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 RULES 
 
 AND 
 
 KEGULATIONS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 ADVOCATES ASSOCIATION 
 
 OF 
 
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 PRINTED BY LOUIS PERRAULT, 
 
 SAINT THERESE STREET. 
 
THE MEMBERS 
 OF THE MONTREAL BAR. 
 
 Gentlemen, 
 
 The Committee appointed by the Bar 
 at their last meeting to prepare Rules for their Asso- 
 ciation, take the liberty of reporting, that after having 
 ileliberated upon the subject referred to them, and af- 
 ter having examined the original rules reported by a 
 Committee named by the Bar of Quebec for the same 
 object, are unanimously of opinion that the Rules 
 hereunto annexed should be adopted. All which is 
 nevertheless respectfully submitted. 
 
 Montreal, 29th December, 184.0. 
 
 SABREVOIS De BLEUSY, 
 
 W. WALKER, 
 
 L. H. LAFONTAINE, 
 
 J. SMITH, 
 
 S. MONK. 
 
NAMES OF THE OFFICERS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 MONTREAL BAR ASSOCIATIOI/I, 
 
 ELECTED FOR THE YEAR 1841. 
 
 J. D. LACROIX, Esquire, President 
 
 JOHN BOSTON, Esq., Vice-President 
 
 JOS. AGAPIT MORIN, Esq., ) ^ , . 
 THOS. MITCHEL, Esq., \ Secretaries. 
 
 JOS. BOURRET, Esq., Treasurer. 
 
 COMMITTEE OF ACCOUNTS. 
 
 JOHN S. McCORD, Esq., 
 W. C. MEREDITH, Esq., 
 A. BERTHELOT, Esq. 
 
 COMMITTEE OF EXAMINATION. 
 
 C.S. DEBLEURY, Esq., 
 L. H. LAFONTAINE, Esq., 
 
 C. S. CHEERIER, Esq., 
 
 D. FISHER, Esq., 
 J. SMITH, Esq. 
 
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 RULES m RECUlATIOl 
 
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 OF THE 
 
 ADVOCATES ASSOCIATION 
 
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 I. — Each Member shall bind and oblige himself to 
 submit to such Orders, Rules and Regulations as may 
 be adopted by the majority of the Members, for the 
 good government of the body, and any Member of the 
 Bar who shall not so bind himself shall not participate 
 in any of the privileges enjoyed by th« Members of 
 this Association. 
 
 II. — Advocates actually practising at the Bar, only, 
 shall be admissable as Members. 
 
 III. — There shall be a general meeting of the body 
 
 held on the first Monday following each Superior 
 
 Term of the Court of King's Bench, at ten of the 
 
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(6) 
 
 clock in the forenoon, in the Advocates' Chamberj 
 provided that when the Monday shall be a holiday or 
 day of F6te ci' Obligation, the meeting shall be held 
 on the following day. 
 
 The President may also convoke extraordinary 
 meetings whenever he shall be requested in writing by 
 any three Members of the Association, who shall 
 state in such request the cause or causes for which 
 they require a meeting to be called, and it shall be 
 necessary to mention in the notice for such meeting 
 its object. 
 
 IV. — For the transaction of business each meeting 
 must be composed of at least the majority of the 
 ]\Tem])ers of the Association, and in the event of a 
 suiTu'/ient number not being present at any meeting to 
 constitute a quorum within half an hour after the time 
 at which it was summoned, absent Members shall 
 each pay a fine of Is. 3d., provided their absence 
 shall not have been caused by sickness or absence 
 from town, and each artd every member who shall 
 leave a meeting before its adjournment without per- 
 mission of the President or Chairman shall also pay a 
 fine of Is. 3d. 
 
(7) 
 
 V. — All Resolutions and matters whatsoever shall 
 be submitted to the meeting in writing and shall be se- 
 conded, and decided by the majority of votes of the 
 Members present. 
 
 VI. — Each Member shall pay to the Treasurer 
 the sum of lis. 8d. on signing the articles of Associa- 
 tion. 
 
 VII. — Each IVIember shall keep secret the delibe- 
 rations of the body. 
 
 VIII. — Each Member shall pay to the Treasurer 
 annually the sum of 10s. payable semi annually in 
 advance. 
 
 IX* — Any Member who shall refuse to pay the 
 above sum of lis. Sd., entrance money or the annual 
 subscription of 10s., shall not be permitted to be pre- 
 sent at or take any part in the deliberations of the 
 Association. 
 
 X. — All differences that may arise between the 
 Members with respect to the profession shall be sub- 
 mitted without delay and explained to the body to 
 whose decision the parties shall be bound to submit on 
 pain of expulsion, provided that such expulsion can- 
 
(8) 
 
 Hot be pronounced unless by a majority of the Asso- 
 ciation. 
 
 The body sliall also have the power of supervisiion 
 over the professional conduct of its Members and of 
 expulsion when circumstances demand it. 
 
 XI. — A President shall be annually elected from 
 among ihc Members of the body by a plurality of votes 
 and by ballot. He shall preside at all the meetings 
 and in case of absence the senior Memlter present 
 shall preside. 
 
 XII' — The President shall have no vote except 
 when the votes are equally divided but he may take a 
 part in the deliberations. 
 
 Xllf. — There shall annually be elected by ballots, 
 a Secretary, an assistant Secretary and Treasurer. 
 
