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 NEW YORK COUNTY LAWYERS' ASSOCIATION years by those whose duty it is to provide adequate facilities and accommodations for the bar as well as the bench in and about the courts. The New York lawyer has never known such a luxury as a lavatory, a coat room or writing room in the County Court House, much less a lunch room, or library that he can consult; these are amenities which he becomes familiar with only when he journeys into some other county or state. The Temple of Justice which the metropolis of America provides for its Supreme Court is the malodorous, inadequate and unsanitary old "Tweed Court House," which stands as a spectacle, and a monument to past infamies, and a warning to the future. The judges have not had sufficient influence to obtain relief from the city government, and the bar has exerted no influence upon the matter whatever; not because it has not suffered but because it has been unorganized and strangely help less and acquiescent in all matters pertaining to the needs of the profession. The Association proposes not only to provide its members with a commodious club house as soon as one can be built or purchased, and until it can be provided with suitable quarters by the city in the con templated " New County Court House," but it proposes to acquire the use, if not the ownership, of the great Law Institute Library now in the Post Office Building, and to place it at the disposal of its members at or near the court house; and negotiations to that end are in progress. The placing of this great library within easy reach of twelve thousand members of the bar will, it may be assumed, have a very great educational significance and accomplish the object of its founders to an extent not heretofore attained; and this is the view taken by the Directors of the Law Institute. Another object which the Association has in view, of supreme importance and signifi cance, is indicated by the section of its by laws defining the function of its " Com mittee on the Judiciary." As it presents

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some features which are novel, it is given in full and is as follows: "Section 3. Prior to the fourth Monday in September in each year in which a judicial office is to be filled by election in the County of New York the Committee on Judiciary and the Directors shall meet on the call of five members of either, to decide whether a general meeting of the Association shall be called for the purpose of determining whether the Association shall take any action in nominating candidates for such office cr recommending candidates to the respective political parties for nomination. Said Committee and the Board of Directors acting as a joint Committee on Nominations shall make rules for the calling and conduct of such general meeting of the Association and for the voting thereat. Seven hundred and fifty members shall constitute a quorum at such meeting. If at such meeting it shall be determined to nominate or recommend candidates for such office or offices, then an adjournment of the meeting shall be taken for not less than one week; at such adjourned meeting a like number shall constitute a quorum, and there shall be submitted at such meeting a printed ballot to be made up of candidates proposed by the Directors and Judiciary Committee of the Association acting as a Joint Committee on Nomina tions and also candidates nominated by petition of at least two hundred and fifty members of the Association, provided such nomination or nominations by petition shall have been given to the Chairman of the Directors forty-eight hours before the adjourned meeting. The ballot shall con tain the names of the persons so nominated alphabetically arranged and the office for which the nomination is made, distinguishing the nominations by the Joint Committee on Nominations, and the voting upon such ballot shall be by making a cross before each name voted for. The candidates on such ballot chosen by two-thirds of the members present and voting at such meeting shall be the candidates of the Association; and if it