas Addis Emmet, deceased, a former member of the New York Bar, 
 which please accept as a token of my high regard. 
 
 Mr. Emmet was for mauy years the acknowledged head of the Bar of 
 this State. He was distinguished for purity of life, learning, and ability as 
 a lawyer, eloquence and power as an advocate. He was also a ripe scholar, 
 and a courteous and accomplished gentleman. I was so fortunate as to 
 have the privilege of meeting him as one of my opponents in the first 
 cause I argued in our old Court for the Correction of Errors (Jackson vs. 
 Sebring, 16 John. R., 515). He was an ornament of our profession in 
 every aspect of his character, and his memory should be cherished and his 
 example heeded by every member of it. 
 
 Respectfully yours, 
 
 SAML. A. FOOT. 
 
ROLL OF MEMBERS. 
 
 Abbott, Austin 
 Ackert, Alfred T. 
 Adams, Charles D. 
 Adams, Thatcher M. 
 Addoms, Mortimer 0. 
 Adee, Frederick W. 
 Alexander, Charles B. 
 Alexander, Henry M. 
 Alexander, James W. 
 Allen, Ethan 
 Anderson, B. Ellery 
 Anderson, Henry H. 
 Andrews, Edward L. 
 Andrews, George P. 
 Arnold, John H. V. 
 Arnoux, William H. 
 Arthur, Chester A. 
 Astor, W. Waldorf 
 Atterbury, Charles Ik 
 Atwater, Henry G. 
 Aub, Theodore 
 Bacon, Edward E. 
 Baker, John P. 
 Baldwin, George V. N. 
 Bangs, Charles W. 
 Bangs, Francis JST. 
 Barlow, Francis C. 
 Barlow, Samuel L. M. 
 Barnard, Horace 
 Barnett, William E. 
 Barowsky, Thomas H. 
 Barrett, George C. 
 Barry, Thomas G. 
 Bartlett, Edward T. 
 Beall, John A. 
 Beaman, Charles C, jr. 
 Beamau, William S. 
 Beardslee, I^ufus G. 
 Becker, Danforth 
 Beekman, Gerard 
 Beekman, Henry E. 
 Belknap, Aaron B. 
 Bell, Joseph 
 
 Belmont, Perry 
 Benedict, Erastus C. 
 Beueville, Emile J. 
 Betts, Charles W. 
 Betts, Frederic H. 
 Betts, S. Eossiter 
 Billings, Oliver P. C. 
 Bishop, James L. 
 Black, Charles Iv^. 
 Bloomfield, William 
 Blunt, George W. 
 Boardman, Albert B. 
 Boardman, Andrew 
 Boardman, Edmund C. 
 Boardman, Samuel 
 Boiling, John M. 
 Bosworth, Joseph S. 
 Bowers, John M. 
 Bowne, Eichard H. 
 Brady, James M. 
 Brainerd, Cephas 
 Bright, Osborn E. 
 Brinsmade, James B. 
 Bristow, Benjamin H. 
 Bronson, AVillett 
 Brooks, Clarke 
 Brown, Augustus C. 
 Brown, Elias G. 
 Brownell, Silas B. 
 Brownell, T. Frank 
 Buckingham, John M. 
 Budlong, Morris M. 
 Buel, Oliver P. 
 Bull, Charles 0. 
 Bullock, James B. 
 Burnett, Henry L. 
 Burrill, Charles D. 
 Burrill, John E. 
 Bush, John A. 
 Bushe, Eugene L. 
 Butler, Charles E. 
 Butler, Prescott Hall 
 Butler, William AIL n 
 
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 Butterworth, William H. 
 Byrne, Francis 
 Cadwalader, John L. 
 Calvin, Delano C. 
 Campbell, Douglas 
 Campbell. Eobert B. 
 Candler, Flamen B. 
 Cardozo, M. H. 
 Card well, Saittiiel, jr. 
 Carter, James C. 
 Cary, Clarence 
 Chamberlain, Ed. W. 
 Chambers, William P. 
 Chandler, James E. 
 Chase, Philo 
 Child, C. G. 
 
 Chittenden, Simeon B., jr. 
 Choate, Joseph H. 
 Choate, William G. 
 Church, Elihu 
 Clark, Henry W. 
 Clark, Lot C. 
 Clinch, Edward S. 
 Clinton Henry L. 
 Coddington, Chas. E. 
 Coe, Chas. G. 
 Coffin, Edmund, jr. 
 Coffin, George C. 
 Coggesliall, Edwin W. 
 Cole, Hugh L. 
 Cole, John H. 
 Colles, George W. 
 Comstock, Fred. H. 
 Connaughton, Jos. J. 
 Connor, John C, jr. 
 Cooper, Stephen, V. E. 
 Cornell, Robt. C. 
 Coudert, Charles, jr. 
 Coudert, Frederick R. 
 Coudert, Louis L. 
 Cram, Elenry A. 
 Cram, H. Spencer 
 Cram, John Sargent 
 Crane, Alex. B. 
 Crawford, Gilbert H. 
 Cropper, John 
 Crosby, Charles P. 
 Crosby, Will. B. 
 Crowell, Edward B. 
 
 Curran, John E. 
 Curtis, William E. 
 Curtis, Wm. E., jr. 
 Cutler, Nathan 
 Cutting, William Bayard 
 Da Costa, Charles M. 
 Daly, Eugene F. 
 Daly, Joseph F. 
 Daly, Matthew 
 Davenport, John Alfred 
 Davenport, John S., jr. 
 Davies, Henry E. 
 Davies, Julien T. 
 Davis, Noah 
 Davis, Theodore M. 
 Davison. Charles A. 
 Day, Henry 
 Dayton, Charles W. 
 Dayton, Isaac 
 Dayton, Eobt, A. B. 
 Dean, David J. 
 Deforest, H. G. 
 Deforest, Eobert W. 
 Degrove, E. Eitzema 
 Delafield, Lewis L. 
 DeKay, Sidney 
 Delancey, Edward F. 
 Deming, Chas. C. 
 Depeyster, Henry 
 Depeyster, F. J." 
 De Witt, George G., jr. 
 Dickerson, Edward N. 
 Dickerson, Edward N., jr. 
 Dickey, Eobert 
 Diefendorf, Menzo 
 Dillaway, George W. 
 Divine, Michael W. 
 Dixon, William P. 
 Dorsheimer, William 
 Douglass, George 
 Drake, Elias G. , jr. 
 Drayton, J. Coleman 
 Duell, Charles H. 
 Dunning, Benj. F, 
 D wight, James F. 
 Dwight. Theodore W. 
 Eaton, Dan. Cady 
 Eaton, Dorman B. 
 Edgar, Jonathan 
 
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 Bdgerton, C. C. 
 Edmonds, Walter D. 
 Edwards, Walter, jr. 
 Eggleston, Melville 
 Ely, Moses 
 Emmet, Eicliard S. 
 Emott, Charles 0. 
 Emott, James 
 Erving, John 
 Ethridge, Frank 
 Evarts, A. W. 
 Evarts, William M. 
 Fales, H. 
 F^airchild, C. S. 
 Fancher, Enoch L. 
 Farnam, Charles H. 
 Fay, James H. 
 Feeter, Jacob W. 
 Fellows, Eichard 0. 
 Felt, Edwin M. 
 Field, David Dudley 
 Field, William H. 
 Fish, Hamilton, jr. 
 Fisher, T. E. 
 Fitch, John 
 Fithian, Freeman J. 
 Flammer, Charles A. 
 Flanagan, John E. 
 Forbes, Francis 
 Foster, B. B. 
 Foster, John A. 
 Foster, William E., jr. 
 Fox, Austin 
 Frankenheimer, John 
 Franklin, Ben. 
 Freedman, J. J. 
 French, Isaic V. 
 Fuller, Paul F. 
 Gallaher, Wm. M. 
 Uallup, Albert 
 Garrettsou, Francis T. 
 Gerard, James W., jr. 
 Gerry, Elbridge T. 
 <iilbert, James H. 
 Gilhooly, Andrew 
 Gillender, Aug. T. 
 Glover, Charles H. 
 Glover, John H. 
 Glover, Thomas J. 
 
