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August, 1923.
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FOR CIRCULATION
AMONGST MEMBERS
Meetings
of the Council.
\\th Julv.
Twenty-six Members present.
Regulations.
Draft regulations under
the Solicitors'
(Ireland) Act, 1898, Amendment Act, 1923,
were submitted and adopted.
Colonial Solicitors' Act.
The Secretary reported that the letter
containing the request of the Council to His
Excellency the Governor-General that he
should make application to the Secretary of
State
for the Colonies, for an Order in
Council applying
the Colonial Solicitors'
Act, 1900, to the Irish Free State, had been
forwarded to the Minister for Home Affairs
on 27th June, for submission to His Ex
cellency, and had been acknowledged.
Judiciary Committee.
It was resolved that representatives of the
Bar Council, and of the General Council of
Provincial Bar Associations of
the Free
State be invited to meet representatives of
this Council to discuss the report of the
Judiciary Committee.
25th July.
Twenty-seven Members present.
Court of Examiners.
Report on an application for leave to be
bound under section 16 was submitted, and
the application was refused.
Costs Committee.
Report from Committee on the following
query was adopted. Under which scale
applicable to leases should the costs of the
following lease be drawn ?
Lease of house
in City of Dublin for 50 years at a yearly rent
of £50, the .poor law valuation being
£51.
Covenant by lessee to repair, maintain, and
keep the premises. The Committee reported
that the costs should be drawn under Table
I, Part II of Schedule I of the General Order
under the Solicitors' Renumeration Act, as
amended.
Adjournment.
The Council adjourned until 5th October
unless otherwise specially summoned.
Land Bill, 1923.
A deputation from the Council consisting
of the President, Mr. Orr, Mr. Fottrell, and
the Secretary had an interview with the
Minister for Agriculture on the llth July,
and submitted amendments to the Land
Bill for his consideration. The Minister
discussed at considerable length with the
deputation the amendments put forward, and
accepted some of them ; he also undertook to
further consider, and to write to the Council
on the subject of Vendor's costs of sale. The
following letter has since been received from
the Minister :—Ministry of Agriculture, Dublin,
18th July, 1923.
Dear Sir,
With reference to the payment of Solicitors'
costs in connection with the operations of