The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-03-22
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|Atilon Of the BnIlna isnr Concerning
the New F,drrH, CpuTi nistric
a. an adjourned meeting Of the Dal-
|N Bar Association, held yes erday
|syening, at the courthouse, with Hon.
|AltXauder White presiding, to con
|f|der the action Of the Galveston har,
he committee on resolutions reported
|lie following:
10 Hon. Alex, White, Chairman;
|sNour committee appointed to take
into consideration the action Of the
|Galveslon bar In reference to the crea
lion of new judicial III trict, to be
|called the Northern District OF Texas,
and to express the sense of the bar of
DALLAS in reference TO the creation OF
aid district, beg leave 10 report:
'Nlnat toe federal courts, IN now or
eanized and located, are uusuited to
ihe necessities and Inadequate to
Qfompt dispatch Of the business OF the
qeople.
,wThat two judges are unable to trans
\ Act the business of 1000 900 Of people,
|dkpersed over an area embracing 214,-
4 @ square miles.
What the present places of holding
tho courts are 30 far removed from
Nge portion OF the people of the state
VI to make it extremely inconvenient
I'D expensive for them to litigat'
/ lheT rights in said court.
That the number of judges ought to
Be increased and the places of holding
/ BE courts distributed aud fixed with
4 reference to the geographical centers,
ne centers of population and or olfsi'
Ness.
E& That we cordially approve the Dill
Dow pending before congress to create
Pc northern judicial district OF the
Hate Of Texas, and request our sena-
brs aud representatives to urge It's
Reedy passage.
We call their attention to the fact
Mat three of the places for holding the
FEDERAL court III Texas as now hXeu are
|Secuth Of parallel thirty degrees thirty
minutes, while the remaining point,
Tyler, is near the eastern boundary OF
4 We state, remote from and almost ln>
4 accessible to large portion OF the
people OF northwest Texas, and to the
ihrther fact that the country west OF
longitude ninety six and north of the
thirty first parallel embraces almost
one-half the area of the state and con-
hins to day largely more than one
third of her population and wealth,
end that in this territory there 10 no
FEDERAL court held.
MI That the settlements on our frontier
Fithin these lines are extending to the
pest forty miles q year, and that our
Population il increasing more than
one hundred thousand per annum,
while the taxable values on the IRON
xter are doubling Themselves every
E{ear
III That we esteem the action OF the
7rar of the city Of Galveston ana all
Others seeking to defeat the just ex-
|1ec,ations of the people of northwest
texas, in the reorganization OF the
FEDERAL e urt. and the establishment ol
~ q. ur, e. This section of the state (lm
leratively DEM nded by and suited t'
he convenience aud 'u'iness nete-sl
les ~ this people,. rs illioerai aud
nnfair
M NAT. NJ. BURFoRD,
III chairman ol Committee.
III On motion, the report OF the com
1hlttee WAS adopted
FL On motion the secretary was author
'led and instructed to send IA certified
fnpy Of these resolutions to each OF oul
representatives in congress; that TIT
T0ceedlngs of the meeting he pub
ished in daily papers, and that the,
II urged 10 call the attention OF tn
Press Of northwest Texas to the actor
pi the Dallss bar. The committee oil
Jurisprudence reported that all tn
attorneys interested bad heen notified
On motion the secretary was In
f'ructed to send q paper containing
report OF the proceedings of this meet
ing to each attorney in all the cQuntie
interested in the proposed measure.
The meeting then adjourned sine dtt
ALEX. WHITE Chairman.
DAFlD W. ADAMS, Secretary.
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