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EXHIBIT 99.B
"Terminated General Partner") shall be purchased by the Partnership for a
purchase price determined according to the provisions of Section 12.3 hereof.
The last to remain of MRI and Crozier Partners, and the successors thereof,
shall not resign or withdraw from the Partnership without the concurrence of a
majority in interest of the Limited Partners. If such retirement or resignation
is voluntary, the purchase price shall be paid in the form of a non-interest
bearing unsecured promissory note with principal payable, if at all, from
distributions which the Terminated General Partner otherwise would have
received had the Terminated General Partner not resigned or retired. If such
termination is involuntary, the Partnership shall have the option to pay the
purchase price of such interest to the Terminated General Partner either in
cash or by a promissory note of the Partnership, payable to such Terminated
General Partner in a face amount equal to said purchase price and containing
provisions as would be usual and customary in a commercial promissory note,
including provisions for interest, at a rate equal to the prime rate of
interest from time to time charged by MBank Dallas, N.A. to its best commercial
customers (but in no event to exceed the maximum rate permitted by law to be
paid to the Terminated General Partners by the Partnership), such interest to
be payable at the time of each installment of principal, which shall be payable
as the Terminated General Partner and the Partnership may agree, or if they
cannot so agree, then annually over a period of five years from the date of the
Terminated General Partner's removal, adjudication of bankruptcy, insolvency or
dissolution. No prepayment penalty shall be charged to the Partnership for the
early payment of its note.
12.3 The fair market value of the Terminated General Partner's
interest to be purchased by the Partnership according to the provisions of
Section 12.2 above shall be determined by agreement between the Terminated
General Partner and the Partnership. If the Terminated General Partner and the
Partnership cannot agree upon the fair market value of such Partnership
interest within 90 days after the date of the Terminated General Partner's
resignation, removal, adjudication of bankruptcy, insolvency or dissolution,
then the Terminated General Partner and the Partnership shall each select an
independent appraiser within the next thirty days. If such appraisers fail to
agree on the fair market value of the Terminated General Partner's interest
within the next 90 days, then the two appraisers shall jointly appoint a third
appraiser whose determination shall be final and binding. The Terminated
General Partner and the Partnership shall each compensate their respective
appraisers, and the compensation of the third appraiser, if necessary, shall be
borne equally by each party. If the Partnership or the Terminated General
Partner fails to appoint an independent appraiser within the thirty day period
provided for in this paragraph, then the fair market value of the Terminated
General Partner's interest will be determined in accordance with the then
current rules of the American Arbitration Association, and the expense of such
arbitration shall be borne equally by the Terminated General Partner and the
Partnership.
12.4 Within 90 days after the resignation, removal, adjudication of
bankruptcy, insolvency or dissolution of a General Partner (except that a
General Partner shall not voluntarily withdraw from the Partnership without
complying with the terms of Section 12.2 and without at least 90 days' prior
written notice to the other General Partner and the Limited Partners of
intention to withdraw, and in such event, within the period from the date of
the notice of intention to withdraw to the date of withdrawal specified in the
notice of intention), Limited Partners holding a majority of the Interests may
elect to continue the business of the Partnership and, if they desire to do so,
may elect a successor General Partner or continue the business of the
Partnership with the remaining General Partner.
ARTICLE XIII
TRANSFER OF A PARTNERSHIP INTEREST
13.1 The General Partners may, pursuant to this Article XIII, admit as
a substituted Limited Partner any successor in interest to a Limited Partner
who is either deceased or under legal disability or who is an assignee of a
Limited Partner.
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13.2 Subject to the provisions of this Article XIII, compliance with the
suitability standards imposed by the Partnership, applicable "blue sky" laws
and the applicable rules of any other governmental authority, a Limited Partner
shall have the right to assign the whole or any portion of his Interests (but
not less than 50 Interests unless to an Individual Retirement Account or Keogh
Plan and then not less than 20 Interests) by a written assignment, the terms of
which are not in contravention of any of the provisions of this Agreement.
Any assignment in contravention of any of the provisions of this Article XIII
shall be of no force and effect and shall not be binding upon or recognized by
the Partnership.
(a) Except as provided in (b) below, an assignee of a Limited
Partner's Interest who is not admitted as a substituted Limited
Partner shall have no right to require any information or account of
the Partnership's transactions or to inspect the Partnership's books;
he shall only be entitled to receive distributions from the Partnership
and the share of income, gain, loss, deduction and credit attributable
to the Interests acquired by reason of such assignment from the first
day of the month following the month in which the written instrument
of assignment, executed by the assignor and in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the General Partners, and other documents
reasonably deemed necessary or appropriate by the General Partners
(as, for example, evidence that the assignee meets investor suitability
standards) shall have been received by the Partnership.
