The Gazette 1924-27

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The Gazei'.e of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

APRIL. 1925]

majority, to omit this clause which protected the rights of Solicitors to local bodies. The Council passed a strong resolution of protest against this action on the part of the Senate, and a deputation from the Council inter– viewed the legal representative of the Local Government Board, on behalf of the Minister, and submitted the resolution, which he undertook to lay before the Minister. When the Bill was returned to the Dail, on the motion of the Minister, the Dail disagreed with the action of the Senate, and the clause was reinserted, and subsequently the Senate accepted the Bill containing the clause. The Act is now in operation, and the Council would suggest to Solicitors for local bodies that they should study the provisions of Part IV. of the Act, which deals with superannuation, and contains- provisions in substitution for those contained in Section 8 of the Act of 1919, which is repealed by the Act. Copies of the Act can be obtained from Messrs. Eason and Son, 40 Lower Sackville Street, D.ublin ; price, by post, three shillings and three halfpence. Society's Calendar, 1925. The Society's Calendar and Law Directory for 1925 can be obtained at the Secretary's Office, 33 Molesworth Street, Dublin, price five shillings ; by post, five shillings and sixpence. Library. The Council acknowledge with thanks the following gifts to the Society's Library : Mr. F. E. Bermingham Report of Council; Appointments to Legal Offices, 1914. Mr. J. Cusack Irish Law Times, 1870 and 1871 and 1888-1805. Mr. F. V. Gordon Townland Index, 1871. Mr. T. A. Ireland-^Irish Law Directory, 1846, and Irish Law Times, 1905 and 1906. Mr. F. S. de Vere White Report of Council, 1860. Messrs. White & White Society's Calendars, 1887, 1891, 1896 and 1900.

MR. WILLIAM GRAHAM, Solicitor, died upon the 15th March, 1925. Mr. Graham was admitted in Hilary Sittings, 1883, and practised at Lombard Street, Belfast. MR. JAMES ROCHE, R.M., Solicitor, died upon 18th March, 1925, at his residence, " Ben Vista," Antrim Road, Belfast. Mr. Roche served his apprenticeship with the late Mr. Francis J. O'Connor, Solicitor, Omagh ; was admitted in Trinity Sittings, 1903, and practised at Omagh up to 1910, when he was appointed Resident Magistrate. Local Government Act, 1925. The Local Government Bill, originally introduced in the month of May, 1924, became law last month. The Bill, as introduced, provided for the repeal of Section 8 of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1919, under which any person duly appointed standing Solicitor to a local authority before the passing of the Act was to be deemed to be a pensionable officer of the local authority, notwithstanding that his whole time had not been devoted to the duties of his office. The Bill contained new pro– visions for pensionable officers of local authorities, but did not include the Solicitors of such authorities in the definitions it contained of " pensionable officers." The Council sent a deputation to the Minister of Local Government to urge upon him the injustice which would be done to Solicitors of local bodies in being deprived of their pensionable rights conferred by the Act of 1919, with the result that he promised that their rights should be preserved under the Bill, and after considerable correspondence a clause was inserted in the Bill on report stage in the Dail, on the motion of the Minister, extending the definition of " pensionable officer " contained in the Bill so as to include " any person duly appointed " standing Solicitor of a local body before " the passing of the Local Government " (Ireland) Act, 1919." \\hen the Bill was before the Senate, on report stage, an amend– ment was proposed, and carried by a small