 Goelet, E. J. 
 Goepp, Charles 
 Goldmark, Leo 
 Goldschmidt, Geoi-ge B. 
 Gould, Charles W. 
 Gray, George 
 Gray, John C. 
 Gray, Levi 
 Green, Adolphus AW 
 Green, Ashbel 
 Grimball, John 
 Griswold, Burr W. 
 Gulliver, William C. 
 Hale, Matthew 
 Hall, David P., jr. 
 Hall, Elial P. 
 Hall, Frank L. 
 Hall, Thomas D. 
 Hall, William F. 
 Hall, Wm. King 
 Halsey, Frederic E. 
 Hamilton, Alexander, ji'. 
 Hamilton, E. Luther 
 Hammond, Henry B. 
 Hand, Clifford A. 
 Hand, Samuel 
 Hanford, Solomon 
 Harison, George D, L. 
 Harison, Eichard M. 
 Harnett, John H. 
 Harris, Charles N. 
 Harrison, Bnrtou N. 
 Hatch, Ed. S. 
 Hatch, Hiram F. 
 Hatch, Eoswell D. 
 Hawes, G. P. 
 Hawley, David 
 Heald, John 0. 
 Heaton, Edward 
 Hegeman, W. A. Ogden 
 Henry, Jacob H. 
 Henry, E. M. 
 Henry, Thomas S. 
 Herrick, A. B. 
 Hill, George 
 Hilton, E. B. 
 Hinsdale, Elizur B. 
 ■Hodges, Wyllys 
 Hoes, William M. 
 
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 Holbrook, William C. 
 Holden, Daniel J. 
 Holmes, Artemas II. 
 Hooker, Thomas 
 Hoppin, William W., jr. 
 Hornblower, AVilliam B. 
 Hosea, William G. 
 Howe, Walter 
 Howland, Henry E. 
 Hoyt, James 0. 
 Hubbard, Grosvenor L. 
 Hnbbard, Thomas H. 
 Hudson, J. A. 
 Hull, Amos G. 
 Hunt, Ward, jr. 
 Hiitchings, AA'aldo 
 Hyde, E. Francis 
 Ingersoll, Charles D. 
 Ingersoll, Thomas 0. 
 Ireland, J. B. 
 Isaacs, Meyer S. 
 Iselin, Geo. A. 
 Jackson, Anson B. 
 Jackson, Charles A. 
 Jackson, Joseph C. 
 Jackson, Theodore F. 
 Jamison, Samuel, jr. 
 Jaques, David E. 
 Jay, William 
 JellifFe, Samuel G. 
 Jencks, Francis M. 
 Jenner, William A. 
 Jennings, Fred. B. 
 Jesup, James E. 
 Johnson, Henry W. 
 Johnson S. W. 
 Jones, McKendree W. 
 Jones, Walter E. T. 
 Karge, Ladislas, 
 f Kaufman, Sigismund 
 Kellogg, Luther L. 
 Kelly, Eobert 
 Kenf, James, jr. 
 Kernan, Francis 
 Kernochan, Frank E. 
 Kernochan, Jos. Fred. 
 Ketcham, AA'illiam P. 
 Ketchum, Alexander P. 
 Ketchum, Edgar 
 
 Kilbreth, James T. 
 King, William H. 
 Kingsford, J. P. 
 Kip, George G. 
 Kitchell, Charles E. 
 Kitchen, John 
 Knevals, Sherman W. 
 Knox, Charles H. 
 Kqox, Henry E. 
 Knox, James 
 Knox, John M. 
 Kobbe, Hermann 
 Lacombe, E. Henry 
 Lane, Smith E. 
 Langbein, George F. 
 Larocque, Joseph 
 Larremore, Eichard L. 
 Lathrop, William G., jr. 
 Lawrence, Abraham li , jr. 
 Lawrence, John S. 
 Lawrence, Joseph B. 
 Leavitt, J. Brooks 
 Ledyard, Lewis Cass 
 Lee, Benjamin F., jr. 
 Lee, Eobert P. 
 Lee, William H. L. 
 Levi, Joseph (.). 
 Lewis, Eugene H. 
 Lincoln, Geo. F. 
 Lindley, John 
 Lindley, J. Bryant 
 Livingston, John II. 
 Livingston, Walter L. - 
 Lockwood, James B. 
 Logan, Edgar 
 Logan, John L. 
 Lord, Daniel D. 
 Lord, Daniel, jr. 
 Lord, Franklin B. 
 Lord, George DeF. 
 Lowrey, Grosvenor P. 
 Lowrey, James P. 
 Lyon, George W. 
 Lyon, Samuel E. 
 ]\Iacdonough, Aug. E. 
 Macfarland, William W. 
 Macklin, John J. 
 McAdam. Qnentin 
 McCafferty, B. E. 
 
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 McCook, John J. 
 McClnre, David 
 McDaniel, "William V. 
 McDermott, William 
 McKeoii, John 
 ilcKinney, "William A. 
 McLean, Charles F. 
 McMahon, M. T. 
 McVickar, Henry G. 
 Man, Albon 
 Man, Albon P. 
 Man, Frederic H. 
 Man, William 
 Manice, "William DeF. 
 Mansfield, Howard 
 Marbury, Francis F. 
 Marbury, Francis F., jr. 
 Marrin, Joseph J. 
 Marsh, Charles M. 
 Marsh, Luther E. 
 Martin, Bradley 
 Martin, Isaac P. 
 Mathews, Albert 
 Matthews, James 
 Merrill, Payson 
 Mestre, Jos. M. 
 Meyer, Chas. 
 Meyer, Theo. F. H. 
 Miller, Charles E. 
 Miller, Charles P. 
 Miller, John H. 
 Miller, Morris 8. 
 Minor, Israel, jr. 
 Mitchell, Edward 
 Mitchell, "William 
 Mitchell, "William, jr. 
 Montgomery, John H. 
 Montgomery, "William, jr. 
 Moore, Oasimir, DeE. 
 Moore, Charles B. 
 Moore, Thomas S. 
 Moore, William H. H. 
 Morehouse, Sturgis M. 
 Morgan, James A. 
 Morris, Fordham 
 Morris, Henry L. 
 Morris, James 
 Moses, Eaphael J. 
 Mosher, Joseph P. 
 
 Mott, William F., jr. 
 Murray, A. S. 
 Murray, George F. 
 Murray, Jas. B. 
 Nash, John McLean 
 Nash, Stephen P. 
 Nassau, William B. 
 Nchrbas, Charles J. 
 Nelson, Homer A. 
 Newell, George B. 
 Newland, David J. 
 Nicholson, John E. 
 Nicoll, Delancey 
 North, Thomas'M. 
 Norwood, Carhsle, jr. 
 Norwood, Lewis ii. 
 O'Brien, Morgan J. 
 O'Conor, Charles 
 Odell, Hamilton 
 Ogden, Cadwalader E. 
 Ogden, David B. 
 Ogden, Francis L. 
 Ogden, Gouverneur M. 
 Ogden, Liidlow 
 Ogden, Thomas L. 
 Olcott, Emmet E. 
 Olin, Stephen H. 
 Olmstead, Dwight H. 
 Olney, Peter B. 
 Opdyke, William S. 
 Ormiston, Thomas S. 
 Oudin, Lucien 
 Paddock, Franklin A. 
 Paine, Willis S. 
 Parker, George W. 
 Parker, Henry H. 
 Parkin, William 
 Parsons, George W. 
 Parsons, John E. 
 Paton, David 
 Patterson, Edward 
 Pattison, Elias J. 
 Peabody, Charles A. 
 Peabody, Charles A., jr. 
 Peckham, Wheeler H. 
 Peckham, William G., jr. 
 Pell, Frederick A. 
 Pelton, Timothy D. 
 Pendleton, F. Key 
 
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 Phelps, Benjamin K. 
 
 Phelps, Charles H. 
 
 Phelps, William Walter 
 
 Piatt, John H. 
 
 Plympton, Gilbert M. 
 
 Pomeroy, Eugene H. 
 
 Poor, "Walter S. 
 
 Porter, John K. 
 
 Porter, Mortimer 
 
 Post, Louis P. 
 
 Potter, Olarkson N. 
 
 Potter, Orlando B. 
 
 Powell, Wilson M. 
 
 Powers, AVilliam P. 
 
 Prentice, William P. 
 
 Price, Charles 
 
 Prichard, William M. 
 
 Pnrdy, William Macneven 
 
 Eadde, L. E. G. 
 Kandolph, Joseph F. 
 Eapallo, Chas. A. 
 Eedfield, Amasa A. 
 Eequier, Augustus J. 
 Eice, Addison G. 
 Eichards, Geo. 
 Eichards, J. Treadwell 
 Eiddle, Daniel S. 
 Eiker, John H. 
 Eiker, Samuel 
 Eives, Francis E. 
 Eives, George L. 
 Eobinson, E. Eandolph 
 Eobmson, Hamilton AV. 
 Eodman, Thomas H, 
 Eodman, Thomas H., jr. 
 Eoe, Alfred 
 Eoelker, Bernard 
 Eogers, Henry P. 
 Eogers, Nathaniel P. 
 Eollins, Daniel G. 
 Eomaine, Benjn. F. 
 Eoosevelt, Chas. H. 
 Eoosevelt, John E. 
 Eoot, Elihu 
 Eoot, Henry A. 
 Eoss, Wm. B. 
 Eoudebush, Almon H. 
 Euggles, Horace JI. 
 Euggles, Philo T. 
 
