[In 1911 the Massachusetts Bar Association, which had been organized as a voluntary association, was incorporated.] CHARTER. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Be it known that whereas ALFRED HEMENWAY, CHARLES E. WARE, ROBERT HOMANS, WILLIAM H. NILES, ROBERT A. KNIGHT, WILLIAM H. DUNBAR, HOLLIS R. BAILEY, LEE M. FRIEDMAN, FREDERICK N. WIER, PAUL R. BLACKMUR, T. HOVEY GAGE, HENRY H. BAKER, ROBERT G. DODGE, JAMES R. DUNBAR, JAMES H. VAHEY, PATRICK M. KEATING, JAMES M. SWIFT, JOSEPH B. WARNER, JAMES E. COTTER, SAMUEL K. HAMILTON, HERBERT PARKER, ALDEN P. WHITE, JOHN C. HAMMOND, WILLIAM H. BROOKS, CHARLES E. HIBBARD, RICHARD W. IRWIN and FREDERICK L. GREENE have associated themselves with the intention of forming a corporation under the name of the MASSACHUSETTS BAR ASSOCIATION, for the purpose of cultivating the science of jurisprudence, of promoting reform in the law, of facilitating the administration of justice, of furthering uniformity of legislation throughout the Union, of upholding the honor of the profession of law, and encouraging cordial intercourse among the members of the Massachusetts Bar; and have complied with the provisions of the statutes of this Commonwealth in such case made and provided, as appears from the certificate of the President, Treasurer, Clerk or Secretary, and Executive Committee of said corporation, duly approved by the Commissioner of Corporations and recorded in this office : Now, Therefore, I, ALBERT P. LANGTRY, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Do Hereby Certify that said ALFRED HEMENWAY, CHARLES E. WARE, ROBERT HOMANS, WILLIAM H. NILES, ROBERT A. KNIGHT, WILLIAM H. DUNBAR, HOLLIS R. BAILEY, LEE M. FRIEDMAN, FREDERICK N. WIER, PAUL R. BLACKMUR, T. HOVEY GAGE, HENRY H. BAKER, ROBERT G. DODGE, JAMES R. DUNBAR, JAMES H. VAHEY, PATRICK M. KEATING, JAMES M. SWIFT, JOSEPH B. WARNER, JAMES E. COTTER, SAMUEL K. HAMILTON, HERBERT PARKER, ALDEN P. WHITE, JOHN C. HAMMOND, WILLIAM H. BROOKS, CHARLES E. HIBBARD, RICHARD W. IRWIN and FREDERICK L. GREENE, their associates and successors, are legally organized and established as, and are hereby made, an existing corporation under the name of the MASSACHUSETTS BAR ASSOCIATION, with the powers, rights and privileges, and subject to the limitations, duties and restrictions, which by law appertain thereto. Seal Witness my official signature hereunto subscribed, and the Great Seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts hereunto affixed, this twenty-first day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eleven. ALBERT P. LANGTRY, Secretary of the Commonwealth. |