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DECEMBER, 1911] The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Soeietjrof Ireland.
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MR. JAMES BRADY: We will "wait
and see."
(Laughter.)
K THE PRESIDENT :
I am afraid that is
what you will have to do.
I now put to the
meeting the motion for the adoption of the
Report.
THE PRESIDENT:
The Report
is
adopted.
MR. ARTHUR E. BRADLEY
(Vice-
President) having been moved to the second
chair,
MR. R. S. REEVES said :
I know it is on
everyone's mind that we ought to give great
thanks to our outgoing President.
(Hear,
hear). He has done everything he could for
us.
I had the privilege of acting under him
several times, and no one could have behaved
better in his Presidential office.
I don't
think you could have had a better President.
Therefore, I beg to propose that the best
thanks of the Society be given to him for
the manner in which he presided to-day, as
well as for the manner in which he has dis
charged all the duties of his office.
MR. CRAIG :
I beg to second the vote of
thanks.
I am perfectly certain the President
has done everything he could to keep the
interests of the Solicitors' profession well to
the front.
MR. BRADLEY then put the vote of
thanks, which was passed with acclamation.
THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Reeves and
gentlemen, I thank you most warmly for
the very kind words you have said about
me. My task has been made easy and light
by the loyalty of my fellow-members of the
Council.
I do not think there is a more
loyal body anywhere than is this Council to
their President for the time being, and I
thank you all sincerely for the great assistance
which you have given me all through my
year of office, without which it would have
been impossible for me to have discharged
my duties.
(Applause.)
The proceedings then terminated.
Meetings of the Council.
November 1st.
The late Mr. R. P. Vowell.
It was resolved that an expression of the
deep sympathy of the Council should be
conveyed to Mrs. Vowell upon the occasion
of the death of her husband, Mr. R. P.
Vowell, an official of the Irish Land Com
mission, with whom members of the profes
sion frequently came into contact,
Retirement of Mr. W. H. Drennan, I.S.O.
The following resolution was adopted, and
a copy was directed to be sent to Mr.
Drennan :—
" The Council of the Incorporated Law
Society of Ireland have learned with much
regret that Mr. W. H. Drennan, I.S.O., has
ceased to be First Assistant Registrar in the
Registry of Deeds Office, Dublin, a post
which he has so ably filled for many years."
Mr. Drennan was an officer with whom it
was a pleasure to transact business. He was
both efficient and painstaking, and
the
Council wish to place on record their keen
appreciation of the courtesy which he always
showed and the kind assistance he gave to
Solicitors whose business brought them into
contact with him in the Registry of Deeds
Office.
Registration of Title Office.
A letter was read in reply from Mr. Justice
Madden expressing his agreement with the
resolution of the Council in reference to the
necessity of an immediate increase of the
staff in the Registration of Title Office, and
stating he had sent a copy of
it to the
Treasury in support of his application for an
increased staff,which application he had made
more than once previously.
A letter was read in reply from the Under
Secretary
for
Ireland stating
that His
Excellency had been
informed
by
the
Treasury that an increase to the staff of the
Land Registry had been sanctioned.
Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910.
A letter in reply was read from the English
Law Society stating that the Council of that
Society had recommended the profession to
charge for the filling of Form IV. on a
quantum meruit
basis.
It was resolved that the Council should
make a similar recommendation to the pro
fession in Ireland.
Court of Examiners.
The Report of the Court of Examiners upon
the October Preliminary and Final Examina
tions and as to the award of the Findlater