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THE GAZETTE
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Vol. V, No. 9.]
March, 1912.
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L AMONGST MEMBERS.
Meetings of the Council.
February lith.
Sale of Immature Stock.
A letter to the President from the Secretary
of the Treasury was read,
in which was
enclosed a copy of statutory rules, dated
24th January, 1912, made under the Land
Purchase (Ireland) Acts, and attention was
drawn in the letter to Rule 9 (9) relating to
the sale of Immature Stock, which rule carries
out the suggestion contained in a memo
randum by the Council prepared last May.
The letter appears in this GAZETTE.
Apprentices' Debating Society.
A report from the Finance Committee
recommending the Council to give increased
financial assistance to the Debating Society
was adopted.
Labourers Acts Costs.
A report from the Costs Committee was
submitted in reference to the liability of
Rural' District Councils (who take plots for
labourers' cottages from holdings which are
being sold to tenants under the Land Purchase
Acts) to defray the costs of amending the
purchase
agreements
lodged
with
the
Estates Commissioners.
The report stated
that Senior Counsel had advised that such
costs are not title costs, but
that
they
are an expenditure incurred by an owner in
consequence of a breach of contract with his
purchasing tenant arising from the action of
the Rural District Council in compulsorily
acquiring portion of the land agreed to be
sold, and in respect of which expenditure the
owner should be awarded compensation by
the Arbitrator. The report stated that the
Committee could not recommend the Council
to take any further action at present in
reference to the matter.
The report was
adopted.
Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910.—Form 4.
A report from the Costs Committee was
submitted, in which it was stated that the
question contained in the English Form 4,
" If the person making the return is also the
•" occupier, state the annual value," and in
respect of the insertion of which question the
English Form 4 had been declared to be
invalid
(Dyson v. Attorney-General,
Times
Law Reports, Vol. 28, page 77), is not con
tained in the Irish form, so that the decision
does not apply to the Irish form.
The Committee further reported that they
cannot recommend any fixed fee to be applic
able in all cases in respect of the costs to be
charged by Solicitors for filling up Form 4,
but suggest that the costs in each case
should be charged upon a
quantum meruit
basis. The report was adopted.
Certificates.
Applications under Section 47 by three
Solicitors for liberty to renew their annual
certificates were considered, in two of the
cases orders were made granting the applica
tions, the third was postponed for further
information.
Law Clerks;
Petitions
from
two Law Clerks under
Section 16, and reports from the Court of