SOUTH CAROLINA-Continued.

CAMPBELL, JAMES B.,
DARGAN, E. Keith,
MCCRADY, EDWARD, JR.,

SIMONTON, C. H.,

SMYTHE, AUGUSTINE T.,
YOUNG, HENRY E.,

TENNESSEE.

TEXAS.

BROWN, JOHN C.,
CARROLL, WILLIAM H.,
COOPER, EDMUND,
COOPER, WILLIAM F.,
ELLETT, HENRY T.,
ESTES, BEDFORD M.,
FENTRESS, JAMES,
FRAYSER, R. DUDLEY,
GAUT, JOHN M.,
MCFARLAND, L. B.,
MCNEAL, ALBERT T.,
MOORMAN, H. C.,
MORGAN, ROBERT J.,

PIERCE, JAMES O.,

SNEED, JOHN L. T.,
STEELE, THOMAS,

WALKER, SAMUEL P.,
WOOD, R. H.,

BALLENGER, W. P.,
CRAWFORD, W. L.,
FULTON, MARSHALL,

GRESHAM, WALTER,
STOCKDALE, F. S.,
STREET, ROBERT G.,

WAELDER, JACOB,
WAUL, T. N.,

WEST, C. S.,

WILLIE, A. H.,

APPENDIX.

ADDRESS

OF

ALEXANDER R. LAWTON,

OF GEORGIA,

PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION.

GENTLEMEN OF THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION, - The obligation imposed by your Constitution upon the President, "to communicate the most noteworthy changes in statute law on points of general interest, made in the several states and by Congress during the preceding year," is much more serious in its exactions, and far more difficult to discharge properly than was probably contemplated by the men who so skillfully made the draft of our fundamental law. No one can fully appreciate these difficulties until he has attempted to execute the task.

There is no small labor in gathering the materials for this work, scattered as they are over an area from the St. Lawrence to the Gulf, from the Atlantic to the Pacific; but the attempt to give form and shape to this material-to eliminate the substance from the shadow, to separate the wheat from the chaff-conscious all the while that, when the result is finally reached and given out in utterance, he who proclaims it can only hope to be greeted with, “Dryasdust!"—is indeed appalling. The knowledge that I speak to a generous profession, and to an audience which gives the assurance of that intelligent consideration, to be expected only from those who look with interest to the per