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 Summary of Business Transacted various committee reports ir summar ized below (see especially "Uniformity of Laws"). Charles Thaddeus Terry of New York was elected president to succeed Walter George Smith of Philadelphia, the latter having served for three successive years, the maximum allowed by the constitu tion. John Hinkley of Maryland was elected vice-president, Talcott H. Rus sell of Connecticut, treasurer, and Clar ence M. Woolley of Rhode Island, secre tary. The following is the new Execu tive Committee: William H. Staake, Pennsylvania, Chairman; James R. Caton, Virginia; Nathan William MacChesney, Illinois; Seneca N. Taylor, Missouri; C. A. Severance, Minnesota; Charles Thaddeus Terry, New York, exofficio; John Hinkley, Maryland, ex officio; Talcott H. Russell, Connecticut, ex officio; Clarence M. Woolley, Rhode

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Island, ex offcio; Walter George Smith, Pennsylvania, ex officio. THE ASSOCIATION OF LAW SCHOOLS The Association of American Law Schools held its twelfth annual meeting August 26-27. President Roscoe Pound of Harvard University delivered an address on "Taught Law," while "The Place of Equity in Our Legal System" was the subject of a paper by Prof. Walter W. Cook, University of Chicago, Prof. Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld of Stanford University opened the dis cussion. Dean William G. Hastings of the University of Nebraska offered a paper on "Moot and Practice Courts." The Association voted to admit to membership the law departments of the University of Kentucky, University of California, Dickinson, University of Tennessee, and Marquette University.

SUMMARY OF BUSINESS TRANSACTED Admiralty. The committee in charge of bills relating to admiralty reported to the Ameri can Bar Association that it had asked Congress to enact measures relating to the maintenance of suits for death upon the high seas and other navigable waters. The report was approved. Bill Drafting. The American Bar Associa tion, on motion of Dean William Draper Lewis, adopted a resolution for the appointment of a committee of seven to devise an agency for effectively and scientifically assisting Congress in the drafting of its laws. The motion was carried and the committee will be appointed by the president and report at the next meeting. The motion practically means that the committee is to study and investigate the proposition of a bill drafting department for Congress, like that which is in vogue in Wisconsin. Bankruptcy. Adopting the recommenda tions of its Committee on Commercial Law, the American Bar Association approved of efforts to prevent repeal of the national bankruptcy act. Bills of Lading. The American Bar Asso ciation approved of the attitude of its Committee on Commercial Law, in preferring Pomerene

Senate Substitute Bill No. 6810, as in substantial harmony with the uniform act now in force in nine states. Child Labor. Uniform Child Labor Act Law Approved by American Bar Association. Cold Storage. Question of a uniform act referred to a Committee on Purity of Articles of Commerce by Uniform State Laws Conference. Corporations. Third tentative draft of Uniform Business Corporation Act received by Commissioners on Uniform State Laws from Committee on Uniform Incorporation Laws. Authority given the committee to employ an expert and submit a new draft. Expert Testimony. The question of a uniform law concerning expert testimony, based upon the Maine statute, was presented to the Uniform State Laws Conference, and a special committee on co-operation was directed to bring the matter before the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology so far as such an act would have a bearing on criminal procedure. The Conference deemed it inexpedient to take further action at the present time, or to consider the question in its relation to procedure in civil cases.