brought him clients, but his knowledge of business and business conditions. He represented in no small degree the modern business lawyer, which the great growth of corporate activity has brought to the forefront of the bar of this country.

Mr. Bond leaves a host of friends, won by his warm heart, his quiet geniality, his good fellowship and loyalty and his obvious underlying force of character, no less than by his business attributes.

John W. Stanton: I noticed as I came up on the train yesterday that the Association is still carrying the name of George W. Covington, of Snow Hill, who died, I think, about two years ago. I don't know whether his name is included in the report of this Committee or not. He was at one time Congressman from the First Congressional District.

The President: The matter will be looked up and if his name does not appear the report will be amended in that respect. If there is no objection the report will be accepted.

There being no objection the report was declared accepted.

The President: The next report is that of the Committee on Nominations, Gordon Tull, chairman.

James J. Lindsay: It is impossible for Mr. Tull to be here and he asked me to submit the following report from the Committee on Nominations:

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON NOMINATIONS.

The Committee on Nominations of the Maryland State Bar Association met at the office of James W. Chapman, Jr., Esq., in the Calvert Building, Baltimore, Md., on April 16th, 1915, and selected the following gentlemen for the various offices of the Association, and recommended their election by the Association, at its meeting on July 7th, 8th and 9th, 1915, for the ensuing year:

President-Hammond Urner.
Vice-Presidents-

First Circuit-E. Stanley Toadvine.
Second Circuit-William H. Adkins.
Third Circuit-David G. McIntosh, Jr.
Fourth Circuit-Charles A. Little.

Fifth Circuit-Charles O. Clemson.

Sixth Circuit-Edward C. Peter.

Seventh Circuit-Clarence M. Roberts.

Eighth Circuit-Alexander H. Robertson and Moses R.
Walter.

Secretary-James W. Chapman, Jr.

Treasurer-R. Bennett Darnall.

Executive Council-James E. Ellegood, James C. Rogers, T. Foley Hisky and Thomas H. Robinson.

Very truly,

JAMES J. LINDSEY,

Acting Chairman.

On motion duly made and seconded, and after vote,

the report was declared accepted.

The President: That finishes the call of the Standing Committees, but there are two Special Committees, the first of which is Disbarment Committee, Albert C. Ritchie, chairman.

Mr. Ritchie: This committee was appointed with instructions to prepare an act which should provide that if an attorney was disbarred by one circuit then the disbarment proceedings should be transmitted to the Court of Appeals and thereupon the Court of Appeals should lay a rule upon the attorney so disbarred requiring him to show cause within such reasonable time, not exceeding twenty days, as the Court of Appeals may deem proper, why he should not be disbarred from the further practice of his profession throughout the entire State.

I think the Association last year was in favor of that law and it was the concensus of the opinion of the members of the Association that it should be printed and distributed among the members of the Association before being finally acted on. That has been done. The committee therefore reports the same law as was reported last year with the statement that it has been distributed among the members of the Association, as follows:

AN ACT to add five new sections to Article 10 of the Code of Public Civil Laws of Maryland, entitled “Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in Fact," sub-title, "Misconduct of Attorneys at Law-Negligence-Disbarment-Suspension," said new sections to be numbered respectively Sections 14-A, 14-B, 14-C, 14-D and 14-E, and to follow immediately after Section 14 of said article and sub-title, as the same appears in the Annotated Code of the Public Civil Laws of Maryland, edited by George P. Bagby, as legalized by Chapter 21 of the Public General Laws of Maryland, passed in the year 1912; said new sections relating to the disbarment of attorneys at law from the practice of their profession in the State and before all the courts thereof.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That five new sections be and the same hereby are added to Article 10 of the Public Civil Laws of Maryland, entitled "Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in Fact," sub-title, "Misconduct of Attorneys at Law-Negligence-Disbarment-Suspension," said new sections to be numbered respectively Sections 14-A, 14-B, 14-C, 14-D and 14-E, and to follow immediately after Section 14 of said article and sub-title, as the same appears in the Annotated Code of Public Civil Laws of Maryland, edited by George P. Bagby, as legalized by Chapter 21 of the Public General Laws of Maryland, passed in the year 1912; said new sections to read as follows:

14-A. That in all proceedings for the disbarment of attorneys at law which may hereafter be instituted in any of the counties of this State, the hearings shall be had before not less than a majority of the judges of the Judicial Circuit in which such proceedings may be instituted, and in all such proceedings which may hereafter be insti

tuted in the City of Baltimore, the hearings shall be had before not less than a majority of the judges of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City.

14-B. That in every case in which an attorney at law shall be disbarred from the further practice of his profession by the Circuit Court of any judicial circuit or by the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, the clerk of such Circuit Court or of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, as the case may be, shall on or before the expiration of ten days thereafter, certify the fact of such disbarment and transmit a duly certified copy of the order thereof to the Court of Appeals of Maryland, and within such reasonable time after receiving the same as the Court of Appeals may deem proper, the Court of Appeals shall lay a rule upon the attorney at law so disbarred, requiring him to answer and show cause within such reasonable time, not exceeding twenty days, as the Court of Appeals may deem proper, why he should not be disbarred from the further practice of his profession throughout this State and before all the courts thereof. In case of default in answer, or after answer, the Court of Appeals of Maryland shall inquire into all the facts and circumstances in such manner as it may direct, without other or formal pleadings, and shall pass such order as it may deem proper. If the Court of Appeals of Maryland shall determine that such attorney at law should be disbarred from the practice of his profession throughout this State and before all the courts thereof, then it shall pass an order to this effect, and thereafter the attorney at law shall be disbarred from the further practice of his profession before the Court of Appeals of Maryland; and thereupon it shall be the duty of the clerk of the Court of Appeals at once to certify the fact of such disbarment and to transmit a duly certified copy of the order thereof to the clerks of the Circuit Courts