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CONSTITIIHONS AND BY—LAWS
MICHIGAN
STATE BEE ASSOCIATION
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PROCEEDINGS OF FIRST MEETING. 4

DETROIT, MICH;
SPEAKER PRINTING COMPANY.
1890.
ORlGlNAL CALL.
CALL FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF A STATE BAR ASSOCIATION.
HE undersigned members of the Bar of the State of
Michigan, believing that a State Bar Association would
tend to promote the Welfare and interest of the profession
generally, in a proper code of ethics among its members,
and the interest and welfare of the people at large, in
securing just and necessary legislationz~~do hereby sign this
call for the organization of a State Bar Association, which
shall have for its general purpose and object, the advancement
of the science of jurisprudence, the promotion of the
administration of justice, uniformity of Wise and just legis~
lation and the upholding of the honor of the profession of
the ban), and the encouragement of cordial intercourse
among the members of the Bar of this State.
URSUANT to the foregoing call, a meeting was held at the U. S-
Court Rooms, in the City of Detroit, February 22nd, 1890, very
numerously attended. A very general and earnest discussion was had
by members of the Bar of the State, urging the expediency of
organization, and such organization was unanimously determined upon.
Articles of Associatlon were adopted and the following gentlemen
were appointed a committee to draft a Constitution and report the same
at a meeting to be held June 2nd, at the same place: Judge Henry B.
Brown, Wm. H. Wells and W. H. H. Russell, of Detroit, Thos. A. E.
Weadock, Bay City, and Watts S. Humphrey, Cheboygan.
JUNE, 2nd, 1890.
The Association meet pursuant to adjournment and after adopting
the Constitution reported by the committee, proceeded to elect the
following ofiicers:
PRESIDENT, HENRY M. DUFFIELD, Esq. . Detroit.
VICE-PRESIDENTS:—
lst District—WM. P. WELLS, Esq. . . Detroit
2d District—CHAS. R, WHITMAN, Esq. . Ann Arbor
3d District—JOHN C. PATTERSON, Esq. . Marshall
4th District-—DALLAS BOUDEMAN, Esq, . Kalamazoo
5th District—THUS. J. O’BRIEN, Esq. . Grand Rapids
6th District—GEO. H. DURAND, Esq. . . Flint
7th District—HARRISON GEER, Esq. . . Lapeer
8th District—STEWART DRAPER, Esq. . Saginaw
9th District—MICHAEL BROWN, Esq. . . Big Rapids
10th District— WATTS S. HUMPHREY, Esq. . Cheboygan
11th District—THUS. L. CHADBOURN, Esq.. Marquette
RECORDING SECRETARY:—
DURELLE F. GLIDDEN, Esq. . . . Detroit
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CORRESPONDING SECRETARY2—-
WALTER S. HARSHA, Esq, . . . Detroit
TREASURERI~
HENRY M. CAMPBELL, Esq. . . . Detroit
BOARD OF DIREoToRs:--
HENRY M. DUFFIELD, Esq. . . . Detroit
W. H. H. RUSSELL, Esq. . . . . Detroit
HENRY M. CAMPBELL, Esq. . . . Detroit
GEO. H. HOPKINS, Esq. . . . . Detroit
T. A. E. WEADOCK, Esq. . . . . Bay City
E. O. GROSVENOR, Esq. . . . . Monroe
GEO. P. WANTY, Esq. . . . . . Grand Rapids
BENTON HANCHETT, Esq. . . . . Saginaw
W. P. HEALEY, Esq. . . . . . Marquette
MEMBERS GENERAL CoUNoIL:-—
lst District—MICHAEL BRENNAN, Esq. . Detroit
2nd District—JOHN F. LAWRENCE, Esq. . Ann Arbor
3rd Distriot—THOS. A. WILSON, Esq. . Jackson
4th District—ALFRED J. MILLS, Esq. . Kalamazoo
5th District—FRED A. MAYNARD, Esq. . Grand Rapids
6th District—RICHARD A. MONTGOMERY, Esq. Lansing
7th District—ALEXANDER R. AVERY, Esq. Port Huron
8th District—ROB’T MOKNIGHT, Esq. . Saginaw
9th District—FRED A. NIMS, Esq. . . Muskegon
10th District—CHESTER. L. COLLINS, Esq. Bay City
11th District— DAN. H. BALL, Esq. . . Marquette
MEMBERS OF LOCAL CouNornsz—
lst District—W. H. WELLS, Esq. . . Detroit
2nd District—A. J. SAWYER, Esq. . . Pontiac
3rd District—~PHILIP T. VAN‘ZILE, Esq. Charlotte
4th District—EDWIN M. IRISH, Esq. . Kalamazoo
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5th District—ADOLPH A. ELLIS, Esq. . Ionia
6th District—R. C. OSTRAN DER, Esq. . Lansing
7th District—THOS. M. CROCKER, Esq. . Mt. Clemens '
8th District—J. E. NOLAN, Esq. . . Saginaw
9th District—WM. CARPENTER, Esq. . Muskegon
10th District—J AS. VAN KLEECK, Esq. . Bay City
11th Districti—GEO. W. HAYDEN, Esq. . Marquette
By vote of the Association, all members of_ the Bar who had signed
the original call were declared elected members of the Association, and
the Secretary was instructed to send to each, a copy of the Constitution
and By-Laws, and list of Committees and members of Councils,
whereupon the Association adjourned, subject to call.
