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Vol. 50
No. 6
DECEMBER,
1956
THE GAZETTE
of the
INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND
President
NIALL S. GAFFNEY
Viec-PreriJeittr
DESMOND J. COLLINS
CHARLES J. DOWNING
Secretary
ERIC A. PLUNKETT
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG
MEMBERS
IMPORTANT.
PRACTISING CERTIFICATES, 1957-58.
(i) Members
are reminded that practising certificates for the year
to end 5th January, 1958 should be taken out on
or after 6th January, 1957 and not later than Tuesday,
5th February, 1957, in order to take effect as a
qualification to practise from 6th January. (2) Under
the provisions of the Solicitors' Act, 1954,
the
declaration to be lodged with the Society on applying
for a practising certificate shall be completed and
signed by
the applicant personally unless
the
Registrar on the ground of illness or some other
sufficient ground dispenses with personal signature
of the declaration. Dublin agents of country
solicitors should therefore take up the declarations
in good time and forward them for signature to
their correspondents.
THE
PRESIDENT AND
VICE-
PRESIDENTS.
MR. NIALL S. GAFFNEY of Limerick has been elected
President of the Society for the coming year, and
Mr. Desmond J. Collins of Dublin and Mr. Charles
J. Downing of Tralee have been elected Vice-
Presidents.
ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING.
AN Ordinary General Meeting of the Society was
held in the Library, Solicitors' Buildings, Four
Courts, Dublin on Thursday, zznd November,
1956. The President, Mr. Dermot P. Shaw, took
the Chair.
The notice convening the meeting was taken as
read.
The minutes of the Ordinary General Meeting ot
the Society held on loth May, 1956, were read,
confirmed and signed.
Mr. C. Gore-Grimes moved and Mr. P. C. Moore
seconded the adoption of the audited accounts and
balance sheet. The motion was adopted and the
President signed the balance sheet.
Messrs. Kevans & Sons were re-appointed as the
Society's auditors.
The Secretary read the report of the scrutineers
of the ballot for the election of the Council and
provincial delegates for the year 1956-57.
The
report stated that for the office of provincial delegate
the following had been returned unopposed:—
Ulster :
Derrick M. Martin ;
Munster :
John J.
Dundon ; Leinster : Reginald J. Nolan ; Connaught:
Christopher E. Callan.
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