The Gazette 1911-12

[AUGUST, 1911

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

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41 Donegall Street,

Pollin, James M.,

consents necessary to be filed in the Land Commission where agreements have been entered into for sale of the lands under the Land Purchase Acts, and portion of the lands agreed to be sold has been acquired under the Labourers Acts. Counsel had advised that at present he sees no means of obtaining a decision of a Court of Law on the question. This opinion has been forwarded to the Local Government Board with a request that they will state how they propose the opinion of a Court of Law on the question could be obtained. Belfast Corporation Bill. This Bill, in the form in which it has passed the House of Commons, was sub mitted. Clause 36 of the Bill, as originally introduced and which clause the Council actively opposed, was struck out of the Bill in Committee. It was proposed by the clause that for the purpose of taking land rom- pulsorily under the Act and of determining the amount of compensation payable by the Corporation in respect of such land, the provisions of the Lands Clauses Acts should be deemed to be amended by the provisions in .the Second Schedule of " The Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890," and that that schedule should be deemed to lie incorporated in the Corporation Act. The effect of this provision would have been that there would have been no appeal from a decision of an Arbitrator awarding to a claimant a sum of less than £1,000 compensation. Preliminary Examination. A memorial of a law clerk, under Section 18, seeking a modified preliminary examina tion, was considered, and it was decided that same should not be opposed. Court of Examiners. A report from the Court of Examiners upon an application by a law clerk for leave to be bound under Section 16 was submitted, and the application was granted.

Belfast. Sanderson, William H., 66 Lr. Gardiner Street, Dublin. Smiles, William A., Belfast. Visit to Ireland of Their Majesties the King and Queen. An address of welcome from the Society, on the occasion of Their Majesties' visit to Ireland last month, was presented to His Majesty at Dublin Castle on the 10th July. The address was presented by the President, who was accompanied by the Secretary. His Majesty handed to the President a copy of his general reply to the addresses presented. Council Meetings. MEETINGS of the Council will be held upon the following dates :— October 4th and 18th. Committee Meetings. THE following Committee Meetings were held during July :— Costs, 4th and 17th. Court of Examiners, 12th, 21st and 31st. Gazette, 13th. Parliamentary, 20th. ••' •• House, Library, and Finance, 24th. Legal Appointment. THE Lord Lieutenant has appointed Mr. Patrick S. Golding, of Ballinasloe, and 48 Upper Sackville Street, Dublin, to be Crown and Sessional Crown Solicitor for the County and City of Galway, in the room of Mr. James W. Blake, retired. Commissioners to Administer Oaths. THE Lord Chancellor has appointed the following to be Commissioners to administer Oaths :— James J. Hayden, Solicitor, 4 St. Andrew Street, Dublin. George P. Cussen, Solicitor, 23 Suffolk Street Dublin.

New Members.

THE following joined the Society during July, 1911 :— Greene, Thomas J., 11 Wellington Quay, Publin.J