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Vice-Presielent'e Gold Medal

.>.-..............Mr. Mi"J. Egan,

Vice-president's Silver Medal ................Mr. B.P. O'Byrne,

IRISH DEBATE :

Society 1 s Gold. Medal

...... '........ .Mr. M. J. Bgan,

Society's Silver Medal

................Mr. E.W. Healy,

FIRST YEAR SPEECHES :

Society's Silver Medal

................Mr. S.A. Murtagh,

Mr. O'Byrne proposed and Mr. 0'Sullivan seconded a vote of

thanks to the outgoing Auditor and his Committee. Messrs. Walsh, Lynch,

Kelly, Grotty, and the new Auditor, Mr. Dowling, associated themselves

with the vote of thanks. The Motion was carried with acclamation.

Mr. Lynch preposei and Mr. Crotty seconded the following

Motion :- "That this House agrees with the statement of the President

©f the Incorporated Law Society that Irish is the cause of the low

standard of answering in the Final Examination in Law for Solicitors

Apprentices". Mr. Lynch proposing the Motion said that after the Ihter-

-mediate an Apprentice gives one year of his course to Irish, the result

being that he forgets any law he has learned for the Intermediate, and

has to start from the beginning again. He also pointed out that no

Scholarships had been awarded for some considerable time. Mr. Crotty

secpnding said that the standard of answering in the Final had

deteriorated since the passing of the Act. He also pointed out that

Irish was of no practical use as there were no Law books in Irish. The

following also spoke : Messrs. Durnin, McC^oskey and O'Byrne FOR the

Motion, and Messrs. McGettigan, Egan, Kelly and Doyle AGAINST. The

Motion was carried by 20 votes to 10 votes.

The House then adjourned.

SIGNED

President Incorpbrated Law^ociety

of Ireland.