THE PRESIDENT: The next in order is the election of a secretary of the Association.

JUDGE I. H. PERES: Mr. Chairman, I take great pleasure in nominating Mr. Lee Winchester of Memphis for re-election to the office of secretary of the Association.

JUDGE FENTRESS:

I second the nomination.

MR. L. D. BEJACH: I would like to move that the president cast the entire vote of the Association for Mr. Winchester for secretary of the Association.

The motion was duly seconded and unanimously carried.

THE PRESIDENT: The motion is unanimously carried, and I have the pleasure of casting the entire vote of the Association for Mr. Winchester as secretary of the Association.

JUDGE JULIAN WILSON: Mr. President, I want the president of the Association to extend, on my behalf an invitation to the members of the Association and their wives to be sure to meet the Attorney-General and myself at my home this evening, just after eight o'clock, and to say to the Association that neither the AttorneyGeneral nor myself expect to wear evening suits. We have found something else.

THE PRESIDENT: You have heard the announcement of Judge Wilson that all the visiting members of the Association and local members and their wives meet the Attorney-General and Judge Wilson at his home this evening, shortly after eight o'clock. I am sure that we visiting members will certainly enjoy the evening. Is there any further business?

JUDGE WILSON: Delegates should be selected to the American Bar Association.

THE PRESIDENT: That is true, three from the State. I believe these delegates are elected, one from each grand division of the State. Whom will you have for your delegate from West Tennessee?

MR. D. W. DEHAVEN: I nominate Judge Wilson for West Tennessee.

JUDGE FENTRESS: I second the nomination.

MR. MADDIN: I nominate Mr. Norvell for Middle

Tennessee.

MR. W. E. NORVELL, Jr.: I thank you very much; but I haven't got money enough to go that far.

THE PRESIDENT: I don't think that will be any objection. Mr. Maddin will lend you the money. Whom will you have for East Tennessee.

A MEMBER: Athens, Tennessee.

I nominate Col. H. M. Chandler, of

THE PRESIDENT: You have heard the nominations. Will someone make the usual motion?

MR. CAMPBELL YERGER: Mr. President, I move that the nominations be closed and the secretary be authorized to cast the vote of the Association for the three members nominated.

The motion was seconded and unanimously carried. THE SECRETARY: I cast the vote of the convention for Judge Julian Wilson, from West Tennessee; Mr. W. E. Norvell, Jr., from Nashville, Tennessee, for Middle Tennessee, and Col. H. M. Chandler, from Athens, Tennessee, for East Tennessee, as delegates to the American Bar Association.

MR. MADDIN: Mr. President, I move if anyone finds that he cannot go that the president have authority to fill the vacancy.

MR. CAMPBELL YERGER: I second the motion.

The motion was carried.

THE PRESIDENT: What is the further pleasure of the Association? Is there any further business, Mr. Winchester, in the regular order of business?

MR. WINCHESTER: Nothing further.

THE PRESIDENT: If not, a motion for adjournment is in order.

A motion for adjournment was made and duly seconded, and carried, and the meeting was accordingly adjourned.

CONSTITUTION

ARTICLE I.

Objects.

The objects of the Association are to foster legal science, maintain the honor and dignity of the profession of law, to cultivate professional ethics and social intercourse among its members, and to promote improvements in the law and the modes of its administration.

ARTICLE II.

Election of Members.

All nominations for membership shall be made by the Local Council of a county or Bar Association, when such Local Council or Bar Association exists; when there is no such Local Council or Bar Association in any county, nominations for such county shall be made by the Central Council. All nominations thus made or approved shall be reported by the council to the Association, and all whose names are reported thereupon become members of the Association; provided, that if any member demands a vote upon any name thus reported the Association shall thereupon vote thereon by ballot. Five negative votes shall be sufficient to defeat any election for membership. But interim, the Central Council, upon recommendation of any Local Council, shall have power to elect applicants to membership.

ARTICLE III.

Membership.

Any person shall be eligible to membership in this Association who shall be a member of the Bar of this State, in good standing, and who shall also be nominated as herein provided.

ARTICLE IV.
Officers.

The officers of this Association shall consist of one President, three Vice-Presidents, a Secretary and Treasurer, a Central Council, who shall be the Board of Directors, under the charter, to be chosen by this Association. One of the members of the Central Council shall be its chairman. Each of these officers shall be elected at

each annual meeting for the next ensuing year, but the same person shall not be elected President for two years in succession. All such elections shall be by ballot. The officers elected shall hold office until their successors are elected and qualified according to the Constitution and By-Laws.

ARTICLE V.

Central Council.

The Central Council shall consist of nine members, to be appointed by the President, three members thereof. to be appointed by the President electd at the 1911 meeting for a term of three years, three to be appointed for a term of two years, three to be appointed for a term of two years, three to be appointed for a term of one year, and the President elected at each succeeding annual meeting of the Association thereafter, will appoint three members of the Central Council for a term of three years. The Central Council shall be at all times an advisory board of consultation and conference, when called on for that purpose by the President, or any Vice-President, who may, for the time being, be acting as President.

ARTICLE VI.

Local Council.

The President, by and with the advice and consent of the Central Council, may establish a Local Council in any county in the State by issuing a warrant to that effect, naming therein the persons composing such Local Council. Each Local Council shall consist of not less than three, nor more than seven members. No person shall be eligible to appointment as a member of any Local Council who is not at the time a member of this Association.

ARTICLE VII.

Election of Members.

All members of this Convention signing the charter, and all members elected as herein provided shall become members of the Association upon the payment of the admission fee as herein provided for. But after the adjournment of this Convention all nominations for membership shall be made as herein provided.

ARTICLE VIII.

Each member shall pay three dollars to the Treasurer as annual dues, and no person shall be qualified to exercise any privilege of membership who is in default. Such dues shall be payable, and the payment thereof enforced, as may be provided by the By-Laws. Members shall be entitled to receive all publications of the Association free of charge. The admission fee shall be three dollars, to be paid as the member is elected. The admission fee shall be in lieu of all dues for the first year.

ARTICLE IX.

Adoption or Amendments of By-Laws.

By-Laws may be adopted or amended at any annual meeting of the Association by a majority of the members present.

ARTICLE X.
Committees.

Section 1. There shall be Standing Committees of this Association as follows, viz.: 1. On Jurisprudence and Law Reform; 2. 2. On Judicial Administration and Remedial Procedure; 3. On Legal Education and Admission to the Bar; 4. On Legislation; 5. On Grievances. The five committees hereby and just before created shall each consist of nine members, to be appointed by the President. Three of the members of each of said committees shall be appointed by the President elected at the 1911 meeting, for a term of three years, and three for a term of two years, and three for a term of one year, and the President elected at each succeeding annual meeting of the Association thereafter will appoint three members of each of said committees for a term of three years. Also committees: 6, on Publication; 7, on Grievances; 8, on Obituaries and Memorials, each of which shall consist of three members, to be appointed by the President elected at the 1911 meeting, one for a term of three years, one for a term of two years, and one for a term of one year, and the President elected at each succeeding annual meeting of the Association thereafter will appoint one member for each of said committees for a term of three years.

A majority of any committee, or of the Central Council, shall constitute a quorum. Vacancies in any office,