The Portland daily press., 1894-02-15

The annual meeting of the Maine
Bar Association was held in this city
yesterday. The business meeting was
held in the afternoon in the rooms of the
Common Council. President Libby
presided, and delivered the annual ad-
dress. his subject being reform in the
transfer of land titles. The larger por-
tion of this address, which was highly
complimented, will be found on page
three.
The few matters of business at this
meeting were transacted quite speedily.
The committee appointed to nominate
officers for the ensuing year, reported as
follows
President-Charles f. Libby OF Port
land.
Augusta, Albert r. Savage of Auburn
and X. "A. Wilson of Bangor.
Secretary and Treasurer-Leslie G. Cor
nish of Augusta.
Executive Committee-Charle f.
Libby, Frederick A. Powers of Houltop,
C.E. Littlefield of Rockland, f. G. Pay
son of Portland, Albert NJ. Spear of
Gardiner.
Committee on Legal Education-A. L.
Lumbert OF Houlton, James g. Holman
of Pennington, J. w. Mitchell of Auburn,
f. V. Chase of Portland, John B.
Redman of Ellsworth, Warren G. Phil
brook of Waterville, O. D. Castner of
Waldoboro, George A. Wilson of South
Paris, Y. l.. Mitchell of Bangor, Henry
Hudson of Guilford, VIM Z. Hall of
Richmond. Augustine Simmons of North
Anson, w. Brown of Belfast, G. B.
Donworth of Machias, Frank M. Higgins
of Limerick.
Committee on Membership-George G.
Wing Of Auburn, James Archibald Of
Houlton, George M. Seiders of Portland,
Holway OF Augusta, E. K. Gould of
Rockland, George P. Sawyer of Wiscasset,
+. j. Whitney of Oldtown, Oscar III.
Hersey of Buckfeld, F. J. Whiting of
Oldtown, George E. Hughes of Bath, D.
E.Thompson of Hartland, George E.
johnson of Belfast, SD. Leavitt of East
port. WI Perkins of Cornish.
Committee on Law Reform-Charles
F.Libby Of Portland, John A. Morrill, of
Auburn, F. II. Appleton of Bangor,
Leroy T. Carlton of Winthrop, VIM. II.
Fegler of Rockland.
Committee on Legal History-Josiah
H. Drummond Of Portland, Joseph
Williamson of Belfast, j f. Sprague of
Monson, Franklin M. Drew of Lewiston,
S.Clifford Belcher of Pennington.
After the election of these officers, A.
A.Strout, Esq, presented the following
resolution:
Resolved, That the State Bar Associa
tion of Maine respectfully urge upon the
Legislature the propriety OF providing for
the appointment OF commission to
enquire into the necessity and exped1ency
of legislation to aid in the establishment
of uniformity of legislation relating to
the forms and registration of convey
ances, the establishment of wills, pro-
bate procedure, and other like matters,
SO far as the same shall be found adj
visabIe and consistent.
This resolution was passed, and the
following were appointed to bring the
matter to the attention of the legisla-
ture: AA. Strout, F.A. Wilson of Ban
gor and VIC. Philbrook of Waterville
The meeting then adjourned to meet
for the dinner at the Falmouth at 7.30
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The Banquet.
The.banquet at the Falmouth was
most enjoyable and successful occasion.
About sevety-fve gentlemen, members
of the Maine State Bar Association, took
up the line of march at half past seven
to follow President Libby, who, escort
ing Judge Putnam, led the way to the
dining room. The following were those
who made up the party: S. S. Brown,
Josiah n. Drummond, Henry G. Peabody,
Andrew P. Wiswell, Thomas H. Haskell,
Nathan Webb, Leslie Cornish. Charles
F. Libby, William L. Putnam, Henry B.
Cleaves, T.. A. Emery, F. A. Wilson,
Orville D. Baker, J.W. Symonds, Byron
D. yerrill, George E. Bird, Frank W.
Robinson, Seth L. Larrabee, George D.
Rand, M. P. Frank, Els. Osgood, A. W.
Bradbury. j. H. Fogg, f. J. Whiting,
Forest J Martin, Warren G. Philbrook.
Morrill, N. Drew, F. E. Undertake, P.J.
Larrabee, W. R.. Anthoine, John +.
W. Fl. Fisher, William H. Looney, David
W. Snow, R. T.. Whitehouse, George S.
Cyler, H. Nj. Davis, John F. A. Merrill,
Richard Webb, Charles A. True, Frank
lin Payson, Benjamin Thompson, George
Libby. Edwin G. Reynolds, Horace HI.
Burbank, D. A. Meaher. Frederick V.
Chase, F.W. Brown, John B. Redman, S.
Clifford Belcher, W. J. ChoatA, F. M.
Higgins, A. r. Savage, A. E. VerriIl,
George E. McCann, P. Il. Kelleher,
Albert S. Woodman, Levi Turner, Jr..
Clarence Hale, Joseph 7. Locke, M. S.
Holway, W. J. Knowlton, Edward F.
Tompson, Wilford Chapman, Rev. DR..
WE Fem, A. F. Moulton, Asher c.
Hinds.
The dinner occupied about three hours
and was enlivened and made delightful
by the music of the orchestra, a selection
of Chandler's, ana volunteer vocal con-
tributions by Judge Warren G. Philbrook
of Waterville and Robert L. Whitehouse,
Esq, of Portland.
After cigars had been lighted, Presi-
dent Libby happily congratulated the
members of the ASSOCIATION upon the
large attendance He then presented
Judge William L. Putnam, who was re-
ceived with loudsapplause. Mr.. Putnam
had prepared paper on George Evans.
of whicn the following are portions. {"
Judge Putnam's Address.
Judge Putnam, after briefly referring