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May, 1924.
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FOR CIRCULATION
AMONGST MEMBtRS
Meetings of the Council.
9th
April.
Sixteen Members present.
Valuation Office.
A
letter in reply was read from the
Secretary of the Valuation Office, assuring
the Council as to the desire of the Com
missioner that the Department should facili
tate the public in every reasonable way in
regard to the information they may require
from the Valuation lists and
maps;and
that effective office arrangements hn.ve been
made for expeditiously obtaining documents
required, either to supply particulars of
individual holdings or to enable copies to
be ordered under the provisions of sec. 9 of
23 Vie., Cap. 4.
British Income Tax.
A
further
letter was
read
from
the
Secretary, Inland Revenue, Somerset House,
in reply to the request of the Council that
declarations of Free State Claimants for
refunds of' British Income Tax might be
made before Commissioners to administer
oaths, stating that in the view of the Board
of Inland Revenue the convenience of the
public should be fully met by the concession
indicated in the letter of the Secretary of
the Board of 25th February, viz. :
" that
in individual cases where the claimant
is
unable on account of distance or for some
other sufficient reason to attend before one
of the persons before whom the Board have
authorised Income Tax declarations in the
Irish Free State to be made,
they will
consider the facts with a view to allowing
a declaration to be taken before a Com
missioner to administer oaths. They regret,
however, that they are unable to grant a
general authority that the declarations in
question
should be
taken
before
such
Commissioners."
30th
April.
Twenty-one Members present.
Stop Orders.
A letter from a member was read in which
it was suggested that in cases where prior
to the destruction of the Four Courts a
Stop Order had been recorded in the books
of the Accountant-General,
the holder of
the Stop Order should be permitted to lodge
with the Accountant-General a notice of the
Order, accompanied by a plain copy of the
order if forthcoming, and that thereupon
the Accountant-General should enter in his