Secretary's traveling expenses for self and assistants.. Treasurer's traveling expenses.. Secretary's office salary account. Secretary's office for compensation of assistants for work in $398.15 460.72 4,000.00 connection with annual meeting 1920.... Treasurer's office salary account.. Treasurer's office extra clerk hire.. Expenses of delegates of Association.. Total 500.00 4,500.00 504.00 161.60 $89,467.35 5 $1,000 U. S. Government bonds (41% Second Liberty Loan) 5,000.00 10 $1,000 U. S. Government bonds (41% Third Liberty Loan) 10,000.00 $34.568.75 Total cash on hand and funds invested... . . . . $47,335.23 ACCOUNT OF JAMES KEELEY AND JOSEPH R. TAYLOR, CURRENT MONTH EXPENSES, AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. Cash on hand August 9, 1920.... Dr. Cash received subscriptions to Journal. Cash received from Frederick E. Wadhams, Treasurer. Total $99.08 6.10 3,421.37 $3,526.55 Miscellaneous office expenses for light, ice, tow els, postage, stationery and supplies, photo- 163.04 $3,269.55 $257.00 $148.94 108.06 $257.00 400.00 400.00 100.00 100.00 150.00 250.00 1,000.00 1,400.00 Insurance Law International Law Uniform Judicial Procedure. 300.00 500.00 Legislative Drafting 3,000.00 3,000.00 Membership: 1,107.62 45.00 Lucien Hugh Alexander, Chairman... Frederick E. Wadhams, Chairman.. 250.00 250.00 Change of Date of Presidential Inauguration 1,500.00 1,000.00 Publicity 1,000.00 4,338.42 350.00 450.00 400.00 500.00 2,500.00 2,500.00 Classification and Restatement of the Law. Total 673.68 246.52 2,500.00 25.00 248.35 $14,780.76 GENTLEMEN: Pursuant to engagement, we have made an audit of the books and accounts of Mr. Frederick E. Wadhams, Treasurer of your Association, for the fiscal year ending August 16, 1921. We find that all receipts and disbursements have been properly accounted for, the latter with satisfactory vouchers. We certify that the accompanying report, showing total receipts for the year of $102,233.83 including cash on hand at the beginning, and disbursements of $89,467.35, is a correct summary of said books and accounts. We secured statements from the banks, confirming the funds on deposit as stated, and we examined the securities in the Albany Safe Deposit Co., where they are deposited for safe keeping and found them correct and in agreement with the list. Respectfully submitted, NEW YORK STATE AUDIT Co., President. REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CINCINNATI, OHIO, August 31, 1921. To the American Bar Association: The Executive Committee reports with profound sorrow the death of the President of the Association, William A. Blount, of Pensacola, Florida, which occurred on June 15, 1921. President Blount attended the mid-winter meeting of the Executive Committee at New Orleans, and presided over its sessions. Although at the time a great sufferer, he then displayed no indication of his illness, but continued to perform the duties devolving upon him as President of the Association and as Chairman of the Executive Committee until a few weeks prior to his death. The Executive Committee unanimously selected the last retiring President, Hampton L. Carson, of Pennsylvania, as acting President of the Association until the next regular election. The committee furthermore invited James M. Beck, of New York, to prepare and deliver an address at the annual meeting in lieu of the President's address. The Executive Committee met at New Orleans, Louisiana, January 5, 6 and 7, 1921. Many matters of detail in the work of the Association were brought before, and passed upon by the committee, as more fully appears from the minutes of those. meetings. The committee has kept in close touch with the Board of Editors of the AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION JOURNAL, now completing its first year as a monthly periodical. In January the committee conferred personally with the Board of Editors of the JOURNAL in New Orleans, and in April the sub-committee of the Executive Committee again conferred with the Board of Editors of the JOURNAL at Chicago. Numerous details concerning the general policy of the JOURNAL were discussed and acted upon. During the year Stephen S. Gregory, Editor-in-Chief of the JOURNAL, died, and the committee elected as his successor, Edgar Bronson Tolman, of Chicago, under whose efficient direction the work, so well begun by Mr. Gregory and his associates, has been brought to its present fruition. In pursuance of the resolution offered at the St. Louis meeting by William P. MacCracken, Jr., of Illinois, the President appointed a special committee to investigate and consider the legal aspects of aviation and aerial navigation, to draft such measures as it deems advisable, and to report them, together with its conclusions and recommendations to the next annual meeting of the Association. This committee, consisting of Charles A. Boston of New York, William P. Bynum of North Carolina, Orrin N. Carter of Illinois, George G. Bogert of New York, and William P. MacCracken of Illinois, has submitted a report to the Executive Committee which has been printed and distributed to all members of the Association. The Executive Committee respectfully refers said report to the Association for such action as it may deem proper. The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws has under consideration a Uniform State Law on Aviation. The Chairman of the Committee of the Conference is George G. Bogert of New York. The resolution offered by Levi Cooke of the District of Columbia, proposing an increase in the compensation and allowance for travel of Grand and Petit Jurors in the District Courts of the United States, was referred to the Committee on Jurisprudence and Law Reform. The committee invited the International Bar Association and the Canadian Bar Association to send one or more delegates to attend the annual meeting of the Association. The committee approved a new plan of membership campaign submitted by Frederick E. Wadhams, as Chairman of the Membership Committee, providing for the appointment of District Directors, and State and County Advisors. Acting under this plan, the Membership Committee have recommended 4446 applicants, all of whom have been elected by the Executive Committee after approval by a majority of the Vice President and Local Council of the respective states. |