The Gazette 1911-12

DECEMBER, 1911] The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

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Mr. W. H. Drennan, I.S.O. A letter in reply was read from Mr. W. H. Drennan, I.S.O., thanking the Council for their resolution passed upon his retirement from the office of First Assistant Registrar of Deeds. Clerk of Crown and Peace, Co. Cork, W.R. Letters were read from the Lord Chancellor, the Chief Secretary, and the Under-Secretary, acknowledging the resolution of the Council passed upon 8th November. Preliminary Examination. A letter from the Senate of the National University, in reference to exemption from the Preliminary Examination of this Society of matriculated and other students, was referred to the Court of Examiners. Land Commission. A letter was read from a country member asking the Council to take steps towards preventing the frequent practice of unproved wills being used in Land Commission pro ceedings. A reply was directed stating that as the Land Commission have a statutory power of appointing a limited administrator for the purposes of the Land Acts, the Council could not interfere. A letter was read from the Northern Law Society submitting the names of the following members of that Society to be extra-ordinary members of Council :—Mr. J. C. White, Mr. Joseph Alien, Mr. Martin J. Burke, Mr. J. D. Coates, and Mr. G. B. Wilkins. A letter was read from the Southern Law Association submitting the names of the following members of that Association to be extra-ordinary members of the Council :— Mr. W. Guest Lane, Mr. A. Blake, Mr. F. Hall, Mr. A. H. Julian, and Mr. W. Thornhill. The ten members nominated were declared duly elected as the ten extra-ordinary members of the Council for the year ending 26th November, 1912. Finance Act. A letter was read from a member asking the opinion of the Council as to whether a November 2Qth. Extra-Ordinary Members.

Solicitor, who also acts as Land Agent, would be entitled to charge remuneration for filling up Form IV. A reply was directed stating that the- Council are of opinion that a Solicitor acting as Land Agent is entitled to remuneration as a Solicitor for filling up the form, the costs to be drawn upon a quantum mentit basis. Labourers Acts. The President reported that at the request of the Local Government Board he had had an interview upon the 22nd inst. with the Vice-President of the Board in reference to a consolidating order to be made under the Labourers Acts, the draft of which had been sent to him. He stated that he had previously conferred with the Committee of the Council in charge of Labourers Acts proceedings in reference to the draft order, in which all the existing rules relative to the work of Solicitors under the Acts are reproduced without alteration or addition, and that he had urged upon the Vice-President of the Local Govern ment Board two matters in connection with the draft consolidating order — (a) the total inadequacy of the fee of half a guinea payable by a District Council to the Solicitor, of a judicial or yearly tenant, or of a tenant who had entered into an agree ment to purchase but whose holding is not yet vested, for furnishing title, where portion of his farm is acquired for the purpose of the Acts ; and (b) the desirability of providing in the Order adequate remuneration to be paid by District Councils to owner's Solicitors for the preparation of consents necessary to be filed in the Land Commission where the land acquired is the subject of land purchase proceedings. He added that the Vice-Presi dent had replied in reference to the first matter (a) that he could not hold out any hope of increasing the present remunera tion, and as to the second (b) it had been considered, but in consequence:-of what the President said it would lie again considered. j Debating Society. It was decided not to award a Gold Medal for composition for the past Session, but to award a prize of books to the writer of the one essay sent in, on the subject of " The I British Policy of Free Imports," which ! subject had been selected by the Council to