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THE SECRETARY: We have not elected the officers yet.

MR. W. O. HART: What about the Supreme Court amendment?

THE PRESIDENT: We are not going to do anything with it. We are not going to bring it up. Mr. Furlow's motion is that the Committee on Jurisprudence and Law Reform be requested to report at the special meeting in regard to the bill about costs. If there is no objection, it will be so ordered.

The next order of business is the election of President. That is the first office to be elected.

MR. ROGERS: As the hour is late, I will omit the flowers, and content myself with merely nominating Mr. Benjamin W. Kernan, of New Orleans, as President.

The nomination was seconded.

THE PRESIDENT: Is there a Vice President who can put the motion?

No answer.

THE SCRETARY: Are there any other nominations?

It was moved and seconded that the nominations be closed.

THE SECRETARY: It has been moved and seconded that the nominations be closed, and that Mr. Kernan be elected President by acclamation.

The motion was unanimously carried.

THE PRESIDENT: I made my speech at Gulfport some days ago.

A VOICE: Say it over again.

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THE PRESIDENT: The next office to be elected is that of Vice President from the First District, which includes the Parish of Orleans. Nominations are in order.

MR. FLORANCE: I move that Mr. Purnell M. Milner, of New Orleans, be nominated and nominations be closed, and that he be elected by acclamation.

The motion was seconded.

The motion was unanimously carried.

THE PRESIDENT: The next is a Vice President from the Second District.

MR. ROMAIN: I move that Mr. G. W. Jack, of Shreveport, be nominated and the nominations be closed and he be elected by acclamation.

The motion was seconded and unanimously carried.

THE PRESIDENT: The next is from the Third Vice Presidential District.

MR. ROMAIN: I move that Mr. Charles A. McCoy, of Lake Charles, be nominated, nominations closed, and he be elected by acclamation.

The motion was seconded and unanimously carried.

THE PRESIDENT: The next is a Vice President from the Fourth Vice Presidential District; Edward T. Weeks, of New Iberia, is the present incumbent.

MR. ROMAIN: I make the same motion in regard to him.

The motion was seconded and he was unanimously elected.

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THE PRESIDENT: The next office is that of SecretaryTreasurer.

On motion duly seconded, Mr. Charles A. Duchamp was elected.

MR. ROMAIN: I move that we do now adjourn.

The meeting thereupon adjourned.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE SPECIAL MEETING OF THE LOUISIANA BAR ASSOCIATION HELD IN NEW

ORLEANS, JUNE 6, 1914

The meeting was called to order by President Benjamin W. Kernan.

THE PRESIDENT: The meeting will please come to order. Gentlemen, this meeting is called to consider the drafts of the acts, to be submitted to the Legislature, covering the reforms in the notarial system recommended at the meetings held May 24 and 31, 1913, and also to consider the report of the Executive Committee on the proposed legislation referred to it at the meeting held on Saturday May 16, 1914.

At that meeting the Executive Committe was directed to consider the bill to revise the statutes of the State.

MR. W. O. HART: Unless Mr. Wolff is here, I would ask that it lay over until he comes. He is more interested in that than any one else.

THE PRESIDENT: I was only about to say what measures the Committee had been directed to consider. The Executive Committee, at its last meeting, reached the conclusion that it did not favor the bill for a revision of the revised statutes, as there have been several editions of the statutes revised to date, and there is now in course of preparation an edition which will contain the statutes and amendments and all laws of a general nature. The matter, however, is before you for such action as you desire to take.

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The measure, now pending in the General Assembly, for the adoption by the City of New Orleans of the unit system of assessment, was taken up by your Executive Committee, and is now reported back to you, without action.

Your Executive Committee approves the proposed amendment to the Constitution giving the City Courts concurrent jurisdiction with the District Courts from $100.00 to $500.00.

Your Executive Committee also approves the suggestion that an official journal for the Parish of Orleans be selected in the event that the French advertising be discontinued A bill to this effect was drawn and sent to Senator Parkerson. It may be, however, that this measure may not be acted upon until the next session of the General Assembly, as the French publications appear to have been given a new lease of life up to July, 1916.

A special Legislative Committee was appointed to draft measures looking to the reduction of Court costs, and it is probable that the Committee, of which Mr. William B. Grant is Chairman, is prepared to report to you to-day.

In obedience to the instructions from the Association, I have appointed a special committee to go to Baton Rouge and work against the repeal of the Pleadings Act. That Committee is still at work. The Committee was granted a very courteous hearing by the Senate Joint Judiciary, and, after three or four hours of discussion, the vote to report on the bill resulted in a tie, eight to eight. The matter will doubtless be taken up at some future time as I have not yet been advised what action the committee has taken. The Chairman of the Committee promised that he would notify me when the Committee reported.

The Committee continued its labors, and appeared before the