' D. F. GLIDDEN,
H. M. DUFFIELD, Secretary.
President.
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LIST OF STANDING COMMITTEES.
1890-91 .
ON J URISPRUDENCE AND LAW REFORM:—
ON
ON
Detroit
O. A. KENT, .
EDWIN F. CONELY, Detroit
JAMES T. KEENA, Detroit
R. E. FRAZER, Detroit
F. O. CLARK, . ‘Marquette
JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION AND REMEDIAL PROCEDURE!—
H. O. WISN ER, Detroit
H. L. BAKER, . Detroit
JOHN B. OORLISS, Detroit
R. M. MONTGOMERY, Grand Rapids
A. E. OOWLES, Lansing
LEGAL EDUoATION AND ADMISSION To THE BAR:—
LEVI T. GRIFFIN, Detroit
S. S. BABOOOK, Detroit
B. M. THOMPSON, . Ann Arbor
O. F. WISNER, Saginaw
MARK NORRIS,
INTERNATIONAL LAW:—
Grand Rapids -'
ISAAC MARSTON, . Detroit
JOHN G. DONNELY, Detroit
THOMAS R. SHERWOOD, Kalamazoo
L. E. KNAPPEN, Kalamazoo
N. A. EARLE, .
Grand Rapids
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ON PUBLICATIONS:—
ANDREW HOWELL, . . . . . Detroit
A. C. ANGELL, . . . . . . Detroit
HoYT PosT, . . . . . . . Detroit
H. o. YOUNG, . . . . . . Ishpheming
JOHN PATTON, JR. . . . . . Grand Rapids
()N GRIEVANCESi—
GEO. ~s. HOSMER, . . . . . . Detroit
E. A. FRASER, .‘ . . . . . Detroit
M. J. SMILEY, _ . . . . . Grand Rapids
JAMES H. CAMPBELL, . . . . Grand Rapids
J. C. KNOWLTON, . . . . . . Ann Arbor
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ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION.
First—The undersigned members of the Bar of Michigan in good
standing, and authorized to practice in the Courts thereof, residents off,
or practicing in the said State, and more than fifteen in number, and
whose names and residences are particularly set forth by their signatures
subscribed to these articles, in pursuance and by authority of an act
of the Legislature of the State of Michigan, entitled: “An Act to
Authorize the Formation of Incorporations of Associations of Members
of the Bar,” approved April 25th, 1881, do hereby associate together
for the purpose of incorporation.
Second—The name and Style of said Association shall be the
“MICHIGAN STATE BAR ASSOCIATION.”
The office for the transaction of its business shall be in the City of
Detroit, in the County of Wayne.
The period of incorporation shall be thirty years.
Third—The objects of said Association shall be to maintain the
honor and dignity of the profession of the law, increasing its usefulness
in promoting the due administration of justice, and cultivating social
intercourse among its members.
Fourth—The regular ofiicers of said Association shall be a
President, a Vice-President from each Judicial District, a Corresponding
Secretary, a Recording Secretary, a Treasurer, and a Board of Directors.
The oflicers named shall be elected at the regular meeting, which
shall be held on the first Tuesday in June in each year at said City.
Fifth—Any member of the Bar of Michigan in good standing,
residing or practicing in the State of Michigan, may become a member
by a majority vote of the Directors of the Association.
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CONSTITUTION.
ARTICLE I.
