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APRIL. 1925]

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

41

MR. WILLIAM GRAHAM, Solicitor, died upon

the 15th March, 1925.

Mr. Graham was admitted

in Hilarj'

Sittings, 1883, and practised at Lombard

Street, Belfast.

MR. JAMES ROCHE, RM., Solicitor, died

upon 18th March, 1925, at his residence,

" Ben Vista," Antrim Road, Belfast.

Mr. Roche served his apprenticeship with

the late Mr. Francis J. O'Connor, Solicitor,

Omagh ;

was admitted in Trinity Sittings,

1903, and practised at Omagh up to 1910,

when he was appointed Resident Magistrate.

Local Government Act, 1925.

The Local Government Bill, originally

introduced in

the month of May, 1924,

became

law

last month.

The Bill,

as

introduced,

provided

for

the

repeal

of

Section 8 of the Local Government (Ireland)

Act, 1919, under which any person duly

appointed standing Solicitor

to

a

local

authority before the passing of the Act was

to be deemed to be a pensionable officer of

the local authority, notwithstanding that his

whole time had not been devoted to the duties

of his office. The Bill contained new pro

visions

for pensionable officers

of

local

authorities, but did not include the Solicitors

of such authorities

in

the definitions

it

contained of " pensionable officers."

The

Council sent a deputation to the Minister

of Local Government to urge upon him the

injustice which would be done to Solicitors

of local bodies in being deprived of their

pensionable rights conferred by the Act of

1919, with the result that he promised that

their rights should be preserved under the

Bill, and after considerable correspondence

a clause was inserted in the Bill on report

stage in the Dail, on the motion of the

Minister,

extending

the

definition

of

" pensionable officer " contained in the Bill

so as to include '' any person duly appointed

" standing Solicitor of a local body before

" the passing of

the Local Government

" (Ireland) Act, 1919." When the Bill was

before the Senate, on report stage, an amend

ment was proposed, and carried by a small

majority, to omit this clause which protected

the rights of Solicitors to local bodies. The

Council passed a strong resolution of protest

against this action on the part of the Senate,

and a deputation from the Council inter

viewed the legal representative of the Local

Government Board, on behalf of the Minister,

and submitted

the

resolution, which he

undertook to lay before the Minister.

\Vhen

the Bill was returned to the Dail, on the

motion of the Minister, the Dail disagreed

with the action of the Senate, and the clause

was reinserted, and subsequent!}' the Senate

accepted the Bill containing the clause. The

Act is now in operation, and the Council

would suggest to Solicitors for local bodies

that they should study the provisions of

Part IV. of

the Act, which deals with

superannuation, and contains provisions in

substitution for those contained in Section 8

of the Act of 1919, which is repealed by the

Act. Copies of the

Act

can be obtained from

Messrs. Eason and Son, 40 Lower Sackville

Street, Dublin ; price, by post, three shillings

and three halfpence.

Society's Calendar, 1925.

The Society's Calendar and Law Directory

for 1925 can be obtained at the Secretary's

Office, 33 Molesworth Street, Dublin, price

five shillings ;

by post, five shillings and

sixpence.

Library.

The Council acknowledge with thanks the

following gifts to the Society's Library :—

Mr. F. E. Bermingham—Report of Council;

Appointments to Legal Offices, 1914.

Mr. J. Cusack—Irish Law Times, 1870 and

1871 and 1888-1805.

Mr. F. V. Gordon—Townland Index, 1871.

Mr. T. A. Ireland—Irish Law Directory, 1846,

and Irish Law Times, 1805 and 1806.

Mr. F. S. de Vere White—Report of Council,

I860.

Messrs. White & White—Society's Calendars,

1887, 1891, 1896 and 1900.