The Gazette 1910-11

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January, 1911.

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request that he should require the Clerk not to engage in conveyancing work. Labourers (Ireland) Acts. It was resolved that a further case be submitted to Counsel relative to the dis allowance against District Councils by the Taxing Officer appointed under the Labourers (Ireland) Order, 1909, of the Vendor's Solicitor's costs of preparing and lodging in the Land Commission the necessary consents for the exclusion of the acquired plots from holdings agreed to be sold under the Land A letter was read from a Dublin firm of Solicitors drawing attention to the " Notice to Solicitors " appearing daily in the Legal Diary, in which it was intimated in reference to cases appearing in the Taxing Master's lists,that those not answered at the first or the second calling, would be adjourned to the next Sittings, unless special reason should be shown to the contrary. It was decided to write to the Taxing Masters enquiring whether the notice was intended to apply beyond the present Sittings. Board of Trade Inquiry. Attention having been drawn to the fact that at a Board of Trade Inquiry, under the Merchant Shipping Acts, then proceeding at the Four Courts, an English Solicitor was appearing on behalf of one of the parties concerned in the Inquiry. Instructions were given that objection should immediately be Purchase Acts. Taxing Office.

Meetings of the Council.

December 1th. Election of President and Vice-Presidents. THE Council elected Mr. Frederick W. Meredith to the office of President of the Society, and Mr. Arthur E. Bradley and Mr. Robert G. Warren to the office of Vice- Presidents of the Society for the year ending 26th November, 1911. Mr. Meredith having taken the chair, a cordial vote of thanks was passed to the outgoing President and Vice- Presidents for the manner in which they had discharged the duties of their 1'espective offices during the past year. Transfers for Nominal Consideration. A letter was read in reply from the Board of Inland Revenue stating that they were unable to comply with the request of the Council that the Board should intimate to Secretaries of Companies that the certificate of a Solicitor acting for either of the parties as to the correctness of the fixed duty on a transfer, might be accepted. Illegal Conveyancing. A letter was read from a country member giving particulars of a deed which had been prepared in 1908 by a Clerk of Petty Sessions presumably for remuneration. It was re solved that, as proceedings for the recovery of a penalty would not lie owing to the offence having been committed more than twelve months ago, the facts be communicated to the Registrar of Petty Sessions Clerks, with a