The Gazette 1909-10

THE GAZETTE OF THE fnmrporatttr fakr S0mtg of Jitlantr.

November, 1909.

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Vol. Ill, No. 5.]

Meetings of the Council.

he keeps in stock for sale copies of all Statutes passed since 1887, but that copies of Statutes passed prior to that date are the property of a private firm, any of which he can obtain by return of post. Finance Bill. Letters received from various Public Bodies in Ireland acknowledging the receipt of copies of the resolutions of the Council upon the Finance Bill were submitted. Several of the letters expressed concurrence with these resolutions. The amendments in the Bill, made in Committee, and which give effect to some of the suggestions contained in the resolutions of the Council, were considered. University College, Cork. A letter was read from the Southern Law Association, enclosing copy of a resolution passed by the Association advocating the appointment of a Solicitor, resident in Cork, to the office of Professor of English Law in University College, Cork. The Council, being in entire sympathy with the proposal, passed the following resolution, and directed that copies of same be sent to the President, University College, Cork, the Secretary,. University Commission, Dublin, to Sir George Roche, and to the Southern Law Association :— Resolved.—" The Council of the Incor porated Law Society of Ireland desire to express their concurrence with the resolution of the Southern Law Association expressing the opinion, that the Professorship of English Law at the University College, Cork, should be filled by a resident member of the Solicitors' Profession."

October 6th. Arrangement Matters.

A LETTER was read from the Solicitors for the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland upon the subject of the correspondence which recently took place between a firm of Solicitors and a firm of Accountants practising in Belfast, and which had been sent to the Council. The letter requested the views of the Council as to the relative duties to be performed by Solicitors and Accountants in arrangement matters out of Court. A letter was also read from the Northern Law Society nominating, as requested by the Council, three of their members to confer with the Bank ruptcy Committee of the Council upon this matter. The Council referred the matter to the Bankruptcy Committee and the Northern Law Society members to consider and report upon. Labourers (Ireland) Act. A letter was read from a member relative to a question affecting the rights of the profession arising under the Labourers (Ireland) Order, 1906, and a reply was directed informing the member that upon his furnishing further information required the opinion of Counsel would be taken upon the question. Correspondence was considered in relation to taxation of costs under the Labourers

(Ireland) Order, 1909. Acts of Parliament. A letter was read,

in reply, from Mr. Ponsonby, 116 Grafton Street, stating that