The Gazette 1921-25

DECEMBER, 1922]

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

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be taken in hands at once by the new Council, so that a repetition of what had been mentioned would not occur again. THE PRESIDENT said he was very glad that Mr. 0 h-Uadhaigh had raised this question. He might take it as the official view of the Council that every facility should be afforded to professional advisers in cases of this kind. This was not an entirely new matter, because Mr. Wakely and he had brought under the personal notice of a very prominent member of the Government this question of giving facilities to members of the Society to interview their clients who happened to be in prison. The Council would always be most zealous of that right. He was sorry that the matter had not been brought to his notice last Thursday morning, when they would have brought the matter to the notice of the Provisional Government. He agreed with Mr. Brady that it would have been a very desirable thing to have an opportunity of consulting the Society as a whole with reference to the nominations to the Senate, but owing to the short time at their disposal it was impossible to do so, and the Council had acted in the matter on behalf of the Society. The resolution adopting the Report was then passed. Mr. ORR (Vice-President) having taken the second chair, a cordial vote of thanks was passed to the President, on the motion of Sir George Roche, seconded by Mr. Bate, and the President returned thanks. Library. The Council acknowledge with thanks the following gifts to the Society's Library :— Calendars of the Society for the years 1906, 1909, 1911 to 1920 (inclusive), from Sir George Roche. Two bound volumes of the Society's Annual Reports from 1876-1902 (inclusive), and unbound copies of same from 1902 to date (except for year 1913), and a collection of reports on various matters, issued by the Council in past years, from Mr. W. Houghton Fry.

Irish Law Reports, 13 vols., 1839-52, and Irish Equity Reports, 13 vols., 1839-52, from Mr. William S. Hayes. Thirteen volumes of Thorn's Directory, from Messrs. Bennett Thompson & Edwards. Two volumes of Statutes and De Moleyn's Landowners' Guide, last edition, from Mr. P. B. Shiel. Mecredy's Law of Fee Farm Grants, from Mr. T. J. Bergin. Compensation for Destruction of Property. The form prescribed by the Minister of Finance, pursuant to resolution of Dail Eireann of 1st November, 1922, for claiming compensation in respect of damage to or destruction of property inflicted since the llth July, 1921, should be prepared in triplicate and sworn before a Commissioner for Oaths, and the original lodged with the Clerk of the Crown and Peace for the area in which the damage or destruction occurred. The copies to be sent to the Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Upper Merrion Street, Dublin (the envelope containing this copy to be marked on top left-hand corner " Compensation Claim"), and to the Secretary of the County Council or Town Clerk of the County Borough Council concerned may be certified copies of the original. Irish Probates and Administrations. In the Principal Probate Registry, Somerset House, London, there are Annual Calendars, or Indices, of all Irish Probates and Administrations from 1858 to 1917, inclusive, identical with those kept in the Irish Probate Registry. The English Calendars at Somerset House from. 1858 to date contain all Irish Grants re-sealed in England. Not more than five years, but any five years from 1858, can be searched, by requisition. The fee for search for one year is one shilling and sixpence, and for each succeeding year sixpence. Communications should be addressed to the Record Keeper, Probate Registry, Somerset House.