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June, 1909.
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LAMONGST MEMBERS.
Half-Yearly General Meeting.
THE Half-yearly General Meeting of
the
Society was held in the Hall of the Society
at the Four Courts, on Monday, lyth May,
the President (Mr. W. J. Shannon) in the chair.
The following members were present: —
C. St. G. Orpen (Vice-President), Sir G.
Roche, Sir A. F. Baker, Wm. Fry, W. S. Hayes,
George Collins, R. A. Macnamara, F. C. E.
Bland, Gerald Byrne, W. V. Seddall, James
Henry, H. J. Synnott, C. A. Stanuell, A. E.
Bradley, T. C. Franks, Joseph Galloway,
A. Lloyd-Blood, J. G. Fottrell, R. G. Warren,
T. W. Fitzgerald, C. G. Gamble, R. Blair
White, W. W. Carruthers, W. D. Sainsbury,
H. J. M'Cormick, H. D. Draper, G De R.
Englebach, J. P. Tyndall, G. M. Meares,
J. O'Sullivan, Patrick J. Brady, P. K. White,
Roger Greene, Florence Greene, E. S. Lowe,
W. J. Brett, A. G. Joyce, David Dunne,
P. Seales, W. H. Fry, G. R. Scott, Sidney
Bell, R. A. O'Brien, G. E. Grove White,
A. D. Kennedy. E. R. Bate, D. A. Quaid,
H. R. Maunsell, A. H. Burne, E. E. Merrick,
J. Hawthorne, J. P. Collins, F. P. Long,
I. J. Rice, James Brady, R. T. Holmes,
E. F. Collins, W. E. Garland, N. L. Moran,
G. M. Collins, J. Barry Brown, J. Davis,
J. R. Stritch, William Henry, E. N. Edwards,
C.
Corcoran, R. W. MacNeice, M.
C.
Jameson, T. A.
Ireland, Patrick Rooney,
A. V. Montgomery, William J. Ryan, L. J.
O'Reilly,
John Plunkett, T. G'.
Quirke,
C. G. P. Wilson, Daniel Purcell, D. C. Maher.
The Secretary (Mr. W. G. Wakely) read
the notice convening the meeting, also the
minutes of Half-Yearly General Meeting of
26th November last, which were signed by the
President.
Upon the motion of Mr. C.St.G. Orpen,Vice-
President, seconded by Mr. R. A. Macnamara,
it was resolved that Messrs. W. W- Carruthers,
J. J. Carton, and F. Gifford be appointed
Auditors of the Accounts of the Society for year
ending 301!) April last.
The President nominated
the
following-
members to act as Scrutineers of the Ballot
for election of the Council to be held upon
2znd November next:—Messrs. P. J. Brady,
E. N. Edwards, W. H. Geoghegan, J. G.
Perry, and P. K. White.
THE PRESIDENT, addressing the meet
ing, said:—Gentlemen, at the request of the
Council, and by your leave, I wish to propose
for your consideration, and, if approved of,,
for your adoption, the following resolution :—
" RESOLVED—This General Meeting of the
members of the Incorporated Law Society of
Ireland desires to draw the attention of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer to the hardship
inflicted upon
tenant-purchasers who have
acquired their holdings under the Irish Land
Purchase Acts by the existing
law which
imposes a stamp duty upon the conveyances
of such holdings, not only upon the cash which
passes on the transfer of such a holding, but,
in addition, a stamp duty upon the capitalized
value of the Land Purchase Annuity to which
such holdings are subject. The Society would
respectfully submit that a clause should be
inserted in the Finance Bill of this Session,
under which conveyances of land, subject to a
Land Purchase Act Annuity, would be exempt
from any stamp duty further than the
ad valorem
duty upon the actual purchase-money paid."
You will recollect that after the Land Pur
chase Acts were passed, when the holdings
were acquired by many occupiers, they had a
grievance because any purchaser of their