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THE GAZETTE
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OF THE
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Vol. III. No. 1.J
May, 1909.
r FOR CIRCULATION
LAMONQST MEMBERS.
Meeting of the Council.
April
21
st.
Accounts.
CHEQUES in payment of the half-yearly ac–
counts passed by the Finance Committee were
ordered to be drawn and paid.
Canvassing for Business.
A letter was read from a member of the
profession, enclosing copy of a circular letter
issued by another member to merchants in
various cities who are not his clients, informing
them of the terms upon which he would collect
debts.
It was decided to ask for an explana–
tion from the solicitor who issued the circular
letter.
Practice.
A firm of Solicitors requested the opinion of
the Council upon the question as to whose
office should sales be closed at. The Council
expressed the opinion that the office of the
i
Solicitor for the Vendor is the office at which
j
a sale should be closed.
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Professorship.
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It was decided
to elect a Professor of
Common Law to the Society, at the meeting
of the Council upon i6th June.
Parliamentary.
A report was submitted from
the Parlia–
mentary Committee upon the Under Sheriffs
(County Boroughs) (Ireland) Bill, which has
been read a second time in the House of
Commons.
It was resolved that the Parlia–
mentary Committee should seek an interview
with
the Attorney-General
for Ireland,
in
order to submit to him certain amendments to
the measure suggested by the Committee. The
object of this Bill
is to enable the county
boroughs of Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Limerick,
Londonderry, and Waterford
in
future
to
appoint the under sheriffs for those boroughs.
A
further report was
submitted by the
Parliamentary Committee upon the Trustees
Accounts Bill, which has passed
through
Standing Committee A
in
the House of
Commons.
It was decided to communicate
with the English Law Society in reference to
this Bill, one of the members of the Council
of that Society being one of the six Members
of Parliament whose names appear upon the
back of the Bill. The object of this Bill is
to declare the existing law
relative
to the
duties of trustees with regard to the keeping
of accounts of the trust.
Council Meetings.
will be held upon
MEETINGS of the Council
the following dates :
June 2nd, :6th, and joth.
July 14th and 28th.
Committee Meetings.
THE following Committee Meetings were held
during April :
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County Courts, 2nd.
Costs, 5th, z6th.
Parliamentary, 5th, 23rd.
Gazette, 8th.
House, Library, and Finance, igth.
Court of Examiners, z3rd.
Special Committee on professional eti–
quette, 3oth.