 Eussell, Horace 
 Salomon, Edward 
 Sands, Andrew H. 
 Sands, B. Aymar 
 Sanford, Charles F. 
 Sanger, Adolph L. 
 Shaumburg, Atkinson 
 Scliell, Edward H. 
 Schermerhorn, John E. 
 Scott, Francis M. 
 Scott, Wm. Forfe 
 Scott, Wm. H. 
 Scribuer, John M., jr. 
 Scudder, Henry J. 
 Searing, Edward AV. 
 Sedgwick, Arthur G. 
 Sedgwick, Henry D. 
 Sedgwick, John 
 Seward, Clarence A. 
 Sewell, Eobert 
 Sexton, Edward 
 Shelton, Charles C. 
 Shepard, Elliott F. 
 Shepard, Francis N. 
 Shepard, William F. 
 Sherman, Eoger M. 
 Sherwood, John 
 Shipman, AVilliam D. 
 Silliman, Benjamin D. 
 Simpson, John W. 
 Skidmore, Lemuel 
 Skidmore, AYilliam B.. jr. 
 Smidt, Allan L. 
 Smith, Charles E. 
 Smith, Duncan 
 Smith, Elliot 
 Smith, Eugene 
 Smith, F. Sherman 
 Smith. Freling H. 
 Smith, Gabriel L. 
 Smith, George P. 
 Smith, James M. 
 Smith, Nelson 
 Smith, Sandford S. 
 Smith, Sutherland D. 
 Smyth, Frederick 
 Snead, Thos. L. 
 Soren, George W. 
 Soule, Chas. B. 
 
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 Souther, Ohas. E. 
 Southmayd, Chas. F. 
 Speir, Archibald W. 
 Speir, Gilbert M. 
 Speir, G. M., jr. 
 Spencer, James 0. 
 Spragne, Henry L. 
 Stapler, Henry, B. B. 
 Starr, George H. 
 Starr, Peter 
 Stearns, James S. 
 Stedman, Ernest G 
 Stephens, Benjamin, jr. 
 Sterne, Simon 
 Stetson, Francis L. 
 Stewart, Orlando L. 
 Stewart, Wm. A. W. 
 Stewart, Wm. Rhinelander 
 Stickney, Albert 
 Stiger, Wm. E. 
 Stikeman, James 
 Stillman, Granville S. P. 
 Stillman, Thomas E. 
 Stone, Chas. F. 
 Stoughton, Edwin W. 
 Storrs, James S. 
 StraiTss, Oscar S. 
 Strong, Chas. E. 
 Strong, Theron G. 
 Sutherland, John L. 
 Sutherland, Josiah 
 Suydam, Chas. S. 
 Talbot, Chas. 
 Tallmadge, Frederick S. 
 Taylor, Alfred 
 Taylor, Alfred J. 
 Tenney, Sutherland 
 Thacher, Thomas 
 Thayer, Benjamin 0. 
 Thomasson, John J. 
 Thompson, Frank 
 Thomson, James J. 
 Throop, Montgomery H. 
 Thurston, David 
 Tilden, Samuel J. 
 Tillotson, Gouverneur 
 Titus, George N. 
 Todhunter, John 
 I Tompkins, Hamilton B. 
 
 Tompkins, W. W. 
 Town, Chauncey W. 
 Townsend, Henry P. 
 Townsend, Jas. M. jr. 
 Townsend, John J. 
 Townsend, Martin L. 
 Townsend, Randolph W. 
 Tiacy, Chas. 
 Tracy, Chas. Edward 
 Tracy, J. Evarts 
 Tracy, Wm. 
 Tremain, Henry E. 
 Tunstall, Richard B. 
 Turner, Herbert B. 
 Turrell, Edgar A. 
 Tweed, Chas. H. 
 UlshoefFer, William G. 
 Underbill, Abraham 
 Underwood, Wm. J., jr. 
 Vail, Moses M. 
 Van Cott, Joshua M. 
 Vanderpoel, Aaron J. 
 Vanderveer, F. F. 
 Van Kleeck, Henry 
 Van Nest, G. W. 
 Van Santvoord, Abraham 
 Van Santvoord, Cornelius 
 Van Slyck, George W. 
 Van Vechten, A. W. 
 Van Vorst, Hooper C. 
 Van Winkle, Edgar S. 
 Van Wyck, Wm. 
 Varuum, James M. 
 Waddington, George 
 Wait, Fred. S. 
 Wait, William Howard 
 Walker, Stephen A. 
 Wallis, Alexander H. 
 Ward, Elijah 
 Ward, John E. 
 Warner, John DeWitt 
 Warren, Ira D. 
 Washburn, John S. 
 Waterbury, Nelson J. 
 Webb, Henry W. 
 Webster, Sidney 
 Weed, John W. 
 Weekes, Hy. DeForest 
 Weeks, Francis H. 
 
Welch, Joseiili A. 
 Wells, Charles F. 
 Wells, Manning C. 
 Westervelt, Tompkins 
 Wetmore, Edmund 
 Wheeler, Everett P. 
 Whitehead, Aaron P. 
 Whiting, John N. 
 Whitlock, Bache McE. 
 Whitney, William 0. 
 Wilcox, David J. H. 
 Wilcox, Franklin A. 
 Wilds, H. Payson 
 Willett, Edward M. 
 Williams, Charles H. 
 Williams, David L. 
 Williams, Stephen C. 
 Williamson, David Ji. 
 
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 Williamson, Geo. N. 
 Willis, William H., jr. 
 Wilson, William G. 
 Wingate, George W. 
 Winterton, AVilliara B. 
 Winthrop, Buchanan 
 Winthrop, Henry E. 
 Witter, Wm. C. 
 Wood, Dennistouu 
 Wood, John S. 
 Woodbury, Chas. H. 
 Woodford, Stewart L. 
 Woodruff. Chas. H. 
 Woodward, Henry E. 
 Woodworth, Wm. A. 
 Work, James H. 
 Yeaman, George H. 
 Young, Mason 
 
REPORT OF TREASURER. 
 
 Nrw York, January 8, 1878. 
 
 I respectfully submit the report for the year ending January 8, 1 878, of the 
 financial condition of the Association, showing a balance — 
 
 To the credit of the General Fund $3,463 36 
 
 " " Library Fund 1,169 78 
 
 " " Sinking Fund 10,000 00 
 
 .«;14,633 U 
 
 The balance remaining on hand at the close of last 
 year's account was — 
 
 In the General Fund $6,288 07 
 
 In the Library Fund 1,478 12 
 
 $7,766 19 
 
 And the income of the current year derived from — 
 
 Arrears dues, May, 1875 $50 00 
 
 November, 1875 70 00 
 
 May, 1876 230 00 
 
 November, 1876 1,440 00 
 
 Dues, May, 1877 9,490 00 
 
 " November, 1877 9,330 00 
 
 Initiation Fees and Balances 2,225 00 
 
 822,835 00 
 
 $30,601 19 
 The disbursements for the current year have been 
 as follows : 
 
 Amount paid-:— 
 
 For Books on ojc of Library Fund $4,334 34 
 
 " Repairs, supplies, furniture, &c. .. . 497 37 
 
 " Taxes, Croton, interest &, insurance 3,417 23 
 
 " Salaries, wages and serving notices 4,432 05 
 
 " Gasandfuel 1,215 87 
 
 " Entertainments 600 60 
 
 " Ice bills 7175 
 
 " Printing and stationery 58.5 85 
 
 " Newspapers and postage stamps. . . 254 53 
 
 " State Bar Association 70 85 
 
 " Stenography, engraving, supplying 
 
 printed documents and sundries . . 487 71 
 
 $15,968 05 
 
 Leaving the balanee to the credit of 
 
 the Association $14,633 14 
 
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 The surplus income for the year is thus shown to be J6, 866.95. 
 
 It is estimated that the resources and probable expenses for the next year 
 will be about the same as for the current year. 
 
 The balance of $20,000 on the bond and mortgage for $30,000 on No. 1 West 
 Twenty-ninth street will not be due until April 30, 1880, and bears interest at 
 7 per cent. 
 
