THE PRESIDENT: We will listen to the report of the Treasurer, Mr. Charles S. Wilcox. TREASURER'S REPORT-IOWA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION Robt. J. Bannister, deficit in matter of last annual ban Chas. M. Dutcher, Secretary, salary for year 1909 to 1910 (Order No. 50)..... .$ 22.00 200.00 F. S. Dunshee et. al., expenses of membership committee (Order No. 52). C. A. Thomas, expenses for trip to Des Moines for annual address (Order No. 51)..... 45.00 63.68 J. P. Blaise, stenographer, reporting proceedings of 1910 meeting and making transcript thereof (Order No. 53) 70.50 Chas. M. Dutcher, Secretary, printing, telegram and sup plies (Order No. 54)... 10.34 Citizen Printing House, Iowa City, printing and material (Order No. 55). 12.90 ...... 61.94 Chas. M. Dutcher, Secretary, express and envelopes for Chas. S. Wilcox, Treasurer, postage and supplies (Order 15.00 46.21 Upon motion duly made the report was received and referred to the Auditing Committee. THE PRESIDENT: Next we will listen to the report of the Librarian, by Mr. A. J. Small, of Des Moines. REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN To the President, officers and members of the Iowa State Bar Association. Gentlemen:-I herewith hand you my report as Librarian of the Association with a recommendation: Since my incumbency as your Librarian I have carefully guarded the distribution of the proceedings of the Association, though I have distributed copies to those persons and institutions interested and entitled to them. I have sent out current issues to the various State Librarians, Bar Associations, libraries, and law schools over the country and to the local libraries within our own State. Not only have I sent out current issues to those institutions but I have completed several sets. I have not attempted to send out to all the secretaries of the various State Bar Associations for the reason that some were not known to me and others did not care for them; but I have sent to those whom I knew and who desired our proceedings. I have found it very helpful to me in securing exchanges for the State Library. We now have one of the best collections of the various bar proceedings in this country; these are bound and made accessible. I invite the members of this Association to visit, inspect and make use of these proceedings and our splendid State Law Library. There is one matter which I desire to call to your attention and which I recommend for favorable consideration. It is no doubt generally known by a majority of this membership that a State Bar Association was organized in Iowa in 1874, and that it held annual meetings for several years. The only proceedings known to exist in pamphlet form are the second, 1875, third, 1876, and the fifth, 1878. All the proceedings, however, were published in The Western Jurist, a legal periodical published in Des Moines. This early association was organized May 27th, 1874, with the following list of officers: President, James Grant. 1st Vice President, C. H. Gatch. 3d Vice President, W. A. Stowe. Iowa having one of the first if not the first State Association we should take pride in the fact. Besides there are several able addresses by such jurists as Judge John F. Dillon, Judge T. M. Cooley, Judge J. M. Love, Hon. E. H. Stiles, Judge George W. McCrary, and others. These addresses are worthy and deserving of publication and of being made available. I would recommend that the proceedings of the old association be printed. They are not extensive and can easily be bound in a small volume. A price might be placed upon them and we might sell them to in stitutions and individuals other than those provided for on the free list. I am quite sure a number can be sold at a reasonable sum-enough to partially pay for the cost of reprinting. It seems to me desirable that these proceedings be reprinted and I earnestly recommend that it be done. Respectfully submitted, A. J. SMALL, Librarian. THE PRESIDENT: You have heard the report of the Librarian. What shall be done in regard to the recommendation with respect to the first Bar Association in the United States, as I understand it? JUSTICE H. E. DEEMER: I move you that the matter be referred to a committee of three, appointed by the Chair, with power to act. The motion was duly seconded and carried, and the Chair appointed as such committee, Justice H. E. Deemer, Judge W. R. Lewis, and R. M. Haines. JAMES O. CROSBY: I think I have a complete copy of The Western Jurist, that I shall be pleased to donate to the library. THE PRESIDENT: Next we will hear the report of the Committee on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar, by Justice Emlin McClain, of Iowa City. THE SECRETARY: I have a letter from Justice McClain with respect to that report, which is as follows: "On the program of the State Bar Association for Thursday morning is a report on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar. No matters have been referred to the committee for report and the committee has nothing to submit at this meeting. Please make this announcement when the report of the committee is called for. Truly yours, EMLIN MCCLAIN.'' THE PRESIDENT: Passing that matter then, we come to the report of the Committee on Legal Biography, by Hon. W. R. Lewis, of Montezuma, chairman. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON LEGAL BIOGRAPHY Your Committee on Legal Biography, by its report last year, undertook to suggest that it is preferable that the committee do the work for the year of its incumbency, rather than for the preceding year, and that so far as possible the histories be collected and the report for the year be presented at the end of the year. The committee has undertaken to do this this year and presents herewith the biographies of the brothers who died between June 1, 1910 and June 1, 1911, with the exception of four or five which we ask permission to add to our report in case we succeed in getting the necessary information before the proceedings are ready for the press. It will be observed that biographies belonging in the period ending June 1, 1910 are included in this report. This arises from the fact that the necessary data was not secured in time for the 1910 report. The Clerks of the District Court of the several counties again place us under the greatest obligations by their courteous, prompt and careful response to our requests for assistance. Our report is not in all cases as full as we wished to make it. We have gone, in every case, to the records of the local associations where these have been made up, and corresponding, as far as we could learn, with those nearest the decedents, in an effort to make the record of this Association as complete and accurate as possible. W. R. LEWIS. J. O. CROSBY. P. B. WOLFE. Committee. |