The Association shall take such action on said report as they may see fit, provided only that no member shall be expelled or suspended, unless by the vote of two-thirds of the members present and voting.

When a member is thus expelled, the Executive Committee shall appoint two members of the Association to act as prosecutors, whose duty it shall be to take the steps proper to his disbarment.

Whenever charges of unprofessional conduct or of fraud shall be made in writing against a member of the Bar of South Carolina not a member of the Association, the Committee shall investigate said charges forthwith; and, if in any such case the Committee shall report to the Executive Committee that in their opinion the case is such as requires prosecution, the Executive Committee shall appoint two members of the Association to act as prosecutors, whose duty it shall be to take the steps proper to the disbarment of the said attorney at law.

All the foregoing proceedings shall be secret, except as their publication is hereinbefore provided for, unless otherwise ordered by the Association by a two-thirds vote.

(B.) The Committee on Jurisprudence and Law Reform shall be charged with the duty of watching all changes and proposed changes in the law, and of proposing such amendments as in their opinion should be recommended by the Association.

(C.) The Committee on Judicial Administration and Remedial Procedure shall be charged with the duty of observing the practical working of our judicial system, of entertaining and examining proposed changes or reforms in the same, and of recommending such action as they may deem expedient.

(D.) The Committee on Education for the Bar and Admission to the Bar shall be charged with the duty of revising the present system and requirements in this State, of suggesting such improvements as they may think proper, and of

reporting the same to the Association. Thereafter they shall be charged with the subject generally, and shall report any amendments they may think proper.

(E.) The Committee on Commercial, Interstate, and International Law shall be charged with the duty of watching all changes and proposed changes in such laws, whether by Congress or by the Legislature of this State, or of other States, and of reporting the same to the Association; and of suggesting such amendments as in their opinion the Association should recommend.

(F.) The Committee on Memorials of Deceased Members shall be charged with the duty of reporting at the annual meeting the names of members who shall have died during the preceding year, with appropriate notices of their death.

The Vice-President shall report to this Committee the deaths of members within their respective Circuits.

(G.) The Committee on Publications shall be charged with the duty of selecting and supervising the publications of the Association.

All papers read before the Association shall be lodged with the Secretary.

The Address of the President, the Reports of Committees, and a summary of all proceedings at the Annual Meeting and at Special Meetings, shall be annually published in a pamphlet, to be entitled "TRANSACTIONS OF THE

YEAR OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA BAR ASSOCIATION;" which shall also include the Constitution and By-Laws, the names of officers, of members of Standing Committees, and of all members of the Association.

No other address made, nor paper read or submitted, shall be published in the "TRANSACTIONS," except by order of the Committee on Publications.

Exchanges.

BY-LAW XIX. The Secretary shall endeavor to arrange a system of exchanges by which the "TRANSACTIONS" can be

annually exchanged with those of the American Bar Association, the Bar Associations in other States, and other Associations in foreign countries interested in jurisprudence or affairs of government; and all books thus acquired shall be bound and deposited in the Library of the Supreme Court of this State, subject to the call of the Association.

The Secretary shall annually send a copy of the “TRANSACTIONS" to the Congressional Library.

Publications.

BY-LAW XX. Members desiring extra copies of the "TRANSACTIONS," shall obtain them at their estimated cost, on giving reasonable notice of their desire before publication to the Committee on Publications.

Assessment for Dinner.

BY-LAW XXI. The Executive Committee shall have power to assess the members present at the Annual Dinner, should the funds in the Treasurer's hands fail to defray the cost of said Dinner.

REPORT OF THE SECRETARY

Gentlemen: Pursuant to the By-Laws of the Association, I beg to make the following report:

At the close of the tenth annual meeting of the Association there were on our rolls 302 members-279 active and 23 honorary. Since then 21 new members have been elected, so that now the total membership is 323.

During the past year the President appointed the following delegates to the annual meeting of the American Bar Association: Messrs. John P. Thomas, Jr., M. F. Ansel and S. E. McFadden. These gentlemen were duly notified of their appointment, and all of them attended the meeting of the American Bar Association at Hot Springs, Va., in August last, and represented our Association.

The transactions of the tenth annual meeting of the Association were printed during the year and distributed among the members. Copies were also sent to nearly all the various State Bar Associations throughout the country, and to many public libraries. Several copies of the transactions have been sold to various parties outside of the State. The moneys thus realized were paid over to the Treasurer. The Secretary still has in hand a few copies of these transactions.

A considerable number of the members of the Association have failed to pay their dues for the past year. With the hope that these members may be induced to realize the importance of continuing their connection with the Association, the Secretary has not yet attempted to enforce the By-Law requiring that the names of delinquents be dropped from the roll of active members.

At the tenth annual meeting a Committee was appointed for the purpose of bringing to the attention of the General Assembly the law on Negotiable Instruments, recommended

last year by the Committee on "Commercial, Interstate and International Law." The report of the Committee on "Judicial Administration and Remedial Procedure” was also referred to a Committee, with instructions to bring the report to the attention of the State Legislature, and endeavor to have the recommendations therein contained enacted as law of the State. These Committees consist of able lawyer members of the General Assembly, and they are actively engaged in discharging their respective duties. Their reports to be hereafter filed with the Secretary will be published. Respectfully submitted.

HUNTER A. GIBBES,

Secretary.

Columbia, S. C., January 21, 1904.