 An offer to pay a bonus to the holder of the mortgage for the privilege of 
 paying $10,000 on account has been made, but was declined to be entertained 
 on any terms. 
 
 The bond of the Association for $20,000 for No. 20 West Twenty-seventh 
 street is also an outstanding obligation, but is secured by a mortgage on those 
 premises, and has been assumed by the purchaser. 
 
 The other outstanding obligations of the Association are: 
 
 Ice Company $21 44 
 
 Chambers (for gardening) 47 50 
 
 Tyson (newspapers) 22 04 
 
 Anstice (stationery) 81 45 
 
 Baker Smith 61 ijij 
 
 Collins 9 00 
 
 Municipal Gas 97 25 
 
 Very respectfully, 
 
 EDWARD MITCHELL, 
 
 Treasurer. 
 
 REPORT OF TREASURER. 
 
 New York, January 14, 1879. 
 To the Association of the Bar of the City of New York : 
 
 Gentlemen — I respectfully submit the report for the year ending January 
 14, 1879, of the financial condition of the Association of the Bar, showing a 
 balance — 
 
 To the credit of the General Fund of $3,357 53 
 
 Library Fund of 223 99 
 
 Sinking Fund of 13,000 00 
 
 $16,581 52 
 
 The balance remaining on hand at the close of last 
 year's account was — 
 
 In the General Fund $3,468 36 
 
 " Library Fund 1,169 78 
 
 Sinking Fund 10,000 00 
 
 $14,633 14 
 
33 
 
 A.nd the income of the current year derived from — 
 
 Arrears. Maj', ISVe |40 00 
 
 November, 1876 80 00 
 
 May, 1877 390 00 
 
 November, 1877 1,770 OO 
 
 May, 1878 9,750 00 
 
 November, 1 878 8,670 00 
 
 Initiation fees and balances 1,300 00 
 
 And from rebate of tax 
 
 Interest voluntarily paid by a member. 
 
 $22,000 
 
 00 
 
 
 
 12 
 
 65 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 30 
 
 
 
 
 
 $22,018 
 
 95 
 
 
 
 
 
 $36,652 
 
 09 
 
 The disbursements for tlie current year have been as 
 follows : 
 
 For Books on <^c of Library Fund $7,145 79 
 
 " Repairs, supplies, furniture, (fee 1,009 31 
 
 ' Taxes Croton Interest Insurance 3,395 64 
 
 " Salaries, wages, and serving notices 4,608 25 
 
 " Gas and fuel 1,108 54 
 
 " Entertainments 1,499 00 
 
 " Printing and stationery 918 60 
 
 '■ Newspapers and stamps 222 44 
 
 " Stenography 50 00 
 
 " Icebills 113 00 
 
 $20,070 57 
 
 Leaving the balance to the credit of the Association, $16,581 52 
 
 The surplus income for the year is thus shown to be $1,948.38. 
 It is estimated that the resources for the next year will be less than for the 
 current year, and that the expenses will also be less. 
 
 The balance of $20,000 on the bond and mortgage for |30,000 on No. 7 
 West Twenty-ninth street will not be due until April 30, 1880, and bears 
 interest at 7 per cent. 
 
 The bond of the Association for $20,000 for No. 20 West Twenty-seventli 
 street is also an outstanding obligation, but is secured by a mortgage on those 
 premises, and has been assumed by the purchaser of that property. 
 Very respectfully, 
 
 EDWARD MITCHELL, 
 
 Treasw'er. 
 
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 PROCEEDINGS OF COMMITTEE ON AMENDMENT 
 OF THE LAW. 
 
 Summary of all Proceedings of the Committee on Amend- 
 ment OF the Law, for Year Ending January 9, 1877, 
 Eeported Pursuant to By-Law XIII. 
 
 In April, 1876, the Association referred to this Committee the duty of 
 drafting and reporting such amendments to the Laws of this State, as will 
 secure the conviction and imprisonment of any Executor, Trustee, Referee or 
 other person acting in a fiduciary capacitj', who shall apply to his own use any 
 trust funds intrusted to his care, or who shall invest such funds in securities 
 not permitted by the Laws of this State. 
 
 This subject was considered at the next meeting of the Committee, on April 
 24, 1S'J&, informally, and again on May 8, 1876, at a fall meeting. 
 
 A Sub-Committee "was appointed to report the condition of the law, and to 
 draft and report any required amendment. 
 
 The Sub-Committee consisted of the Chairman, Honorable Charles O'Conor, 
 Honorable Joseph S. Bosworth and Frederic H. Betts. 
 
 The Sub-Committee reported at the meeting of December 15, 1876, and 
 after discussion recommitted the subject to the Sub-Committee to make amend- 
 ments suggested. 
 
 No further report has as yet been made. 
 
 In October, 1876, the subject of a proposed Act of Congress, amending the 
 Revised Statutes of the United States, relative to the fees of Attorneys, etc., 
 in the Courts of the United States, was referred to the Committee. 
 
 At the meeting of the Committee, on December 15, 1876, the Committee re- 
 solved that they could not recommend the amendment. 
 
 The Committee further considered the subject of the amendment of the 
 Statutes of the United States, so as to provide for the appointment of two 
 additional Circuit Judges for the Second Judicial Circuit of the United States. 
 
 At the meeting of the Committee on December 15, 1876, the Committee 
 considered and approved a proposed Act of Congress for that purpose. 
 
 Reports to the Association upon those matters upon which final action has 
 been taken by the Committee, have been made. 
 
 New York, January 9, 1877. 
 
 (Sd.) FREDERIC H. BETTS, 
 
 Secretary of Committee on 
 Amertdment of the Law. 
 
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 January, 1877. 
 To the Bar Association : 
 
 The Library Committee respectfully reports, that : 
 The total number of volumes in the Library is 10,729. 
 Of these there have been purchased by the Association 7,622. 
 Received by donation from members of the Association and others, ,S,207. 
 The increase in the number of volumes for the last year Las been as follows : 
 
 By purchase 801 
 
 By donation 430 
 
 Total 1,231 
 
 The total amount expended for books has been as follows : 
 
 Previous to the year 1876 S31,291 54 
 
 During the year 1876 4,805 40 
 
 Total cost of Library to the Association §36,097 00 
 
 Annexed to this report is a list of the donations to the Library during the 
 past year, with the names of the donors. 
 
 All of which is respectfully submitted. 
 
 Dated New York, January, 1877. 
 
 JAMES EMOTT, 1 
 JAMES C. CARTER, 
 
 WALTER S. POOR, j- Committee. 
 
 IRA D. WARREN, | 
 
 LEWIS L. DELAFIELD, J 
 
DONATIONS 
 
 OF BOOKS TO THE LIBRARY 
 
 1876- 
 
 1876. 
 Jan. 17. — M. M. Vail, Esq.: vow. 
 
 Campbells Nisi Prius 3 
 
 Coke's First Institutes 3 
 
 Impey's Practice 2 
 
 Lilly's Entries 2 
 
 Mallory's Entries 2 
 
 Montifiore's Precedents 1 
 
 Moore's Index 2 
 
 Preston on Legacies 1 
 
 Reeve's Law of Shipping 1 
 
 Richardson's Practice 2 
 
 Roberts on Frauds 2 
 
 Roberts on Wills 2 
 
 Roper on Husband and Wife 2 
 
 Sellon's Nisi Prius S 
 
 Tidd's Appendix 1 
 
 Vernon's Reports 2 
 
 Wood's Conveyancing 6 
 
 New York Directories, 1842-3-4, and 5 S 
 
 Jan. 17. — Edward L. Rapallo ; 
 
 Assembly and Senate Documents, 1875 21 
 
 Jan. 21. — Seoektary of State, Washington: 
 
 Foreign Relations of the United States, 1874 2 
 
 Jan. 22. — M. H. Throop, Esq. : 
 
 Two copies, Commissioner's Report, 1876, of the New Revised 
 
 Statutes 2 
 
 Feb. 8.— Geo. H. Teaman, Esq. : 
 
 Patent Office Reports 38 
 
 The War between the States (Stephens), Vol. 1 1 
 
 Feb. 25. — Hon. James Emott: 
 
 Harrison's Digest 7 
 
 Duer on Insurance 2 
 
 Toullicr & Duvergier's Droit Civil Francais 14 
 
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 Mch. 80. — Hon. Wm. Beach Laweexck: 
 
 Lawrence's Whoaton on Inlernational Law — 18ti3 1 
 
 April 6. — New Yokk State Library : 
 
 Legislative Journals and Docutnents, 1870-75 114 
 
 Thompson's Assessor's Manual 1 
 
 Trial of Barnard, McCunn, Prindle and Curtis 7 
 
 April 21. — Stephen A. Walker, Esq. . 
 
