Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Virginia State Bar Association (Volume 5) (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: at them we all become young fellows again; yet he has been known for some time at least?and he always will be known?to Virginia audiences and to the Virginia people everywhere as " Our Ran." To the world at large, he is the Honorable John Randolph .Tucker, of Virginia. The President then read his address. (See Appendix.) The President: Gentlemen of the Association, ?Having disposed of the most disagreeable part of my duties, I now proceed to the regular business of the Association; and as the first duty that is imposed upon the Chair is to name the Committee on Publications, I name as the members of that committee, Holmes Conrad, of Winchester; L. T. Hanckel, of Charlottesville; Alexander Hamilton, of Petersburg. The Committee to Recommend Officers for the ensuing year: I name as members of that Committee, Charles M. Blackford, of Lynchburg; John H. Fulton, of Wytheville; George A. Mush- back, of Alexandria; William B. Taliaferro, of Gloucester; and W. W. Old, of Norfolk. These committees, gentlemen, have their duties to perform in the recess. The next business in the order of proceedings is the reports of the Secretary and Treasurer. Secretary Jackson Guy, of Richmond: Mr. President, ?In obedience to the By-Laws I proceed to give a brief summary of the transactions of my predecessor, Hon. James C. Lamb, as Secretary of the Association from July i, 1891, to December 31, 1891, and of myself as Secretary from the latter date to the present time, and an outline of the business which is to come before the Association at this meeting. Immediately after the last annual meeting, a list of the committees then appointed was prepared and distributed, and each committeeman notified of his appointment. The proceedings of the last annual meeting, together wyith t...