Barley, E. M. FitzGerald, Roger Greene, John B.
Hamill, W. S. Haycs, H. P. Mayne, W. J. Nor
man, D. O'Connell, Scan
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hlladhaigh, P. F.
O'Reilly, G. Acheson Overcnd, J. R. Quirke,
J. J. Smyth, C. G. Stapleton, T. H. R. Craig,
V. E. Kirwan, H. MacNeice, W. B. Fawsitt,
Brendan Walsh, D. M. F. Walsh, P. C. Moore,
C. O'Farrell, L. Carr Lett, M. J. K. Dore, M. J.
Bowers, Oliver G. Fry, A. G. Joyce, H. E. W.
Flanagan, Geo. Crowlev, D. Moran, L. Webb,
A. E. Walker, V. Walker, R. P. Humphries,
M. A. Corrigan, E. J. O'Brien, H. W. McCormick,
J. W. Gentleman, T. J. Kenny, P. J. Walsh,
J. B. McCann, J. Plunkett Dillon, James Fagan,
James Fagan, Junr., Lucy Fagan, M. A. Smyth,
Gerald Byrne, Chas. Doyle, R. D. English,
Raymond Downey (North Cork Bar Association),
Matthew Purcell, W. J. Keery, D. J. Farrell,
Arthur Murphy, A. W. Stirling, T. G. Quirke,
R. M. Meares," C. G. Stapleton, R. J. Walker,
Denis Greene, Win. Fry, Robt. Hayes, J. D.
Hollinger, P. C. Furlong, A. H. S. Orpen, Ray
mond Kenny, A. G. Ardagh, H. A. Williams,
D. R. Pigot, Patk. Glynn, R. J. Tierney, R. W.
Johnston, W. H. Phayre, R. C. Bathurst, H. R.
Maunsell, B. R. W. Doran, Saml. Hayes, J. P.
O'Connell, L. W. Webb, H. D. Hurley, G. G.
Overend, C. T. Blair-White, J. Maher, J. F.
Donovan, D. V. Miley, D. D. MacDonald, A. E.
Prentice, D. FitzGerald, E. Proud, P. Woods
(Louth Bar Association), J. P. J. Smyth, Ivan
Howe, Eugene Collins, R. E. O'Brien, Miss S.
Webb, G. F. McGowan, L. Jameson, John J.
Shiel, J. B. Murphy (Monaghan Bar Association),
E. N. Edwards, J. Gillespie, F. J. Dunne, Stephen
Lynch, Denzil O'Donnell, J. M. Dudley, J. H.
Bergin, C. H. Hardman, Francis Clinch, M. J.
Fitzmaurice, W. J. Walsh, R. L. McDoimell,
C. Gavan Duffy, H. D. Draper, J. Malvern White,
Joseph Barrett (Dublin Bar Association), Basil
Thompson, Francis Gibncy, Thomas J. Greene,
A. B. Watson, C. Gore Gr'imes, C. B. W. Boyle,
Gerald Robinson, Miss M. O'Neill, J. R. Cresswell,
L. J. O'Neill, G. H. Parkes, H. Sheil, G. Sweetman,
R. W. Oulton, J. G. Oulton, G. M. Meares, W. J.
Reilly, M. J. Dunne, Kevin Burke, R. N. Mathe-
son, D. B. Gilmore, P. J. Masterson, T. A. W.
Purefroy.
By permission of the meeting the notice con
vening the meeting was taken as read. The min
utes of the half-yearly General Meeting, held on
May 16th, were read, confirmed and signed by
the Chairman.
The audited accounts of the Society for the
year ending 30th April, 1944, were adopted and,
-with the consent of the meeting were signed by
the Chairman. Messrs. Kevans & Son, Auditors
and Accountants, were re-appointed Auditors for
the year to end 30th April, 1945.
The Secretary read the report of the Scrutineers
of the Ballot for the Council for the year to end
26th November, 1945, which stated that the
following had been returned unopposed as Provin
cial Delegates : Ulster, John Gillespie ; Munster,
A. J. Blood-Smy th ; Leinster, William L. Duggan ;
Connaught, Christopher E. Callan, and that the
following had been elected as the thirty-one
ordinary members of the Council, having received
the number of votes placed after their respective
names :—Arthur Cox 405, Louis E. O'Dea 402,
William S. Hayes 355, J. Travers Wolfe 355.
Patrick R. Boyd 348, Henry St. J. Blake 348,
William J. Norman 345, Henry P. Mayne 341,
Patrick F. O'Reilly 337, Scan
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hUadhaigh 333,
G. A. Overcnd 332, John B. Hamill 331, John S.
O'Connor 325, Edward M. FitzGerald 316, James
.1. Lynch 314, Daniel O'Connell 309, John P.
Carrigan 307, Peter O'Connor 303, Michael E.
Knight 298, Robert A. Macaulay 280, John J.
Dunne 275, Cecil G. Stapleton 270, John J.
Bolger 268, John J. Smyth 267, Roger Greene 260,
James R. Quirke 258, F. J. W. Darley 258,
William S. Huggard 255, Hugh O'Donnell 246,
John J. Dundon 238, Matthew G. R. Lardner 224,
and the following would form a supplemental list
in case of vacancies : Joseph Barrett 222, P. C!.
Moore 214, David R. Pigot 209.
The President, in moving the adoption of the
Annual Report said :—
You have all been supplied with copies of the
Report of the Council and that, together with
the monthly
Gazette,
gives a fair synopsis of the
work carried out by the Council and the Com
mittees thereof during the year that has passed
and will obviate the necessity of my giving you
details of the work.
The history of this Society has great interest for
members of the profession, and is given very ably
in a work published by Mr. Charles Gamble in the
year 1921. In that excellent work he shows that
in the year 1607 the Society of Kings' Inns was
established, the membership of which included
Solicitors and Attorneys as well as practising
Barristers. In the year 1841 a Society was formed
to watch over and protect the position and
interests of the Solicitors' Profession in Ireland,
and for assuring the proper control of their own
domestic affairs and property and it was in that
year the old Solicitors' Buildings were erected.
We celebrated the Centenary of the establishment
of that Society three years ago under the Presi-
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