 Annual Report (1875) Board of Education 1 
 
 May 8. — DsjfNis Bowen, Esq. : 
 
 Memorial, City and County Hall, Buffalo 1 
 
 Hay 10. — Chahles H. Woodruff, Esq. : 
 
 Trial of Jefferds, for Murder 1 
 
 Case of American ship Rob Roy 1 
 
 Obseques of Henry Clay 1 
 
 New Jersey Revolutionary Correspondence 1 
 
 Provincial Courts of New Jersey 1 
 
 East Jersey Under the Proprietors 1 
 
 Spiritualism (Edmonds & Dexter) I 
 
 Kellogg on Labor and Capital 1 
 
 Thirty Phamplets. (Miscellaneous) 
 
 Assembly and Senate Documents, 1867 and 1868 50 
 
 Proceedings and Debates New York Constitutional Convention 
 
 1867 11 
 
 Impeachment of R. C. Dorn 1 
 
 Catalogue of Maps, New York State Library 1 
 
 United States Government Documents 29 
 
 Directories, New York '. 10 
 
 May 17. — Edward L. Rapallo: 
 
 Senate and Assembly Documents 20 
 
 June 13. — Sir Redmond Barry : 
 
 Catalogues of Melbourne and Victoria Public Libraries 4 
 
 June 23. — DormanB. Eaton, Esq. ; 
 
 Records of Massachusetts, 1628 to 1686 5 
 
 Celebrated Trials in all Countries 1 
 
 New York Civil Code, as reported in 1865 ........ : 1 
 
 Records of the New York Chamber of Commerce (1768-1784) . I 
 
 Ray on Medical Jurisprudence 1 
 
 Commercial and Foreign Relations, United Stutes, 1873 S 
 
 Memoir of Nicholas Hill . . 1 
 
 Proceedings at Banquet to J. W. Gerard 
 
 Ferry Leases and Railroad Grants, New York, 1866 1 
 
 - State Engineers' Reports, New York, 1864-5-6 3 
 
 Hubbill's Legal Directory, 1875 1 
 
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 VOLS. 
 
 Kules and Orders, New York Court of Chancery, 1806-47... 8 
 
 Rules of Kew York Supreme Court, 1847-8 2 
 
 Sheet Anchor . . j 
 
 June 1. — Messks, Stevex* i; LIaynes, London: 
 
 Hartwell Law (Catalogue 1 
 
 Oct UL — Charles Ceaet, Esq. : 
 
 Journal of Continental Congress 5 
 
 Trials for High Treason 1 
 
 The Writ of Mandamus. (Pairjphlet) 
 
 Oct 24. — John L. Cadwaladee, Esq. : 
 
 Treaties and Conventions of United States since 1870 1 
 
 Kov 1, — John L. Cadwaladeb, Esq. : 
 
 Reports on the Vienna Exposition 4 
 
 Dec. 8. — 1)E Laxcy Nicoll, Esq. . 
 
 Rolles Abridgement 1 
 
 Keble's British Statutes at Large 1 
 
 Dec. 8. — DoEMAN B. Eaton, Esq. . 
 
 Public Libraries in the United Spates 1 
 
 Treaties and Conventions, (1 pamphlet) 
 
 Dec. 20. — Iea D. Wakken, Esq. : 
 
 Cooper on Libel 1 
 
 Dec. — Hon. Chaeles A. Rapallo: 
 
 Cases and Points, Court of Appeals 19 
 
41 
 
 REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON NEW BUILDING. 
 
 Association of the Bae, } 
 
 1 "West 29th Street, f 
 
 New York, February 10th, 1877. 
 
 The Committee appointed under the resolution of the 24th of September, 
 1872, providing for an inquiry as to procuring a proper site and erecting- 
 thereon a new building (tlie powers of which Committee have been frcnn 
 time to time enlarged under the various subsequent resolutions), do now he^ 
 leave to report : 
 
 1st. That owing to the condition of the real estate market there was much 
 difference of opinion in the Committee, and consequent delay in determining 
 what action would be moat expedient. It was finally decided to recommend 
 the purchase of a building which would for several years answer the pur- 
 poses of the Association rather tlian incur the large exj)ense of erecting a, 
 structure that would be permanently satisfactory. A preliminary report to 
 that effect was made, and was approved by the Association, looking to the 
 purchase of the house and ground known as No. 7 West Twenty-ninth street, 
 whenever it could be bought at a moderate price. The price demanded at 
 that time was $130,000, and your Committee had to wait quietly for many 
 months before the owner would come to satisfactory term=. 
 
 2d. Finally in February, 1875, terms were agreed on liy your Committee, 
 which were approved by the Association, and your Committee was directed to 
 complete the purchase, and did accordingly purchase in the name of the 
 Association the said premises, No. 7 West Twenty-ninth street, for the sum of 
 one hundred thousand (g 100,000) dollars; and the broker's fees of SI, 000. 
 These premises being seventy-four feet (or about three full lots) in breadth on 
 Twenty-ninth street and ninety-eight feet nine inches, or one-half the block in 
 depth. The situation is healthy and agreeable, central, and easily accessible 
 from every direction, and it was believed tlie property was not likely for a 
 long time to come to depreciate in value. 
 
 A brick building of substantial structure covered forty-five feet of the width 
 of the lots, and was of convenient depth. By proper alterations, without undue 
 expense, it could, in the opinion of the Committee, be made adequate for the 
 purposes of the Association for several years to come. 
 
 3il. By the terms of the purchase, fifty tliousand dollars of the purchase 
 money and the $1,000 brokerage was paid in cash on the 1st day of May, 
 1875 ; on receiving the deed a mortgage of $30,000 was given upon the 
 premises purchased, and a further mortgage of §20,000 on the house and lot 
 No. 20 West Twenty-seventli street, then owned by the Association. The 
 $30,00 I mortgage becoming due on the 1st day of May, 1880, with the right to 
 the Association to pny off 810,000 on the 1st of May, 1876. 
 4th. The Committee caused the building purchased to be so altered as to 
 
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 adapt it to the use of the Association, to be put in thorough repair and hand- 
 some order throughout — to be provided with the best heating apparatus and 
 the best means of ventilation that could be found — to be furnished with 
 suitable substantial furniture, and the grounds about it to be improved, all 
 of which, including the care of the building during the progress of the work, 
 have cost $23,579.50, all of which has been paid in cash. A detailed state- 
 ment of the items of such expenditure is hereto attached. 
 
 6th. This Committee was charged also with the duty of asking subscrip- 
 tions from members of the Association towards the expense of purchasing 
 and improving said building. At first great difference of opinion prevailed 
 in this Committee and in the Executive Committee as to the mode of obtaining 
 such subscriptions — some thinking it necessary to offer a partial equivalent 
 for advances by way of remission of dues or otherwise — while others felt great 
 confidence in appealing to the generosity of members as soon as a definite 
 acceptable place should be secured. The latter opinion was finally accepted 
 by all the Committee, and their confidence in the liberality of the profession 
 has been abundantly justified. The sum of $45,650 has been contributed as 
 a free gift to the Association, placing it in an excellent financial condition. 
 
 That is to say, before the purchase the Association owned the house 20 
 West Twenty-seventh street free of encumbrance, and had on hand about 
 $20,000 aecximulated fund. On the purchase it paid $51,000 in cash, $20,000 
 in a mortgage upon 20 West Twenty-seventh street, which has been assumed 
 by the purchaser of that property, and $30,000 in a mortgage upon these 
 premises, 7 West Twenty-ninth street. It has also paid in cash the $23,600 
 required for repairs, improvements and furniture, and in May 1876 it paid off 
 S 10,000 of the principal of the *30,000 on this house. So that it now owns 
 this house and adjoining ground, anil its library and furniture clear of all 
 debt except $20,000 payable three year? from 1st May next. ^ 
 
 The names of the subscribers to said fund, and sums subscribed by each, 
 appear in an appendix hereto attached, marked H. Beside the subscriptions 
 made as aforesaid, and paid, one of $50 has been cancelled on account of 
 inability to pay, and another reduced from $500 to $250 by special authority 
 from the Executive Committee. There remained two subscriptions wholly 
 unpaid, one of $500 by a law firm, and one of $250 by a member of another 
 firm, both of which firms have an extensive and apparently a lucrative 
 business. Your Committee have urged the payment of these subscriptions as 
 diligently as propriety would admit, and have withheld this their final report 
 for many months past, in hope that they would be paid, as repeatedly promised. 
 They now leave them on the Treasurer's files. 
 
