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ART. 140.-When charges against a county society, or against an officer thereof, have been submitted to the Association a copy of the charges shall be sent by the secretary to the president of the society, or to the officer, as the case may be.

ART. 141.-During the investigation of the charges against a county society the society may be represented both before the State Board of Censors and the Association by its president, or by any of its officers or members, or by counsel, or both.

The investigation shall be conducted in all respects in accordance with the provisions laid down with reference to persons.

ART. 142. When the board of censors submits a full and adequate report of the investigation to the Association the matter shall be open for such discussion as the Association may permit, and when decided the vote shall be taken by ayɛs and noes.

Penalties.

ART. 143.-Penalties may in accordance with the gravity of the offence be imposed as follows:

(1.) An officer may be censured, removed from office, debarred temporarily from the privileges of the floor, or deprived of his counsellorship, one or all.

(2.) A counsellor may be censured, debarred, temporarily, from the privileges of the floor, or deprived of his counsellorship, one or all.

(3.) A delegate may be censured, or deprived of his position as a delegate, one or both.

(4.) A member may be censured, or debarred, temporarily or permanently, from the privileges of the floor, one or both.

ART. 144.-Punishment by censure, by temporary exclusion from the privileges of the floor, or by removal from the position of a delegate, may be imposed by a majority vote.

Removal from office, from a counsellorship, or permanent debarment from the privileges of the floor, shall require a two-thirds vote. A penalty shall not be imposed except after an aye and no vote.

ART. 145.-When a penalty has been imposed it shall be the duty of the president to summon the offending officer, counsellor, delegate, or member, before the Association, and notify him in such words and terms as he may deem appropriate of the verdict rendered.

Should the officer, counsellor, delegate, or member not be present it shall be the duty of the secretary to notify him in writing of the verdict rendered and of the terms in which it was pronounced by the president.

ART. 146. Censure is the highest penalty that could be imposed upon a county society.

It should be the ambition of the members of a county society to avoid such dereliction as would bring upon them in their organized capacity such a grave penalty.

ART. 147.-The Association shall have appellate jurisdiction in all trials of members by their respective county societies. In such cases a full report of the proceedings in the county society, properly authenticated by the president and secretary thereof, shall be presented to the Association and referred without discussion to the board of censors, before which board the process of trial shall be in conformity with the provisions of Article 53, in Section 12 of this constitution.

To the penalties enumerated in Article 143 the Association may add that of expulsion.

ART. 148. The right of appeal from the decision of a county society is open to either the plaintiff or defendant in the case, and this in spite of any provision the constitution or by-laws of a county society may contain.

SECTION XIX.-ORDINANCES, BY-LAWS, AND AMENDMENTS.

ART. 149. The Association shall have the right to adopt such ordinances and by-laws for its own government and that of the county societies as it may deem proper.

Any of said ordinances or by-laws may be amended, suspended, or repealed at any annual meeting of the Association.

ART. 150.-All proposed amendments to the provisions of this constitution shall be submitted in writing or in print, at a regular annual session of the Association, shall lie over until the next annual session, and shall then require for adoption a majority of two thirds of the counsellors and delegates present, the vote being taken by ayes and noes.

The President then announced that the next order of business was the installation of officers; he then appointed Dr. Seale Harris and Dr. E. O. Williamson to perform this pleasurable duty.

The newly-elected President, Dr. E. D. Bondurant, was first escorted to the Chair and presented to the Association by President Jones.

President Jones in retiring said:

Allow me, once again, to express to you my high appreciation of the honor you so graciously conferred upon me one year ago. I would be an ingrate indeed did my heart not swell with pride and fill with undying gratitude for this expression of your confidence and respect.

I want to thank you, one and all, for the hearty co-operation you have given me in making this one of the most successful sessions in the history of the Association.

The uniform courtesy and helpfulness of the officers of the Association has been a pleasure and inspiration to me. And now, gentlemen, it is my great pleasure to introduce to you my successor in office, your President-elect-one of the most cultured and brilliant men in our great State-Dr. E. D. Bondurant, of Mobile.

Dr. Bondurant, in accepting the Chair, spoke as follows:

In placing me here as your presiding officer, you load me with honors unsought, unexpected and undeserved; honors therefore all the more appreciated, and for which, from the inmost recesses of my heart, I thank you.

