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IMMIGRATION.
Perfecting the Organization and
Work of the San Antonio
Convention.
Mysterious Disappearance Sud
den Death at Galveston,
Supposed Suicide,
,ecisl Telegram to the Statesman =.

Special Telegram to the Statesman.
SAN ANTONIO, February 3.-The execu-
tive committee of the Southwest Texas
immigration association held meeting
this morning and adopted the reports of
the subcommittee as follows:
Hon II. B. Andrew 8, President:
Your committee ON rules and regula-
lions beg leave to submit the following
by laws of the Southwest Texas Immigra-
ton associations:
Section lit shall be the duty of the
president to preside over all meetings,
and in case of his absence or inability to
act, the first vice president shall act as
presiding officer, and when there is no
president or vice-president the associa-
ton shall elect them from their number.
Section 2-The president, secretary and
treasurer shall constitute the executi We
and finance committee of the association,
and they are authorized, and it shall be
their duty, to see that all the money due
the association from every source is
promptly collected, and to see that the
same is properly disbursed; to audit and
pay all expenses and accounts; to decide
upon and carry into effect the
most efficient system for the pro-
curing and disseminating of such in
formation as will best carry out the pur-
nf hu
in the newspapers, or distributing circu-
lars, or maps, etc, or by the employment
of travelling agents; to enter into
and conclude negotiations with railway
and steamship companies, ETC., and for the
better execution of the purposes men,
toned in this section, the president is
authorized to appoint such committees as
he may deem desirable.
Section Sit shall be the duty of the
secretary to transmit to each member of
this association semi-monthly report of
the work of the executive committee, 1t
shall also be his duty to furnish each
member of the association, as early as
practicable, all information that may be
in his possession, concerning excursion
parties into Southwest Texas, the de-
mand for land, ETC., and all other infor-
nation that he may deem of Importance,
and, in addition to the above, he shall at
tend to the correspondence of the associa-
ton, and perform such other duties as
may be required of him by the executive
committee.
Section 4-The secretary shall keep his
Office in San Antonio, until otherwise pro-
vided by the association.
Section 5-The secretary shall receive
an annual salary of $1,000, payable
monthly, subject to being increased or
diminished by the association.
Section ct shall be the duty of the
treasurer to safely deposit such moneys
of the association as may be intrusted to
his care; to keep a faithful account of
receipts and disbursements of funds of
the association and to make reports of
the financial status of the association,
quarterly or whenever required of him by
the president or the association.
Section THE treasurer is authorized,
and it shall be his duty to designate one
or more banks in the city of San Antonio
as repositories of the funds of this asso-
clation, and he shall duly notify each
member of this association of the banks
so designated by him.
Section 8-The funds of the association
shall be deposited in the bank, or banks,
designated by the treasurer, as herein
after provided, and to the credit of the
association, and the funds shall be paid
out only upon check of the treasurer and
countersigned by the secretary.
Section Gin the case of vacancy in
the Office of secretary or treasurer, by
resignation or otherwise, the executive
committee shall have authority, and it
shall be their duty to appoint his sue
cessor, who shall serve for the uneXpired
term.
Section 1O.-All officers and committees,
when not otherwise provided, shall con-
tinue in Office for the term of one year
and until their successor qualities.
Section 11-There shall be two regular
meetings of the association, to be held on
the first Tuesdays in February and August
of each year, and there shall be called
meetings at such times as the president,
or as many as the members of this asso-
citation shall see fit, provided that each
and every member of this association
shall be given by the secretary ten days
notice.
Section 12-Any member of this asso-
citation shall have the right to appoint a
proxy by written instrument under his
signature, who shall have the right to cast
the vote of the member; provided, that the
proxy so appointed by member of this
| association, is member of the county or
ganization of the county to which he be-
longs.
The committee on ways and means beg
leave to report as folluws:
First-That an assessment of 1 cent or
each 500 of taxable values of the several
counties represented in this association
be levied, to meet the expenses of the as
ISOLATION, such assessment to be payable
quarterly in advance, and to be collected
and forwarded to the treasurer by mem
Der of the general executive committee
for each county.
A committee of three was appointed OF
publishing and printing, to wit: E. d
Linn, of Victoria; W. p. Caruthers, o.
Neueces, and Vim. Hndspeth, of Bandera
The executive committee was named al
fallows: H. B. Andrews, L. M. Gregory
o. L. Ellis. V. Weldon and j. @. Beasly.
The committee then adjourned until til,
next regular meeting.
"You have a fine large family of child
rem" said the visitor. "Oh, yes" sighed
the Texan, YEARLY, "house is full of 'em