 6th. The Committee have, pursuant to authority given them, sold the prem- 
 ises No. 20 West Twenty-seventh street. The price was $32,500, free of 
 brokerage, the sale having been negotiated by one of the Committee person- 
 ally, and the purchaser introduced by our fellow-member, Mr. Coudert. Of 
 that price $12,500 was paid in cash and the purchaser (an incorporated Soci- 
 ety named the Xavier Union) assumed the mortgage for $20,000, which had 
 been given to Mrs. Ann Ord, as part of the price of 7 West Twenty-ninth 
 street. 
 
 7th. Referring again to the premises purchased, the Committee desire to 
 
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 point out that a small portion of the stable (standing mainly on adjoining lots) 
 encroaches upon the property of the Association. To guard against possible 
 difficulty in the future, its owners have been required by the Committee to 
 take a lease at nominal rent of the land so encroached on with covenant to 
 remove the encroaching portion at any time on a certain short notice, which 
 lease has been duly executed. 
 
 8th. The Committee would also call attention to the fact that the altera- 
 tions of the building have been so made as to facilitate the erection of and con- 
 venient access to a Hall, if hereafter built upon the vacant portion of the new 
 property ; and the new furnace which has been put into the existing building 
 is large enough also to heat such Hall. 
 
 9th. The Library of the Association was moved into the new building in 
 September and October, ISYo. The Committee at that time made certain 
 f designations of different parts of the house, which have been adopted in 
 practice, and need only to be specified here, namely : 
 
 First Floor. — Front room east, reception-room ; large room west, parlor ; 
 rear room east, reading-room. 
 
 Second Floor. — Small middle room in the rear, the librarian's room ; all 
 other rooms on this floor, the Library. 
 
 Third Floor. — Middle front room, for servant ; southeast room and two 
 adjoining rooms, for librarian and his family, who have also the southeast 
 room in the basement and the kitchen. The northwest room on fourth floor 
 is fitted up for examination of witnesses and holding of references in cases 
 when members of the Association may find it convenient — the use and ex- 
 pense of it to be regulated by the House Committee. The west room on 
 fourth floor, extending from front to rear, has been fitted up for a billiard-room, 
 pursuant to a vote of the Association. For that purpose S. L. M. Barlow, 
 Esq., has presented one billiard-table, and William P. Ketcham, Esq., has 
 loaned another for an indefinite time, both of which have been placed in the 
 billiard-room for the use of members. 
 
 10th. In regard to the judges' room, assuming it to be convenient and 
 desirable to the judges to make use of the Library and to meet habitually at 
 the house by day or evening, which can hardly be doubted, it is evidently 
 proper that a separate apartment should be furnished for that purpose. It 
 would be unsuitable, if not embarrassing, for them, while engaged in examin- 
 ing cases, to have to display the papers in suits and briefs of counsel in rooms 
 open to all members of the Association, including often the very counsel 
 whose briefs may be under examination, and obviously consultation among 
 the judges themselves would be impracticable, excejt in a place devoted 
 exclusively to their use. 
 
 11th. The Committee have provided accomodations in the Librarian's room 
 for the Secretary and each Committee to keep their records and papers under 
 separate lock and key ; and they venture to sugges-t that greater care in taking 
 and preserving records is desirable, or that the time may come when the 
 members will have occasion to lament the want of records of interesting and 
 important events in the action and history of the Association. It is believed 
 that the records of our doings as an Association, as well as of the events that 
 led to our organization, are very defective and that the materials for making 
 
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 them complete may be found utterly wanting;, if they are not secured with 
 some diligence at an early day. 
 
 12tli. The Committee desire fm'ther to report that the designation of the 
 northeast room, third storj-, as President's room, which they agreed upon at 
 the time when the Association took possession of the house, was made with 
 the expectation that before many years it would become desirable to appropri- 
 ate that room for certain classes of books. In the opinion of the Committee 
 the time has already come when this change should be made, and they there- 
 fore recommend that it be referred to the Executive Committee to have said 
 room suitably fitted up for the reception and use of all such books belonging 
 to the Association as are not required for current professional use. „., 
 
 All of which is respectfully submitted. ' ''-™ 
 
 (Signed) DORMAX B. EATON, ] 
 
 ^Xil. M. PRICHARD, I ., 
 
 S. P. NASH, [ 
 
 LEWIS L. DEL. AFIELD, J 
 
 CONTRIBUTIONS TO BUILDING FUND. 
 
 Adams, Charles D. (see firm) 
 
 Alvcrd, Alwyn A. (see firm) 
 
 Anderson, E, Ellery $2nO 
 
 Anderson, Henry H 500 
 
 Arnold, John H. V 130 
 
 Atterbnry, C. L , 50 
 
 Ball, James it. (firm) 100 
 
 Barlow, Samuel L. M. (see firm) 
 
 Barrett, William C 500 
 
 Barry, Thomas 6 25 
 
 Be ;11, John A. (see firm), 
 
 Beatnan, Charlfs C, Jr. (see finu) 
 
 Bell, Chirk 260 
 
 Boardiiian, Andrew 500 
 
 Boarduian, Samuel 150 
 
 Boiling, John M 10 
 
 Bowne, Richard H 600 
 
 Bright, Osborne E. (see finu) 
 
 Burrill. John E 600 
 
 Bush, J. A : 75 
 
 Butler, Cliarles E. (see firm) 
 
 Butler, William Allen (firm) 1,000 
 
 Bj-rne, Francis 25 
 
 Calvin. Delano C 100 
 
 Candler, Flaraen B. (see firm) 
 
 Carter, James C 500 ' 
 
 Chandler, James E 25 
 
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 Chittenden, Simeon B , Jr ,^25 
 
 Clioate, Josepli H, (see firm) 
 
 Choate, William G. (see firm) '. 
 
 Churcliill, Franklin H 25 
 
 CoKgeshall, Edwin W 2o 
 
 CoUes, George W 2.") 
 
 Connor, John C, Jr 25 
 
 Coudert, Charles, Jr. (see firm ; 
 
 Poudert, Frederick R. (firm) 500 
 
 Coudert, Louis L. (see firm) 
 
 Crane, Alexander B 30 
 
 Crosby, John P 100 
 
 Curti?, William E ogO 
 
 Da Costa, Charles JI ,^500 
 
 ; Davenport, John A. (see firm) 
 
 Davies, Henry E. (firm) 500 
 
 Dayies, JuHen T. (see firm) 
 
 Davison, Charles A 250 
 
 Day, Henry (see firm) 
 
 Dayton, Isaac 150 
 
 Dean, D, J 100 
 
 De Forest, Robert W. (firm) 250 
 
 Delafield, Lewis L 600 
 
 DeKay, Sidney 25 
 
 De Lanoey, F. Edward 100 
 
 , Dickerson, Edward X. (firm ) 500 
 
 Divine, Michael W. (see firm) 
 
 Di.ton, William P 25 
 
 ■Dunning, Benjamin F 250 
 
 Dwighl, Theodore W 250 
 
 Eaton, Dorman B 500 
 
 Edgerton, C. C 25 
 
 Edwards, Walter, Jr. (firm) 100 
 
 Ely, Moses 50 
 
 Bmmet, Richard S ino 
 
 Emott, James 500 
 
 Evarts, William M. (firm) 2,5: lO 
 
 Feeter, Jacob W 25 
 
 Fellows, Louis 50 
 
 Felt, Edwin M , 250 
 
 Flanagan, John R. (firm) 100 
 
 Poster, William R., Jr 25 
 
 Fox, Ansten G 50 
 
 Garrettson, Francis T 50 
 
 Gerard, James W 100 
 
 Gillender, Aug. T 50 
 
 Soldschmidt, George B 50 
 
 Gray, John C. (firm) 100 
 
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 Grimball, John (see firm) 
 
 Hall, Thomas D ,J50 
 
 Hamersley, J. Hooker : 25 
 
 Hamilton, E. Luther 25 
 
 Hand, Clifford A . 250 
 
 Harison, George D. L 60 
 
 Harison, Richard M. (sef firm) 
 
 Harnett, John H 25 
 
 Harris, Charles N 60 
 
 Harrison, Burton N 100 
 
 Hegeman, W. A. Ogdea 60 
 
 Henry, J. H 25 
 
 Hilton, E.B 60 
 
 Hinsdale, Elizur B 100 
 
 Hoppin, William W. Jr 25 
 
 Howe, Walter 50 
 
 Hubbard, Grosvenor S. (firm) 100 
 
 Hubbard, Thomas H. (see firm) 
 
 IngersoU, Charles D 25 
 
 Jackson, Theo. F 100 
 
 Jay, William (see firm) 
 
 .Jones, Walter R. T 25 
 
 Ketchum, Edgar 100 
 
 Kircheis, Alexander F 50 
 
 Knevals, Sherman W 50 
 
 Lane, Smith E 250 
 
 Larocque, Joseph (see firm) 
 
 L'lwrence, John S 60 
 
 Lee, Benjamin F. (firm). 260 
 
 Lee, William P 100 
 
 Leveridge, John W. C 50 
 
 Lord, Daniel D. (firm) 1,000 
 
 Lord, Daniel, Jr. (see firm)... 
 
