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THE PRESIDENT AND VICE-
PRESIDENTS
Mr. George G. Overend of Dublin has been
elected President of the Society for the coming
year. Mr. Francis J. Lanigan of Carlow and Mr.
Robert McD. Taylor of Drogheda have been elected
Vice-Presidents.
ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
MINUTES OF THE ORDINARY
GENERAL MEETING
23rd November, 1961
The Presdent took the chair at 10.30 a.m.
The notice convening the meeting was by per
mission taken as read.
The Secretary read the minutes of the ordinary
general meeting held on 3rd June, 1961 which were
confirmed and signed by the chairman.
The Secretary read the report of the scrutineers
of the ballot for the Council for the year 1961-62.
The chairman declared the result of the ballot in
accordance with the scrutineers report as follows :
Provincial
delegates
returned
unopposed:—
Ulster :
John C. O'Carroll; Munster :
Edward
Treacy ; Leinster : Reginald J. Nolan ; Connaught:
Francis Armstrong.
Election of ordinary members.
The following
received the votes placed after their names :
i. Augustus Cullen 520; 2. John Carrigan 518 ;
3. Ralph J. Walker 498 ;
4. John R. Halpin 496 ;
5. John J. Nash 494;
6. Niall S. Gaffney 480;
7. Thomas A. O'Reilly 474 ;
8. Patrick Noonan 468 ;
9. Desmond J. Collins 466 ;
10. Eunan McCarron
459; ii. Daniel J. O'Connor 451 ;
12. Peter E.
O'Connell 447;
13. Robert McD. Taylor 447;
14. George A. Nolan 445 ;
15. Francis J. Lanigan
439 ;
16. James J. O'Connor 433 ;
17. William A.
Tormey 422;
18. George G. Overend 410;
19. James W. O'Donovan 409;
20. Dinnen B.
Gilmore 408 ;
21. John Maher 406; 22. Thomas
V. O'Connor 400; 23. William J. V. Comerford
398 ; 24. Terence De Vere White 388 ; 25. Patrick
O'Donnell 372;
26. William A. Osborne 368;
27. Peter D. M. Prentice 366 ; 28. James R. C. Green
364; 29. John Kelly 333 ;
30. Brendan T. Walsh
327; 31. Brendan A. McGrath 306.
The scrutineers returned the foregoing as duly
elected ordinary members of the Council for the
year ended 1961-62.
The following candidates also received the number
of votes placed after their names :
32. Charles Hyland 304; 33. Edward J. C. Dillon
298; 34. J. Bernard MacGarry 297; 35. Thomas
D. McLoughlin 263 ;
36. Elizabeth Wright 163.
The meeting then adjourned and resumed at
2.30 p.m.
Audited accounts and balance sheets. Mr. Halpin
proposed and Mr. Taylor seconded a motion that
the accounts and balance sheet which had been
circulated be adopted. The chairman put the motion
to the meeting and it was carried unanimously.
On the motion of Mr. Collins seconded by Mr.
Edmund Carroll Messrs. Kevans & Son were
reappointed as the Society's auditors.
The President moved the adoption of the report
of the Council for the year 1960-61 and said
It is my privilege as President to propose the
adoption of the report of your Council for the past
year and this I now rise to do with pleasure. Before,
however, I deal with the report I would like for a
moment to read to you the names of those of our
members who have died during the year. They are :
John J. Timoney, Lewis D. Field, Thomas H.,
O'Donovan, Patrick J. Neilan, John W. O'Gorman,
James Cody, Michael F.
Flanagan, Daniel C.
Maher, John J. Kennedy, Terence Doyle, James
Claffey,- Raymond Stephenson, District Justice John
P. Kennedy, Henry Shannon, John J. Sheil, Charles
J. Joyce.
Amongst the names I have just read you will
have recognised men who by their lives and work
brought honour not only to themselves but also
to the profession to which we all belong. Their
standards were high, their word was their bond,
to transact business with them was a privilege, an
education and a pleasure.
Henry Shannon served the profession upon the
Council of our Society from 1912-1919 and was
Vice President in the year 1917-18. John Sheil was
an active and greatly respected member of our
Council from 1950 up to the time of his death
and was Vice-President in the year 1954-55.
To the relatives of each and all we extend our
very sincere and deep sympathy.
MR. ARTHUR Cox
I am sure that it would be your wish that I should
also refer at this time to the retirement from practice
of Mr. Arthur Cox whereby the Council and pro
fession lost one of its most outstanding and dis
tinguished members.
Your Council passed the
following Resolution:
" The Council of the Incorporated Law Society of
Ireland having learned of the wish of their colleague,
Arthur Cox, to resign from the Council upon his
retirement from the profession wish to place on
record their appreciation and gratitude for his
outstanding service to the Council, the Society,
and the profession. As an ordinary member of the
Council, later as President in the Society's Charter
Centenary Year and finally as father of the Council
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