783 / 822
P. King, J. H. German, Ivan P. Howe, Brendan
T. Walsh, W. S. McCullough, Patrick Golden,
Mrs. Dorothea M. O'Reilly, Denzil B. J. O'Donnell,
T. J. Kirwan, James J. O'Connor.
By permission of
the meeting
the notice
convening the meeting was taken as read. The
minutes of the Half-yearly General Meeting held
on the 18th May were read, confirmed and signed
by the Chairman.
The audited accounts of the Society for the year
ended 3oth April, 1948, were adopted, and with
the consent of the meeting were signed by the
Chairman.
Messrs.
Kevans
&
Sons,
Auditors
and
Accountants, were reappointed Auditors for the
year to end 3Oth April, 1949.
The Secretary read the report of the Scrutineers
of the Ballot of the Council for the year to end
26th November,
1949, which stated
that
the
following
had
been
returned
as
Provincial
Delegates :
Ulster, Derrick M. Martin; Munster,
John J. Dundon; Leinster, Reginald J. Nolan;
Connaught, Christopher E. Callan; and that the
following had been elected as
the 31 ordinary
members of the Council having received the number
of votes placed after their respective names : Henry
St. J. Blake, 510; Arthur Cox, 472; Louis E.
O'Dea, 457; Daniel O'Connell, 456; W. L.
Duggan, 447;
J. Travers Wolfe, 443 ;
Joseph
Tyrrell, 436; William J. Norman, 434; Patrick
F. O'Reilly, 426; Joseph Barrett, 422 ;
Sean 0
hUadhaigh, 422 ; Dermot Shaw, 422 ; Thomas A.
O'Reilly, 421 ; John Bolger, 419 ; John P. Carrigan,
418 ; George A. Overend, 396 ; Roger Greene,
396; William S. Hayes, 395; Patrick R. Boyd,
394; Francis J. Gearty, 385 ; William S. Huggard,
384; James R. Quirke, 381 ; Desmond R. Couna-
han, 369; Niall S. Gaffney, 367; John J. Dunne,
353 ; Anthony J. Malone, 350 ; John S. O'Connor,
343 ; Henry P. Mayne, 343 ; John D. O'Connell,
332; Gerald J. O'Donnell, 317; Peter Woods,
309; with
the following as
the supplemental
list in case of vacancies :
John J. Smyth, 292 ;
Patrick J. Murphy, 227 ; Peter D. M. Prentice, 181.
The President in moving the adoption of the
Annual Report said :—
'.A UAISLE,
16.
athas orm fdilte a chur romhaibh ag an
gCruinniu Cinn-Bliana
so
na Comhluchta.
Is
maith Horn a thabhairt fd ndeara go gcuireann an
oiread ball ata laithreach suim in imeachtai an
Chumainn a rialuionn cursai ar ngairmeach. Com-
hartha is ea 6 sin go bhfuil spiorad folldin in ar
mease agus fosta go bhfuil muinin ag an mballriocht
as an gComhairle ata toghtha acu. Ni ceart go
mbeadh
aon
aturnae
neamh-shuimiuil
in
ar
gComhlucht 6 tharluionn an oiread sin ceisteanna
achrannacha agus deachrachtai a bheith ag gabhdil
duinn sna laetheannta so. Td costas maireachtana
dultha go n:6r i rr.e'id, td costas cothuithe ar n-oifigi
dha mheadu de reir a chdile agus td dian-iarracht
ar siul ag aicmi eile ar obair is ceart a bheith gha
ddanamh ag
aturnaethe do ghabhdil ar
laimh
acu f6in. Dd bhif sin is ceart dtiinn uile seasamh
guala ar ghualainn agus cabhair a thabhairt don
dream a thoghmuid fern chun ceart ar ngairmeach
do chosaint.
GENTLEMEN,
The Council's Report for the year is
in your
hands and it renders it unnecessary for me to take
up much of your time by delivering a lengthy
address on
this occasion, our Annual General
Meeting.
Since our last meeting the following members
of our profession have died :
Edward O'Shaugh-
nessy, Waterford; Henry Murphy (formerly Co.
Registrar for Monaghan until 1938); Peter Levins
Macardle,
Dundalk;
John
Tarrant,
Sligo;
Frederick W. Gilligan, Dublin;
Frederick G.
Dickson, Derry and Fahan, Co. Donegal; Robert
M. Kieran, Dublin; Harry R. Maunsell, Dublin;
Patrick Sarsfield Brady, Dublin; Patrick Howard,
Dublin; Robert G. Ball, Limerick and Geo. W.
Beaumont, Dublin.
Membership of Society
I have still to record our disappointment that
there remain some solicitors too selfish and too
little
imbued with
the
spirit of professional
solidarity to join the Society, whose membership
ought to coincide in numbers with the admitted
and practising membership of the profession.
As the Annual Report records, out of a total of
1,391 solicitors on the Roll in these 26 Counties,
only 1,092 are members of the Society. Each of
us can and should play his part by exhortation and
example in removing this reproach upon our body.
Non-members
should be urged,
especially
at
present, when our profession is menaced by the
narrowing margin between our gross
takings
and the expenses
inseparable from earning our
living, and also by the efforts being made by
members of other professions and callings to take