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Mr. W. H. Drennan, I.S.O.
A letter in reply was read from Mr. W. H.
Drennan, I.S.O., thanking the Council for
their resolution passed upon his retirement
from the office of First Assistant Registrar
of Deeds.
Clerk of Crown and Peace, Co. Cork, W.R.
Letters were read from the Lord Chancellor,
the Chief Secretary, and the Under-Secretary,
acknowledging the resolution of the Council
passed upon 8th November.
Preliminary Examination.
A letter from the Senate of the National
University, in reference to exemption from
the Preliminary Examination of this Society
of matriculated and other students, was
referred to the Court of Examiners.
Land Commission.
A letter was read from a country member
asking the Council to take steps towards
preventing the frequent practice of unproved
wills being used in Land Commission pro
ceedings. A reply was directed stating that
as the Land Commission have a statutory
power of appointing a limited administrator
for the purposes of the Land Acts, the Council
could not interfere.
November 2Qth.
Extra-Ordinary Members.
A letter was read from the Northern Law
Society submitting the names of the following
members of that Society to be extra-ordinary
members of Council :—Mr. J. C. White, Mr.
Joseph Alien, Mr. Martin J. Burke, Mr. J. D.
Coates, and Mr. G. B. Wilkins.
A letter was read from the Southern Law
Association submitting the names of
the
following members of that Association to be
extra-ordinary members of the Council :—
Mr. W. Guest Lane, Mr. A. Blake, Mr. F.
Hall, Mr. A. H. Julian, and Mr. W. Thornhill.
The ten members nominated were declared
duly elected
as
the
ten extra-ordinary
members of the Council for the year ending
26th November, 1912.
Finance Act.
A letter was read from a member asking
the opinion of the Council as to whether a
Solicitor, who also acts as Land Agent, would
be entitled to charge remuneration for filling
up Form IV. A reply was directed stating
that
the- Council are of opinion
that a
Solicitor acting as Land Agent is entitled to
remuneration as a Solicitor for filling up the
form, the costs to be drawn upon a
quantum
mentit
basis.
Labourers Acts.
The President reported that at the request
of the Local Government Board he had had
an interview upon the 22nd inst. with the
Vice-President of the Board in reference to a
consolidating order to be made under the
Labourers Acts, the draft of which had been
sent to him. He stated that he had previously
conferred with the Committee of the Council
in charge of Labourers Acts proceedings in
reference to the draft order, in which all the
existing rules relative to the work of Solicitors
under
the Acts are
reproduced without
alteration or addition, and that he had urged
upon the Vice-President of the Local Govern
ment Board
two matters
in
connection
with
the draft
consolidating order — (a)
the total inadequacy of the fee of half a
guinea payable by a District Council to the
Solicitor, of a judicial or yearly tenant, or
of a tenant who had entered into an agree
ment to purchase but whose holding is not
yet vested, for furnishing title, where portion
of his farm is acquired for the purpose of the
Acts ;
and (b) the desirability of providing
in the Order adequate remuneration to be
paid by District Councils to owner's Solicitors
for the preparation of consents necessary to
be filed in the Land Commission where the
land acquired is the subject of land purchase
proceedings. He added that the Vice-Presi
dent had replied in
reference to the first
matter (a)
that he
could not hold out
any hope of increasing the present remunera
tion, and as to the second (b) it had been
considered, but in consequence:-of what the
President said it would lie again considered.
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Debating Society.
It was decided not to award a Gold Medal
for composition for the past Session, but to
award a prize of books to the writer of the
one essay sent in, on the subject of " The
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British Policy of Free Imports," which
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subject had been selected by the Council to