APPENDIX.

ADDRESS

OF

JAMES O. BROADHEAD,

PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION.

GENTLEMEN OF THE ASSOCIATION:-By the eighth article of the Constitution of our Association, it becomes my duty at this annual meeting "to communicate the most noteworthy changes in the statute law on points of general interest, made in the "several states and by Congress during the preceding year."

It is also made the duty of the member of the General Council from each state to report to the President, on or before the first day of May, annually, any such legislation in his state.

Inasmuch as only twenty-one states were represented in the General Council, and as but few of the members have made reports, it became necessary for me to look to other sources of information for the facts necessary to be communicated by me under the requirements of the Constitution. The secretaries of state of many of the states have kindly furnished me with copies of the Session Acts of the legislatures which have been in session during the last year.

Many of the states hold biennial sessions of the legislature, so that in some of them there has been no legislation since the last meeting of our Association, or to use legal phraseology, since the last continuance (puis darrein continuance).

In giving the "noteworthy changes in statute law on points of general interest " I have not undertaken to give, except in some instances, changes which are new merely to the state