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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.,