ber a copy of the official ballot, and no other ballot shall be received or counted. SECTION 3. The ballot box for the election of officers shall be open from 9 till 10 o'clock A. M., and from 12:30 to 2 o'clock P. M., and from 7 to 9 o'clock P. M. of the first day, and from 8:30 to 10 A. M., of the second day of the annual meeting. A plurality of the votes cast in person at any such election shall elect. Should any office fail to be filled by the election herein provided for, the same shall be filled by the members present at such meeting. No member shall be allowed to vote who is in arrears to the Association for his annual dues. ARTICLE XVI. QUORUM. The Association shall convene at the place and hour indicated in the notice therefor. The presence of twenty-five members shall constitute a quorum. ARTICLE XVII. ORDER OF BUSINESS. 1. Reading of Minutes of preceding meeting. 3. Report of the Board of Governors. (a). Board of Governors. (b). Judicial Administration. (d). Legal Education. (e). Grievances. Vacancies created by the death, removal from the state or inexcusable neglect of duty of the incumbent shall be filled as follows: In the case of president, vice-president and secretary and treasurer, or member of Board of Governors, such vacancy shall be filled by the Board of Governors, but only a vice-president shall be appointed to the office of President. In the case of a vacancy of chairman of a committee, or other member thereof, such vacancy shall be filled by the president. ARTICLE XIX. AMENDMENTS. These By-Laws may be amended at any meeting of the Board of Governors provided thirty days' notice of such amendments shall be given in writing to each member of the Board of Governors. C. M. CLAY BUNTAIN (Term expires 1920). Kankakee Chicago East St. Louis EDGAR BRONSON TOLMAN (Ex-Officio for 1918-1919). -Quincy COMMITTEES FOR 1918-1919. JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION-Albert M. Kales, chairman, Chicago; Rush C. Butler, Chicago; John R. Cochran, Chicago; W. W. Maxwell, Chicago; Stephen A. Foster, Chicago; B. M. Matthews, Pittsfield; Albert Watson, Mt. Vernon; Walter H. Mills, Decatur; Fred H. Hand, Cambridge. LAW REFORM-Class of 1918-W. T. ApMadoc, chairman, Chicago; H. S. Hicks, Rockford; M. D. Follansbee, Chicago; I. S. Rothschild, Chicago. Class of 1919-Allan J. Carter, chairman, Chicago; Horace W. McDavid, Decatur; Edward D. Shurtleff, Marengo. Class of 1920-James A. Watson, Elizabethtown; John Kasserman, Newton; G. A. Dahlberg, Chicago. LEGAL EDUCATION-James Parker Hall, chairman, Chicago; George P. Costigan, Chicago; Edward H. Decker, Chicago; Charles J. O'Connor, Chicago; Donald Morrill, Chicago; W. R. T. Ewen, Jr., Chicago; Beverley W. Howe, Chicago; Charles L. Bartlett, Quincy; Robert P. Vail, Decatur. LEGAL HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY-George A. Lawrence, chairman, Galesburg; Orrin N. Carter, Chicago; Frederic B. Crossley, Chicago; Joseph J. Thompson, Chicago; Clayton J. Barber, Springfield. NECROLOGIST-Thomas Dent, Chicago. UNIFORM STATE LAWS-John J. Barbour, chairman, Evanston; Nathan William MacChesney, Chicago; Edgar A. Bancroft, Chicago; C. J. O'Connor, Chicago; Carl R. Chindblom, Chicago; Ralph M. Shaw, Chicago; Ernst Freund, Chicago; Felix J. Streychmans, Chicago; William L. Patton, Springfield; R. R. Tiffany, Freeport. PROFESSIONAL ETHICS-Jesse A. Baldwin, chairman, Chicago; F. R. Norcross, Chicago; Robert McMurdy, Chicago; Edward P. Irwin, Springfield; Thomas Worthington, Jacksonville; Arthur R. Hall, Danville; S. J. Gee, Lawrenceville. DELEGATES TO AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION-Orrin N. Carter, Chicago; Nathan William MacChesney, Chicago; Amos Miller, Hillsboro. ALTERNATES TO AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION-Jesse Holdom, Chicago; Harry Higbee, Pittsfield; E. C. Kramer, East St. Louis. ORGANIZATION-Joseph H. Barnhart, chairman, Danville; W. F. Spiller, 1st District, Benton; George D. Chafee, 2nd District, Shelbyville; E. E. Donnelly, 3rd District, Bloomington; L. O. Vaught, 4th District, Jacksonville; George C. Gale, 5th District, Galesburg; Charles F. Preston, 6th District, Paw Paw; William R. Hunter, 7th District, Kankakee. NEW MEMBERS-Miles S. Gilbert, 1st District, Cairo; W. P. Boynton, 2nd District, Alton; D. A. Hebel, 3rd District, Aledo; Michael Eckstein, 4th District, Springfield; Walter C. Frank, 5th District, Galesburg; E. H. Brewster, 6th District, Dixon; T. D. Huff, chairman, 7th District, Chicago. ADMISSIONS-Oliver D. Mann, chairman, Danville; P. J. Kolb, 1st District, Mt. Carmel; George W. Lackey, 2nd District, Lawrenceville; Harlington Wood, 3rd District, Springfield; M. F. Carrott, 4th District, Quincy; H. E. Todd, 5th District, Peoria; H. C. Warner, 6th District, Dixon; Edwin A. Munger, 7th District, Chicago. BALANCE 1ST DISTRICT-Walter W. Williams, Benton; Judson E. Harriss, DuQuoin; J. E. McGaughey, Lawrenceville. BALANCE 2ND DISTRICT-L. M. Kagy, Salem; W. E. Rinehart, Effingham; F. J. Tecklenburg, Belleville. BALANCE 3RD DISTRICT-W. B. Cooney, Pekin; John R. Fitzgerald, Decatur; H. H. Kerr, Paxton; J. J. Neiger, Virginia; Philip E. Elting, Macomb; John J. Reeve, Jacksonville. BALANCE 5TH DISTRICT Thomas J. Welch, Kewanee; Shelton McGrath, Peoria; Rector C. Hitt, Ottawa. BALANCE 6TH DISTRICT-F. J. Strawsky, Savanna; Stanton A. Hyer, Rockford; George Brown, Sycamore. BALANCE 7TH DISTRICT—T. D. Silber, Chicago; Pence B. Orr, Joliet; I. Wesley Baker, Chicago. GRIEVANCES-Walter H. Jacobs, chairman, Chicago; Joel C. Fitch, 1st District, Albion; John Kasserman, 2nd District, Newton; Alonzo Hoff, 3rd District, Springfield; Carl Epler, 4th District, Quincy; Cairo Trimble, 5th District, Princeton; Robert P. Eckert, 6th District, Freeport. MASTERS-IN-CHANCERY-Harry A. Daugherty, chairman, Chicago; McKenzie Cleland, Chicago; Adolph Bernard, Springfield; Edward W. Everett, Chicago; Robert J. Folonie, Chicago; Charles S. Harris, Galesburg; H. E. Torrance, Pontiac; J. H. Latham, Decatur; Lawrence C. Johnson, Galva; Dean Franklin, Monmouth; Benjamin Bell, Rock Island. CORPORATIONS ASSUMING TO PRACTICE LAW-S. E. Straus, chairman; George E. Gillespie, Springfield; John L. Hopkins, Chicago; I. B. Perlmann, Chicago; J. B. Brown, Monmouth; John E. Hogan, Taylorville; M. J. Daugherty, Galesburg; Richard J. Barr, Joliet; C. M. Turner, Cambridge; Earl B. Reynolds, Rockford. |