Proceedings of the Annual Sessions of the Texas Bar Association (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NINETEENTH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE TEXAS BAR ASSOCIATION, HELD IN THE CITY OF GALVESTON, JULY 25 AND 26, 1900. FIRST DA Y.?Morning Session. The Nineteenth Annual Session of the Texas Bar Association was held in the city of Galveston, commencing Wednesday, July 25th, 1900. Hon. Presley K. Swing, President of the association, called the meeting to order, and, a quorum being present, the reading of the minutes of t)he last annual meeting was, on motion, dispensed with. On motion, the regular order of business' was suspended, and the following were elected to imemberalhip, upon recommendation of the Board of Directors: Prank Andrews, Houston; Robert Harrison, Port Worth; H. P. Jordan, Waco; Jamles P. Kinnard, Belton; R. A. Pleasants, Cuero; Sidney L. Samuels, Port Worth; R. E. L. Saner, Dallas; D. E. Simmons, Sherman; Charles J. Stubbs, Galveston; Stanley Welch, Corpus Christi; C. R. Wharton, Richmond. Mr. Ewing then read the "President's Opening Address." (See appendix.) .-. "' . .'-rj'lje'Board of Directors made the following report: .-V"' Galveston, Texas, July 25, 1900. To the Honorable Presley K. Swing, President, and Members of the Texas Bar Association: The Board of Directors beg leave to submit the following report: We have prepared a full program, as outlined by the by-laws, 'but, as we do not know whether the association will determine upon a two or a three days' session, we have not specifically assigned the addresses to be made to any particular day, but content ourselves with giving the order in which they shall be delivered to the Association. 'We are not sure that the program can be fully carried out in two days, and, therefore, favor a three days' session, but, as the by-laws only provide ...