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THE GAZETTE
OF THE
fnmrporatttr fakr S0mtg of Jitlantr.
Vol. Ill, No. 5.]
November, 1909.
I" FOR CIRCULATION
L AMONGST MEMBERS.
Meetings of the Council.
October 6th.
Arrangement Matters.
A LETTER was read from the Solicitors for the
Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland
upon the subject of the correspondence which
recently
took place between
a
firm of
Solicitors and a firm of Accountants practising
in Belfast, and which had been sent to the
Council. The letter requested the views of
the Council as to the relative duties to be
performed by Solicitors and Accountants in
arrangement matters out of Court. A letter
was also read from the Northern Law Society
nominating, as requested by the Council, three
of their members to confer with the Bank
ruptcy Committee of the Council upon this
matter. The Council referred the matter to
the Bankruptcy Committee and the Northern
Law Society members to consider and report
upon.
Labourers (Ireland) Act.
A letter was read from a member relative
to a question affecting the rights of the
profession
arising
under
the Labourers
(Ireland) Order,
1906, and a reply was
directed informing the member that upon his
furnishing further information required the
opinion of Counsel would be taken upon the
question.
Correspondence was considered in relation
to taxation of costs under
the Labourers
(Ireland) Order, 1909.
Acts of Parliament.
A letter was read,
in reply, from Mr.
Ponsonby, 116 Grafton Street, stating that
he keeps in stock for sale copies of all Statutes
passed since 1887, but that copies of Statutes
passed prior to that date are the property
of a private
firm, any of which he can
obtain by return of post.
Finance Bill.
Letters
received
from
various
Public
Bodies in Ireland acknowledging the receipt
of copies of the resolutions of the Council
upon
the Finance Bill were submitted.
Several of the letters expressed concurrence
with these resolutions.
The amendments in
the Bill, made in Committee, and which give
effect to some of the suggestions contained in
the resolutions of the Council, were considered.
University College, Cork.
A letter was read from the Southern Law
Association, enclosing copy of a resolution
passed by the Association advocating the
appointment of a Solicitor, resident in Cork,
to the office of Professor of English Law in
University College, Cork.
The Council, being in entire sympathy with
the proposal, passed the following resolution,
and directed that copies of same be sent to
the President, University College, Cork, the
Secretary,. University Commission, Dublin,
to Sir George Roche, and to the Southern
Law Association :—
Resolved.—" The Council of
the Incor
porated Law Society of Ireland desire to
express their concurrence with the resolution
of the Southern Law Association expressing
the opinion, that the Professorship of English
Law at the University College, Cork, should
be filled by a resident member of the Solicitors'
Profession."