 XIV' — The Secretary shall keep a Register which 
 shall be open to the inspection of every Member of 
 all the proceedings of the body, of the names of the 
 Members present at each meeting and generally of all 
 the deliberalions that do take place ; he shall convoke 
 meetings by written or printed notices, and in the 
 manner which shall be prescribed to him by the Pre- 
 
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 sidenl, ho Hhall deliver up to his successor all papers 
 and tiocuments which may have come to his posses- 
 sion as Secretary and in hin absence the Assistant 
 Secretary shall fulfd all these duties. 
 
 XV. — The Secretary shall he bound to convoke 
 and to assist at all meetings of Committees and to keep 
 minutes oftlieir proceedings. 
 
 XVI. — The Treasurer shall keep an account of all 
 sinns by him received from each Memberj and of all 
 sums paid by him in consequence of votes of the boJy 
 ■\vitli proper vouchers. 
 
 XVIi. — The Treasurer shall submit at each meet- 
 ing a list of the Members who shall not have paid the 
 sum of lis. 8d. on their entrance into the Association 
 or who shall be in arrear in the payment of their an- 
 nual contribution, or of the fines which they shall 
 have incurred 
 
 XVIII. — The Treasurer shall be bound to pay to 
 his successor all monies in his hands and to deliver 
 up the Register and generally all papers and docu- 
 ments which may have come into his possession in 
 his quality of Treasurer. 
 
( 10 ) 
 
 XIX- — There sheAl be annually named a Com- 
 mittee of three members to whom shall be submitted 
 the accounts and documents of the Treasurer for exa- 
 mination, and the Committee shall report concerning 
 the same at the first meeting thereafter. 
 
 No account shall be paid by the Treasurer unless 
 submitted to and approved of by the majority of the 
 Members of the said Committee and certified by the 
 President of the same. 
 
 XX- — There shall be annually named a committee 
 .of five members of whom three shall form a (quorum 
 •^vlio shall meet on the first Saturday of each month in 
 the Advocates' Chamber, unless when such Saturday 
 shall be a holiday, and then on the day preceding, for 
 the purpose, whenever required of examining persons 
 desirous of binding themgelves as Students to any 
 ]Meml)ers of the body. 
 
 XXI- — Every person who shall intend so to bind 
 himself shall give notice to the Secretary, and the Pre- 
 sident of the said committee shall fix the day and 
 hour to take the matter into consideration. 
 
 XXII.— If the candidate produce to the said com- 
 mittee proper certificates of qualification and should 
 
(11) 
 
 the Committee find such candidate qualified as well 
 as regards education, as good conduct, there shall 
 then be granted him a certificate of these facts signed 
 by the President and countersigned by the Secretary. 
 XXII' — -^^ Member of the Association shall re- 
 ceive into his office as a Student any person who has 
 not previously submitted himself for examination to 
 the said Committee and obtained from them a certifi- 
 cate of qualification as above stated, and every mem- 
 ber who shall contravene this regulation shall be ex- 
 pelled from the Association. 
 
 XXI V'"—'^^^ l^s* named Committee shall be char- 
 ged with the examination of all certificates, papers and 
 documents of Candidates for admission into the pro- 
 fession, and should the said Committee believe that the 
 indentureship of any Candidate has not been regularly 
 completed or that such Candidate has not the requisite 
 certificates to be admitted into the profession, they are 
 hereby authorised to oppose the reception of such 
 Candidate and (o submit to the Judges in the name of 
 the Body either verbally or in writing the reasons of 
 their opposition the same Committee shall also ex- 
 amine before the Judges all aspirants to the profession. 
 
( 12) 
 
 XXV. — On the decease of any Member of the 
 Association the Members shall assist at liis Funeral in 
 the usual mourning fm'nishcd by themselves. 
 
 XXVI- — I^ ^ ^lember leave at his decease a 
 Widow, the Members who shall have been substituted 
 In Causes pending at his decease shall conduct them 
 to the profit of the widow and of the minor children, 
 if anv. 
 
 Tiie Widow and Children sliall be entitled to coim- 
 >:c]5 and every assistance that can be afforded by the 
 profession, and that gratis. 
 
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 MONTREAL, 12th JANUARY. 
 Resolved,— That the Rules of the .Association be 
 translated into the English language, and enregistered, 
 and be printed in the two languages for the use of the 
 members. 
 
 Resolved,— That the Sheriff and the Prothonota- 
 ries of the Court of King's Bench, who shall be mem- 
 bers of the Bar, shall be ehgible as members of the 
 Association. 
 
 Resolved,— Thai a Vice-President be named who 
 shall exercise the functions of the President in his ab- 
 sence, and in the absence of both the eldest member 
 of the as,sociation present shall discharge the duties. 
 
 Resolved,— Tliat in lieu of a Secretary and an 
 Assistant Secretary, as provided by the 13th Rule of 
 the Association, two Secretaries be annually elected. 
 MONTREAL, 2Gth APRIL. 
 Resolved— That t!ie Treasurer be authorised to pay 
 all accounts approved by the Secretary not exceeding 
 one pound five shillings currency, but all those exceed- 
 ing that sum shall be submitted to the Committee of 
 Accounts as provided for by the 1 9th clause of the 
 Rules of the Association.