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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

[MAY, 1907

The application of Mr. A. P. Ross, Barrister-

at-law, under section 29

of the Solicitors

(Ireland) Act, 1898, to attend the Final Exami–

nation was granted.

Council Meetings.

MEETINGS of the Council will be held upon

the following dates :

May ist and 1510.

June sth and igth.

July 3rd, i7th, and 3 ist.

Committee Meetings.

THE following Committee meetings were held

during April :

Library and Finance on i2th and 26th.

Costs on isth.

Parliamentary on 24th.

County Courts on 15th.

Court of Examiners on 22nd.

Annual Subscriptions,

MEMBERS are reminded that the annual sub–

scription to the Society

(£1

town members,

and such country members as vote at election

of ordinary members of Council, and

IDS.

other country members), became due upon the

ist day of May, as well as annual press rentals

(five shillings).

New Members.

The following have become members of the

Society since ist January, 1907 :

Alien, George, Belfast.

Bell, Sidney M., Dublin.

Brady, Edward E., Dublin.

Caldwell, Charles S., Londonderry.

Croskerry, Frederick H., Dublin.

Fitzgerald, M. E., Mallow.

Hayes, Edward W., Dublin.

Huggard, Thomas, Tralee.

Johnston, James, Magherafelt.

Molony, Maurice, Dundalk.

Quinn, John, Tuam.

Reid, John G., Castleblayney.

Wallace, Thomas B., Dromore.

The Northern Law Society.

A COMMITTEE meeting was held in the Central

Hall, Rosemary Street, Belfast, on the igth of

April, 1907.

Mr. G. B. Wilkins, Vice-President, in the

chair.

The Hon. Secretary submitted draft agree–

ment for the new rooms for the Society.

The Secretary submitted a request signed by

ten members of the Society, requesting an ex–

traordinary meeting to be summoned to discuss

the certificate duty payable by solicitors, with

a view to having same abolished.

After

consideration,

the Secretary was

directed to summon an extraordinary meeting

for Monday, the 2gth April.

Admission of local Barristers to the use of

the Library of the Society was discussed ; and

it was decided that it would be advisable to

extend the privileges of the Library to the

members of the local bar.

The following resolution was passed :

" The members of this Society, having com–

plained to this Committee that very great delay

takes place in the Registration of Title offices,

Dublin, in the registration of transfers and

mortgage charges, under the Local Registra–

tion of Title Act, we desire to protest against

the delay, and call upon the proper authorities

to remedy this grievance, either by the appoint–

ment of an additional staff, or otherwise."

The Secretary was directed to send

this

resolution to the Lord Chancellor, and to the

Chief Secretary for Ireland.

Legal Appointments.

{Members who receive legal appointments are re

quested to communicate particulars for insertion.}

SOLICITOR TO THE POST OFFICE.

THE Postmaster-General has appointed Mr.

Edward Reginald Bate to be Solicitor to the

Post Office in Ireland, in succession to Mr.

Thomas R. Baillie-Gage, i.s.o., resigned. Mr.

Bate was admitted in Michaelmas Term, 1876 ;

he served his apprenticeship with

the late

Mr. Henry S. Mecredy, and with the late Sir

William Findlater, D.L., and obtained a Special

Certificate at his Final Examination.

CHIEF CLERK TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Mr.

Edward Drew MacLaughlin,

LL.B., T.C.D.,