DISBURSEMENTS. Stationery and paper-- Publication of reports__ 268.34 35.90 150.00 90.42 15.50 -$677.86 Salary of Secretary and Treasurer. Expenses of Grievance Committee in disbar ment proceedings against I. N. Ebbs_-- Incidental Total The By-laws require that the Treasurer shall, at each annual meeting, submit an estimate of the resources and probable expenses for the coming year. My estimate of the receipts is as follows: Annual dues for 1908 and back dues_____$600.00 Admission fees Total Estimate of expenses for coming year This estimate, if correct, will leave in the treasury at the end of the year beginning July 1st, 1908__. 75.00 $675.00 650.00 541.06 Respectfully submitted, MR. CLEMENT MANLY, of Winston: I move that a resolution of thanks be extended to the distinguished gentleman who has presided as President of this Association for the last year, for his courteous treatment and impartial management of the convention. MR. T. W. DAVIS, of Wilmington: I second the motion. MR MANLY: Those in favor of that motion will say aye; opposed; no. The motion is unanimously carried. MR.W. D. PRUDEN, of Edenton: I move that we take a recess until three o'clock. A MEMBER: I second the motion. THE PRESIDENT: Those in favor of the motion that the Association take a recess until three o'clock this afternoon will say aye; opposed, no. The motion is carried and the Association will take a recess until this afternoon, at three o'clock. THIRD DAY-AFTERNOON SESSION. There being no further business before the Association, the Annual Meeting of 1908 was declared adjourned sine die. LOUIS HENRY CLEMENT. For nearly a century the name of Clement has graced the legal annals of the Piedmont section of North Carolina and added lustre and fame to the splendid citizenship of that splendid country. There are four generations of lawyers in this family, the first being John Clement, who died in the court house in Mocksville in 1845, the second Hon. John Marshall Clement who died in 1886, the third Louis H. Clement and the fourth Hayden Clement, the present Assistant Attorney General of North Carolina. Louis Henry Clement, the subject of this sketch, was born in the town of Mocksville, in the county of Davie, on the 19th day of January, 1854, and spent twenty-six years of his life in his native county, afterwards moving to Salisbury, his present home. Mr. Clement's father was the Hon. John Marshall Clement, who was also a native of Davie county, and for many years perhaps its foremost citizen. He was a man of affairs, possessing those ideals of character and manliness that went to make up that old school of Southern gentry so dominant in all the affairs of Southern life during the years that have passed. He was a positive factor in all the best development of his county and his section. He was a distinguished lawyer, whose practice reached from one border of the State to the other. He never sought public position. He did, however, serve faithfully his people in the General Assembly and in other positions of trust. At one time a large number of his colleagues in the profession, and thousands of other citizens, recognizing his preeminent fitness and appreciating his lofty char acter and integrity, supported him faithfully and earnestly, without solicitation on his part, for a position on the Supreme Court bench of North Carolina. He lived an honored life in his native county and died some years ago with the esteem and respect of all those who knew him. Mr. Clement's grand-father was John Clement, also a Davie county lawyer, who represented at different times both Rowan and Davie counties in the General Assembly, and for years was clerk of the superior court of Davie county, occupying that position at the time of his death. Mr. L. H. Clement's mother was Miss Mary Jane Hayden, a daughter of William Hayden, Esq., of Mocksville. She was a woman possessed of those high attributes of character that went to make up the reigning queens in the happy and hospitable homes of the South in the years gone. In his early years Mr. Clement attended the schools of his native town, entered the Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, Pa., (from which his father was graduated in the class of 1846,) was graduated from this college in 1876, and was married to Miss Mamie C. Buehler, a daughter of Hon. E. B. Buehler, a prominent lawyer of Gettysburg, in Nov. 1878. He read law under the late Hon. Richmond Pearson, of Richmond Hill, was a member of next to the last class taught by that distinguished tutor, and was licensed to practice law in June 1877. He began the practice of his profession in the town of Mocksville in his native county, and was soon elected solicitor of the superior court of that county, serving for two years. He was then appointed solicitor of the seventh judicial district to fill the unexpired term of the Hon. Joseph Dobson, in each of which positions he served with distinguished ability. In 1880 he moved to Salisbury, N. C., and formed a partnership with the late Hon. Kerr Craige, one of the best men of his time, this partnership lasting about twenty years, or until 1900. Since that date Mr. Clement has practiced the profession alone at Salisbury. The Salisbury bar has always been regarded as one of the strongest local bars in the State, and of this bar Mr. Clement has been one of the acknowledged leaders for more than a quarter of a century. He is by nature and by instinct a lawyer. The study of the profession is a pleasure to him. In its practice he has achieved distinction at home and abroad, being recognized today as one of the most profound and successful lawyers in the Piedmont section of North Carolina. As a man, a citizen and a neighbor, Mr Clement enjoys the confidence and esteem of the people in his community and the respect of a wide circle of friends throughout the State. He never sought office. He has preferred to give his undivided attention to his profession, and to those matters that do most to advance the material, financial and other interests of his town and community. Mr. Clement's most distinguished characteristics besides his devotion to his profession and his loyalty to his clients, are his love for his home and those abiding there. His home in Salisbury is one of the costliest and most commodious in that part of the State, filled from doorway to dome with the charm of genuine good cheer, and in it Mr. Clement himself and his charming wife entertain without ostentation, but with that genuine open hearted hospitality that wins the appreciation and esteem of their visitors and friends. |