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Vol. Ill, No. 4.]
August, 1909.
[" FOR CIRCULATION
LAMONGST MEMBERS.
Meetings of the Council.
July
I4//2.
Kegistration of Title,
A letter was read in reply from the Chief
Clerk of the Registry of Titles office, stating
that when the draft rule giving the Registrar
power to award costs comes
to be made
statutory, -it would be amended as suggested
by the Council so that the Registrar should
only have power to direct payment of a sum
in gross in lieu of taxed costs " on the ap
plication of the party to whom the costs are
to be paid."
Arrangement Matters.
A correspondence received from a firm of
Solicitors which had
taken place between
them and a firm of Accountants practising in
Belfast, relative to the rights of the respective
professions as regards transacting the neces
sary work in private arrangement matters was
further considered, and it was decided
to
request the Northern Law Society to consider
the correspondence, and if they should so
desire, to confer with the Bankruptcy Com
mittee of the Council upon the subject.
Finance
Bill.
Two amendments were submitted by the
Parliamentary Committee to clause 40 of the
Finance Bill for the purpose of providing
(i) for the postponement of payment of estate
duty on assets consisting of unpaid purchase
money due to vendors under the Land Pur
chase Acts, and permitting issue of probate
or administration notwithstanding the post
ponement of payment of duty ; and (2) for the
payment by instalments of estate duty in respect
of lands purchased under the Land Purchase
(Ireland) Acts, as in the case of real estate.
The amendments were approved of, and it was
decided to take steps to have them moved.
Apprentices.
The report of the Court of Examiners upon
the July Intermediate Examination was sub
mitted and adopted.
An application
by an apprentice
for a
Special Final Examination was considered
and refused.
A petition by a law clerk for leave to be
bound under section 16 was submitted and
granted.
Debating Society.
A memorial
to
the Council,
signed by
nineteen members of the Solicitors' Appren
tices' Debating Society, in reference to the
ballot for election of officers for next Session,
was considered, and was
referred by
the
Council to the President and Vice-Presidents
of the Debating Society, with a request that
they would deal with the matter.
Certificate.
An application by a Solicitor, who had been
abroad for the past seven years, for liberty to
take out his Certificate was granted.
July
2I.!1/.
Debating Society.
A report was submitted of the proceedings
at a meeting held upon the
i6th inst., at
which were present the Vice-Presidents of the
Solicitors' Apprentices' Debating Society:—
Sir George Roche, Mr. Fry, Mr. George
Collins, Mr. Gerald Byrne, Mr. W. Grove
White, Mr. J. G. Quirke, and Mr. J. Dudley,
and also the following officers of the Debating
Society for
the past Session,
the Deputy
Auditor, the Hon. Secretary, the Hon. Trea
surer, the Hon. Registrar, and a member of
the Committee.
Having
considered
the