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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