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PART I

CHARTER, BY-LAWS, MEMBERS

CHARTER

OF THE

Illinois State Bar Association

To All to Whom These Presents Shall Come, Greeting:

WHEREAS, a certificate daly signed and acknowledged, has been filed in the office of the Secretary of State, on the 1st day of March, A. D. 1916, for the organization of the

ILLINOIS STATE BAR ASSOCIATION

under and in accordance with the provisions of "An act concerning Corporations," approved April 18, 1872, and in force July 1, 1872, and all acts amendatory thereof, a copy of which certificate is hereto attached;

Now, therefore, I, Lewis Stevenson, Secretary of State of the State of Illinois, by virtue of the powers and duties vested in me by law, do hereby certify that the said

ILLINOIS STATE BAR ASSOCIATION

is a legally organized Corporation under the laws of this State.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereto set my hand and cause to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Illinois.

Done at the City of Springfield this 1st day of March, A. D. 1916, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fortieth.

(Signed) LEWIS G. STEVENSON,

(Seal)

Secretary of State.

COUNTY OF SANGAMON,

STATE OF ILLINOIS,
To LEWIS G. STEVENSON,
SECRETARY OF STATE:

SS

We, the undersigned, NATHAN WILLIAM MACCHESNEY, ROGER SHERMAN, WALTER M. PROVINE, JOHN F. VOIGT, FREDERICK A. BROWN, C. M. CLAY BUNTAIN, ALBERT D. EARLY, EDGAR B. TOLMAN, GEORGE H. WILSON and LOGAN HAY, Citizens of the United States, propose to form a corporation under an act of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, entitled "An Act Concerning Corporations," approved April 18th, 1872, and all acts amendatory thereof, and that for the purpose of such organization we hereby state as follows, to-wit:

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CHARTER

1. The name of such Corporation is

ILLINOIS STATE BAR ASSOCIATION

2. The object for which it is founded is to cultivate the science of jurisprudence, to promote reform in the law, to facilitate the administration of justice, to elevate the standard of integrity, honor and courtesy in the legal profession, to encourage a thorough and liberal legal education, and to cultivate and cherish a spirit of brotherhood among the members thereof.

3. The management of the aforesaid association shall be vested in a Board of Governors, composed of twenty members, consisting of the President, the ex-President retiring at the last election of the association, First, Second and Third Vice-Presidents, Secretary, Treasurer, and thirteen others.

The President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer shall be elected annually by the membership. Six of the Board of Governors shall be elected for three years, two to be elected by the membership each year after the first election, at which time six shall be elected; two for one year, two for two years, and two for three years. The remaining seven members of the Board of Governors shall be elected by the members of the Bar of the State of Illinois, through the various Federations of Local Bar Associations, one such member to be elected by each of the seven Federations organized in each of the Seven Supreme Court Judicial Districts of the State. Each Federation shall elect its member of the Board of Governors at its annual meeting, to serve for the fiscal year of the State Bar Association only, and in event a Federation does not so elect its member of the Board, it shall not be entitled to a representative thereon.*

4. The following persons are hereby selected as the Managers of Control and manage said corporation until the first annual meeting, viz: NATHAN WILLIAM MACCHESNEY, ROGER SHERMAN, WALTER M. PROVINE, JOHN F. VOIGT, FREDERICK A. BROWN, C. M. CLAY BUNTAIN, ALBERT D. EARLY, EDGAR B. TOLMAN, LOGAN HAY and GEORGE H. WILSON.

5. The location is in the City of Springfield, in the County of Sangamon, and State of Illinois, and the post-office address of its business office is First National Bank Building, 205 South Fifth Street, Springfield, Illinois.*

Signed:

NATHAN WILLIAM MACCHESNEY,

ROGER SHERMAN,

WALTER M. PROVINE,

C. M. CLAY BUNTAIN,
FREDERICK A. BROWN,

*As amended Nov. 27, 1925.

ALBERT D. EARLY,
JOHN F. VOIGT,
EDGAR B. TOLMAN,
GEORGE H. WILSON,
LOGAN HAY.

BY LAWS

OF THE

Illinois State Bar Association

ARTICLE I.

MEMBERSHIP

Section 1. All members of the Illinois State Bar Association on the first day of March, A. D. 1916, are declared members of this Association.

Section 2. Applications for membership may be made at any time to the secretary. They shall be in writing and show the place of residence (with office number and street in cities), age, date of admission and such other facts required by the Committee on Admissions of the applicant and bear the endorsement of two members of this association. When the secretary shall have received such application for membership, he shall give notice of the name of the applicant to each member of the Committee on Admission and to the secretary of the affiliated Bar Association of the county where the applicant resides if there be such association; if no objection to the admission of the applicant is made known to the committee within twenty days after the receipt of such notice, then the Committee on Admissions may at once pass upon such application, and a majority vote shall be sufficient to admit applicant to this Association; Provided, that an applicant may at any time be elected to membership by vote of the Board of Governors, if he receive the favorable vote of twothirds of those present.

The Committee on Admissions shall report all members admitted under this section at the next succeeding annual meeting of the Association. The favorable action of the Committee on Admissions or of the Board of Governors, and the payment of the admission fee shall constitute the applicant a member of the Association.

Section 3. Any member of the legal profession in good standing, residing or practicing in this state, may be admitted to active membership.

Section 4. The Justices of the Supreme Court of this state in commission, past Justices of the same court not in practice, Judges of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, Justices of the

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