VII. The president or the council shall have the power to call a special meeting of the Association at any time, provided that at least two weeks' previous notice in writing be given to all members of the Association.

VIII. 1. The executive power of the Association shall be vested in the council, subject to the control and direction of the Association.

2. The council shall have the power to elect from its own members an Executive Committee of not less than three members, to whom may be delegated such powers as the council shall deem expedient.

3. The council shall elect every year from its own members a "Committee on the Harvard Law School," and may elect such other committees from its own members or the Association at large, as it shall from time to time deem expedient in carrying out the objects of the Association.

4. The council shall have the power to appoint from time to time one or more Corresponding Secretaries in the different cities or towns of the United States and the Dominion of Canada. It shall be the duty and office of such corresponding secretaries to promote in their respective localities the objects and interests of the Association.

5. The council shall have the power to fix the number of members of the Association necessary to constitute a quorum for the transaction of any and all business save that of amending the Constitution, and to fix also the number of their own members necessary to constitute a quorum of the council.

IX. The secretary, treasurer, the council, and the committee on the Harvard Law School, shall make and submit to the Association, at its annual meeting in each year, reports in writing of their respective doings for the preceding year.

X. This Constitution may be amended by a majority vote of all the members of the Association present at the annual meeting, or at any special meeting called for that purpose.

Mr. Darwin E. Ware reported the names recommended by the Committee on Nominations, and the following officers were accordingly elected:

President, Hon. James C. Carter, of New York.

Vice-Presidents - Hon. Andrew Allison, of Tennessee; Hon. Charles S. Bradley, of Rhode Island; Hon. James B. Eustis, of Louisiana: Hon. William M. Evarts, of New York; Hon. Manning F. Force, of Ohio; Hon. Rutherford B. Hayes, of Ohio; Hon. Hugo McDonald Henry, of Nova Scotia;

Hon. Ogden Hoffman, of California; Hon. A. R. Lawton, of Georgia; Hon. Robert T. Lincoln, of Illinois; Hon, John Lowell of Massachusetts; Hon. Arthur W. Machen, of Maryland; Hon. Marcus Morton, of Massachusetts; Hon. John H. Overall, of Missouri; Hon. John A. Peters, of Maine; Hon. William Preston, of Kentucky; Hon. Alfred Russell of Michigan; Hon. Henry C. Semple, of Alabama; Hon. Jeremiah Smith, of New Hampshire; Hon. George B. Young, of Minnesota.

Council, for four years - Hon. James M. Barker, of Pittsfield; John L. Thorndike, of Boston; William Schofield, of Cambridge; for three years: Hon. Patrick A. Collins, of Boston; Frederick P. Fish, of Cambridge; Theodore H. Tyndale, of Boston; for two years: Hon. F. P. Goulding, of Boston; A. Lawrence Lowell, of Boston; Samuel B. Clarke, of New York; for one year: Hon. A. L. Huntington, of Salem; Fred. C. S. Bartlett, of New Bedford; Sherman Hoar, of Waltham.

Treasurer - Winthrop H. Wade, of Boston.

Secretary - Louis D. Brandeis, of Boston.