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Vol. IV, No, 7.]
January, 1911.
FOR CIRCULATION
AMONGST MEMBERS.
Meetings of the Council.
December 1th.
Election of President and Vice-Presidents.
THE Council elected Mr. Frederick W.
Meredith to the office of President of the
Society, and Mr. Arthur E. Bradley and Mr.
Robert G. Warren to the office of Vice-
Presidents of the Society for the year ending
26th November, 1911. Mr. Meredith having
taken the chair, a cordial vote of thanks was
passed to the outgoing President and Vice-
Presidents for the manner in which they had
discharged the duties of their 1'espective
offices during the past year.
Transfers for Nominal Consideration.
A letter was read in reply from the Board
of Inland Revenue stating that they were
unable to comply with the request of the
Council that the Board should intimate to
Secretaries of Companies that the certificate
of a Solicitor acting for either of the parties
as to the correctness of the fixed duty on a
transfer, might be accepted.
Illegal Conveyancing.
A letter was read from a country member
giving particulars of a deed which had been
prepared in 1908 by a Clerk of Petty Sessions
presumably for remuneration.
It was re
solved that, as proceedings for the recovery
of a penalty would not lie owing to the offence
having been committed more than twelve
months ago, the facts be communicated to the
Registrar of Petty Sessions Clerks, with a
request that he should require the Clerk not
to engage in conveyancing work.
Labourers (Ireland) Acts.
It was resolved that a further case be
submitted to Counsel relative to the dis
allowance against District Councils by the
Taxing Officer appointed under the Labourers
(Ireland) Order,
1909,
of
the Vendor's
Solicitor's costs of preparing and lodging in
the Land Commission the necessary consents
for the exclusion of the acquired plots from
holdings agreed to be sold under the Land
Purchase Acts.
Taxing Office.
A letter was read from a Dublin firm of
Solicitors drawing attention to the " Notice
to Solicitors " appearing daily in the
Legal
Diary,
in which it was intimated in reference
to cases appearing in the Taxing Master's
lists,that those not answered at the first or the
second calling, would be adjourned to the
next Sittings, unless special reason should be
shown to the contrary.
It was decided to
write to the Taxing Masters enquiring whether
the notice was intended to apply beyond the
present Sittings.
Board of Trade Inquiry.
Attention having been drawn to the fact
that at a Board of Trade Inquiry, under the
Merchant Shipping Acts, then proceeding at
the Four Courts, an English Solicitor was
appearing on behalf of one of the parties
concerned in the Inquiry.
Instructions were
given that objection should immediately be