The Gazette 1909-10

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

[MAY, 1909

Sittings (making in all forty-two lectures in the year) ; and the Professor also examines in Common Law Theory at the three Intermediate examinations during the year. The lectures take place on Mondays and Thursdays at four o'clock p.m.

Half-Yearly General Meeting. ' THE Half-yearly General Meeting of the Society will be held in the Hall of the Society, Solicitors' Buildings, Four Courts, Dublin, on Monday, iyth May, 1909, to elect Auditors, to nominate Scrutineers of Ballot for Council, to be held on 2znd November. 1909, and to transact such further business as may come before the meeting. A resolution will be sub– mitted to the meeting relative to the Stamp Duty payable on conveyances of land sub– ject to an annuity under the Irish Land Purchase Acts. The Chair will be taken at two o'clock p.m. Annual Subscriptions. MEMBERS are reminded that the annual sub– scription to the Society (£i town members and such country members as vote at election of ordinary members of Council, and los. other country members) became due upon the ist day of May, as well as annual press-rents (5*0- New Members. THE following have joined the Society during April: Boxwell, Samuel, Dublin. M'Carroll, Joseph H., Wicklow. THE Council will, the 16th June, elect a Professor of Common Law to the Society in ft>om of Mr. W. Herbert Boyd, B.L., whose term of office will expire at the end of Trinity Sittings. The new Professor will enter upon his duties next Michaelmas Sittings. The appointment will be made for one year, and the Professor appointed will be eligible for re-appointment for each of the four succeeding years. A candidate for the Professorship must either be a practising Barrister, or a practising Solicitor (in each case of not less than six years' standing), and he should send his application on or before the nth June to the Secretary of the Society. The duties of the Professor consist of delivering twelve lectures in Michaelmas Sittings, twelve lectures in Hilary Sittings, eighteen lectures in Easter and Trinity upon Wednesday, Professorship of Common Law.

Commissioners to administer Oaths.

THE Lord Chancellor has the following to be Commissioners to administer oaths : John Gillespie, Solicitor, Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan. Alexander Archibald, Merchant, Kilrea, Co. Londonderry. Legal Appointments. MR. Daniel S. Doyle, Solicitor, has been appointed Secretary and Assistant Registrar- General in the General Register Office, Charle- mont House, Dublin. Mr. Doyle was admitted in Michaelmas Sittings, 1889, and practised at i Capel Street, Dublin. Mr. John M'Cormick, Solicitor, has been appointed Solicitor to Belfast Corporation in the room of Sir Samuel Black, resigned. Mr. M'Cormick was admitted in Michaelmas Sittings, 1886, and practised at 81, High Street, Belfast, in partnership with Mr. James Quail, under the style of M'Cormick and Quail. Obituary. MR. William J. Morris, Solicitor, who practised at 70 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin, died on the 18th April, 1909, at 51 Kenilworth Square, Dublin. Mr. Morris, who served his apprentice– ship with Mr. William Mooney, Fleet Street, Dublin, was admitted in Easter Sittings, 1884. Mr. David J. Clancy, Solicitor, who practised at Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, died on the i8th April, 1909, at Cumbrian House, Clonmel. Mr. Clancy, who served his apprenticeship with the late Mr. James D. Meldon, 14 Upper Ormond Quay, Dublin, and the late Mr. Edmond Power, Clonmel, was admitted in Trinity Sittings, 1881. Mr. Francis A. O'Keeffe, Solicitor, who practised at Limerick until 1899, when he retired from practice, died on the 2isf April, 1909, at St. Michael's, Athy. Mr. O'Keeffe, who served his apprenticeship with the late appointed