The Gazette 1917-18

THE GAZETT or THE j§0rietjj 0f

Vol. XI, No. 7.]

January, 1918.

r FOR CIRCULATION L AMONGST MEMBERS.

Meetings of the Council

Solicitors' Annual Certificates. MEMBERS are reminded that Annual Certi ficates for the year ending 5th January, 1919, should be taken but and the duties paid thereon before the 6th February, 1918. Obituary. MR. WILLIAM J. MARSHALL, Solicitor, died upon the 4th December, 1917, at 41 Rathgar Avenue, Dublin. Mr. Marshall served his apprenticeship with Mr. Richard B. Falkiner, 9 Suffolk Street, Dublin, was admitted in Hilary Sittings, 1882, and practised for some years prior to the year 1899 (when he retired) at Trim, County Meath. MR. ANDREW MCCLELLAND, Solicitor, died upon the 26th December, 1917, at his residence, Riversley, Banbridge. Mr. McClelland served his apprenticeship with his father, the late Mr. Thomas McClelland, Belfast, was admitted in Trinity Term, 1864, and practised at Banbridge up to the year 1915, when he retired. MR. JOHN R. COOPER, Solicitor, died upon the 7th January, 1918, at his residence, Birchgrove, Wexford. Mr. Cooper served his apprenticeship with the late Mr. Henry Watson, 18 Eustace Street, Dublin, was admitted in Trinity Term, 1874, anc^ practised at Wexford. He was appointed Sessional Crown Solicitor for County Wexford in the year 1889, and Crown Solicitor for the County in 1897, which position he occupied up to the; time of his death.

December $th. Election of President and Vice-Presidents. The Council elected Mr. William V. Seddall to the office of President of the Society, and r. Henry Shannon and Mr. Basil Thompson o the office of Vice-Presidents of the Society, for the year ending 26th November, 1918. Mr. Seddall, having taken the chair, thanked the Council for his election, and a ordial vote of thanks was passed to the utgoing President and Vice-Presidents for the manner in which they had discharged the duties of their respective offices. Taxation of Costs. It was resolved again to send a deputation to the Lord Chancellor from the Council to urge the necessity for the appointment of a third Taxing Master. Council Meetings. EETINGS of the Council will be held upon the following dates :— February I3th and zyth. March I3th and a/th. Committee Meetings. THE following Committee Meetings were held during December, 1917 :— Court of Examiners, I4th. Statutory, I7th. Gazette, 18th. Privileges, Costs, zoth.