The President: Yes, just make the next man on your committee Chairman.

Mr. Goetchius: Mr. President, before the Convention goes into recess, I desire to call their attention to No. 9 on yesterday's order of business, the report of the Committee on Ethics. I stated at that time that I would ask the Convention to recur to that report for the purpose of making a motion, suggesting the distribution of a Code of Ethics. somewhat on the order of the Alabama Bar Association. I have learned since that time (and recall it now myself), that the Convention, some three or four years ago, adopted the report of a committee, and established it as the Code of Ethics for the Georgia Bar Association which doubtless is the one from which the very report that I speak of the Alabama Association was formed. At least I am satisfied that the report of the committee, as embodied in the report of a preceding publication, some two or three years ago, is all that we need. But the point that I am coming to is this, that I think that one of the objects of this Association will be very highly promoted by a dissemination at this time of that Code, not only to the members of the Association, but to all the lawyers in the State of Georgia. As we all know, one of the prime objects of this Association is to elevate the tone of the bar; and if the lawyers throughout the State will live up to the Code as reported by that committee, and already adopted as a part of our organization, why its tendency will certainly be to elevate the tone of the bar, and I know of no better way to accomplish that result than to bring this Code to the knowledge of all the practicing lawyers throughout the State, whether they be members of the Association or not. I therefore move, if the Association agree with me on this point, that the Secretary be instructed to reprint that Code in pamphlet form, and that he send it to the address of every lawyer in the State.

The President: In advance of the journal or with the journal?

Mr. Goetchius: The journal only goes to the members of the Association, and outside members are not entitled to it, and my idea is, unless some one suggests a better thought, that this is independent of the distribution of the journal entirely. The publication need not be in ad

vance of the journal, but at any rate that the Secretary be instructed to have this published, and at the earliest time : possible send it to the members of the bar throughout the State.

Mr. Lumpkin: Has that been adopted as a Code of Ethics of this Association?

Mr. Goetchius: Yes, sir. My information in response to the question of Judge Lumpkin is that the Convention adopted the report of that committee some three or four years ago as a Code of Ethics for the Bar Association of this State, and it has been embodied in one of our journals some time ago.

I am further aware of the fact that the distribution of this Code at one time was made to the members of the bar, but it has been several years ago; but I believe in the old scriptural injunction of line upon line and precept upon precept. I make that motion no.

Mr. Lumpkin: I second the motion.

The President: The motion, as the chair understands it, is that this Association adopt a report made by the Alabama Association

Mr. Goetchius: No, sir; I beg pardon. I spoke of the Alabama Code of Ethics, but this Association has already some three or four years ago, adopted a Code of Eethics embodied in our journal, and my motion is that that be republished in pamphlet form by the Secretary and be distributed to all lawyers throughout the State.

Carried.

Mr. F. D. Peabody: Mr. President, I find that Mr. Thomas, who was appointed on the committee a few minutes ago, is absent, and I would ask to have another committeeman appointed.

The President: Mr. Secretary, just substitute the name of Judge Boynton in place of that of George D. Thomas on the committee.

The Secretary: Mr. President, Mr. Walter Hill had to leave the city this morning, and left with me two resolutions which he requested me to present to the body. The first is as follows:

Resolved, That a special committee of five be appointed by the President to examine the modes adopted by other States for the publication of their public laws, and to report at the next meeting of the Association whether future compilations of the Code should not be published by the State so. that the same might be furnished to the public at the actual cost of publication in the same manner as the Georgia Reports.

Adopted.

The President: Did Mr. Hill suggest the number of the committee, Mr. Secretary?

The Secretary: Yes; five.

The President: The chair will appoint the committee at his leisure and notify the Secretary.

The Secretary: The other is as follows:

WHEREAS, Upon recommendation in the message of Governor David B. Hill, the General Assembly of New York has authorized the Governor of that State to appoint a commission to investigate certain subjects upon which uniformity in the laws of the several States would be desirable, and requesting the Governors of other States to appoint similar commissions to confer with the commission thus created; and whereas the Governor of New York has appointed such a commission;

Resolved, That this Association hereby suggests to the members of this body who are also members of the General Assembly of Georgia the propriety of taking into consideration legislative action in this State authorizing the Governor to appoint a commission to confer with that of the State of New York and of other States in which similar commissions may be appointed.

