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JANUARY, 1910]
The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
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Council
see
no
legal
objection
to
an
apprentice acting as such.
Education of Apprentices.
•The opinion of Counsel upon the question
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, was submitted;
the opinion being to the effect that such
division would not be legal under the Act.
The opinion was referred
to
the Special
Educational Committee of the Council, who
had submitted the matter to the Council for
decision.
Labourers (Ireland) Order, 1909.
.Correspondence was submitted, which had
taken place between the Local Government
Board and the ex-President upon the question
as to the persons to whom the term " occu
pier " is applicable under the Labourers (Ire
land) Order, 1909. from which it appeared
that the opinion obtained by the Society from
Senior Counsel on the question was at vari
ance with the opinion of Counsel obtained by
the Board.
Pending receipt of a reply from
the Board to a further letter from the ex-
President,
it was
decided
to
postpone
consideration of the matter.
Statutory Committee.
A letter was read from the Secretary to
the Lord Chancellor, intimating that His
Lordship had appointed the following seven
members of the Council to be the Statutory
Committee under Section 34 of the Solicitors
(Ireland) Act, 1898, for year ending 26th
November, 1910 :—Sir A. F. Baker, Mr. Fry,
Mr. Hayes, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Macnamara, Mr.
Shannon and Mr. Stanuell.
Court of Examiners and Committees.
The Court of Examiners and Committees
of the Council for the year ending the 26th
November, 1910, were appointed.
Council Meetings.
MEETINGS of the Council will be held upon
the following dates :—
January 12th and 2Cth.
February 9th and 23rd.
Committee Meetings.
THE following Committee Meetings were held
during December :—
Court of Examiners, 6th and 17th.
Costs, 7th.
Gazette, 7th.
Educational, 20th.
County Courts, 21st.
Obituary.
MR. John C. Conroy, Solicitor, of Galway,
died on the 2nd December, 1909, at Galway.
Mr. Conroy, who served his apprenticeship
with the late Mr. Redmond J. Connolly,
Solicitor,
of Clifden,
Co. Galway, was
admitted
in Hilary Sittings,
1893,
and
practised in Galway.
Legal Appointment.
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MR. Stephen Hastings, Solicitor, Limerick,
!
has been appointed to the office of Registrar
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to the County Court Judge of Kerry.
Commissioners to Administer Oaths.
THE Lord Chancellor has appointed
the
following to be Commissioners to administer
Oaths :—
Charles J. Crowley, Solicitor, Dublin.
•
John Deane, Clerk of Petty Sessions,
Sixmilecross, Co. Tyrone.
Wm. M. McElligott, Clerk
of Petty
Sessions, Listowel.
New Members.
THE following have joined the Society during
December, 1909 :—
Counihan, Wm. E., Limerick.
Leitch, Andrew C., Omagh.
Lonsdale, Robt., Manorhamilton.
O'Dea, Louis E., Galway.
Ouin, John, Ardee.
Ross, Stuart C., Londonderry.
Williams, John, Dublin.