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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
[DECEMBER, 1910
Scholarship, was submitted and adopted.
The list of successful candidates appears in
this GAZETTE.
Certificate.
An application, under Section 47, by a
Solicitor for liberty to take out his certificate
was submitted and was granted.
Annual Report.
The Draft Annual Report of the Council
was considered and amended, and as amended
was adopted.
November 16th.
House of Lords Appeals.
A letter was read from the Hon. Secretary
of the General Council of the Bar of Ireland
intimating that the Bar Council saw no
reason
for
altering
their view,
already
expressed, relative to fees to Irish Counsel in
House of Lords Appeals. The correspon
dence on
this
subject
appears
in
this
GAZETTE.
Transfers for Nominal Consideration.
The attention of the Council was drawn to
the circular to Secretaries of public com
panies, issued upon 17th June by the Board
of Inland Revenue, intimating that in cases
of transfers for nominal consideration, where
the
transferee
is
a well-known bank, a
certificate as to the correctness of the fixed
duty by an accredited representative of the
bank may be accepted, or a satisfactory
certificate given by a member of a Stock
Exchange acting for one or other of the
parties to the transfer may be accepted.
It
was resolved to request the Board of Inland
Revenue to intimate to Secretaries of com
panies that the certificate of a Solicitor acting
for either of the parties as to the correctness
of the fixed duty on a transfer might also be
accepted.
Court cf Examiners.
A report of the Court of Examiners upon
two applications by law clerks for leave
to be bound under Section 16 was con
sidered ; one of the applications was granted,
the other was refused.
Preliminary Examination.
A Memorial from a law clerk seeking a
modified
preliminary
examination
under
Section 18 was considered, and it was decided
not to oppose the granting of the application.
Solicitors (Ireland) Act, 1898, section 17.
It was resolved, upon the Report of the
Court of Examiners, to recommend the rule-
making
authority
under
the
Solicitors
(Ireland) Act, 1898, to make a regulation
exempting those seeking to be bound as
apprentices who have passed the Matricula
tion Examination of the National University
of Ireland or of the Queen's University of
Belfast, from being required to pass the
Preliminary Examination of the Society.
The regulation will be found in this GAZETTE.
Costs Committee.
In reply to a query as to the liability of a
lessor who is himself a lessee, to furnish at
his own expense to his sub-lessee his title
to make the lease and also searches, the
Committee reported as follows, and the report
was adopted :—" In the absence of an agree-
" ment to the contrary, a lessor, who is
" himself a lessee,
is bound at his own
" expense, if required, to show his title to
" make the lease and to furnish searches."
November ZQth.
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 the Council :—Mr. J. D. Coates,
Mr. C. W. Black, Mr. M. J. Burke, Mr. J. W.
McNinch, and Mr. G. B. Wilkins.
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. Guest Lane, Mr. A. Blake, Mr. F.
Hall, Mr. A. H.
Julian,
and Mr. W.
Thornhill.
The ten members nominated were declared
duly
elected
as
the
ten extra-ordinary
members of the Council for the year ending
26th November, 1911.
Bankruptcy Costs.
The President informed the Council that,
as requested, he had asked Mr. Justice Boyd
to give directions
to have
the form of
affidavit of credits applicable to Bankruptcy
Costs altered so as to obviate the necessity
of personal attendance at Court of
the