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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
[MAY, 1909
Half-Yearly General Meeting. '
THE Half-yearly General Meeting of
the
Society will be held in the Hall of the Society,
Solicitors' Buildings, Four Courts, Dublin, on
Monday, iyth May, 1909, to elect Auditors, to
nominate Scrutineers of Ballot for Council, to
be held on 2znd November. 1909, and to
transact such further business as may come
before the meeting. A resolution will be sub–
mitted to the meeting relative to the Stamp
Duty payable on conveyances of land sub–
ject
to an annuity under the
Irish Land
Purchase Acts. The Chair will be taken at
two o'clock p.m.
Annual Subscriptions.
MEMBERS are reminded that the annual sub–
scription to the Society
(£i
town members
and such country members as vote at election
of ordinary members of Council, and
los.
other country members) became due upon the
ist day of May, as well as annual press-rents
(5*0-
New Members.
THE following have joined the Society during
April:
Boxwell, Samuel, Dublin.
M'Carroll, Joseph H., Wicklow.
Professorship of Common Law.
THE Council will,
upon Wednesday,
the
16th June, elect a Professor of Common Law
to the Society in ft>om of Mr. W. Herbert
Boyd, B.L., whose term of office will expire at
the end of Trinity Sittings.
The new Professor will enter upon his duties
next Michaelmas Sittings.
The appointment will be made for one year,
and the Professor appointed will be eligible
for
re-appointment
for each of
the
four
succeeding years.
A candidate
for
the Professorship must
either be a practising Barrister, or a practising
Solicitor (in each case of not less than six
years' standing), and he should send his
application on or before the nth June to the
Secretary of the Society.
The duties of the Professor consist of
delivering
twelve
lectures
in Michaelmas
Sittings, twelve
lectures in Hilary Sittings,
eighteen
lectures
in
Easter and Trinity
Sittings (making in all forty-two lectures in
the year) ; and the Professor also examines in
Common Law Theory at the three Intermediate
examinations during the year. The lectures
take place on Mondays and Thursdays at
four o'clock p.m.
Commissioners to administer Oaths.
THE Lord Chancellor has
appointed
the
following to be Commissioners to administer
oaths :
John Gillespie, Solicitor, Castleblayney, Co.
Monaghan.
Alexander Archibald, Merchant, Kilrea, Co.
Londonderry.
Legal Appointments.
MR. Daniel S. Doyle, Solicitor, has been
appointed Secretary and Assistant Registrar-
General in the General Register Office, Charle-
mont House, Dublin. Mr. Doyle was admitted
in Michaelmas Sittings, 1889, and practised at
i Capel Street, Dublin.
Mr. John M'Cormick, Solicitor, has been
appointed Solicitor to Belfast Corporation in
the room of Sir Samuel Black, resigned. Mr.
M'Cormick was
admitted
in Michaelmas
Sittings, 1886, and practised at 81, High
Street, Belfast, in partnership with Mr. James
Quail, under the style of M'Cormick and Quail.
Obituary.
MR. William J. Morris, Solicitor, who practised
at 70 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin, died on the
18th April, 1909, at 51 Kenilworth Square,
Dublin. Mr. Morris, who served his apprentice–
ship with Mr. William Mooney, Fleet Street,
Dublin, was admitted in Easter Sittings, 1884.
Mr. David J. Clancy, Solicitor, who practised
at Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, died on the i8th
April, 1909, at Cumbrian House, Clonmel.
Mr. Clancy, who served his apprenticeship
with the late Mr. James D. Meldon, 14 Upper
Ormond Quay, Dublin, and
the
late Mr.
Edmond Power, Clonmel, was admitted in
Trinity Sittings, 1881.
Mr. Francis A. O'Keeffe, Solicitor, who
practised at Limerick until 1899, when he
retired from practice, died on the 2isf April,
1909, at St. Michael's, Athy. Mr. O'Keeffe,
who served his apprenticeship with the late