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Vol. XVI., No. 10.]
April, 1923.
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FOR CIRCULATION
AMONGST MEMBERS
Meetings of the Council.
March \*±th.
Twenty-five Members present.
Death of Mr. T. C. Franks.
A resolution was passed expressing the deep
regret of the Council on the occasion of the
death of Mr. Thomas C. Franks, a past
President of the Society, and conveying the
sympathy of the Council to the family in
their bereavement.
Accountant-General's Office.
A report was submitted from a deputation
of the Council who interviewed the Secretary
of the Ministry of Home Affairs, and urged
the necessity of an immediate increase in the
staff of
the Accountant-General of
the
Supreme Court, and received an assurance
that the matter would receive immediate
attention.
Principal Probate Registry.
A letter in reply was read from the Chair
man of the Board of Works, stating that the
request of the Council that additional room
should be found at the Castle for the Principal
Registry, so that papers leading to Grants
would be retained in the Registry and not
returned to the party lodging them, was
being complied with, and the necessary rooms
for storing such papers were being prepared
for the purpose. -
Land Purchase and Registry of Deeds,
Northern Ireland.
By an Order of the King in Council of
27th March, 1923, it was ordered that for
the purpose of the administration of the Land
Purchase Acts in Northern Ireland there
should be a Commission called " The Land
Purchase Commission, Northern Ireland,"
and all the powers and duties under the Land
Purchase Acts of the Irish Land Commission,
or the Court of that Commission, were, so far
as
respects Northern
Ireland,
thereby
directed
to be performed by
the Land
Purchase Commission, Northern Ireland ;
and it was further ordered that any matter
or proceeding relating to land in Northern
Ireland which is pending in the Irish Land
Commission on the day of transfer (31st
March, 1923) shall be transferred to and
continued in the Land Purchase Commission,
Northern Ireland, subject to special pro
visions as to pending matters or proceedings
relating both to land in Northern Ireland and
to land elsewhere.
By another Order of the King in" Council
of 27th March, 1923, it was ordered that for
the purposes of the Registration of Deeds
Acts, in their application to Northern Ireland,
there should be established in Belfast a
Registry of Deeds for Northern Ireland, and
that any deed registrable-under those Acts, if
and so far as it affects land in Northern
Ireland, shall, after 31st March, 1923, be
registrable in the Belfast Registry instead