This motion was also adopted.

The President: Gentlemen, the assembly will now take a recess for twenty minutes and await the report of the committee to whom was referred the matter of selecting officers and a site for the meeting next year before we proceed with the regular order of the day. (Twenty minutes recess.)

The President: The Association will come to order.

Mr. Mercer: Mr. President, is the Association ready to hear the report of the committee?

The President: Yes.

Mr. Mercer: The special committee directs me as its Chairman to report as follows: They suggest :

The committee, sir, have suggested Macon as the place for the next meeting.

Mr. Mercer: I wish to say, Mr. President, that Mr. Akin asked the committee not to nominate him again for the Secretary; but we felt that he had filled this office so well, that the Association could not dispense with his services. On the principle of noblesse oblige, we nominate him again.

On motion the report of the committee was adopted.

The President: The next in order, gentlemen, according to the programme of to-day is the report of the Committee on Memorials, Col. Charles C. Jones, Jr., Chairman. (See Appendix No. 8.)

The President: The next in order, gentlemen, is a paper by Col. James M. Mobley, "Law Reform and Charges. (See Appendix No. 10.)

The President: The chair announces the Committee on Publication of Statutes and Code, provided for in the resolution of Mr. Hill passed this morning, as follows: W. B. Hill, Chairman; Clifford Anderson, Howard Van Epps, Charles C. Jones, Jr., T. J. Chappell.

The next thing in the order of the day is the report of the Committee on Jurisprudence and Law Reform, Col. George A. Mercer, Chairman.

Mr. Mercer then submitted an oral report. (See Appendix No. 11.)

At this point Mr. Chappell took the chair.

Mr. Miller: Mr. President, I desire simply to communicate to the Association the following fact: On the 3d of

March last I wrote to Col. Mercer as Chairman of the committee as follows:

Pursuant to the action of the Georgia Bar Association Journal, 1890, page 23, under which I was requested to prepare a bill or bills embodying the suggestions set forth in the paper read by me, Journal page 104, and to hand it to the Committee on Jurisprudence and Law Reform, I have prepared and now enclose you herein a bill on the subject set forth in the title.

I do not deem it advisable to go further, as my experience is that reforms come slowly, and since the passage of the Resolution Congress has passed a bill, July 2d, 1890, to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and the decision of our Supreme Court, in Houston 18. Redwine, 11 S. E. Reporter, 662, has been published.

Kindly look over this bill and do not hesitate to criticize, alter or amend. All I desire is the welfare of the State and of the profession.

The Supreme Court of the United States, in Chicago Life Insurance Company 8. Needles, 113 U. S. 574, discuss this subject, and I have, in drafting the bill, kept this prominently before me as well as the law of New York, as far as I thought applicable.

If you desire it I will have copies of the bill forwarded to the other members of the committee, but I would prefer first to have your views respecting the same.

On the 9th of March I received a reply from Col. Mercer, and on the same day I wrote the following to each member of the committee:

I write to you as a member of the Committee on Jurisprudence and Law Reform of the Georgia Bar Association for the year 1891, and enclose you herein a face impression of the bill prepared and sent to Col. Mercer, the Chairman of the committee. I also send you copy of correspondence had with him to date accepting his suggestion, which you will find written in pencil in the copy sent you.

If you have any suggestions to make, kindly transmit them to Col. Mercer as Chairman of the committee.

Now, Mr. President, in view of the facts which have been known to the Association, I would be unwilling, as author of the bill, to have it come up at this time for action. I do not hesitate to say that I gave it a great deal of time and careful consideration. As author of it I would move that it be printed in the journal, and that it come up for action on the first day of the next session after the President's address. In that way we will have it in print and have an opportunity to read it carefully and understand it. We would not be able to do so simply with one reading to-day to see what would be the effect upon existing laws. That is the course that I think it is best for us to pursue at that time with reference to that bill. It is a very important subject; I think it requires careful and due consideration. It is suggested that the same