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Vol. 53
No, 8
FEBRUARY,
1960
THE GAZETTE
INCORPORATED
President
JOHN J. NASH
of the
LAW
SOCIETY
Vice-Presidents
RALPH J. WALKER
PETER E. O'CONNEL
L
OF
IRELAND
Secretary
ERIC A. PLUNKETT
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG
MEMBERS
MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL
February nth : The President in the Chair. Also
present, Messrs. Dinnen Gilmore, George G.
Overend, James R. Green, James J. O'Connor,
Gerald Y. Goldberg, George A. Nolan, Arthur Cox,
Desmond J. Collins, Niall S. Gaffney, John R.
Halpin, Frank Armstrong, Francis J. Lanigan,
John Maher, Augustus Cullen, Robert McD. Taylor,
Eunan McCarron, Charles J. Downing, Reginald J.
Nolan, James R. Quirke, William J. Comet-ford,
James W. O'Donovan, Brendan A. McGrath,
Peter E. O'Connell, Patrick Noonan, Thomas V.
O'Connor, John J. Sheil, John Carrigan, John
Kelly, Terence De Vere White.
The following was among the business transacted.
Legal Textbooks
A report from the Publications Committee on
replies
received
to
the advertisements
recently
published inviting offers for the publication of
suitable books was considered. The report recom
mended that the Council should immediately pursue
the project for the publication of books which would
be suitable both for practitioners and students on
registration of title and the general law of landlord
and tenant.
It was decided to pursue the matter
with the Incorporated Society of Law Reporting
and the suggested authors and with'the Department
of Justice.
Law Clerks Joint Labour Committee
The Secretary reported that the committee has
made proposals to the Labour Court for an increase
of 8% on existing statutory wage rates with a
minimum of io/- weekly at the top of the scale. An
application for statutory annual holidays of three
consecutive weeks was refused. It was decided that
representations should be made on behalf of the
Society to the Joint Labour Committee against the
proposed increases.
Statutory Notice to Creditors
The Council considered a report from a committee
on the question whether the State is or should be
bound by the statutory notice to creditors published
by the personal representatives in accordance with
the Real Property Limitation Act, 1859.
The
Secretary stated that he had ascertained that the
relevant provisions of this statue have been replaced
by section 27 of the English Trustee Act, 1925 and