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The recent decease of three distinguished jurists, not members of this association, but by national function and high character, entitled to an expression of its respect, should not be passed by in silence; therefore be it

Resolved, That in the death of MELVILLE W. FULLER, the late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, on July 4, 1910, full of years and honor in the midst of his high duties, this association feels a sense of loss, fostered by kind association and extended observation of a distinguished and honorable career.

Resolved, also, That the deaths, since the last annual meeting of this association, of DAVID J. BREWER and of RUFUS W. PECKHAM, late Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, after long terms of honorable service on that high court, are deplored by this association as a severe loss to the profession, of which they were highly valued members.

Resolved, further, That this association feels impelled to tender this expression of its sympathy in their irreparable loss to the families of these great judges, so closely joined in their careers, and to the Supreme Court of the United States, whose traditions they have so worthily upheld; and that the secretary of this association be instructed to forward copies of these resolutions to their families, and to the clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States.

We, the President and Secretary of the Ohio State Bar Association, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full and true copy of a resolution introduced and adopted by the Ohio State Bar Association at its thirty-first annual meeting, commencing July sixth and ending July eighth, A. D. 1910.

ALLEN ANDREWS, President.

GILBERT H. STEWART, Jr., Secretary.

TRIBUTE OF THE CHICAGO BAR ASSOCIATION.
MELVILLE WESTON FULLER.

At a special meeting of the Chicago Bar Association

held on Tuesday, July the twelfth, nineteen hundred and ten, the following resolutions were adopted:

With the death, on July fourth instant, of MELVILLE WESTON FULLER, the eighth Chief Justice of the United States, the record of the life work and accomplishment of a great lawyer and judge, of a complete citizen and man, is closed. For the whole of his professional life, after the first year, he practiced at the bar of this city, to which he came as a young lawyer in eighteen hundred and fifty-six, and in which he rose, by unassuming and obvious merit, to an acknowledged leadership in his profession. From this bar he was called in eighteen hundred and eightyeight, to be Chief Justice in the court of the greatest dignity and power. The records of the court show the great ability and the patient, conscientious thoroughness with which he administered his high office; and there will live in the recollection and esteem of all who knew or came in contact with him, his accomplishments, his gentle dignity, his pure and lofty character.

It is obviously fitting that this bar, which he so long graced and so honored, should pay their tribute to his memory: Therefore be it

Resolved, That the members of the Chicago bar recall with reverent regard his great qualities and testify to the great loss with which the country as well as his family and friends have been visited.

Resolved, That the chairman of this meeting cause these resolutions to be presented to the Supreme Court of the United States, the Federal courts in Chicago, the Supreme Court of Illinois, the Appellate Court of this district, and the courts of this county, and a copy thereof to be transmitted to the family of the late Chief Justice, with the assurance of the sincere sympathy of the members of the bar here assembled.

FARLIN H. BALL, Secretary.

JOSEPH H. DEFREES,

President.

TRIBUTE OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW ADOPTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, April 22, 1911. Judge Gray and Mr. Butler reported the following resolution which was unanimously adopted:

The American Society of International Law records with sorrow the death of MELVILLE WESTON FULLER, Chief Justice of the United States and one of the VicePresidents of this Society since its organization.

CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER, in his speech and by his acts, had done his valiant part in carrying forward the greatest work of modern times-that of establishing peaceful methods for the settlement of international disputes. He was a member of the Arbitration Tribunal to settle the boundary line between Venezuela and Great Britain; was a member of the permanent Court at The Hague, and served as one of the special court in the case of the Muskat Dhows in 1904; as presiding justice of a court which is, as between the States of this Union an International Court of Justice, he participated in many cases involving the determination of principles of international law and the peaceful settlement of disputes between the sovereign States of this Union, and in many of those cases he rendered opinions which will ever stand as clear enunciations of the principles of law between nations.

He was deeply interested in the work of this Society, and attended all of its annual meetings.

He was born in Augusta, Maine, February 11, 1833; was graduated from Bowdoin College in 1853; was appointed Chief Justice of the United States and took the oath of office on October 8, 1888. He died at Sorrento, Maine, July 4, 1910.

The Society expresses its sympathy to the family of the late Chief Justice and directs that a copy of this minute be sent to it, and also that a copy be transmitted to the Supreme Court of the United States.