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that the summoning of such a meeting should be
postponed ; (3) that the matter would appear as
an item on the agenda of the Half-Yearly General
Meeting of the Society to be held under the
Society's Bye-laws on November 27th.
Petrol for Solicitors.
IT was ordered that a letter should be written to
the Department of Supplies pointing out that the
Council hope that as soon as conditions permit
of anv relaxation of the restriction of petrol
supplies the claims of the solicitors' profession for
priority would be favourably considered.
Commission on Vocational Organisation.
THE Secretary reported that the report of the
above Commission contains a number of recom
mendations affecting the professions, including
the proposal to set up a body to be known as
"The Professional Commission" which would be
invested with certain supervisory and appellate
functions in relation to the governing bodies of
the various professions. The matter was referred
to a Committee of the Council tor consideration.
STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS.
THE Society is deeply indebted to the Government
Publications Office for presenting to the Library
a complete set bound in twenty-three numbered
and paged volumes of all the Statutory Rules,
Orders and other Regulations made between the
years 1022 to 1938, inclusive. The volumes also
include an Index in which the various Rules,
Orders and Regulations are entered
(a)
according
to the governing act or other authority and
(b)
by subject. This is the first Index published by the
Government of the Statutory Rules and Orders.
Part I of the Index contains an alphabetical list
of governing Acts, showing in each case the Orders
made thereunder. It also includes a list of Procla
mations, Notices, Orders, and Decrees which do
not expressly cite a governing Act. Part II con
tains an alphabetical list of Orders together with
the governing Act or Acts as appropriate. Sets of
the volumes have been deposited for reference in
the Oireachtas Library, the Law Library of the
Four Courts and the Libraries of the King's Inns
and the Incorporated Law Society.
The bidk of the Orders had already been pub
lished by the Stationery Office and were available
in printed form. The remainder had either ap
peared in
Iris Oifigiuil
or, being for Departmental
use, had not been published. These have been
printed and are included in the volumes except
Orders of an executive, local or temporary charac
ter or having a limited application which are
shown in the Index in italicised form. Orders of a
merely personal application or otherwise having
little or no public interest have been omitted
from the volumes and the Index.
Practitioners will require no commendatory
notice in the Society's
Gazette
in order to appreciate
the excellent work of the Government Publications
Office in placing these volumes and Index at their
disposal. The volumes themselves are well bound
and easy to iise, and the Index appears to fulfil
all that one might expect in a work compiled by
the experts of the Stationery Office. Although the
majority of the Statutory Rules and Orders
could already have been purchased separately
their accessibility in volumes together with an
Index will be of the greatest possible assistance
to the profession and it is to be hoped that condi
tions will soon permit the publication of additional
volumes and an Index to bring the work up-to-
date. Now that the work has been started and
carried so far towards completion it should be
possible to publish the Statutory Rules and
Orders in annual volumes, each complete with an
Index as the Statutes are at present published.
The present publication does not touch the
Emergency Powers Orders. An Index to these
Orders covering the period 1939-43 was recently
brought out by the Government Publications
Office.
OBITUARY.
MR. DANIEL P. BLAYNEY, Solicitor, died on the
4th September, 1944, at Dublin.
Mr. Blayney served his apprenticeship with the
late Mr. Michael McCartan, Belfast, was admitted
in Hilary Sittings, 1896, and practised for some
time in Cape Town and Bulawayo. He returned
to Ireland and practised at Naas from 1912 up
to 1927 when he retired.
MR. THOMAS P. EARLY, Solicitor, died on 17th
September, 1944, at a private nursing home in
Dublin.
Mr. Early served his apprenticeship with Mr.
Thomas Early, Dublin, was admitted in Hilary
Sittings, 1940, and practised as a partner in the
firm of Thomas Early and Son at 63 Upper
O'Connell Street, Dublin.