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during the past year, and the ready way in which
they accepted the various decisions o f the Council.
Finally, I cannot sit down without expressing
to the Secretary my appreciation o f all the help he
gave me during my year in office. Mr. Plunkett,
I think, lives and breathes for the Society, and it
is hard to imagine how we could carry on without
him.
I now beg to move the adoption o f the annual
Report.
Mr. Louis E. O’Dea seconded the adoption of
the report, and Mr. A. S. Merrick and Mr. Alfred
Walker addressed the meeting. Mr. J. R. Halpin
pointed out that a Bar Association in County
Leitrim was founded about two years ago. The
President replied to the points raised, and the
motion having been put to the meeting, was
unanimously adopted.
The following motion was proposed by Mr. G. A.
Overend, seconded by Mr. O ’Dea, and having been
put to the meeting, was passed : “ That the follow
ing persons be appointed to be members of the
Nomination Committee for the Cultural and
Educational Panel pursuant to Section 22 o f the
Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act, 1947, and
that all necessary steps should be taken to give
effect thereto, and that the seal o f the Society be
affixed to all necessary documents : Messrs. Patrick
R. Boyd, Arthur Cox, Wm. J. Norman, P. F.
O’Reilly, Sean 6 hUadhaigh.”
The following resolutions were then proposed by
Mr. Hayes, seconded by Mr. Merrick :—
(a)
That the first sentence of Bye-law 3 be
deleted, and that the following be substituted
therefor:—
3. The annual subscriptions to the Society
shall be : For members who have been
admitted for three years and upwards,
£ 1
; for all other members, 10s.
(b)
That Bye-law 32 be amended by the deletion
of the words “ save that members who have
been admitted for upwards o f three years
paying the 10s. (country) subscription shall
not be entitled to nominate for or vote at the
election of ordinary members.”
(
c
) That Bye-law 33 be amended by deleting
the words “ (who shall have paid the one
pound subscription for the current year) ”
in the first sentence thereof.
(d)
That paragraph 5 o f the directions in the
voting paper in Schedule C be deleted.
It was decided that the next annual general
meeting of the Society should be held on Thursday,
23rd November, 1930.
Mr. Quirke suggested that the Council should
consider the revision of Bye-law 36, which fixes
the date of the ballot for the Council, having regard
to the short period intervening between that date
and the date o f the November half-yearly General
Meeting. The President stated that this would be
considered by the Council.
On the motion of Mr. Henry P. Mayne, the
President vacated the chair in favour o f Mr. Tyrrell.
Mr. Mayne then proposed a vote o f thanks
to the President for his distinguished services to
the Society during his year o f office. The Chairman
associated himself with the motion which was
put to the meeting and carried with acclamation.
The President replied. The meeting terminated.
MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL
N
ovember
10, 1949. The President in the chair.
Also present: Messrs. Tyrrell and Barrett, Vice-
Presidents, Messrs. W. S. Hayes, G. A. Overend,
Daniel O ’Connell, J. D. O’Connell, Reginald
J. Nolan, Thomas A. O ’Reilly, William J. Norman,
L. E. O’Dea, H. St. J. Blake, G. J. O’Donnell,
Desmond R. Counahan, James R. Quirke, Henry
P. Mayne, Patrick F. O’Reilly.
The following was among the business
transacted :—
Acquisition o f Land—Costs o f Arbitration
T
he
Council considered a report from a committee
on the subject of the costs awarded to a solicitor
for an owner o f land in proceedings under the
Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation)
Act, 1919. It was decided that the Council should
make representations to the arbitrator on the subject.
Pending the results of such representations, solicitors
are advised when appearing on behalf o f owners
on the assessment of value where lands are being
acquired, that particulars of the costs o f the owner
should be available to be submitted to the
arbitrator at the conclusion of the proceedings.
It was ordered that the attention o f the profession
should be drawn to Section 5 of the Act, particularly
to the provisions of sub-sections (4) and (5) thereof.
The Council expressed the view that the costs
which are within the discretion of the arbitrator,
under the Section, include the owner’s costs of
preparing the case to be submitted to the arbitrator
as well as the actual costs of the appearance at
the arbitration.
Valuation Office
O
n
a report from a committee, it was decided
to make representations to the Commissioner of
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