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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
[JANUARY, 1910
bound under Section 16 was submitted and
adopted, and the application was granted.
Education of Apprentices.
In reference to this important subject,
which is under the attention of a Special
Committee of
the Council, a question was
submitted by the Committee to the Council
as to whether the Intermediate and Final
Examinations under the provisions of the
Solicitors
(Ireland) Act, 1898,
could
be
divided into parts, with a period of months
elapsing between the parts, and it was deckled
to take the opinion of Counsel thereon.
December 8th.
Election of President and Yice-Presidents.
The Council
elected Mr. Richard A.
Macnamara to the office of President of the
Society, and Mr. William V. Seddall and Mr.
A. Lloyd-Blood to the office of Vice-Presidents
of the Society for the year ending 26th
November, 1910. Mr. Macnamara having
taken the chair, a cordial vote of thanks was
passed to the out-going President and Vice-
Presidents for the manner in which they had
discharged the duties of
their respective
offices during the past year.
Gazette.
It was resolved that the December number
of the Society's Gazette, containing the report
of the proceedings of the General Meeting,
should be sent to the whole profession, and
that a circular should be sent to those who
are not members of the Society, inviting them
to become members.
Fees to Counsel in Appeals to House of
Lords.
A letter was read from a member of the
profession, giving particulars of taxation of
his costs by the Taxing Officer of the House of
Lords on an appeal from Ireland, in which
the officer had disallowed a considerable
portion of the fees paid to both Senior and
Junior Irish Counsel on their briefs.
It was
decided to ask the Bar Council to confer
with representatives of the Council of the
Society on the question of fees to Counsel in
Irish appeals to the House of Lords.
Labourers (Ireland) Order, 1909.
A letter was read-from some Solicitors
practising in County Westmeath and
in
King's County upon the question as to the
persons to whom the term " occupier," under
the Labourers (Ireland) Order, 1909, is appli
cable. There being at present
a
corres
pondence taking place between the. Local
Government Board and the outgoing Presi
dent of the Society upon this question, it
was decided
to await the result of such
correspondence before taking furth'er action.
Certificate.
An application by a Solicitor, under Section
47,
to renew his annual certificate, was
submitted and granted.
Apprentices' Debating Society
Draft rules, prepared by the Court of
Examiners, for a new Solicitors' Apprentices'
Debating Society, were
submitted
and
approved of.
It was resolved that a general
meeting of apprentices, at which the President
would preside, should be
summoned for
Monday evening, 17th January, at eight
o'clock, p.m., in the Hall of the Society at the
Four Courts.
December 15th.
National University.
The following resolution was adopted in
reference to the vacancy in
the office of
Professor of Law of Property and Contracts,
and a copy directed to be sent to the Uni
versity Commission :—
Resolved :
" The Council of the Incor-
" porated Law Society of Ireland respectfully
" request the University Commission when
" making an appointment to the office of
" Professor of the Law of Property and
" Contracts in the National University of
" Ireland, to give favourable consideration
" to
applications
from members of
the
" Solicitors' profession seeking the office."
Apprentice.
In reply to a letter of enquiry from an
apprentice, asking if there be any objection
to an apprentice to a Solicitor acting as an
executor, it was decided to state that the