This Association shall be known as “THE MICHIGAN STATE BAR
AssooIATIoN.” Its object shall be to advance the science of jurisprudence,
promote the administration of justice, uphold the honor of the
profession of the law, and encourage cordial intercourse among the
members of the Michigan Bar.
ARTICLE II.
Any person shall be eligible to membership to this Association, who
shall be a member in good standing of the Bar of Michigan, and who
.shall be nominated as hereinafter provided.
ARTICLE III.
The following ‘officers shall be elected at each Annual Meeting, for
the year ensuing: A President, (the same person shall not be elected
President two ‘years in succession), one Vice-President for each
Congressional District, a Recording Secretary, a Corresponding
Secretary, a Treasurer, a General Council, consisting of one member
from each Congressional District, which shall be a standing committee
on nominations for oflice; a Board of Directors, consisting of nine
members. The Vice-President for each Congressional District and
not less than two other members from such District, to be annually
elected, shall constitute a local Council for such district, to which shall
be referred all applications for membership from such district. The
Vice-President will be ew-ojficio chairman of such Council.
The following committees shall be annually appointed by the
President for the year ensuing, and shall consist of five members each:
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On Jurisprudence and Law Reform. On Judicial Administration and
Remedial Procedure. On Legal Education and Admission to the Bar.
On International Law. On Publications, On Grievances. A majority
of those members from any committee. including the Council, shall
constitute a quorum of such committee for the purposes of such
meeting.
ARTICLE IV.
All nominations for membership shall be made by the local Council
of the district to the Bar of which, the persons nominated belong. Such
nominations must be transmitted in writing to the Chairman of the
General Council, and approved by the Council on vote by ballot. The
General Council may also nominate and elect members from
Congressional Districts having no local Council. All nominations thus
made, or approved, shall be reported by the Council to the Association,
and all whose names are reported, shall thereupon become members of
the Association; provided, that if any member demands a vote upon any
name thus reported, the Association shall thereupon vote by ballot. A
majority vote shall elect.
ARTICLE V.
‘ By-Laws may be adopted at any Annual Meeting of the Association
by a majority of the members present. It shall be the duty of the
Board of Directors, without delay, to adopt suitable By-Laws, which
shall be enforced until rescinded by the Association.
ARTICLE VI.
Each member shall pay to the Treasurer, one dollar as annual dues,
and no person shall be qualified to exercise any privilege of membership
Who is in default. Such dues shall be payable, and the payment thereof
enforced, as may be provided for by the By-Laws. Members shall be
entitled to receive all publications of the Association free of charge.
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ARTICLE VII.
The President shall open each Annual Meeting of the Association
with an address in which he shall communicate the most noteworthy
changes in statute law, on points of general interest, made in the State
and by Congress during each preceding year.
ARTICLE VIII.
This Association shall meet annually, the first week in June, at
such time and place as the Board of Directors may select, and those
present at such meeting shall constitute a quorum.
ARTICLE IX.
This Constitution may be altered or amended by a vote of
three-fourths of all the members present at any meeting, but no
such change shall be made at any meeting at which less than twenty
members are present.
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BY—LAWS
THE MICHIGAN STATE BAR ASSOCIATION.
MEETINGS OF THE ASSOCIATION.
FIRST.- The Board of’ Directors, at their first meeting after each
Annual Meeting, shall select some person to make an address at the
next Annual Meeting, and not exceeding six members of the Association
to read papers,
SECoND.—The order of exercises at the Annual Meeting shall
be as follows:
(a) Opening address of the President.
(1)) Nominations and Election of Members.
(0) Election of the General Council.
(d) Reports of the Secretary and Treasurer.
(6) Report of Directors.
(f) Reports of Standing Committees:
On Jurisprudence and Law Reform;
' On Judicial Administration and Remedial Procedure;
On Legal Education and Admission to the Bar;
On Commercial Law;
On International Law;
On Publications;
On Grievances.
(g) Reports of Special Committees.
(h) Nomination of Oflicers.
(71) Miscellaneous Business.
(j ) Election of Of‘ficers.
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Address to be delivered by the person invited by the Board of
Directors.
The reading and delivering of essays and papers shall be at such
other time as the Board of Directors may determine.
THIRD.-—NO person shall speak more than ten minutes at a time, or
more than twice on one subject.
A stenographer shall be employed at each Annual Meeting.
