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SOLICITORS' BUILDINGS, FOUR COURTS, DUBLIN,
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1SSO,
MY LORD,
By
direction of the Council of this Society I have the honour of
submitting the following matter to your Lordship and the other Judges named
by the 19th section of the 29th and 30th Vie., cap. 84 (1866) :—
A request has been recently preferred to the Council by certain head
masters of Irish Intermediate Schools that they would consider the advisability
of making some arrangement by which students might be enabled to qualify
themselves for the Solicitors' Apprenticeship without interfering with or
diminishing their chances of obtaining exhibitions and prizes under
the
Intermediate Education Act, and suggesting that the Latin authors (both
necessary and optional) of
either
the senior or middle grade mentioned in the
Intermediate programme for the current year might be presentable in place of
the three authors (Caesar, Sallust, and Virgil) required by the rules made in
pursuance of the Attorneys and Solicitors Act, on the understanding, however,
that this proposed change should not prevent any candidate from offering the
whole matter at present prescribed (Latin authors included) at the usual
quarterly examination.
The Council having carefully considered the foregoing request of the
head masters, and being desirous to meet their views as above expressed, now
wish to obtain the authority of your Lordship and the other Judges to enable
them to enter into the proposed arrangement, and, with that view, they have
prepared, and now submit herewith, for your Lordship's approval, a rule
embodying the foregoing terms.
I have the honour to be,
Your Lordship's obedient Servant,