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THE GAZETTE

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Vol. XII, No. 10.]

April, 1919.

r FOR CIRCULATION

L AMONGST MEMBERS.

Meetings of the Council.

March 12th.

Twenty-one Members were present.

Salaries of Clerks of Crown and Peace.

A

letter

in

reply was read

from

the

Assistant Under-Secretary stating that their

Excellencies the Lords Justices desired to

inform the Council that the reduction from

£900 to £800 per annum of the salary assigned

to the office of Clerk of the Crown and Peace

for the County and City of Limerick was

effected on the advice of Their Excellencies'

advisers after very careful consideration of

all the facts of the case, and with due regard

to the nature and extent of the duties

attached to the post.

The letter further

stated that

the salary of

the Clerk of

the Crown and Peace as Local Registering

Authority was increased at the same time

from £100 to £200 per annum.

Witnesses' Expenses.

A communication was received from the

Taxing Masters, intimating that the Lord

Chancellor had requested the Masters to

ascertain

the views

of

the Council in

reference to a suggested increase of amounts

allowed under the Supreme Court Rules to

witnesses.

The matter was referred to the Costs

Committee.

Lectures.

Applications by two Apprentices, both of

whom had served four years in the Army,

for exemption from attendance at lectures,

were granted.

March 26th.

Twenty-three Members were present.

Irish Land Commission.

A letter in reply was read from the Irish

Land Commission, stating that it is not the

practice for the Solicitor to the Commission

to act for purchasers of holdings sold owing

to default in payment of annuity, though

there sometimes are cases, generally of a

petty nature, where the Solicitor for the

Commission has to do so, as it is the only

means of effecting a sale.

Council Meetings.

MEETINGS of the Council are fixed to be held

on the following dates :—

April 30th.

May Hth and 28th.

High Court Sittings.

EASTER Sittings commence on Thursday,

24th April, and terminate on Wednesday,

28th May.

Obituary.

MR. THOMAS O'KEEFE, Solicitor, died upon

the 1st March, 1919, at Lisgoold, Midleton.

Mr. O'Keeffe served his apprenticeship

with Mr. Joseph H. McCarroll, Wicklow ;

was admitted in Hilary Sittings, 1914, and

practised at Midleton.