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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society oi Ireland.
[JULY & AUG., 1922
Meetings of the Council.
July \2th.
Thirty Members present.
Death of Mr. R. A. Andrews.
The President referred with feelings of deep
regret to the death of Mr. R. A. Andrews,
member of the Council, and the following
resolution was passed :—
" Resolved—The Council of the Incor
porated Law Society of Ireland have learnt
with very deep regret of the death of their
valued
colleague,
Mr.
Reginald
A.
Andrews, and they desire to express their
sympathy with the members of his family
in their bereavement."
The Free State.
A report from the Privileges Committee in
reference to the Draft Constitution of the
Irish Free State was adopted.
Register of British Government Securities.
A report was submitted giving details of
an interview between the President of the
Dublin Stock Exchange, a member of the
Committee of the Dublin Stock Exchange, and
the President and Secretary of this Society,
with the Minister of Finance of the Provisional
Government, at which the question of the
discontinuance of the keeping at the Bank of
Ireland, Dublin, of registers of holders of
British Government Securities was discussed.
The members of the deputation urged that
the keeping of the Registers at the Bank of
Ireland should not be discontinued, and the
reply of the Minister on this subject received
by the deputation was considered satisfactory.
July }9th.
Thirty Members present.
Destruction of Records.
A special Committee was set up to consider
all questions arising out of the destruction
of records at the Four Courts, who will
be glad to consider all suggestions on the
subject which may be sent in writing to the
Secretary.
Legal Appointments.
Mr. R. Haldane Carson, Sessional Crown
Solicitor
for County Tyrone, has been
appointed Crown Solicitor for County Tyrone,
in place of Mr. James Riordan, resigned.
Mr. C. E. R. A. Irvine, Sessional Crown
Solicitor for County Fermanagh, has been
appointed Crown
Solicitor
for County
Fermanagh, in place of Mr. James Riordan,
resigned.
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Obituary.
MR. REGINALD A. W. ANDREWS, Solicitor,
died upon the 4th July, 1922, at his residence,
11 Tivoli Terrace, South, Dun Laoghaire.
Mr. Andrews served his apprenticeship
with the late Mr. Edward Fitzgerald, 20 St.
Andrew Street, Dublin ;
was admitted in
Hilary Sittings, 1898, and practised (in
partnership with Mr. James Fitzgerald and
Mr. Ivan A. Howe, under the style of Messrs.
D. & T. Fitzgerald) at 20 St. Andrew Street,
Dublin.
He was a member of the Council of the
Society for the past two years.
Destruction of Documents at the Four Courts.
The following letter has been received by
the Secretary from the Controller, Inland
Revenue :—
Inland Revenue,
Jury's Hotel,
6-8 College Green,
Dublin, 28^/2
July,
1922.
Dear Sir,
I beg to inform you that it has now been
possible to obtain access to the safe in the
Stamp Office in the Four Courts building.
It has been found that a number of documents
which had been left for the " Particulars
Delivered" stamp, etc., are intact, and
application can be made for them at this
office (Room 53) by the Solicitors by whom
they were deposited.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
(Signed),
S. E. MINNIS,
Comptroller of Stamps and Income Tax.
The Secretary,
Incorporated Law Society,
Molesworth Street, Dublin.