(b) Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, both the
Partnership and the General Partners shall be entitled to (i) treat
the assignor of such Interests as the absolute owner thereof in all
respects, and shall incur no liability for allocations of income, gain,
loss, deduction or credit or for distributions or for transmittal of
reports and notices required to be given to holders of Interests,
until the last day of the month in which the Partnership shall have
received the written assignment executed by the assignor in form and
substance reasonably satisfactory to the General Partners and other
documents reasonably deemed necessary or appropriate by the General
Partners (including evidence of the assignee's compliance with
standards imposed by applicable "blue sky" laws) or (ii) treat the
assignee as a substituted Limited Partner in the place of his assignor,
should the General Partners deem, in their absolute discretion, that
such treatment is in the best interests of the Partnership for any of
its purposes or for any of the purposes of this Agreement.
13.3 No assignee shall have the right to become a substituted Limited
Partner in place of his assignor unless all of the following conditions are
satisfied:
(a) The written consent of the General Partners to such
substitution shall be obtained, the granting of which shall not be
unreasonably withheld;
(b) A duly executed written instrument of assignment setting forth
the intention of the assignor that the assignee shall become a
substituted Limited Partner in his place shall have been filed with
the Partnership;
(c) The Interests being acquired by the assignee shall consist of
at least 20 Interests if such assignee is an Individual Retirement
Account or Keogh Plan and at least 50 Interests if such assignee is not
an Individual Retirement Account or Keogh Plan and, if the assignor
shall retain any Interests, such retention shall consist of at least
20 Interests if such assignor is an Individual Retirement Account or
Keogh Plan and at least 50 Interests if such assignor is not an
Individual Retirement Account or Keogh Plan;
(d) The assignor and assignee shall execute and acknowledge such
other instruments as the General Partners reasonably deem necessary
or desirable to effect such assignment and admission, including,
but not limited to, evidence of the assignee's compliance with
standards imposed by any applicable "blue sky" laws, the written
acceptance and adoption by the assignee of the provisions of this
Agreement and his execution, acknowledgement and delivery to the
General
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Partners of a special power of attorney, the form and content of which
are more fully described in Article XXI hereof; and
(e) The Partnership shall have received from the assignor or
assignee a transfer fee to cover all reasonable expenses of the
transfer, not to exceed $500 per transaction, but such transfer fee
may be waived by the General Partners, in their discretion.
13.4 Any person admitted to the Partnership as a substituted Limited
Partner shall be subject to all of the provisions of this Agreement as if an
original party to it.
13.5 The General Partners shall amend the certificate of limited
partnership at least once each quarter to add assignees as substituted Limited
Partners.
13.6 Upon the death or legal disability of an individual who is a
Limited Partner, his personal representative shall have all of the rights of
a Limited Partner for the purpose of settling or managing his estate, and such
power as the decedent or incompetent possessed to constitute a successor as an
assignee of his Interests and to join with such assignee in making application
to substitute such assignee as a Limited Partner. However, such personal
representative shall not have the right to become a substituted Limited
Partner in the place of his predecessor in interest unless the conditions of
this Article XIII (other than the requirement that the assignor execute and
acknowledge instruments) are first satisfied.
13.7 Upon the adjudication of bankruptcy or insolvency, dissolution
or other cessation of existence as a legal entity of a Limited Partner which
is not an individual, the authorized representative of such entity shall have
all of the rights of a Limited Partner for the purpose of effecting the orderly
winding up and disposition of the business of such entity and such power as
such entity possessed to constitute a successor as an assignee of its
Interests and to join with such assignee in making application to substitute
such assignee as a Limited Partner. However, such representative shall not
have the right to become a substituted Limited Partner in the place of his
predecessor in interest unless the conditions of this Article XIII (other
than the requirement that the assignor execute and acknowledge instruments) are
first satisfied.
13.8 A General Partner may not assign his or its interest as a General
Partner to anyone other than the Partnership as provided in Article XII of
this Agreement.
13.9 No assignment of any Interests may be made if the Interests
sought to be assigned, when added to the total of all other Interests assigned
within the period of 12 consecutive months prior to the proposed date of
assignment, would, in the opinion of counsel for the Partnership, result in
the termination of the Partnership under Section 708 of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1954, as amended.
13.10 Any assignment, sale, exchange or other transfer in contravention
of any of the provisions of this Article XIII shall be void and ineffectual,
and shall not bind or be recognized by the Partnership.
ARTICLE XIV
INDEMNIFICATION
14.1 No General Partner and no officer, director, partner or Affiliate
of a General Partner shall be liable to the Partnership or any Limited Partner
for any loss or damage suffered by the Partnership or any Limited Partner which
arises out of any error in judgment or other action or inaction not
constituting negligence (gross or ordinary), fraud or breach of fiduciary duty
which was taken in good faith, in accordance with the exercise of reasonable
business judgment and pursuant to a determination that such course of conduct
was in the best interest of the Partnership. The Partnership or its receiver
or trustee shall indemnify, save harmless and pay all judgments and claims
against the General Partners (and each of them) or their officers, directors,
partners and Affiliates from any liability, loss or damage incurred by them
or by the Partnership by reason of any act performed or omitted to be
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