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DECEMBER, 1938]
The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland
26
in the Secretary's office before the 20th day
of January, 1939.
HILARY SITTINGS LECTURES, 1939.
Senior class lectures will begin on Friday,
13th January.
Junior class
lectures will
begin on Wednesday, llth January.
HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING.
A Half-yearly General Meeting of
the
Society was held in the Hall of the Society,
Solicitors' Buildings, Four Courts, Dublin,
on Monday the 28th November. The Chair
was occupied by the President
(Senator
Thomas W. Delany,) and
the following
members were present:—Messrs. H. St. J.
Blake (Vice-President), Patrick F. O'Reilly
(Vice-President), P. R. Boyd, W. G. Bradley,
E. H. Burne, E. F. Collins, T. H. R. Craig,
J. J. Duggan, W. S. Hayes, E. J. Mallins,
H. P. Mayne, W. J. Norman, J. S. O'Connor,
Peter O'Connor, L. E. O'Dea, Sean 0
hUadhaigh, A. H. S. Orpen, G. A. Overend,
T. G. Quirke, D. J. Reillv, C. G. Stapleton,
Basil Thompson, T. D. McLoughlin, D. J.
Mayne, H. D. Hurley, L. W. Webb. H. D.
Draper, A. J. G. Quirke, J. J. Hickey,
V. Kennedy, J. J. O'Connor, A. Lloyd-Blood,
R. J. Dodd, John Gillespie, J. D. Hollinger,
H. H. Hurley, William Fry, H. W. Flanagan,
A. G.
Joyce, D. D. MacDonald, R. P.
Humphries, B. T. Walsh, L. J. O'Neill,
C. St. G. Orpen, F. J. W. Darley, R. G.
Kenny, T. J. Kenny, E. J. Kenny, Thomas
Jackson, L. J. Egan, M. A. Corrigan, Samuel
Hayes, Alfred E. Walker, C. M. Glass,
J. P. L. Murphy, P. C. Moore, J. A. Geary,
D. L. UaDonnchadha, C. M. Gore-Grimes,
M. J. Dunne, M. A. Smyth, E. Jordan,
S. H. Watson, D. O'Donovan and F. A.
Gibney.
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The Secretary read the notice convening
the meeting, also the minutes of the General
Meeting of 16th May, 1938, which were
signed by the Chairman.
The Chairman, with the consent of the
Meeting, signed
the audited accounts of
the Society for the year ending 30th April,
1938.
The Secretary read the report of the
Scrutineers of the ballot for Council, which
stated that the following had been returned
unopposed as Provincial Delegates :—Ulster :
John Gillespie ;
Munster : Arthur J. Blood-
Smyth;
Leinster:
Daniel
O'Connell;
Connaught: Christopher E. Callan. That
for the thirty-one Ordinary members of the
Council the following had been elected, and
received the number of votes placed after
their respective names:—Senator T. W.
Delany, 397;
J. J. Duggan, 380; E. F.
Collins, 340; T. G. Quirke, 340; H. St. J.
Blake, 332; M. E. Knight, 330; D. J.
Reilly, 319; J. J. Lynch, 317 ;
J. Travers
Wolfe, 314 ; W. S. Hayes, 310 ;
C. Laverty,
308; H. P. Mayne, 305; T. H. R. Craig, 298 ;
P. R. Boyd, 296; W. J. Norman, 295;
P. F. O'Reilly, 293 ;
W. Gordon Bradley,
285; J.F.D'Arcy, 278; Sean O hUadhaigh,
278; J. R. Brennan, 277; Peter O'Connor, 276;
A. H. S. Orpen, 271 ;
E. H. Burne, 270;
L. E. O'Dea, 269; G. A. Overend, 269;
E. J. Mallins, 260;
J. B. HamUl, 250;
Basil Thompson, 248; J. J. Dunne, 246;
C. G. Stapleton, 242; J. S. O'Connor, 224.
And the following to form a supplemental
list in case of vacancies :—W. S. Huggard,
219 ;
J. J. Dundon, 217 ;
J. J. Walsh, 215.
THE PRESIDENT, addressing the meet
ing, said :—
The Report of the Council for the year
has been printed and has been circulated
amongst all the members of the Society.
I assume it has been read by every member,
and I take it at this meeting we may take
it as read.
I have now to propose that it
be adopted.
There are a few items in the Report to
which I should like to call special attention.
The first is under the heading The Solicitors
(Ireland) Act, 1898. The Report sets out
what has been done by your Council.
It may be
thought
that
in
the
time
that has elapsed since the last November
meeting
the Council might have
been
able
to make
greater
progress.
The
investigations of the matters that arose from
the consideration of the resolution of last
November made it clear
to the Council
that the greatest care had to be taken in
the interests of the profession, and as these
matters were considered, the necessity for