The Gazette 1914-15

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

62

[DECEMBER, 1914

MR. J. BRADY said he would agree to that course. MR. JAMES HENRY.—On that under standing and with that amendment I have great pleasure in seconding the motion. The motion, so amended, was passed. MR. P. J. BRADY, M.P. (Vice-President), having been moved to the second chair, SIR GEORGE ROCHE moved that the best thanks of the meeting should be accorded to their President not only for presiding that day but also for the manner in which he had fulfilled the duties of his office during the year. He said that during forty years' experience as a member of the Society, he had never met anyone who dis charged his duties more conscientiously or better in the office of President than Mr. Synnott. He had devoted almost the entire year to the work of the Society, and had succeeded admirably in doing so. MR. STANUELL, in seconding, said as another Past President who had thirty years' experience of the Council, he could also testify to Mr. Synnott's admirable rule during the past year. MR. P. J. BRADY, in putting the motion (which was passed amidst applause) from the chair, said he could bear personal testimony to Mr. Synnott's merits as a President. As one of the Vice-Presidents it was his fortune to be brought into closer relationship with the President than other members of the Council; and he did not exaggerate when he said that there was not a week-day upon which he had not occasion to come down there, especially during the Sittings, to deal with questions affecting the Profession. He also wished to express their profound regret at having lost the services of Mr. Stanuell, whe retired voluntarily from the Council. There were few members more intimately connected with the spade-work of the Society. He was responsible for the original compila tion of the Calendar and many other practical reforms connected with the Profession, and they deeply deplored his loss; but they hoped he would be spared for many years to adorn a Profession which he had already adorned for so many years.

THE PRESIDENT, in acknowledging the compliment, said he was glad and sorry that iis year of office had come to an end. It was quite sufficient reward for him to know that in anything he did his efforts met with the appreciation of his brother members of the 'ouncil and the general body of the Society, and he thanked them sincerely.

Meetings of the Council.

November tth. Resident Magistracy. A LETTER in

reply was read from His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, asking that the Council would send him a memorial on the subject of the Resident Magistracy, but that if a deputation were preferable, he would receive the deputation. It was resolved to ask His Excellency to receive the deputation. A report of the reception of the deputation by His Excellency appears in this GAZETTE. Measuring of Costs. The subject of the measuring of costs of interlocutory motions by the Court in the King's Bench Division was considered. It was resolved to request the Bar Council to nominate representatives to discuss the matter with representatives of this Council. Council Dinner. The Council having resolved not to hold their annual dinner this year, the President informed the Council that he had received from the individual members of the Council £127 2s. Od. as a contribution from them in lieu of their expenditure on their annual Council dinner, this sum to be sent to an object connected with the war, and that he had sent the money to the Irish Motor Ambulance Fund. Court of Examiners. The report of the Court of Examiners upon the Preliminary and Final Examinations and the Examination for the Findlater Scholar ship was submitted and adopted. The results appear in this GAZETTE.