12 / 144
The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
[JUNE,
1930
MEETING OF THE COUNCIL.
May 22nd.
Twenty-five Members present.
Courts of Justice Acts.
A
letter was read
in
reply from
the
Secretary of the Joint Committee on the
Courts of Justice Acts, stating that the
Committee are fully conversant with the
arguments bearing on a matter on which the
Council were prepared to tender further evi–
dence, and that it would not be necessary ;
that the Committee desire to proceed at once
with the drafting of their report, and con–
veying to the Society the appreciation of the
Committee of the assistance given by the
Society to the Committee in the conduct of
the inquiry.
Land Registry.
A letter was read from the Chief Clerk,
Central Office, Land Registry, enclosing copy
correspondence with the Revenue Commis–
sioners, from which it appeared that (in
accordance with the opinion of the Attorney-
General, referred to in previous correspon–
dence on the subject of the liability to stamp
duty of certified copies of folios) the re-issue
of a certified copy of a folio, with additional
entries in the register entered and certified
thereon, renders it liable to further duty, and
that in future no copy folio with an additional
entry in the register thereon will be re–
certified until the copy is stamped with the
additional stamp duty of one shilling in
respect of such re-certifying.
OBITUARY.
MR. THOMAS O'FARRELL, Solicitor, died
upon the 7th May, 1930, at his residence,
4 Raglan Road, Dublin.
Mr. O'Farrell served his apprenticeship
with Mr. M. Cartan O'Meara, Dublin ;
was
admitted in Michaelmas Sittings, 1896, and
practised at 27 South Frederick Street,
Dublin.
MR. WILLIAM M. POWELL, Solicitor, died
upon the 20th May, 1930, at Davos-Dorf,
Switzerland.
Mr. Powell served his apprenticeship with
his father, the late Mr. J. H. Powell, Dun-
manway, and Mr. James R. Barry, Fermoy ;
was admitted in Trinity Sittings, 1928, and
practised at Dunmanway, County Cork.
MR. WILLIAM FOSTER, Solicitor, died upon
the 23rd May, 1930.
Mr. Foster served his apprenticeship with
the late Mr. R. H. Todd, Londonderry ; was
admitted
in Hilary Sittings,
1889,
and
practised at Londonderry.
SOLICITORS' BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION
Mr. Dinnen B. Gilmore, Solicitor, who for
the past four years has been Secretary to the
Solicitors' Benevolent Association, has been
recently appointed Senior Assistant Solicitor
to the Bank of Ireland, in room of Mr. R.
Cecil Joy, resigned. Consequent upon such
appointment Mr. Gilmore has
found
it
necessary to tender his resignation of the
office of Secretary, which the Directors of the
Association have accepted with much regret,
and they have expressed, by resolution, their
appreciation
of
the
valuable
services
rendered by Mr. Gilmore to the Association,
and their good wishes for his future.
DISTRICT PROBATE REGISTRY, TUAM.
The Minister for Justice has made an Order
under Section 56 of the Court Officers Act,
1926, which provides as follows :
1. The District Probate Registry at Tuam
is hereby closed.
2. Applications for probates of wills and
letters of administration in cases in which the
testator or intestate (as the case may be) at
the time of his death had a fixed place of
abode in County Galway may be lodged with
the County Registrar for County Galway
and the like applications, in cases in which
the testator or intestate (as the case may be)
had a fixed place of abode in County Ros-
common may be lodged with the County
Registrar for County Roscommon.
The
County Registrar with whom such applica–
tions are lodged shall transmit such applica–
tions to the Principal Probate Registry, and
the relative probates or letters of administra–
tion if and when issued by the Principal
Probate Registry shall be transmitted from
the Principal Probate Registry to the County
Registrar for delivery to the person entitled
thereto.