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XX,
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AUGUST, 1926.
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FOR CIRCULATION
AMONGST MEMBERS
Meeting of the Council.
15th July.
Twenty-four Members present.
Court of Examiners.
Reports were submitted on three applica–
tions for leave to be bound under Section 16
of the Solicitors (Ireland) Act, 1898.
The
Council granted two of these applications and
the third was refused.
Adjournment.
The Council adjourned until Thursday,
7th October,
unless
otherwise
specially
summoned.
Obituary.
MR. JOSEPH T. MAXWELL, Solicitor, died
upon the 20th May, 1926, at Subiaco, Perth,
Western Australia.
Mr. Maxwell served his apprenticeship with
his father, the late Sir Patrick Maxwell,
Dublin ;
was admitted in Easter Sittings,
1884, and practised as a member of the firm
of Maxwell, Weldon & Co., Dublin, up to the
year 1897, when he left this country to reside
in Australia.
SIR CHARLES H. BRETT, Solicitor, died
upon the 17th July, 1926, at Gretton, Malone,
Belfast.
Sir Charles was admitted in Hilary Term,
1861, and practised
in partnership with
Mr. Alfred E. Brett, under the style of
L'Estrange and Brett, at 9 Chichester Street,
Belfast.
MR. JOHN READ, Solicitor, died upon the
18th July, 1926, at Claremount, Carrick-
mines, County Dublin.
Mr. Read served his apprenticeship with
his father, the late Mr. William Read ;
was
admitted in Hilary Term, 1866, and practised
formerly in partnership with his father, and
after his death with the late Mr. Edward S.
Macnab, under
the style of Read and
Macnab, at 4 Dawson Street, Dublin, up to
the year 1921, when he retired.
Statutes; 1926.
List of Statutes passed by the Oireachtas
during the present year :
1. Courts of Justice.
2. Electricity Supply (Special Powers).
3. River Owenmore Drainage.
4. Medical.
5. Oil in Navigable Waters.
6. Adaptation of Charters.
7. Industrial Trust Company of Ireland,
Ltd. (Acquisition of Capital).
8. Acquisition of Land (Allotments).
9. Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions).
10. Police Forces Amalgamation (Amend–
ment).
11. Land.