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DECEMBER, 1914.) The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
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Annual Report.
The draft Annual Report of the Council
was considered and adopted.
November 18th.
Council Dinner.
A
letter was
read
from Sir Lambert
Ormsby thanking the members of the Council
for their donation to the Irish Motor Ambu
lance Fund.
Mr. Martin J. Burke.
The Council directed a letter to be written
to Mr. Martin J. Burke, who for several years
has been one of the representatives of the
Northern Law Society on
the Council,
expressing to him the congratulations of the
Council on his appointment as Clerk of the
Crown and Peace for Co. Antrim and the
City of Belfast.
Court of Examiners.
Reports of the Court of Examiners upon
applications of three Law Clerks for leave to
be bound for three years under Section 16,
were read. One application was granted, one
was refused, and the third was adjourned
sine die.
Mr. Stanuell.
The President, on behalf of the Council,
expressed their regret at the retirement of
Mr. Stanuell
from
the Council, after a
membership of thirty years, during which he
rendered valuable services to the Society and
profession. Mr. Stanuell thanked the Council.
November 27th.
Extra-Ordinary Members.
A letter was read from the Northern Law
Society submitting the names of the following
members of that Society to be extra-ordinary
members of Council:—Mr. C. W. Black,
Mr. Joseph Alien, Mr. J. D. Coates, Mr. J. L.
McDonnell, and Mr. J. C. White.
A letter was read from the Southern Law
Association submitting the names of the
following members of that Association to be
extra-ordinary members of the Council :—
Mr. W. G. Lane. Mr. B. C. Galvin, Mr. Charles
Jermyn, Mr. Walter B. Ronan, and Mr.
Walter Thornhill.
The ten members nominated were declared
duly elected
as
the
ten extra-ordinary
members of the Council for the year ending
26th November, 1915.
Mr. M. J. Burke.
A letter in reply was read from Mr. M. J.
Burke
thanking
the Council
for
their
congratulations.
The Rev. J. P. Mahaffy,
D.D.
It was resolved that the congratulations of
the Council be conveyed to Dr. Mahaffy on
his appointment
as Provost of Trinity
College. Dr. Mahaffy has for the past 45
years been a special examiner to the Society.
Land Purchase.
A letter was read from the Secretary of
the Landowners' Convention to the President,
enclosing copy of correspondence in reference
to the giving by the Estates Commissioners
of fourteen days' notice of
intention of
advancing purchase money in Stock. The
correspondence appears in this GAZETTE.
Council Meetings.
MEETINGS of the Council will be held upon
the following dates :—
January 13th and 27th.
February 10th and 24th.
Committee Meetings.
THE following Committee Meetings were held
during November :—
Court of Examiners, 2nd and 16th.
Gazette, 5th.
Costs, llth.