under the direction of Mr. R. D. W. Connor, Secretary of the Historical Commission, and distributed under our joint direction. At the commencement of our last meeting I reported an active membership of 529. One of these had resigned the year before, but through mistake had been kept on the Roll of Members, and another resigned before the commencement of that year, but after my report had been made up. These corrections left a membership of 527, to which were added 80 members elected at that meeting, as per report of proceedings, and three elected during vacation as follows: Mr. James M. Norfleet, Tarboro. Mr. H. H. Phillips, Tarboro. Mr. E. A. Daniels, Jr., Washington. Making a total of 610 members. Since then we have lost the following: A. O. Gaylord, Plymouth; W. C. Maxwell, Charlotte; Elijah One member by resignation, Judge C. H. Duls, of Charlotte 8 1 11 Leaving a total active membership of. 599 To this has been added three new members, elected since July 1, 1915: 3 Making a total at date of this report of... ..602 There has been one change in the Honorary List of members, Judge 68 Grand total.. ..670 Membership reported to Treasurer for year 1914-1915.. .608 ༅།g|»gg| 610 527 2 Deduction by resignation........ 1 9 599 Elected since beginning of new year, during vacation.. There have been no reinstatements during the past year. I would respectfully call the attention of the Association to the defect in the Constitution and By-Laws by which the Chairmanship of the Executive Committee was made vacant until its regular meeting in January last. This vacancy deprived your Secretary of advice and instruction of which he was in frequent need during that period. Respectfully submitted, THOMAS W. DAVIS,' NORTH CAROLINA BAR ASSOCIATION. ASHEVILLE, N. C., August 3, 1915. REPORT OF TREASURER. To the North Carolina Bar Association: I herewith submit my report as Treasurer of the North Carolina Bar Association for the year 1914-15, from July 1, 1914, to June 30, 1915, both inclusive, as called for in Article II of the By-Laws; together with a statement of receipts and disbursements to date: AMOUNT DUE ASSOCIATION FROM MEMBERS, DUES AND ADMISSION FEES FOR Dues overpaid (returned) and credits for checks returned unpaid...... 22.15 DISBURSEMENTS DURING YEAR. Rome G. Brown, expenses, Wrightsville meeting... $30.00 8.00 7.00 .40 2.00 8.10 65.00 8.50 J. R. McCrary, refund, over-payment of dues.. H. McL. Green, postmaster, advance on stamped envelopes.... (There is a difference between this voucher of $2.72 and N. A. Cooke, refund, overpayment of dues....... 2.72 2.00 Wilmington Stamp & Printing Co., Judge Clark's address....... 32.34 Thos. W. Davis, one-half salary..... .125.00 Christman's Stamp Works, rubber stamps and ink pad. 1.00 W. E. Daniels, expenses, member Torrens Committee... 5.69 .362.74 6.00 J. W. Pless, expenses, Epps hearing.. 12.00 Credit to bank, check returned unpaid. 6.00 A. W. Cooke, expenses Executive Committee, Jan. 1915 6.95 Western Union Tel. Co., January and February, 1915. .56 6.00 .65 Southern Express Co., express on box pamphlets from Raleigh, Since the first day of July, 1915, the Secretary has collected nearly $300.00 additional in dues from members of the Association, and the amount due now by members of the Association is approximately $700.00 to the date of this report. In accordance with the By-Laws, I also submit an estimate of the receipts and expenditures during the year 1915-16: Before closing my report, I would call the attention of the Association to the very vexing question of non-payment of dues. There were 608 members of the Association during the past year, owing a total indebtedness to the Association of $2,813.00. By special efforts, involving a large amount of work and extra expense, I collected $1,689.00 of this amount, leaving a balance to the Association of $1,124.00 on June 30, 1915. You will note from this report that approximately 70 per cent of the annual dues were collected; that $738.00 of last year's delinquent dues were still owing at the end of the year, and eight new members had not paid their initiation fee. In my endeavor to collect these funds from the mem |