The Gazette 1909-10

75

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

JANUARY, 1910]

Carrick-on-Shannon, January 13th.—Cos. Leitrim and Roscommon (parts of). Dublin, January 20th.—Leinster (part of). Limerick. January 27th.—Co. Limerick and Cos. Clare and Tipperary (parts of). Castlebar, February 1st.—Co. Mayo. Castlerea, February 3rd.—Co. Roscommon (part of). Dublin, February 9th.—Leinster (part of). Killarney, February 15th.—Cos. Kerry and Cork (parts of). Dublin, February 24th.—Leinster (part of). Londonderry, March 1st.—Co. Londonderry and Co. Donegal (part of). Strabane, March 2nd.—Cos. Donegal and Tyrone (parts of). Omagh, March 3rd.—Co. Tyrone (part of). Dublin, March 10th.—Leinster (part of). Galway, March 15th.—Co. Galway. Hilary Sittings Lectures, PROFESSOR QUIRKE will deliver lectures to the Senior Class upon the subjects of Real Property, Equity, and Conveyancing, on the following dates in Hilary Sittings, 1910 :— January llth, 14th, 18th, 21st, 25th, 28th. February 1st, 4th, 8th, llth, 15th, 18th. PROFESSOR SHARPE will deliver lectures to the Junior Class upon Common Law, on the following dates in Hilary Sittings, 1910 :— January 13th, 17th, 20th, 24th, 27th, 31st. February 3rd, 7th, 10th, 14th, 17th, 21st. The lectures to both classes will be delivered at 4 p.m. in the Lecture Theatre of the Society at the Four Courts. A meeting of the Directors was held on this day. The Secretary reported having received £33 12s. in annual subscriptions since the previous meeting, and a donation of.£l from the Trustees of Arnott Bequest Fund. Grants amounting to £130 were made to sixteen applicants for relief. December 8th. A meeting of the Directors was held on this day. The Secretary reported having received £30 9s. in annual subscriptions since last meeting, and a donation of £5 5s. from Solicitors' Benevolent Association. December 1st.

prescribed for exactly this kind of conduct. Lord Atkinson, Lord Gorell, and Lord Shaw read judgments to the same effect. (Reported The Times Law Reports, Vol. xxvi., p. 134). Oaths Act, 1909. AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW AS TO OATHS. [25th November, 1909.] BE it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :— 1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Oaths Act, 1909 ; and the Oaths Act, 1888, and this Act may be cited together as the Oaths Acts, 1888 and 1909. 2.—(1) Any oath may be administered and taken in the form and manner following :— The person taking the oath shall hold the New Testament, or, in the case of a Jew, the Old Testament, in his uplifted hand, and shall say or repeat after the officer administering the oath the words "I swear by Almighty God that . . . . .", followed by the words of the oath prescribed by law. (2) The officer shall (unless the person about to take the oath voluntarily objects thereto, or is physically incapable of so taking the oath) administer the oath in the form and manner aforesaid without question : Provided that, in the case of a person who is neither a Christian nor a Jew, the oath shall be administered in any manner which is now lawful. 3. In this Act the word ." officer " shall mean and include any and every person duly authorised to administer oaths. 4.—(1) This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January nineteen hundred and ten. (2) This Act shall not apply to Scotland. Irish Land Commission. THE following Sittings of the Court of the Land Commission for hearing Appeals have been provisionally arranged :— Sligo, January 12th.—Co. Sligo and Co. Leitrim (part of).