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April, 1909.
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FOR CIRCULATION
LAMONGST MEMBERS.
Meetings of the Council.
March loth.
Index to Judgments,
K.B.D.
A SUGGESTION from a member that the Council
should take steps to secure the continuance of
the keeping of an Index to Judgments Book
in the King's Bench Division was considered,
and was referred to the Court
and Offices
Committee, with power to the Committee to
take action in reference to the matter.
Bankruptcy Law Amendment.
A letter was read from the Hon. Secretary
of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce, asking
for a statement of the reasons of the Council
for having arrived at the conclusion that it is
not desirable that intended
legislation em
bodying the recommendations contained in the
report of the Departmental Committee of the
„ Board of Trade upon bankruptcy law should be
made applicable to Ireland. The letter was
referred to the Parliamentary Committee.
Canvassing for Business.
A letter was read from a London firm of
Solicitors, who also have an office in Hamburg,
enclosing a printed card of advertisement sent
to their Hamburg office by an Irish firm of
Solicitors with whom they had never had any
business transactions.
It was decided to ask
for an explanation from the Solicitors.
Apprentices.
A memorial from an apprentice for liberty
to have his indentures assigned was submitted
and sanctioned.
A report from the Court of Examiners upon
the March Intermediate Examination was sub
mitted and adopted.
March 24.^1.
Taxing Office.
It was resolved that a letter be addressed to
the Lord Chancellor, requesting His Lordship
to make application for an increase in the
clerical staff of the Taxing Office, in order that
there might be a sufficient clerical staff in that
office to secure that certificates of taxation
.would be ready to be given out on the day
after the lodgment of the draft certificate.
Labourers (Ireland) Act.
A communication was received from Messrs.
William Roche & Sons, informing the Council
that the costs of Lady Mowbray and Stourton
of proving title to lands acquired under the
Labourers (Ireland) Act, 1906, which costs had
been the subject-matter of the litigation in the
case of
The King (Mowbray and Sloiuion)
v.
The
Local Government Board,
are to be taxed by a
Taxing Master of the High Court.
Irish Land Bill, 1909.
The following letter from the Chief Secretary
for Ireland, in reply, was read :—
" Irish Office,
" Old Queen Street,
"London, S.W.,
"
I'fth March,
1909.
" Sir,—With reference to previous correspon
dence on the subject of the financial clauses of
the Irish Land Bill, and in particular to my
letter of gth February last, I am desired by the
Chief Secretary to state that the Government
have given full consideration to the questions
raised by your Council, and have made such
provision in the Bill now introduced as they
consider necessary for dealing with the matters
at issue.
In
the circumstances, the Chief
Secretary has not
thought
it necessary or