CONSTITUTION

NAME AND SUBJECT.

ARTICLE 1. This Association shall be known as "The Missouri Bar Association." 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 Missouri Bar.

QUALIFICATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP.

ART. 2. Any person shall be eligible to membership of this Association who shall be a member in good standing of the Bar of Missouri, and who shall be nominated as hereinafter provided. Applications for membership shall be in writing, signed by the applicant, and shall be accompanied by $5.00 initiation fee, and such application shall be preserved by the secretary among the archives of the Association.

OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES.

ART. 3. 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 judicial circuit, a Secretary, a Treasurer, a Council consisting of one member from each judicial circuit, which shall be a standing committee on nominations for all officers except the Council; an Executive Committee, to be composed of the Secretary and Treasurer, together with three members to be chosen by the Association, one of whom shall be chairman of the committee.

The following standing committees shall be annually appointed by the President for the year ensuing, and shall consist of five members each: 1. On Jurisprudence and Law Reform.

2. On Judicial Administration and Remedial Procedure.

3. On Legal Education and Admission to Bar.

4. On Association and Legal Publications.

5. On Grievances.

Each of said committees shall present a written report at the annual sessions of the Association.

A majority of the members of any committee, and also a majority of the Council, who may be present at any meeting of the Association shall constitute a quorum of their respective bodies for the purpose of such meeting.

ELECTION OF MEMBERS.

The Vice-Presidents for each circuit, and not less than two other members from such circuit, to be annually elected shall constitute a Local Council for such circuit, to which shall be referred all applications for membership from such circuit. It shall be the duty of each Local Council thirty days prior to the annual meeting of this Association to appoint at least one member of the Association from each county in its circuit to attend the ensuing annual meeting thereof; provided, that such appointment shall not preclude any member from attending such annual meeting.

ART. 4. All nominations for membership shall be made by the Local Council of the circuit of the Bar to 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 for membership lawyers from any part of the state.

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 upon such name.

Seven nominees, if from the same circuit, shall be voted for upon the same ballot, and in such case placing the word "No" against any name or names upon the ticket shall be deemed a negative vote against such name or names, and against those only. Five negative votes shall suffice to defeat an election.

BY-LAWS.

ART. 5. By-Laws may be adopted at any annual meeting of the Association by a majority of the members present.

DUES.

ART. 6. Each member shall pay $5.00 to the Treasurer, or other person designated by the Association, as annual dues, and no person shall be qualified to exercise any privileges 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.

ART. 7. The President shall open each annual meeting of the Association with an address upon such matters and subjects of current interest as he may deem of value to the Association. (As amended, 1912.)

ANNUAL MEETING.

ART. 8. The Association shall meet annually, on a day to be fixed by a by-law of the Association, at such a place as the Executive Committee may select, and those present at such meeting shall constitute a quorum. It shall be the duty of the Executive Committee to select a place at least two months prior to such a meeting, and to require the Secretary to notify every member thereof, by mail, within one week after such election.

AMENDMENTS.

ART. 9. This Constitution may be altered or amended by a vote of three-fourths of the members present at any meeting, but no change shall be made at any meeting at which less than thirty members are present.

BY-LAWS

MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION.

I. The Executive Committee, at its 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.

II. The order of exercises at the annual meeting shall be as follows: (a) Opening address by the President.

(b) Nomination and election of members.

(c) Election of General Council and of the Local Council.

(d) Report of Secretary and Treasurer.

(e) Report of Executive Committee.

(f) Report of Standing Committees in the order named in Article 3 of the Constitution.

(g) Report of Special Committees.

(h) Nomination of Officers.

(i) Reading of papers provided for in Section 1 of the By-Laws. (j) Miscellaneous business.

(k) Election of Officers.

The address to be delivered by a person invited by the Executive Committee shall be made at the morning session of the second day of the annual meeting.

III. No person shall speak more than ten minutes at a time or more than twice on one subject.

A stenographer shall be employed by the Executive Committee at each annual meeting.

IV. All papers read before the Association shall be lodged with the Secretary. The annual address of the President, the reports of the committees and all proceedings of the annual meeting shall be printed; but no other address made or paper presented shall be printed, except by order of the Committee on Publication, who shall furnish one hundred copies separately bound of every paper or address published to the author thereof.

OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES.

V. The term of office of all officers, including the Council, elected at an annual meeting, shall commence at the adjournment of such meeting.