The Gazette 1930-33

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

[JUNE, 1930

MEETING OF THE COUNCIL.

was admitted in Trinity Sittings, 1928, and practised at Dunmanway, County Cork.

May 22nd. Twenty-five Members present. Courts of Justice Acts. A letter was read in the Secretary of the Joint Committee on the Courts of Justice Acts, stating that the Committee are fully conversant with the arguments bearing on a matter on which the Council were prepared to tender further evi– dence, and that it would not be necessary ; that the Committee desire to proceed at once with the drafting of their report, and con– veying to the Society the appreciation of the Committee of the assistance given by the Society to the Committee in the conduct of the inquiry. Land Registry. A letter was read from the Chief Clerk, Central Office, Land Registry, enclosing copy correspondence with the Revenue Commis– sioners, from which it appeared that (in accordance with the opinion of the Attorney- General, referred to in previous correspon– dence on the subject of the liability to stamp duty of certified copies of folios) the re-issue of a certified copy of a folio, with additional entries in the register entered and certified thereon, renders it liable to further duty, and that in future no copy folio with an additional entry in the register thereon will be re– certified until the copy is stamped with the additional stamp duty of one shilling in respect of such re-certifying. OBITUARY. MR. THOMAS O'FARRELL, Solicitor, died upon the 7th May, 1930, at his residence, 4 Raglan Road, Dublin. Mr. O'Farrell served his apprenticeship with Mr. M. Cartan O'Meara, Dublin ; was admitted in Michaelmas Sittings, 1896, and practised at 27 South Frederick Street, Dublin. reply from MR. WILLIAM M. POWELL, Solicitor, died upon the 20th May, 1930, at Davos-Dorf, Switzerland. Mr. Powell served his apprenticeship with his father, the late Mr. J. H. Powell, Dun- manway, and Mr. James R. Barry, Fermoy ;

MR. WILLIAM FOSTER, Solicitor, died upon the 23rd May, 1930. Mr. Foster served his apprenticeship with the late Mr. R. H. Todd, Londonderry ; was admitted in Hilary Sittings, 1889, and practised at Londonderry. SOLICITORS' BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION Mr. Dinnen B. Gilmore, Solicitor, who for the past four years has been Secretary to the Solicitors' Benevolent Association, has been recently appointed Senior Assistant Solicitor to the Bank of Ireland, in room of Mr. R. Cecil Joy, resigned. Consequent upon such appointment Mr. Gilmore has found it necessary to tender his resignation of the office of Secretary, which the Directors of the Association have accepted with much regret, and they have expressed, by resolution, their appreciation of the valuable services rendered by Mr. Gilmore to the Association, and their good wishes for his future. DISTRICT PROBATE REGISTRY, TUAM. The Minister for Justice has made an Order under Section 56 of the Court Officers Act, 1926, which provides as follows : 1. The District Probate Registry at Tuam is hereby closed. 2. Applications for probates of wills and letters of administration in cases in which the testator or intestate (as the case may be) at the time of his death had a fixed place of abode in County Galway may be lodged with the County Registrar for County Galway and the like applications, in cases in which the testator or intestate (as the case may be) had a fixed place of abode in County Ros- common may be lodged with the County Registrar for County Roscommon. The County Registrar with whom such applica– tions are lodged shall transmit such applica– tions to the Principal Probate Registry, and the relative probates or letters of administra– tion if and when issued by the Principal Probate Registry shall be transmitted from the Principal Probate Registry to the County Registrar for delivery to the person entitled thereto.