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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
[FEB., 1909
ten years from the ist November, 1907, rent
^32per annum, Poor Law Valuation
£z\ \bs.,
the lease reciting that the previous tenant
paid ^40 per annum, and also containing a
covenant by the lessee to expend within three
years from the ist November, 1907, the sum
of eighty pounds in making the following im
provements and repairs to the premises, viz.:
—To repair roof of dwelling-house with slates,
cement and tiles, point chimneys with cement,
erect eave-shoots and down-pipes, cement
walls which are at present splitting, put down
new flooring, put in new grates and fire-places,
paint and paper dwelling-house, put in new
windows, repair sashes, paint windows inside
and outside, provide w.-c., earth-closet, or
privy accommodation to satisfaction of sani
tary authority, repair stables, doors, and roofs
of out-offices, repair yard and boundary walls,
erect new wire fencing.
The answer of the Council was that the
costs should be drawn as of a building lease.
Transfer of Government Securities.
A report from the Special Committee ap
pointed by the Council to consider this subject
was considered, and the following resolution
was passed by the Council :—
" RESOLVED —In the opinon of this Council
" it is desirable that the Act 33 & 34 Vie., cap.
"71, should be amended so as to adapt to the
" transfer of Consols, India Stocks, Land
" Stocks, and other Government Securities, the
" system of transfer and certificate at present
" in general use in the transfer of shares in
" Public Companies, such transfers of Govern-
" ment Securities to continue to be free of
" stamp duty."
It was ordered that copies of this resolution
should be sent to the Prime Ministe'r, the
Chancellor of
the Exchequer,
the Chief
Secretary for Ireland, the Dublin Chamber of
Commerce, the Dublin Stock Exchange, the
Governor of the Bank of Ireland, the English
Law Society, and the Members of Parliament
for the County and for the City of Dublin and
for Dublin University.
The Council then adjourned.
January zyt/i.
The Council met upon Wednesday, the 27th
January. The President (Mr. W. J. Shannon)
in the Chair, and twenty-five other members
being present.
Labourers (Ireland) Act, 1906.
Sir George Roche communicated to the
Council that the Court of Appeal had given
judgment in the case of
The King (Moivbray
and Stourton}
v.
The Local Government Board,
confirming the' decision of the King's Bench,
and granting a writ of
certiorari
to quash the
certificate issued by the Local Government
Board certifying the amount of costs payable
to the owner in respect of proof of title to
lands compulsorily acquired under the Act,
the Court also stating that in its opinion,
under section 31 of the Act, the Local Govern
ment Board have power to fix a scale of fees
applicable to owner's costs of title, and also
have power to appoint an independent taxing
officer.
Bankruptcy Law.
It was resolved that the report of the De
partmental Committee appointed by the Board
of Trade to inquire into the administration of
the bankruptcy laws be referred to a special
Committee of the Council, to consider whether
it is desirable that any of the recommendations
in the report should be applied to Ireland in
the event of legislation being introduced.
Court of Examiners.
A report from the Court of Examiners upon
the results of the January Preliminary and
Final Examinations were
submitted and
adopted.
It was resolved that candidate No. 8 at the
Final Examination be not again permitted to
present himself for examination until January,
19 i o, owing to his having used during the ex
amination a text-book for the purpose of assist
ing him in answering his questions.
Canvassing for Business.
A letter was read in reply from the solicitor
against whom a complaint had been made to
the Council for having written to the client of
another solicitor requesting him to instruct him
to furnish to the District Council his title to
land aquired under the Labourers Act. The
letter of explanation stated that similar letters
had been sent by other solicitors practising
in the town in which he resides to persons who
were not their clients, and that accordingly he
felt justified in doing so.
It was resolved that in the opinion of the
Council the solicitor had been guilty of a
breach of professional etiquette, and that the
Council desire to censure him ; and further,
that he be
informed that in the event of
his submitting to the Council a statement in