The Gazette 1909-10

THE GAZETTE Jnt0:qp0raletr OF TEE otitty 0f Jrdtanir*

June, 1909.

Vol. Ill, No. 2.]

r FOR CIRCULATION LAMONGST MEMBERS.

Upon the motion of Mr. C.St.G. Orpen,Vice- President, seconded by Mr. R. A. Macnamara, it was resolved that Messrs. W. W- Carruthers, J. J. Carton, and F. Gifford be appointed Auditors of the Accounts of the Society for year ending 301!) April last. The President nominated the following- members to act as Scrutineers of the Ballot for election of the Council to be held upon 2znd November next:—Messrs. P. J. Brady, E. N. Edwards, W. H. Geoghegan, J. G. Perry, and P. K. White. THE PRESIDENT, addressing the meet ing, said:—Gentlemen, at the request of the Council, and by your leave, I wish to propose for your consideration, and, if approved of,, for your adoption, the following resolution :— " RESOLVED—This General Meeting of the members of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland desires to draw the attention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the hardship inflicted upon tenant-purchasers who have acquired their holdings under the Irish Land Purchase Acts by the existing law which imposes a stamp duty upon the conveyances of such holdings, not only upon the cash which passes on the transfer of such a holding, but, in addition, a stamp duty upon the capitalized value of the Land Purchase Annuity to which such holdings are subject. The Society would respectfully submit that a clause should be inserted in the Finance Bill of this Session, under which conveyances of land, subject to a Land Purchase Act Annuity, would be exempt from any stamp duty further than the ad valorem duty upon the actual purchase-money paid." You will recollect that after the Land Pur chase Acts were passed, when the holdings were acquired by many occupiers, they had a grievance because any purchaser of their

Half-Yearly General Meeting. THE Half-yearly General Meeting of the Society was held in the Hall of the Society at the Four Courts, on Monday, lyth May, the President (Mr. W. J. Shannon) in the chair. The following members were present: — C. St. G. Orpen (Vice-President), Sir G. Roche, Sir A. F. Baker, Wm. Fry, W. S. Hayes, George Collins, R. A. Macnamara, F. C. E. Bland, Gerald Byrne, W. V. Seddall, James Henry, H. J. Synnott, C. A. Stanuell, A. E. Bradley, T. C. Franks, Joseph Galloway, A. Lloyd-Blood, J. G. Fottrell, R. G. Warren, T. W. Fitzgerald, C. G. Gamble, R. Blair White, W. W. Carruthers, W. D. Sainsbury, H. J. M'Cormick, H. D. Draper, G De R. Englebach, J. P. Tyndall, G. M. Meares, J. O'Sullivan, Patrick J. Brady, P. K. White, Roger Greene, Florence Greene, E. S. Lowe, W. J. Brett, A. G. Joyce, David Dunne, P. Seales, W. H. Fry, G. R. Scott, Sidney Bell, R. A. O'Brien, G. E. Grove White, A. D. Kennedy. E. R. Bate, D. A. Quaid, H. R. Maunsell, A. H. Burne, E. E. Merrick, J. Hawthorne, J. P. Collins, F. P. Long, I. J. Rice, James Brady, R. T. Holmes, E. F. Collins, W. E. Garland, N. L. Moran, G. M. Collins, J. Barry Brown, J. Davis, J. R. Stritch, William Henry, E. N. Edwards, C. Corcoran, R. W. MacNeice, M. C. Jameson, T. A. Ireland, Patrick Rooney, A. V. Montgomery, William J. Ryan, L. J. O'Reilly, John Plunkett, T. G'. Quirke, C. G. P. Wilson, Daniel Purcell, D. C. Maher. The Secretary (Mr. W. G. Wakely) read the notice convening the meeting, also the minutes of Half-Yearly General Meeting of 26th November last, which were signed by the President.