OF THE

Twenty-Second Annual Meeting

OF

The West Virginia Bar
Association

HELD AT

Elkins, West Virginia

ON

December 27th and 28th, 1906

Edited for the Executive Council

BY

Wm. G. Peterkin, Secretary

Parkersburg, W. Va.

Press of THE ELLETSON-CARVER CO.

1907.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Officers and Committees for 1907.

List of Former Presidents.

List of Members in Attendance at Elkins Meeting.

First Day-Morning Session.

Appointment of Committee on Nominations....

Report of the Secretary

Report of the Treasurer

Appointment of Auditing Committee

Report of Committee on Admissions

Election of Members

Report of Executive Council

Discussion of report, and action on proposed amendment to the

Constitution and By-laws, as to jurisdiction of Commit-

tees on Grievances and on Legislation

Report of Committee on Legal Education (Appendix IV.).

Discussion of report, as to requirements for admission to the bar 33- 36

First Day-Afternoon Session.

Report of Committee on Nominations

Election of Officers &c

Address of the President, Hon. Jno. W. Davis, on "The Growth

of the Commerce Clause" (Appendix I)..

Paper by Jno. T. Cooper, Esq. on "Direct Nominating Primaries"

(Appendix III.)

Report of Committee on Judicial Administration and Legal Reform

(Appendix V.)

Discussion of report, (as to Special Judges)

First Day-Evening Session.

Annual Address, by Honorable Andrew Jackson Montague, of Vir-

ginia, on the "Third International Conference of American

States" (See Note in Appendix II.).

Resolution as to Annual Address

Second Day-Morning Session,

Further discussion of report of Committee on Judicial Administra-
tion and Legal Reform (as to Special Judges)

Action on Report

Report of Committee on Grievances (Appendix VI.).

Discussion of Report (as to publication of Supreme Court Reports)

Resolution as to bill for "Taking & Certifying Depositions".

Discussion as to "The Bar"

48-54

54

55, 131

55-57

57-58

58-62

Report of Committee on Legal Biography (Appendix VII.)

Remarks

63, 132

63

Report of Committee on Legislation (Appendix VIII.)

Discussion