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THE GAZETTE
OF THE
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0rteto 0f
rdtanir.
Vol. I, No. 1.]
May, 1907.
|~ FOR CIRCULATION
LAMONGST MEMBERS.
yTAHE Council have decided to issue to the
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members of the Society monthly (except
in the months of September and October) a
Gazette, the contents of which will consist
chiefly of statements of work done by the
Council during the previous month, notes of
decisions of professional
interest, and an–
nouncements as to examinations and admissions
of apprentices. The Council will be glad to
receive from members notes of matters of
interest to the Profession for publication ; but
the Council reserve the right to
refect or
modify such notes.
All communications connected with THE
GAZETTE (other than advertisements) should
be addressed to the Secretary of the Society,
Solicitors' Buildings, Four Courts, Dublin.
THE GAZETTE will accept advertisements for
sale and purchase of property, loans, securities
offered, and money for investment on mort–
gages, partnerships, clerkships, and generally
such advertisements as would be of service to
the members of the Society and the Profession.
Communications as to advertisements should
be addressed to Messrs. Ponsonby, 116 Grafton
Street, Dublin.
THE GAZETTE
is not
intended to be in
competition with the existing Law journals or
periodicals.
Correspondence will not be published in
THE GAZETTE.
Half-Yearly General Meeting.
THE Half-Yearly General Meeting of the
members of the Society will be held upon
Thursday, the i6th day of May, 1907, at two
o'clock p.m.,
in the Hall of the Society,
Solicitors' Buildings, Four Courts.
In addition to such other business as may be
properly brought before the meeting, the ordi–
nary business to be transacted consists of the
nomination of scrutineers of the ballot for
election of the Council, to be held upon 2ist
November next, and the election of auditors of
the accounts of the Society for year ending
3oth April, 1907.
Meeting of the Council.
THE Council met upon Wednesday, 17111 April.
The President (Mr. W. S. Hayes) in the
chair, and twenty-three other members were
present.
The Secretary reported that in the case of
Wakely v. Horkan,
heard at Swinford upon the
12th April, before the County Court Judge of
Mayo,
a decree for a penalty of ^"5 was
obtained against the defendant for having pre–
pared for remuneration an assignment of land,
contrary to the provisions of 27 Vict. cap. 8.
A Report from the Costs Committee, recom–
mending the Council to support an appeal in
the case of
Brandon
v.
Hanna,
against a
decision of a Taxing Master, was confirmed.
The opinion of the Council having been re–
quested as to the disallowance by an examiner
of the Land Commission of five guineas placed
on the schedule for payment to a firm of land
agents, for their services in obtaining signa–
tures to seven consents apportioning tithe rent
charge, the Council expressed its approval of
the ruling.