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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
[NOVEMBER, 1910
Certificate Duty.
A letter was read from the Secretary of the
Omagh Solicitors' Association conveying a
resolution of that Association advocating the
abolition of the annual duty payable on
Solicitors' certificates.
This
is a subject
which has received attention from the Coun
cil for a number of years past, and a reply
was directed to be sent expressing the con
currence of the Council with the object of
the resolution, and stating that the Council
had made every possible effort in support
of the suggested abolition.
Solicitors' Apprentices' Debating Society.
The list of subjects
for debate, by this
Society for
the ensuing Session was,
in
accordance with its rules, submitted to the
Council for approval and was sanctioned.
The following is the list' of subjects:—
1. That Members of Parliament should be
paid.
2. That Free Trade is ruinous from a Fiscal
point of view.
3. That the hunger for amusement is the
bane of modern times.
4. That the Nationalization of
the
Irish
Railways is absolutely essential to Ire
land's progress.
5. That the Irish Revival has had a bene
ficial effect on the Industrial Progress of
the country.
6. That the State should be invested with
drastic powers to settle Industrial dis
putes.
7. That the influence of Germany on Politics
is dangerous to European peace and
should be checked.
8. That the writings of G. B. Shaw are
ephemeral.
9. That Federalism is the proper solution of
the Irish Question.
Apprentices.
Four applications by Law Clerks seeking
to be bound as apprentices under Section 16
of the Solicitors (Ireland) Act, 1898, were
considered ;
two were granted, and two were
refused.
County Courts Bills.
A report from the County Courts Com
mittee was presented, submitting, for adop
tion by the Council, the County Courts (Ire
land) Bill prepared by the Committee, after
consultations with the Northern Law Society,
the Southern Law Association, the Dublin
Sessions Bar, the Bar Council, the Dublin
Chamber of Commerce and others.
The
Council adopted the Bill as prepared by the
Committee, and it was resolved to request
Mr. Brady, M.P., a member of the Society, to
present the Bill upon the re-assembling of
Parliament, and it was resolved to request
the other Irish Solicitors who are Members of
Parliament to permit their names to be
placed upon the Bill.
Costs Committee.
A report of the Costs Committee was
adopted, which
recommended
that
the
President of the Southern Law Association
be informed in reply to a query from him,
that the Council are of opinion that a Solici
tor is entitled to charge for the additional
work in connection with the assessment of
increment value duty under the Finance
(1909-10) Act, 1910, in conveyancing matters,
according to the amount of necessary work
done. Attention was also drawn to the rule
of
the Land Judge's Court fixing thirty
shillings as the Solicitor's remuneration for
having increment value duty denoted upon
conveyances of that Court.
Court of Examiners.
The report of the Court of Examiners upon
the October Intermediate Examination was
submitted and adopted, and the result will
be found in this GAZETTE.
October 26th.
Death
of Mr. Galloway.
The President informed the Council that
he had directed the Council to be specially
convened, owing to the lamented death of
their colleague Mr. Joseph Galloway, which
had occurred upon
the 24th
inst.
The
President referred in feeling terms to the
high esteem in which Mr. Galloway was held
by the Council and by the Profession, and to
the valuable services rendered by him to the
Society,
and upon
the motion of
the