 Lord, George De F. (.see firm) 
 
 Lowrey, Grosvenor P. (see firm) 
 
 Macdonough, Aug. R 100 
 
 Macfarland, William W. (see firm) 
 
 Man, Albon P. (firm) 1,000 
 
 Man, Frederick H 100 
 
 Man, William (see firm) 
 
 Marbury, Francis F 250 
 
 Marrin, John J 60 
 
 Martin, Isaac P. (firm) 2,000 
 
 Mathews, Albert 260 
 
 McAdam, Quentin 60 
 
 McDonald, John 30 
 
 Merrill, Payson 25 
 
 Meyer, Theo. F. H 125 
 
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 Miller, Charles E j!250 
 
 Miller, Charles I' 20 
 
 Mitchell, Edward 2.50 
 
 Mitchell, William 250 
 
 Mitchell, William, Jr 25 
 
 Morgan, James Appleton 50 
 
 Moses, Raphael, Jr . ; 25 
 
 Mosher, John F 25 
 
 Nash, John McLean lOQ 
 
 Nash, Stephen P 500 
 
 Norwood, Carlisle, J r 75 
 
 O'Conor, Charles 2,50 ) 
 
 Odell, Hamilton C. (see firm) 
 
 Ogden, Cadwalader E 25 
 
 Ogden, F. L , 25 
 
 Ogden. Gouverneur M 25 
 
 Ogden, Ludlow 25 
 
 Ogden, Thomas L 25 
 
 Olney, Peter B 50 
 
 Paddock, Franklin A 50 
 
 Parson, John E. (see firm) 
 
 Peckham, Wheeler H 250 
 
 Phelps, Benjamin K 250 
 
 Poor, Walter S 30 
 
 Porter, John K. (firm) 1,000 
 
 Potter, Clarkson N 500 
 
 Powell, Wilson M 100 
 
 ', Powers, William P 100 
 
 Price, Charles 50 
 
 Prichard, William M. (firm) 1,000 
 
 Biker, John H. (firm) 500 
 
 Riker, Sam'l (see firm) 
 
 Rives, Charles E. (see firm) 
 
 Rives, Francis R 150 
 
 Rives, G. L 60 
 
 Robinson, E. Randolph (see firm) 
 
 Rodman, Thomas H. (firm) 250 
 
 Rodman, Thomas H., Jr. (see firm) 
 
 Roe, Alfred 250 
 
 Roelker, Bernard 100 
 
 Boot, Elihu 100 
 
 Buggies, Horace M. (see firm) 
 
 Busaell, Horace 50 
 
 Sandford, Charles W 50 
 
 Sanford, Charles F 1,000 
 
 Scott, William H 500 
 
 Scribner, John M., Jr IOq 
 
 Scudder, Henry J 100 
 
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 Sedgwick, Henry D 
 
 Sewell, Robert 
 
 Shepard, Elliott F 
 
 Shepard. Francis N 
 
 Shipman, William D. (firm) 
 
 Skiilmore, Lemuel (firm) 
 
 Skidmore, William B., Jr. (see firm). 
 
 Smith, Augustus F (see firm ) 
 
 Smith, Duncan (see firm) 
 
 Smith, E. Delafield ". 
 
 Smith, Elliott (see firm) 
 
 Smith, George P 
 
 Smith, S. Sidney (see firm) 
 
 Smyth, Frederick 
 
 Snead, Thomas L. (firm) 
 
 Soren, (Jeorge W. (see firm) 
 
 Southmayd, Charles F. ^see firm). . . 
 
 Speir, Gilbert M 
 
 Spencer, James C 
 
 Starr, George H 
 
 Starr, Peter (firm) 
 
 Sterne, Simon 
 
 Stedman, E. G 
 
 Stetson, Francis L. (firm) 
 
 Stickney, Albert 
 
 Stillman, Granville P 
 
 Stillman, Thos. E. (see firm) 
 
 Stone, Charles F. (see firm) , . , 
 
 Stoughton, Edwin W 
 
 Strong, Charles E 
 
 Strong, Theron Geo 
 
 Strauss, 0. S. (firm) 
 
 Tailer, Henry A ' 
 
 Thomasson, John J 
 
 Tilden, Samuel J 
 
 Tompkins, H. B 
 
 Tracy, Charles 
 
 Tracy, Charles Edward 
 
 Tracy, J. Evarts (see firm) 
 
 Tunstall, R. R 
 
 Turner, John H 
 
 Turney, Paschal W. (see firm) 
 
 Tweed, Charles H. (see firm) 
 
 Vanderpoel, Aaron J 
 
 Van Santvoord, Cornelius. 
 
 Van Slyek, Geo. W 
 
 Van Winkle, Edgar S. (firm) 
 
 Varnum, James M. (firm) 
 
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 Walker, Stephen A. (firm) |1 00 
 
 Warren.IraD ]00 
 
 Weeks, Francis H. (firm) 50 
 
 Wetmore, Edmund 50 
 
 Wheeler, Everett P 500 
 
 Whitney, William C 250 
 
 Wilcox, Franklin A 50 
 
 Williamson, David B 30 
 
 Willis, William H., Jr 25 
 
 Winterton, William B 100 
 
 Wood, Dennistown 20 
 
 Work, James Henry (see firm) 
 
 Woodbury, Charles H 50 
 
 Woodruff, Charles H. (see firm) , 
 
 Wright, George W 25 
 
 TouDg. Mason 500 
 
 ' Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 Bacon, Edward N 25 
 
 145,650 
 
 REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
 
 To the Association of the Bar : 
 
 In pursuance of the requirement of the Thirteenth By-Law of the Associa- 
 tion, the Executive Committee submilstlio following summary of its proceed- 
 ings since its last annual report: 
 
 All the regular meetings of the Committee required by the By-Laws have 
 been duly held and wetl attended by the members of the Co.Timittee. One 
 special meeting was held. 
 
 It is not supposed to bo desirable or proper to recapitulate the details of the 
 ordinary current business which necessarily occupies most of the time of the 
 Committee, especially as the minutes of the Committee are read at length at 
 each meeting of the Association. 
 
 The matters of special interest which have been acted on by the Committee 
 were as follows : 
 
 February. — It was resolved to employ suitable counsel to represent the 
 Association and assist in conducting the proceedings then pending before Hon. 
 Wra. H. l^eonard. Referee, for the removal of Titus B. Eldridge from the Bar; 
 and an appropriation of $500 for the expense thereof was voted, subject to the 
 approval of the Association, which approval was given at the next meeting of 
 the Association. 
 
 Mr. Lewis L. Delafield was selected as such counsel, and has conducted the 
 affair with his accustomed energy and ability, endina:, to this time, with an 
 elaborate argument before the General Term of the Supreme Court, in wbpse 
 fesfldathe matter §till remains nn^ecide^. 
 
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 After the March meeting of the Association, allegations were presented to 
 the Chairman of the Committee, to the effect that a serious error had occurred 
 in the counting of votes upon admission of a candidate for membership. A 
 special meeting of the Committee was called, at which the Treasurer was 
 instructed to withhold, in this case, the usual notice to the candidate that he 
 had been elected. 
 
 A thorough investigation of the matter was afterwards made by a special 
 committee, whose conclusion was, iu substance, that the candidate in question 
 had not received the number of votes requisite for admission. But, on Iho 
 presentation of this report, the Association refused to confirm it, and in effect 
 adopted the principle that, in respect to election of members, it would not go 
 ' behind the rejjort of the tellers aj:)poiuled to count the ballots. 
 
 Mav. — The privileges of the library and reading-room for three months were 
 voted to Mr. K. de Traccy Gould. 
 
 June. — Notice of proposed amendment to the Ninth By-Law was received 
 by the Committee, and a sub-committee was appointed to consider the whole 
 subject of that By-Law, and report a consistent scheme for the amendment 
 thereof, if they should deem amendment necessary. 
 
