In the statements that Tennessee was remanded to her territorial condition and quietly returned thereto and that a new census was taken under the directions of Congress, Mr. Calhoun, as we have seen, was in error, the true status of affairs pending the admission as a State being more correctly as well as picturesquely described in a paper read before the Tennessee Historical Society by Prof. Nathaniel Cross, a few days after Mr. Calhoun's speech, in which he says:

The first session of the State Legislature began more than three months, and closed more than two months, before Congress invested her with attributes of sovereignty. While the Conscript Fathers on the other side of the mountains were telling her messenger, Mr. McMinn, and her representative, Mr. White, that she must remain a while longer in her pupilage and mend her manners and then come back and knock again for admission more civilly, this young cismontane sister seems to have flouted their parental counsel and without further ceremony to have taken her place in the sisterhood of republies, and gone to work in the exercise of sovereignty, in organizing her courts of justice, appointing her State officers, chartering seminaries of learning and providing for the election of members of Congress, and Presidential Electors. (128)

On July 4, Gov. Sevier called a special session of the Legislature to straighten out the various complications that had arisen. In his message he said:

"I have the pleasure of announcing to you, gentlemen, the admission of the State of Tennessee into the Federal Union, a circumstance pregnant with every prospect of peace, happiness and opulence to our infant State. The period has now arrived when the people of the Western Territory may enjoy all the blessings and liberties of a free and independent republic." (129)

To this message the Assembly, through Mr. Rhea, replied: "We rejoice with you, in the event of this State being formally admitted into the Federal Union, and our minds are filled with the most pleasing sensations, when we reflect on the prosperity

(128) Paper cited in the foregoing note, 1 Amer. Hist. Mag., at p. 233 (129) Ramsey's Annals, p. 673.

and political happiness to which we view it as a certain prelude." (130)

Shortly thereafter, the Legislature passed the necessary remedial acts; William Blount and William Cocke were reelected as Senators and Andrew Jackson was elected as the first member of Congress from the State of Tennessee.

And thus, under such auspicious circumstances, and with gallant John Sevier at the helm of government, did Tennessee enter upon its history as the sixteenth State of the Federal Union.

(130) Ramsey's Annals, p. 673.

CONSTITUTION.

OBJECTS.

ARTICLE I.-The objects of the Association are to foster legal science, maintain the honor and dignity of the profession of law, to cultivate professional ethics and social intercourse among its members, and to promote improvements in the law and the modes of its administration.

ELECTION OF MEMBERS.

ARTICLE II.-All nominations for membership shall be made by the Local Council of a County or Bar Association when such Local Council or Bar Association exists; when there is no Local Council or Bar Association in any county nominations from such county shall be made by the Central Council. All nominations thus made or approved shall be reported by the Council to the Association, and all whose names are reported shall thereupon become members of the Association; provided, That if any member demands a vote upon any name thus reported, the Association shall thereupon vote thereon by ballot. Five negative votes shall be sufficient to defeat any election for membership.

MEMBERSHIP.

ARTICLE III.—Any person shall be eligible to membership in this Association who shall be a member of the bar of this State, in good standing, and who shall also be nominated as herein provided.

OFFICERS.

ARTICLE IV. The officers of this Association shall consist of one President, three Vice Presidents, a Secretary and Treasurer, a Central Council, who shall be the Board of Direc tors under the charter, to be chosen by the Association. One of the members of the Central Council shall be its chairman.

Each of these officers shall be elected at each annual meeting for the next ensuing year, but the same person shall not be elected President two years in succession. All such elections shall be by ballot. The officers elected shall hold office until their successors are elected and qualified according to the Constitution and By-laws.

CENTRAL COUNCIL.

ARTICLE V.-The Central Council shall consist of five members, and shall be, at all times, an advisory board for consultation and conference, when called on for that purpose by the President, or any Vice-president who may, for the time being, be acting as President.

LOCAL COUNCIL.

ARTICLE VI.--The President, by and with the advice and consent of the Central Council, may establish a Local Council in any county in this State by issuing a warrant to that effect, naming therein the persons composing such Local Council. Each Local Council shall not consist of less than three nor more than seven members. No person shall be eligible to appointment as a member of any Local Council who is not, at the time, a member of this Association.

ELECTION OF MEMBERS.

ARTICLE VII.-All members of this convention signing the charter, and all members elected as herein provided, shall become members of the Association upon the payment of the admission fee as herein provided for. But after the adjournment of this convention all nominations for membership shall be made as herein provided.

ANNUAL DUES.

ARTICLE VIII.-Each member shall pay five dollars to the Treasurer as annual dues, and no person shall be qualified to exercise any privileges of membership who is in default. Such dues shall be payable, and the payment thereof enforced, as may be provided by the by-laws. Members shall be entitled to receive all publications of the Association free of charge.

The admission fee shall be five dollars, to be paid as the member is elected.

ADOPTION OF AMENDMENTS OF BY-LAWS.

ARTICLE IX.-By-laws may be adopted or amended at any annual meeting of the Association by a majority of the members present.

COMMITTEES.

ARTICLE X.-The following committees shall be annually appointed by the President for the year ensuing, and shall consist of five members each:

1. On Jurisprudence and Law Reform.

2. On Judicial Administration and Remedial Procedure. 3. On Legal Education and Admission to the Bar.

4. On Publication.

5. On Grievances.

A majority of those members of any committee, or of the Central Council, who may be present at any meeting of such committee or Council, shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of such meeting. Vacancies in any office provided for by this Constitution shall be filled by appointment by the President, and the appointees shall hold office until the next meeting of the Association.

CENTRAL COUNCIL.

ARTICLE XI.-The Central Council shall perform such duties as may be assigned to them by the President, or as may be defined by the by-laws, except as herein otherwise directed.

MEETING OF ASSOCIATION.

ARTICLE XII.-This Association shall meet annually in July, at such time and place as the Central Council may select, and those present at such meeting shall constitute a quorum. The Secretary shall give sixty days' notice of time and place of such meeting, either by publication in a public newspaper or by personal communication.

DUTIES OF PRESIDENT.

ARTICLE XIII. The President shall open each annual meeting of the Association with an address, in which he shall