Supreme United States Court, resident or assigned in this state, and the former presidents of the Association, shall be enrolled as honorary members.

Section 5. Distinguished members of the profession, whether resident of Illinois or not, may, by a vote of the Board of Governors, be elected as honorary members.

Section 6. All honorary members shall be entitled to all the privileges of membership, but shall not pay dues.

Section 7. Upon application to the Board of Governors any member who shall have paid his dues for twenty-five years and whọ has reached the age of seventy years or more shall be known as a Privileged Member. Privileged Members shall have all of the privileges and be subject to all of the obligations of regular resident members, except they shall be exempt from further dues to the Association.

Section 8. Any member of the Illinois Bar, upon approval of the Board of Governors, may become a Life Member of the Association upon the payment of two hundred dollars. Life Members shall have all the privileges and be subject to all the obligations of regular resident membership except they shall be exempt from the payment of dues.

Section 9. With the approval of the Board of Governors and upon the payment of five hundred dollars, a Memorial Membership may be established by any person or organization in memory of any deceased member, or deceased former member of the Association, or deceased former member of the Illinois Bar, who ceased active practice of the law before the organization of this Association. Each Annual Report shall contain a list of such Memorial Memberships.

Section 10. The amount paid for the establishment of Life and Memorial Memberships shall be held by the Association as a trust fund, and may be invested in such securities as the Board of Governors from time to time may deem advisable to yield the highest rate consistent with safe investment. The interest from such investments shall be a part of the general funds of the Association.

Section 11. Withdrawal from membership may be effected by notice to the secretary and the payment of all unpaid dues, including those of the current year.

ARTICLE II.

DUTIES OF PRESIDENT

Section 1. The president shall preside at all meetings of the Association and all meetings of the Board of Governors. He shall assume the general duties of his office on the adjournment of the annual meeting at which he is elected. He shall announce, within thirty days thereafter, all committees for the ensuing year, the appointment of which shall not have been otherwise provided for.

Section 2. He shall deliver the President's Annual Address, embodying briefly therein such reference to recent changes in the law of this state, its present state and administration, with his recommendations in respect thereto, as shall seem best calculated to conserve the general weal. The president shall be ineligible for re-election for the term succeeding his term of service.

DUTIES OF VICE-PRESIDENTS

Section 3. There shall be three Vice-Presidents, namely: the First Vice-President; the Second Vice-President, and the Third VicePresident. In the absence of the President or in case of a vacancy in the office of the President, the duties of the President shall be discharged by the First Vice-President. In the event the First VicePresident is also unable to serve, then the duties of the President shall be discharged by the Second Vice-President. And in the event the Second Vice-President is also unable to serve, then the duties of the President shall be discharged by the Third Vice-President.

Section 4. Subject to the direction of the President and Board of Governors, the Vice-Presidents shall have general supervision of the various committees of the Association in such manner as the Board of Governors shall from time to time prescribe.

ARTICLE III.

DUTIES OF TREASURER

Section 1. The treasurer shall receive from the secretary and receipt for all moneys coming to the Association and safely keep and disburse the same under the direction of the Board of Governors. He shall give such surety bond, at the expense of the Association, as may be required by the Board of Governors, and all checks shall be executed by the treasurer and countersigned by the secretary.

ARTICLE IV.

DUTIES OF SECRETARY

Section 1. The secretary shall keep a record of the proceedings of the Association and the Board of Governors; be the keeper of the

records and archives of the Association; superintend the publication and distribution of the publications of the Association, as directed by the Board of Governors. One or more assistant secretaries shall be named by the Board of Governors.

Section 2. The assistant secretaries, if any, shall receive such compensation as may be, from time to time, fixed by the Board of Governors.

Section 3. One assistant secretary shall be in charge of the office of the Association at Springfield.

ARTICLE V.

ANNUAL DUES

Section 1. The annual dues of resident members shall be five dollars, payable to the secretary on demand.

Section 2. Members who, after third notice mailed to their last reported address, neglect or refuse the secretary's demand, may afterwards be expelled by a vote of the Board of Governors.

