other than Baltimore City, and two from Baltimore City; a Secretary and a Treasurer. All of these shall be elected at the Annual Meeting, and hold their offices until the next Annual Meeting of the Association, and until their successors are elected. A majority of the votes cast at such Annual Meeting shall be necessary to the election of officers, including the election of the Executive Council. and shall in all cases be by ballot. COMMITTEES. (As amended in 1907.) ARTICLE VI.-At the Annual Meetings the Association shall also elect an Executive Council, to be composed of four members, of which Council the President, Secretary and Treasurer shall be members ex-officio. Said members of the Executive Council shall hold their office for one year from the date of their election, and until their successors are elected. The President shall, with the approval of the Executive Council, appoint the following Standing Committees, to wit: A Committee on Admissions; A Committee on Laws; A Committee on Legal Education; A Committee on Legal Biography. If any member of a Standing Committee shall fail to attend any Annual Meeting his absence shall create a vacancy, and the President of the Association may, in his discretion, fill such vacancy by appointment. Each Standing Committee shall be composed of one member from each Judicial Circuit represented in the As sociation, and two from Baltimore City, and a majority of the members of each said Committees shall constitute a quorum of such Committee to transact business. Each Committee shall, at each Annual Meeting, report in writing a summary of its proceedings since the last annual report, together with any suggestions deemed suitable and pertinent to its powers, duties or business. A general summary of all such annual reports and the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting shall be prepared and printed by and under the direction of the Executive Council, together with the Constitution, By-Laws, names and residences of Officers, Standing Committees and Members of the Association, as soon as practicable after each Annual Meeting. PRESIDENT. ARTICLE VII.-The President, or in his absence, the senior Vice-President in age, present, shall preside at all meetings of the Association, and the President shall deliver an address at the opening of the Annual Meeting next after his election. EXECUTIVE COUNCIL. ARTICLE VIII.-This Council shall manage the business and affairs of the Association, subject to the provisions of the Constitution and By-Laws, and shall be vested with the title to all its property, as trustees thereof, until the Association shall be incorporated, and if incorporated, shall have power to accept the act of incorporation for and or behalf of the corporation and all its members, and shall prepare and propose such By-Laws for the Association, in addition to those adopted by it at its first session, as said Council shall deem expedient, which, when adopted at any Annual Meeting of this Association, shall become part of the By-Laws of the same. COMMITTEE ON ADMISSION. ARTICLE IX.-It shall be the duty of this Committee to examine into the qualifications of every candidate proposed to the President for admission into this Association, and to report thereon with recommendations to the next Annual Meeting of this Association. The proceedings of this Committee shall be deemed confidential, and shall be kept secret, except so far as the report or recommendations of the same shall be necessarily and officially made to the Association. COMMITTEE ON LAWS. (As amended in 1907.) ARTICLE X.-Section 1. It shall be the duty of this Committee to take notice of all proposed changes of the Law, and to consider and report to this Association such amendments of the Law as in its opinion should be adopted, and also to observe the practical working of the judicial system throughout the State, and recommend by written or printed report, from time to time, any changes which observation or experience may suggest should be made therein. Sec. 2. The Committee on Laws shall not later than thirty days after the final adjournment of each session of the Legislature, and sooner if practicable, prepare a memorandum of all Public General Laws passed during such session. Said memorandum shall so state the subject of each of such laws as to inform the members of the Bench and Bar that there has been legislation affecting such subject, and when practicable a brief statement of the purport of the law shall be made. Said memorandum shall be printed, and a copy mailed to each member of the Association as soon as possible; the cost of the preparation, printing and distribution of the memorandum (including necessary clerical assistance) to be paid by the Treasurer on the order of said committee. COMMITTEE ON LEGAL EDUCATION. ARTICLE XI.—It shall be the duty of this Committee to examine and report upon any proposed changes in the system of legal education, and make such suggestions as may seem pertinent thereto, and also to examine the practical workings of the present law in relation to the adminission of members of the Bar to practice in this State, and to make such suggestions in relation to the same as the Committee shall deem advisable. The Committee on Education may cause exceptions to be filed, and prosecute, at the expense of the Association, to the admission of the Bar of all persons whom the said Committee believes are not qualified to be admitted. ́ In all cases where the State Board of Law Examiners shall recommend that an applicant be not admitted to the Bar, and exceptions shall be filed by such applicant to the ratification of the report of said Board, the Committee may in every case, where they think such action proper, ask leave of the Court of Appeals to be heard in support of the decision of the Board. COMMITTEE ON GRIEVANCES. ARTICLE XII.-This Committee shall receive and hear all complaints preferred by any member of this Association against any other member for misconduct in his relations to the Association, or in his profession, or affecting interests of the legal profession, the practice of the Law and the administration of justice; provided that said complaints shall be in writing, plainly and specifically stating the matter complained of, and subscribed by the complainant. All complaints so made shall be considered and disposed of by this Committee in the manner provided in the ByLaws. The proceedings of this Committee shall be deemed confidential and kept secret, except so far as written or printed reports of the same shall be necessarily and officially made to the Association. COMMITTEE ON LEGAL BIOGRAPHY. (As amended in 1909.) ARTICLE XIII.-The Committee on Legal Biography shall provide for the preservation, among the archives of the Association, of suitable written or printed memorials of the lives and characters of deceased members of this Association, and the same shall, without being read, at the annual meeting of the Association, be referred to the Executive Council for the purpose of being published in the Annual Report of the Association. SECRETARY. ARTICLE XIV.-The Secretary shall keep a record, and conduct the correspondence of the Association, and perform the usual duties of such office. TREASURER. ARTICLE XV.-The Treasurer shall collect, by order of the Executive Council disburse all funds of the Associa |