ARTICLE 7 ANNUAL ADDRESS The president shall open each annual meeting of the Association with an address, in which he shall communicate the most noteworthy changes in statutory law upon points of general interest made in the territories and by congress, affecting the State during the preceding year. ARTICLE 8 ANNUAL MEETING This Association shall meet annually at such time and place as shall be designated by the Executive Committee. ARTICLE 9 Neither this Association nor any officer thereof, as such officer, shall endorse any person for office, whether political or otherwise, nor shall any officer, as such officer, unless he has been duly authorized by this Association at a regular session, commit this Association to any governmental policy. ARTICLE 10 This constitution may be altered or amended by a vote of three-fourths of the members present at any annual meeting; but no change shall be made at any meeting at which less than twenty members are present. BY-LAWS 1. The executive committee shall prepare a program for each annual meeting and notify the members selected for duty thereupon, at least six months before each annual meeting of the Association, and shall select some person outside the membership of the Association to deliver an address; and the executive committee shall also prepare a program for the banquet, and shall notify all members, who are selected to respond to toasts, at least thirty days before such banquet. 2. The president shall determine the order of exercises at the annual meeting. 3. All papers read before the Association shall be lodged with the secretary. 4. The president shall make all appointments, which he is required to make, before the adjournment of the annual meeting, if possible; and in any event, not later than thirty days thereafter. 5. Special meetings of any committee shall be held at such times and places as the chairman thereof may appoint, reasonable notice being given by him to each member by mail. 6. The annual dues shall be paid in advance. If any member fails to pay the same ninety days after the 1st of January of each year, this shall effect a suspension of such delinquent member. At the expiration of sixty days after said 1st of January, the treasurer shall give notice of the provisions of this by-law to all members then in default; and, at the the expiration of said ninety days, it shall be the duty of the treasurer to report to the secretary the names of all members who have paid their dues for the ensuing year, and only such members shall thereafter be considered in good standing. 7. Admission to the annual banquet shall be upon tickets issued by the secretary to members of the Association in good standing; and no attorney resident of this State shall receive a ticket, except he be a member in good standing. Non-resident attorneys may attend as the guest of any member in good standing, and upon payment by such member of the same amount as paid by members for annual dues. 8. Any lawyer resident of of this State, making due application for membership in this Associa tion, said application bearing the endorsement of at least two members of the local council of his district and being accompanied by the sum of five dollars annual dues, shall be temporarily enrolled by the secretary of this Association and be a member thereof to all intents and purposes until the next regular meeting, when his application shall be finally acted upon and the applicant permanently elected or rejected. 9. There shall be appointed by the president of this Association, as and at the time of the appointment of other committees by him, three members within each judicial district of the State, whose duty it shall be to investigate any reported misconduct of any attorney in their district, and whose duty it shall be to report to the president and secretary any such attorney whom they believe, after such investigation, to have been guilty of unprofessional conduct; and when such report is made the president shall immediately appoint, as a prosecuting committee, two members of the Association, who shall be residents of a court district other than that in which the accused may live; and said committee shall, as soon as possible, institute disbarment proceedings against such accused, and the result of such disbarment proceedings shall be reported in full to the next regular meeting of the Association; provided that the name or names of such persons who may inform against the accused, shall be kept secret by the committee. 10. This Association shall, at its annual meetings, select three of its members to attend the annual meeting of the American Bar Association. Said delegates shall represent this association in any matters of interest that may arise at such meeting, and shall report the same to the next annual meeting of this body. Such delegates shall defray their own expenses in attending such meetings, and shall have authority to designate and commission alternates in case of their inability to attend. |
