The Gazette 1909-10

THE GAZETTE OF THE oet 0f

[" FOR CIRCULATION LAMONGST MEMBERS.

August, 1909.

Vol. Ill, No. 4.]

Apprentices. The report of the Court of Examiners upon the July Intermediate Examination was sub mitted and adopted. An application by an apprentice for a Special Final Examination was considered and refused. A petition by a law clerk for leave to be bound under section 16 was submitted and granted. Debating Society. A memorial to the Council, signed by nineteen members of the Solicitors' Appren tices' Debating Society, in reference to the ballot for election of officers for next Session, was considered, and was referred by the Council to the President and Vice-Presidents of the Debating Society, with a request that they would deal with the matter. Certificate. An application by a Solicitor, who had been abroad for the past seven years, for liberty to take out his Certificate was granted. July 2I.!1/. Debating Society. A report was submitted of the proceedings at a meeting held upon the i6th inst., at which were present the Vice-Presidents of the Solicitors' Apprentices' Debating Society:— Sir George Roche, Mr. Fry, Mr. George Collins, Mr. Gerald Byrne, Mr. W. Grove White, Mr. J. G. Quirke, and Mr. J. Dudley, and also the following officers of the Debating Society for the past Session, the Deputy Auditor, the Hon. Secretary, the Hon. Trea surer, the Hon. Registrar, and a member of the Committee. Having considered the

Meetings of the Council.

July I4//2. Kegistration of Title,

A letter was read in reply from the Chief Clerk of the Registry of Titles office, stating that when the draft rule giving the Registrar power to award costs comes to be made statutory, -it would be amended as suggested by the Council so that the Registrar should only have power to direct payment of a sum in gross in lieu of taxed costs " on the ap plication of the party to whom the costs are to be paid." Arrangement Matters. A correspondence received from a firm of Solicitors which had taken place between them and a firm of Accountants practising in Belfast, relative to the rights of the respective professions as regards transacting the neces sary work in private arrangement matters was further considered, and it was decided to request the Northern Law Society to consider the correspondence, and if they should so desire, to confer with the Bankruptcy Com mittee of the Council upon the subject. Finance Bill. Two amendments were submitted by the Parliamentary Committee to clause 40 of the Finance Bill for the purpose of providing (i) for the postponement of payment of estate duty on assets consisting of unpaid purchase money due to vendors under the Land Pur chase Acts, and permitting issue of probate or administration notwithstanding the post ponement of payment of duty ; and (2) for the payment by instalments of estate duty in respect of lands purchased under the Land Purchase (Ireland) Acts, as in the case of real estate. The amendments were approved of, and it was decided to take steps to have them moved.