report its conclusions back to this Association at its next annual meeting.

MR. R. N. HACKETT, of Wilkesboro. I wish to say that the law provides that the Acts shall be printed in sixty days after the close of the Legislature. The law has never been executed in that regard. The Committee of the Bar Association can, perhaps, jump on the officials and get them to jump on the printers and in that way get the books out earlier.

THE SECRETARY. I have had recently some trouble with the public printer. Occupying the official position of Reporter that I do, I am called almost constantly to deal with the public printer. I want the profession of the State to know where the blame lies in the matter of the delayed publication of the Supreme Court Reports. The State printer has absolutely done nothing for the last three months on the printing of the 137th Report. He is overburdened with work and has more than he can do. We ought to make a contract for printing the Acts like we have made for the 138th Report. If he doesn't give us a certain amount of work in a specified time, he is penalized. I am heartily in favor of the suggestion of the gentleman from Guilford. I have a resolution forwarded by Mr. Maxey L. John, along this line, which I will read.

Resolved, That the North Carolina Bar Association memorialize the General Assembly to enact a law in substance as follows: That the Public Printing Committee, or other agency through whom the public printing shall be contracted for, be empowered to make contract for the printing of the Public Laws separate and apart from the other printing of the State, and that the contract be so safeguarded as to secure prompt delivery of the printed laws as soon after the adjournment of the Legislature as is consistent with the environments under which such printing must necessarily be done.

MR. JUSTICE. I don't think that meets my views. I don't want this Association to memorialize the Legislature. Since

coming here I have made several inquiries from members of the Legislature, and others, and recognize that there are rather serious difficulties in the way. It is a matter that deserves and needs the attention of this Association, and some thought and careful consideration, and that is what I want our Committee on Legislation and Law Reform to do and report to our next meeting.

THE PRESIDENT. Has the gentleman from Guilford got that resolution drawn?

MR. JUSTICE, of Greensboro. No, sir; it is my idea that they will make a report. This will bring the matter before the House.

THE PRESIDENT. The question is now on the motion of the gentleman from Guilford.

A MEMBER. It is suggested by my friend from Bertie (Mr. Winston), and I think very wisely, that the State buy a printing outfit and then we can get out the laws more quickly.

THE PRESIDENT. The question before the House is the resolution of the gentleman from Guilford. Those in favor of that resolution will say aye; those opposed, no. The ayes have it.

MR. CLEMENT, of Salisbury. I move that we adjourn till 9 o'clock tonight.

THE PRESIDENT. I appoint the following Committee on the resolution offered by the gentleman from Guilford, towit: Mr. E. J. Justice, Mr. C. W. Tillett and Mr. T. T. Hicks.

THE PRESIDENT. The motion is to adjourn till 9 o'clock this evening. Is the House ready for the question?

A MEMBER. I move that we adjourn till 3 o'clock this afternoon.

A MEMBER. I second the motion.

THE PRESIDENT.

journ till 3 o'clock.

It is moved and seconded that we ad

Those in favor of the motion say aye;

those opposed, no. The noes have it.

Those in favor of the motion to adjourn till 9 o'clock will say aye; those opposed, no. The ayes have it.

SECOND DAY-EVENING SESSION.

THURSDAY, July 6, 1905.

THE PRESIDENT. The House will be in order. The Secretary will call on the Chairmen of the various Committees, and their reports will now be in order.

The various reports were here made in their regular order. The President, Mr. Thomas S. Kenan, introduced the orator of the evening as follows: .

A native of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, who moved from the State some years ago, has returned to us with distinguished honors conferred upon him by the people of his adopted State, who appreciate his worth and his ability. I have the honor to present to you, as the orator of the day, Joseph Morrison Hill, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Arkansas, and in your behalf, I say to him that he can "come to us in the evening; he can come in the morning; he can come when looked for; he can come without warning; he never can ill come; he will always be welcome."

Chief Justice Hill here delivered his address.

(See the Appendix).

THE PRESIDENT. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Wake, Chairman of the Committee on Law Reform.

MR. T. B. WOMACK, of Raleigh. Mr. President, it is now getting late. Doesn't the Association think it would be better that this report should be postponed until morning? I suggest to the President that instead of hearing this report now, that it be allowed to come under the head of unfinished busi

ness.

THE PRESIDENT. What is the pleasure of the House?

A MEMBER. I move that we proceed with the consideration of the unfinished business. This report was presented to

the Association at the last session of the Association, and I think it should be attended to.

THE PRESIDENT. Is it the wish of the House to take the matter into consideration now? Those in favor of that motion will say aye; those opposed, no. The ayes have it.

The Secretary, in accordance with that motion, will read the report.

THE SECRETARY. Mr. President, the matter to which Judge Womack refers is the question of the creation of a Board of Law Examiners, referred to in the report of the Committee on Legislation and Law Reform.

The Secretary here read the report.

MR. A. C. AVERY, of Burke. In attending so far, I have set my face steadfastly in opposition to proposals from the Bar Association to the Legislature. As a rule, I think

it is no part of the business of the Bar to propose extensive amendments to the Code Law of North Carolina. As a rule, I am opposed to it. As a rule, I have voted against every proposition of the kind heretofore, but every good rule has some exceptions, and this is one. I think that we ought to recommend the appointment of a Board of Examiners. I was a member of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, and recall now how I did when called upon in those days to examine a body of students. I went to my room the night before and pulled down a lot of old rusty law books and prepared a lot of questions, which I didn't think did me any credit, and I didn't do them justice. I recall one or two of the most prominent lawyers in North Carolina asking questions that would have amused those undertaking to instruct students. Subsequently, when I was in the habit of examining law students, I noticed how different it was when students came from other law schools. The questions which I had been propounding were along the lines that would enable them to accomplish what they had undertaken. The habit we have now of having the Justices, turn about, prepare questions for the students, is not a good one. Those questions, so