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NEW YORK LEGAL HISTORY - JAMES DUANE] Manuscript document signed . New York: 26 November 1756. One page manuscript document signed by approximately 15 New York attorneys (some signatures on verso). 12 x 7 1/4 inches (31 x 19 cm). Worn with one section detached, edges browned. This interesting document begins "Articles of agreement to establish a quarterly meeting of the attornies in the City of New York and for setting the sum to be received by them for all business in the profession..." The document further appoints James Duane clerk of the fledgling association. A clear precurser to the Bar Associations formed in the 19th century, the document is signed by Duane and other important early New York attornies such as William Livingston (signer of United States Constitution), William Smith Jr. (author of the 1756 History of the Province of New-York), John V. Cortlandt, Richard Morris Benjamin Kissam, and Whitehead Hicks (Mayor of New York City from 1766 to 1776). C The New York City Bar Association