TRANSACTIONS OF THE SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION, HELD IN PUTNAM HALL, SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., August 20, 21, and 22, 1884. Wednesday, August 20, 10.30 A. M. Luke P. Poland, of Vermont, Chairman of the Executive Committee, called the meeting to order, and said: The first business of this first session of our Seventh Annual Meeting, will be the Annual Address by the President of the Association. I have the pleasure of presenting to you Cortlandt Parker, of New Jersey, President of the Association. The President then delivered his Annual Address. (See Appendix.) Upon the conclusion of the Address, the President said: The first business in order is the nomination and election of members. Luke P. Poland, on behalf of the General Council, presented several names for membership, all of whom were duly elected. (See List of Members Elected, at the end of the Minutes of Proceedings.) The President: The next business in order is the election of the General Council. After a recess of fifteen minutes the names of the states were called by the Secretary, and the General Council was elected. (See List of Officers in the Appendix.) The Secretary then read his Report, as follows: The number of members on the roll in the year before last was 581. In the Sixth Annual Report are the names of 636 members, being a gain of 55. There are three states unrepresented; Colorado, Nevada, and California. In the work of last year, several subjects were referred to committees, as follows: 1st, A resolution of John M. Thomas, with reference to the preparation of summaries of the judicial systems of the respective states, was referred to the Committee on Judicial Administration and Remedial Procedure; 2d, the report of the Committee of the Philadelphia Law Association relating to delays in the Supreme Court of the United States, was referred to the same Committee; 3d, the paper read by Seymour D. Thompson on Abuses of the Writ of Habeas Corpus, was referred to the Committee on Jurisprudence and Law Reform. To the Executive Committee was referred the question of the place of meeting for this year, and that committee directed me to send out circulars, to take a vote of the members of the Association on that subject. A memorandum of those votes appears on page 349 of the last Annual Report. Without reading it, I will simply state that the result of the whole is an exact balance between this place and any other; that is to say, that 221 voted for Saratoga, without change, and the same number of votes precisely were for either Chicago or a change. The balance hangs even, so that the Executive Committee had no other duty to perform than to select Saratoga as a place of meeting until they should |