MINUTES

OF THE

SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING

TOPEKA, KANSAS, Jan. 30, 1900.

The Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Bar Association of the State of Kansas, was called to order at 10:30 o'clock a. m. in the supreme court room, President C. C. Coleman in the chair.

The reading of the minutes of the last meeting was dispensed with. The Executive Council by its Chairman, Silas W. Porter, reported to the Association the names of the following applicants for membership and recommended their election: W. T. Dillon, Belleville; Chas. L. Brown, Arkansas City; Isaac A. Rigby, Concordia; Wm. F. Sapp, Galena; B. T. Bullen, Belleville; H. F. Mason, Garden City; Louis H. Wulfekuhler, Leavenworth; E. S. Earhart, Kansas City.

This report of the Executive Council was unanimously adopted and the lawyers named were duly elected members of the Association.

Mr. Porter, chairman of the Council, continued his report orally, and in closing made the following motion:

"That a standing committee be appointed whose duty it shall be to secure an increase of membership."

Which motion was duly seconded and carried unanimously.

In due time said committee was named by the president as follows: A. Bergen, of Topeka, Chairman; A. H. Ellis, of Beloit; T. B. Wall, of Wichita.

The Memorial Committee, through John C. Postlethwaite, its chairman,