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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
[MAY, 1912
New Members.
THE
following
joined the Society during
April :
Corrigan, Wm. C. M., 3 St. Andrew Street,
Dublin.
Dwyer, Michael
J.,
43 Dame Street,
Dublin.
Nelson, W. H. Niall, 57 Arthur Street,
Belfast.
Nolan, Wm. S., Graiguenamanagh.
Obituary,
MR. RONALD W. HAMILTON, Solicitor (late
of Dublin), died upon the 4th April, 1912,
at Mitchelstown.
Mr. Hamilton, who served his apprentice–
ship with Mr. Henry R. Emerson, 14 Upper
Sackville Street, Dublin, was admitted in
Michaelmas Sittings, 1894, and was for some
years assistant to the Solicitor for the Board
of Public Works, Ireland.
MR. MICHAEL JAMES O'CONNOR, Solicitor,
died upon the 29th April, 1912, at his resi–
dence, 2 O'Connell Street, Sligo.
Mr. O'Connor, who served his apprentice–
ship with Mr. Jeremiah McCarthy, Solicitor,
Sligo, was admitted in Trinity Sittings, 1903,
and practised at Sligo up to the year 1907,
when he was appointed to the office of
Borough Coroner of Sligo, which position
he filled up to the time of his death.
Professorship of Equity, Real Property Law,
and Conveyancing.
THE Council will, at their meeting, upon
Wednesday, the 5th day of June, 1912,
appoint a Professor of Equity, Real Property
Law and Conveyancing, to the Society, in
room of Mr. Thomas G. Quirke, B.A., LL.D.,
R.U.I., whose term of office will expire at the
end of Trinity Sittings. The new Professor
will enter upon his duties next Michaelmas
Sittings.
The appointment will be made for one year,
and the Professor appointed will be eligible
for re-appointment for each of the four
succeeding years.
A candidate for the Professorship must be
either a practising Barrister or a practising
Solicitor (in each case of not less than six
years standing), and he should send his
application, on or before the 31st May, 1912,
to the Secretary.
The duties of the Professor consist of:
delivering
twelve
lectures
in Michaelmas
Sittings, twelve lectures in Hilary Sittings,
eighteen
lectures
in Easter and Trinity
Sittings (making in all forty-two lectures in
the year), the holding of a
viva voce
examina–
tion in the subjects of the lectures to ascertain
if the apprentice be deserving of a certificate
of attendance at the lectures, and (when
required by the Council) examining at the
Final Examination.
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The lectures take place on Tuesdays and
Fridays at four o'clock, p.m.
Library.
THE attention of Members is asked to the
fact that Volume 4 of the Encyclopedia of
Forms and Precedents (published by Butter-
worth & Co.), has been some time missing
from the Library.
The Council would be
glad of its being returned.
Solicitors' Certificate Duty,
THE following correspondence has taken place
in reference to this matter :
The Incorporated Law Society of Ireland,
Solicitors' Buildings, Four Courts,
Dublin,
27th March,
1912.
SIR,
I am directed by the Council of this Society
to send to
you the enclosed copy of a
Memorial submitted by the Council to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer in March, 1907,
praying for the abolition or for a substantial
reduction in amount of the Annual Certificate
Duty payable by Solicitors in Ireland. The
Council desire to urge this matter upon your
consideration, and to express the hope that
the prayer contained in the enclosed Memorial
will this year receive from you favourable
consideration.
I remain,
Your obedient Servant,
(Signed), W. G. WAKELY,
Secretary.
The Right Hon.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer,
The Treasury,
Whitehall,
London.