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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
[JAN., 1908
Committee for adoption by the Council under
bye-law 43, were considered, and amendments
made therein, and, as amended, were adopted.
The Council adjourned for one week.
The Council met upon Wednesday, the nth
December, 1907. The President (Mr. George
H. Lyster) in the Chair, and twenty-seven
other members present.
Affidavits in support of applications by three
solicitors for their first certificates to practise
were submitted, and orders made granting
same.
A petition of a Law Clerk seeking to be
bound under section 16 of the Solicitors
(Ireland) Act, 1898, was referred to the Court
of Examiners to deal with.
In reference to the recent appointment of
two barristers to the office of Examiner of
Title in
the
Irish Land Commission, the
following Resolution was passed, and was
directed to be sent to the Board of the Irish
Land Commission :—
',
.J: " RESOLVED—The Council of the Incor
porated Law Society of Ireland observe with
regret that in appointing to the recent vacancies
in the office of Examiner of Title in the Irish
Land Commission, the claims of the solicitors'
profession to that office have been entirely
ignored, notwithstanding repeated promises
that such claims would receive consideration.
" The Council observe that the practice of
appointing from
the Bar, which has been
adopted for the past twenty-five year?, has
been continued in the present instance, not
withstanding the fact that the Board of the
Irish Land Commission had before
them
applications from members of the solicitors'
profession, full)' qualified and competent to
discharge the duties of the office."
A memorandum was
received
from
the
Lord Chancellor, appointing seven members
of the Council to be the Statutory Committee,
under section 34 of the Solicitors (Ireland)
Act, for year ending a6th November, 1908.
The Court of Examiners and Committees
of the Council
for year ending the 26th
November, 1908, were nominated.
A Special Committee was appointed
to
consider and
report
to
the Council what
amendments (if any) in the bye-laws of the
Society should be submitted to the Society
for adoption.
It was referred to the Parliamentary Com
mittee to consider the clause in the Dublin
Corporation Bill, 1908, relative to increasing
the jurisdiction of the Court of Conscience.
The Council adjourned until I5th January.
Council Meetings.
MEETINGS of the Council will be held upon
the following dates :—
January i^th and zgth.
February izth and 26th.
Committee Meetings.
THE following Committee Meetings were held
during December:—
Costs, 13th.
Court of Examiners, I3th.
Parliamentary, zoth.
County Courts, 3rd.
Parliamentary, 3oth.
Statutory Committee.
THE
Lord Chancellor
has,
pursuant
to
section 34 of the Solicitors (Ireland) Act,
1898, appointed the following seven members
of
the Council of
the Society to be the
Statutory Committee
for year ending a6th
day of November, 1908 :•—Sir A. F. Baker,
Mr. Fry, Mr. Hayes, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Lyster,
Sir George Roche, and Mr. Stanuell.
New Members.
THE following have joined the Society during
December:—
Liston, Terence J., Rathkeale.
Overend, George A., Dublin.
Sandes, William H., Gorey.
Commissioner for Oaths.
THE Lord Chancellor, in December, 1907,
appointed the following to be a commissioner
to administer oaths :—Samuel C. Johnston,
Assistant to Clerk of Peace, Omagh.'