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Vol. I, No. 5.]
November, 1907.
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LAMONQST MEMBERS.
Meetings of the Council.
THE Council met upon Wednesday, the 2nd
day of October; the President (Mr. W. S.
Hayes) in the chair, and sixteen other mem
bers present.
A letter was read from a solicitor resident
in the country, asking for an expression of
opinion from the Council relative to the action
of another solicitor resident in the country
having tendered for legal work in connexion
with a Labourers' Scheme, in response to an
advertisement issued by a District Council
inviting tenders from solicitors to perform that
work, and the amount of the tender of the
solicitor being considerably under what he
would be entitled to charge under the rules of
the Local Government Board, pursuant to the
Labourers (Ireland) Act, 1906.
It appearing that the solicitor who wrote to
the Council, and who had been for some years
the solicitor to the District Council in question,
had himself also sent in a tender in response
to the advertisement, the Council directed a
reply to be sent to him stating that, as the
Council disapproves of solicitors sending in
any tender in response to such an advertise
ment, they would offer no other expression of
opinion upon the matter to which he drew
attention.
The use of the Hall of the Society was
granted to the Solicitors' Apprentices' Debat
ing Society to hold its inaugural meeting in
for the coming Session.
An application of a solicitor to take out his
first certificate was submitted and granted.
Notices of motion to the Lord Chancellor,
upon behalf of two apprentices to a deceased
solicitor, for orders directing the assignment
of their indentures, owing to the fact that the
executrix was unable to execute the assignment,
as
the will of the deceased solicitor was
being contested, were submitted ; and it was
resolved to consent to the application being
granted.
The sending of a memorial to.the Lords
Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury,
urging upon behalf of the profession the
appointment of a member of the solicitors'
profession to the office of Solicitor to the
Inland Revenue in Ireland, was approved of,
as also was the transmission of copies of the
memorial to various persons likely to have
influence in the matter.
A report from the Court of Examiners
recommending that an application by an ap
prentice to be deemed to have been such a
clerk as is contemplated by section 16 of the
Solicitors (Ireland) Act, 1898, when he entered
into indentures in the year 1905, should be
refused, was considered and adopted.
A Committee was appointed to prepare the
annual report of the Council.
The new rules issued by the Estates Com
missioners upon the zgth August, regulating
procedure under sections i
to 23, under the
Land Law (Ireland) Act,
1903, were under
lengthened consideration, and were referred to
the Land Act Committee for further considera
tion at an early date.
The Council met upon Wednesday, the i6th
October, 1907; the President
(Mr. W. S.
Hayes) in the chair, and nineteen other mem
bers present.
A letter from the Secretary of the Irish Land
Commission, acknowledging the receipt of the
representations of the Council under the Rules
Publication Act, 1893, relative to the Estates
Commissioners' rules published upon the 3oth
of August last, was read.