 At the same meeting Mr. Van WinWe informed the Committee that he had 
 been served with a suhpuma dncix tecum, seeking to compel him to produce the 
 records and disclose the action of the Committee on Grievances, at a time when 
 he was a m eniber of that Committee ; and it was resolved to appoint counsel to 
 resist sueh an attempt. Mr. Aaron J. Vanderpoel accepted that ' duty, and, 
 before the Referee, and afterwards before (lie Court, triumphantly vindicated 
 the refusal of Mr. Van Winkle to testify. 
 
 The Committee regarded Mr. Vanderpoel as having rendered important 
 and valuable services in this case, and were ready to pay him a proper counsel 
 fee, but he declined receiving any compensation. 
 
 OoTOBEB. — At this meeting, in view of the possible results of a fire, it was 
 resolved that a complete copy of the catalogue of books and inventory of all 
 furniture in the house be made and kepit by the Treasurer away from the house. 
 
 This copy and inventory have been prepared in book form, and are now 
 ready for the Treasurer. 
 
 By a letter from a gentleman residing at Topeka, Kansas, the attention of 
 the Committee was called to a scandalous advertisement on the subject of 
 divorces, purporting to come from one A. J. Dexter, Tribune Building, New 
 York ; and a sub-committee was appointed to investigate the matter. They 
 were unable to find the man, although he had previously had an office in that 
 building. 
 
 They were also unable to find his name upon the roll of attorneys in this 
 County, and the matter was dropped. 
 
 A committee was appointed to inquire as to the advantages promised by the- 
 Municipal Gas-Light Company. 
 
 November. — On report of that committtee, the Municipal Gas-Lrght Com- 
 pany was permitted to introduce their gas into the house. 
 
 It cannot be said that the experiment has yet been fairly tried, either as to 
 the quality or the price of this gas. 
 
 At the same meeting, another sub-committee was appointed to see it Bome 
 better method 6f lighting the library and reading-room could not be found. 
 
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 December. — The sub-committee reported in favor of a change of gas-burnera, 
 globes, etc., and were directed to procure same. 
 
 The proposed changes have been made in part, and are nearly completed 
 
 It ia believed that the light is much improved in the library, and the heat 
 from the burners greatly reduced. 
 
 The last meeting of the Committee was held on 4th January, 1 877. 
 
 Auditors were elected to examine the Treasurer's accounts, the Association 
 having omitted to elect same at the December meeting. 
 
 The sum of f 10,000, now on deposit in New York Life Insurance and Trutt 
 Company, was appropriated towards a sinliing fund to pay off the balance of 
 the mortgage upon 7 West Twenty -ninth street, when it falls due (April SOtli, 
 1880). 
 
 Aresolution was passed inviting the Executive Committee of the State Bar 
 Association to hold its intended meeting in January in the house of this Asso- 
 ciation. 
 
 New York, January 7, 1878. 
 
 WM. M. PRICHARD, 
 Theron Gkoeoe Strong, Chairman. 
 
 Secretary Sxeculive Committee. 
 
 REPORT OF THE LIBRARY COMMITTEE, 
 
 January, 1878. 
 Tb (he Association of the Bar : 
 
 The Library Committee respectfully reports that the total number of 
 volumes in the Library is 12,250. » 
 
 Of these there have been purchased by the Association, 8,822. 
 
 Received by donation from members of the Association and others, 3,428. 
 
 The increase in the number of volumes for the last year has been as follows : 
 
 By purchase 1,300 
 
 By donation 221 
 
 Total 1,621 
 
 The total amount expended for books has been as follows : 
 
 Previous to the year 1877 |36,097 00 
 
 During the year 1877 4,308 34 
 
 Total cost of Library to the Association $40,405 34 
 
 Annexed to this report is a list of the donations to the Library during the 
 past year, with the names of the donors. 
 • All of which is respectfully submitted. 
 Dated New York, January, 1878. 
 
 JAMES EMOTT, ") 
 
 IRA D. WARREN, | 
 
 AARON J. VANDERPOEL, }- Committee. 
 ELIAL F. HALL, | 
 
 ° ■ JOHN M. SCRIBNER, Jr., J ' 
 
DONATIONS 
 
 VOL. 
 
 State Department, U- S. : 
 
 Foreign Relations of the United States, 1876. , 1 
 
 Lewis L. Delafield, Esq. ; 
 
 Delafield's Laws Relating to ChiWren 1 
 
 COMMISSIONEES OF EDUCATION: 
 
 Report for 1875 , 1 
 
 H. R. WiNTHEOP, Esq. . 
 
 Colquhoun on the Police 1 
 
 Chancery Rules 1 
 
 Doctor and Student 1 
 
 Espinasse on Evidence 1 
 
 Woodfall's Landlord and Tenant 1 
 
 Law of Corporations 1 
 
 Lex Mercatoria 1 
 
 Ma Comb's Martial Law 1 
 
 Memoirs R. I. Bar 1 
 
 Saunders on Pleadings and Evidence 2 
 
 M". Y. Codes and Will of R. R. Randall 3 
 
 Bacon's Abridgment and La Graunde Abridgment. 6 
 
 Messrs. Stephens & Hatnes : 
 
 Notes upon Gray's Inn ; 1 
 
 JouN Davis, Esq. . 
 
 Court of Commissioners, Alabama Claims, Records 5i 
 
 State Depahtment, U. S. ; 
 
 Digest of Opinions of Attorney-General 1 
 
 R. DE Tracy Gould, Esq. : 
 
 Goudsmit on Roman Law 1 
 
 Hon. Charles Rapallo : 
 
 Cases and Points in Court of Appeals 45 
 
 Department of State, U. S. : 
 
 Proceedings in Trial of Belknap 1 
 
 Senate Journal, 1875-6 1 
 
 House of Representatives' Journal 1 
 
 Hon. James C. Spencer : 
 
 Cases and Points in Superior Court 7 
 
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 Hon. James Emott : 
 
 Voet's Commentaries 4 
 
 Calendar of Land Papers I 
 
 American Law Register, B2 Nos. 
 American Law Times and Reports, 86 Nos. 
 
 John 0. Sargent, Esq. ; 
 
 Annual Register , 
 
 Hon. Elijah Ward : 
 
 Speeches of Elijah Ward 
 
 Austin Abbott, Esq. : 
 
 Addenda to Abbott's Digest 
 
 Messrs. Robert Clarke & Co. : 
 
 Digest of Law Publications 
 
 Messrs. S. M. Pettengill & Co. : 
 
 Pettengill's Newspaper Directory, 187Y 
 
 Commissioner of Education : 
 
 Public Libraries of the United States 
 
 Board of Police Justices : 
 
 Annual Report for IS16 
 
 Elial F. Hall, Esq. : 
 
 Congressional Globe, 1869-70. 
 
 C. Wyllts Betts, Esq. : 
 
 Holbrook Will Case 
 
 Raphael J. Moses, Esq. ; 
 
 Code of West Virginia, 1868., 
 Acts of Virsrinia, 1836-7 
 
 Calvin G. Child, Esq. : 
 
 Statutes of Connecticut, 1854 
 
 Hon. Charles A. Rapallo : 
 
 Assembly and Senate Documents, 1876 
 
 Montgomery H. Throop, Esq. : 
 
 Code of Civil Procedure, Standard Text 
 
 A. A. Redkield, Esq. : 
 
 Rediield's Sui'rogate Reports, Vol. 2 
 
 Secretary of State, K. Y. : 
 
 Canal Investigating Commission Documents. 
 
 D, B. Eaton, Esq. : 
 
 Archbold's Criminal Pleadings 
 
 Beccaria on Crimes 
 
 Blackburn on Contract of Sale 
 
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 VOL. 
 
 Blake's Treatise 
 
 Boseawen on Penal Statutes 
 
 Blydenburg on Usury 
 
 Bridgen on Surrogates 
 
 Blunt's Commercial Digest 
 
 Comyns' Reports and Douglas' Reports 
 
 East's Pleas of the Crown 2 
 
 Eden on Injunctions, Fonblanquo's Eq 2 
 
 Lawe's Charter Parlies, Mitford's Ch. Pleadings 2 
 
 Montagu on Set-ofF, Owen on Bankruptcy 2 
 
 Peere Williams' Reports, 3 ; Plowden's Reports, 2 .... 6 
 
 Robinson's Practice, Vol. 1 1 
 
 Salkeld's Reports, S v. ; Selwin's Nisi Prins, S 6 
 
 Story's Pleadings in Civil Actions 1 
 
 Vernon's Reports, 1 ; Tidd's Practice, 2 3