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5 New Haven Cnty. B. Ass'n 1 (1929)

handle is hein.barjournals/bullehaca0006 and id is 1 raw text is: THE NEW HAVEN COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION BULLETIN NUMBER 5 SEPTEMBER 9, 19?9 THE NEW HAVEN COUNTY BAR LIBRARY ORGANIZATION The New Haven County Bar Library was founded November, 1848, hy the voluntary act of some forty-two members of the New Haven County Bar, including Messrs. Charles A., R. I., and C. R. Ingersoll, Alfred Blackman, Ralph D. Smith, William B. Bristol, John S. Beach, Henry G. Lewis, N. A. Cowdery, Dennis Kimberly, Alfred H. Terry, Henry White, Tilton E. Doolittle, John C. Hollister, Henry B. Harrison, William B. Wooster, Stephen W. Kellogg, John W. Webster, and Henry Dutton. Each of the subscribers contributed Five Dollars to a Fund for the Library. Rules for the admission of members of the Bar were adopted, including a rule requiring payment of a fee of Five Dollars to the Clerk of Court, to be appropriated under direction of the members of the Bar for the purchase of a law library. This Association continued until 1877, when Bar Library Associations in the several Counties were created by Chapter 43, Public Acts of 187 . This statute now appears in sections 1094-1099 of the General Statutes of 1918. Such information as we have in regard to the early history of the Association is contained in a small book in the custody of the Clerk of the Superior Court, entitled, Records of Bar Library. FUNDS The Fund with which the Bar Library was started consisted of Two Hundred and Ten Dollars. Thereafter the Association received funds from subscriptions and from payments by candidates for admission to the Bar. December 11, 1882, it received an allottnent of Three Hundred