BY-LAWS. MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION. I. The Executive Committee, at its first meeting after each annual meeting, shall select some person to make an address at the next annual meeting, and not exceeding six members of the Association to read papers. II. The order of exercises at the annual meeting shall be as follows: (a) Opening address by the President. (b) Nomination and election of Members. (c) Election of General Council and of the Local Council. (d) Report of Secretary and Treasurer. (e) Report of Executive Committee. (f) Report of Standing Committees in the order named in Article 3 of the Constitution. (g) Reports of Special Committees. (h) Nomination of Officers. (i) Reading of papers provided for in section 1 of the By-Laws. (j) Miscellaneous business. (k) Election of Officers. The address to be delivered by a person invited by the Executive Committee, shall be made at the morning session of the second day of the annual meeting. III. No person shall speak more than ten minutes at a time or more than twice on one subject. A stenographer shall be employed by the Executive Committee at each annual meeting. IV. All papers read before the Association shall be lodged with the Secretary. The annual address of the President, the reports of the committees and all proceedings of the annual meeting shall be printed; but no other address made or paper presented shall be printed, except by order of the Committee on Publication, who shall furnish one hundred copies separately bound of every paper or address published to the author thereof. OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES. V. The term of office of all officers, including the Council, elected at an annual meeting, shall commence at the adjournment of such meeting. VI. The President shall appoint all committees within thirty days after the annual meeting, and shall announce them to the Secretary; and the Secretary shall promptly give notice to the persons appointed. The General and Local Councils and all Standing Committees shall have authority to fill all vacancies existing and occurring in their respective bodies. VII. The Council and standing Committees shall meet on the day preceding each annual meeting, at the place where the same is to be held, at such hour as their respective chairmen shall appoint. VIII. The Committee on Publication shall also meet within one month after their appointment, at such time and place as the chairman shall appoint. IX. Special meetings of any committees shall be held at such times and places as the chairman thereof may appoint. Reasonable notice shall be given by him to each member by mail. ANNUAL DUES. X. The annual dues shall be payable in advance, at the annual meeting in each year. If any member makes default in the payment of his annual dues, the Treasurer shall give such delinquent notice of this by-law by circular, mailed to his address, as shown by the roll of members in the office of the secretary, at least thirty days before the next annual meeting, and if any delinquent shall fail to pay such dues before the commencement of the annual meeting next after such default he shall stand suspended, and shall not thereafter be qualified to exercise any privileges of membership until all arrearages shall be fully paid. No person who has heretofore forfeited his membership in this Association, by reason of non-payment of dues, shall be nominated for membership by the General Council, or by any Local Council, until all past arrearages of dues that accrued prior to his suspension have been fully paid. The names of all who have heretofore forfeited their membership by non-payment of dues, and of all members who shall be suspended for non-payment of dues, by virtue of this by-law, and who shall continue to neglect to pay such dues until the proceedings of the annual meeting next after such suspension have been compiled for publication, shall be, by the Treasurer, dropped from the published list of the members of the Association. Any member of this Association against whom no charges are pending, and whose annual dues are fully paid, may terminate his membership by filing with the Executive Committee a written resignation, and said Committee shall report the names of the members so resigning at the next annual meeting. At any time the Executive Committee may reinstate any person whose name has been dropped from the roll of membership, or relieve any member from the payment of delinquent dues, upon such terms as to the Committee may seem just. XI. At any of the meetings of the Association, members of the Bar of any foreign country or of any State, who are not members of the Association may be admitted to the privileges of the floor during such meeting. ANNUAL DINNER. XII. The Executive Committee shall provide at each annual meeting a suitable reception and dinner, to be given at the expense of the Association, at which dinner each member of the Association may be accompanied by one lady. LEGAL BIOGRAPHY. XIII. The Committee on Legal Biography shall consist of five members, of whom the Secretary shall be one. The remaining four members shall be appointed by the President within thirty days after each annual meeting. It shall be the duty of this committee to collect and provide for the preservation, among the archives of the Association of suitable written or printed memorials of the lives and characters of its deceased members, and to make the report thereof at each annual meeting. XIV. ANNUAL MEETING. The Association shall meet annually, at such times as may be designated by the Executive Committee. RULES OF PROCEDURE. XV. The proceedings of all the meetings of the Association shall be governed by the rules contained in Cushing's Manual. XVI. There shall be a standing committee of this Association, to be known as the Committee of Statutory Amendments, which shall be constituted as other standing committees are constituted, whose duty it shall be to consider all amendments to the statutes of this State that may be submitted to them, and if they think proper, recommend the passage of the same, and all such other amendments as they may deem necessary to the legislature. |