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THE GAZETTE
OF THE
0f jrdtanir.
Vol. Ill,; No, 3.]
July, 1909,
r FOR CIRCULATION
LAMONQST MEMBERS.
Meetings of the Council.
June 2fid.
Searches.
IT was resolved to request the Registrar of
Deeds to receive a deputation from the Council
upon the question of expediting the furnishing
of searches from the Registry of Deeds Office.
Canvassing for Business.
A communication was received from a mem-'
her of the profession and from his father (not
a member of the profession), as required by
the Council, undertaking-that his father would
not again send out a circular canvassing for
legal business for his son, as he had previously
done.
Apprentices' Debating Society.
The subject for the Medal to be awarded by
the Council for composition was appointed to
be "The Industrial Future of Ireland."
Certificate.
An application by a solicitor for renewal
of his annual certificate was submitted and
granted.
Examination Results.
The report of the Court of Examiners upon
Preliminary and Final Examination results, and
upon award of medals and certificates, was
adopted.
County Court Rules.
The President informed the Council that
County Court Rules, under section 6 of the
Labourers (Ireland) Act, 1906, had now been
made in statutory form. These rules appear
in this GAZETTE.
Labourers (Ireland) Act.
The President informed the Council that he
had been consulted by the Local Government
Board relative to the making of a new Order
under the Act dealing with solicitors' costs,
and that he had attended at several conferences
with the Board and its officers, assisting in the
framing of the schedule of fees provided by
the Order.
June
i6//;.
Stamp Office, Four Courts.
Acting upon the suggestion of a member of
the Society, it was resolved that a letter be
written to the Inland Revenue requesting the
Commissioners
to
restore the staff of
the
assistants to the number at which
it stood
prior to the division amongst the remaining
assistants of the duties of the assistant who
previously sold
the adhesive stamps in the
office.
Election of Professor.
Mr. Frederick G. Sharpe, B.A., LL.D., T.C.D.,
Solicitor, was elected to the office of Professor
of Common Law to the Society.
Probate Engrossments.
A
letter was read
from
the Registrar of
the Probate Office, written by direction of
Mr. Justice Andrews, inquiring whether the
Council are still of the opinion expressed by
the Council in 1903, that it is preferable to have
Grants engrossed on parchment rather than on
loan paper, as used for English Grants. The
Council directed a reply, stating that they are
still of opinion that the use of parchment for
'the purpose is preferable.
Arrangement Matters.
Copy of a correspondence which had taken
place between a firm of solicitors and a firm
of accountants, relative to the rights of the
respective professions of transacting the neces
sary work in private arrangement matters, was
received from the firm of solicitors, and was
referred to
the Bankruptcy Committee
for
consideration.