PAGE. Address by Governor Baldwin in presenting his paper on Sim- plification of Procedure in Connecticut.......... Election of Governor Baldwin as an honorary member.. Discussion of Governor Baldwin's paper, by J. Noble Hayes... Report of the Special Committee on the Commitment and Dis- charge of the Criminal Insane... Resolution presented by Charles A. Boston relative to the Discussion on the report of the Committee on the Commitment Remarks of C. Andrade, Jr., in presenting his paper. Paper by George Gordon Battle and Joseph M. Proskauer. Remarks of Ansley Wilcox in presenting report of Committee on Amendment of the Election Law with regard to Judicial Report of Committee on Amendment of the Election Law with Resolution presented by Committee on Amendment of Election Law with regard to Judicial Candidates...... Resolution of Cayuga County Bar Association, referred to Com- Annual address by Honorable Philander C. Knox.. Election of Secretary Knox as an honorary member.. MORNING SESSION, January 20, 1912.... Resolution relative to adoption of amendment to the Constitution of the State with regard to Workmen's Compensation.... Remarks of Neal Dow Becker in presenting his paper.. Paper by Neal Dow Becker. Communication from Calvin S. McChesney. Resolution on appointment of Committee on Judicial Statistics.. AFTERNOON SESSION. January 20, 1912..... Resolution presented by Frederick B. Campbell that Com- mittee on Workmen's Compensation be enlarged and Resolution offered by Francis Lynde Stetson upon the general Report of the Committee on Law Reform.. Resolution referring to Committee on Law Reform the question as to necessity for longer retaining certain constitutional and statutory provisions relative to testimony of persons Resolution relative to appointment of a Committee on Publication Resolution re ative to introduction and passage of bill author- izing Board of Statutory Consolidation to report a plan for the classification and simplification of the practice in Resolution relative to the preparation of an index to the Session Motion that certain Special Committees be continued. Proceedings at the annual dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria.. annual addresses since 1878..... papers read before the Association since 1877. members, alphabetically arranged 659 LAWS OF NEW YORK-1877 CHAPTER 210. "AN ACT to incorporate the New York State Bar Association" PASSED May 2, 1897: The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION I. The members of the voluntary association, which was formed in the city of Albany, November twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, under the name of the New York State Bar Association, of which association John K. Porter, of the first judicial district, is president, and Charles W. Sanford, of the first judicial district; John J. Armstrong, of the second judicial district; Samuel Hand, of the third judicial district; Platt Potter, of the fourth judicial district; William C. Ruger, of the fifth judicial district; Horatio Ballard, of the sixth judicial district; James L. Angle, of the seventh judicial district, and Myron H. Peck, of the eighth judicial district, are vice-presidents, and of which the judges of the United States Courts, residing in this State, the judges of the Court of Appeals, and justices of the Supreme Court of this State are honorary members, and all persons who shall hereafter be associated with them are hereby created a body corporate, under the name of the "New York State Bar Association." And the said association is formed to cultivate the science of jurisprudence, to promote reform in the law, to facilitate the administration of justice, to elevate the standard of integrity, honor and courtesy in the legal profession, and to cherish the spirit of brotherhood among the members thereof. SEC. 2. Said corporation shall have power to acquire by lease or purchase, suitable buildings, 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. SEC. 3. The constitution, by-laws, rules and regulations originally adopted by said voluntary association shall be the constitution, by-laws, rules and regulations of the corporation hereby created, which shall have power from time to time to alter, modify and change the same; and the members of the executive committee of said association shall be the first trustees of the corporation hereby created, and continue to be such trustees until others are elected in their places as prescribed by said constitution and by-laws, and the several officers and committees of said association shall be the officers and committees of the corporation hereby created with the powers and duties prescribed by said constitution and by-laws, rules and regulations, until their successors shall be similarly duly elected and installed. SEC. 4. All property, rights and interests of the said association now held by any or either of the officers thereof, or by 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, if any; all interest of any member of said association, and of the corporation hereby created, in such property, shall terminate and vest in the corporations upon his ceasing to be a member thereof. SEC. 5. This 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. This corporation shall deposit a copy of its charter, constitution and by-laws, and of each of its annual reports, in the State Library at Albany, and each of the libraries provided for the use of the justices of the Supreme Court in the several counties of the State. It shall be the duty of every local bar association to deposit with the New York State Bar Association, a copy of its act or certificate of incorporation, or its articles of association, and its constitution and by-laws and its annual report. SEC. 6. This act shall take effect immediately. |