LEGAL EDUCATION AND ADMISSION TO BAR knows thoroughly, inexactness being the most dangerous of intellectual vices; but, since "studies teach not their own use, that being a wisdom without them and won by observation," the applicant must have something more than mere knowledge; he should be made to show, when a state of facts is presented, that he knows how to apply the principles that the examination discloses he knows. If he cannot do that, he is not ready for admission, though he may know by heart, Constitutions, Codes and Statutes, such knowledge proving nothing more than an ability to memorize, not capacity to analyze. Unless the rules of evidence are soon to become mere geological specimens of a paleazoic age, candidates for admission should be required to prove a familiarity with those rules, and should be made to show an appreciation of the principle, that evidence must be confined to the point at issue. If the candidate demonstrates that he is no respecter of persons, that he demands, before acceptance of a proposition, whether announced as Law by Court or Lawyer, that that proposition be made to give a rational account of itself, he will, as a Lawyer, become a maker of sound jurisprudence and cause the overruling of unsound opinions. ROBERT H. MARR, Chairman Your Committee on Publications submits herewith its report for the years ending with the meeting held in Gulfport, Mississippi, on April 30, 1914. The work of your Committee is embodied in the fourteenth volume of the Louisiana Bar Association Reports, which contains a report of the proceedings and the meetings held in New Orleans on June 22, 1912; April 11 and 12, 1913; and May 24 and 31, 1913. The proceedings of these three meetings are bound in one volume due to the fact that the proceedings of the meeting held on June 22, 1912, and on May 24 and 31, 1913, were comparatively brief and your Committee thought that by combining the proceedings of these meetings in one volume an interesting volume could be published with a saving of considerable expense. The meeting held in June, 1912, owing to the flood conditions prevailing throughout the Southern States was confined entirely to business matters, the regular programme being postponed to the following year. The meeting held in April, 1913, was the regular annual meeting, combining both the business and affairs of the Association and a PUBLICATION COMMITTEE number of interesting and able papers. The last meeting, May, 1913, was a special meeting called to consider the report of the Committee on Revision of the Notarial System. A copy of the fourteenth volume has been forwarded to each member of the Association. The total cost of printing and publishing the volume aforesaid, together with all incidental expenses, amounts to the sum of $867.90 and your Committee has approved the following bills which make up the said amount, to-wit: Barnes-Crosby Co. Photogravures. E. P. Andree Printing Co. To printing 600 books, 250 pages... .... 209 extra pages at $1.25.. "Extra composition and make up.... "Insurance, casing, drayage and extra $30.00 272.00 65.00 Of this amount the sum of $704.75 was expended before the annual meeting on April 30, 1914, and the balance, or $163.15, was expended subsequent to said meeting. Respectfully submitted HENRY P. DART, JR. Chairman APPENDIX J REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON UNIFORM STATE LAWS WILLIAM O. HART, CHAIRMAN To the Officers and Members of the Louisiana Bar Association: GENTLEMEN: Your undersigned Committee on Uniform State Laws begs to report as follows: Since the last annual meeting of the Association, the TwentyThird Annual Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws was held in the City of Montreal, August 26 to 30, 1913, when were present commissioners from thirty-three States, the District of Columbia, the Territory of Hawaii and Porto Rico, being one more than the previous year; but, owing to other engagements, Senator J. R. Thornton and Col. I. D. Wall, two of the Commissioners from Louisiana, were unable to be present, your chairman attending and representing Louisiana. Mr. Charles T. Terry, of New York City, was re-elected president; Mr. Rome G. Brown, of Minneapolis, and well known in New Orleans, was elected vice-president; Mr. Clarence N. Woolley, of Rhode Island, was re-elected secretary, and Mr. T. H. Russell, of Connecticut, was re-elected treasurer. Your chairman was re-appointed chairman of the committees on (1) Wills, Descent and Distribution; and (2) Publicity, and was also re-appointed as a member of the Committee on Commercial Law, which is the most important committee of the conference, and also of the Committee on the Appointment of New Commissioners, and was re-appointed a member of the special |