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City College in 1884, and from the Law School of Columbia University in 1886. Former Judge John D. Lawson, dean of the school of law at the Missouri State University, will retire as dean in June. He will, however, remain a member of the faculty and devote his time to teaching and writing. President Hill has nominated Prof. E. W. Hinton of the faculty to fill the vacancy. Judge Lawson is a Canadian by birth and is sixty years old. He has been in the faculty of the law school for more than twenty years and has been dean since 1903. He is an able law writer and his books have been used as text books in several states. He is the editor of the American Law Review. {Bar Associations

American Bar Association. — The American Bar Association now has a membership of 4,701, gaining 1,118 in 1911, or thirty per cent. Its annual report shows there are forty-seven state bar associations and 506 local bar asso ciations in the country. The August annual meeting will be in Milwaukee. Connecticut. — The increase in mem bership at the rate of about twenty per cent in the last two years was referred to by President George E. Hill, in his annual address, as one of the assuring features of the activity of the Connecti cut State Bar Association. The annual meeting was held at Bridgeport, Conn., on Feb. 12. Hon. Bourke Cochran of New York, F. Trevor Hill of New York, Charles W. Botsworth of Springfield, Mass., and Daniel Davenport of Bridge port spoke at the banquet. The follow ing officers were elected: Hadlai A. Hull of New London, president; Charles E. Phelps of Rockville, vice-president; James E. Wheeler of New Haven, secre tary and treasurer.

New Hampshire. — Herbert Parker, former Attorney-General of Massachu setts, will deliver the annual address at the next meeting of the New Hampshire State Bar Association, to be held in May or June. Miscellaneous

The American Society of International Law will hold its sixth annual meeting at Washington, D. C., April 25-27. The entire session will be devoted to consid eration of the questions which might properly enter into the program of a Third Hague Conference and the proper organization which the Conference it self should receive. The New York Lawyers' Club, whose valuable library and quarters and fur nishings were destroyed in the fire in the Equitable Building, will move by July 1 to new quarters on the twentieth and twenty-first floors of the United States Realty Company's building at 115 Broadway. More than 700 members have signified their desire to continue the club in the new quarters. A steady increase in the number of persons committed during the past year for public intoxication and disorderly conduct is reported by the New York State Commission of Prisons in its annual report to the Legislature. The commission reports that the congestion in the state prisons continues. In Sing Sing the daily average was 1,720, with a cell capacity of 1,200. This compelled the housing of approximately 200 pris oners in one of the chapels and the doubling up of a considerable number of the remainder in the dungeon cells. Commenting on the low cost of mainte nance in the State prisons, the commis sion says it seems questionable whether