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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
[NOVEMBER, 1913
for the existing regulations, were submitted
and adopted.
Certificates.
Applications by two Solicitors for renewals
of their Certificates were considered, and both
were granted.
Law Clerks.
A memorial from a Law Clerk for a modified
preliminary examination was considered, and
it was resolved that the application be not
opposed.
October I5tk.
Land Commission.
A letter was read from the Law Clerks'
Society suggesting that the Council should
request the Land Commission
to have a
telephone call board in the hall of 24 Upper
Merrion Street, upon which the telephone
number of any Solicitor desiring to speak
from his office to his assistant at the Land
Commission might be
recorded.
It was
decided to comply with the suggestion.
Resident Magistrates.
A Bill, which Mr. O'Shee, M.P., intends to
introduce next Session, was submitted for the
approval' of the Council, the object of which
is to limit the office of Resident Magistrate to
District Inspectors of the first-class, practising
Barristers, and practising Solicitors.
It was
resolved to approve of the principle of the
Bill, and to communicate with the Bar
Council with a view to joint action in support
of it.
Examinations.
The report of the Court of Examiners,
giving the results of the October Preliminary
and Intermediate Examinations, was sub
mitted. The results appear in this GAZETTE.
October
29/A.
The late Mr. Edward Fitzgerald.
The President referred in feeling terms to
the death of Mr. Edward Fitzgerald, and the
following resolution was passed :—
RESOLVED.—The Council of the Incor
porated Law Society of Ireland has heard
with deep regret of the death of Mr. Edward
Fitzgerald, a former President of
the
Society, and for many years an active
member of the Counci1 , who took a deep
interest in the work of the Society and in
the welfare of the profession.
The Council desire to convey to Mrs.
FitzGerald their sympathy in her bereave
ment.
It was further resolved, as a mark of
respect to the memory of the late Mr.
Fitzgerald, that having transacted only
such of the business as was of an urgent
character,
the Council should stand ad
journed.
Half-Yearly Accounts.
Cheques were ordered in discharge of the
Half-yearly Accounts passed by the Finance
Committee.
Annual Report.
The draft Annual Report of the. Council
was considered and adopted.
Council Meetings.
MEETINGS of the Council will be held upon
the following dates :—
November 12th and 27th.
December 3rd and 10th.
Committee Meetings.
THE following Committee Meetings were held
during October :—
Court of Examiners, 13th and 27th.
Annual Report, 16th.
Land Commission, 21st and 28th.
Costs, 22nd.
House, Library, and Finance, 24th
New Members.
THE following joined the Society since July,
1913 :—-
Donnelly, Joseph, 51 Stephen's Green,
Dublin.
Macraith, Charles H., 51 Stephen's Green.
Dublin.
McArevey, John A., Newry.