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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
reference to similar actions by other solicitors
the Council would deal with the matter.
Land Act.
Letters of the iqth and 22nd January in
reply from the Chief Secretary for Ireland
relative to payment of the bonus under the
Land Act were submitted ;
and a draft reply
prepared by the Land Act Committee was
approved of and directed to be sent.
Certificates.
Applications by seven solicitors for certi
ficates under section 47 of the Solicitors
(Ireland) Act, 1898, were considered.
Six ap
plications were granted, and one was refused.
Costs Committee.
A report from the Costs Committee was sub
mitted and adopted, and it was referred to the
Committee to further consider the question of
taxation by arbitrators of costs under the
Labourers (Ireland) Act, and also the matter
of the taxation of owners' costs, having regard
to the decision in the case of
The King (Mow-
bray and Slourlon)
v.
The Local Government
Board.
Court of Examiners.
A report from the Court of Examiners upon
an application by a law clerk under section 16
was considered, and
the application was
granted.
Investment of Funds in Court.
It was referred to the Land Act Committee
to consider and report whether it was desirable
that application should be made to the Rule-
making authority under the Supreme Court of
Judicature (Ireland) Act, to make a rule pro
viding that funds standing to the credit of the
Accountant-General, and not otherwise ex
pressly directed to be invested, be invested in
Irish Land Stock, instead of, as at present, in
Consols.
Certificate Duty.
The following resolution was adopted, and it
was directed, that a copy of same should be sent
to the Chancellor of the Exchequer :—
RESOLVED—" That the Council of the In-
" corporated Law Society of Ireland hereby
" respectfully submit to His Majesty's Govern-
" ment that during the forthcoming Session of
" Parliament the financial proposals of His
" Majesty's Government should contain a pro-
" vision whereby the annual duties payable by
"solicitors in Ireland under the provisions of
" the Stamp Act, 1891, would from and after
"the 5th day of January, 1910, be abolished
" or substantially reduced."
The Council then adjourned.
Council Meetings.
MEETINGS of the Council will be held upon
the following dates :—
February roth and 24th.
March roth and 24th.
Committee Meetings.
THE following Committee Meetings were held
during January:—
Gazette,. 18th.
Land Act, igth, 22nd, and 25th.
Costs, 2oth.
New Members.
THE following have joined the Society during
January, 1909:—
Carrigan, John P., Thurles.
Corr, John, Coalisland.
Crawford, Samuel H., Dublin.
Donnelly, Alexander E., Omagh.
Healy, Enda B-, Dublin.
Webb, Samuel C., Kilkenny.
Whitaker, H. T., Belfast.
Results of Society's Examinations.
AT the Preliminary Examination of candidates
seeking to be bound as apprentices to solici
tors, held upon the 4th and 5th days of January,
the following passed the Examination, and their
names are arranged in order of merit : —
1. James S. Boal.
2. Patrick R. Boyd.
.
3. Thomas S. Faloon.
4. John Meagher.
William P. Triston and William J. White
passed the modified Preliminary Examination
for which they had liberty to present them
selves. Eight candidates attended ; six passed;
two were postponed.
At the Final Examination of apprentices
seeking admission as solicitors, held upon the
6th and yth January, the following passed the