The Gazette 1921-25

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December, 1921.

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present, thanked the Council, and it was ordered that the resolution be conveyed to Mr. Shannon and Mr. Henry. Estate Duty Office. A letter, in reply, was read from the Principal Clerk, Estate Duty Office, Dublin, stating that it is the intention of the Com missioners of Inland Revenue that all the authority formerly attaching to the office of Registrar of Death Duties shall for the present be exercised by the Principal Clerk. 3Qth November. Thirty-one members present. Extra-Ordinary Members of Council. The following were elected as Extra- Ordinary Members of the Council from the Northern Law Society :—Mr. S. G. Crymble, Mr. J. Alien, Mr. J. B, McCutcheon, Mr. G. H. Quarry, and Mr. M. H. Turnbull; and the following were elected as Extra-Ordinary Members of the Council from the Southern Law Association :—Mr. A. H. Exham, Mr. F. L. Blake, Mr. J. J. Horgan, Mr. A. Julian, and Mr. P. J. Kavanagh. Obituary. MR. WILLIAM C. GILLESPIE, Solicitor, died upon the 14th November, 1921, at Belfast. Mr. Gillespie was apprenticed to the late Mr. Samuel H. Monroe, Armagh; was admitted in Hilary Sittings, 1889, and practised at Armagh. MR. JAMES ALEXANDER, Solicitor, died upon the llth November, 1921, at Quebec.

Meetings of the Council.

2nd November. Twenty-three members present. War Memorial.

The Secretary reported that the entire amount of the cost of the War Memorial had now been subscribed and the account closed. Northern Law Society. A letter was read from the Under secretary for Ireland sending, by direction of the Lords Justices, copy of a proposed Charter of incorporation, which had been applied for on behalf of the Northern Law Society, and stating that their Excellencies would be glad to be furnished with any observations and specific comments which this Society may desire to make in reference to the proposed Charter. The matter was referred to the Privileges Committee. Annual Report. The draft Annual Report of the Council was considered and amended, amended was adopted. and as

IGth November. Twenty-one members present. Retirement of Members from Council.

The Council passed a resolution expressing deep regret at the retirement from the Council of Mr. W. J. Shannon, Mr. James Henry, and Mr. Arthur E. Bradley, all three past Presidents of the Society, and recording the Council's sense of the valued services rendered by each of them to the Society and to the profession. Mr. Bradley, who was