The Gazette 1961 - 64

THE PRESIDENT AND VICE- PRESIDENTS

The meeting then adjourned and resumed at 2.30 p.m. Audited accounts and balance sheets. Mr. Halpin proposed and Mr. Taylor seconded a motion that the accounts and balance sheet which had been circulated be adopted. The chairman put the motion to the meeting and it was carried unanimously. On the motion of Mr. Collins seconded by Mr. Edmund Carroll Messrs. Kevans & Son were reappointed as the Society's auditors. The President moved the adoption of the report of the Council for the year 1960-61 and said It is my privilege as President to propose the adoption of the report of your Council for the past year and this I now rise to do with pleasure. Before, however, I deal with the report I would like for a moment to read to you the names of those of our members who have died during the year. They are : John J. Timoney, Lewis D. Field, Thomas H., O'Donovan, Patrick J. Neilan, John W. O'Gorman, James Cody, Michael F. Flanagan, Daniel C. Maher, John J. Kennedy, Terence Doyle, James Claffey,- Raymond Stephenson, District Justice John P. Kennedy, Henry Shannon, John J. Sheil, Charles J. Joyce. Amongst the names I have just read you will have recognised men who by their lives and work brought honour not only to themselves but also to the profession to which we all belong. Their standards were high, their word was their bond, to transact business with them was a privilege, an education and a pleasure. Henry Shannon served the profession upon the Council of our Society from 1912-1919 and was Vice President in the year 1917-18. John Sheil was an active and greatly respected member of our Council from 1950 up to the time of his death and was Vice-President in the year 1954-55. To the relatives of each and all we extend our very sincere and deep sympathy. MR. ARTHUR Cox I am sure that it would be your wish that I should also refer at this time to the retirement from practice of Mr. Arthur Cox whereby the Council and pro fession lost one of its most outstanding and dis tinguished members. Your Council passed the following Resolution: " The Council of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland having learned of the wish of their colleague, Arthur Cox, to resign from the Council upon his retirement from the profession wish to place on record their appreciation and gratitude for his outstanding service to the Council, the Society, and the profession. As an ordinary member of the Council, later as President in the Society's Charter Centenary Year and finally as father of the Council 54

Mr. George G. Overend of Dublin has been elected President of the Society for the coming year. Mr. Francis J. Lanigan of Carlow and Mr. Robert McD. Taylor of Drogheda have been elected Vice-Presidents. ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING MINUTES OF THE ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING 23rd November, 1961 The Presdent took the chair at 10.30 a.m. The notice convening the meeting was by per mission taken as read. The Secretary read the minutes of the ordinary general meeting held on 3rd June, 1961 which were confirmed and signed by the chairman. The Secretary read the report of the scrutineers of the ballot for the Council for the year 1961-62. The chairman declared the result of the ballot in accordance with the scrutineers report as follows : Provincial delegates returned unopposed:— Ulster : John C. O'Carroll; Munster : Edward Treacy ; Leinster : Reginald J. Nolan ; Connaught: Francis Armstrong. Election of ordinary members. The following received the votes placed after their names : i. Augustus Cullen 520; 2. John Carrigan 518 ; 3. Ralph J. Walker 498 ; 4. John R. Halpin 496 ; 5. John J. Nash 494; 6. Niall S. Gaffney 480; 7. Thomas A. O'Reilly 474 ; 8. Patrick Noonan 468 ; 9. Desmond J. Collins 466 ; 10. Eunan McCarron 459; ii. Daniel J. O'Connor 451 ; 12. Peter E. O'Connell 447; 13. Robert McD. Taylor 447; 14. George A. Nolan 445 ; 15. Francis J. Lanigan 439 ; 16. James J. O'Connor 433 ; 17. William A. Tormey 422; 18. George G. Overend 410; 19. James W. O'Donovan 409; 20. Dinnen B. Gilmore 408 ; 21. John Maher 406; 22. Thomas V. O'Connor 400; 23. William J. V. Comerford 398 ; 24. Terence De Vere White 388 ; 25. Patrick O'Donnell 372; 26. William A. Osborne 368; 27. Peter D. M. Prentice 366 ; 28. James R. C. Green 364; 29. John Kelly 333 ; 30. Brendan T. Walsh 327; 31. Brendan A. McGrath 306. The scrutineers returned the foregoing as duly elected ordinary members of the Council for the year ended 1961-62. The following candidates also received the number of votes placed after their names : 32. Charles Hyland 304; 33. Edward J. C. Dillon 298; 34. J. Bernard MacGarry 297; 35. Thomas D. McLoughlin 263 ; 36. Elizabeth Wright 163.