The Gazette 1921-25

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

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[JANUARY, 1923

this Act, every such power or authority may be exercised and every such duty shall be performed by one District Justice. (3) In this Section (a) the expression " Justice " includes the expression " Justice of the Peace " and does not mean or include a Divisional Magistrate of the City of Dublin, :and nothing in this Section shall affect the powers, authority and duties of such Divisional Magistrates ; (b) the expression " District Justice" means a Magistrate appointed since the 6th December, 1922, under the British Statute 6 and 7 William IV., Chapter 13. Library. The Council acknowledge with thanks the following gifts to the Society's Library received from Mr. E. Reginald McC. Dix :— Bundle of odd numbers of Society's Gazette. Some numbers of " The House-Finder " for 1920. Irish Church Directory, 1901. Baker : Costs. 1890. Black & O'Leary : Town Tenants Act. 1906. Browning & Smith : Registration of Title. 1901. Clancy : Costs. 4th Edition. 1885. Clery & Others : Town Tenants. 1907. De Burgh : The Landowners of Ireland. Freeth : Death .Duties. 2nd Edition. 1897. Irish Weekly Law Reports, Vol. II. (1896). Lehane & Moles : Town Tenants' Act. 1906. ALL communications connected with. THE GAZETTE (other than advertisements) should be addressed to the Secretary of the Society, 33 Molesworth Street, Dublin.

Robert M. Kleran, Solicitor, 41 Kildare Street, Dublin. Ernest S. Lowe, Solicitor, 65 Lower Gardiner Street, Dublin. James G. O'Connor, Solicitor, 44 West- land Row, Dublin. Rupert W. Oulton, Solicitor, 21 Lower Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin. Henry T. B. Robinson, Solicitor, 19 St. Andrew Street, Dublin. James M. Seales, Solicitor, 11 College Green, Dublin. Albert Woodcock, Solicitor, 4 South Frederick Street, Dublin. Thomas J. Malone, Registrar, District Court, Athlone. Percy Murphy, Solicitor's Assistant, Carlow. Powers of District Justices. Section 6 of the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922, passed by the Free State Parlia ment, provides as follows :— 6. (1) Every power, authority and duty conferred or imposed by any British Statute on a Justice or on two or more Justices acting together shall, as from the passing of this Act, cease to be exercisable or to be performed by such Justice or Justices, and in lieu thereof as respects any act, matter or thing to be done or not done after the passing of this Act, every such power or authority may be exercised and every such duty shall be performed by one District Justice. (2) Every power, authority and duty conferred or imposed by any British Statute on a Resident Magistrate or on two or more Resident Magistrates acting together shall, as from the passing of this Act, cease to be exercisable or to be performed by such Magistrate or Magistrates, and in lieu thereof as respects any act, matter or thing to be done or not done after the passing of