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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
[FEB., 1908
Memorials from two apprentices for assign
ments of their Indentures were submitted and
sanctioned.
Affidavits of four Solicitors in support of
applications for
their first certificates were
submitted, and the applications were granted.
The Council adjourned.
The Council met upon Wednesday, the
zgth January.
The President (Mr. George H. Lyster) in
the Chair, and twenty-one other members
present.
A letter was read from the Galway Sessions
Bar, enclosing resolution of that Bar, urging
the appointment of a solicitor to the office of
Resident Magistrate, and asking the Council
to urge the claims of the profession upon the
Government.
The following resolution was
adopted, and copies were directed to be sent
to the Government:—
"The Council of
the Incorporated Law
Society of Ireland, understanding that there is
a vacancy in the office of Resident Magistrate,
and as suitable members of the solicitors'
profession
are
candidates
for
the office,
respectfully urge the claims of the profession
to such appointment upon the Government."
Affidavits were submitted
in
support of
applications from six solicitors for renewals of
their annual certificates. Orders were made
granting four of these applications, and two
were postponed for further consideration.
A report from the Court of Examiners, giving
results of the January Preliminary and Final
Examinations, was submitted and adopted; and
a further report from the Court of Examiners,
recommending the Council to grant an appli
cation by a law clerk for liberty to be bound
under section 16 of the Solicitors (Ireland)
Act, 1898, was adopted.
A letter was read from Mr. Justice Wylie,
referring to a new regulation, whereby vendors'
solicitors can get over the difficulty created by
their having entered in
their schedules of
documents of title more documents than were
required to prove
primafacie
title, and express
ing a hope that this regulation would meet the
views of the Council.
It was thereupon de
cided that it was not necessary, at present, for
the intended deputation to interview the Judge.
A Report from the County Courts Com
mittee in reference to the Civil Bill Courts
(Dublin) Bill, to be introduced in the coming
Session, was submitted and adopted.
A Report from the Costs Committee was
submitted and adopted.
A Report from the Parliamentary Committee
relative to the clause in the Dublin Corpora
tion (various powers) Bill, 1908, which pro
posed to increase the jurisdiction of the Dublin
Court of Conscience, was
submitted and
adopted; and it was resolved that a petition
against that clause of the Bill be sealed and
lodged.
The Council adjourned until the izth prox.
Council Meetings.
MEETINGS of the Council will be held upon
the following dates :—
February izth and a6th.
March nth and 25th.
Committee Meetings.
THE following Committee Meetings were held
during January:—
County Courts, loth.
Gazette, i3th.
Land Act, ijth.
Parliamentary, lyth.
Costs, lyth.
Land Act, zznd.
County Courts, 2}rd.
Court of Examiners, 27111.
New Members.
THE following have joined the Society during
January:—
Brown, J. Barry, Dublin and Naas.
Lyons, Frederick J., Dublin.
Read, William, Dublin.
Roche, James, Omagh.
Ross, Samuel, Belfast.
Commissioners for Oaths.
THE Lord Chancellor,
in
January,
1908,
appointed the following to be commissioners
to administer oaths :—
Patrick Connell, Clerk of Urban District
Council, Kells.