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THE GAZETTE
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Vol. XII, No. 1.]
May, 1918.
T FOR CIRCULATION
L AMONGST MEMBERS.
Annual Subscription.
MEMBERS are reminded that their annual
subscription to the Society became due on
the first day of May, as follows :
Town Members and Country Mem–
bers of more than three years'
standing entitled
to vote at
election of ordinary members of
Council
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Other Country Members
Members who have been admitted
to the profession under three
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Half-yearly General Meeting.
THE Half-yearly General Meeting of
the
Society will be held in the Hall of the Society,
Solicitors'
Buildings,
Four
Courts,
on
Wednesday, the 15th May, 1918,
to elect
Auditors, to nominate Scrutineers of Ballot
for Council, to be held on zist November,
1918, and to transact such further business
as may come before the Meeting.
The chair will be taken at two o'clock, p.m
Meetings of the Council.
loth April.
Conveyancing.
A report was submitted of a case heard
before the Recorder of Galway, at Tuam, in
which proceedings under 27 Victoria, Cap. 8,
had been instituted by the Society, in the
name of their Secretary, against a person who
had been a law clerk, for recovery of a penalty
for illegal conveyancing for remuneration.
A decree for £5 penalty was obtained.
i\th April.
Costs Committee.
A report from the Costs Committee on two
queries submitted for decision was adopted.
Query
I. Lease for 21 years of premises
in the City of Dublin, rent £213, with clause
of liberty to surrender at end of each three
years. The premises were previously held by
same lessee for 21 years at £120 per annum.
Portion of the demised premises were sub-let
by the lessees during their previous tenancy
at a rent of £200 per annum, and the same
portion has again been sub-let by the lessees
to the same sub-tenants for £300 per annum.
(1) Under what scale should costs be drawn?
(2) Who should pay for counterpart of lease?
(3) Who should pay for
two powers of
attorney under which executions of the lease
by two lessors were obtained?
(i) The costs
of the lease should be drawn under the scale