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Vol. XXIX,
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JUNE, 1935.
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L AMONGST MEMBERS
HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING.
A Half-yearly General Meeting of
the
Society was held on Thursday, 16th May, at
the
Solicitors' Buildings,
Four Courts,
Dublin, the President (Mr. Charles Laverty)
in the chair.
The following members were also present:
Messrs. E. F. Collins (Vice-President), E. H.
Burne, J. J. Duggan, W. S. Hayes, J. J.
Lynch, E. J. Mallins, Scan O hUadhaigh,
P. F. O'Reilly, A. H. S. Orpen,G. A. Overend,
P. M Scales, C. St. G. Orpen, C. G. Stapleton,
C. E. Callan, J. J. Hickey, L. J. Jameson,
R. G. H. Carter, V. Kennedy, T. D,
McLoughlin, E. J. Kenny, P. Masterson.
D. D. MacDonald, B. Bernstein, J. J.
O'Connor, J. R. Creswell, B. J. Scales, H. H.
Hurley, R. J. Dodd, E. Jordan, J. D.
Hollinger,
J. H. German, T.
Jackson,
G. Crowley, J. P. J. Smyth, J. D. Moran,
and P. O'Leary.
The Secretary read the notice convening
the meeting and the minutes of the Half-
yearly General Meeting
held
on
26th
November, 1934, the latter of which were
signed by the President.
On the motion of Mr. Collins, seconded by
Mr. Lynch,
the following resolution was
unanimously adopted :—
" That Mr. T. A. Ireland, Mr. P. Glynn
and Mr. A. E. Prentice be appointed
Auditors of the Society's Accounts for
year ending 30th April, 1935."
The President nominated the following
members to be Scrutineers of Ballot for
election of Council,
to be held on 21st
November next: Mr. R. French, Mr. F. G.
Sharpe, Mr. N. Taylor, Mr. H. H. Maxwell
and Mr. H. G. Sweetman.
THE
PRESIDENT,
addressing
the
meeting, said :—
Gentlemen—My predecessors in the office
of President of the Incorporated Law Society
of Ireland have always considered it a great
privilege
to meet
the members of
that
Society at its Half-yearly General Meetings.
This privilege has the advantage of enabling
him to review and reconsider with them the
various activities of the Council of your
Society during the six months preceding the
General Meeting, and to take counsel with
them as to what has been" done during the
last half-year and what is proposed to be
done in the succeeding half-year. We are
thus enabled to keep in touch with one
another throughout the year, and secure
that measure of co-operation and encourage
ment without which
a
society
cannot
successfully pursue its work and secure its
objectives.
During the half-year just completed, your
Council has been called upon to deal with
many important matters touching the well-
being, not only of the legal profession, but
also of the people of this country, and to
these matters your Council has given many
hours of careful and indeed anxious con
sideration. Your Council has had, I think,