paration of a draft of an Act embodying the changes and reforms set forth in their Report, and to report the same for discussion at next Annual Meeting.

After some discussion the motion was adopted.

Mr. W. W. Harllee read a paper on "The Importance of a Separate Organization of the Criminal Courts of the State."

Mr. Hayne moved that the paper be referred to the Committee of Judicial Administration and Remedial Procedure. Adopted.

Mr. W. A. Lee read a paper on "The Common Law."

Mr. Croft moved that the paper be printed in the Transactions of the Association. On being informed that this was provided for in By-Law XVIII, Section G, he withdrew his motion.

In the absence of Mr. J. F. J. Caldwell, his paper on "Equity, and What it is Not," was read by Mr. Y. J. Pope, who asked the permission of the President to do so.

(The four papers read are printed in the Appendix.)

Mr. Simeon Hyde moved that the approval of the Secretary's Minutes of the meeting be referred to the Executive Committee. It was so ordered.

On motion the meeting was then adjourned till 6.45 P. M., when the Association would again convene in the Library Room of the State House.

Note.-At the request of the President, the Vice-President of the Fourth Circuit, Mr. W. L. T. Prince, occupied the chair during the latter part of the meeting.

WEDNESDAY EVENING.

The President called the Association to order in the Library Room at the State House, at 6.45 P. M. The officers and members then walked in procession into the Hall of Representatives, where a large audience of ladies and gentlemen filled the floor and the gallery to hear the Annual Address of the Honorable John F. Dillon, of New York. The subject of Judge Dillon's Address was: Uncertainty in our Laws-its Causes and Remedy." (The Address appears in the Appendix.)

After the delivery of the Annual Address the members of the Association and their invited guests assembled in the diningroom of the Columbia Hotel. At nine o'clock one hundred and thirty sat down to dinner. The guests of the Association were: Hon. John F. Dillon, Hon. George S. Bryan, Judge of United States District Court, Hon. Wm. D. Simpson, Hon. Henry McIver, Hon. Samuel McGowan, Justices of Supreme Court, and Hon. A. P. Aldrich and Hon. T. B. Fraser, of the Circuit Bench.

At eleven o'clock the President, Hon. A. G. Magrath, left the chair, and in graceful terms called to it his successor in office, Mr. W. W. Harllee.

Soon after the installation of the new President, the Association adjourned, on motion, sine die.

W. C. BENET, Secretary.

REPORT

OF THE

TREASURER.

Annual Report of J. Q. Marshall, Treasurer South Carolina Bar Association, for the year ending December 8th, 1885:

All of the accounts of the Association have been paid. There

will be due to Mrs. Pollock a balance for Dinner.

All of which is respectfully submitted.

J. Q. MARSHALL,

Treasurer.

Examined and found correct.

WM. K. BACHMAN.
SIMEON HYDE, JR.

December 8, 1885.

CONSTITUTION.

Adopted on Thursday, 11th December, 1884, at a Bar Convention held in the Court House, Columbia, South Carolina.

Name.

ARTICLE I. This Association shall be called THE SOUTH CAROLINA BAR ASSOCIATION.

Objects.

ARTICLE II. The Association is formed to maintain the honor, dignity, and courtesy of the profession of the law; to advance the science of jurisprudence; to promote the due administration of justice, and reforms in the law; to encourage liberal education for the Bar; and to cultivate cordial intercourse among the members of the South Carolina Bar.

Qualifications for Membership.

ARTICLE III. Any person shall be eligible to membership of this Association who shall be, and shall for two years next preceding have been, a member of the South Carolina Bar in good standing, residing and practising in this State, and who shall also be nominated as hereinafter provided.

Officers.

ARTICLE IV. The officers of the Association shall be a President, who shall not be eligible for reëlection; one Vice-President from each Judicial Circuit in this State represented in the Association; a Secretary; a Treasurer; an Executive Committee, to be composed of the Secretary, the Treasurer, and three other members of the Association, of which three one shall be chosen its Chairman; and a General Council, consisting of one member from each Judicial Circuit represented in the Association, of which the President shall be Chairman ex-officio, and of which the Secretary shall be Secretary ex-officio.

The General Council shall be a Standing Committee on nominations for office.

These officers shall be elected by the Association at each Annual Meeting.

The following Standing Committees shall be annually appointed by the President for the year ensuing, and shall each consist of five members, except the Committee on Grievances, which shall consist of nine members:

2.

3.

On Jurisprudence and Law-Reform.

On Judicial Administration and Remedial Procedure.

4. On Commercial, Interstate, and International Law.

5. On Education for the Bar and Admission to the Bar.

6.

On Memorials of Deceased Members-of which Committee the Secretary shall be a member.

7. On Publications-of which Committee the Secretary shall be a member.

A majority of the General Council, or of any Committee, shall constitute a quorum.

The Vice-President for each Judicial Circuit, and two other members from his Circuit to be annually elected, shall constitute a Local Council for such Circuit, to which shall be referred all applications for membership from such Circuit; of such Council the Vice-President shall be Chairman ex-officio.

Each Committee shall at each Annual Meeting report in writing a summary of its proceedings.

The Executive Committee.

ARTICLE V. The Executive Committee shall manage the affairs of the Association, subject to the Constitution and By-Laws. All appropriations of the funds of the Association must be made by this Committee unless otherwise ordered by the Association by a two-thirds' vote.

Other Committees.

ARTICLE VI. The Association may, in its By-Laws, provide for such other Standing Committees as it may deem necessary.