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December, 1921.
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LAMONGST MEMBERS.
Meetings of the Council.
2nd November.
Twenty-three members present.
War Memorial.
The Secretary reported that the entire
amount of the cost of the War Memorial had
now been subscribed and the account closed.
Northern Law Society.
A
letter was
read
from
the Under
secretary for Ireland sending, by direction
of the Lords Justices, copy of a proposed
Charter of incorporation, which had been
applied for on behalf of the Northern Law
Society, and stating that their Excellencies
would be glad to be furnished with any
observations and specific comments which
this Society may desire to make in reference
to the proposed Charter. The matter was
referred to the Privileges Committee.
Annual Report.
The draft Annual Report of the Council
was
considered
and
amended,
amended was adopted.
and
as
IGth November.
Twenty-one members present.
Retirement of Members from Council.
The Council passed a resolution expressing
deep regret at the retirement from the
Council of Mr. W. J. Shannon, Mr. James
Henry, and Mr. Arthur E. Bradley, all three
past Presidents of the Society, and recording
the Council's sense of the valued services
rendered by each of them to the Society and
to the profession. Mr. Bradley, who was
present, thanked the Council, and it was
ordered that the resolution be conveyed to
Mr. Shannon and Mr. Henry.
Estate Duty Office.
A
letter,
in reply, was read from the
Principal Clerk, Estate Duty Office, Dublin,
stating that it is the intention of the Com
missioners of Inland Revenue that all the
authority formerly attaching to the office of
Registrar of Death Duties shall for
the
present be exercised by the Principal Clerk.
3Qth November.
Thirty-one members present.
Extra-Ordinary Members of Council.
The
following were elected as Extra-
Ordinary Members of the Council from the
Northern Law Society :—Mr. S. G. Crymble,
Mr. J. Alien, Mr. J. B, McCutcheon,
Mr.
G.
H. Quarry, and Mr. M. H. Turnbull; and
the following were elected as Extra-Ordinary
Members of the Council from the Southern
Law Association :—Mr. A. H. Exham, Mr.
F. L. Blake, Mr. J. J. Horgan, Mr. A. Julian,
and Mr. P. J. Kavanagh.
Obituary.
MR. WILLIAM C. GILLESPIE, Solicitor, died
upon the 14th November, 1921, at Belfast.
Mr. Gillespie was apprenticed to the late
Mr. Samuel H. Monroe, Armagh; was
admitted
in Hilary Sittings,
1889,
and
practised at Armagh.
MR.
JAMES ALEXANDER, Solicitor, died
upon the llth November, 1921, at Quebec.