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THE GAZETTE
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Vol. X, No. 3.]
July, 1916.
T FOR CIRCULATION
L AMONGST MEMBERS.
Meetings of the Council.
June Hth.
Land Purchase Advances.
The Council having requested that the
Estates Commissioners would, fourteen days
before making an advance of Stock, cause a
letter to be written to the Solicitor for the
Vendor, asking whether he desires to submit
any reasons to the Commissioners why such
advances should not be made, a letter in
reply was read stating that the Commissioners
regret they cannot see their way to alter
their present procedure,
i.e.,
to give fourteen
days' notice of their intention to make an
advance of Stock in all cases in which vendors
or their Solicitors apply that such notice may
be given.
Preliminary Examination.
The report of the Court of Examiners upon
the result of the May Preliminary Examina
tion was submitted and adopted. The results
appear in this GAZETTE.
Certificate.
An application by a Solicitor for renewal
of his Certificate was considered, and an
.order was made.
June 2Sth.
Death of Mr. T. J. Furlong.
A resolution was passed expressing the
sympathy of the Council with the family of
the late Mr. T. J. Furlong, Solicitor, who was
the senior practitioner of the Green Street
Sessions Bar.
Civil Liability Commissioners.
The Council made representations to the
Attorney-General for Ireland with a view to
having Solicitors in Ireland appointed as
Commissioners to hold local investigations
into applications by recruits for assistance in
respect of their civil liabilities.
A letter in reply was read from the
Attorney-General, stating that he had been
in communication with the Local Govern
ment Board for England who have control
of the arrangements and appointments in
connection with the enquiries under the
scheme for grants, and especially with regard
to the question of appointing Solicitors to
act in Ireland. The Board, in view of its
action in regard to England and Scotland,
in which countries Barristers only have been
appointed, is unable to make a departure in
the case of Ireland, as they consider, from
the nature of the duties to be discharged, that
they should be entrusted to Barristers.
Land Registry.
A letter in reply was read from the Chief
Clerk of the Land Registry in relation to
the practice in regard to the lending out to
Solicitors of documents lodged by them in
the Land Registry. The letter stated that
the practice in this matter was identical with
that obtaining throughout the offices of the
High Court, that is to say :
no document
can be issued which is of the nature of an
original application, affidavit, etc., which has
been placed on the files of the Court. The
letter further stated that in the particular
case to which attention had been drawn,
there was no objection to the issue on loan