FOURTH.--At any of the meetings of the Association, members of
the Bar of any foreign country, or of any state, who are not members of
the Association, may, on motion of a member, be admitted to the
privileges of the floor during such meeting.
FIFTH.-—All papers read before the Association shall be lodged with
the Secretary. The Annual Address of the President, the reports of
committees, and all proceedings at the Annual Meeting shall be printed;
but no other address made or paper read or presented, shall be printed,
except by order of the Committee on Publications.
Extra copies of reports, addresses and papers read before the
Association, may be printed by the Committee on Publications for the
use of their authors, not exceeding two hundred copies to each of such
authors.
The Secretary shall send one copy of the report of the proceedings
of this Association to the Governor of this State; to each of the Justices
of the Supreme Court of the United States; to each of the Justices
of the Supreme Court of this State; to the Library of Congress; to the
Library of the Supreme Court of the United States; to the State
Library of Michigan; to the Library of the University of Michigan; to
the Library of the Law School of the University of Michigan and to the
Secretary of the American Bar Association.
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OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES.
SIXTH.-——Th6 terms of office of all officers elected at any Annual
Meeting shall commence at the adjournment of such meeting, except
the Council, whose term of office shall commence immediately upon
their election.
SEvENTH.—The President shall appoint all committees, except the
Committee on Publications, within thirty days after the Annual
Meeting, and shall announce them to the Secretary, and the Secretary
shall promptly give notice to the persons appointed.
The Committee on Publications shall be appointed on the first
day of each meeting.
EIcHTH.-—The Treasurer’s report shall be examined and audited
annually, before its presentation to the Association, by two members to
be appointed by the Board of Directors.
NINTIL—The Council and all standing Committees shall meet on the
day preceding each Annual Meeting, at the place Where the same is to
be held, at such hour as their respective chairmen shall appoint. If at
any Annual Meeting of the Association any member of any committee
shall be absent, the vacancy may be filled by the members of the
committee present.
The Secretary of the Association shall be Secretary of the General
Council.
TENTH.——The Committee on Publications shall also meet Within one
month after each Annual Meeting, at such time and place as the
chairman shall appoint.
ELEvENTIL—Special meetings of any committee shall be held at
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such times and places as the Chairman thereof may appoint. Rea-
sonable notice shall be given by him to each member by mail.
All committees may have their reports printed by the Secretary
before the Annual Meeting of the Association, and that portion of any
such report containing any recommendation for action on the part of the
Association, shall be printed and distributed by mail by the Secretary,
to all the members of the Association, at least fifteen days before
the Annual Meeting at which such report is proposed to be submitted.
ANNUAL DUES.
TWELFTH.-—'1‘he Annual dues shall be payable at the Annual
Meeting in advance. If any member neglects to pay them for any year,
at, or before the next Annual Meeting, he shall cease to be a member.
The Treasurer shall give notice of this By-Law. within sixty days
after each meeting, to all members in default.
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LIST OF MEMBERS.
ANN ARBOR.
E. D. Kinne John W. Bennett J. Willard Babbitt
Chas. R. Whitman A. J. Sanger J. F. Lawrence
J. C. Knowlton B. M. Thompson
BAY CITY.
T. A. E. Weadock J as. Van Kleeck Chester L. Collins
BIG RAPIDS.
M. Brown
CHARLOTTE.
Philip T. Van Zile
C H E BOY GAN.
Watts S. Humphreys
DETROIT.
Henry B. Brown Alex. D. Fowler A. C. Stellwagen
William P. Wells J. W. Finney Charles G. Smith
John Atkinson Hamilton G. Howard R. A. Parker
Henry M. Cheever Elwood T. Hance A. C. Blodget
Geo. W. Bates Frank D. Andrus J. II. Robinson
R. E. Frazer Geo. F. Beasley William C. Maybury
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E. H. Sellers
Thomas Hislop
Frank T. Lodge
Wm. H. Wells
Henry M. Duffield
Alexis C. Angell
E. T. Wood
Levi L. Barbour
W. H. H. Russell
Geo. H. Hopkins
Charles H. Freeman
Wm. C. Sprague
Andrew Howell
Allan H. Frazer
Albert H. Wilkinson
Hoyt Post
F. C. Harvey
F. G. Russell
Geo. W. Moore
F. L. Brooke
Isaac Marston
John Miner
C. A. Kent
H. C. Wisner
James Blair
Jacob Kleinhans
DETROIT.——CONTINUED.
