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Excerpt from Official Report of the Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists: Held at St. Louis, Missouri, U. S. A., September 28, 29, and 30, 1904, Under the Auspices of the Universal Exposition and the American Bar Association The Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists was held in St. Louis, September 28, 29 and 30, 1904, under the auspices of the Universal Exposition and the American Bar Association. The development of the plan and scope of the Congress, its constituent elements and the details of its organization were in the hands of a committee, composed of representatives from the larger committees that were appointed by the Universal Exposition, the American Bar Association and the Bar Association of St. Louis. The composition of these committees and a report of their labors will be found herein under the heading of "History of the Organization of the Congress." (See Appendix A.) The members of the Congress, nearly a thousand in number, were named by the various Governments, to whom invitations had been extended through the American State Department, by bar associations, orders of advocates and kindred organizations in different countries of ye world, by the law faculties of universities and schools of law, and from the profession at large by the commit tee itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.