The Gazette 1911-12

THE GAZETTE OF THE fncarjjcrrittetr f nlvr Scrictg of Jrclimb Vol. V, No. 9.] March, 1912. T FOR CIRCULATION L AMONGST MEMBERS.

Meetings of the Council.

owner should be awarded compensation by the Arbitrator. The report stated that the Committee could not recommend the Council to take any further action at present in reference to the matter. The report was adopted. Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910.—Form 4. A report from the Costs Committee was submitted, in which it was stated that the question contained in the English Form 4, " If the person making the return is also the •" occupier, state the annual value," and in respect of the insertion of which question the English Form 4 had been declared to be invalid (Dyson v. Attorney-General, Times Law Reports, Vol. 28, page 77), is not con tained in the Irish form, so that the decision does not apply to the Irish form. The Committee further reported that they cannot recommend any fixed fee to be applic able in all cases in respect of the costs to be charged by Solicitors for filling up Form 4, but suggest that the costs in each case should be charged upon a quantum meruit basis. The report was adopted. Certificates. Applications under Section 47 by three Solicitors for liberty to renew their annual certificates were considered, in two of the cases orders were made granting the applica tions, the third was postponed for further

February lith. Sale of Immature Stock. A letter to the President from the Secretary of the Treasury was read, in which was enclosed a copy of statutory rules, dated 24th January, 1912, made under the Land Purchase (Ireland) Acts, and attention was drawn in the letter to Rule 9 (9) relating to the sale of Immature Stock, which rule carries out the suggestion contained in a memo randum by the Council prepared last May. The letter appears in this GAZETTE. Apprentices' Debating Society. A report from the Finance Committee recommending the Council to give increased financial assistance to the Debating Society was adopted. Labourers Acts Costs. A report from the Costs Committee was submitted in reference to the liability of Rural' District Councils (who take plots for labourers' cottages from holdings which are being sold to tenants under the Land Purchase Acts) to defray the costs of amending the purchase agreements lodged with the Estates Commissioners. The report stated that Senior Counsel had advised that such costs are not title costs, but that they are an expenditure incurred by an owner in consequence of a breach of contract with his purchasing tenant arising from the action of the Rural District Council in compulsorily acquiring portion of the land agreed to be sold, and in respect of which expenditure the

information. Law Clerks; Petitions

from two Law Clerks under Section 16, and reports from the Court of