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trie appointment of the new trustees should be

embodied in a deed to be executed by all parties.

The power of appointment under the original trust

deed was vested in the trustees or their survivor.

A difference of opinion arose as to whether the

solicitor for the plaintiff beneficiaries or the solicitor

for the defendant trustees should prepare the deed

embodying

the consent,

the retirement of the

existing trustees and the appointment of the new

trustees. The Committee reported that on the facts

before them they were of opinion that the solicitors

for the retiring trustees were entitled to prepare

the deed embodying the appointment of the new

trustees, the release to the retiring trustees and the

other terms of the consent, they being the solicitors

having the custody and control of the documents

of title, and referred to Opinion No. 88 of the

Council, printed at page 439 of the current Calendar.

The Council adopted the report.

Applications under Section 47

THE Council considered seven applications from

solicitors for permission to take out their practising

certificates.

Six - applications were

granted on

payment of the current duty and one application

was granted subject to payment of two years' arrears

in addition to the current duty.

Apprentices' Applications

A NUMBER of apprentices' applications were con–

sidered and dealt with.

HALF-YEARLY GENERAL

MEETING

A HALF-YEARLY General Meeting of the Society

was held on Thursday, May i6th, in the Solicitors'

Buildings, Four Courts. The President, Mr. Daniel

O'Connell, in the chair.

The notice convening

the meeting was, by

permission of the meeting, taken as read. The

Secretary

read

the minutes of the Half-yearly

General Meeting held on November z6th, 1945,

which were signed by the President.

The President nominated the following members

of the Society as Scrutineers 'of the Ballot for the

Council

to be held on November 2ist, 1946:

Messrs. J. R. McC. Blakeney, Desmond J. Collins,

T. Jackson, Brendan P. McCormack, and Roderick

J. Tierney.

The President, addressing

the meeting, said:

" Ladies and Gentlemen,

Since, we last met in General Meeting in Novem–

ber there have gone from amongst us many members

well known to most of us, and it is with regret that

I have to record their passing and wish to express

to their relatives our feelings of sympathy in- their

bereavement. The following solicitors have died

during the past six months :

Michael Dorgan, William

J. Barry,

James

McAuliffe, James J. O'Shee, Ambrose Steen, John

Minton, John J. Kennedy, David E. Ferguson,

G. Douglas Scott, A. M. Healy, George H. Parkes,

Christopher O'Connell Fitzsimon, John M. Maxwell,

Dermot J. O'Rourke, James C. Parke, Henry

Lemass, Patrick M. O'Leary, Harry Bruce Bell,

Michael J. Bowers, Albany Fetherstonhaugh, Her–

bert W. Franck, Ernest W. Harris, Michael A.

Humphries, Robert C. Bannister, Aidan E.

R.

MacCabe, and Austin Crean.

Our

relations with

the various Government

-

Departments with whom we have to deal have been

very satisfactory.

In the interviews and discussions

which have taken place between our appointed

members and Ministers of State and the Secretaries

of public departments it is but proper to record

that they have in all cases shown a desire to be help–

ful and have met our wishes in most of our

submissions. They have always been ready

to

consider carefully any suggestions or criticisms

which we thought it necessary to make.

In par–

ticular I would like to pay tribute to the manner

in which the Registrar of Titles has met us on the

various points of difficulty in practice under dis–

cussion. Not all our proposals have been accepted,

but agreement was reached on many major issues

involved.

Steps have been taken at the suggestion of the

Council to improve the facilities for the sale of

Land Registry stamps at the Ormond Quay Post

Office during Vacation periods when the Stamp

Office in the Four Courts is closed. We have also

urged, arising out of the decision in Sheridan's

Case, which you will recollect resulted

in

the

discontinuance of charging Land Registry fees in

the case of transmissions on death, that any fees

paid subsequent to the ist June, 1945, should be

refunded to

the parties concerned

in cash.

It

was understood that the Department proposed to

refund such fees paid after September not in cash

but by way of allowing credit to the solicitor

concerned against fees payable on future dealings

either in respect of the same lands or on different

property.

It was felt that this method would give

rise to very serious inconvenience in the matter of

book-keeping, and it was proposed to the Registrar

of Titles that any refunds made should be given in

cash, and,

furthermore,

that

fees

so

refunded

should be made as from the ist June, 1945, being

approximately the date of the institution of the

proceedings before the Court in Sheridan's Case

No Departmental decision has yet been given on

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