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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland
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LEGAL PRACTITIONERS
(QUALIFICATION) ACT, 1929.
A " First " Examination in Irish and a
" Second " Examination in Irish will be held
upon Friday and Saturday the 7th and 8th
days of February, 1941. Notices of intention
to attend either of
the above-mentioned
examinations
should be
lodged
in
the
Secretary's Office before the 17th day of
January.
HILARY SITTINGS LECTURES, 1941
Senior Class
lectures will begin upon
Tuesday, the 14th January.
Junior class
lectures will begin on Monday
the 13th
January-
SOLICITORS' BILL, 1940.
Copies of the draft Solicitors' Bill, 1940,
are now in the Library and can be had on
loan by members under the same arrange–
ment as that on which books may be loaned.
HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING
The Half-3?early General Meeting of the
Society was held in the Hall of the Society,
Solicitors' Buildings, Four Courts, Dublin,
on Tuesday
the 26th November.
The
Chair was occupied by the President (Mr.
Henry P. Mayne), and the following mem–
bers of the Society were also present :
Messrs. Cecil G. Stapleton (Vice-President),
P. R. Boyd, W. G. Bradley, E. H. Burne,
J. P. Carrigan, E. F. Collins, J. J. Dunne,
J. B. Hamill, W. S. Hayes, M. G. R. Lardner,
J. J. Lynch, E. J. Mallins, T. D. McLoughlin,
W. J. Norman, Daniel O'Connell, Sean
0 hUadhaigh, P. F. O'Reilly, G. A. Overend,
T. G. Ouirke, C. J. C. Joyce, A. H. S. Orpen,
L. J. Jameson, A. E. Ashton, Roger Greene,
R. J. Muldowney, P. K. M. Carey, D. B.
Gilmore, Basil Thompson, R. J. Kenny,
M. Horan, Ivan Howe, R. J. Dodd, V.
Kennedy, Samuel Hayes, H. R. Maunsell,
W. H. Phayre, A. G. Joyce, C. W. Grove-
White, J. R. C. Green, H. P. Dockrell,
G. G. Overend, E. W. Proud, J- B. McCann,
A. B. Watson, M. J. Bowers, V. Walker,
A. E. Walker, E. A. Margetson, R. J. Tierney,
J. W. Gentleman, R. P. Humphries, T. J.
Kenny,
C. Gore-Grimes, J. J. Hannan,
H. W. McCormick, G. E. Grove-White,
W. J. M. Coulter, J. J. Hickey, A. T. Ellis,
A. J. Reddy, J. R. McC. Blakeney, H. E.
M. W. Flanagan.
The Secretary read the notice convening
the meeting, also the Minutes of the General
Meeting of 9th May, 1940, 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, 1940.
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, A.
J.
Blood-Smyth; Connaught, C. E. Callan;
and that for Leinster two candidates had
been nominated,
and had
received
the
following votes
'W.
L. Duggan, 45 ;
John
J. Walsh, 29 ;
and the Scrutineers returned
W. L. Duggan elected Provincial Delegate
for Leinster.
That
for
the
thirty-one.
Ordinary members of the Council the follow–
ing had been elected, and
received
the
number of votes placed after their respective
names : D. J. Reilly, 385 ; J. T. Wolfe, 374 ;
E. F. Collins, 364;
H. St. J. Blake, 359;
H. P. Mayne, 353; T. G. Quirke, 352 ;
M. E. Knight, 350 ;
Peter O'Connor, 345 ;
J. J. Lynch, 340 ;
P. R. Boyd, 340 ;
W. S.
Hayes, 330;
L. E. O'Dea, 329:
Sean
0 hUadhaigh, 329 ;
P. F. O'Reilly, 320
'.
W. J. Norman, 318; D. O'Connell, 316;
J. R. Brennan, 304: G. A. Overend, 303;
J. B. Hamill, 300;
J. P. Carrigan, 299;
J. T- Dunne, 298; W. G. Bradley, 294;
E. J. Mallins, 292; W. S. Huggard, 288;
E. H. Burne, 276 ;
C. G. Stapleton, 271 ;
T. D. McLoughlin, 270 ;
J. J. Dundon, 266 ;
H. O'Donnell, 263 ;
R. A. Macaulay, 258 ;
M. G. R. Lardner, 241. And the following to
form a supplemental list in case of vacan–
cies : Roger Greene, 211; W. McA. Mc-
Cracken, 202 ;
R. N. Keller, 185.
THE PRESIDENT, addressing the Meeting,
said :
Since the last half-yearly meeting of the
Society we have lost through death a large
iramber of members
of our profession.
I wish to pay a brief tribute to the memory
of two past members of our Council who
faithfully discharged
the duties of
their
offices and whose deaths are deplored by all
who knew them.