The Gazette 1933-36

THE GAZETTE OF THE lnr0r;inrat£Jb fain J^nrkitr 0f fr£laitJiX Vol. XXVIII, No. 4] AUGUST, 1934. r FOR CIRCULATION L AMONGST MEMBERS

COMMISSIONERS FOR OATHS (DIPLO MATIC AND CONSULAR) ACT, 1931. The Minister for Justice has requested the Secretary to invite the attention of members to the provisions of this Act, which is an Act to enable persons performing Diplomatic or Consular services outside Saorstat Eireann to administer Oaths and do notarial acts in the countries in which they are performing such functions for use in the Irish Free State and for other pur– poses connected therewith. Section 2 of the Act provides as follows : (1) Every person to whom this section applies maj^, in any country or place outside Saorstat Eireann in which he is for the time being exercising the functions of his office, administer any oath and take any affidavit, and may also do any notarial act which a notary public can do in Saorstat Eireann, and every oath, affidavit, and notarial act administered, sworn, or done by or before such person in such country or place shall be as effectual as if duly administered, sworn, or done by or before any lawful authority in Saorstat Eireann. (2) Any document purporting to have affixed thereon, or thereto, or to have impressed thereon, the seal, and to have subscribed thereto the signature, of any person to whom this section applies in testimony of any oath, affidavit, or act being administered, taken or done by or before him, shall be admitted in evidence (saving all just exceptions) without proof of the seal or signature being the seal or signature of such person, or of the status and official character of such person.

MEETING OF THE COUNCIL.

12th July, Twenty-six members present. Recovery of Rates.

A report was submitted from the Circuit and District Courts Committee in reference to proposed District Court proceedings by Civil process for collection of rates. It was resolved that a letter be written to the Minister for Justice requesting him to give effect in the Courts of Justice Bill to the recommendation contained in Clause 52 of the Report of 1930 of the joint Committee of the Oireachtas on the Courts of Justice Act, 1924, " That Section 77 of the Act of 1924 be amended by inserting in A. at the end of paragraph (IV) a further paragraph empowering Count}' Councils, Urban District Councils and Town Commissioners to sue for rates," and that in addition to the Bodies mentioned in this recommendation, that the following be included, County Borough Councils, Borough Councils and Drainage Boards. The proceedings em– powered to be taken to be for rates irrespective of amount. OBITUARY. MR. VINCENT P. MCGAHON, Solicitor, died on the 19th July, 1934, at his residence, Castleblayney. Mr. McGahon served his apprenticeship with Mr. Henry Murphy, Clones, was admitted in Trinity Sittings, 1926, and practised at Castleblayney.