The Gazette 1909-10

AUG., 1909]

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

Notary Public. THE Lord Chancellor has appointed Mr. Alexander D. Orr, Solicitor, 5 Foster Place, Dublin, to be a Notary Public.

of a Solicitors' Apprentices' Debating Society. The matter was referred for consideration to the President and Vice-Presidents of the Society, and to the Vice-Presidents of the former Debating Society. The Council adjourned until the 6th day of October. Council Meetings. MEETINGS of the Council will be held upon the following dates :— October 6th and 2oth. November 3rd and iyth. Committee Meetings. THE following Committee Meetings were held during July :— Parliamentary, 5th. / Gazette, yth and rzth. Bankruptcy, 8th. Court of Examiners, izth and 26th. Court and Offices, 22nd. Finance Bill, 23rd. House and Library, 2yth.

Commissioners to administer Oaths.

THE Lord Chancellor the following to be Commissioners to administer oaths :— Joseph Lockhart, Solicitor, Lisburn. Andrew A. Wells, Solicitor, Carrickmacross. William M. Cronin, Town Clerk, Newry. John Dolan, Clerk of Petty Sessions, New- bridge. John Holohan, Auctioneer, Feakle. Thomas McCollum, Clerk of Petty Sessions, 'Athboy. George J. Turnbull, Land Agents' Clerk, Tullamore. . .'•'•'. Obituary. MR. George Keogh, Solicitor, who practised at Westland Row, Dublin, died upon the i ith June. Mr. Keogh, who served his apprentice ship with the late Mr. David FitzGerald, Solicitor, Dublin, was admitted in Eastei Term, 1855, and was for many years solicitor to the Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford Railway Company, from which position he retired in 1905. Mr. Keogh was also for many years Sessional Crown Solicitor for the County of Meath, a position which he retained up to the date of his death. Finance Bill, 1909. RESOLUTIONS OF THE COUNCIL. THE Council of this Society are of opinion that :— 1. The scheme of land taxation contained in Part I of the Finance Bill, as it stands, will be attended by great practical difficulties and disadvantages, and will add largely to the ex pense and complication attendant upon the transfer of landed property and the investi gation of titles. 2. The proposed new Land Taxes will delay and complicate the sales of estates and the distribution of purchase-moneys of estates sold under the Land Purchase (Ireland) Acts, and to remedy this, provision should be made in the Bill to exclude all lands sold under these has appointed

New Members. THE following have joined the Society during July, 1909:—

Halpin, William H., Cavan. O'Reilly, Francis C., Trim. Shaw, Joseph A., Mullingar. Williamson, Richard, Dublin.

New Solicitors. ADMISSIONS DURING JULY, 1909.

Name. Barry, William J., Campbell, Joseph, . Robinson, Henry S., Williamson, Richard, .

Served apprenticeship to Fred. W. Wynne, Cork. Dolway B. Walkington, Belfast. Robert J. Aiken, London derry. Robert T. F. Greene, Dublin.

Legal Appointments. MR. John George Fottrell, Crown Solicitor for the County of Meath, has been appointed to the combined office of Crown Solicitor and Sessional Crown Solicitor for the said county.