The Seventh Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Bar Association convened at the Toxaway Inn, Toxaway, N. C., Wednesday, July 5, 1905.

In the absence of the Chairman of the Executive Committee (Mr. Zeb V. Walser), Mr. Chas. W. Tillett, of the Charlotte Bar, was requested to call the meeting to order at 9 o'clock p. m., which he did in the following words:

Gentlemen of the Association, and Ladies:

In the absence of the Chairman of the Executive Committee, it becomes my pleasant duty to call this Association to order. In doing so, I wish to say that the Executive Committee feel very much gratified because their choice of this beautiful little spot in the mountains as the place of the meeting has been approved. We felt some hesitancy in coming so far away from the center of the State, and find much gratification in having so large an attendance, especially of the ladies. In the absence of Mr. Victor S. Bryant, who was

to deliver the response to the address of welcome, a few words of response will be said by our President (Mr. Kenan), which will be delivered at the close of Mr. Toms' address.

Mr. Charles French Toms, of Hendersonville, then delivered the address of welcome, as follows:

See the Appendix).

The President, in responding to the address of welcome,

said:

I congratulate you, Gentlemen of the Bar Association, in assembling in this the Seventh Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Bar Association, on the shores of beautiful Lake Toxaway, and I too am going to say, in the presence of my friend, Mr. Toms, whose compliment was so beautiful, that I thank these good ladies for their charming presence, for their aid and encouragement are always regarded as essential to the promotion of any laudable undertaking. In behalf of the Bar Association, I thank you for your cordial greeting. I thank the gentlemen from the North, who were mentioned in your remarks as being instrumental in accomplishing developments here that have increased our opportunities for pleasure and profit in North Carolina. I again thank you heartily for the cordial greeting, and we promise, if the Bar Association shall meet in the eastern part of the State on the sea coast next year, that while our greeting to you will not be more cordial than yours to us, I assure you we will show the members of the Association a bigger body of water than Lake Toxaway.

The President's Address was then delivered by Mr. Thos. S. Kenan, of Raleigh.

(See the Appendix).

THE PRESIDENT. The Secretary will now announce the names of the gentlemen composing the two committees, which are required by the By-Laws to be appointed tonight.

The Secretary announced the Committee on Publication, as follows: O. F. Mason, of Dallas; T. W. Davis, of Wil

mington; A. B. Andrews, Jr., of Raleigh; and the Committee on the Nomination of Officers, as follows: F. H. Busbee, of Raleigh; H. A. Foushee, of Durham; R. N. Hackett, of Wilkesboro; S. H. MacRae, of Fayetteville, and T. S. Rollins, of Asheville.

THE PRESIDENT. The report of the Executive Committee is next in order.

Mr. Chas. W. Tillett, of Charlotte, read the report, which is as follows:

(See the Report at the end of the Minutes).

THE PRESIDENT. If there is no objection, the report will be filed with the Secretary and considered as adopted. Next in order is the report of the Committee on Admissions.

Mr. F. D. Winston, of Windsor, Chairman of the Committee, made the following report:

(See the Report at the end of the Minutes.)

THE PRESIDENT. If there is no objection to the report of the Committee, it will be taken as adopted.

THE PRESIDENT. The Secretary will read a communication.

The Secretary read letters from the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company and from the Toxaway Telephone Company, extending to the members of the Association the free use of their lines to all points in the State during the meetings.

THE PRESIDENT. The letters will be filed with the Secretary.

MR. W. S. O'B. ROBINSON, of Goldsboro. I think a vote of thanks should be tendered the Telephone Company for offering the use of the telephone and telegraph wires to the members of the Association and their families.

THE PRESIDENT. The gentleman from Wayne moves to thank the Telephone Company for their offer. Those in favor of that motion will say aye; those opposed, no. The ayes have it.

MR. T. B. WOMACK, of Raleigh. I have received from a former president of this Association a communication asking that the accompanying document, entitled "An Act for the Disbarment and Suspension of Attorneys at Law," should be presented to this Association, with the request that the Association refer it to the Committee on Legislation and Law Reform for their consideration. As the bill is long, I presume it could be printed in the records of this meeting, and need not be read now unless the Association desires that it should be read. It is also accompanied by this resolution. Accompanying this bill is a copy of the Alabama Statute, by Mr. Alexander London, now living in Birmingham, which was furnished by Mr. C. M. Busbee.

Resolved, That the accompanying bill, entitled "An Act for the Disbarment and Suspension of Attorneys at Law," be referred to the Committee on Legislation and Law Reform, with instructions to consider the same between now and the next annual session of this Association, and make report at the next annual session as to the advisability of asking remedial legislation in the premises of the next General Assembly.

(See the Bill at the end of the Minutes).

THE PRESIDENT. Is there any objection to the adoption of the document, with the accompanying resolution?

MR. F. H. BUSBEE, of Raleigh. I happen to know something of the working of that statute in Alabama. I was in attendance upon the last meeting of the Alabama Bar Association, and reports were made, showing that the statute was then being used and had worked very well. More than five charges in five cases had been preferred against Alabama lawyers. Three of them, in pursuance of the terms of the act, had resigned, had been allowed to resign and file their licenses with the Supreme Court, and charges were pending against two others, and reports were made by a number of the members of the Bar from all over the State that the working of the statute had been quite effective. Of