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that the summoning of such a meeting should be postponed ; (3) that the matter would appear as an item on the agenda of the Half-Yearly General Meeting of the Society to be held under the Society's Bye-laws on November 27th. Petrol for Solicitors. IT was ordered that a letter should be written to the Department of Supplies pointing out that the Council hope that as soon as conditions permit of anv relaxation of the restriction of petrol supplies the claims of the solicitors' profession for priority would be favourably considered. Commission on Vocational Organisation. THE Secretary reported that the report of the above Commission contains a number of recom mendations affecting the professions, including the proposal to set up a body to be known as "The Professional Commission" which would be invested with certain supervisory and appellate functions in relation to the governing bodies of the various professions. The matter was referred to a Committee of the Council tor consideration. STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. THE Society is deeply indebted to the Government Publications Office for presenting to the Library a complete set bound in twenty-three numbered and paged volumes of all the Statutory Rules, Orders and other Regulations made between the years 1022 to 1938, inclusive. The volumes also include an Index in which the various Rules, Orders and Regulations are entered (a) according to the governing act or other authority and (b) by subject. This is the first Index published by the Government of the Statutory Rules and Orders. Part I of the Index contains an alphabetical list of governing Acts, showing in each case the Orders made thereunder. It also includes a list of Procla mations, Notices, Orders, and Decrees which do not expressly cite a governing Act. Part II con tains an alphabetical list of Orders together with the governing Act or Acts as appropriate. Sets of the volumes have been deposited for reference in the Oireachtas Library, the Law Library of the Four Courts and the Libraries of the King's Inns and the Incorporated Law Society. The bidk of the Orders had already been pub lished by the Stationery Office and were available in printed form. The remainder had either ap peared in Iris Oifigiuil or, being for Departmental use, had not been published. These have been

printed and are included in the volumes except Orders of an executive, local or temporary charac ter or having a limited application which are shown in the Index in italicised form. Orders of a merely personal application or otherwise having little or no public interest have been omitted from the volumes and the Index. Practitioners will require no commendatory notice in the Society's Gazette in order to appreciate the excellent work of the Government Publications Office in placing these volumes and Index at their disposal. The volumes themselves are well bound and easy to iise, and the Index appears to fulfil all that one might expect in a work compiled by the experts of the Stationery Office. Although the majority of the Statutory Rules and Orders could already have been purchased separately their accessibility in volumes together with an Index will be of the greatest possible assistance to the profession and it is to be hoped that condi tions will soon permit the publication of additional volumes and an Index to bring the work up-to- date. Now that the work has been started and carried so far towards completion it should be possible to publish the Statutory Rules and Orders in annual volumes, each complete with an Index as the Statutes are at present published. The present publication does not touch the Emergency Powers Orders. An Index to these Orders covering the period 1939-43 was recently brought out by the Government Publications Office. OBITUARY. MR. DANIEL P. BLAYNEY, Solicitor, died on the 4th September, 1944, at Dublin. Mr. Blayney served his apprenticeship with the late Mr. Michael McCartan, Belfast, was admitted in Hilary Sittings, 1896, and practised for some time in Cape Town and Bulawayo. He returned to Ireland and practised at Naas from 1912 up to 1927 when he retired. MR. THOMAS P. EARLY, Solicitor, died on 17th September, 1944, at a private nursing home in Dublin. Mr. Early served his apprenticeship with Mr. Thomas Early, Dublin, was admitted in Hilary Sittings, 1940, and practised as a partner in the firm of Thomas Early and Son at 63 Upper O'Connell Street, Dublin.