W. L. January
Durelle F. Glidden
Herbert L. Baker
Jno. F. McKinlay
Fred H. Warren
Walter S. Harsha
Levi T. Grif‘fin
Geo. Gartner
Floyd R. Mechem
Sylvester Larned
Whit. C. Beckwith
Edwin F. Conely
John J. Speed
Ed. E. Kane
Willard M. Lillibridge
William L. Carpenter
Sands F. Moore
Geo. S. Hosmer
C. J. Sheehan
S. M. Cutcheon
A. H. Fleming
Michael Brennan
Martha Stricklan
John C. Donnelly
FLINT.
Geo. H. Durand
GRAND RAPIDS.
John Patton, JR.
Arthur R. Rood
D. Bethune Duffield
F. H. Canfield
C. J. Reilly
Otto Kirchner
George F. Robinson
Edgar O. Durfee
M. E. Dowling
Charles Flowers
A. F. Sellers
Wilson H, Gray.
F. A. Baker
William J. Gray
Alfred Russell
Hibbard Baker
Henry H. Swan
John G. Hawley
C. P. Black
Elisha A. Fraser
Henry M. Brevoort
Willis G. Clarke
James H. McDonald
F. H. Chambers
John B. Corliss
S. S. Babcock
R. M. Montgomery
John E. More
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GRAND RAPlDS.——CONTINUED.
Roger W. Butterfield
James H. Campbell
Horton H. Drury
J. Edward Earle
Edmund D. Barry
Geo. P. Wanty
A. C. Adsit
Reuben Hatch
Walter H. Hughes
M. H. Ford
McGeorge Bundy
Chas. M. Wilson
Mark Norris
Daniel E. Corbitt
Lawrence P. Eddy
James E. McBride
Clark H. Gleason
John S. Lawrence
Henry J. Folker
William C. Sheppard
Charles Chandler
E. S. Eggleston
N. A. Fletcher
Wm. D. Fuller
H. O. Young
W. S. Hill
M. J. Smiley
William Alden Smith
Wm. J. Stuart
E. F. Sweet
Willard Kingsley
Chas. B. Blair
Willard F. Keeney
Peter Doran
Alfred Wolcott
Wesley W. Hyde
J. C. Fitzgerald
Edgar A. Maher
Wm. F. McKnight
Birney Hoyt
Harvey J oslin
Thos. McGarry
L. G. Rutherford
Chas. O. Smedley
N. A. Earle
Francis A. Stace
Edward Taggart
Moses Taggart
C. Van Cleve Ganson
George Clapperton
lONlA.
Adolph A. Ellis
ISHPEMING.
Geo. Hayden
Lyman D. Norris
T. J. O’Brien
Cyrus E. Perkins
L. E. Knappen
W. B. Perkins '
Thos. F. Carroll
E. F. Uhl
F. A. Maynard
Arthur C. Dennison
Wm. Aldrich Tateum
I. M. Turner
Albert Crane
C. Chase Goodwin
George W. Thompson
Chas E, Temple
Myron H. Walker
L. A. Ward
L. W. Wolcott
Wm. Wisner Taylor
H. F. McCormick
J. T. Preston
Chas. E. Ward
Sybrant Wesselius
G. A. Wolf
E. E. Osborn
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J. M. Edwards
J. W. Osborne
E. M. Irish
Alfred S. Frost
George M. Buck
R. A. Montgomery
Dan H. Ball
F. O. Clark
W. P. Healey
A. B. Eldredge
JACKSON.
Thomas A. Wilson
KALAMAZOO.
James M. Davis
Alfred J. Mills
E. S. Roos
Frank E. Knappen
Dallas Boudeman
LANSl NG.
A. C. Ostrander
LAPEER.
Harrison Geer
MARQUETTE.
J. L. McClear
Irving D. Hanson
C. B. Grant
MARSHALL.
John C. Patterson
MONROE.
E. O. Grosvenor
William G. Howard
J. F. Alley
K. M. Stearns
Hampden Kelsey
George Smith
John Q. Adams
J. M. Edgarton
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MT. CLEMENS.
Edgar Weeks Thos. M. Crocker"
MT. PLEASANT.
Chas. T. Russell \ McNamara
MUSKEGON.
F. A. N ims Wm. Carpenter
PONTIAC.
A. J. Sawyer.
PORT HURON.
Alex. R. Avery
SAGINAW.
Benton Hanchett Stewart Draper J. E. Nolan