PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE

OF

Commissioners on Uniform State Laws

HELD AT

PORTLAND, MAINE

August 22, 23 and 24, 1907

OFFICERS OF THE CONFERENCE

1907-1908.

AMASA M. EATON, President,
Providence, Rhode Island.

W. O. HART, Vice-President,
New Orleans, Louisiana.

CHARLES THADDEUS TERRY, Secretary,
100 Broadway, New York, New York.

TALCOTT H. RUSSELL, Treasurer,
42 Church Street, New Haven, Connecticut.

FRANCIS A. HOOVER, Assistant Secretary,
1004 Mercantile Library Building, Cincinnati, Ohio.

MEMORANDUM.

The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws is made up of Commissioners created by different states, meeting in conference and organizing themselves into a national body for the better accomplishment of the work for which its members were appointed by the states. The Commissioners,

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