During the coming year, I shall devote to the work of this Association such powers as within me lie, striving without ceasing to discharge my duty to the profession of medicine, and to acquit me of my obligation to you.

An occasion such as this must bring to any one a realization of the fact that progress along the upward incline of life's high-way is influenced more by the good will and the helping hand of friendship than by any effort or any merit of his own. I see, therefore, in your action today, no tribute to any measure of worth or excellence of my own, but only that kind partiality of friends who would rank me higher than is my just due.

Let not your kindness end with to-day. Give me your continued support, your aid, counsel and cordial co-operation and

let us, working together, make this one of the most prosperous years in the history of the Association.

Again I thank you.

The Vice-President, Dr. L. W. Johnston; the Orator, Dr. M. S. Davie, and the two members of the Board of Censors, Drs. Gaines and Robertson, were next installed. This completed the installation of officers.

Miscellaneous business was next in order.

Under this head, Dr. H. G. Perry, of Greensboro, offered the following resolutions upon the death of Dr. J. C. Kendrick, which were unanimously adopted by the Association....

Mr. President:

IN MEMORIAM.

Since our last meeting, the Association has been bereaved by the death of one of its most ardent members.

Dr. Joel Cloud Kendrick, a Grand Senior Life Counsellor and an. Ex-Vice-President of this Association is no more....

Others have spoken of his religious and home life, and have eulogized his civic virtues; I wish to speak of him as my friend, and as a physician. It was my privilege to be his friend. One had to occupy that relation, in order to appreciate the finer points of his character. To me, he was a constant revelation. His strength, patience and loyalty were always a source of wonder.

He loved this organization. Attendance on the annual sessions constituted his yearly outings. He was not often on the floor, but he carried away a vivid memory of the whole proceedings.

He was "a doctor of the old school," who kept in touch with the new. Therapeutics was his fort. In a long practice by his side, I have seldom known his resources to fail.

Coming of a long-lived family, at seventy he could do more hard practice than many men half his age.

The vigor of his body was shared by his intellect, and as long as I knew him, he read all that was best, and with fine discrimination, he appropriated truth wherever found.

People in all walks of life came to him for counsel and aid. None went away unserved. He bore the burdens and sorrows of many as only the true family physician can do. His clientele were like his children. In his practice of fifty-two years, thirty of that time in Greenville, one generation followed another as his patients and friends.

He was the inspiration of the young, the guardian of the weak, the adviser of the widow, and the helper of the poor.

This Association has lost a member who was true to every trust as father, friend, citizen, christian and physician.

Resolved, That this Association does express its sorrow and sympathy with the bereaved family, and that the Secretary be ordered to transfer the name of Joel Cloud Kendrick to the Grand Roll of Honor.

Adopted and referred to the Publishing Committee.

Dr. Davie, of Dothan, next introduced the following resolution of thanks which was carried by a rising vote.

RESOLUTION OF THANKS.

Coming from the exacting duties of an arduous profession, where we are called upon to witness suffering and disease and live more or less in an atmosphere of gloom, we are peculiarly susceptible to the charms of hospitality. And on this occasion we were prepared by anticipation for the full enjoyment of many good things. But the realization has far exceeded anything we had looked for ward to, and we are proud to have experienced in person the farfamed graciousness of our historic city, the beloved cradle of the Confederacy.

Be it therefore Resolved, That the Medical Association of the State of Alabama, now on the point of adjournment, extends its profound thanks to the Medical Society of Montgomery County. to the splendid physicians of our Capitol City who have been so untiring in their personal zeal for our pleasure and comfort; to the State officials who have so kindly allowed us the unrestricted use of the State House for all of our meetings; and to the many Montgomery people who have come forward in no uncertain manner to give us a right royal greeting and entertainment.

We remember with delight our trip to the Electric Park, our barbecue dinner at Jackson's Lake, and our magnificent reception at the Beauvoir Club, where we had the rare good fortune to meet and mingle with so many matchless ladies and splendid gentlemen in such a charming round of social festivities.

And we return to cur homes to tell again of the incomparable citizenship of this gem of cities in our glorious Southland.

The President then announced that the final order of business was the choosing of a place of meeting for the next annual session of the Association.

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