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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1918 Excerpt:... PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE Indiana State Bar Association HELD AT INDIANAPOLIS. INDIANA July 10. 1918 MORNING SESSION. Wednesday, July 10, 1918. The members of the Association met at the Country Club, Indianapolis, Indiana, at 10:00'o'clock a. m., and were called to order by President Inman H. Fowler, Esq., in the chair. President Fowler: The twenty-second annual meeting of the State Bar Association will come to order. The first thing in order will be the reading of the minutes of the last session. Secretary Batchelor: Mr. President: The minutes of the last session have been distributed in printed form to all the members, and I move that the reading of the minutes be dispensed with. President Fowler: We will take that by consent, if I hear no objection. Hearing none, it is so ordered. The secretary has a few announcements to make. We will hear the secretary. Secretary Batchelor: The program this year, on account of the war, has been limited to a one day session with the annual dinner eliminated. Meeting as we are at a distance from the city, it is very incumbent upon the Association to provide refreshments for the members during their attendance at this meeting, and we will serve at noon the regular Country Club luncheon, and this evening we will serve a good chicken dinner in accordance with the regulations of the Food Administration. The most painful duty incumbent upon the secretary is to announce that the speaker of the evening, Hon. Lindley M. Garrison, will not be here. In January I wrote to Judge Garrison inviting him to deliver the annual address at this meeting and received a letter from him on February 1, 1918, accepting the invitation, provided it was understood that it must be subject to other matters, if they were of...