Section 3. Members of the Association who become non-residents of the State of Illinois, may, upon notice to the secretary, become non-resident members. The dues of non-resident members shall be three dollars per year.

ARTICLE VI.

ANNUAL MEETINGS

Section 1. The Annual Meeting of the Association shall be held at such time and place as may be designated by the Board of Governors.

Section 2. Special meetings may be called by the Board of Governors, and the business there transacted shall be only such as is designated in the notice therefor.

ARTICLE VII.

MEETINGS OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS

Section 1. The Board of Governors shall meet annually, immediately following the annual election and shall hold such other meetings from time to time as may be called by the president or any three members of the Board of Governors.

ARTICLE VIII.

STANDING COMMITTEES AT LARGE

Section 1. The following standing committees shall, unless otherwise provided, be appointed by the president at large:

1.

Judicial Administration of nine members, which shall take note of all changes in the administration of the law, and recommend such as may, in its opinion, be entitled to the favorable consideration and endorsement of the Association; and further, shall observe the workings of the judicial system of the state; shall collect information in reference thereto and recommend such action as it may deem advisable.

2. Law Reform of nine members-three to hold three years, three for two years, and three for one year; and at each annual meeting three members shall be appointed in the place of those retiring who shall serve for three years. It shall be the duty of this committee to consider and report to the Association such amendments of the law, as, in its opinion, should be adopted; also to scrutinize proposed changes of the law, and recommend such as should receive the approval of the Association.

3. Legal Education of nine members.

7. Program Committee, whose duty it shall be subject to the approval of the president, to arrange suitable programs for all meetings of the Association.

A majority of the members of any standing committee at large shall reside in the same Supreme Court District.

ARTICLE IX.

STANDING COMMITTEES APPOINTED BY SUPREME COURT DISTRICTS.

Section 2. The following standing committees shall be appointed, one member of which shall reside in each Supreme Court District: 1. Bulletin Committee, whose duty it shall be to publish the Quarterly Bulletin.

2. Organization Committee, to co-operate with Local Bar Associations. The member from each Supreme Court District shall be the chairman in his district of a sub-committee of five members.

3. Committe on new members, whose duty it shall be to procure applications from lawyers, whose qualifications and attainments would make them desirable members of the Association. The mem

ber from district

4.

each Supreme Court District shall be chairman in his of a sub-committe of five members.

Committe on Admissions, whose duty it shall be to pass on the qualifications of applicants for admission. The member from each Supreme Court District shall be chairman in his district of a subcommittee of five members.

5.

Committee on Grievances, whose duty it shall be to secure charges and complaints and take action thereon as hereinafter provided. The member from each Supreme Court District shall be the chairman in his district of a sub-committee of five members.

Section 3. A Necrologist shall be appointed by the president.

Section 4.

Delegates to the American Bar Association—three in number, with three alternates-shall be appointed by the president.

ARTICLE X.

CHARGES AND COMPLAINTS

Whenever any complaint shall be preferred against a lawyer for unprofessional or unethical acts or conduct in his relation to his profession, or conduct caculated to bring the profession into disrepute, such complaint shall be in writing, signed by the complainant, plainly stating the matter of which complaint is made, with particulars of time, place and circumstances, and filed with the Committee on Grievances, whereupon that committee shall refer the matter, if it deems wise, to the sub-committe of the appropriate district which shall proceed to examine into the matter under such regulations as it may from time to time adopt.

And it shall be the duty of the Committee on Grievances to take notice of unprofessional conduct and of violations by any member of the bar praticing in the State of Illinois of the canons of ethics as adopted by this association.

In order to further the work of the Committee on Grievances in its efforts to maintain and advance the standards of the Bar, and that the committee may take cognizance of all matters tending to affect the standing of character of the Bar, for the purpose of showing the disapproval of acts or conduct deserving censure and at the same time doing justice to any lawyer guilty of unprofessional conduct in violation of the cannons of ethics, by recommending or inflicting a penalty more nearly commensurate with the offense in each case and thereby stimulating by properly graded penalties members of the Bar to follow rules of conduct and ethics more in accordance with ideals of