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21. 778 ten-cent stamps for mailing Report of 1900......
22. 750 one-cent stamps for sending circulars announcing
"John Marshall" Day....

23. 100 stamps for circulars announcing "John Marshall'
Day....

......

24. 640 one-cent stamps on circulars to members asking suggestions as to annual meeting......

25. 600 two-cent stamps for sending first notice of dues to members....

77 80

750

1.00

6 40

12.00

26. 200 stamps for letters to Judges of Superior, Supreme, Circuit and County Courts........

27. 871 one-cent stamps for sending circulars announcing meeting 1901........

28. Telegraph bills, paid and attached to voucher.....
29. Express and drayage paid according to detailed re-
ceipts atached to voucher..

4 00

8 71
9.98

8.59

Miscellaneous.

$169 88

30. Salary of Secretary for last half of 1900

$100 00

31. Grace Winters, 21⁄2 days labor directing reports of 1900 and typewriter rent........

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32. Expense of Secretary attending meeting of Execu-
tive Committee at Chicago August 21, 1900.....
33. Coe Brothers, filing case, "Globe Wernicke"
34.

14 55
5.00

Grace Winters, addressing and stamping circulars in relation to "John Marshall" Day and typewriter rent...

3 25

35. William Lindsay, traveling expenses to "John Marshall' Day celebration......

50.00

........

36. William Marlow, services at "John Marshall" Day celebration........

37. Leland Hotel, complimentary breakfast in honor of Senator Lindsay in connection with "John Marshall" Day celebration......

2.00

150 00

38. Grace Winters, directing envelopes to members asking suggestions as to annual meeting...

275

39. Salary of Secretary for first half of 1901....

.....

40. Expense of Senator Lindsay in Chicago and sleeper.. 41. Programs, invitations and cards for "John Marshall" Day....

100 00
7. 00

36 05

42. Expense of Secretary attending meeting of Executive Committee at Peoria, March 16, 1901.

4. 30

43. Darline Bradford, directing envelopes and copying addresses and names by counties...

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44. Darline Bradford, writing 200 letters to Judges in regard to annual meeting and typewriter rent...... 45. Expense of Secretary attending meeting of Executive Committee at Chicago, May 24, 1901..

46. Telephone, toll line charge items attached to voucher. 47. Amounts paid for stamping and rubber stamp detailed receipts with voucher......

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48. Susie L. Nebinger,

writing letters for increasing membership and notices of drafts..

2.40

49. Susie L. Nebinger, directing and stamping 871 circulars announcing meeting......

4.50

50. Susie L. Nebinger, copying proceedings of "John Marshall" Day..

3.00

3 25

$520 20

51. Expense paid for collection of drafts items attached to voucher........

Annual Meeting and Banquet.

52. Banquet Committee for excess of cost over receipts of banquet 1900, according to itemized bills attached to voucher (including complimentary tickets to all members attending).......

53. Kate S. Holmes, for reporting proceedings of annual meeting, 1900......

54. Expense of Secretary attending annual meeting, 1900, including items paid to employees of Chicago Beach Hotel, etc., according to bill attached to voucher.

404 26

114 50

Total expenditures......

SUMMARY.

13 80

$532 56

$1,745 99

Total receipts, including balance carried forward from last year $3,283 64 Total expenditures..............

1,745 99

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Mr. J. H. Matheny, Springfield, Ill.:

SPRINGFIELD, ILL., JULY 8, 1901.

DEAR SIR: In answer to your inquiry I would say that at the close of business on this date there is on deposit in this Bank to the credit of J. H. Matheny, Treasurer Illinois State Bar Association, the sum of Fifteen Hundred and Thirty-seven Dollars and Sixty-five Cents.

Respectfully,

JAS. A. EASLEY, Ass't Cashier.

The members of the Association who were admitted in January, 1896, and prior meetings which were held in the month of January, pay dues by the calendar year. The members who were admitted at the July meeting, 1896, and subsequent meetings, pay by a year run

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MR. MATHENY:

The year has been one of financial prosperity, we have paid out several hundred dollars more than

ning from July first to June thirtieth. These years are indicated as 1896-7, 1897-8, etc.

The foregoing report ends with the transactions of July 8, 1901. From July 8, 1901, to August 12, 1901, both dates inclusive, the latter being the date of printing this report, I received the following sums, which will be included in the report of the next meeting:

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is usual, but the members have been proportionately generous in their dues and we have substantially kept even. We have been able to pay as we go, and to go substantially as we pleased, and you in Chicago who are acquainted with Judge Holdom, know that that has been at a pretty rapid gait.

I received during the year much correspondence from different points, but I was especially pleased to receive a letter from a gentleman who resides at some point in India. I can not pronounce the name of the place where he lives; his name also is quite beyond my efforts; he appears to be a native of that great country. This letter came to me in recognition of my sending to him at his request contained in a former letter, some of the printed matter relative to "John Marshall" day. He says some things which may be of interest to us:

Nihalchand Gidumal, B. A., LL. B., Pleader.

To James H. Matheny, Esq., Springfield:

BUNDER ROAD, KARACHI, 5TH JUNE, 1901.

DEAR SIR: I have received the two pamphlets in connection with the "John Marshall" Day, and thank you for the same. Who will not be interested in the honors paid to the memory of a man like John Marshall, for such men, though they are born in one country and to all appearances work and labor for the good of that country, are men for all countries and ages and their labors endure for the good of all future ages.

Distance can make no difference to the homage that every true heart in every corner of the world must spontaneously pay to the memory of such greatness. The humanity at large owes homage to the memory of every great man who has in any way contributed towards bringing into existence or giving stability to the Constitution of the United States, for at no distant date will it devolve on the people of the United States to lead the path of progress and peace for their less enlightened and less fortunate brothers in the East and West. When that mission of theirs will have been successfully performed for the evolution of a new humanity, then will the work of these great Americans of the Eighteenth Century stand out in bold relief and challenge admiration and appreciation from the four corners of the globe.

I have great faith in the mission of the American people, and

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it only remains to be seen how they rise equal to the task that is certainly theirs in the near future.

I hope you will kindly send me a copy of the report of the celebration of the "John Marshall" Day as you have promised. I should be obliged if you also kindly send me a copy of the rules and other papers connected with the Illinois State Bar Association, which may enable me to understand the object of such an association, and give me a knowledge of its practical working.

Thanking you again, I am,

Yours truly,

NIHALCHAND GIDUMAL.

MR. MATHENY: We have an unusual number of applicants for membership, as will appear from the bulletin at the entrance to the room; we have some not yet bulletined. I overheard one man remark in looking at the list, that he noticed that most of them come from outside of Chicago and he said he thought that was a good thing. I don't know what he meant. (Laughter and applause.)

JUDGE BRADWELL: I would like to know, Mr. Secretary, if you mean that as a slander against Chicago?

MR. MATHENY: I didn't say it; he said it.

JUDGE BRADWELL: I wanted to know what he meant.
PRESIDENT HOLDOM:

What will you do with the report?

The custom is to refer it to a committee.

MR. MATHENY: I would ask that it be so referred.

The motion was seconded.

PRESIDENT HOLDOM: It will be referred to a committee composed of Mr. West, Mr. Tenney and Mr. Heckman. Would anybody like to have that letter from India preserved in the record in any way as being sufficiently unique or just let it be passed?

MR. MOSES: I move it be preserved in the record.
The motion was seconded and adopted.

PRESIDENT HOLDOM: The next matter on the tapis is the report of the Committee on Law Reform; Mr. Adolph Moses.

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