PROCEEDINGS. Annual dues-Continued. John Gibbons, 1895, 1896, 1897.. Elbert H. Gary, 1897..... C. K. Offield, 1897.. Robert McMurdy, 1897.. J. W. Errant, 1895, 1896, 1897 Adolph Moses, 1897.. W. D. Washburn, 1897. E. B. Hamilton, 1897.. O. J. Bailey, 1897.. Frank H. McCulloch, 1897. Catharine Waugh McCulloch, 1897. Dorrance Dibell, 1896, 1897. Hiram Bigelow, 1897 George E. Dawson, 1897. Isaac N. Phillips, 1897. Edgar A. Bancroft, 1997..... C. B. Garnsey, 1897 George W. Smith, 1897. Thomas A. Moran, 1896, 1897. S. W. Moulton, 1897.. Henry B. Kepley, 1897 Frederic Ullman, 1897 J. H. Raymond, 1897. E. Sanford, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897 . Emery Andrews, 1897. N. M. Jones, 1897 T. 8. McClelland, 1897.. Henry C. Fuller, 1897.. J. H. DeFrees, 1897 N. W. Hacker, 1897 Charles Blanchard, 1897. John S. Miller, 1897... William Zimmerman, 1897. 3.00 1. Illinois State Register Company, report of July meeting, 1896........... 2. State Journal Company, letter sheets. 3.00 3.00 3.00 6.00 3 00 600 6.00 300 752 00 $1,536 58 $192 00 $196 25 8. On 547 copies of report of July meeting, 1896, at six cents each 32 82 On 100 letters to Circuit Clerks for list of members of the 4.00 12, 13, 14. On 5,400 circulars to members of the Bar for purpose of increasing membership.... 108 00 180 06 Vouchers MISCELLANEOUS. 15. Express and telegraph charges in relation to July meeting, 1896, bill of items attached to voucher. 85 14 16. Edwin Brandon, cartage on 750 copies report July meeting. 17. Edward Hoffman, delivering reports to Springfield mem 75 18. Edwin Brandon, cartage on Reports to postoffice.. 19. Salary of Secretary and Treasurer last half of 1896. 20. Salary Secretary and Treasurer first half of 1897... 24. 21. To John H. Hamline, Chairman of Committee on Location of Supreme Court, for expenses incurred by that committee as per bill of items attached to voucher and approved by Executive Committee 23. Bessie M. Connor, addressing circulars.. Edith Richards, addressing circulars..... 186 83 22. Expense of Secretary attending committee meeting at Chicago, April 17, 1897.. 14.30 7.90 625 25. W. A. Pavey, rent of typewriter to address circulars. 26. Edgar S. Barnes, rent of typewriter to address circulars.... 27. Edward Hoffman, carrying 5,000 circulars to postoffice... 28. Telegraph and express charges as per bill of items attached to voucher.. 1 20 2.00 50 2.70 PROCEEDINGS. Miscellaneous-Continued. 29. Exchange on drafts collected, bill of items attached to voucher... 30. Traveling expenses Secretary attending Committee Chicago, June 19. Vouchers ANNUAL MEETING AND BANQUET, JULY, 1896. 31. Jesse Holdom, Chairman Committee, for excess of expenditures over receipts at banquet of July, 1896, as per bill of items attached to voucher.. 32. J. McCann Davis, services as stenographer.... 33. Illinois State Register, programs and circulars.... .......... 34. Employes Chicago Beach Hotel, for services at meeting.... 35. Moore, Dundas & Carrier, stenographers, one-half day's 90 275 $432 47 163 16 59.00 14.00 1.00 5.00 $242 16 $1,050 94 $ 1,536 58 1,050 94 Balance on hand.. 8485 64 This balance is on deposit in First National Bank, Springfield, Illinois. The amount to the credit of the Association in said bank June 29, 1897, is $487.64, one check for $2.00 being still outstanding and not yet presented to the bank. Respectfully submitted, JAMES H. MATHENY, Treasurer. Mr. J. H. Matheny, City: FIRST NATIONAL BANK. DEAR SIR-At this date there is deposited in this bank to the credit of J. H. Matheny, Treasurer Illinois State Bar Association, four hundred eighty-seven dollars and sixty-four cents. Yours truly, HOWARD K. WEBER, Cashier. *NOTE-The foregoing report closes with the transactions of June 28, 1897. From June 29, 1897, to July 23, 1897, both dates inclusive, I received the following sums, viz: These items will be included in the report to be presented at the next meeting. JAMES H. MATHENY, Secretary and Treasurer. PROCEEDINGS. MR. MATHENY: As Secretary, I have but little to add. There have been no occurrences of note in the history of the Association during the past year, excepting that the membership has been quite largely increased. PRESIDENT HAMLINE: What will you do with the report? MR. MATHENY: It has been usual to have a committee appointed to audit the report of the Treasurer, and I will move that a committee be appointed. The motion was car ried. PRESIDENT HAMLINE: How many do you want on the committee? MR. MATHENY: Three have been the usual number. PRESIDENT HAMLINE: Appointed by the Chair? MR. MATHENY: Yes, sir. PRESIDENT HAMLINE: The Chair will appoint Mr. Oren dorff, Mr. Wolseley and Mr. Jenkins on the committee. PRESIDENT HAMLINE: The next order of exercises is the report of the committee on Law Reform, by Judge John Barton Payne. JUDGE PAYNE: In view of the next number on the program, I would ask that this number be passed for the present. PRESIDENT HAMLINE: At the suggestion of the chairman. of that committee, its report will be passed. The next order of exercises is a discussion to follow a report on the subject of "The changes in the procedure of the Supreme Court of Illinois necessary to adapt the practice of that Court to the recent act locating it at Springfield." The chairman of the committee to make a report is Judge Moran, who has been detained at home by sickness, but Judge Harker and Mr. Capen of that committee are here, and I will call on Judge Harker to make the report. JUDGE HARKER: Your Committee, who were directed to report on the changes in procedure of Supreme Court of Illi nois necessary to adapt the practice of that Court to the recent act consolidating it at Springfield, have had the matter under consideration, and respectfully report: |